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Under the Sea: China’s Digital Silk Road and the Middle East
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Under the Sea: China’s Digital Silk Road and the Middle East

Neil Thompson

London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – China-US geopolitical rivalries have manifested in many arenas from esoteric ones like export controls over semiconductor chips, to […]

The Obliteration Doctrine, and the West’s Complicity

The Obliteration Doctrine, and the West’s Complicity

08/15/2025 By Dan Steinbock

No Country is an Island: Trump’s Destruction of Global Heath will Bite us on the Posterior

No Country is an Island: Trump’s Destruction of Global Heath will Bite us on the Posterior

08/15/2025 By William deBuys

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History
Top 3 sources of Immigration to US every Decade since 1820 (Animated Map)

Top 3 sources of Immigration to US every Decade since 1820 (Animated Map)

Metrocosm | (Animated video) | – – “From 1920 to 2013, 79 million people obtained lawful permanent resident status in the United States. This map […]

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Bill of Rights
Snowden on Torture Report:  "When the CIA destroys s.th., it's never a Mistake"

Snowden on Torture Report: “When the CIA destroys s.th., it’s never a Mistake”

TeleSur | — After the CIA inspector general admitted it destroyed a 6,700 page report on torture, the famed whistleblower said the CIA does not […]

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Iraq
Baghdad Locals Fear Shiite-On-Shiite Violence As Alliance Fractures

Baghdad Locals Fear Shiite-On-Shiite Violence As Alliance Fractures

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – Protests and suicide bombings have caused tension within the Shiite Muslim alliance that’s been fighting […]

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Israel: Netanyahu replies to Officers' charges of Fascism, makes far Right Lieberman their boss

Israel: Netanyahu replies to Officers’ charges of Fascism, makes far Right Lieberman their boss

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu bolstered his majority and rid himself of a troublesome voice of […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Is it ISIL?  US Official Says Likely Explosion Happened on EgyptAir Plane

Is it ISIL? US Official Says Likely Explosion Happened on EgyptAir Plane

TeleSur | – – EgyptAir said the plane’s emergency devices sent a distress signal at 4.26 a.m. local time, about two hours after the previously […]

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Bill of Rights
The late great Fourth Amendment: Feds, Police and Intrusive Technologies

The late great Fourth Amendment: Feds, Police and Intrusive Technologies

By Matthew Harwood and Jay Stanley | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Can’t you see the writing on the touchscreen? A techno-utopia is upon […]

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Baghdad takes Rutba from ISIL:  Jordan-Iraq Commercial Route to Reopen

Baghdad takes Rutba from ISIL: Jordan-Iraq Commercial Route to Reopen

by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iraqi forces have taken Rutba in al-Anbar province, hundreds of kilometers west of the provincial capital, […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Saudi bombing, Rebel Shelling leave 7 Million in Yemen Food Insecure

Saudi bombing, Rebel Shelling leave 7 Million in Yemen Food Insecure

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage | (Inter Press Service) | – – John Ging, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs briefs journalists on his recent […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Marketing & Terrorism:  Is ISIL's vaunted 'brand' actually weak and vulnerable?

Marketing & Terrorism: Is ISIL’s vaunted ‘brand’ actually weak and vulnerable?

By Brendan Canavan | (The Conversation) | – – [The so-called] Islamic State (IS) is the most notorious terror group in the world. Its name […]

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