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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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This is America!  Man Facing Jail For Ripping Veil Off Muslim Woman

This is America! Man Facing Jail For Ripping Veil Off Muslim Woman

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “A man in North Carolina has pleaded guilty to ripping a […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Give Syria’s Survivors a Voice

Give Syria’s Survivors a Voice

By Hadeel al-Shalchi | ( Human Rights Watch ) | – – Twelve days ago Fatema Qaitani, a 35-year-old mother of four, was sitting in […]

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Entertainment
Why does Iran fear Kim Kardashian is a 007 Targeting Tehran?

Why does Iran fear Kim Kardashian is a 007 Targeting Tehran?

Joya Mia Italiano and Elliot Hill | (TheLipTV2 Video Report) | – – “Iranian officials have reportedly accused Kim Kardashian West of working for Instagram […]

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Authoritarianism
What Next for Turkey After President's Power Play?

What Next for Turkey After President’s Power Play?

By Efe Kerem Sozer | (GlobalVoices.org) | – – Ahmet Davutoglu was disliked by many in Turkey. [Even after] he step[pped] down as Turkey's Prime […]

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Can Iran sue the US for Coup & supporting Saddam in Iran-Iraq War?

Can Iran sue the US for Coup & supporting Saddam in Iran-Iraq War?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iranian members of parliament have approved the details of a bill that insists US compensate Iran […]

Juan Cole

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Middle East – The Mother of All Humanitarian Crises

Middle East – The Mother of All Humanitarian Crises

By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME, May 16 2016 (IPS) – When, in March 2015, delegates from the Middle East […]

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Colonialism
Architects of Failure: 100 years of Sykes-Picot

Architects of Failure: 100 years of Sykes-Picot

By Akil N. Awan | ( History Today) | – – How an agreement signed in 1916 became shorthand for western treachery, greed and the […]

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Israel/ Palestine
PCBS: “Israel Controls More than 85% of the Land of Historical Palestine”

PCBS: “Israel Controls More than 85% of the Land of Historical Palestine”

By Saed Bannoura | PCBS/ IMEMC | – – Excerpted for IC This is a special statistical bulletin by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics […]

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British PM Cameron's tiff with Trump over Muslims: The Hypocrisy Factor

British PM Cameron’s tiff with Trump over Muslims: The Hypocrisy Factor

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – When Donald Trump announced his monstrous and yet daffy plan to exlude Muslims from the United […]

Juan Cole

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