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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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Netanyahu as Lord of the Flies: He has wounded, sickened or starved all 600K Palestinian Children in Rafah

Netanyahu as Lord of the Flies: He has wounded, sickened or starved all 600K Palestinian Children in Rafah

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Catherine Russell, the head of UNICEF, said this week that of the 600,000 children in Rafah, southern Gaza, all of […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Plastic is Climate Change in a Bottle - So let's put a Cap on It

Plastic is Climate Change in a Bottle – So let’s put a Cap on It

By Jack Marley, The Conversation | – (The Conversation) – Plastic pollution and climate change have common culprits – and similar solutions. The penultimate round […]

The Conversation

Dissent
Columbia Students are Sick at Heart, just as we were in ’68

Columbia Students are Sick at Heart, just as we were in ’68

Mark Rudd ( Waging Nonviolence ) – What is the ethical response to witnessing a great moral crime? Turn away and allow oneself to be […]

Waging Nonviolence

Donald Trump
Top Ways MAGA and Right Wing Zionism Converge, and Why Smotrich is Embracing Trump

Top Ways MAGA and Right Wing Zionism Converge, and Why Smotrich is Embracing Trump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Going back to the late nineteenth century, Zionism has had a complex and storied history, and there have been many […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Ukraine, Israel, and the Incoherence of U.S. Foreign Policy

Ukraine, Israel, and the Incoherence of U.S. Foreign Policy

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The process of crafting congressional legislation is often likened to sausage-making. Best not to look behind the scenes […]

John Feffer

Education
The Right is weaponizing Antisemitism to Distract from Israel's Atrocities and Smear Campus Protests

The Right is weaponizing Antisemitism to Distract from Israel’s Atrocities and Smear Campus Protests

By Helen Benedict ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many […]

Tomdispatch

Dissent
I was Arrested at Columbia University in 1968: I am Cheering on the Students of Today

I was Arrested at Columbia University in 1968: I am Cheering on the Students of Today

New York (Special to Informed Comment) – Earlier this week Columbia University started suspending the students who refused to leave the encampment they built to […]

Bob Stein

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This is Why the Students are Protesting: Eyes on Israel's Killing Fields in Gaza

This is Why the Students are Protesting: Eyes on Israel’s Killing Fields in Gaza

Bayreuth, Germany (Special to Informed Comment- Feature) – Lisa Hajjar has compared what is happening in Gaza to the Killing Fields of Cambodia. Yet where […]

Janelle Carlson

Israel/ Palestine
Birding in Gaza amid a Nightmare of War

Birding in Gaza amid a Nightmare of War

( Tomdispatch.com ) – He’s a funny little chap: a sharp dresser with a sleek grey jacket, a white waistcoat, red shorts, and a small […]

Rebecca Gordon

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