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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
‘The Struggle for Pakistan’ (Ayesha Jalal)

‘The Struggle for Pakistan’ (Ayesha Jalal)

By Joseph Richard Preville and Julie Poucher Harbin (ISLAMiCommentary) Column » ‘By the Book’ with Joseph Preville| — Pakistan is a nation with a strong […]

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Central Asia
China's Pivot toward Europe may Cut USA out of Deal

China’s Pivot toward Europe may Cut USA out of Deal

By Pepe Escobar | (Tomdispatch.com) — November 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of […]

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FATA
Child Survivors Describe Horrors of Peshawar School Massacre

Child Survivors Describe Horrors of Peshawar School Massacre

By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal | — [Written by Michael Scollon, based on reporting from Peshawar by RFE/RL Radio Mashaal correspondent Zaland Yousufzai (RFE/RL) ] Islamist […]

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Afghanistan
Desperate Pakistani Taliban, on the ropes, attack Army School in Peshawar: Large scale Casualties

Desperate Pakistani Taliban, on the ropes, attack Army School in Peshawar: Large scale Casualties

By Juan Cole | — On Tuesday, six members of the Movement of Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan or TTP) invaded a school for children […]

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Internet
Now that's Cold: Sydney Siege selfies provoke outrage at 'Terror Tourists'

Now that’s Cold: Sydney Siege selfies provoke outrage at ‘Terror Tourists’

RT | — “While Sydney cafe siege continues, some people have decided to use the opportunity…to take some selfies. Pictures have emerged on social networks, […]

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Bill of Rights
"President Authorized Torture Techniques": Cheney and Rove throw Bush under the Bus

“President Authorized Torture Techniques”: Cheney and Rove throw Bush under the Bus

Cenk Uygur “The Young Turks” | — “”Former President George W. Bush knew about and authorized the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation techniques, such as […]

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Climate Change
The Sad Fate of Planet Earth:  Lima's COP20 showed World's Governments not Serious about fighting Climate Change

The Sad Fate of Planet Earth: Lima’s COP20 showed World’s Governments not Serious about fighting Climate Change

By Roberto Savio ROME (IPS) – It is now official: the current inter-governmental system is not able to act in the interest of humankind. The […]

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Islamic Jihad
Israeli forces thwart radical ‘suicide bombing’ planned by 5 suspects

Israeli forces thwart radical ‘suicide bombing’ planned by 5 suspects

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel’s army and Shin Bet agency on Monday said they had thwarted a suicide bombing planned by five Palestinian suspects from Tulkarem, […]

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The Banality of Terrorism: Sydney's other Hostage Crisis, of 1984

The Banality of Terrorism: Sydney’s other Hostage Crisis, of 1984

By Juan Cole | — IC doesn’t usually cover hostage-taking, since it is an artificial and manipulative criminal act. Any two-bit thug can grab someone […]

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