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

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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America's Red Snow: Hottest Winter on Record, Largest Wildfires in Texas History

America’s Red Snow: Hottest Winter on Record, Largest Wildfires in Texas History

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency announced Friday that the winter of 2023-24 was the hottest on record in U.S. […]

Juan Cole

Food Insecurity
Joe Biden's Gaza Aid Pier isn't Enough: 6 More Things that Must be Done

Joe Biden’s Gaza Aid Pier isn’t Enough: 6 More Things that Must be Done

By Sarah Schiffling, Hanken School of Economics and Foteini Stavropoulou, Liverpool John Moores University | – (The Conversation) – In his State of the Union […]

The Conversation

journalism
Is there a Journalism that doesn't love a War?

Is there a Journalism that doesn’t love a War?

By Nan Levinson ( Tomdispatch.com ) – War, what is it good for? Well, the media for starters. Shortly after the Biden administration responded to the […]

Tomdispatch

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A Tale of two Femicides: Remembering Victims in Iraq and Italy on Int'l Women's Day

A Tale of two Femicides: Remembering Victims in Iraq and Italy on Int’l Women’s Day

San Marco, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In early February 2023 a 22-year-old Iraqi YouTube star, Tiba Al-Ali was strangled by her father […]

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Feminism
The Fate of Nations depends on Women's Equality: Int'l Women's Day

The Fate of Nations depends on Women’s Equality: Int’l Women’s Day

On March 8, 1908, women garment workers marched through New York City’s Lower East Side to protest child labor and sweatshop working conditions and to […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Elections
Growing 'Despondency' And Hard-Liners' Dominance: Key Takeaways From Iran's Elections

Growing ‘Despondency’ And Hard-Liners’ Dominance: Key Takeaways From Iran’s Elections

By By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/ RL ) – Iran’s parliamentary elections on March 1 witnessed a historically low turnout, in a blow to the […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

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Tempest in a Teapot: British Illusions and American Hegemony from Iraq to Yemen

Tempest in a Teapot: British Illusions and American Hegemony from Iraq to Yemen

Review of Tom Stevenson, Someone Else’s Empire: British Illusions and American Hegemony.. London: Verso, 2023. Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Everything is going […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Anti-intellectualism
As Gaza is obliterated, Scholars and Academics need to Speak Up

As Gaza is obliterated, Scholars and Academics need to Speak Up

BY Yasmin Saikia & Chad Haines Nikolas Gannon/Unsplash . Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines co-direct the Center of Muslim Experience in the U.S. at Arizona […]

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Islam
Ramadan finds greater Recognition in America’s Public Schools

Ramadan finds greater Recognition in America’s Public Schools

By Amaarah DeCuir, American University | – Ramadan – the Islamic month of fasting – is expected to begin at sunset on March 10, 2024. […]

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