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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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Christianity
A Merry Muslim Christmas from India’s Hyderabad, c. 1630: Jesus, the Dutch, and Diamonds

A Merry Muslim Christmas from India’s Hyderabad, c. 1630: Jesus, the Dutch, and Diamonds

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The nativity of the Christ child is not solely an occasion of Christian spirituality, but has been celebrated through the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
No, Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital was not a Hamas Command Center; Biden endorsed an Israeli Lie

No, Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital was not a Hamas Command Center; Biden endorsed an Israeli Lie

By Jake Johnson | – ( Commondreams.org) – The Israeli military launched a deadly assault on Gaza’s largest hospital last month on the grounds that […]

Common Dreams

Israel/ Palestine
What are the Motivations behind Israel's Genocide in Gaza, and what is the Way Forward?

What are the Motivations behind Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, and what is the Way Forward?

Yoav Litvin is an Israeli-American doctor of psychology/neuroscience, a writer and photographer. ( AlJazeera ) – On October 7, Hamas fighters breached the Gaza prison […]

Yoav Litvin

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Israelis have killed the same Percentage of Gazans in 11 Weeks as Allies did Italians in all of WW II

Israelis have killed the same Percentage of Gazans in 11 Weeks as Allies did Italians in all of WW II

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN reports figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health as of Friday: “between 7 October and 7:00 on 22 […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is Systemically Censoring Palestine Content

Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is Systemically Censoring Palestine Content

Human Rights Watch – (New York) – Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in […]

Human Rights Watch

Plutocracy
A “Delicate Matter”: Clarence Thomas’ Private Complaints About Money Sparked Fears among Rich that He Would Resign

A “Delicate Matter”: Clarence Thomas’ Private Complaints About Money Sparked Fears among Rich that He Would Resign

By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan, Alex Mierjeski and Brett Murphy | – ( ProPublica ) – Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ decadeslong friendship with real […]

ProPublica

Anti-War Movement
Just Say No: Biden Must Create Peace out of the Gaza Crisis and Rein in the Israeli Right

Just Say No: Biden Must Create Peace out of the Gaza Crisis and Rein in the Israeli Right

Take a Leaf from the Book of George H. W. Bush

Lior Sternfeld

Houthi
Gaza Crisis:   US-Led Taskforce deploys in Red Sea and Considers Strikes on Yemen

Gaza Crisis: US-Led Taskforce deploys in Red Sea and Considers Strikes on Yemen

By Basil Germond, Lancaster University | – The US is reportedly considering strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen that have been menacing commercial ships in […]

The Conversation

China
The US and China at Year’s End: Still Treading on the Precipice

The US and China at Year’s End: Still Treading on the Precipice

( Tomdispatch.com) – This hasn’t exactly been a year of good news when it comes to our war-torn, beleaguered planet, but on November 15th, U.S. […]

Michael T. Klare

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