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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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Romney: Kayak & Shark  (Political Cartoon)

Romney: Kayak & Shark (Political Cartoon)

Juan Cole

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Top Five Reasons Israel is Losing the Public Relations Battle

Top Five Reasons Israel is Losing the Public Relations Battle

Right wing Israeli officials are concerned about attempts to ‘delegitimize” Israel, and fund former officials and intellectuals to attempt to combat this perceived trend. But […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam: “The elders and the newborns”

Omar Khayyam: “The elders and the newborns”

The elders and the newborns trace  the footsteps of each other, and it is the  way of this world that  no one can live forever […]

Juan Cole

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Did Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood just Blink?

Did Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood just Blink?

Some members of the Egyptian parliament met briefly on Tuesday, in defiance of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and in accordance with […]

Juan Cole

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Video on Syrian Gov't Torture Centers (Human Rights Watch)

Video on Syrian Gov’t Torture Centers (Human Rights Watch)

Syria’s torture centers, as revealed by Human Rights Watch:

Juan Cole

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Infosys Building planned for Kuwait

Infosys Building planned for Kuwait

Juan Cole

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States with Highest Religiosity most Opposed to Obamacare

States with Highest Religiosity most Opposed to Obamacare

I once read an article in a sociology of religion journal. Sociologists placed a person who seemed to have fallen off his bike, and was […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Morsi and Brotherhood isolated vs. Military, Courts, Secularists

Morsi and Brotherhood isolated vs. Military, Courts, Secularists

The reaction to Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi’s call to reinstate the dissolved parliament was largely negative on Monday and Tuesday morning, except among supporters of […]

Juan Cole

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Dear Rick Perry:  Would Teddy Roosevelt have extended Medicaid to all? (Poster)

Dear Rick Perry: Would Teddy Roosevelt have extended Medicaid to all? (Poster)

Juan Cole

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