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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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The Israel-India-U.S. Triangle:  Its Human Toll Will Be Incalculable

The Israel-India-U.S. Triangle: Its Human Toll Will Be Incalculable

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox ( Tomdispatch.com) – In 1981, India’s post office issued a stamp showing the flags of India and occupied […]

Tomdispatch

censorship
Protesting the University of Pennsylvania Ban on the Screening of the Documentary, “Israelism”

Protesting the University of Pennsylvania Ban on the Screening of the Documentary, “Israelism”

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association Liz Magill President, the University of Pennsylvania president@upenn.edu   John Jackson Provost, the University of Pennsylvania provost@upenn.edu […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Palestinian-Israeli Leader Mansour Abbas: Nonviolent Struggle Necessary; Hamas’s Oct. 7 Atrocity Blasphemed against Islamic Values

Palestinian-Israeli Leader Mansour Abbas: Nonviolent Struggle Necessary; Hamas’s Oct. 7 Atrocity Blasphemed against Islamic Values

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – They don’t often get a lot of attention in the US media, but the 2.1 million Israeli citizens of Palestinian […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Pre-COP Report: German Industry Investments in Climate Protection increased 74% over 10 years

Pre-COP Report: German Industry Investments in Climate Protection increased 74% over 10 years

By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – German industry is increasingly investing in climate protection measures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) […]

Clean Energy Wire

Drones
Gaza: Why all Civilian lives matter Equally, according to a Military Ethicist

Gaza: Why all Civilian lives matter Equally, according to a Military Ethicist

By Jessica Wolfendale, Case Western Reserve University | – Some commentators have criticized Israel for causing what is claimed to be disproportionate harm to civilians […]

The Conversation

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Did Israeli PM Netanyahu start Bombing Gaza Again to Stay out of Jail and Appease Fascists in his Cabinet?

Did Israeli PM Netanyahu start Bombing Gaza Again to Stay out of Jail and Appease Fascists in his Cabinet?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The propaganda put out by the Biden administration would have us believe that the Israeli government, shocked by the horrid […]

Juan Cole

Archaeology
The History of Gaza: On Conquerors, Resurgence and Rebirth

The History of Gaza: On Conquerors, Resurgence and Rebirth

( Middle East Monitor ) – Those unfamiliar with Gaza and its history are likely to always associate Gaza with destruction, rubble and Israeli genocide. […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
How the Keffiyeh – a practical Garment used for Protection against the desert Sun – became a Symbol of Palestinian Identity

How the Keffiyeh – a practical Garment used for Protection against the desert Sun – became a Symbol of Palestinian Identity

Armin Langer, University of Florida | – After Israel declared war on Hamas following the militant group’s surprise attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and hostilities […]

The Conversation

Cambodia
How War Criminal Kissinger paved the Way for a Genocidal Total War on Gaza's Civilians

How War Criminal Kissinger paved the Way for a Genocidal Total War on Gaza’s Civilians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Henry Kissinger’s death at 100 is an opportunity to consider the ways in which his lawlessness helped undermine International Humanitarian […]

Juan Cole

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Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

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Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

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Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

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