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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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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Restless Planet

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Restless Planet

On the streets of Moscow in the tens of thousands, the protesters chanted: “We exist!”  Taking into account the comments of statesmen, scientists, politicians, military officials, bankers, artists, all the important and attended …

Tom Engelhardt

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Iraq’s al-Maliki Seeks Arrest of Sunni VP as Terrorist, Parliament in Uproar

Iraq’s al-Maliki Seeks Arrest of Sunni VP as Terrorist, Parliament in Uproar

Only a couple days after US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta declared the Iraq War over and turned the last US base in Iraq over […]

Juan Cole

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Juan Cole

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One year on-- Mohamed Bouazizi's Sacrifice

One year on– Mohamed Bouazizi’s Sacrifice

Aljazeera English on the one-year anniversary of the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia– an act of despair that sparked the Arab […]

Juan Cole

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Obama/ Maliki Conflicts on the Future of Iraq

Obama/ Maliki Conflicts on the Future of Iraq

Al-Sharq al-Awsat carried an article on December 15 about the behind the scenes conflicts between US President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. […]

Juan Cole

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No War Crimes Trial for Bush/Cheney, While Chirac Convicted on minor Fraud

No War Crimes Trial for Bush/Cheney, While Chirac Convicted on minor Fraud

The United States is now officially more corrupt than the Old World. Former French president Jacques Chirac has been found guilty of corruption when he […]

Juan Cole

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Cole interview with Nobelist Tawakkul Karman

Cole interview with Nobelist Tawakkul Karman

My interview on Arab feminism, youth activism, and revolution with Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman of Yemen is now up at YouTube. I asked […]

Juan Cole

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Obama and NDAA:  Chipping away at the Constitution – HRW

Obama and NDAA: Chipping away at the Constitution – HRW

 Press release from Human Rights Watch:   Wednesday, December 14, 2011   Human Rights Watch   For Immediate Release US: Refusal to Veto Detainee Bill […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich, The Fall of the "Liberal Elite"

Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich, The Fall of the "Liberal Elite"

Until a few months ago, the 99% was hardly a group capable of articulating “the identity of their interests.” It contained, and still contains, most “ordinary” rich people, along with middle-class professionals, factory work…

Juan Cole

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