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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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Axis War Crimes against Hospitals in the 1930s and 1940s led to our Int'l Humanitarian Law, which Israel Ignores

Axis War Crimes against Hospitals in the 1930s and 1940s led to our Int’l Humanitarian Law, which Israel Ignores

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Rome Statute underpinning the International Criminal Court, which went into effect in 2002, lists among “War Crimes” “ix) Intentionally […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
The Gaza Conflict Opens up New Opportunities for China in the Middle East, Global South

The Gaza Conflict Opens up New Opportunities for China in the Middle East, Global South

Shaun Narine, St. Thomas University (Canada) | – (The Conversation) – The western world’s support for Israel as it attacks Gaza has provoked fury across […]

The Conversation

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Gaza needs a Cease-Fire, not a Cessation of Aid

Gaza needs a Cease-Fire, not a Cessation of Aid

By Tania Principe | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Almost a month has passed since the Hamas militant group launched a deadly attack on […]

Waging Nonviolence

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Shocking Restrictions on Israeli Immigration to West should be Lifted, Since 1/3 wish to Emigrate

Shocking Restrictions on Israeli Immigration to West should be Lifted, Since 1/3 wish to Emigrate

Satire Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Two Israeli lawmakers made a modest proposal in an op ed in the Wall Street Journal, according to The […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Does Compromise show Weakness or Strength? -   A Surprising finding in the Talmud

Does Compromise show Weakness or Strength? – A Surprising finding in the Talmud

Growing up in Israel, the prevailing mentality surrounding me everywhere I went was that compromise shows weakness. The message was clear: compromise is a “Diaspora […]

Shamai Leibowitz

Africa
Pentagon Admits Failure in ‘War on Terror’ in Africa, as Attacks increase 75,000%

Pentagon Admits Failure in ‘War on Terror’ in Africa, as Attacks increase 75,000%

( Tomdispatch.com ) – America’s Global War on Terror has seen its share of stalemates, disasters, and outright defeats. During 20-plus years of armed interventions, […]

Nick Turse

Antisemitism
Confessions of an Ex-Zionist: My Judaism will not stand for the Mass Slaughter in Gaza

Confessions of an Ex-Zionist: My Judaism will not stand for the Mass Slaughter in Gaza

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – I grieve for the people of Israel and Palestine, both of whom are being abused and terrorized […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Colonialism
Britain: Its Empire and Corporations, and Their Current Traces

Britain: Its Empire and Corporations, and Their Current Traces

Review of Philip J. Stern, Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 2023. Munich (Special to Informed Comment) – […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
Americans Want a Ceasefire. It's Our Politicians Who Are Out of Touch

Americans Want a Ceasefire. It’s Our Politicians Who Are Out of Touch

By Farrah Hassen ( Otherwords ) – Two years ago, filmmaker Mohannad Abu Rizk asked children in Gaza about their dreams. One young girl responded, […]

OtherWords

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