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Even as it Strikes Deals with Trump, the Gulf Embraces Chinese Tech Giants
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Even as it Strikes Deals with Trump, the Gulf Embraces Chinese Tech Giants

Neil Thompson

Chinese technology firms are increasingly competing with US ones in major Middle Eastern markets, escalating technology-related US national security concerns. London (Special to Informed Comment; […]

US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to Libya

US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to Libya

05/13/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Netanyahu’s Occupation Plan for Gaza means more Suffering for Palestinians and less Security for Israel

Netanyahu’s Occupation Plan for Gaza means more Suffering for Palestinians and less Security for Israel

05/13/2025 By The Conversation

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Zogby:  Arab Voices — Listening and Moving Beyond Myth

Zogby: Arab Voices — Listening and Moving Beyond Myth

James Zogby writes in a guest column for Informed Comment After decades spent trying to better explain the Arab World to other Americans, all too […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
The Rumors of Multiculturalism's death Are Exaggerated (Against Merkel)

The Rumors of Multiculturalism’s death Are Exaggerated (Against Merkel)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the weekend declared “multiculturalism” dead in her country and demanded that labor immigrants be assimilated, through German language and German […]

Juan Cole

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Cole on “Iran and Islam” at USIP Iran Primer

Cole on “Iran and Islam” at USIP Iran Primer

Iran commentary in the United States generates more heat than light for the most part, and much of it is frankly driven by ignorance. Veteran […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Recommended Reading at Tomdispatch.com

Recommended Reading at Tomdispatch.com

Tomdispatch.com has been on a tear in the past two weeks. From Bacevich on the US military as quagmire specialists to Pepe Escobar on central […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Clinton Cabinet Member Sought Iraq Provocation <br> But W. Himself Proposed Ruse

Clinton Cabinet Member Sought Iraq Provocation
But W. Himself Proposed Ruse

Retired Gen. Hugh Shelton reveals in his new book that in the late 1990s a Clinton cabinet member asked him if was possible to fly […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Thousands Demonstrate in Tel Aviv against Racist Loyalty Oath <br> Could the Netanyahu Government Fall over New Settlements?

Thousands Demonstrate in Tel Aviv against Racist Loyalty Oath
Could the Netanyahu Government Fall over New Settlements?

Several thousand Jews and Arabs marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest the loyalty oath recently approved by the Israeli cabinet, which would force […]

Juan Cole

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Ahmadinejad Promises to Protect Qana in South Lebanon

Ahmadinejad Promises to Protect Qana in South Lebanon

The USG Open Source Center translates from Persian the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Qana in South Lebanon on Friday (See below). Qana […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar Walk out on O'Reilly's Muslim-Baiting

Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar Walk out on O’Reilly’s Muslim-Baiting

The View stars Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walked out on Bill O’Reilly Thursday when the right wing pundit insisted on blaming all Muslims for […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Top Ten Questions about Chile Mine Collapse:  Was it Nixon-Kissinger’s Fault?

Top Ten Questions about Chile Mine Collapse: Was it Nixon-Kissinger’s Fault?

The corporate mass media (especially television) did not treat the Chilean mine collapse as a labor story but rather as a feel-good human interest story. […]

Juan Cole

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