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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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India
What does Pakistan think of Obama’s India Trip?

What does Pakistan think of Obama’s India Trip?

Pakistanis are from all accounts rather miffed that President Barack Obama did not stop in Islamabad as part of his Asian tour. The officer corps […]

Juan Cole

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MSNBC’s Phil Griffith the Worst Person in the World, as Olbermann Joins Donahue, Banfield

MSNBC’s Phil Griffith the Worst Person in the World, as Olbermann Joins Donahue, Banfield

With regard to the ‘indefinite suspension’ of Keith Olbermann from MSNBC for having donated small sums to three Democratic candidates, here is a little piece […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Over 70 Killed in Mosque Bombings, northwestern Pakistan

Over 70 Killed in Mosque Bombings, northwestern Pakistan

The Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan) bombed two mosques in Pakistan’s Pashtun northwest on Friday, killing over 70 persons and wounding many others. CSM argues […]

Juan Cole

India
Bachmann Harms US Economy, Security with Scurrilous Charges about Obama in India

Bachmann Harms US Economy, Security with Scurrilous Charges about Obama in India

One of the great things about the victory of so many eccentrics in the congressional races of 2010 for bloggers is that we can look […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda in Iraq Threatens Egyptian, Iraqi Christians

Al-Qaeda in Iraq Threatens Egyptian, Iraqi Christians

The Guardian argues that Sunni Arab religious radicals (“al-Qaeda”) released from US or Iraqi custody in recent months have formed newly assertive cells and that […]

Juan Cole

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1942 Midterms:  Republicans win Popular Vote, Pick up 47 Seats in House; Roosevelt on Ropes; Pacific War Uncertain, Economy Slowly Improving

1942 Midterms: Republicans win Popular Vote, Pick up 47 Seats in House; Roosevelt on Ropes; Pacific War Uncertain, Economy Slowly Improving

It was November, 1942. A year earlier the Japanese Empire had struck at Pearl Harbor and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had finally entered World War […]

Juan Cole

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17 Bombings of Shiite Districts Kill 113; Fears of Sectarian Reprisals

17 Bombings of Shiite Districts Kill 113; Fears of Sectarian Reprisals

The LA Times is putting the death toll of Tuesday’s series of 17 bombings of Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad at an astonishing 113, one of […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Maliki Announces Gain in Parliament as Baghdad mourns Church Massacre

Maliki Announces Gain in Parliament as Baghdad mourns Church Massacre

Iraq’s security problems continue to be severe, if not generally crippling the way they were in 2006, as underlined by Sunday’s guerrilla takeover of a […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Cole in Truthdig: “The World Is Safer Without a Republican House”

Cole in Truthdig: “The World Is Safer Without a Republican House”

My column is out at Truthdig is out, entitled “The World Is Safer Without a Republican House” Excerpt: ‘ Although Congress for the most part […]

Juan Cole

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