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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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Follow IC at Twitter, Facebook

Follow IC at Twitter, Facebook

Facebook keeps promising to lift the 5000-friend limit, but has not done it. So my account over there is more or less full. Just to […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraq Death Toll from Attacks rises to 119, Biggest since Start of Year

Iraq Death Toll from Attacks rises to 119, Biggest since Start of Year

AP is reporting that the wave of bombings and attacks throughout Iraq on Monday is now estimated to have killed 119 persons. Although some analysts […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Guerrilla War Continues: 31 Killed in Iraq Attacks; Allawi, Maliki to Meet

Guerrilla War Continues: 31 Killed in Iraq Attacks; Allawi, Maliki to Meet

A series of coordinated attacks on checkpoints and a Shiite mosque on Monday in Iraq demonstrated that the guerrilla opposition to the US-imposed new order […]

Juan Cole

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Salisbury:   Times Square Rorschach Test

Salisbury: Times Square Rorschach Test

Stephan Salisbury of the Philadelphia Inquirer and author of Mohamed’s Ghosts writes in a guest essay for Informed Comment: In the smoke roiling up from […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghanistan:  57 Insurgent Attacks a Day; Taliban Vow Major Campaign; Karzai to Visit Washington

Afghanistan: 57 Insurgent Attacks a Day; Taliban Vow Major Campaign; Karzai to Visit Washington

The guerrilla forces in Afghanistan had launched new attacks on NATO and Afghanistan National Army targets in the past few days, after weeks in which […]

Juan Cole

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Feds still Granting Environmental Waivers to Big Oil in Gulf after Spill

Feds still Granting Environmental Waivers to Big Oil in Gulf after Spill

McClatchy gets the story: Since the BP oil leak began on April 20, the Federal government has granted 22 waivers to oil companies allowing them […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim:  Niass & Shahzad

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: Niass & Shahzad

I received some snarky message after the Shahzad attempted bombing in Times Square, asking if I were still standing behind the idea of Islam as […]

Juan Cole

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Lieberman’s Modest Gulag Proposal

Lieberman’s Modest Gulag Proposal

In order to prevail in his attempt to have the US citizenship of ‘obvious terrorists’ revoked, Sen Joe Lieberman would have to overturn the Fourteenth […]

Juan Cole

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Parliament as a whole may have to Choose Iraqi Prime Minister

Parliament as a whole may have to Choose Iraqi Prime Minister

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that despite their announced coalition, the religious Shiite State of Law and National Iraqi Alliance lists will probably have to resort […]

Juan Cole

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