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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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Iran’s Women, Digital Rights and Human Freedoms

Iran’s Women, Digital Rights and Human Freedoms

Written byGuest Contributor   This piece was first published by Alliance for Universal Digital Rights (AUDRi), on September 16, 2023, and was written by Emma Gibson, […]

Global Voices

China
New Cold War, Ever-Hotter Planet:  What could Possibly Go Wrong?

New Cold War, Ever-Hotter Planet: What could Possibly Go Wrong?

( Tomdispatch.com) – Tell me, what planet are we actually on? All these decades later, are we really involved in a “second” or “new” Cold […]

Tom Engelhardt

Climate Crisis
Devastating Earthquake showed Resiliency of Morocco's Solar and Wind Farms, as it Meets its Paris Commitments

Devastating Earthquake showed Resiliency of Morocco’s Solar and Wind Farms, as it Meets its Paris Commitments

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – One advantage of solar and wind as renewable sources of energy is that they appear to be especially resilient in […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
DeSantis betrays Florida, Insists the Solution to Climate Change is Burning more Fossil Fuels

DeSantis betrays Florida, Insists the Solution to Climate Change is Burning more Fossil Fuels

  Craig Pittman   ( Florida Phoenix) – Back when dinosaurs ruled the earth and I was in high school, I was part of a […]

Florida Phoenix

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis:  How Weather ‘Blocks’ have Triggered more Extreme Heatwaves and Floods across Europe

Climate Crisis: How Weather ‘Blocks’ have Triggered more Extreme Heatwaves and Floods across Europe

Tim Woollings, University of Oxford | – (The Conversation) – On several occasions this summer, Europe’s weather seemed to get itself stuck, leading to prolonged […]

The Conversation

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ISIL Extremists Bomb Mosques in Pakistan, in Bid to outlaw Celebrating the Birth of the Prophet Muhammad (Yes)

ISIL Extremists Bomb Mosques in Pakistan, in Bid to outlaw Celebrating the Birth of the Prophet Muhammad (Yes)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Muhammad Shahid at The National (Dubai) reports that there were two attacks on mosques in northern Pakistan on Friday. The […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Germany Covers 52 percent of Electricity Consumption with Renewables so Far this Year

Germany Covers 52 percent of Electricity Consumption with Renewables so Far this Year

By Sören Amelang | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Renewables covered more than half of Germany’s electricity consumption so far this year, according to […]

Clean Energy Wire

Climate Crisis
Despite the Welcome Surge of Green Energy, the World is not on Track to keep Heating below 1.5C; We must do More

Despite the Welcome Surge of Green Energy, the World is not on Track to keep Heating below 1.5C; We must do More

By Pep Canadell, CSIRO | – It was a rare bit of good news on climate. The International Energy Agency this week released its latest […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Macron Pledges to end Coal by 2027,  to get to 60% Renewables by 2030, and to Ramp up French EV Production; Is it Enough?

Macron Pledges to end Coal by 2027, to get to 60% Renewables by 2030, and to Ramp up French EV Production; Is it Enough?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Kim Willsher reported this week at the Guardian on French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement of a “French environmental plan” (l’écologie […]

Juan Cole

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Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

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Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

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Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

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