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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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Displaced and Refugees
Marrakech Artisans – who have helped rebuild the Moroccan City before – are among those hit hard in the Earthquake’s Devastation

Marrakech Artisans – who have helped rebuild the Moroccan City before – are among those hit hard in the Earthquake’s Devastation

By Abbey Stockstill, Southern Methodist University | – A powerful earthquake that hit close to the medieval city of Marrakech in Morocco on Sept. 8, […]

The Conversation

Batteries
How Nevada just became the Saudi Arabia of Lithium, as World's Largest Deposit is discovered at Thacker Pass

How Nevada just became the Saudi Arabia of Lithium, as World’s Largest Deposit is discovered at Thacker Pass

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the scientific journal Science Advances, Thomas R. Benton and his colleagues published a paper last month showing that a […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel and its Occupation exact a High Price from Palestinians

Israel and its Occupation exact a High Price from Palestinians

( Jordan Times ) – Last week, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People called for Israel’s “immediate […]

Michael Jansen

Climate Crisis
Our Global Maui Moment: Climate Crisis and a World Afire

Our Global Maui Moment: Climate Crisis and a World Afire

( Tomdispatch.com ) – From the earliest kingdoms to late last night, history has been the story not just of the rise of great powers […]

Tom Engelhardt

Climate Crisis
Big Oil and Big Coal countries Block meaningful G20 Climate Pledge, in wake of World's Hottest Summer on Record

Big Oil and Big Coal countries Block meaningful G20 Climate Pledge, in wake of World’s Hottest Summer on Record

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Shivam Patel at Reuters reports that the G20 summit in New Delhi made no specific, agreed-upon statement on climate and […]

Juan Cole

Death Penalty
Saudi Arabia executes more than 100 People this Year

Saudi Arabia executes more than 100 People this Year

( Middle East Monitor) – The Saudi authorities have executed more than 100 people this year, hitting a new milestone that Amnesty International considers reveals […]

Middle East Monitor

China
A Perfect Storm: Does China’s EV Dominance Threaten European Auto Makers on their Home Turf?

A Perfect Storm: Does China’s EV Dominance Threaten European Auto Makers on their Home Turf?

By Sören Amelang | – On the way from China to Europe: BYD electric car. Image by BYD ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Europe’s […]

Clean Energy Wire

Climate Crisis
Latino Futurism and Puerto Rico's Solar Insurrection: Panels, Batteries and going Off-Grid after Hurricane Maria

Latino Futurism and Puerto Rico’s Solar Insurrection: Panels, Batteries and going Off-Grid after Hurricane Maria

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis thinks that the future of Puerto Rico is solar panels plus battery […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
From Egypt's Nile to Iraq's Tigris-Euphrates, only Water Diplomacy can Forestall Coming Climate Conflicts

From Egypt’s Nile to Iraq’s Tigris-Euphrates, only Water Diplomacy can Forestall Coming Climate Conflicts

By Prof. Dr. Aysegul Kibaroglu   ( Middle East Monitor ) – One of the most pressing issues of the 21st century is the management […]

Middle East Monitor

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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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