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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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4 Times Coleman

Al Franken’s Successful Fundraising Minnesota Senate Race at Stake Iraq an Issue for Coleman Al Franken is proving himself a formidable political fundraiser as he […]

Juan Cole

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Pakistan Aftermath On Last Words Of

Pakistan Aftermath On Last Words Of

Pakistan Aftermath On the last words of the Pakistani clerical leader at the Red Mosque, see Manan Ahmad’s posting at ICGA, as well as my […]

Juan Cole

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Pakistani Army Invades Red Mosque

Pakistani Army Invades Red Mosque

Pakistani Army Invades Red Mosque The Pakistani military invaded the Red Mosque and seminary complex early on Tuesday morning. As I write, Aljazeera is reporting […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
140000 Turkish Troops Mass At Iraq

140000 Turkish Troops Mass At Iraq

140,000 Turkish Troops Mass at Iraq Border Iraq Benchmarks still Waiting for Godot Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (a Kurd) warned Monday that 140,000 Turkish […]

Juan Cole

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Informed Comment Global Affairs Our New

Informed Comment Global Affairs Our New

Informed Comment: Global Affairs Our new group blog, Informed Comment: Global Affairs has gotten favorable notice in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Speaking of which, […]

Juan Cole

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Physicians Of Fear My Column At Salon

Physicians Of Fear My Column At Salon

Physicians of Fear My column at Salon.com this week is “Inside the minds of killer doctors”: Some of the accused behind the recent terror plots […]

Juan Cole

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Al Qaeda In Iraq Threatens Iran

Al Qaeda In Iraq Threatens Iran

“Al-Qaeda” in Iraq Threatens Iran Thousands of Sadrists Demonstrate against al-Maliki The “Islamic State in Iraq” led by Abu Umar al-Bagdadi, has theatened to target […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Al Maliki To Face No Confidence Vote As

Al Maliki To Face No Confidence Vote As

Al-Maliki to Face No-Confidence Vote? As Many as 150 Dead in “Turkmen Massacre” Readers sometimes ask me if analyzing the news from Iraq every day […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Pakistan Mosque Tensions Rise

Pakistan Mosque Tensions Rise

Musharraf Warns Militants of Death See Manan Ahmed’s excellent analysis of the crisis in Pakistan at our group blog. He points out that the militant […]

Juan Cole

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