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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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Haleh Watch Dont Forget Imprisoned

Haleh Watch Dont Forget Imprisoned

Haleh Watch Don’t forget imprisoned scholar Haleh Esfandiari, in Iran. The link is to an article just out in the Chronicle of Higher Education. See […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Beginning Of End Of Anglo American Iraq

Beginning Of End Of Anglo American Iraq

The Beginning of the End of Anglo-American Iraq Incoming British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will remove all British troops from Iraq within two years (before […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
8 Us Gis Killed 16 Shiite Kurds

8 Us Gis Killed 16 Shiite Kurds

8 US GIs Killed 16 Shiite Kurds Massacred Suhail: Iraq has 3 million widows *8 US troops were announced killed in Iraq on Saturday. British […]

Juan Cole

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Wright Boycott Threat Puts Pressure On

Wright Boycott Threat Puts Pressure On

Wright: Boycott Threat Puts Pressure on Iran Robin Wright at the Washington Post has a piece online today on the growing pressure among US academics […]

Juan Cole

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Al Hakim In Us For Cancer Treatment

Al Hakim In Us For Cancer Treatment

Al-Hakim in US for Cancer Treatment Sistani Aide: US not Serious on Terror Militia Rule in Basra Robin Wright reports that Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the […]

Juan Cole

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Haleh In Prison I Copied Here Last

Haleh In Prison I Copied Here Last

Haleh in Prison I copied here last Saturday our MESA letter of protest about the Iranian government’s imprisonment of Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari [also spelled […]

Juan Cole

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Annual Blogads Survey Many Thanks To

Annual Blogads Survey Many Thanks To

Annual Blogads Survey Many thanks to readers willing to take the blogads survey. I’m told it isn’t time-consuming. Although I would be blogging anyway, I […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Oil Sabotage Is As Bad As Ever

Oil Sabotage Is As Bad As Ever

Oil Sabotage is “As Bad as Ever”: Shahristani 60 Dead in violence In an interview with Patrick Cockburn of the Independent, Iraq’s Oil Minister, Hussein […]

Juan Cole

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Chatham House Study On Iraq

Chatham House Study On Iraq

Chatham House Study on Iraq Fragmentation Gareth Stansfield of Exeter University has written a position paper for Chatham House in the UK, spelling out how […]

Juan Cole

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