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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
That other War:  Struggle and Suffering in Sudan

That other War: Struggle and Suffering in Sudan

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox It’s been devastating, even if no one’s paying attention. Three months of fighting in Sudan between the army […]

Tomdispatch

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Will the Triumph of the Messianic Israeli Far Right Destabilize the Country?

Will the Triumph of the Messianic Israeli Far Right Destabilize the Country?

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Israeli government voted this week to limit their Supreme Court’s ability to overturn unconstitutional laws after several […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Haredim
With Israel in Turmoil, its "Lost Boys" are Stoking Extreme Nationalism

With Israel in Turmoil, its “Lost Boys” are Stoking Extreme Nationalism

By Anna Lippman, York University, Canada | – We saw it in the United States on Jan. 6, 2021. We witnessed it during Canada’s so-called […]

The Conversation

Health Care
Let's Celebrate Medicare's 58th Birthday with "Medicare for All"

Let’s Celebrate Medicare’s 58th Birthday with “Medicare for All”

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – In the long history of struggle to establish a national health insurance system for the USA, Medicare was […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

History
Thom Hartmann's  "The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity’s Ancient Way of Living"

Thom Hartmann’s “The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity’s Ancient Way of Living”

Thom Hartman interviewed on The Mark Thompson Show: “The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity’s Ancient Way of Living” Thom Hartmann is the host […]

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Anti-intellectualism
Conspiracy-Spewing, Anti-Vaxxer Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Gets a MAGA Boost to Weaken Biden

Conspiracy-Spewing, Anti-Vaxxer Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Gets a MAGA Boost to Weaken Biden

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The right’s thinly veiled crusade to elevate Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.–an exemplar of through-the-Black-Mirror politics […]

Dan Dinello

Human Rights
Iranian Court Sparks Controversy By Diagnosing Hijab Protesters With Mental Illness

Iranian Court Sparks Controversy By Diagnosing Hijab Protesters With Mental Illness

By Roya Maleki Left to right: Iranian actresses Afsaneh Bayegan, Azadeh Samadi, and Leila Bolukat were all arrested for appearing in public without the mandatory […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Climate Crisis
Could the Law of the Sea be used to protect Small Island States from Climate Change?

Could the Law of the Sea be used to protect Small Island States from Climate Change?

By Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb, The University of Melbourne; and Margaret Young, The University of Melbourne | – Climate change will wreak havoc on small island developing […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
The Ugly Side of American Exceptionalism: Refusing to Play by the Rules

The Ugly Side of American Exceptionalism: Refusing to Play by the Rules

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In 1963, the summer I turned 11, my mother had a gig evaluating Peace Corps programs in Egypt and Ethiopia. My […]

Rebecca Gordon

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