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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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Israel/ Palestine
UN Expert accuses Israel of sexually abusing Palestinian Prisoners

UN Expert accuses Israel of sexually abusing Palestinian Prisoners

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel has turned Palestine into an “open-air prison” where Palestinians, including tens of thousands of children, are “constantly confined, […]

Middle East Monitor

Artificial Intelligence
AI vs. AI: And Human Extinction as Collateral Damage

AI vs. AI: And Human Extinction as Collateral Damage

( Tomdispatch.com) – A world in which machines governed by artificial intelligence (AI) systematically replace human beings in most business, industrial, and professional functions is […]

Michael T. Klare

China
Will China Leapfrog America in the Middle East Using its Green Technology and EVs?

Will China Leapfrog America in the Middle East Using its Green Technology and EVs?

Over the past decade, since Xi Jinping became the General-Secretary of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2012, he has accelerated China’s return to […]

Neil Thompson

Climate Crisis
We don’t Need to let Fossil Fuels and Forest Fires Choke Us — Green Energy is Here and its Price is Plummeting

We don’t Need to let Fossil Fuels and Forest Fires Choke Us — Green Energy is Here and its Price is Plummeting

Dr. Joel Charles ( Wisconsin Examiner ) – Every day last week I woke up dismayed to see the haze from the Canadian wildfire smoke.  […]

Wisconsin Examiner

China
China as a Mediator in Israel-Palestine

China as a Mediator in Israel-Palestine

Nor Aishah Hanifa ( Middle East Monitor ) – China’s rise in the 20th century and its advancement in the 21st create what is called […]

Middle East Monitor

censorship
Is Saudi Arabia using "Sportswashing" to Simply Hide its Human Rights Abuses -- Or is there a Bigger Strategy at Play?

Is Saudi Arabia using “Sportswashing” to Simply Hide its Human Rights Abuses — Or is there a Bigger Strategy at Play?

By Ben Rich, Curtin University and Leena Adel, Curtin University | – As Saudi Arabia continues to open up internationally, it is yet again in […]

The Conversation

Bush
Iraq’s Climate Crisis: America’s War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl

Iraq’s Climate Crisis: America’s War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl

( Tomdispatch.com ) – It was one of the fabled rivers of history and the Marines needed to cross it. In early April 2003, as […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
To Stop Global Heating, Cut Military Spending

To Stop Global Heating, Cut Military Spending

By Alliyah Lusuegro | ( Otherwords.org ) – Not long ago, I couldn’t step outside my home without pulling on my KN95 mask.  As smoke […]

OtherWords

Africa
Tunisia: Crisis as Black Africans Expelled to Libya Border

Tunisia: Crisis as Black Africans Expelled to Libya Border

( Human Rights Watch) – (Tunis) – Tunisian security forces have collectively expelled several hundred Black African migrants and asylum seekers, including children and pregnant […]

Human Rights Watch

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

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