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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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Ahmadinejad Uses Bushs Tactics Supreme

Ahmadinejad Uses Bushs Tactics Supreme

Ahmadinejad Uses Bush’s Tactics Supreme Jurisprudent Ali Khamenei gloated Saturday that the Iranian public had “humiliated” Bush by electing hard liner Mahmud Ahmadinejad as president. […]

Juan Cole

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Mosul Police Station Blown Up Many

Mosul Police Station Blown Up Many

Mosul Police Station blown Up, many Dead 31 Killed Saturday, Dozens Wounded Mosul: A suicide bomber detonated his payload at the central police station in […]

Juan Cole

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6 Us Military Personnel Killed 13

6 Us Military Personnel Killed 13

6 US Military Personnel Killed, 13 Wounded at Fallujah Women Targeted A bomber targeted a Marine convoy near Fallujah coming back from a checkpoint, then […]

Juan Cole

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Student Unions In Iraq Call For

Student Unions In Iraq Call For

Student Unions [in Iraq] Call for Withdrawal of Occupation Troops Gilbert Achcar kindly sends along his translation of this newspaper article: ‘ Student Unions [in […]

Juan Cole

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Does Karl Rove Hate Our Liberties And

Does Karl Rove Hate Our Liberties And

Does Karl Rove Hate our Liberties and Way of Life? ‘ At a Manhattan fund-raiser Wednesday night, the flamboyant architect of Bush’s two presidential campaigns […]

Juan Cole

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Jaafari In Washington Weeping Madman

Jaafari In Washington Weeping Madman

Jaafari in Washington Weeping Madman in Sweltering Baghdad Robin Wright and Jim VandeHei of the Washington Post profile the meeting of Ibrahim Jaafari with George […]

Juan Cole

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Al Duri Leads Baath Birth Of His

Al Duri Leads Baath Birth Of His

Al-Duri Leads Baath Birth of His Daughter in Mosul Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri [al-Douri] just had a daughter in Mosul, according to al-Hayat. The article says, […]

Juan Cole

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Un And Trying Bush More On My Un

Un And Trying Bush More On My Un

UN and Trying Bush More on my UN Option for Iraq. By the way, someone over at the Kos discussion (scroll down) said that there […]

Juan Cole

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Stirling Newberry On Un Option And

Stirling Newberry On Un Option And

Stirling Newberry on UN Option And the Great Oil Price Shock of Gulf War IV Stirling Newberry doesn’t think the UN has enough troops for […]

Juan Cole

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