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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 Us Troops Killed Blasts Attacks Kill

4 Us Troops Killed Blasts Attacks Kill

4 US Troops Killed; Blasts & Attacks Kill and Wound in Baghdad, Baquba, Mosul AP reports that guerrillas killed four US troops in separate incidents […]

Juan Cole

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Hostage Taking Demonstrations In Najaf

Hostage Taking Demonstrations In Najaf

Hostage-Taking, Demonstrations in Najaf and Karbala In the holy city of Najaf, Shiite militiamen of Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi army took 18 policemen hostage, in hopes […]

Juan Cole

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Cheney Blames Democrats For High Oil

Cheney Blames Democrats For High Oil

Cheney Blames Democrats for High Oil Prices (!) US Vice President Dick Cheney lambasted the Democrats on Tuesday for causing high petroleum prices. I don’t […]

Juan Cole

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Do People Want To Hurt Us Because Were

Do People Want To Hurt Us Because Were

Do People Want to Hurt us Because We’re on the Offensive? A sound bite from President Bush on Monday strikes me as emblematic of the […]

Juan Cole

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Marine Kirkuk Police Iraqi National

Marine Kirkuk Police Iraqi National

Marine, Kirkuk Police, Iraqi National Guard Killed Agence France Press reported that guerrillas killed a US Marine Tuesday in al-Anbar Province during ‘security and stability […]

Juan Cole

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Series Of Arrests In Pakistan Reveals

Series Of Arrests In Pakistan Reveals

Series of Arrests in Pakistan reveals Plot to bomb Finance Centers The uncovering of a possible al-Qaeda plot against key US financial centers in New […]

Juan Cole

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Muqtadas House Besieged By Marines Us

Muqtadas House Besieged By Marines Us

Muqtada’s House Besieged by Marines US Marines and Iraqi National Guard troops headed for the house of Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday, possibly in an another […]

Juan Cole

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Muslim Clerics Decry Targetting Of

Muslim Clerics Decry Targetting Of

Muslim Clerics Decry Targetting of Christians Iraq’s major religious leaders all strongly condemned Sunday’s bombing of Iraqi churches. Newsday writes, ‘ Iraq’s top Shia Muslim […]

Juan Cole

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At Least 28 Dead Over 100 Wounded In

At Least 28 Dead Over 100 Wounded In

At Least 28 Dead, Over 100 Wounded in Iraq Attacks 1 US Soldier from 1st ID among Killed Early Sunday in Mosul, guerrillas attacked a […]

Juan Cole

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