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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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Iraqi Resistance Sees Itself As

Iraqi Resistance Sees Itself As

Iraqi Resistance sees itself as Fighting Occupation Mitchell Prothero of UPI has found a source among the guerrillas willing to explain the nature of the […]

Juan Cole

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Us Using Israeli Military To Train

Us Using Israeli Military To Train

US Using Israeli Military to Train Special Ops to fight Iraqis Julian Borger of the Guardian reports that the Israeli army has sent “urban warfare […]

Juan Cole

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Carnegies Arab Reform Bulletin I Did

Carnegies Arab Reform Bulletin I Did

Carnegie’s Arab Reform Bulletin I did not get time to do it when it came out, but I wanted to direct readers to the recent […]

Juan Cole

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1 Us Soldier Killed 2 Wounded In Mosul

1 Us Soldier Killed 2 Wounded In Mosul

1 US Soldier Killed, 2 Wounded in Mosul Guerrillas used a roadside bomb to kill one US soldier and wound 2 others from the 101st […]

Juan Cole

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Al Dawa Party Will Act As Intermediary

Al Dawa Party Will Act As Intermediary

al-Da`wa Party will act as Intermediary for Muqtada The Shiite al-Da`wa Party announced that it would attempt to negotiate a truce between radical young Shiite […]

Juan Cole

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Hilla Demonstrations Point To Problems

Hilla Demonstrations Point To Problems

Hilla Demonstrations Point to problems of Legitimacy Mariam Fam of AP notes that there has been a popular movement of protest against the American-appointed mayor […]

Juan Cole

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Gas And Electricity Shortages Return

Gas And Electricity Shortages Return

Gas and Electricity Shortages Return Glen Carey of USA Today reports that gasoline/ petrol and electricity shortages have returned to Baghdad, raising anxieties among Iraqis […]

Juan Cole

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Controversies About New Security Agency

Controversies About New Security Agency

Controversies about New Security Agency in Iraq In the 1980s, Saddam employed tens of thousands of persons in the Ministry of the Interior (analogous to […]

Juan Cole

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Stages Of American Iraq And Parallels I

Stages Of American Iraq And Parallels I

Stages of American Iraq, and Parallels I was on an Iraq panel at MIT on Friday with Ivo Daalder,, co-author of the just-published America Unbound: […]

Juan Cole

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