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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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Why does the Pentagon Budget Really Keep Growing? When Democracies Pursue Imperial Dominance it doesn’t End Well

Why does the Pentagon Budget Really Keep Growing? When Democracies Pursue Imperial Dominance it doesn’t End Well

( Tomdispatch.com) – Imagine this scenario for a moment: a “great power” watches another major power fight a war in a nearby nation for 10 […]

William J. Astore

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Israeli Opposition Warns of "Civil War," "End of Democracy" as 80,000 Rally against Netanyahu

Israeli Opposition Warns of “Civil War,” “End of Democracy” as 80,000 Rally against Netanyahu

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian newspaper Amad reports that tens of thousands of Israelis took part on Saturday evening in demonstrations in Tel […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Dual Iranian-British national Alireza Akbari's execution plunges Iranian Relations with the West to a new Low

Dual Iranian-British national Alireza Akbari’s execution plunges Iranian Relations with the West to a new Low

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment) – On Saturday 14 January, the Iranian regime executed a 61-year old dual Iranian-British national and a former deputy defence […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Corruption
Will Birtherism come back to bite Republicans in the Behind?  On top of all his other Lies, is George Santos even a US Citizen?

Will Birtherism come back to bite Republicans in the Behind? On top of all his other Lies, is George Santos even a US Citizen?

Nashville (Special to Informed Comment) – Suspicions grow that not only did new Congressman George Santos (R-NY) fabricate his educational and employment record but that […]

Michael G. Roskin

Climate Crisis
Top 6 Ways 2023 could be a Pivotal Year for Climate Action

Top 6 Ways 2023 could be a Pivotal Year for Climate Action

By Wesley Morgan, Griffith University | – (The Conversation) – Many people think of the annual UN climate talks as talkfests which achieve only incremental […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis: Oceans heating up as though we were Constantly Blowing up Atomic Bombs in them

Climate Crisis: Oceans heating up as though we were Constantly Blowing up Atomic Bombs in them

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released talking points for its report on 2022, warning that the oceans are […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Did Netflix Really fulfill its Pledge to Be Carbon Neutral by 2022?

Did Netflix Really fulfill its Pledge to Be Carbon Neutral by 2022?

By Christine Ro | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Netflix styles itself as a climate action leader, but the world’s most popular video […]

Clean Energy Wire

Authoritarianism
A New Crop of Disruptor-Politicians is failing the Earth

A New Crop of Disruptor-Politicians is failing the Earth

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – House Republicans, Euroskeptics, Vladimir Putin, and Jair Bolsonaro are the agents of a new kind of political disorder that […]

John Feffer

China
Mad World: Global Flashpoints to watch in 2023 in the Era of ‘Polycrisis’

Mad World: Global Flashpoints to watch in 2023 in the Era of ‘Polycrisis’

By Susan Harris Rimmer, Griffith University | – (The Conversation) – When 2022 began, there was trepidation about what might happen in at least ten […]

The Conversation

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