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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
The Case for Palestinian Nationality

The Case for Palestinian Nationality

By Nadim Bawalsa | – Exiled Palestinians’ right to Palestinian nationality is protected under international law, irrespective of racist Israeli apartheid policies. How can Palestinians […]

Al-Shabaka

Climate Crisis
The climate Movement was built for a World before Climate Change — it’s Time for a new Approach

The climate Movement was built for a World before Climate Change — it’s Time for a new Approach

By Cam Fenton | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – We are past the point where “stopping” climate change is really possible. With global temperature rise […]

Waging Nonviolence

Authoritarianism
Iran: Women Students Brand Regime Paramilitary "ISIL" as Protests Continue, with at least 185 Dead

Iran: Women Students Brand Regime Paramilitary “ISIL” as Protests Continue, with at least 185 Dead

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dubai’s Al-Arabiya reports that on Sunday evening angry nighttime demonstrations broke out in numerous Iranian cities, as the wave of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Russia's Annexation of Part of Ukraine Drew Western Sanctions, but UK's Liz Truss is rewarding Israel's Annexation by moving British Embassy to Jerusalem

Russia’s Annexation of Part of Ukraine Drew Western Sanctions, but UK’s Liz Truss is rewarding Israel’s Annexation by moving British Embassy to Jerusalem

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) – Russia’s invasion and annexation of four regions of Ukraine exposed western double standards elsewhere in the world once again. […]

Mohammed Samaana

Authoritarianism
Laws on Veiling in Iran over the Decades: the continuing Battle for Reform

Laws on Veiling in Iran over the Decades: the continuing Battle for Reform

By Sahar Maranlou, University of Essex | – Protests have quickly spread across Iran calling for a change in the law after the death of […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
Welcoming Russians Who Refuse to Fight

Welcoming Russians Who Refuse to Fight

By David Cortright |- ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The sudden mass exodus last week of Russian men fleeing military service is a […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Iran’s Hijab Revolt: What does the Qur’an Really say about Women in Public?

Iran’s Hijab Revolt: What does the Qur’an Really say about Women in Public?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The ayatollahs who rule Iran claim to do so in the name of Islam. Their interpretation of Islam, however, is […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran: ‘Hijab’ protests challenge legitimacy of Islamic Republic

Iran: ‘Hijab’ protests challenge legitimacy of Islamic Republic

By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin | – (The Conversation) – Three weeks after the violent death of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini at […]

The Conversation

Feminism
Women in Turkey, Including Turkish Kurds, stand in solidarity with Women of Iran

Women in Turkey, Including Turkish Kurds, stand in solidarity with Women of Iran

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – From video campaigns circulating on social media to street protests and singers cutting their hair on stage — women from […]

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

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