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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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Inequality
One-Off Demonstrations are not Enough: Progressives need Standing Mass Organizations

One-Off Demonstrations are not Enough: Progressives need Standing Mass Organizations

By Beverly Gologorsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – To begin, an anecdote. This past summer, a pigeon walked through my open balcony door while […]

Tomdispatch

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Turkey wants Anti-Kurdish Pledges in Writing from Finland and Sweden before they can Join NATO

Turkey wants Anti-Kurdish Pledges in Writing from Finland and Sweden before they can Join NATO

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkey is still holding up the application of Finland and Sweden to join NATO over what President Tayyip Erdogan says […]

Juan Cole

Guns
People Die as Weapons Industry Profits

People Die as Weapons Industry Profits

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Citizens are waking up to the fact that so many politicians can be so easily bought by the […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Iran
Iran: The Killing Of Revolutionary Guards Colonel Could Complicate Rapprochement With the West

Iran: The Killing Of Revolutionary Guards Colonel Could Complicate Rapprochement With the West

By Hannah Kaviani | – ( RFE/RL ) – I’m Hannah Kaviani, a senior broadcaster and editor at RFE/RL’s Radio Farda, filling in this week […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Guns
How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 Ban on Machine Guns to blocking nearly all firearm Restrictions Today

How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 Ban on Machine Guns to blocking nearly all firearm Restrictions Today

By Robert Spitzer, State University of New York College at Cortland | – The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary […]

The Conversation

Far Right
When it comes to Guns, the US is a Third World Country run by Corporate Lobbyists for a Profit

When it comes to Guns, the US is a Third World Country run by Corporate Lobbyists for a Profit

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 21 are dead in another mass shooting, including 19 schoolchildren. The white slavers of the Old Souoth used to call […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
As Biden heads to Israel, Bennett announces 4,427 New Squatter Units on Palestinian Land; State Department Tut-Tuts

As Biden heads to Israel, Bennett announces 4,427 New Squatter Units on Palestinian Land; State Department Tut-Tuts

( Middle East Monitor ) – “In the face of enemy violence, the Zionist answer has always been settlement, security and immigration,” Israeli Prime Minister […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
Climate Change: radical Activists benefit social Movements – History shows Why

Climate Change: radical Activists benefit social Movements – History shows Why

By Heather Alberro, Nottingham Trent University | – Wynn Bruce set himself on fire on April 22 2022 – Earth Day. His self-immolation in front […]

The Conversation

Arms Sales
Arsenal of Autocracy?    The Major Weapons Makers Cash in Worldwide, Not Just in Ukraine

Arsenal of Autocracy? The Major Weapons Makers Cash in Worldwide, Not Just in Ukraine

By William D. Hartung | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – These are good times to be an arms maker. Not only are tens of billions of […]

William D. Hartung

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

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