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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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Carbon Footprint
Extinction Rebellion inspires Shell Consultant to Resign over Company's Bad Faith on Climate Emergency, Call for More Resignations

Extinction Rebellion inspires Shell Consultant to Resign over Company’s Bad Faith on Climate Emergency, Call for More Resignations

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a letter of resignation to the Shell executive committee that she posted to her Linkedin page, Caroline Dennett, the […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran: Arrests Amid Economic Protests: Attempt to Suppress Growing Social Movements

Iran: Arrests Amid Economic Protests: Attempt to Suppress Growing Social Movements

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities have arrested several prominent activists on baseless accusations amid labor union strikes and ongoing protests against rising […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Right of return: The Nakba (1948 Calamity) is back on Palestinian Agenda

Right of return: The Nakba (1948 Calamity) is back on Palestinian Agenda

( Middle East Monitor ) – For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba – or Catastrophe – is a thing of the […]

Ramzy Baroud

Food Insecurity
War in Ukraine is pushing global acute Hunger to the highest Level in this Century

War in Ukraine is pushing global acute Hunger to the highest Level in this Century

By Daniel Maxwell, Tufts University | – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has produced a terrible humanitarian crisis in eastern Europe. It also is worsening conditions […]

The Conversation

Featured
Saudi Arabia Snubs US, Rejects Russia Boycott, as Rumors Fly Biden may meet with the Crown Prince

Saudi Arabia Snubs US, Rejects Russia Boycott, as Rumors Fly Biden may meet with the Crown Prince

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as the possibility of a visit to Riyadh by President Joe Biden after his upcoming trip to Israel is […]

Juan Cole

Iran
The Geopolitics and Diplomacy of US–Iran Relations by Monshipouri  – Review

The Geopolitics and Diplomacy of US–Iran Relations by Monshipouri – Review

Book Review – Mahmood Monshipouri, In the Shadow of Mistrust: (London: Hurst and Co., 2022). Bonn (Special to Informed Comment) – Sixteen months have passed […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
Convivencia: Pushing for Peace and Coexistence for all in Israel/Palestine

Convivencia: Pushing for Peace and Coexistence for all in Israel/Palestine

By Faisal Bodi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – One of the many myths underpinning western support for Israel’s colonisation of Palestine is […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Is the Climate Emergency being Turbocharged by the Ukraine War?

Is the Climate Emergency being Turbocharged by the Ukraine War?

By Michael Klare | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The war in Ukraine has already caused massive death and destruction, with more undoubtedly to come […]

Michael T. Klare

Australia
Australia's "Greenslide" Shows the Political Dangers for Conservatives of Downplaying Climate Emergency

Australia’s “Greenslide” Shows the Political Dangers for Conservatives of Downplaying Climate Emergency

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who had headed the conservative Liberal-National Coalition since 2018, has been turned out of […]

Juan Cole

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