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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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The Six-Times Bankrupt Trump Turns to Bankrupting America

The Six-Times Bankrupt Trump Turns to Bankrupting America

( Tomdispatch.com ) – From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior […]

Tom Engelhardt

Academic Freedom
Protesting Yale’s Firing of Helyeh Doutagh based on Questionable Israeli AI-generated Charges

Protesting Yale’s Firing of Helyeh Doutagh based on Questionable Israeli AI-generated Charges

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Susan Sawyer Senior Associate General Counsel Yale University susan.sawyer@yale.edu Dear Ms. Sawyer: We write […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Solar Power doubling every 3 Years; 41% of world Electricity now Low-Carbon

Solar Power doubling every 3 Years; 41% of world Electricity now Low-Carbon

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It may be that Trump can slow the advance of renewables, including solar energy, in the United States. That would […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Iran must Unconditionally Release Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi

Iran must Unconditionally Release Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi

Release All other Arbitrarily Detained Rights Activists Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities are threatening to return the human rights defender and Nobel […]

Human Rights Watch

Donald Trump
With US Bombers at the ready, can Trump cut a Deal with Iran and avoid a War?

With US Bombers at the ready, can Trump cut a Deal with Iran and avoid a War?

By Amin Saikal, Victoria University (The Conversation) – The United States and Iran are once again on a collision course over the Iranian nuclear program. […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Is Trump a Bigger Threat to America than Usama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda?

Is Trump a Bigger Threat to America than Usama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Donald Trump has inflicted more damage on the United States’s markets than did Usam Bin Laden and al-Qaeda on 9/11. […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
No, Even the Super-Rich Can’t Dodge the Climate-Change Bullet

No, Even the Super-Rich Can’t Dodge the Climate-Change Bullet

They think they can — and that thinking just may doom the rest of us. ( Inequality.org) – So where do you see yourself living […]

Sam Pizzigati

Health
The USAID that Elon Musk Never Knew

The USAID that Elon Musk Never Knew

( Tomdispatch.com ) – What put the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with an annual budget hovering at just about 1% of federal spending, […]

Arnold R. Isaacs

Dissent
“The American Spring:”  Trump is increasingly Like Middle East Rulers who were Overthrown

“The American Spring:” Trump is increasingly Like Middle East Rulers who were Overthrown

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nationwide “Hands Off!” rallies were held in over 1,200 towns and cities, in every single state of the Union on […]

Juan Cole

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