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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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Climate Crisis
Russia's war Crime in Targeting Nuclear Plant Reminds us Why we Should rush to Wind and Solar

Russia’s war Crime in Targeting Nuclear Plant Reminds us Why we Should rush to Wind and Solar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Russian tank shelling of the massive Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in the city of Energodar, which set fire to the […]

Juan Cole

nuclear weapons
Worried about nuclear war? You can actually do something to prevent it

Worried about nuclear war? You can actually do something to prevent it

By Frida Berrigan | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Ukraine is on fire. Russia is using cluster and thermobaric bombs, targetting civilians, killing children […]

Frida Berrigan

Nuclear Energy
Military action in radioactive Chernobyl could be dangerous for people and the environment

Military action in radioactive Chernobyl could be dangerous for people and the environment

By Timothy A. Mousseau, University of South Carolina | – The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
The River of Refugees becomes a Flood as 84 Million flee War, Violence and Tyranny

The River of Refugees becomes a Flood as 84 Million flee War, Violence and Tyranny

( Tomdispatch.com ) – We live on a planet in motion, a world of collision and drift. This was once an Earth of super-continents — […]

Nick Turse

Authoritarianism
Trump knew of Capitol Breach when he Tweeted against Pence; had Conspired Criminally with Eastman: Jan 6 Committee

Trump knew of Capitol Breach when he Tweeted against Pence; had Conspired Criminally with Eastman: Jan 6 Committee

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The January 6 Select Committee in the House of Representatives showed its hand for the first time on Wednesday, alleging […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
No Pasaran: Ukraine 2022 - Why We must Stand against Putin's Fascism

No Pasaran: Ukraine 2022 – Why We must Stand against Putin’s Fascism

Vladimir Putin is the Franco of today, and Ukraine must become the graveyard of Putinism. By John Feffer | – The last surviving member of […]

John Feffer

Islamophobia
The war in Ukraine has demonstrated the West's Double Standards on Refugees

The war in Ukraine has demonstrated the West’s Double Standards on Refugees

By Feras Abu-Helal | – ( Middle East Monitor) – It is probably true to say that most Arabs sympathise with the people of Ukraine […]

Middle East Monitor

Russia
Holy wars: How a cathedral of guns and glory symbolizes Putin’s Russia

Holy wars: How a cathedral of guns and glory symbolizes Putin’s Russia

By Lena Surzhko Harned | Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science, Penn State | – ( The Conversation ) – A curious new church was […]

The Conversation

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The Night Biden became President: Pledges Crippling Sanctions on Russia, bans Flights, for Ukraine Aggression

The Night Biden became President: Pledges Crippling Sanctions on Russia, bans Flights, for Ukraine Aggression

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Foreign policy abruptly hijacked President Biden’s State of the Union Address Tuesday night, making the occasion less partisan that it […]

Juan Cole

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