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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
Climate-related damage to German forests ‘unprecedented’: German Aerospace Center

Climate-related damage to German forests ‘unprecedented’: German Aerospace Center

By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have for the first time determined how […]

Clean Energy Wire

Bush
How Bush's Iraq Fiasco ruined US Credibility and Enabled Putin's Invasion of Ukraine

How Bush’s Iraq Fiasco ruined US Credibility and Enabled Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – George W. Bush issued a statement about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It went like this: DALLAS, TEXAS – “Russia’s […]

Juan Cole

History
Russia in Ukraine: Basing Land Claims on Ethnicity/History rather than Int'l Law always leads to Bloody Conflict

Russia in Ukraine: Basing Land Claims on Ethnicity/History rather than Int’l Law always leads to Bloody Conflict

From: The Conversation: The first casualty of war, says historian Ronald Suny, is not just the truth. Often, he says, “it is what is left […]

Ronald Suny

Israel/ Palestine
It's Settled That Israel Is Committing the Crime of Apartheid—Now What Should We Do About It?

It’s Settled That Israel Is Committing the Crime of Apartheid—Now What Should We Do About It?

( Commondreams.org ) – When Amnesty International released its report “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity” earlier the month, […]

Phyllis Bennis

China
China is Rising as a Superpower by vastly Expanding Planet-Wrecking Fossil Fuels

China is Rising as a Superpower by vastly Expanding Planet-Wrecking Fossil Fuels

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Consider us at the edge of the sort of epochal change not seen for centuries, even millennia. By the middle of […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Batteries
By Blocking Green Energy, Manchin and Republicans are Siding with Russia and Endangering US National Security

By Blocking Green Energy, Manchin and Republicans are Siding with Russia and Endangering US National Security

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Vladimir Putin just made you poorer. Your retirement funds invested in the stock market just tanked. The cost of getting […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate data reveals a hottest, driest Southwest in 1,200 Years, with more extremes possible

Climate data reveals a hottest, driest Southwest in 1,200 Years, with more extremes possible

By Alexia Stanbridge | – ( Cronkite News ) – WASHINGTON – The megadrought that’s gripped Arizona and the Southwest since 2000 is the driest […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Israel/ Palestine
Europe Needs to Ban trade with Israeli Squatter Settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territories

Europe Needs to Ban trade with Israeli Squatter Settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territories

Human Rights Watch – (Brussels, February 21, 2022) – The European Commission should prohibit EU trade with settlements in occupied territories globally, Human Rights Watch […]

Human Rights Watch

Russia
Putin’s antagonism toward Ukraine was never just about NATO – it’s about creating a new Russian empire

Putin’s antagonism toward Ukraine was never just about NATO – it’s about creating a new Russian empire

By Emily Channell-Justice and Jacob Lassin | – As some Western observers have feared, Russian President Vladimir Putin has just proved that his aggression toward […]

The Conversation

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