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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
Why We cannot meet sustainable development goals with a sick ocean

Why We cannot meet sustainable development goals with a sick ocean

By Josep Lluís Pelegrí Llopart | – The United Nations declared the start to the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development earlier this year. […]

The Conversation

Colonialism
Top 5 Differences between the Fourth of July and the Capitol Insurrection

Top 5 Differences between the Fourth of July and the Capitol Insurrection

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 1. The Fourth of July celebrates a revolutionary event. January 6 was a counter-revolutionary event. Why do I say this? […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Eye of Fire as Ocean burns in Gulf of Mexico foretells Earth Future if we Keep Burning Fossil Fuels

Eye of Fire as Ocean burns in Gulf of Mexico foretells Earth Future if we Keep Burning Fossil Fuels

By Julia Conley, staff writer | – ( Commondreams.org) – A fire that raged for hours in the Gulf of Mexico Friday offered the latest […]

Common Dreams

Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence wasn’t really complaining about King George, and 5 other surprising facts for July Fourth

The Declaration of Independence wasn’t really complaining about King George, and 5 other surprising facts for July Fourth

By Woody Holton | – Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are […]

The Conversation

Iran
Iranian Voters sent a Message to Iran's Leaders with Dismal Turnout For Presidential Election

Iranian Voters sent a Message to Iran’s Leaders with Dismal Turnout For Presidential Election

( RFE/RL) – The Iranian leadership has a problem: a record number of voters — more than half of them — turned their back on […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

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United Nations Accuses Israel of 'Grave Violations' against Palestinian Children

United Nations Accuses Israel of ‘Grave Violations’ against Palestinian Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This week, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres presented a report to the 75th General Assembly on the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza Disability Rights Defender recounts harrowing Flight from Israeli Airstrikes at U.N.

Gaza Disability Rights Defender recounts harrowing Flight from Israeli Airstrikes at U.N.

By Abier Almasri | Research Assistant, Middle East and North Africa Division | @abier_i | – ( ) – Abeer al-Harakli, a 28-year-old disability rights […]

Human Rights Watch

China
Biden is a Transformative President Domestically, but from China to Iran he embraces the Same old Washington Militarism

Biden is a Transformative President Domestically, but from China to Iran he embraces the Same old Washington Militarism

America is back–to the same old, same old. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) -On the domestic front, Joe Biden is flirting with transformational policies […]

John Feffer

African-Americans
What the Supreme Court ruling on Arizona Law means for your Right to Vote

What the Supreme Court ruling on Arizona Law means for your Right to Vote

By Cornell William Clayton and Michael Ritter | – Arizona may keep two voting laws that Republicans say protect election integrity and Democrats believe will […]

The Conversation

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