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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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Donald Rumsfeld, Torturer, Serial Liar, Butcher of Baghdad, dies at 88

Donald Rumsfeld, Torturer, Serial Liar, Butcher of Baghdad, dies at 88

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s death at 88 is an occasion for me to recall some of my own […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Bennett's political theatre: The decisive Israeli-Palestinian fight ahead

Bennett’s political theatre: The decisive Israeli-Palestinian fight ahead

( Middle East Monitor ) – Many Palestinians believe that the 10-21 May military confrontation between Israel and the Gaza Resistance, along with the simultaneous […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
How the Media manages to Report the Northwest Heat Dome without Mentioning the Carbon Dioxide Emissions that Drove it

How the Media manages to Report the Northwest Heat Dome without Mentioning the Carbon Dioxide Emissions that Drove it

By Kamyar Razavi | – ( The Conversation) – New normal. Record-breaking. Unprecedented. In recent days, as Western Canada and the United States have been […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
An All-American Horror Story:  How we Sacrificed our Health on the Altar of useless Nuclear Arsenals

An All-American Horror Story: How we Sacrificed our Health on the Altar of useless Nuclear Arsenals

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Yes, once upon a time I regularly absorbed science fiction and imagined futures of wonder, but mainly of horror. What else […]

Tom Engelhardt

Authoritarianism
Top 6 Things Trump should be Indicted for aside from Cheating on Taxes

Top 6 Things Trump should be Indicted for aside from Cheating on Taxes

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) The Trump organization was indicted by a New York grand jury on Wednesday and the indictment is unsealed today, according to […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The World's Gaze is turning away from the Palestinians, but their Oppression hasn't Changed

The World’s Gaze is turning away from the Palestinians, but their Oppression hasn’t Changed

( Middle East Monitor ) – If there was only one tiny sliver of hope that emerged after the horrors that Israel inflicted on the […]

Asa Winstanley

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians are Mobilized in the face of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing

Palestinians are Mobilized in the face of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing

(Al-Shabaka ) – The ongoing Palestinian uprising against the Israeli settler-colonial regime in colonized Palestine did not begin in Sheikh Jarrah, the Palestinian neighborhood of […]

Yara Hawari

racism
Structural racism: what it is and how it works, and why Critical Race Theory Explains it

Structural racism: what it is and how it works, and why Critical Race Theory Explains it

By Vini Lander | – From the moment it was published, the UK’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities’ report was met with a media […]

The Conversation

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Israeli Forces Demolish Shop, Homes of Palestinians in Jerusalem's Silwan, beginning Ethnic Cleansing Drive

Israeli Forces Demolish Shop, Homes of Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Silwan, beginning Ethnic Cleansing Drive

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Tuesday evening, Israeli security forces cracked down on Palestinian protesters in Silwan […]

Juan Cole

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