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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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History
The Qur’an and Black Lives Matter  (Podcast)

The Qur’an and Black Lives Matter (Podcast)

My interview is at Renovatio concerning my forthcoming article on equality in the Qur’an, which I wrote in honor of the Black Lives Matter movement. […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Right now it Doesn’t Look like we can Keep Global Heating to an Extra 2.7° F.; But we Can Change That

Right now it Doesn’t Look like we can Keep Global Heating to an Extra 2.7° F.; But we Can Change That

By Christopher Hedemann, Eduardo Gresse, and Jan Petzold | – ( The Conversation ) – If you read the scientific literature, there seem to be […]

The Conversation

Featured
UN Slams new Israeli gov't of Bennett for new Squatter-Settlements in Palestine, a 'Flagrant Violation of Int'l Law'

UN Slams new Israeli gov’t of Bennett for new Squatter-Settlements in Palestine, a ‘Flagrant Violation of Int’l Law’

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, Tor Wennesland, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, gave a long a disturbing oral […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
After the nightmare of the Gaza massacre, what comes next?

After the nightmare of the Gaza massacre, what comes next?

The bombing was the worst I’ve experienced, but it can’t contain the Palestinian uprising that is showing the world the true face of Israel[/pullquote] By […]

Open Democracy

Israel/ Palestine
Why does Israel ban Palestinian mothers from accompanying sick children from Gaza seeking treatment in the West Bank?

Why does Israel ban Palestinian mothers from accompanying sick children from Gaza seeking treatment in the West Bank?

By Eman Abusidu | – ( Middle East Monitor) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) pointed out in its 2020 annual report that, “All patients […]

Middle East Monitor

nuclear weapons
Do We Really need Multi-Billion-Dollar Naval Vessels that can deliver 16,128 Hiroshimas?

Do We Really need Multi-Billion-Dollar Naval Vessels that can deliver 16,128 Hiroshimas?

( Tomdispatch.com) – Groton and New London, Connecticut, are home to about 65,000 people, three colleges, the Coast Guard Academy, 15 nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed submarines capable […]

Frida Berrigan

African-Americans
Top US Officer Gen. Milley Schools GOP Reps. on Critical Race Theory, Need for Military to Study Society: "I Have Read Marx and Lenin"

Top US Officer Gen. Milley Schools GOP Reps. on Critical Race Theory, Need for Military to Study Society: “I Have Read Marx and Lenin”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Republicans in Congress really miss the days of red baiting and the Communist threat. Dick Nixon made his bones […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran’s Hardliners: We’re Back, Too

Iran’s Hardliners: We’re Back, Too

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – To some critics, U.S. elections are managed affairs. According to this cynical view, the “powers that be” narrow […]

John Feffer

Iran
Meet The New Boss: Iran's Raisi In His Own Words And Those Of Others

Meet The New Boss: Iran’s Raisi In His Own Words And Those Of Others

( RFE/RL ) – Hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi has been declared the presumptive winner of Iran’s June 18 presidential vote, which was marred by the […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

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