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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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Israel/ Palestine
As new Israeli Gov't Bombs Gaza, Relations with Palestine are on a Knife Edge-- and will Stay There

As new Israeli Gov’t Bombs Gaza, Relations with Palestine are on a Knife Edge– and will Stay There

By Tony Walker | – ( The Conversation) – The Israel-Palestine conflict has experienced its first violent spasm in the term of a new Israeli […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Right Wing Americans Tell me to Go Back Home; as a Palestinian, I wish I Could

Right Wing Americans Tell me to Go Back Home; as a Palestinian, I wish I Could

By Layla Darwish | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – I was taking part in a recent protest in California, proudly waving my Palestinian […]

Middle East Monitor

Haredim
The Real Danger of Israel’s New Government

The Real Danger of Israel’s New Government

By Phyllis Bennis | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The new Israeli government takes office already largely paralyzed. With eight diverse parties, they […]

Phyllis Bennis

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If Hard Liner Raisi wins Iran's Presidential Election, he has Trump to Thank

If Hard Liner Raisi wins Iran’s Presidential Election, he has Trump to Thank

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – June 18 is election day in Iran. There are two main candidates for president, the arch-conservative Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s chief […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Conservative hard-liner poised to be Iran’s next president – what that means for the West and the nuclear deal

Conservative hard-liner poised to be Iran’s next president – what that means for the West and the nuclear deal

By Nader Habibi | – ( The Conversation ) | – Iran’s conservative rulers’ effort to orchestrate the outcome of the June 18 presidential election […]

The Conversation

Antisemitism
5 ways to push antisemites and the Alt-Right out of the Palestinian solidarity movement

5 ways to push antisemites and the Alt-Right out of the Palestinian solidarity movement

By Shane Burley | – With support for Palestinian freedom hitting a new level, intentional strategies are needed to stop white nationalists looking to hijack […]

Waging Nonviolence

Militarization
The other Big Lie undermining Democracy: Why our Recent Wars Began, and how Badly they were Bungled

The other Big Lie undermining Democracy: Why our Recent Wars Began, and how Badly they were Bungled

( Tomdispatch.com) – Americans may already be lying themselves out of what little remains of their democracy. The big lie uniting and motivating today’s Republicans […]

William J. Astore

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Not only Should Congress repeal 2002 Authorization for use of Force in Iraq, it should Apologize for that Pack of Lies

Not only Should Congress repeal 2002 Authorization for use of Force in Iraq, it should Apologize for that Pack of Lies

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jacob Pramuk at CNBC reports that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Biden White House are backing an attempt […]

Juan Cole

China
Is Putin's Positive View of the Biden Summit a sign he is Souring on his China Alliance?

Is Putin’s Positive View of the Biden Summit a sign he is Souring on his China Alliance?

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – The results of the historic summit between the US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, held […]

Nikola Mikovic

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