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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
The West’s Ethnic Cleansing under Humanitarian Pretexts

The West’s Ethnic Cleansing under Humanitarian Pretexts

by Ramona Wadi ( Middle East Monitor ) – Emboldened by the US and the international community’s acceptance of its genocide, Israel is not taking […]

Ramona Wadi

Donald Trump
D is for Decline, Dystopia and . . . Donald

D is for Decline, Dystopia and . . . Donald

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Count on one thing: in some almost unimaginable future, no American president (if we even have them anymore) is going to […]

Tom Engelhardt

Antarctica
1/4 to 1/2 of Glaciers will Melt by 2100, raising Sea Level, As our burning of Fossil Fuels Heats Earth

1/4 to 1/2 of Glaciers will Melt by 2100, raising Sea Level, As our burning of Fossil Fuels Heats Earth

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new multi-author study in Nature finds that the world’s 200,000 glaciers are melting at an increasingly alarming rate. If […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: The Middle East’s unresolved Water Disputes

From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: The Middle East’s unresolved Water Disputes

Written byRaseef22 This post by Mohamed Yousry, was first published in Arabic by Raseef 22* on February 15, 2025. This edited version was translated into […]

Global Voices

Iran
Why Is Saudi Arabia Seeking To Mediate A Deal Between U.S. And Iran?

Why Is Saudi Arabia Seeking To Mediate A Deal Between U.S. And Iran?

By By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/RL ) – After facilitating the first high-level talks between U.S. and Russian officials since the Ukraine war began, Saudi […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

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Palestinian Life Expectancy in Gaza cut from 75.5 to 40.6 Years by Israeli Total War: The Lancet

Palestinian Life Expectancy in Gaza cut from 75.5 to 40.6 Years by Israeli Total War: The Lancet

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – An article just published in The Lancet by Prof Michel Guillot et al. found that the campaign against Gaza civilians […]

Juan Cole

Democracy
What the US can learn from South Koreans who stopped an Authoritarian Power-Grab

What the US can learn from South Koreans who stopped an Authoritarian Power-Grab

Jungmin Choi  As Elon Musk and his DOGE team set about dismantling government agencies, many Americans expected a strong response from Congressional Democrats. Instead, party […]

Waging Nonviolence

Climate Crisis
Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals

Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals

By by Abrahm Lustgarten | – ( ProPublica ) – One of President Donald Trump’s most damaging strikes at the foundation of U.S. climate policy […]

ProPublica

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Interview with Miko Peled, Director of Palestine House of Freedom

Interview with Miko Peled, Director of Palestine House of Freedom

Interview by Fariba Amini with Miko Peled, Israeli peace activist and Director of Palestine House of Freedom. Photographs by Fariba Amini © 2025. F.A. You […]

Fariba Amini

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