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Under the Sea: China’s Digital Silk Road and the Middle East
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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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How Israel’s missing constitution deepens divisions between Jews and with Arabs

How Israel’s missing constitution deepens divisions between Jews and with Arabs

By Brendan Szendro | – Renewed fighting has erupted again between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, endangering a ceasefire instituted after an 11-day war […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel's Extremist-Right Flag March helped Mobilize Young Palestinians for Resistance to Apartheid Rule

How Israel’s Extremist-Right Flag March helped Mobilize Young Palestinians for Resistance to Apartheid Rule

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Ultranationalist, right-wing Israeli settlers carried out their “Flag March” in Jerusalem yesterday. Due to […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
From Dentist to Israeli Kingmaker: Mansour Abbas Isn't The Champion Palestinians Need

From Dentist to Israeli Kingmaker: Mansour Abbas Isn’t The Champion Palestinians Need

Perth, Australia (- Special to Informed Comment) – “We will reclaim the lands that were expropriated from our people,” said Dr. Mansour Abbas, 47, in […]

Sandy Milne

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In Challenge to New Gov't, Far Right Israeli Extremists Chant "Death to Arabs" in Provocative March through Palestinian East Jerusalem

In Challenge to New Gov’t, Far Right Israeli Extremists Chant “Death to Arabs” in Provocative March through Palestinian East Jerusalem

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dia Hajj Yahya writes at the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 that because of extreme right Israeli squatters’ deliberately provocative march […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
It wasn’t just politics that led to Netanyahu’s ouster – it was fear of his demagoguery

It wasn’t just politics that led to Netanyahu’s ouster – it was fear of his demagoguery

By Dov Waxman | ( The Conversation) – There is something Shakespearean about Benjamin Netanyahu’s downfall. As in a scene from “Julius Caesar,” who was […]

The Conversation

Health
Social Security Versus National Security:  Whose Entitlement Really Makes Us Safer?

Social Security Versus National Security: Whose Entitlement Really Makes Us Safer?

( Tomdispatch.com) – “Biden’s doing better than I thought he would.” “Yeah. Vaccinations, infrastructure, acknowledging racism in policing. A lot of pieces of the Green […]

Rebecca Gordon

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Israel's New Secular Government: Lieberman Crows that he Sidelined Fundamentalist Ultra-Orthodox and, read his lips: "No new taxes"

Israel’s New Secular Government: Lieberman Crows that he Sidelined Fundamentalist Ultra-Orthodox and, read his lips: “No new taxes”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A lot of attention is focused on Naftali Bennett, the new prime minister of Israel. But it should be remembered […]

Juan Cole

Iran
What NPR's "All Things Considered" won't Tell you about the Iran Nuclear Issue (Like that Iran is Weak and has no Nukes while Israel is advanced and Does)

What NPR’s “All Things Considered” won’t Tell you about the Iran Nuclear Issue (Like that Iran is Weak and has no Nukes while Israel is advanced and Does)

Mt. Berry, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment) – What news audiences of National Public Radio (NPR)’s All Things Considered have and have not heard about […]

John Hickman

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza's children narrate how they survived the Israeli assault

Gaza’s children narrate how they survived the Israeli assault

Wafa Aludaini | (Gaza) | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel bombardment of Gaza has ended, but the pain and destruction remain. The […]

Middle East Monitor

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