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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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Israel/ Palestine
This time, Palestine Solidarity Swept the U.S.

This time, Palestine Solidarity Swept the U.S.

By Shane Burley | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – In mid-May, hundreds gathered in Terry Schrunk Plaza in downtown Portland, Oregon with signs denouncing the […]

Waging Nonviolence

Inequality
Biden’s modest corporate tax increases to fund public infrastructure projects are wildly popular — except among CEOs

Biden’s modest corporate tax increases to fund public infrastructure projects are wildly popular — except among CEOs

By Jim Hightower ( Otherwords.org) – “Outrageous,” screeched the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “It doesn’t feel fair,” whimpered a top corporate executive. The wailing by […]

Jim Hightower

Climate Crisis
Climate change will cost a teenager up to $245,000 over their lifetime, court case reveals

Climate change will cost a teenager up to $245,000 over their lifetime, court case reveals

By Liam Phelan and Jacquie Svenson | – The Federal Court today dismissed a bid by a group of Australian teenagers seeking to prevent federal […]

The Conversation

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Why proposed new Israeli PM, extreme-right Naftali "I've Killed a Lot of Arabs" Bennett, is even worse for Palestinians than far right Netanyahu

Why proposed new Israeli PM, extreme-right Naftali “I’ve Killed a Lot of Arabs” Bennett, is even worse for Palestinians than far right Netanyahu

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a prime time address on Sunday evening, right wing extremist Israeli politician Naftali Bennett announced that he intended to […]

Juan Cole

Congress
Mitch McConnell, Shepherd of Shame: Taking Names for a New, Deeper Circle of Hades

Mitch McConnell, Shepherd of Shame: Taking Names for a New, Deeper Circle of Hades

Mitch McConnell will go down in history as one of the most destructive men in American History. If obstructing all the positive legislation and court […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel/ Palestine
Dear UN Human Rights Council: Commission of Inquiry needed on Israel/Palestine to advance accountability, address root causes

Dear UN Human Rights Council: Commission of Inquiry needed on Israel/Palestine to advance accountability, address root causes

HRW statement to Human Rights Council Special Session Human Rights Watch – (Geneva, May 27, 2021) Once again, this Council gathers to address the latest […]

Human Rights Watch

Asian-Americans
Japanese American soldiers in World War II fought the Axis for the U.S. abroad and racial prejudice back at home

Japanese American soldiers in World War II fought the Axis for the U.S. abroad and racial prejudice back at home

By Susan H. Kamei | – Imagine being forced from your home by the government, being imprisoned in a detention camp under armed guards and […]

The Conversation

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Mideast Sisyphus: In Aftermath of Brutal Israeli Bombing, Palestinians in Gaza are Thirsty, in the Dark, and lack Medicine, and Thousands are Homeless

Mideast Sisyphus: In Aftermath of Brutal Israeli Bombing, Palestinians in Gaza are Thirsty, in the Dark, and lack Medicine, and Thousands are Homeless

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Every time Israel bombs Gaza into smithereens, it is left to others to try to rebuild. The European Union, Qatar, […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
Rep. Cori Bush’s impact on the US Israel-Palestine debate

Rep. Cori Bush’s impact on the US Israel-Palestine debate

By David Warren:

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