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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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It is Time to Junk the “Munich” Analogy

It is Time to Junk the “Munich” Analogy

Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – No sooner had the announcement about a new policy for Ukraine from the Trump administration been made […]

Arnold Oliver

Iran
Can Israel Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program?

Can Israel Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program?

By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/ RL ) – U.S. intelligence has concluded that the odds of an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear program in the […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Biodiversity
We’re Killing off Thousands of Species, damaging our Health, Economies and Connections to Nature

We’re Killing off Thousands of Species, damaging our Health, Economies and Connections to Nature

By Justine Bell-James, The University of Queensland and James Watson, The University of Queensland (The Conversation) – Almost 200 nations have signed an ambitious agreement […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Shamash! “Carbon Smoke”

Shamash! “Carbon Smoke”

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Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
For Trumpism “Free Speech” means Neo-Nazi Speech

For Trumpism “Free Speech” means Neo-Nazi Speech

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Convicted felon Donald Trump is eviscerating the US Constitution in a particularly insidious way. Previously, I have […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Balkans
Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With off-limits Bosnian Serb Islamophobes

Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With off-limits Bosnian Serb Islamophobes

By Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester | – ( ProPublica ) – Before Peter Marocco was selected to dismantle America’s entire foreign aid sector […]

ProPublica

Donald Trump
The New Ugly American: Manifest Destiny Gets a Reboot Under President Donald Trump

The New Ugly American: Manifest Destiny Gets a Reboot Under President Donald Trump

( Tomdispatch.com ) – A few years ago, I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: “Our New […]

William J. Astore

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Netanyahu’s Quest to Attack Iran with the Mother of all Bombs

Netanyahu’s Quest to Attack Iran with the Mother of all Bombs

The emboldened Netanyahu cabinet is in a war path, again. It is mobilizing to attack Iran and lobbying President Trump into a plan that presumably […]

Dan Steinbock

Israel/ Palestine
Suspend Arms Transfers to End US Complicity in Israeli Abuses

Suspend Arms Transfers to End US Complicity in Israeli Abuses

Human Rights Watch – (Washington, DC) – The United States will be complicit in the Israeli government’s grave violations in Gaza so long as it […]

Human Rights Watch

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