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Even as it Strikes Deals with Trump, the Gulf Embraces Chinese Tech Giants
China

Even as it Strikes Deals with Trump, the Gulf Embraces Chinese Tech Giants

Neil Thompson

Chinese technology firms are increasingly competing with US ones in major Middle Eastern markets, escalating technology-related US national security concerns. London (Special to Informed Comment; […]

US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to Libya

US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to Libya

05/13/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Netanyahu’s Occupation Plan for Gaza means more Suffering for Palestinians and less Security for Israel

Netanyahu’s Occupation Plan for Gaza means more Suffering for Palestinians and less Security for Israel

05/13/2025 By The Conversation

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The Real Enemy: US Elites Squandered Trillions on War Spending and Underfunded Public Health

The Real Enemy: US Elites Squandered Trillions on War Spending and Underfunded Public Health

By Mandy Smithberger | – In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Washington has initiated its largest spending binge in history. In the process, you might […]

Tomdispatch

Epidemics
History's crystal ball: What the past can tell us about COVID-19 and our future

History’s crystal ball: What the past can tell us about COVID-19 and our future

(The Conversation) – During this pandemic, historians have been consulted like the Oracle of Delphi. Is COVID-19 like the Black Death? The 1918 flu? What […]

Ellen Amster

Christianity
As Odd Bed Fellows Fall out, Israel bans Evangelical GOD TV for Evangelizing Jews

As Odd Bed Fellows Fall out, Israel bans Evangelical GOD TV for Evangelizing Jews

What did the Likud Government Expect? “Evangelical” is right there in their Name

Juan Cole

Employment
Amid Pandemic and BLM Protests, Why Minimum Wage Must be Defended and Expanded

Amid Pandemic and BLM Protests, Why Minimum Wage Must be Defended and Expanded

You can’t fault them for lack of effort. Having lost a series of political, legislative, and legal battles to defeat minimum wage increases in cities […]

John Buell

Authoritarianism
What Will It Take to Defeat Trumpism? Learning Lessons from the End of the Confederacy, Nazi Germany, and Saddam’s Iraq

What Will It Take to Defeat Trumpism? Learning Lessons from the End of the Confederacy, Nazi Germany, and Saddam’s Iraq

( Tomdispatch.com) – Let’s assume that Donald Trump loses the election in November. Yes, that’s a mighty big assumption, despite all the polls currently favoring […]

John Feffer

Climate Change
How Modern Human-Driven Climate Change began with European colonisation, mass slavery and the ‘great dying’ of the 16th century

How Modern Human-Driven Climate Change began with European colonisation, mass slavery and the ‘great dying’ of the 16th century

By Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis | – The toppling of statues at Black Lives Matter protests has powerfully articulated that the roots of modern […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Trump Likely did Throw US Troops in Afghanistan under the Bus, but Why would the Russians have Targeted Them?

Trump Likely did Throw US Troops in Afghanistan under the Bus, but Why would the Russians have Targeted Them?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Charlie Savage; Eric Schmitt and Michael Schwirtz at the New York Times broke the blockbuster story on Friday that GRU […]

Juan Cole

Banking
Also, Defund the CEOs

Also, Defund the CEOs

(Inequality.org) – America’s dirtiest three-letter word may now be “CEO,” and our ongoing economic meltdown is only making that tag even dirtier. Chef executives the […]

Sam Pizzigati

Epidemics
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Palestinian Farmers Struggle against Annexation and the Pandemic

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Palestinian Farmers Struggle against Annexation and the Pandemic

By Salena Fay Tramel | – ( Opendemocracy.net ) – It has not been an easy year for Palestinians, if there ever was such a […]

Open Democracy

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