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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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Like Twenty-One  9/11s:  Our 2020 Pandemic is "The Trump Virus",  just as 1918's was "Spanish Flu"

Like Twenty-One 9/11s: Our 2020 Pandemic is “The Trump Virus”, just as 1918’s was “Spanish Flu”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The “Spanish Flu” did not originate in Spain, but Spain had been neutral in WW I and so the Spanish […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
In Age of Pandemic, is Mismanagement driving Saudi Arabia toward Bankruptcy?

In Age of Pandemic, is Mismanagement driving Saudi Arabia toward Bankruptcy?

By Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – On 6 March, the OPEC+ cartel failed to agree on a […]

Middle East Monitor

Environment
Threat to Sea Life: Scientists find 1.9 mn. pieces of Microplastic from our Clothing on 3 Sq. ft. of Deep Ocean Floor

Threat to Sea Life: Scientists find 1.9 mn. pieces of Microplastic from our Clothing on 3 Sq. ft. of Deep Ocean Floor

By Ian Kane and Michael Clare | – What if the “great ocean garbage patches” were just the tip of the iceberg? While more than […]

The Conversation

China
The Coronavirus and Geo-Politics: Trump's Xenophobia and Weapons of the Weak

The Coronavirus and Geo-Politics: Trump’s Xenophobia and Weapons of the Weak

Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment) – The coronavirus pandemic is not over yet and anyone hardly knows when and how it will end, but many […]

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Donald Trump
Trump threatened to pull US Security Umbrella from Saudi if it didn't raise Oil Prices to Help US Frackers

Trump threatened to pull US Security Umbrella from Saudi if it didn’t raise Oil Prices to Help US Frackers

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On April 2, the Republican Party more or less joined the Organization of Petroleum Exporting States Plus (OPEC+). That is […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Marriage in the age of the coronavirus: The world is now living the Gaza experience

Marriage in the age of the coronavirus: The world is now living the Gaza experience

By Eman Abusidu | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Love is that natural feeling that sweeps through the hearts of every human being. […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Why are white supremacists protesting to 'reopen' the US economy?

Why are white supremacists protesting to ‘reopen’ the US economy?

By Shannon Reid and Matthew Valasik | – A series of protests, primarily in state capitals, are demanding the end of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. Among […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
The Assassin-in-Chief Comes Home

The Assassin-in-Chief Comes Home

( Tomdispatch.com) – “Be assured of one thing: whichever candidate you choose at the polls in November, you aren’t just electing a president of the […]

Tom Engelhardt

Books
Poetry of Uplift for our Plague Year: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Juan Cole’s New Translation)

Poetry of Uplift for our Plague Year: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Juan Cole’s New Translation)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Today my new translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is out from I.B. Tauris/ Bloomsbury. I hope you all […]

Juan Cole

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