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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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Epidemics
Inequality and the Coronavirus: Or How to Destroy American Society From the Top Down

Inequality and the Coronavirus: Or How to Destroy American Society From the Top Down

By Liz Theoharis | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – My mom contracted polio when she was 14. She survived and learned to walk again, but my […]

Tomdispatch

Arab Spring
The Arab Spring was not a Failure:  Interview with Noah Feldman

The Arab Spring was not a Failure: Interview with Noah Feldman

Joseph Richard Preville interviews Noah Feldman: Detroit (Special to Informed Comment) – The Arab spring was a momentous era of revolutionary people power in the […]

Joseph Richard Preville

Climate Crisis
US Oil "Technically Worthless," and Coal Plants Shuttered, as a Tidal Wave of Bankruptcies Looms

US Oil “Technically Worthless,” and Coal Plants Shuttered, as a Tidal Wave of Bankruptcies Looms

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – May contracts for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil went as low as -$37.63 on Monday. So report Jillian Ambrose […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
In Palestine, Covid-19 Meets the Israeli Occupation

In Palestine, Covid-19 Meets the Israeli Occupation

(Al-Shabaka.org) – The first measures taken against COVID-19 in the West Bank occurred in early March after the confirmation of seven cases in Bethlehem that […]

Yara Hawari

Corruption
Could Trump end up in Court over his Disastrous Mishandling of Coronavirus?

Could Trump end up in Court over his Disastrous Mishandling of Coronavirus?

(Foreign Policy in Focus and Hankyoreh) – Donald Trump said that he would make America number one again. And now the United States leads the […]

John Feffer

Epidemics
This isn’t the first global pandemic, and it won’t be the last. Here’s what we’ve learned from 4 others throughout history

This isn’t the first global pandemic, and it won’t be the last. Here’s what we’ve learned from 4 others throughout history

By David Griffin and Justin Denholm | – The course of human history has been shaped by infectious diseases, and the current crisis certainly won’t […]

The Conversation

Corruption
Protesters slam 'Crime Minister" Netanyahu's Assault on Democracy in Israel, Praise Palestinian-Israeli Medics fighting Coronavirus

Protesters slam ‘Crime Minister” Netanyahu’s Assault on Democracy in Israel, Praise Palestinian-Israeli Medics fighting Coronavirus

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some two thousand demonstrators gathered in formation in Rabin Square on Sunday in Tel Aviv for a “black flag” protest […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Strange Attractors: Why is Trump's Covid-19 Train Wreck so Mesmerizing to Corporate Media and the rest of Us?

Strange Attractors: Why is Trump’s Covid-19 Train Wreck so Mesmerizing to Corporate Media and the rest of Us?

(Tomdispatch.com) – My partner and I have been fighting about politics since we met in 1965. I was 13. She was 18 and my summer […]

Rebecca Gordon

Epidemics
Medicare for All: Covid-19 shows when it Comes to Health, the Government is your friend, the Private Sector sees you as an ATM

Medicare for All: Covid-19 shows when it Comes to Health, the Government is your friend, the Private Sector sees you as an ATM

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment) – To protect and enhance high profits by opposing improved Medicare for All, the private health insurance industry has […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

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