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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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Modly and Esper Should have followed Capt. Crozier's Lead in Blowing Whistle on Trump Coronavirus inaction rather than Firing Him

Modly and Esper Should have followed Capt. Crozier’s Lead in Blowing Whistle on Trump Coronavirus inaction rather than Firing Him

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Capt. Brett Crozier of the USS Theodore Roosevelt is a national hero, as his crew recognized when they cheered uproariously […]

Juan Cole

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Amid Coronavirus Fears, Israel tells Palestinian prisoners, ‘Use your socks to make masks,’ as neglect continues

Amid Coronavirus Fears, Israel tells Palestinian prisoners, ‘Use your socks to make masks,’ as neglect continues

( Middle East Monitor ) – Within the next few days, Palestinian prisoners held by Israel may be hit by the coronavirus pandemic, causing major […]

Middle East Monitor

Corruption
Jared Kushner, With No Government Background, Scolds States for Requesting Supplies From National Equipment Stockpile

Jared Kushner, With No Government Background, Scolds States for Requesting Supplies From National Equipment Stockpile

By Julia Conley, staff writer | – (Commondreams.org) – Progressives expressed shock at the Trump administration’s latest indication that it intends to provide little assistance […]

Common Dreams

Climate Crisis
While we fixate on coronavirus, Earth is hurtling towards a catastrophe worse than the dinosaur extinction

While we fixate on coronavirus, Earth is hurtling towards a catastrophe worse than the dinosaur extinction

By Andrew Glikson | – At several points in the history of our planet, increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have caused extreme […]

The Conversation

Islam
Witness to History: Early Muslim Rock Inscriptions Speak of 769 A.D. Epidemic in Medina

Witness to History: Early Muslim Rock Inscriptions Speak of 769 A.D. Epidemic in Medina

Saudi epigraphist Mohammed Almaghthawi (@mohammed93athar) has published some rock inscriptions from around Medina in western Arabia that are dated to 769, which speak of an […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Coronavirus and Georgia's Kemp:  How the GOP Stupidocracy will Kill us All

Coronavirus and Georgia’s Kemp: How the GOP Stupidocracy will Kill us All

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, whose only advantage in life appears to be being a white male who has failed upward […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Despite Covid-19 Dangers, Israel ignores Pleas to Safeguard the Health of Palestinian Prisoners (Many Uncharged) in its Jails

Despite Covid-19 Dangers, Israel ignores Pleas to Safeguard the Health of Palestinian Prisoners (Many Uncharged) in its Jails

( Middle East Monitor ) – Unsurprisingly, Israel has not heeded requests to safeguard the health of Palestinian prisoners in its jails. Besides recommending “precautionary […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
Germany marks first ever Quarter with more than 50 pct Renewable Electricity

Germany marks first ever Quarter with more than 50 pct Renewable Electricity

By Rachel Waldholz | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Germany produced more than half of its electricity with renewable power in the first three […]

Clean Energy Wire

Climate Crisis
Pandemics as the Revenge of Mother Earth: Human-Caused Climate Change Impels Mass Migrations of Humans and Animals

Pandemics as the Revenge of Mother Earth: Human-Caused Climate Change Impels Mass Migrations of Humans and Animals

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As the coronavirus sweeps across the planet, leaving death and mayhem in its wake, many theories are being expounded to explain […]

Michael T. Klare

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