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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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The Dem Primary is Over, and we need Bernie Sanders to lead on Health Care from the Senate

The Dem Primary is Over, and we need Bernie Sanders to lead on Health Care from the Senate

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – On Tuesday, I cast a joyless vote for the very much politically doomed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the […]

David Faris

Donald Trump
Trumpandemic: Trump Spreads the Germs of Racial Hatred and Xenophobia

Trumpandemic: Trump Spreads the Germs of Racial Hatred and Xenophobia

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – President Donald Trump has systematically focused on a xenophobic rebranding of COVID-19 as a “Chinese virus” to help cover […]

Dan Dinello

Epidemics
Blues in the time of Pandemic, 1919 -- "In a few days influenza would be controlled"

Blues in the time of Pandemic, 1919 — “In a few days influenza would be controlled”

Middlebury, Vt. (Special to Informed Comment) – The great influenza pandemic of 1918-19 , which raged in the aftermath of the 1914-18 World War, killed […]

Shalom Goldman

Donald Trump
Trump Admin. in "Historic" withdrawal of Troops from 3 Iraq Bases amid Ongoing Rocket Attacks

Trump Admin. in “Historic” withdrawal of Troops from 3 Iraq Bases amid Ongoing Rocket Attacks

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – AFP is reporting that the US military is withdrawing US troops from 3 Iraqi bases. They are al-Qa’im in the […]

Juan Cole

censorship
That time America used to have Draconian Censorship of Just the sort Trump Dreams of

That time America used to have Draconian Censorship of Just the sort Trump Dreams of

By Adam Hochschild | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Every month, it seems, brings a new act in the Trump administration’s war on the media. […]

Tomdispatch

Epidemics
Why the 'herd immunity' route to fighting coronavirus is unethical and potentially dangerous

Why the ‘herd immunity’ route to fighting coronavirus is unethical and potentially dangerous

By Arindam Basu | – As most of the world tries to suppress the coronavirus spread, some countries are going it alone – trying to […]

The Conversation

Iraq
Is Covid-19 Iraq's Next Desert Storm?  The American-Built State was already a Violent Shambles with Little Healthcare

Is Covid-19 Iraq’s Next Desert Storm? The American-Built State was already a Violent Shambles with Little Healthcare

Detroit (Special to Informed Comment) – Iraq has endured decades of destabilizing political and military turbulence that has threatened its survivability as a nation-state. Its […]

Tareq A. Ramadan

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"A Seller's Market for Bankruptcy Talent:" The Beginning of the End of Methane-Producing Fracking?

“A Seller’s Market for Bankruptcy Talent:” The Beginning of the End of Methane-Producing Fracking?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Monday, the price of West Texas Intermediate petroleum fell below $30 a barrel for the first time in four […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Disaster Capitalism and the Real Culprit in the Italian Covid-19 Catastrophe

Disaster Capitalism and the Real Culprit in the Italian Covid-19 Catastrophe

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein worries that the Coronavirus pandemic will provide another opportunity for neoliberal […]

John Buell

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