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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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Israel/ Palestine
The Kushner Apartheid is Hardly the First Attempt to Erase the Palestinians

The Kushner Apartheid is Hardly the First Attempt to Erase the Palestinians

( Middle East Monitor ) – The international community has stated repeatedly that it will not accept any changes to issues related to Palestine upon […]

Ramona Wadi

Saudi Arabia
Night of Long Knives: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Grasps for Absolute Power

Night of Long Knives: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Grasps for Absolute Power

By Umer Karim and Scott Lucas | – The news seeped out of Saudi Arabia into international outlets late on March 6. King Salman’s brother, […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Why Burning Fossil Fuels is to Today's Pandemics as Fleas were to the Black Death

Why Burning Fossil Fuels is to Today’s Pandemics as Fleas were to the Black Death

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sheri Fink at the NYT reports that Center for Disease Control scientific modeler Matthew Biggerstaff estimated in a conference call […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders
Why does Trump get a Pass for Pledging Economic Populism, but they Ask Sanders about the Cost?

Why does Trump get a Pass for Pledging Economic Populism, but they Ask Sanders about the Cost?

Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment) – It may come as a shock, but Presidential candidates Trump and Sanders have made a number of similar […]

Arnold Oliver

Bernie Sanders
Palestinians: Why whether Sanders or Biden Wins the Democratic Primary Matters for the Mideast

Palestinians: Why whether Sanders or Biden Wins the Democratic Primary Matters for the Mideast

By Halah Ahmad | – (Al Shabaka) – Leading US Democratic presidential candidates have chosen to address, among other progressive platforms, the rising demand for […]

Al-Shabaka

Climate Crisis
Climate Change is already Diminishing the Colorado River, U.S. Researchers Find

Climate Change is already Diminishing the Colorado River, U.S. Researchers Find

By Luke Runyon /KUNC | ( Cronkite News) – GREELEY, Colo. – A warming climate already is reducing stream flows in the Southwest’s largest watershed, […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Donald Trump
As Trump stumbles in war on Coronavirus at Home, He Bombs Shiites in Shiite-Ruled Iraq

As Trump stumbles in war on Coronavirus at Home, He Bombs Shiites in Shiite-Ruled Iraq

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – US fighter jets bombed bases of the Kata’ib Hizbullah (“Brigades of the Party of God”) militia in Iraq on Thursday […]

Juan Cole

Native Americans
Clean Energy Produced on Navajo Land will Help Power Los Angeles

Clean Energy Produced on Navajo Land will Help Power Los Angeles

By Sarah Donahue ( Cronkite News ) – LOS ANGELES – In a city renowned for its green policies, Prius drivers and biodegradable straws, it […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Israel/ Palestine
Why Israel's political Exclusion of its Palestinian-Israeli Citizens equals Apartheid

Why Israel’s political Exclusion of its Palestinian-Israeli Citizens equals Apartheid

By Kamel Hawwash | @kamelhawwash | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – If any country which claims to be a democracy, its potential prime […]

Middle East Monitor

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