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While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit
Asia

While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit

Neil Thompson

Beijing raised its profile at the annual Shanghai Cooperation Council summit of non-Western countries just by providing a forum. London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) […]

“Take the Cash in Hand:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:12

“Take the Cash in Hand:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:12

09/11/2025 By Juan Cole

Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover

Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover

09/11/2025 By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Outlook for Palestinians Bleak under a Trump Presidency that will go ‘all the way’ with Netanyahu

Gaza: Outlook for Palestinians Bleak under a Trump Presidency that will go ‘all the way’ with Netanyahu

By Clive Jones, Durham University | – (The Conversation) – The amount of aid reaching Gaza has fallen to an 11-month low according to Israeli […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Pyromaniac-in-Chief – America goes MAGA to Burn it all Down

Pyromaniac-in-Chief – America goes MAGA to Burn it all Down

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Reelecting the Insurrectionist who provoked the January 6 attack is a monumental dereliction of civic duty by the […]

Dan Dinello

Universities
Protesting MIT’s Disciplining of Grad for pro-Palestine Activism and Advocacy

Protesting MIT’s Disciplining of Grad for pro-Palestine Activism and Advocacy

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Sally Kornbluth President Sally.kornbluth@mit.edu . . .   Dear President Kornbluth and Colleagues:   […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Donald Trump
Requiem for an Empire: How America’s Strongman will hasten the Decline of U.S. Global Power

Requiem for an Empire: How America’s Strongman will hasten the Decline of U.S. Global Power

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Democracy
Post-Election Beatitude:  Beating the Blues

Post-Election Beatitude: Beating the Blues

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Whatever postures our country has projected to the world – shining city on a hill; leader of […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel/ Palestine
Israel is forbidding Palestinians displaced from Northern Gaza to Return, in what they fear is a New Nakba (Catastraphe)

Israel is forbidding Palestinians displaced from Northern Gaza to Return, in what they fear is a New Nakba (Catastraphe)

By by Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The most well-known football stadium in the Gaza Strip is chaotic, with […]

Middle East Monitor

Republican Party
Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State

Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State

Code Pink ) – Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Afghanistan
How to Lose a War:  The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan

How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan

Review of Amin Saikal, “How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan” (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024). Munich, […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
Israel-created Fuel Shortage in southern Gaza leaves 1.2 Million Civilians without Water

Israel-created Fuel Shortage in southern Gaza leaves 1.2 Million Civilians without Water

( Middle East Monitor ) – The southern Gaza city of Khan Younis warned Saturday that a week-long fuel shortage has left more than 1.2 […]

Middle East Monitor

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