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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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Yemen
150 Killed in Battle for Yemen’s Hodeida as Millions Face Starvation

150 Killed in Battle for Yemen’s Hodeida as Millions Face Starvation

“There will be no victor in this war”

Natacha Yazbeck

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Macron's Slam of Nationalism got it Right, but didn't note Dehumanization

Macron’s Slam of Nationalism got it Right, but didn’t note Dehumanization

The old demons are resurging

Juan Cole

Colonialism
Muslim Troops Helped Entente Win WW I, Shaped European Security

Muslim Troops Helped Entente Win WW I, Shaped European Security

(Informed Comment) – As the world is marking the end of the First World War first centenary and remembering its millions of military and civilian […]

Mohammed Samaana

Republican Party
Putin’s biggest Fanboy in Congress, Rohrabacher, Defeated in bright Red District

Putin’s biggest Fanboy in Congress, Rohrabacher, Defeated in bright Red District

Washington (AFP) – Representative Dana Rohrabacher, whose quixotic foreign policy campaigns made him persona non grata in Pakistan and Afghanistan and who became a rare […]

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu Defends allowing Qatar to Send millions in Aid to Gaza

Netanyahu Defends allowing Qatar to Send millions in Aid to Gaza

Netanyahu said the Israeli security establishment supported the move

AFP

Afghanistan
Haunted by the Hole where our Memories of the Afghanistan War Should Be

Haunted by the Hole where our Memories of the Afghanistan War Should Be

There are moments when it feels like I never left

Rory Fanning

Qur'an
The Qur’an and the Modern Self: A Heterotopia

The Qur’an and the Modern Self: A Heterotopia

The Qur’an has subsisted in the literature of Christian and post-Christian Europe and the Americas in a shifting borderland between self and other.

Juan Cole

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The Lessons of World War I-- Don't Trust Hateful Politicians like Trump

The Lessons of World War I– Don’t Trust Hateful Politicians like Trump

Trump is in Paris to commemorate the end of World War I, about which he knows almost nothing. The outbreak of that war in 1914 […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraqi Parliamentarians Demand Timetable for US Troop Withdrawal

Iraqi Parliamentarians Demand Timetable for US Troop Withdrawal

Iraqi MP Ahmad Al-Assadi, senior leader of the Iraqi Construction Alliance, revealed on Friday parliamentarian moves to pressure the Iraqi government to evict US forces […]

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