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Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity
Arab World

Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Israel launched an attack on Doha in September 2025, Arab and Muslim leaders convened an emergency summit. […]

Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan

Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan

10/03/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

How Donald Trump Surrendered on Greentech to China Abroad and to Big Oil at Home

How Donald Trump Surrendered on Greentech to China Abroad and to Big Oil at Home

10/03/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

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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 […]

Middle East Monitor

Veterans
Did Trump avoid Cemetery, dishonor Troops, b/c Rain would Muss his Hair (more)?

Did Trump avoid Cemetery, dishonor Troops, b/c Rain would Muss his Hair (more)?

by Francis CURTA and Clare BYRNE Paris (AFP) – US President Donald Trump came under fire on Saturday after cancelling a visit to an American […]

AFP

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