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While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit
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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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After Mitch McConnell's coup: Democratizing the Court, Democratizing America

After Mitch McConnell’s coup: Democratizing the Court, Democratizing America

The Supreme Court is a major force adding to systematic injustice

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Hating Muslims in the Age of Trump: The New Islamophobia looks like the Old McCarthyism

Hating Muslims in the Age of Trump: The New Islamophobia looks like the Old McCarthyism

(Reprinted at Informed Comment courtesy Tomdispatch.com.) – These days, our global political alliances seem to shift with remarkable rapidity, as if we were actually living […]

Juan Cole

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With Toady Kavanaugh’s Appointment, Trump is Turning the US into Putin’s Russia

With Toady Kavanaugh’s Appointment, Trump is Turning the US into Putin’s Russia

In the aftermath of Brett Kavanaugh being sworn in as the new Supreme Court justice, the controversies rage on. One troubling aspect of Kavanaugh is […]

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Israeli Ed. Minister Bennett:  Shoot to Kill in Gaza, Including the Children he calls “Terrorists”

Israeli Ed. Minister Bennett: Shoot to Kill in Gaza, Including the Children he calls “Terrorists”

Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett said yesterday that he would impose a “shoot to kill” policy in Gaza, including against Palestinian children. Bennett made the […]

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Israel Continues Unlawful Imprisonment of American Student for her BDS (Boycott) Links

Israel Continues Unlawful Imprisonment of American Student for her BDS (Boycott) Links

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israel prevented the entry of a 22-year-old American student, who has Palestinian grandfather, earlier this month, and despite her being recently granted […]

Maan News Agency

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How a Map of Palestine Drove the American Neocolonial Elite Mad

How a Map of Palestine Drove the American Neocolonial Elite Mad

Golden Oldie. I mirrored a map of modern Palestinian history that has the virtue of showing graphically what has happened to the Palestinians politically and […]

Juan Cole

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Taylor Swift to GOP & Kanye: I'ma Let you Finish but First I'm Registering 65K New Dem Voters

Taylor Swift to GOP & Kanye: I’ma Let you Finish but First I’m Registering 65K New Dem Voters

Washington (AFP) – The bad blood between Taylor Swift and Kanye West goes way back. At the 2009 MTV Music Video Awards, he famously interrupted […]

Chris Lefkow

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Top 5 Reasons for Americans to Admire the Prophet Muhammad

Top 5 Reasons for Americans to Admire the Prophet Muhammad

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In his presidential campaign, Donald Trump notoriously said, “I think Islam hates us.” As is usual with this erratic, fact-free […]

Juan Cole

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Trump Claims America owes Kavanaugh an Apology after Senate Sexual Assault Testimony

Trump Claims America owes Kavanaugh an Apology after Senate Sexual Assault Testimony

by Sebastian Smith | – Washington (AFP) – President Donald Trump said Monday he was apologizing on behalf of the whole country to his new […]

Sebastian Smith

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