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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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As Middle East Crisis Escalates, Hopes For Diplomatic Solution Dim

As Middle East Crisis Escalates, Hopes For Diplomatic Solution Dim

By Michael Scollon ( RFE/RL RFE/RL ) – Israel’s two-front war in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, as well as the threat of escalation with […]

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How Dangerous anti-Protest Laws can Silence the Climate Movement

How Dangerous anti-Protest Laws can Silence the Climate Movement

( ) – In August, climate activist and cellist John Mark Rozendaal was arrested and charged with criminal contempt for playing a few minutes of […]

Stan Cox

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The Yemen Model and Failed US Middle East Policy

The Yemen Model and Failed US Middle East Policy

Review of Alexandra Stark, “The Yemen Model: Why U.S. Policy Has Failed in the Middle East” (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024). Munich, […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
With northern Gaza Desperate and Hungry, Israel’s Actions are shaking the World Order to its Core

With northern Gaza Desperate and Hungry, Israel’s Actions are shaking the World Order to its Core

By Tristan Dunning, Macquarie University; Martin Kear, University of Sydney; and Shannon Brincat, University of the Sunshine Coast | – (The Conversation) – While the […]

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Time to look at history from the point of view of the arms industry?

Time to look at history from the point of view of the arms industry?

How did we end up in a situation where there is increasing talk of an emerging Third World War? A look back at a century […]

Anne-Ruth Wertheim

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If one Thing can Unite Sunnis and Shiites in Lebanon, it is Israeli Aggression

If one Thing can Unite Sunnis and Shiites in Lebanon, it is Israeli Aggression

Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Prior to the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, the popularity of Hezbollah, within and outside of […]

Mohamed Jegham

Israel/ Palestine
The Myth of Greater Israel and Zionist Expansionism

The Myth of Greater Israel and Zionist Expansionism

( The New Arab ) – On October 7 2023, Hamas breached the 17-year-long Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip with a brutal, coordinated attack on […]

Yoav Litvin

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The Global War on Children

The Global War on Children

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “War is not healthy for children and other living things,” reads a poster titled “Primer” created by the late artist Lorraine […]

Nick Turse

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The Israeli Likud Party’s Endless War Agenda

The Israeli Likud Party’s Endless War Agenda

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Finding and killing Yahya Sinwar was Israeli PM Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s cover and justification for the genocide […]

H. Scott Prosterman

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