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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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Top Five Wind Energy Successes Today

Top Five Wind Energy Successes Today

Wind energy at the moment is by the apparent numbers less expensive than solar, and huge wind farms are being opened throughout the world. There […]

Juan Cole

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Americans Drawing the Line on Day of Action against Keystone XL (Lazare)

Americans Drawing the Line on Day of Action against Keystone XL (Lazare)

Sarah Lazare writes at Commondreams.org: In towns and cities across the U.S., demonstrators are 'drawing the line' Saturday demanding that President Obama protect people and […]

Juan Cole

European Union
Israeli Troops attack European Diplomats on Aid Mission

Israeli Troops attack European Diplomats on Aid Mission

First the Israelis again erased a Palestinian population, ruling that the 120 Bedouin inhabitants of Khirbet Makhul in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank did not […]

Juan Cole

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I lived to See the Day when the Pope and the President of Iran are more doctrinally Flexible than the GOP

I lived to See the Day when the Pope and the President of Iran are more doctrinally Flexible than the GOP

The United States has all along been a society dominated by the wealthy, and more especially by the business classes. But businesspeople are not all […]

Juan Cole

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Top 5 Ways to Get a more Equal America (Reich @ Moyers)

Top 5 Ways to Get a more Equal America (Reich @ Moyers)

Bill Moyers interviews former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on the ways Americans could effect a more equal society: Reich wants to cap the size […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran’s President Rouhani and the New Hopes for Diplomacy (Sternfeld)

Iran’s President Rouhani and the New Hopes for Diplomacy (Sternfeld)

Something about hope Since coming to office in August, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has done everything to spell out the profound difference between his administration […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Can we have a Military-Green Energy Complex Instead, Please?  (Kramer & Pemberton)

Can we have a Military-Green Energy Complex Instead, Please? (Kramer & Pemberton)

Mattea Kramer and Miriam Pemberton write at Tomdispatch.com A trillion dollars.  It’s a lot of money.  In a year it could send 127 million college […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran’s Rouhani:  Not Seeking the Bomb, Willing to show Flexibility

Iran’s Rouhani: Not Seeking the Bomb, Willing to show Flexibility

Ann Curry of NBC News gets a scoop, with an interview with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, in which he restates Iran’s position that it is […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Top Ten Solar Power good news Stories Today

Top Ten Solar Power good news Stories Today

Climate change produced by human burning of fossil fuels is a dire challenge to life as we know it on earth, and it will likely […]

Juan Cole

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