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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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New Climate Report Shows Impact of Drying on Human Health in American Southwest

New Climate Report Shows Impact of Drying on Human Health in American Southwest

By Alex Hager/KUNC ( Cronkite News ) – The arid West is getting drier, and shrinking water supplies pose a boatload of risks to human […]

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The Moral Consequences of the War on Gaza

The Moral Consequences of the War on Gaza

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The moral high ground, has been lost by Israel in the Gaza onslaught while it attempts to […]

Hugh J. Curran

Chemical Weapons
Another Reason to be anti-War: It Systemically Ruins the Earth’s Entire Ecologic System

Another Reason to be anti-War: It Systemically Ruins the Earth’s Entire Ecologic System

By Jonathan Bridge, Sheffield Hallam University | – (The Conversation) – On the morning of December 6 1917, a French cargo ship called SS Mont-Blanc […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Make American Fascist Again!  Don’t Say you Weren’t Warned about a Trump return to the White House

Make American Fascist Again! Don’t Say you Weren’t Warned about a Trump return to the White House

By Clarence Lusane | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On February 19, 1942, two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt […]

Tomdispatch

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Russian Roulette: Doctors w/out Borders Demand Immediate Ceasefire as Hospitals turned into "Morgues"

Russian Roulette: Doctors w/out Borders Demand Immediate Ceasefire as Hospitals turned into “Morgues”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Doctors without Borders (the French volunteer organization Médecins Sans Frontières [MSF]) has written a poignant letter to the United Nations […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza Conflict:  Deadliest Month for Journalists on Record

Gaza Conflict: Deadliest Month for Journalists on Record

( Committee to Protect Journalists) – Editor’s note: The list below is CPJ’s most complete account of journalist deaths in the war. Our database will […]

Committee to Protect Journalists

Climate Crisis
Fossil CO₂ Emissions hit Record High yet again in 2023

Fossil CO₂ Emissions hit Record High yet again in 2023

By Pep Canadell, CSIRO; Corinne Le Quéré, University of East Anglia; Glen Peters, Center for International Climate and Environment Research – Oslo; Judith Hauck, Universität […]

The Conversation

Charity
Beacons of Civilization

Beacons of Civilization

Civilization has been described as “the slow process of learning to be kind.”  This past summer and early fall, while I stood with peace and […]

H. Patricia Hynes

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This is a War on Children, and "Safe Zones" are Death Traps:  UNICEF

This is a War on Children, and “Safe Zones” are Death Traps: UNICEF

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip is […]

Juan Cole

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