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While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit
Asia

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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COP28: A Billion Lives will be lost by 2100 without these Top Seven Climate Policies

COP28: A Billion Lives will be lost by 2100 without these Top Seven Climate Policies

By Joshua M. Pearce, Western University | – In a recent review of more than 180 peer-reviewed articles — which I conducted with fellow researcher […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Kissinger and Walt Disney v. Salvador Allende:  Who will win our Souls?

Kissinger and Walt Disney v. Salvador Allende: Who will win our Souls?

By Ariel Dorfman | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – This year marks the anniversaries of two drastically different events that loomed all too large in […]

Tomdispatch

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How Israel Sabotaged U.S. Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran

How Israel Sabotaged U.S. Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran

Critical Review of Ilan Evyatar, Yonah Jeremy Bob and Jonathan Davis, Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Iran
Can US Threats Prevent a wider War in the Middle East?

Can US Threats Prevent a wider War in the Middle East?

( Code Pink ) – While Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has been frantically shuttling around the Middle East trying to stop the Israeli coflict […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Israel/ Palestine
Intensified Targeting of Palestinian Students in Israeli Universities must Cease

Intensified Targeting of Palestinian Students in Israeli Universities must Cease

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  Fax: +972-2-5664838   Minister of Education Yoav Kisch Fax: +972-2-5602390   Minister of […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Arab Americans
Three Young Men Shot down in the Name of an Anti-Palestinianism that cannot Be Named

Three Young Men Shot down in the Name of an Anti-Palestinianism that cannot Be Named

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As Peter Beinart correctly argues, anti-Palestinianism is not a word in American English. I can tell since the internet helpfully […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
The Israeli Government turns Screws on Haaretz Newspaper to Cease Critical Coverage of War

The Israeli Government turns Screws on Haaretz Newspaper to Cease Critical Coverage of War

By Colleen Murrell, Dublin City University | – The Israeli government is putting pressure on the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz to line up in support of […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Is it Time (Once Again) for Nonviolent Rebellion?  On Ending Dreams of Revenge in Israel, Palestine, and Elsewhere

Is it Time (Once Again) for Nonviolent Rebellion? On Ending Dreams of Revenge in Israel, Palestine, and Elsewhere

( Tomdispatch.com) – When I was in my early twenties, I seriously considered murdering someone. He had given my best friend genital herpes, which many […]

Rebecca Gordon

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The Gaza Crisis has Exposed the Bankruptcy of the UN and International Humanitarian Law, Threatening a Rules-Based Order

The Gaza Crisis has Exposed the Bankruptcy of the UN and International Humanitarian Law, Threatening a Rules-Based Order

Gaza has been enduring one of the most devastating massacres in this century. The Strip has been under blockade for two decades, and the world […]

Hilal Cibik

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