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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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Juan Cole in Second Life, Virtually Speaking, Thursday at 9 ET

Juan Cole in Second Life, Virtually Speaking, Thursday at 9 ET

Juan Cole will be a guest in the Second Life virtual world on Jay Ackroyd’s Virtually Speaking interview show at 9 pm Eastern, 1/28/2010. Note […]

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37 Killed, over 100 wounded in Hotel Bombings in Baghdad; Guerrillas Seek to Isolate, Destabilize Maliki Gov't; Chemical Ali Executed

37 Killed, over 100 wounded in Hotel Bombings in Baghdad; Guerrillas Seek to Isolate, Destabilize Maliki Gov’t; Chemical Ali Executed

Al-Zaman reports in Arabic on Monday’s string of bombings in Baghdad, in which late reports say 37 persons were killed and more than 100 wounded. […]

Juan Cole

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Roberts: Death Rates don’t Actually Decline During Wars

Roberts: Death Rates don’t Actually Decline During Wars

Leslie F. Roberts writes in a guest op-ed for Informed Comment An astonishing version of the Human Security Report was released this past week. It […]

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Oregon’s rich getting richer and all others falling behind, wage study shows | But it’s a National Trend and We are Becoming Florence

Oregon’s rich getting richer and all others falling behind, wage study shows | But it’s a National Trend and We are Becoming Florence

Oregon's rich getting richer and all others falling behind, wage study shows | Oregon Business News – OregonLive.com ‘ The free-market fervor that has gripped […]

Juan Cole

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Afghanistan postpones parliamentary elections

Afghanistan postpones parliamentary elections

Afghanistan postpones parliamentary elections – latimes.com The LAT lays out the basic facts around the postponement of parliamentary elections in Afghanistan. The Afghan press stresses […]

Juan Cole

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The Irrelevance of Bin Ladin

The Irrelevance of Bin Ladin

An audio message allegedly from Usamah Bin Laden was released Sunday, claiming that the attempted Christmas day airline attack over Detroit was his work. I’m […]

Juan Cole

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Gates Strikes out In Pakistan; Obama’s AfPak Policies in Disarray

Gates Strikes out In Pakistan; Obama’s AfPak Policies in Disarray

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates’s trip to Pakistan this weekend has in many ways been public relations disaster, and I think it is fair […]

Juan Cole

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Milne: Haiti’s poverty is treated as some ­baffling quirk of history…when in reality it is the direct ­consequence of " . . . colonial exploitation

Milne: Haiti’s poverty is treated as some ­baffling quirk of history…when in reality it is the direct ­consequence of " . . . colonial exploitation

Seumas Milne: “Haiti’s poverty is treated as some ­baffling quirk of history…when in reality it is the direct ­consequence of a uniquely brutal ­relationship with […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq war was illegal, Dutch panel rules

Iraq war was illegal, Dutch panel rules

Iraq war was illegal, Dutch panel rules | World news | guardian.co.uk Of course it was illegal. There are only two conditions under which war […]

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