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How Turkiye Plans to use the Spotlight of hosting the next UN Climate Summit
By Ezgi Unsal, SOAS, University of London (The Conversation) – In a break from tradition, the next major UN climate summit will be hosted by […]
How ‘The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ inspired Victorian Hedonists
By Roman Krznaric | – ( Aeon ) – How did a 400-line poem based on the writings of a Persian sage and advocating seize-the-day […]
Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Contradictions pervaded the latest UN climate conference (COP30) held in Belem, Brazil. Progressive President Lula da Silva […]
From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26
Stanza no. 26 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám calls the notion of an afterlife a “lie” […]
Tariffs trickle into Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner, jilting Consumers and Farmers
by Anna Kaminski, Michigan Advance TOPEKA — Collin Tuthill, president of one of the country’s largest canned and frozen food importers and distributors, said the […]
How Global Power Shifts are Playing out in the Red Sea Region of the Mideast
By Federico Donelli, University of Trieste (The Conversation) – The competition for global influence and control is shifting. One of the places where this dynamic […]
Mamdani was Right to Handle Trump, but the Left must Remember that the President is Still a Toxic Nationalist
San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) | – Across the political spectrum – with alarm on the right and delight on the left – […]
MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini
Middle East Studies Association | – Update: Dr. Abedini has been released from detention. The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) was disturbed to learn of the […]
Ozymandias on the Potomac: Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline
( Tomdispatch.com ) – At the dawning of the British Empire in 1818, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned a memorable sonnet freighted with […]
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