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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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Apartheid For Arabs In Irbil Iranian

Apartheid for Arabs in Irbil? Iranian Kurds Riot An eyewitness has described for me by email driving through the north of Kurdistan and seeing enormous […]

Juan Cole

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Gitmo By Sea 5 Star Holidays For

Gitmo By Sea 5 Star Holidays For

Gitmo-by-the-Sea: 5-Star Holidays for Oppressed Christians: Fisher Guest Satire by William Fisher “Oppressed Christians: Looking for a five-star holiday? Have we got a deal for […]

Juan Cole

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Guerrillas Kill 29 Iraqis Tuesday

Guerrillas Kill 29 Iraqis Tuesday

Guerrillas Kill 29 Iraqis Tuesday, Wound over 100 in North 3 US Servicemen Dead Kurds Abducting Arabs, Turkmen in Kirkuk The Associated Press reports “And […]

Juan Cole

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21 Dead 40 Wounded In Guerrilla

21 Dead 40 Wounded In Guerrilla

21 Dead, 40 Wounded in Guerrilla Violence AFP reports *At a checkpoint between Baghdad and Baquba (to the northeast of the capital) at Khan Bani […]

Juan Cole

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Barzani President Of Iraqi Kurdistan

Barzani President Of Iraqi Kurdistan

Barzani President of Iraqi Kurdistan UPI transmits from al-Hayat a report that the Kurds are upset with Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari’s high-handed decision-making style. They […]

Juan Cole

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Downing Street Memos And Revenge Of

Downing Street Memos And Revenge Of

The Downing Street Memos and the Revenge of the Bloggers When Michael Smith of the London Times wrote about a further leaked British cabinet document […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Things You Wouldnt Expect To

Top Ten Things You Wouldnt Expect To

Top Ten Things You Wouldn’t expect to Happen if You Listened to Bush and Cheney 10. You wouldn’t expect Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Prison to […]

Juan Cole

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International Criminal Court And

International Criminal Court And

The International Criminal Court and Blair/Bush: Amy Ross Guest Comments by Amy Ross “The International Criminal Court and Blair/Bush” “Regarding accountability and the ICC: It […]

Juan Cole

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Bush And Blair Committed To War In

Bush And Blair Committed To War In

Bush and Blair Committed to War in April, 2002 Leaked Cabinet Briefing Shows British Knew War was Illegal The London Times has dropped another bombshell […]

Juan Cole

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