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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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More Than 35 Killed By Iraqi

More than 35 Killed by Iraqi Guerrillas US Kills 40 Fighters with Missile Strike CBC/AP reports: The new wave of violence began Friday evening when […]

Juan Cole

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Cole On Iraq 2002 2003 By Way It Has

Cole on Iraq, 2002-2003 By the way, it has been alleged by some of my detractors that I supported the Iraq War. Someone wrote me […]

Juan Cole

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5 Marines Killed 4 Wounded 21 Bodies

5 Marines Killed 4 Wounded 21 Bodies

5 Marines Killed, 4 Wounded 21 Bodies Found Sunnis Reject offer on Constitutional Committee Guerrillas killed 5 Marines near Haqlaniyah in Anbar Province on Thursday. […]

Juan Cole

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Attacks In Yusufiyah Mosul Kut Islamic

Attacks In Yusufiyah Mosul Kut Islamic

Attacks in Yusufiyah, Mosul, Kut Islamic Parties Meet to Shape the Constitution A vehicle accident near Hit in Iraq left a Marine dead on Wednesday, […]

Juan Cole

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Piles Of Smoking Guns Kind Readers

Piles Of Smoking Guns Kind Readers

Piles of Smoking Guns Kind readers have drawn my attention to other leaked documents on the British side that lend support to the implications of […]

Juan Cole

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Downing Street Memo And Fixing Around

Downing Street Memo And Fixing Around

The Downing Street Memo and “Fixing Around” At least one commentator has been quoted in the press as questioning what British Intelligence chief Richard Dearlove […]

Juan Cole

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Hersh On Journalism And Internet

Hersh On Journalism And Internet

Hersh on Journalism and the Internet Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh is interviewed in The Guardian. He has some canny comments on journalism and blogging. […]

Juan Cole

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Revenge Of Baghdad Bob Revenge Of

Revenge Of Baghdad Bob Revenge Of

The Revenge of Baghdad Bob “The Revenge of Baghdad Bob” is my current piece in Salon.com about the bizarrely unrealistic assessments of the Iraq War […]

Juan Cole

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Talabani And Al Hakim Call For Role

Talabani And Al Hakim Call For Role

Talabani and al-Hakim Call for Role for Shiite, Kurdish Paramilitaries 4 US Soldiers Killed Guerrillas killed 4 US servicemen on Wednesday in separate incidents. Other […]

Juan Cole

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