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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 Violence In Iraq Associated Press

More Violence In Iraq Associated Press

More Violence in Iraq Associated Press reports that the fortified Green Zone (US offices and Iraqi government buildings) in Baghdad took heavy mortar fire on […]

Juan Cole

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Psy Ops And News Los Angeles Timess

Psy Ops And News Los Angeles Timess

Psy-Ops and News The Los Angeles Times’s Mark Mazetti writes about a US military psy-ops campaign against the guerrillas in Fallujah in mid-October, in which […]

Juan Cole

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Election News Al Hayat Says That Sunni

Election News Al Hayat Says That Sunni

Election News Al-Hayat says that the Sunni tribal shaikhs with whom Prime Minister Iyad Allawi met in Jordan on Thusday pleaded with him to postpone […]

Juan Cole

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Brown Meeting With Yasser Arafat

Brown Meeting With Yasser Arafat

Brown: A Meeting with Yasser Arafat Middle East expert Kenneth Brown shares the following guest editorial. (Iraq news follows, below.): A meeting with Yasser Arafat […]

Juan Cole

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Shiite Sunni Shiite Shiite No Civil

Shiite Sunni Shiite Shiite No Civil

Shiite-Sunni, Shiite-Shiite No civil war and Massive Casualties There were major gun battles in Mosul and Samarra on Wednesday, and bombs went off on the […]

Juan Cole

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Baghdad Car Bomb Wounds 5 Us Soldiers

Baghdad Car Bomb Wounds 5 Us Soldiers

Baghdad: Car Bomb Wounds 5 US Soldiers Baiji: Car Bomb Kills 7, Wounds 18 Guerrillas in Baghdad detonated a car bomb near a US convoy […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq Elections Negroponte Optimistic

Iraq Elections Negroponte Optimistic

Iraq Elections: Negroponte Optimistic; Shiites Enthusiastic for Reasons that would not Please Negroponte The Chicago Tribune’s Liz Sly is back in Baghdad and has two […]

Juan Cole

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5 Us Troops Killed 18 Wounded I Take

5 Us Troops Killed 18 Wounded I Take

5 US Troops Killed, 18 Wounded I take today’s New York Times/ AP report on Iraq as a very bad sign. For one thing, it […]

Juan Cole

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Fallujah Report And

Fallujah Report And

The Fallujah Report and the Liberal/Conservative Divide The “Fallujah Report” prepared by the Marines concerning their enemies in the most recent big campaign is now […]

Juan Cole

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