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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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Electricity Riots In Najaf Amara

Electricity Riots In Najaf Amara

Electricity Riots in Najaf Amara Council Dissolved Al-Zaman: For the second straight day on Sunday, angry crowds attacked the Electricity Office in downtown Najaf, protesting […]

Juan Cole

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Rocco Martino I Am Source Of False

Rocco Martino I Am Source Of False

Rocco Martino: ‘I am the Source of the False Niger/Iraq Uranium Story’ The Sunday Times on Sunday and the Financial Times on Monday report that […]

Juan Cole

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Allawi Snubs Iran Caretaker Prime

Allawi Snubs Iran Caretaker Prime

Allawi Snubs Iran Caretaker Prime Minister Iyad Allawi cancelled his planned visit to Iran, even as he was being feted in Kuwait. He has sent […]

Juan Cole

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Fierce Firefight In Fallujah Leaves 13

Fierce Firefight In Fallujah Leaves 13

Fierce Firefight in Fallujah Leaves 13 Dead, 14 Wounded AP reports that US Marines in Fallujah came under fire late Thursday, starting a firefight that […]

Juan Cole

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Did Al Qaeda Game Bush Into Iraq War

Did Al Qaeda Game Bush Into Iraq War

Did al-Qaeda Game Bush into Iraq War? Douglas Jehl of the New York Times explains how Ibn al-Shaykh Libi, a high al-Qaeda official of Libyan […]

Juan Cole

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Muqtada Warns Muslim Nations In His

Muqtada Warns Muslim Nations In His

Muqtada warns Muslim Nations In his Friday prayer sermon on Friday before hundreds of followers in Kufa, radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr warned Muslim nations […]

Juan Cole

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Humanitarian Crisis Looms In Basra

Humanitarian Crisis Looms In Basra

Humanitarian Crisis looms in Basra Reuters reports that a high UN official has raised the specter of a serious humanitarian crisis (i.e. lots of people […]

Juan Cole

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National Congress Postponed Fighting

National Congress Postponed Fighting

National Congress Postponed Fighting in Nasiriyah In a sign that the political situation in Iraq is even worse than anyone had suspected, the caretaker Iraqi […]

Juan Cole

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Kerry Plan On Iraq How It Could Work

Kerry Plan On Iraq How It Could Work

The Kerry Plan on Iraq: How it Could Work if the UN were Brought In In his speech to the National Democratic Convention, John Kerry […]

Juan Cole

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