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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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Is it Time for Supreme Court Term Limits?

Is it Time for Supreme Court Term Limits?

By Sonali Kolhatkar ( Otherwords) – A pair of new investigative reports about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are a testament to the need for […]

OtherWords

Climate Crisis
Renewables Cover Half of Germany's Electricity Demand in First Quarter of 2023

Renewables Cover Half of Germany’s Electricity Demand in First Quarter of 2023

By Carolina Kyllmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Renewable energy covered about half of electricity consumption in Germany during the first three months […]

Clean Energy Wire

BDS Occupied Territories
Oslo, the Capital of Norway, Announces boycott of Goods Produced in the Israeli-Occupied Territories

Oslo, the Capital of Norway, Announces boycott of Goods Produced in the Israeli-Occupied Territories

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The city council of Oslo, Norway, the Scandinavian country’s capital, has passed a decree boycotting the importation of goods from […]

Juan Cole

Petroleum
Sudan’s Conflict has its Roots in three Decades of Elites fighting over Oil and Energy

Sudan’s Conflict has its Roots in three Decades of Elites fighting over Oil and Energy

By Harry Verhoeven, Columbia University | – Sudan stands on the brink of yet another civil war sparked by the deadly confrontation between the Sudan […]

The Conversation

Arab Americans
Art Exhibit in New York Celebrates Arab American Identities: Highlighting Creativity Subverts US narratives around Arab Identity

Art Exhibit in New York Celebrates Arab American Identities: Highlighting Creativity Subverts US narratives around Arab Identity

Works by Zeinab Saab as part of A thought is a memory, curated by Noel Maghathe. Presented by CUE Art Foundation, 2023 [Photo by Filip […]

Middle East Monitor

China
Does the Rise of China in Eurasia mean the Fall of the United States as the Global Power?

Does the Rise of China in Eurasia mean the Fall of the United States as the Global Power?

( Tomdispatch.com) – From the ashes of a world war that killed 80 million people and reduced great cities to smoking rubble, America rose like […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Batteries
Kerry is Right that US must Cooperate with China to fight Climate Crisis, and CATL's new Sodium Ion Battery Proves it

Kerry is Right that US must Cooperate with China to fight Climate Crisis, and CATL’s new Sodium Ion Battery Proves it

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A startling new development in battery technology underscores why John Kerry is right that the US needs to cooperate with […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
Former US Nat’l Security Agency Chief took $700K Contract from Saudi Arabia, After Khashoggi Assassination

Former US Nat’l Security Agency Chief took $700K Contract from Saudi Arabia, After Khashoggi Assassination

The former head of the United States’ National Security Agency (SNA) is revealed to have received at least $700,000 from consultancy contracts with Saudi Arabia, […]

Middle East Monitor

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The Toxic Legacy of U.S. Foreign Policy in Vieques, Puerto Rico

The Toxic Legacy of U.S. Foreign Policy in Vieques, Puerto Rico

By Monisha Rios   ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Puerto Ricans had no say in the U.S. war of conquest with Spain over its […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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