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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) […]

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

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Remembering William Blake on our Relationship with Nature in an Age of Environmental Degradation

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American Spring? How nonviolent Protest in the US is Accelerating

American Spring? How nonviolent Protest in the US is Accelerating

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful. Erica […]

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Approaching the End of Liberal Internationalism: Will America Ever Rejoin the International Community?

Approaching the End of Liberal Internationalism: Will America Ever Rejoin the International Community?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “We’re back,” I tell the room. It’s January 21, 2029, and I can barely contain my excitement. “America is back!” I […]

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Iran’s Hypersonic Missiles Hit Israeli Refinery, Military Sites, as Israel does the same to Tehran

Iran’s Hypersonic Missiles Hit Israeli Refinery, Military Sites, as Israel does the same to Tehran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel and Iran continued to trade airstrikes on each other on Saturday. Israel struck the Iranian Ministry of Defense, petroleum […]

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Bernie Sanders Says US Must Not Be ‘Dragged Into Another Netanyahu War’

Bernie Sanders Says US Must Not Be ‘Dragged Into Another Netanyahu War’

The independent U.S. senator condemned the “illegal unilateral attack on Iran” by Israel that “risks a full-blown regional war.” By Jon Queally | – ( […]

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Why did Israel defy Trump – and risk a major War – by striking Iran now? And what happens next?

Why did Israel defy Trump – and risk a major War – by striking Iran now? And what happens next?

By Amin Saikal, Victoria University (The Conversation) – Alarmed by an intelligence assessment that Iran will be able to produce nuclear weapons within months if […]

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A Pariah State?  Western Nations Sanction Israeli Cabinet Members

A Pariah State? Western Nations Sanction Israeli Cabinet Members

Oakland, CA (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Israel Likud party under PM Benjamin Netanyahu had made Israel a rogue, pariah state even before […]

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Despite Iran, Israeli Attacks on Gaza Continue, killing Dozens

Despite Iran, Israeli Attacks on Gaza Continue, killing Dozens

(IMEMC ) – Israeli forces continued their relentless bombardment of the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip on Friday, day 614 since the Israeli […]

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Will Iran reply to Israeli Attacks with “War of Attrition?” Will its Nuclear Red Line Hold?

Will Iran reply to Israeli Attacks with “War of Attrition?” Will its Nuclear Red Line Hold?

By Ibrahim Al-Marashi and Mohammad Eslami ( Al Jazeera ) – Historians may well mark June 13, 2025, as the day the world crossed a line it may […]

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Israel’s Netanyahu banks on TACO Trump as he Launches War on Iran to disrupt Negotiations

Israel’s Netanyahu banks on TACO Trump as he Launches War on Iran to disrupt Negotiations

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