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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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Sudan Military-Civilian Pact Omits Key Justice Reforms, including an End to Impunity (HRW)

Sudan Military-Civilian Pact Omits Key Justice Reforms, including an End to Impunity (HRW)

Human Rights Watch – (Nairobi) – Sudan’s political actors and international partners should ensure that progress on human rights and accountability for serious human rights […]

Human Rights Watch

Corruption
The Republican Sleight-of-Hand: McCarthy Failed on his first Try because He is George Santos

The Republican Sleight-of-Hand: McCarthy Failed on his first Try because He is George Santos

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Republican Party failed to elect a Speaker of the House on Tuesday. The ostensible reason is that 20 of […]

Juan Cole

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Jewish supremacy is state policy, says Netanyahu

Jewish supremacy is state policy, says Netanyahu

( Middle East Monitor ) – American Jewish leaders are right to be worried. As Benjamin Netanyahu peels away at the façade that has maintained […]

Middle East Monitor

Employment
Child poverty rates highest in states that haven’t raised minimum wage

Child poverty rates highest in states that haven’t raised minimum wage

By Casey Quinlan | – ( Minnesota Reformer ) – Of the 20 states that have failed to raise the minimum wage above the federal […]

Minnesota Reformer

Corporations
Southwest’s Meltdown: Stock Buybacks, High Exec Pay, and Neglected Software Upgrades

Southwest’s Meltdown: Stock Buybacks, High Exec Pay, and Neglected Software Upgrades

() Inequality.org) – For America’s rich and powerful, the new year is beginning in a most inauspicious fashion. Millions of Americans are once again fuming […]

Sam Pizzigati

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Will the International Court of Justice finally give a Verdict against Israel's Illegal Squatting in Palestine?

Will the International Court of Justice finally give a Verdict against Israel’s Illegal Squatting in Palestine?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al-Quds [Jerusalem] reports the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution entitled “Israeli Practices that affect the Human […]

Juan Cole

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Imagining a World Without Nuclear Weapons

Imagining a World Without Nuclear Weapons

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – January 22 marks the second anniversary of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a global […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Authoritarianism
Clampdown Reported In  Iranian Kurdistan After Slain Protesters Mourned

Clampdown Reported In Iranian Kurdistan After Slain Protesters Mourned

By Ardeshir Tayebi | – ( RFE/RL) – Demonstrators in the western Iranian city of Javanrud were set on by security forces and have reportedly […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

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100 years of Stan Lee: how the Comic Book King challenged Prejudice

100 years of Stan Lee: how the Comic Book King challenged Prejudice

By Alex Fitch, University of Brighton | – December 28 2022 marks 100 years since the birth of the world’s most famous comic book writer: […]

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