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While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit
Asia

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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We Have not Yet been Defeated:  Who will Pay for an Overheating Earth?

We Have not Yet been Defeated: Who will Pay for an Overheating Earth?

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On October 29th, 75-year-old Saifullah Paracha, Guantánamo Bay’s oldest detainee, was finally […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
Climate Change is increasing the Intensity of Tropical Storms, and even Weak ones are now Fiercer

Climate Change is increasing the Intensity of Tropical Storms, and even Weak ones are now Fiercer

Wei Mei, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Shang-Ping Xie, University of California, San Diego Tropical cyclones have been growing stronger worldwide over […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
The Pakistani Mega-Flood and our Climate Emergency

The Pakistani Mega-Flood and our Climate Emergency

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Here is a talk I recently gave about the mega-flood this fall in Pakistan, which affected 33 million people, inundated […]

Juan Cole

Africa
What Climate Debt Does the North Owe the South?

What Climate Debt Does the North Owe the South?

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Richer countries haven’t met their $100 billion promise to help poorer countries move beyond fossil fuels. Where’s the […]

John Feffer

Far Right
Oath Keepers Convictions shed Light on the Limits of free Speech – and the Threat posed by Militias

Oath Keepers Convictions shed Light on the Limits of free Speech – and the Threat posed by Militias

By Amy Cooter, Middlebury Institute of International Studies | – The verdicts in a high-profile, monthslong trial of Oath Keepers militia members were, as one […]

The Conversation

Bashar al-Assad
Syria: Families of ‘Disappeared’ Deserve Answers:  UN Proposal Offers Promising Pathway (HRW)

Syria: Families of ‘Disappeared’ Deserve Answers: UN Proposal Offers Promising Pathway (HRW)

( Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – United Nations member countries should establish an international, independent entity to track and identify those missing and disappeared […]

Human Rights Watch

Constitution
It isn't Enough that Oath Keepers were Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy: Trump must be, Too

It isn’t Enough that Oath Keepers were Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy: Trump must be, Too

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ryan Lucas and Carrie Johnson at NPR report that on Tuesday, a jury convicted five leaders of the fascist Oath […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Are Israel's Nuclear Weapons -- an Open Secret -- the Greatest Threat to the Middle East?

Are Israel’s Nuclear Weapons — an Open Secret — the Greatest Threat to the Middle East?

( Middle East Monitor ) – As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, […]

Ramzy Baroud

Feminism
Headwear and Hegemony: how ‘Turban Tossing’ Protests are threatening Iran’s ruling Clergy

Headwear and Hegemony: how ‘Turban Tossing’ Protests are threatening Iran’s ruling Clergy

By Negar Partow, Massey University | – (The Conversation) – The ongoing protests in Iran over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the […]

The Conversation

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