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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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COP27: how young Climate Activists are changing International Human Rights Law

COP27: how young Climate Activists are changing International Human Rights Law

By Aoife Daly, University College Cork | – World leaders and climate scientists aren’t the only ones who have gathered in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Gen Z came out in Large Numbers for Democratic Party Priorities like Combatting Climate Change, Helping Blunt any Red Wave

Gen Z came out in Large Numbers for Democratic Party Priorities like Combatting Climate Change, Helping Blunt any Red Wave

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – One of the issues that drove America’s youth to vote in unusual numbers in the midterm elections, and to tilt […]

Juan Cole

Nonviolence
The Other Way of Celebrating Armistice Day: Soldiers and Vets for Peace

The Other Way of Celebrating Armistice Day: Soldiers and Vets for Peace

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – The first Armistice Day November 11, 1919 was a celebration of the moment – the 11th hour of […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Authoritarianism
Protesting Rapper's Video Foretelling Iranian Regime's Future Leads To Arrest As Fans Fear For His Life

Protesting Rapper’s Video Foretelling Iranian Regime’s Future Leads To Arrest As Fans Fear For His Life

( RFE?RL ) – Toomaj Salehi’s lyrical support for protesters in Iran has landed him behind bars before, but this time the popular rapper’s fortune-telling […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Peace
The Intolerable Price You Pay:  A Civilian Addresses American Veterans on Veterans Day

The Intolerable Price You Pay: A Civilian Addresses American Veterans on Veterans Day

By Kelly Denton-Borhaug | – [Denton-Borhaug will give a version of this talk virtually to Veterans for Peace Chapter 102 at a Reclaim Armistice Day […]

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump
The GOP Clown Car Crashes and Burns, but Nikki Haley didn't get the Message, calls for Warnock to be "Deported"

The GOP Clown Car Crashes and Burns, but Nikki Haley didn’t get the Message, calls for Warnock to be “Deported”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump era brought to the fore in the Republican Party an assortment of Nazi militiamen, internet trolls masquerading as […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
Egypt has 60,000 prisoners like jailed dying Arab Spring Dissident Alaa Abdelfattah

Egypt has 60,000 prisoners like jailed dying Arab Spring Dissident Alaa Abdelfattah

By Osama Gaweesh | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdelfattah wrote a book with the title You have […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Egypt’s Systemic Greenwashing is sabotaging COP27 before it Begins

Egypt’s Systemic Greenwashing is sabotaging COP27 before it Begins

By Sydney Allen | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – The largest international environmental conference, COP27, is set to kick off on November 6 in Sharm […]

Global Voices

Reproductive Choice
In first nationwide Election since Roe was Overturned, Voters opt to protect Abortion Access

In first nationwide Election since Roe was Overturned, Voters opt to protect Abortion Access

By Linda C. McClain, Boston University and Nicole Huberfeld, Boston University | – The first major election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade […]

The Conversation

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