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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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Democratic Party
Biden Holds Red Wave to a Ripple, as Trump Loses Big Time in Midterms

Biden Holds Red Wave to a Ripple, as Trump Loses Big Time in Midterms

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Over the past 40 years, midterm elections have typically been quiet affairs in which only 38% to 40% of voters […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Israel: The Right-Wing Netanyahu is Back but can he Govern with Far, Far Right "Allies"?

Israel: The Right-Wing Netanyahu is Back but can he Govern with Far, Far Right “Allies”?

By Guy Ziv, American University School of International Service | – Israel’s political magician has done it again. Having been turned out of office in […]

The Conversation

Syria
Syria: Parties to the Conflict Aggravate Cholera Epidemic  (HRW)

Syria: Parties to the Conflict Aggravate Cholera Epidemic (HRW)

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Turkish authorities are exacerbating an acute water crisis that is believed to have given rise to the deadly cholera […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
With Israeli Expulsionists in Power, US SecState Blinken can’t Assuage Palestinian Fears With talk of defunct “Two-State Solution”

With Israeli Expulsionists in Power, US SecState Blinken can’t Assuage Palestinian Fears With talk of defunct “Two-State Solution”

( Middle East Monitor) – With Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu set to return as Israeli prime minister, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Palestinian […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
One Billionaire emits a Million times more CO2 than an Average Person, as Protesters block Private Planes at Amsterdam

One Billionaire emits a Million times more CO2 than an Average Person, as Protesters block Private Planes at Amsterdam

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Oxfam has a new study, Carbon Billionaires: The investment emissions of the world’s richest people. The Executive Summary says that […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Politics and pulpits: Christians and Republicans team up to watch the Polls Tuesday

Politics and pulpits: Christians and Republicans team up to watch the Polls Tuesday

By Deena Winter | – The Minnesota Reformer BUFFALO — A flag hanging from a telephone pole marked the turnoff to the Land of Promise. […]

Minnesota Reformer

Israel/ Palestine
Israel: On the Road to International Isolation with the Rise of domestic Fascist Parties

Israel: On the Road to International Isolation with the Rise of domestic Fascist Parties

Adnan Abu Amer | – As Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud party that won the Israeli elections, rushes to form his new government, unprecedented […]

Middle East Monitor

Africa
Armed Conflict and Climate Change: how these two Threats play out in Africa

Armed Conflict and Climate Change: how these two Threats play out in Africa

By Halvard Buhaug, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) | – The world is falling miserably short of reducing carbon emissions in line with the Paris […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
UN: Past 8 Years have been 8 hottest on Record, in Harbinger of Heating World

UN: Past 8 Years have been 8 hottest on Record, in Harbinger of Heating World

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The past eight years have been the eight hottest on record, in further evidence that human-caused global heating is accelerating […]

Juan Cole

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