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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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American Jews
Ken Burns' Holocaust Documentary should set our Hair on Fire about the Creep of Trumpian Fascism

Ken Burns’ Holocaust Documentary should set our Hair on Fire about the Creep of Trumpian Fascism

Oakland (Special to Informed Comment) – The genius of Ken Burns’ documentaries is his ability to personify history. Watching the documentary by Burns, Lynn Novick […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Natural Gas
Has Putin bought Ankara's Neutrality in Ukraine War with a Pledge to Make Turkiye a Gas Hub for Europe?

Has Putin bought Ankara’s Neutrality in Ukraine War with a Pledge to Make Turkiye a Gas Hub for Europe?

By Elif Selin Calik | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – To produce energy takes ages, but setting up new diplomatic ties, changes day […]

Middle East Monitor

Greece
Could Tensions between Greece and Turkey spiral into yet another European war?

Could Tensions between Greece and Turkey spiral into yet another European war?

By Yasar Bukan, Toronto Metropolitan University | – Tensions are flaring between Turkey and Greece over the militarization of the eastern Aegean islands and a […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Turbocharging Green Energy would Allow Ukraine, Europe better to defy Putin's War

Turbocharging Green Energy would Allow Ukraine, Europe better to defy Putin’s War

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dan Sabbagh (in Kyiv) and Patrick Wintour report in The Guardian that recent Russian drone, rocket and missile attacks on […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
QKremlin?  Russians say they Fear a NATO Invasion will Make their Children Gay

QKremlin? Russians say they Fear a NATO Invasion will Make their Children Gay

Montreal (Special to Informed Comment) – On October 17 the Russian Book Publishers Union sent a letter to the Russian Duma expressing concern thata proposed […]

Richard Foltz

Arms Sales
Iranian drones used by Russia in Ukraine show that there’s already one Victor in that War: Iran

Iranian drones used by Russia in Ukraine show that there’s already one Victor in that War: Iran

By Aaron Pilkington, University of Denver | – The war in Ukraine is helping one country achieve its foreign policy and national security objectives, but […]

The Conversation

Russia
Is it Time to Ban Nuclear Weapons?  and Home Runs?

Is it Time to Ban Nuclear Weapons? and Home Runs?

By Robert Lipsyte | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The time has come to ban The Bomb. Of course, all those nuclear ones in the […]

Tomdispatch

Australia
More Principled than Biden, Australia's Labor Gov't Revokes Recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli Capital

More Principled than Biden, Australia’s Labor Gov’t Revokes Recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli Capital

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Australian foreign minister, Penny Wong, announced on Monday that the Labor Party government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Human Rights Groups Condemn Deadly Crackdown As Iranians Continue Protests

Human Rights Groups Condemn Deadly Crackdown As Iranians Continue Protests

By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda | – ( RFE/RL’s Radio Farda ) – More than three dozen human rights groups have condemned Tehran’s deadly crackdown on […]

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