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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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As the US plans its Afghan troop withdrawal, what was it all for?

As the US plans its Afghan troop withdrawal, what was it all for?

By Jared Mondschein | – Unlike most US presidents, Joe Biden did not come to the White House with many fixed ideological positions. He did, […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
Making Sense of a Viral Military:  The Pentagon’s Flawed Response to the Pandemic

Making Sense of a Viral Military: The Pentagon’s Flawed Response to the Pandemic

By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Herd immunity? Don’t count on it. Not if that “herd” is the U.S. military. According to news […]

Tomdispatch

al-Qaeda
What will be the Mideast Crises facing Biden in the Coming Year?  US Intelligence Threat Assessment

What will be the Mideast Crises facing Biden in the Coming Year? US Intelligence Threat Assessment

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community is out. It has a Middle East section and a report […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Protesting Ongoing Israeli Army Arrests, Detention of University Students in Occupied Palestine

Protesting Ongoing Israeli Army Arrests, Detention of University Students in Occupied Palestine

By Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association. To: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Minister of Education Yoav Galant, Minister of Higher Education […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Afghanistan
As Biden Announces US will Leave Afghanistan, what Forces will Shape its Future?

As Biden Announces US will Leave Afghanistan, what Forces will Shape its Future?

By Catesby Holmes | – The United States will bring home its over 3,000 remaining soldiers in Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, delaying its planned […]

The Conversation

European Union
Turkey's Government moves to Ban Pro-Kurdish Leftist Party, 3rd Largest in Parliament, to Int'l Silence

Turkey’s Government moves to Ban Pro-Kurdish Leftist Party, 3rd Largest in Parliament, to Int’l Silence

By Foteini Bakadima | – ( OpenDemocracy.net) – There is no doubt that current events in Turkey violate democratic procedures, personal and political rights and […]

Open Democracy

Afghanistan
No, Biden ending the Afghanistan War isn't a Disaster: The disaster was Dropping 7,400 Bombs on the Country Annually

No, Biden ending the Afghanistan War isn’t a Disaster: The disaster was Dropping 7,400 Bombs on the Country Annually

President Biden announced Tuesday that he will completely withdraw US troops from Afghanistan around September 1. This move will bring to an end America’s longest […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians of Gaza, under Israeli Blockade, face Devastating Second wave of Covid-19

Palestinians of Gaza, under Israeli Blockade, face Devastating Second wave of Covid-19

By Eman Abusidu | – The humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip is worsening as health officials report more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases daily. […]

Middle East Monitor

Environmentalism
Young Indigenous organizers are taking the fight against oil pipelines to Biden

Young Indigenous organizers are taking the fight against oil pipelines to Biden

( Waging Nonviolence)- Hundreds of people rallied in front of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers headquarters in Washington, D.C. on April 1 to deliver […]

Waging Nonviolence

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