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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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With much of the planet on lockdown, Earth Day goes digital

With much of the planet on lockdown, Earth Day goes digital

By Madison Staten | – PHOENIX (Cronkite News) – The irony of indoor celebrations of a day dedicated to the outdoors is not lost on […]

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How the Tiny 'Reopen' protest movement was Astroturfed and boosted by Fake Grassroots Tactics

How the Tiny ‘Reopen’ protest movement was Astroturfed and boosted by Fake Grassroots Tactics

By Marc Ambinder | – Many Americans have been under strict stay-at-home orders, or at least advisories, for more than a month. People are frustrated […]

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Sneak Peak at Juan Cole’s Exciting new translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Sneak Peak at Juan Cole’s Exciting new translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Bloomsbury is offering a Sneak peak at The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in Juan Cole’s new, “radically modern” translation. .@ibtauris is publishing @jricole's new, radically […]

Juan Cole

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Israel's Occupation Policies may Contribute to deaths of Many Elderly Palestinians, But Palestinian Youth are Poised to Flourish

Israel’s Occupation Policies may Contribute to deaths of Many Elderly Palestinians, But Palestinian Youth are Poised to Flourish

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The age bias of the novel coronavirus has geopolitical implications. Although it is not true that it leaves children and […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Iran fails to contain COVID-19 as internal political clashes prevent a timely and unified response

Iran fails to contain COVID-19 as internal political clashes prevent a timely and unified response

By Ezzatullah Mehrdad | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Since the outbreak of COVID-19 started in Iran in February 2020, internal political clashes have prevented the […]

Global Voices

China
Trump trots out Blaming China for his own Pitiful Covid-19 Failures

Trump trots out Blaming China for his own Pitiful Covid-19 Failures

The Republican Party is trying to shift blame for President Donald Trump’s disastrous coronavirus policies onto China. Chinese communists, Republican leaders claim, hid the pandemic […]

Reese Erlich

Donald Trump
Some Medieval Towns handled Plagues Better than Trump's Unequal, Rundown America

Some Medieval Towns handled Plagues Better than Trump’s Unequal, Rundown America

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – King Soloman in Ecclesiastes 1:9 tells us that “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Donald Trump
Trump goes Peak Batshit Crazy, Urging UV Irradiation and Chlorine Injections, and Cable TV Greedily Broadcasts it

Trump goes Peak Batshit Crazy, Urging UV Irradiation and Chlorine Injections, and Cable TV Greedily Broadcasts it

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jeff Zucker, the CEO of the Cable News Network, has a Harvard B.A. in American History and his father is […]

Juan Cole

Corruption
Trump, Inc.: How Jared Kushner is Tackling White House Coronavirus Response -- Without Any Evident Experience

Trump, Inc.: How Jared Kushner is Tackling White House Coronavirus Response — Without Any Evident Experience

by Andrea Bernstein, WNYC | – This story was co-published with WNYC. (ProPublica) – On April 2, Jared Kushner uncharacteristically took to the podium to […]

ProPublica

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