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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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Pentagon
Empire and Blowback: Remembering Chalmers Johnson's Critique of American Imperialism

Empire and Blowback: Remembering Chalmers Johnson’s Critique of American Imperialism

( Responsible Statecraft) – It has been nearly ten years since Chalmers Johnson died, and twice that long since the publication of “Blowback: The Costs […]

Richard Drake

Epidemics
Real Security: Wasted Pentagon Trillions that We Could have Spent on Health Care and Pandemic Preparedness

Real Security: Wasted Pentagon Trillions that We Could have Spent on Health Care and Pandemic Preparedness

It is not like we’ve won any wars since 1945, anyway

Tom Engelhardt

Authoritarianism
Ayatollah Trump Declares "Total Authority:" Top 5 Ways he is Becoming American Version of Iran's Supreme Leader

Ayatollah Trump Declares “Total Authority:” Top 5 Ways he is Becoming American Version of Iran’s Supreme Leader

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – At the embarrassing public meltdown that passed for his news conference on Monday, Trump addressed the question of opening back […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Youth under Israeli Occupation were already Isolated —  Now Social Media is their only Connection to the World

Palestinian Youth under Israeli Occupation were already Isolated — Now Social Media is their only Connection to the World

By Eman Abusidu | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Social media plays a vital role in transforming people’s lives. Being on social networks […]

Middle East Monitor

Authoritarianism
How Saudis and other Authoritarian Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 to Crack down More on Civil Liberties

How Saudis and other Authoritarian Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 to Crack down More on Civil Liberties

By Khalid Ibrahim, Gulf Center for Human Rights | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain Alhathloul is one of many human rights […]

Global Voices

Climate Crisis
Killing off the Animals:  By Burning Fossil Fuels, we'll destroy 50% of their Habitat this Century

Killing off the Animals: By Burning Fossil Fuels, we’ll destroy 50% of their Habitat this Century

By Christopher Trisos and Alex Pigot | – The impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems are already evident. Poleward shifts in the geographic […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
If Trump fires Dr. Fauci and installs a Barr-like Toady, what ever will become of us?

If Trump fires Dr. Fauci and installs a Barr-like Toady, what ever will become of us?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When Jake Tapper repeatedly pressed Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday to say whether earlier social distancing measures, say in February […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
US is Closed for Non-Essential Industries: Shouldn't Trump's Wars be Halted, Too?

US is Closed for Non-Essential Industries: Shouldn’t Trump’s Wars be Halted, Too?

( Pressenza ) – At least 70 countries have signed on to the March 23 call by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for a worldwide […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Health Care
20% of  Americans need Mental Health Care but are Routinely denied it-- Medicare for All Should Fix that, Too

20% of Americans need Mental Health Care but are Routinely denied it– Medicare for All Should Fix that, Too

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Universal Medicare for All is a concept that a majority of Americans actually support . Of the 25 […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

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