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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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Russians, Syrian Army take over Manbij and its US Bases, Blocking Turkey

Russians, Syrian Army take over Manbij and its US Bases, Blocking Turkey

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) took control of the city of Manbij on Tuesday, with Russian gendarmes taking up patrols […]

Juan Cole

Constitution
Extorting Ukraine is Bad Enough: But Trump Has Done Much Worse

Extorting Ukraine is Bad Enough: But Trump Has Done Much Worse

By Rebecca Gordon | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Recently a friend who follows the news a bit less obsessively than I do said, “I thought […]

Rebecca Gordon

Islam
Jazz Great Yusef Lateef’s Journey to Islam

Jazz Great Yusef Lateef’s Journey to Islam

“I want my music to awaken something that’s already in your heart.” (Informed Comment) – Among the hundred-plus African-American jazz musicians who embraced Islam in […]

Shalom Goldman

Israel/ Palestine
Does the Demi Lovato Affair prove that Brand Israel is now toxic?

Does the Demi Lovato Affair prove that Brand Israel is now toxic?

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – “Brand Israel” was launched. As I’ve written before, this public relations strategy was an utter failure. War crimes, […]

Middle East Monitor

Kurds
Kurdish Women Fighters helped Defeat ISIL, & now are a Target of Turkish Invasion

Kurdish Women Fighters helped Defeat ISIL, & now are a Target of Turkish Invasion

By Haidar Khezri | – Kurdish fighters under attack by Turkey have described President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria as […]

The Conversation

Kurds
Turkey’s ‘Safe Zone’ in Syria Would Be Anything But (HRW)

Turkey’s ‘Safe Zone’ in Syria Would Be Anything But (HRW)

Plan Increases Risks for Returned Refugees

Human Rights Watch

Donald Trump
Why?  3 Possible reasons Trump is threatening Turkey with Sanctions after Greenlighting Syria Invasion

Why? 3 Possible reasons Trump is threatening Turkey with Sanctions after Greenlighting Syria Invasion

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump is slapping sanctions on Turkey for invading northern Syria after Trump told Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan that it would […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How Palestinian women successfully defended their village from demolition

How Palestinian women successfully defended their village from demolition

By Sarah Flatto Manasrah | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – One year after Israel gave the green light to demolish Khan al-Amar, the small Bedouin […]

Waging Nonviolence

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Trump's Saigon Evacuation Moment, as US Troops Flee and Syrian/Russian Forces are invited in by Kurds

Trump’s Saigon Evacuation Moment, as US Troops Flee and Syrian/Russian Forces are invited in by Kurds

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – For us oldsters, one of the iconic photographs of the twentieth century was the last US military helicopter taking off […]

Juan Cole

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