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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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Plants Provide our Food, Medicine & Oxygen: We're Driving them Extinct 350x Faster than Normal

Plants Provide our Food, Medicine & Oxygen: We’re Driving them Extinct 350x Faster than Normal

Plants are going extinct up to 350 times faster than the historical norm By Jaco Le Roux, Florencia Yanelli, Heidi Hirsch, José María Iriondo Alegria, […]

The Conversation

China
China: How the Republican Imperial Presidency Led to Trump's Trade National Socialism

China: How the Republican Imperial Presidency Led to Trump’s Trade National Socialism

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump has put US companies on alert that he might force them to withdraw from China, where they have $256 […]

Juan Cole

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Former Iraqi PM Threatens Military action against Israel after Tel Aviv Bombed Shiite Militia Base

Former Iraqi PM Threatens Military action against Israel after Tel Aviv Bombed Shiite Militia Base

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Former prime minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, responded to news that Israel had bombed Shiite militia bases in Iraq with […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Jazz Great John Coltrane and the Enchantment of Islam

Jazz Great John Coltrane and the Enchantment of Islam

(Informed Comment) – In his childhood and youth in rural North Carolina John Coltrane absorbed the musical traditions of African-American worship. His parents were active […]

Shalom Goldman

Yemen
Yemen: fierce fighting as UAE-Backed Separatists & Saudi-backed Gov’t clash over oil fields

Yemen: fierce fighting as UAE-Backed Separatists & Saudi-backed Gov’t clash over oil fields

(Al-Bab.com) – Intense fighting broke out in Yemen on Thursday as southern separatists and pro-government forces battled for control of the city of Ataq. Both […]

Brian Whitaker

Green Energy
A Politics of Hope: How we Can go completely to Green Energy

A Politics of Hope: How we Can go completely to Green Energy

By David Timmons | – The main solution to climate change is well known – stop burning fossil fuels. How to do this is more […]

The Conversation

India
This Time, the World Is Watching in Kashmir

This Time, the World Is Watching in Kashmir

By taking over Kashmir at gunpoint, India has set itself up to reap the whirlwind

Foreign Policy in Focus

Climate Change
Bernie Sanders' Manhattan Project:  The Game-Changing Green New Deal

Bernie Sanders’ Manhattan Project: The Game-Changing Green New Deal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sen. Bernie Sanders’ breathtaking Green New Deal, with an advertised price tag of $16.3 trillion, is aimed at nothing less […]

Juan Cole

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Displacement in Gaza and Israel’s demographic obsession

Displacement in Gaza and Israel’s demographic obsession

By Nasser Nasser | – The statements made by a senior Israeli political source, which is likely to be Prime Minister Netanyahu himself, published in […]

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