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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

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The Sinister New Nationalism of the Republican Party

The Sinister New Nationalism of the Republican Party

The party’s assault on “globalists” and “cosmopolitans” pushes against internationalism when it’s needed most.

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America's Shame: 15,549 Gun Homicides in US in 2017; 32 (160) in UK

America’s Shame: 15,549 Gun Homicides in US in 2017; 32 (160) in UK

Revised We are reeling from back-to-back mass shootings, at least one of them an explicit manifestation of white nationalist terrorism in which Americans of a […]

Juan Cole

Iran
The Biggest Losers in Trump-Iran Crisis?  Gulf States.  Biggest Winner? Vladimir Putin

The Biggest Losers in Trump-Iran Crisis? Gulf States. Biggest Winner? Vladimir Putin

By Marwan Kabalan | – It is in the nature of crises, both long term and temporary, for losers and winners to emerge. It is […]

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Pentagon
More Money, Fewer Jobs: Why Lavishing Billions on the Pentagon won’t Help Employment

More Money, Fewer Jobs: Why Lavishing Billions on the Pentagon won’t Help Employment

By Nia Harris, Cassandra Stimpson, and Ben Freeman | – (Tomdispatch.com ) – A Marilyn has once again seduced a president. This time, though, it’s […]

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Donald Trump
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek thinks Trump is in a Perverse Way good For U.S.; Americans Disagree

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek thinks Trump is in a Perverse Way good For U.S.; Americans Disagree

Says Backing Trump Is Right. Most Americans Would Disagree

Michael Slager

Donald Trump
White Supremacist Terrorism strikes Again in the Age of Trump and Putin

White Supremacist Terrorism strikes Again in the Age of Trump and Putin

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The slaughter of 20 persons in and around a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, by a virulent white nationalist on […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
From Boris Johnson to Trump, will Western Conservatives go on Supporting Israeli Colonialism in Palestine to the Hilt?

From Boris Johnson to Trump, will Western Conservatives go on Supporting Israeli Colonialism in Palestine to the Hilt?

By Muhammad Hussein | – When Boris Johnson was voted in as leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Change
Be Afraid, Very Afraid: Greenland Ice Sheets Cascading into Ocean 50 Years Ahead of Schedule

Be Afraid, Very Afraid: Greenland Ice Sheets Cascading into Ocean 50 Years Ahead of Schedule

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amid the European heat wave, Ruth Mottram of the Danish Meteorological Institute set off a panic this week when she […]

Juan Cole

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1917: The Racist, Right Wing Age of Delirium that Trump Resurrected

1917: The Racist, Right Wing Age of Delirium that Trump Resurrected

By Adam Hochschild | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Along rivers prone to overflowing, people sometimes talk of preparing for a 100-year flood — a dangerous surge […]

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