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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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Immigration
US Homeland Security could return Syrian Refugees in US to Violence, Arrest, Torture under al-Assad

US Homeland Security could return Syrian Refugees in US to Violence, Arrest, Torture under al-Assad

Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – The US should renew its grant of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to almost 7,000 Syrians living in the United […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Change
Europe, are you Crazy?  As a Continent Melts, New Coal Plants Planned and Permitting Blocks Wind Farms

Europe, are you Crazy? As a Continent Melts, New Coal Plants Planned and Permitting Blocks Wind Farms

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The heat wave that has swept Europe and given Paris the weather of Madras is certainly embroiled in human-caused climate […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
When They Go Low, the Squad Goes Bold

When They Go Low, the Squad Goes Bold

By Negin Owliaei and Sarah Anderson | – The four congresswomen are responding to vile attacks with bold ideas to combat inequality — and help […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Creeping Ethnic Cleansing as Israel Demolishes 18 more Palestinian-owned Buildings

Creeping Ethnic Cleansing as Israel Demolishes 18 more Palestinian-owned Buildings

By Rasheed Hassan | – The Israeli occupation authorities demolished 18 Palestinian-owned residential buildings this week in Sur Bahir, just 2 or 3 km from […]

Middle East Monitor

United Kingdom
Boris Johnson and the New Battle of Britain: Can Labour Keep UK in Europe?

Boris Johnson and the New Battle of Britain: Can Labour Keep UK in Europe?

(Foreign Policy in Focus ) – As hard Brexiteer Boris Johnson takes over, Labour is finally coming down on the side of Remain. Will it […]

John Feffer

Afghanistan
Why Afghanistan peace is key to rebuilding relations between the US and Pakistan

Why Afghanistan peace is key to rebuilding relations between the US and Pakistan

By Scott Lucas and Umer Karim | – At times, the press conference in the White House was surreal. While Imran Khan, Pakistan’s prime minister, […]

The Conversation

Civil Rights
Trump's Supreme Court overturns Magna Carta (1215) and Montesquieu (1748) for Sultan Donald John

Trump’s Supreme Court overturns Magna Carta (1215) and Montesquieu (1748) for Sultan Donald John

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US Supreme Court on Friday, by a 5-4 Republican Party majority, temporarily ruled to allow Trump to divert monies […]

Juan Cole

United Kingdom
Perfidious Albion? Is UK PM Boris Johnson an Islamophobic, anti-Immigrant, anti-Gay Bigot?

Perfidious Albion? Is UK PM Boris Johnson an Islamophobic, anti-Immigrant, anti-Gay Bigot?

By Luke Reader | – After the election of Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and prime minister, does Britain have a populist, nativist politician […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
How Israeli Schools Erase or Demonize Palestinians for the Next Generation

How Israeli Schools Erase or Demonize Palestinians for the Next Generation

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – Dissident Israeli scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan’s important academic study, “Palestine in Israeli School Books” is essential reading for anyone […]

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