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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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Iran
How Iran’s Islamic Revolution is still Shaping the Middle East

How Iran’s Islamic Revolution is still Shaping the Middle East

After the war with Iraq, Tehran developed a “new strategy” aimed at confronting US influence around the region

AFP

Donald Trump
A Well-Regulated Militia in the Hands of an Out-of-Control President: Is Nat'l Guard his Toy?

A Well-Regulated Militia in the Hands of an Out-of-Control President: Is Nat’l Guard his Toy?

(Tomdispatch.com) – A young friend is seriously considering joining her state’s National Guard. She’s a world-class athlete, but also a working-class woman from a rural […]

Rebecca Gordon

Climate Change
Climate Emergency: Australian Judge Strikes down Coal Mine in Part because of its Carbon Emissions

Climate Emergency: Australian Judge Strikes down Coal Mine in Part because of its Carbon Emissions

The environmentalists also entered into the proceedings Australia’s having signed on the the Paris Agreement

Juan Cole

Corruption
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Ethics Cmte Play 'How to Get away w/ Murder' in US Politics

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Ethics Cmte Play ‘How to Get away w/ Murder’ in US Politics

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | (Video Clip) – “Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s full hearing on U.S. campaign finance laws, corruption, PACs, and why America’s system is ‘fundamentally […]

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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia Creates App to Track Women’s Movements

Saudi Arabia Creates App to Track Women’s Movements

Apple and Google are facing criticism for hosting the app and have been accused of facilitating misogyny and helping “enforce gender apartheid”

Maan News Agency

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Ministers Sign Petition to Settle 2 Million Israelis in Palestinian West Bank

Israeli Ministers Sign Petition to Settle 2 Million Israelis in Palestinian West Bank

Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett of New Right party were among signatories on a petition to abandon the two-state solution

Maan News Agency

Afghanistan
Trump says ‘it’s time’ to end Afghan war – can he?

Trump says ‘it’s time’ to end Afghan war – can he?

“Ultimately, we need to get to a Taliban-Afghanistan discussion”

AFP

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Iran's Khamenei: 'Death to America' means US Rulers, not American Public

Iran’s Khamenei: ‘Death to America’ means US Rulers, not American Public

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The clerical Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, said Friday on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, that Iran […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
‘Muslim women are stuck between Islamophobes and Islamic fundamentalists’

‘Muslim women are stuck between Islamophobes and Islamic fundamentalists’

In Europe, we’re seeing rising right-wing populism

Open Democracy

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