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Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard
Abbasid Empire

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Northeastern England fell to the Vikings in 865, and they held it for several decades. They not only had what […]

Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

08/13/2025 By Human Rights Watch

What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?

What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?

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The War of Legitimacy: How the International Criminal Court and the UN Gen. Assembly Challenged Israeli, US Impunity

The War of Legitimacy: How the International Criminal Court and the UN Gen. Assembly Challenged Israeli, US Impunity

( Middle East Monitor ) – Two historic events regarding the Israeli occupation of Palestine took place on 19 July and 18 September. The first […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
Climate Change-Driven Hurricanes and Wildfires are causing Home Insurance Rates to Skyrocket

Climate Change-Driven Hurricanes and Wildfires are causing Home Insurance Rates to Skyrocket

By Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan | – (The Conversation) – Millions of Americans have been watching with growing alarm as their homeowners insurance […]

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Water as a Weapon of War in Gaza (The New Lines Institute)

Water as a Weapon of War in Gaza (The New Lines Institute)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Here are the first few paragraphs of my long essay for The New Lines Institute on the Israeli use of […]

Juan Cole

Anti-Zionism
Protesting the Firing of Tenured Professor Maura Finkelstein for Criticizing Zionism

Protesting the Firing of Tenured Professor Maura Finkelstein for Criticizing Zionism

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Dear President Harring, Provost Furge and Professor Dowd: We write on behalf of the […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Climate Crisis
Voting for the End of the World:  How Trump would (Literally) sink the Planet

Voting for the End of the World: How Trump would (Literally) sink the Planet

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Imagine yourself in space, looking down on our world and yet unable to return any time soon. Consider it our bad […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Frederick Douglass: The Moral Physician for all Seasons

Frederick Douglass: The Moral Physician for all Seasons

Los Angeles (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Racism, like cancer, seems incurable as it continues to ravage our nation; its social, cultural and political […]

Sydney Morrison

Donald Trump
The Weaponization of Immigrants

The Weaponization of Immigrants

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The immigrants were arriving on children’s bicycles and sometimes even in wheelchairs. According to Norwegian law, immigrants couldn’t […]

John Feffer

Hizbullah
Both Israel and Hezbollah are Blatantly Violating the Laws of War by Harming Civilians

Both Israel and Hezbollah are Blatantly Violating the Laws of War by Harming Civilians

By Emily Crawford, University of Sydney | – (The Conversation) – As the violence between Israel and Hezbollah has escalated dramatically in recent days, civilians […]

The Conversation

China
At UN, China slams US Sanctions on Iran, Accuses Israel of 'Indiscriminate attacks on Civilians'

At UN, China slams US Sanctions on Iran, Accuses Israel of ‘Indiscriminate attacks on Civilians’

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, during his first appearance at the annual UN General Assembly meeting, met on the margins of […]

Juan Cole

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