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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?

08/13/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Israel/ Palestine
Urgent: End Israeli Occupation of Palestine, Restore Iran Deal, and Denuclearize ME

Urgent: End Israeli Occupation of Palestine, Restore Iran Deal, and Denuclearize ME

Launched by professors at Princeton University and signed by experts on both sides of the Atlantic, this declaration calls for a break with the policy […]

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Iraq
Broke: US-Installed Iraqi Elite Spent or Stole all $700 bn in Oil Revenue since 2005

Broke: US-Installed Iraqi Elite Spent or Stole all $700 bn in Oil Revenue since 2005

Baghdad (AFP) – Iraq has raised more than $700 billion from oil since 2005, but almost the entire amount has been spent, the central bank […]

AFP

Climate Change
Today’s Abnormally hot Arctic Temperatures not observed since Time of Christ

Today’s Abnormally hot Arctic Temperatures not observed since Time of Christ

Tampa (AFP) – Planet-warming greenhouse gases surged to new highs as abnormally hot temperatures swept the globe and ice melted at record levels in the […]

Kerry Sheridan

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Israel's Druze Minority Furious over Apartheid Law, Given their Military Service.

Israel’s Druze Minority Furious over Apartheid Law, Given their Military Service.

Israel may never have been paradise for the some 20% of its citizens who are non-Jewish and Arabic-speaking. They did face de facto and sometimes […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Saudi King overrules Crown Prince, Rejects Trump's Sell-Out of Palestinians

Saudi King overrules Crown Prince, Rejects Trump’s Sell-Out of Palestinians

Insists that E Jerusalem must be capital of Palestine

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Judge gives Palestinian Poet 5 Months in Prison for her Resistance Verse

Israeli Judge gives Palestinian Poet 5 Months in Prison for her Resistance Verse

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli Magistrate Court of Nazareth sentenced Palestinian poet Darin Tatour, from the al-Reineh village in northern Israel, to five months of […]

Maan News Agency

Islamophobia
The Fake “Facts” of the Anti-Muslim Bigots and Fear-Mongers

The Fake “Facts” of the Anti-Muslim Bigots and Fear-Mongers

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Anti-Muslim activists in the United States were operating in a “post-truth era” and putting out “alternative facts” long before those phrases […]

Arnold R. Isaacs

Islam
Love in the Qur’an: 19:96

Love in the Qur’an: 19:96

Despite the negative messaging nowadays about the Qur’an (the scripture of the Muslims) among the haters, it is a book replete with love, mercy, warmth […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us

Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us

Ann Arbor (Aeon) – Sales of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 (1949) have spiked twice recently, both times in response to political events. In early […]

Henry Cowles

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