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Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis
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Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring areas such […]

Yemen: Journalists under Assault

Yemen: Journalists under Assault

09/14/2025 By Human Rights Watch

The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,

The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,

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Things are So Bad in Iran that Afghan Migrants are Going Home

Things are So Bad in Iran that Afghan Migrants are Going Home

Kabul (RFE/RL) – More than 400,000 undocumented Afghan migrants left Iran for Afghanistan so far in 2018, many of them in buses from Herat, near […]

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Climate Change
Heatwave Deaths to Rise 2,000% over next 60 Years in 1/3 of Earth

Heatwave Deaths to Rise 2,000% over next 60 Years in 1/3 of Earth

The researchers relied on historical data and used climate models to estimate future temperatures. Heatwave-related deaths could rise up to 2,000 percent by 2080, according […]

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5 Red Flashing Signals of the Great Trump Crash

5 Red Flashing Signals of the Great Trump Crash

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Here we are in the middle of the second year of Donald Trump’s presidency and if there’s one thing we know […]

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Syria
Israel Sees Advantages in Assad Victory in Syria

Israel Sees Advantages in Assad Victory in Syria

Jerusalem (AFP) – Gains by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the Syrian civil war present advantages for Israel even though the two countries remain technically […]

AFP

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Did Tillerson lose his Job over Stopping a Saudi Invasion of Qatar?

Did Tillerson lose his Job over Stopping a Saudi Invasion of Qatar?

Alex Emmons at The Intercept interviewed two former State Department officials and one intelligence official who confirmed to him that in early June, 2017, Saudi […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump and the Collapse of American Soft Power in the World

Trump and the Collapse of American Soft Power in the World

By Sara Greco | – Ottawa (The Conversation) – At the recent Helsinki summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the U.S. president used the […]

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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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