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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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Connecting the Dots between Climate Destruction and its Financial Backers

Connecting the Dots between Climate Destruction and its Financial Backers

By Eve Gutman | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Standing on a mobile stage in a suburban Philadelphia park on July 3, Ugandan human […]

Waging Nonviolence

War
War Forever, Everywhere: Unexploded Ordnance and the Weaponry We Leave Behind

War Forever, Everywhere: Unexploded Ordnance and the Weaponry We Leave Behind

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Count on one thing: armed conflict lasts for decades after battles end and its effects ripple thousands of miles beyond actual […]

Andrea Mazzarino

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Hezbollah Targets Israeli Airbase as Lebanon-Israel Attacks Escalate; Americans told to Flee

Hezbollah Targets Israeli Airbase as Lebanon-Israel Attacks Escalate; Americans told to Flee

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that Hezbollah escalated its rocket attacks on northern Israel and Syria’s Golan Heights occupied by Israel. Some […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
A Ceasefire is not Enough in Gaza

A Ceasefire is not Enough in Gaza

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The numbers are clear. The temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in November last year resulted in the […]

John Feffer

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Exploding Pagers Operation against Hezbollah was a Highly Illegal Booby Trap

Israel’s Exploding Pagers Operation against Hezbollah was a Highly Illegal Booby Trap

By Mary Ellen O’Connell, University of Notre Dame | – (The Conversation) – The operation that used pagers and walkie-talkies to kill members of the […]

The Conversation

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The American Dream isn’t Dead; but it’s on Life Support

The American Dream isn’t Dead; but it’s on Life Support

Portland, Or. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the run-up to the 2024 Presidential election, the concept of the American Dream has become more […]

Thom Hartmann

Afghanistan
Afghan Women have been robbed of Health Care, Education and now their Voices. But they won’t remain Silent

Afghan Women have been robbed of Health Care, Education and now their Voices. But they won’t remain Silent

By Susan Hutchinson, Australian National University | – (The Conversation) – Last month, the Taliban passed a new “vice and virtue” law, making it illegal […]

The Conversation

Cyber Warfare
From Stuxnet to Gospel to Pager Bombs, Israel is leading the Weaponization of the digital World

From Stuxnet to Gospel to Pager Bombs, Israel is leading the Weaponization of the digital World

By Ibrahim Al-Marashi ( The National ) – A series of pager explosions across Lebanon, and secondary attacks on walkie-talkies the following day, have killed […]

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

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Does Israel’s Weaponizing of Hezbollah Pagers signal the Start of a Regional War?

Does Israel’s Weaponizing of Hezbollah Pagers signal the Start of a Regional War?

Israel’s massive cyber-attack on Lebanon on 17 and 18 September, with the near-simultaneous explosion of 3,000-4,000 pagers and walkie-talkies, has killed a few dozen Hezbollah […]

Farhang Jahanpour

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