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Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard
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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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N. American Scholars of Mideast react to SCOTUS Decision on Trump Muslim Ban

N. American Scholars of Mideast react to SCOTUS Decision on Trump Muslim Ban

Middle East Studies Association of North America | – – On Monday, June 26, 2017, the United States Supreme Court issued a limited stay in […]

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Displaced and Refugees
If US Wars aren't on TV, are all those 1000s really Dying?

If US Wars aren’t on TV, are all those 1000s really Dying?

Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The headlines arrive in my inbox day after day: “U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria killed hundreds of civilians, […]

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Donald Trump
Is Putin's Russia the critical threat Americans believe it to be?

Is Putin’s Russia the critical threat Americans believe it to be?

Ronald Suny | (The Conversation) | – – U.S. intelligence agencies – 17 of them – agree that evidence shows the Russian government hacked the […]

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China
100% Green Energy is Possible & a Chinese Province Just Proved It

100% Green Energy is Possible & a Chinese Province Just Proved It

TeleSur | – – New clean schemes push the nation further forward as a leader in search for alternative technologies. Demonstrating that renewables are a […]

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Chemical Weapons
Can Iran, Turkey and Egypt Cooperate to deliver Mideast from Chaos?

Can Iran, Turkey and Egypt Cooperate to deliver Mideast from Chaos?

Farhang Jahanpour | ( Tehran Times | – – TEHRAN – Professor Farhang Jahanpour, part-time tutor on the Middle East in the Department of Continuing […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Trump’s Escalations of War in Syria—Sleepwalking into a Global Confrontation

Trump’s Escalations of War in Syria—Sleepwalking into a Global Confrontation

By Reese Erlich | (The Progressive) | – – Syrian President Bashar al Assad claims to have won the war and that he is merely […]

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Climate Change
Rate of Sea Level Rise increasing, As Greenland Melts

Rate of Sea Level Rise increasing, As Greenland Melts

By John Church, Christopher Watson, Matt King, Xianyao Chen, and Xuebin Zhang | (The Conversation) | – – Contributions to the rate of global sea-level […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Trump accuses Syria of Planning Gas attack as Haley attacks Russia, Iran

Trump accuses Syria of Planning Gas attack as Haley attacks Russia, Iran

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Trump administration is making noise about striking Syria, on the grounds that Damascus is planning […]

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Donald Trump
Trump Son-In-Law did not declare $285m Loan from Deutsche Bank

Trump Son-In-Law did not declare $285m Loan from Deutsche Bank

TeleSur | – – Jared Kushner was an adviser to the Trump campaign and an employee at his own real estate company when the firm […]

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