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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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Albanese Sanctions: Marco Rubio now Acting just Like Putin, Charging Human Rights Officials

Albanese Sanctions: Marco Rubio now Acting just Like Putin, Charging Human Rights Officials

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday slapped personal sanctions on United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, Francesca […]

Juan Cole

Genocide
Plans to Concentrate Gaza Palestinians in Rafah Camp a Crime against Humanity

Plans to Concentrate Gaza Palestinians in Rafah Camp a Crime against Humanity

By James Sweeney, Lancaster University (The Concversation) – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are refusing to implement a government plan to move hundreds of thousands […]

The Conversation

Iran
I Love America: And now it is Bombing my Family in Iran

I Love America: And now it is Bombing my Family in Iran

( Tomdispatch.com ) – We bombed Iran and, despite a temporary cessation of hostilities, it’s likely that President Donald Trump and his counterpart in Tel […]

Nader Terani

Donald Trump
War Criminal Netanyahu nominates Felon Trump for the Nobel Prize

War Criminal Netanyahu nominates Felon Trump for the Nobel Prize

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When I read about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominating convicted felon Donald Trump for the Nobel […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel Lobby
Why Faith Leaders are standing up to the Largest pro-Israel Christian Lobby

Why Faith Leaders are standing up to the Largest pro-Israel Christian Lobby

An interfaith campaign is confronting one of the most powerful groups driving unconditional support for Israel and the genocide in Gaza with spiritual resistance. Jaisal […]

Waging Nonviolence

Artificial Intelligence
Grok’s MechaHitler Antisemitic Rant shows how Generative AI can be Weaponized

Grok’s MechaHitler Antisemitic Rant shows how Generative AI can be Weaponized

By James Foulds, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Phil Feldman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Shimei Pan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (The Conversation) […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Regime Change: From Thomas Jefferson to Donald Trump

Regime Change: From Thomas Jefferson to Donald Trump

Sacramento (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Fourth of July we just observed, nearly 250 years after America’s Declaration of Independence, felt like a […]

Bahman Fozouni

Israel/ Palestine
Gunfire Communication with “Zombie Hordes”: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the IDF

Gunfire Communication with “Zombie Hordes”: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the IDF

by Dr Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – It’s made to order.  First, eliminate the aid system after creating circumstances of enormous suffering.  […]

Middle East Monitor

Health
Illness and Endless War:  The Unrecognized Ripple Effects of Violence on Health

Illness and Endless War: The Unrecognized Ripple Effects of Violence on Health

( Tomdispatch.com ) – War kills in so many ways. These days, Americans are bombarded with images from Gaza and elsewhere of people or broken […]

Andrea Mazzarino

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