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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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America's Syria SNAFU: Pentagon's Militias fight Turkey & CIA's Militias

America’s Syria SNAFU: Pentagon’s Militias fight Turkey & CIA’s Militias

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Turkish incursion into Syria at Jarabulus was advertised as an attack on a Daesh (ISIS, […]

Juan Cole

Africa
The Russian Challenge to U.S. Policy in Africa

The Russian Challenge to U.S. Policy in Africa

Gregory Alonso Pirio and Robert Pittelli | Informed Comment | – – The United States and its Western allies, for the most part, consider the […]

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French Court lifts Municipal Burkini Ban;  & Why should you care what other people wear?

French Court lifts Municipal Burkini Ban; & Why should you care what other people wear?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Nicolas Cadène, in an interview at L’Express analyzes the French court ruling issued Friday that struck […]

Juan Cole

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ISIL sends families out of Mosul as Kurdish, Iraqi Army Forces advance

ISIL sends families out of Mosul as Kurdish, Iraqi Army Forces advance

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iraqi military forces have taken the strategic town of al-Qayarah near the major city of Mosul […]

Juan Cole

Latinos
The Great Mexican Wall Deception

The Great Mexican Wall Deception

By Todd Miller | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – At the federal courthouse, Ignacio Sarabia asks the magistrate judge, Jacqueline Rateau, if he can explain why […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Is Turkey's incursion into Syria about Daesh, or about the Kurds?

Is Turkey’s incursion into Syria about Daesh, or about the Kurds?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkish military sources told the Anadol news agency that Wednesday’s military attack on the Syrian border […]

Juan Cole

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Top 6 Reasons Turkey is Finally attacking ISIL in Syria's Jarabulus

Top 6 Reasons Turkey is Finally attacking ISIL in Syria’s Jarabulus

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkey and coalition allies launch air strikes Wednesday morning against the Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) stronghold of […]

Juan Cole

Republican Party
It Could Happen To You: How Trump Could Make America Less Democratic

It Could Happen To You: How Trump Could Make America Less Democratic

By David M. Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – Could Donald Trump destroy American democracy? While he muses carelessly about assassinating Hillary Clinton and […]

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Iran
The Short-Lived Russia-Iran Axis

The Short-Lived Russia-Iran Axis

By Michael G. Roskin | (Informed Comment) | – – Russian use of an Iranian airbase led some to see a Russia-Iran axis. They jumped […]

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