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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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Climate Emergency strikes Islam's Holy Ritual, with nearly 600 dead of Heat stroke at 124.24° F. in Mecca

Climate Emergency strikes Islam’s Holy Ritual, with nearly 600 dead of Heat stroke at 124.24° F. in Mecca

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As the temperature in Mecca reached 125.24° F. (51.8° C.) on Tuesday, word leaked out that nearly 600 pilgrims had […]

Juan Cole

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Unprecedentedly Hot: Why we Need a National Climate Action Plan

Unprecedentedly Hot: Why we Need a National Climate Action Plan

By John J. Berger ( Tomdispatch.com ) – While April and May are usually the hottest months in many countries in Southeast Asia, hundreds of […]

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Protesting the U of Minnesota Reneging on Job offer to Genocide Specialist Raz Segal over Gaza

Protesting the U of Minnesota Reneging on Job offer to Genocide Specialist Raz Segal over Gaza

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Jeff Ettinger Interim President University of Minnesota upres@umn.edu . . .   Dear President Ettinger and […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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A Baby born in April 2023 has never Experienced a Month that wasn’t the Hottest on Record

A Baby born in April 2023 has never Experienced a Month that wasn’t the Hottest on Record

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When a baby born on April 1, 2023 reached 14 months and became a toddler this month, it had never […]

Juan Cole

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Biden Administration concerned Israel will drag US into War with Lebanon, Officials reveal

Biden Administration concerned Israel will drag US into War with Lebanon, Officials reveal

( Middle East Monitor ) – The administration of United States’ president Joe Biden has grown increasingly concerned that Israel could drag the US into […]

Middle East Monitor

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Is Earth Really Getting too Hot for People to Survive? A Scientist Explains

Is Earth Really Getting too Hot for People to Survive? A Scientist Explains

By Scott Denning, Colorado State University | – My parents said the planet is getting too hot for people to live here. They called it […]

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Far Right Supreme Court enables Mass Murder in Service to Republican Ideology

Far Right Supreme Court enables Mass Murder in Service to Republican Ideology

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – “How can you be so obtuse?” That question to the sadistic warden got Tim Robbins’ character, Andy, […]

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Gaza: Weaponizing Aid beyond Starvation

Gaza: Weaponizing Aid beyond Starvation

( Middle East Monitor) – Israel’s raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp killed 274 Palestinians and wounded 700 more in order to free four healthy-looking […]

Ramona Wadi

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Trump or Biden on Israel?

Trump or Biden on Israel?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently, I attended a demonstration called by groups opposing the carnage in Gaza, where eight months of air, ground, and sea […]

Bob Dreyfuss

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