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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 Juan Cole

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Israel, Defying UNSC Ceasefire Order, "Completely Dehumanizes" Palestinians (MSF), Shooting Fish in a Barrel

Israel, Defying UNSC Ceasefire Order, “Completely Dehumanizes” Palestinians (MSF), Shooting Fish in a Barrel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports on the humanitarian situation in Gaza this week in the […]

Juan Cole

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How Democratizing Universities would Supercharge the pro-Palestine Divestment Movement

How Democratizing Universities would Supercharge the pro-Palestine Divestment Movement

By Akin Olla | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – The pro-Palestinian divestment movement has erupted across the country, after over a decade of bubbling […]

Waging Nonviolence

Health Care
How the Corporations’ “Medicare Advantage” Harms America’s Patients and Providers

How the Corporations’ “Medicare Advantage” Harms America’s Patients and Providers

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment) – 1). Medicare Advantage (MA), the privately-administered version of Traditional Medicare (TM), is causing significant harm to America’s patients, […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

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How Netanyahu and Fascists in his Coalition shot down the Biden Peace Plan

How Netanyahu and Fascists in his Coalition shot down the Biden Peace Plan

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is attempting to peddle the line that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Diamonds and Coal Dust: Slaughter at Gaza's Nuseirat Camp

Diamonds and Coal Dust: Slaughter at Gaza’s Nuseirat Camp

By Binoy Kampmark | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The ashes had barely settled on the Rafah tent camp incinerated by an Israeli […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
Khorasan: why many Afghanistan Citizens are pushing back against the Term’s association with Terrorism

Khorasan: why many Afghanistan Citizens are pushing back against the Term’s association with Terrorism

By Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex | – Gunmen attacked Moscow’s Crocus City Hall concert venue in March, killing 137 people. The four suspects were […]

The Conversation

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Israel joins ISIL, Taliban, Sudan on UN Blacklist of Violators of Children, Killing or Maiming 20,000 last Year

Israel joins ISIL, Taliban, Sudan on UN Blacklist of Violators of Children, Killing or Maiming 20,000 last Year

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations has added Israel to its blacklist of nations that commit harms against children. It joins Russia, DR […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza war: with both Sides playing Politics, don’t expect a Ceasefire any time Soon

Gaza war: with both Sides playing Politics, don’t expect a Ceasefire any time Soon

By Paul Rogers, University of Bradford | – (The Conversation) – When the UN security council voted in favour of a resolution backing the latest […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Losing our Cool: Climate Emergency’s Heat Waves Threaten America

Losing our Cool: Climate Emergency’s Heat Waves Threaten America

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The odds are that the entire continental United States will swelter through a hotter-than-normal summer this year. And no surprise there. […]

Stan Cox

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