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Saudi Arabia in Modern History
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Saudi Arabia in Modern History

Marc Martorell Junyent

Book Review – David Commins, “Saudi Arabia: A Modern History” (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – […]

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

08/13/2025 By Juan Cole

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

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Netzah Yehuda: the ‘Violent and Aggressive’ IDF unit the US is Thinking of Sanctioning

Netzah Yehuda: the ‘Violent and Aggressive’ IDF unit the US is Thinking of Sanctioning

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Keffiyehs, long a Symbol of Exotic Masculinity for White Colonizers, now Bashed when worn by Palestinians and Students

Keffiyehs, long a Symbol of Exotic Masculinity for White Colonizers, now Bashed when worn by Palestinians and Students

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Supporters of the Israeli genocide against tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian women, children, and noncombatant men in Gaza have […]

Juan Cole

Anti-intellectualism
USC:   17 History Department Faculty Demand Resignation of President, Others, for use of Violence against Campus Community

USC: 17 History Department Faculty Demand Resignation of President, Others, for use of Violence against Campus Community

We, the undersigned members of the Department of History [at the University of Southern California], unequivocally condemn the university administration for its decision to invite […]

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Climate Crisis
Degrowth: Avoiding Eco-Collapse

Degrowth: Avoiding Eco-Collapse

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Something must be up. Otherwise, why would scientists keep sending us those scary warnings? There has been a steady stream of […]

Stan Cox

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Are Netanyahu & Co. about to face Arrest Warrants from the Int'l Criminal Court for Gaza War Crimes?

Are Netanyahu & Co. about to face Arrest Warrants from the Int’l Criminal Court for Gaza War Crimes?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is deeply worried that the International Criminal Court in the Hague may be on the […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
Student Encampments at U of Michigan and MSU Peacefully protest Israeli War on Gaza, seek Disinvestment

Student Encampments at U of Michigan and MSU Peacefully protest Israeli War on Gaza, seek Disinvestment

Gaza, Campus, Protest

Michigan Advance

Displaced and Refugees
After 200 Days of Carnage, US and UN suddenly Shocked at Israeli Mass Graves for Palestinians in Gaza

After 200 Days of Carnage, US and UN suddenly Shocked at Israeli Mass Graves for Palestinians in Gaza

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel turned Gaza’s hospitals into execution fields and the international community only called for humanitarian pauses. Now that mass […]

Ramona Wadi

Displaced and Refugees
USAID: Israel has already Imposed Unavoidable, Exponential Famine on Gaza outpacing Somalia's

USAID: Israel has already Imposed Unavoidable, Exponential Famine on Gaza outpacing Somalia’s

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Prominent foreign policy journalist Colum Lynch has an exclusive at the Devex site, which is devoted to economic development news […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
West Bank: Israel Responsible for Rising Settler Violence, Displacement of entire Palestinian Communities

West Bank: Israel Responsible for Rising Settler Violence, Displacement of entire Palestinian Communities

( Human Rights Watch ) – (Jerusalem) – The Israeli military either took part in or did not protect Palestinians from violent settler attacks in […]

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