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Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis
Archaeology

Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring areas such […]

Yemen: Journalists under Assault

Yemen: Journalists under Assault

09/14/2025 By Human Rights Watch

The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,

The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,

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 The Saddest Story In Mosul: Love In The Time Of The Caliphate

The Saddest Story In Mosul: Love In The Time Of The Caliphate

By Nawzat Shamdeen | Berlin | via Niqash.org All Mosul women must now wear either black or white niqab. A young Mosul man tells NIQASH […]

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Iraq
How does this End?  35 Military Interventions since 1980 and Terrorism Grows

How does this End? 35 Military Interventions since 1980 and Terrorism Grows

Brave New Films: “Since 1980, we have militarily intervened at least 35 times in more than 27 countries. We keep bombing, we continue spending trillions […]

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Iraq
Terrorism craves an audience and we are playing into Islamic State's hands by watching

Terrorism craves an audience and we are playing into Islamic State’s hands by watching

By Akil N Awan, Royal Holloway The well-known US security expert, Brian Jenkins, famously declared in 1974, that “terrorism is theatre”. And over the last […]

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Energy
Running out of Time to overrule the 1% on urgent Climate Action

Running out of Time to overrule the 1% on urgent Climate Action

By Rebecca Solnit via Tomdispatch.com There have undoubtedly been stable periods in human history, but you and your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents never lived through […]

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Climate Change
Education, Health, and Global Warming:  Top 5 Reasons 45% of Scots Wanted to Leave the Right Wing UK

Education, Health, and Global Warming: Top 5 Reasons 45% of Scots Wanted to Leave the Right Wing UK

by Juan Cole The US media coverage of the Scottish referendum is oddly lacking in any reference to actual politics. As usual, the corporate media […]

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Climate Change
Will Independence Harm Scotland's Green Advantage?

Will Independence Harm Scotland’s Green Advantage?

(Bloomberg) –- Renewable energy is found in abundance in Scotland; nearly half of the country’s electricity comes from green sources. But will an independent Scotland […]

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Iran
Coalition Of One: Iran Leads Own Fight Against Islamic State

Coalition Of One: Iran Leads Own Fight Against Islamic State

By Charles Recknagel, RFE/RL The United States is putting together the first international coalition to try to roll back the Islamic State (IS) militants in […]

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Apartheid
A Way out of the Gaza Trap

A Way out of the Gaza Trap

By Jean-Pierre Filiu, author of Gaza: A History One person has been enjoying every minute of this summer’s fifty-day war on Gaza. He was known […]

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Is Israel's Far-Right Government Inciting against the Israeli Left?

Is Israel’s Far-Right Government Inciting against the Israeli Left?

Middle East Eye Leftist Israeli activists staged weekly protests during the war in Gaza and they were confronted by rightwing protesters that shouted racial slurs […]

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