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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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UN Human Rights Experts Blast Israel over "credible" Reports of Rape, Sexual Abuse, Arbitrary Imprisonment of Palestinian Women

UN Human Rights Experts Blast Israel over “credible” Reports of Rape, Sexual Abuse, Arbitrary Imprisonment of Palestinian Women

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli Newspaper Arab 48 reports that United Nations officials have expressed the utmost anxiety about information that has reached […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Destruction of Gaza's Historic Buildings is an act of 'Urbicide'

The Destruction of Gaza’s Historic Buildings is an act of ‘Urbicide’

By Yousif Al-Daffaie, Nottingham Trent University | – Buildings are often celebrated as symbols of history, political events and creative expression. However, the simplest, most […]

The Conversation

Artificial Intelligence
AI Behavior, Human Destiny and the Rise of the Killer Robots

AI Behavior, Human Destiny and the Rise of the Killer Robots

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Yes, it’s already time to be worried — very worried. As the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have shown, the earliest […]

Michael T. Klare

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Biden, tired of being "Genocide Joe," Finally Blinks, will push UN Resolution for Temporary Gaza Ceasefire

Biden, tired of being “Genocide Joe,” Finally Blinks, will push UN Resolution for Temporary Gaza Ceasefire

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Julian Borger at The Guardian says he has seen a draft US proposal for a United Nations Security Council calling […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel's War on the Bodies of Palestinian Women

Israel’s War on the Bodies of Palestinian Women

Written byRaseef22 Read this post in українська   Freed Palestinian prisoner Ruba Assi was welcomed as a hero upon her release in the prisoner exchange […]

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Biodiversity
Fighting Climate Change by Halting Overfishing

Fighting Climate Change by Halting Overfishing

By Rashid Sumaila, University of British Columbia | – Amid the escalating threats of a warming world, and with the latest annual United Nations global […]

The Conversation

Apartheid
Brazil's Lula compares Netanyahu to Hitler: How Fascist is Israel's War on Palestinians?

Brazil’s Lula compares Netanyahu to Hitler: How Fascist is Israel’s War on Palestinians?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stirred controversy when he said, “What is happening in the Gaza Strip and […]

Juan Cole

Lebanon
From Ukraine to Lebanon, a tale of two Marias

From Ukraine to Lebanon, a tale of two Marias

On a fateful day in February 2022, Ibrahim al-Marashi found himself praying in two religions for two Marias. In a world where narcissism and conflict […]

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Climate Crisis
Is there a Place for Dams and Hydropower to combat Global Heating?

Is there a Place for Dams and Hydropower to combat Global Heating?

By Joshua Frank

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