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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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Karzai, Pakistan Protests against US Drone Strikes may force US out

Karzai, Pakistan Protests against US Drone Strikes may force US out

Afghan President Hamid Karzai complained Friday that a US drone strike in Helmand Province targeting a Taliban commander on a motorcycle appears to have gone […]

Juan Cole

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Greenwald to BBC:  Journalists must investigate the Powerful in Gov't since they Lie to the People (BBC Surprised)

Greenwald to BBC: Journalists must investigate the Powerful in Gov’t since they Lie to the People (BBC Surprised)

Glenn Greenwald on the BBC’s Hardtalk seems to surprise the anchor by asserting that journalists need to investigate the powerful since the latter tend to […]

Juan Cole

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Egyptian Heavy Metal Band Massive Scar Era - "Between The Waves "

Egyptian Heavy Metal Band Massive Scar Era – “Between The Waves “

Egypt’s Heavy Metal band, Massive Scar Era, which is predominantly made up of women and led by Sherine Amr, performs their “Between the Waves.” Live […]

Juan Cole

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Egypt's Counter-Revolution:  21 Women and Girls Harshly Sentenced, Liberal Bloggers to be Arrested

Egypt’s Counter-Revolution: 21 Women and Girls Harshly Sentenced, Liberal Bloggers to be Arrested

The new anti-protest law in Egypt is roiling the country. On Thursday, a student at Cairo University was killed by police using live ammunition against […]

Juan Cole

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John F. Kennedy’s Thanksgiving Ideals, 1962– How different they are from Ours

John F. Kennedy’s Thanksgiving Ideals, 1962– How different they are from Ours

The fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has brought forth a flood of books and documentaries. On this Thanksgiving, what strikes […]

Juan Cole

Breaking “America’s Last Taboo”

Breaking “America’s Last Taboo”

Author(s):  Alex Lubin American Zionism has made any serious public discussion of the past or future of Israel — by far the largest recipient ever […]

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NSA monitored visits of “Radicalizers” to Chat Rooms, Skin Sites to Discredit Them

NSA monitored visits of “Radicalizers” to Chat Rooms, Skin Sites to Discredit Them

Six persons living abroad, one of them a “US person,” were targeted by the National Security Agency for discrediting, according to information leaked by Edward […]

Juan Cole

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Pope Francis:  Why are Deaths of the Homeless not a Headline but a 2-point Dow Jones rise is? (Germanos)

Pope Francis: Why are Deaths of the Homeless not a Headline but a 2-point Dow Jones rise is? (Germanos)

Andrea Germanos writes at Commondreams.org Pope Francis has issued a new document in which he rails against growing inequality, trickle-down economics and the current socioeconomic […]

Juan Cole

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Brubeck Jazz Classic "Take Five" in Pakistan Style (Video)

Brubeck Jazz Classic “Take Five” in Pakistan Style (Video)

Dave Brubeck called the cover of his band’s classic “Take Five” (Paul Desmond) by the Pakistani musical group Sachal the “most original” he had ever […]

Juan Cole

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