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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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Top Five Green Energy Stories Today

Top Five Green Energy Stories Today

5. France has decided to build 2 gigawatts worth of wind turbines offshore, as its nuclear plants age and updating them or replacing them becomes […]

Juan Cole

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Romney:  Poor Women with 2 year olds "Need to go to work" (Hayes)

Romney: Poor Women with 2 year olds “Need to go to work” (Hayes)

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes busts Mitt Romney on his faux outrage that stay at home moms should be said to be “not working.” In fact, apparently […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Danish Ambassador Asks Israel for Explanation of Assault on Peace Activist (Video)

Danish Ambassador Asks Israel for Explanation of Assault on Peace Activist (Video)

A group of European peace activists bicycling near Jericho in the Palestinian West Bank were stopped by Israeli occupation forces, and Lt Col Shalom Eisner, […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (118)

Omar Khayyam (118)

The gentle breeze seems to have brought  your distant fragrance to my heart; it just abandoned me and went out looking high and low for you. And now […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
It's Springtime in Kabul for the Taliban

It’s Springtime in Kabul for the Taliban

The Taliban kicked off their spring offensive with numerous coordinated attacks in the capital of Kabul and well as in some provinces. Aljazeera English has […]

Juan Cole

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Iran’s Forbidden Nukes and the Taqiya Lie

Iran’s Forbidden Nukes and the Taqiya Lie

The Iranian and Chinese teams at the negotiations in Istanbul this weekend between the UN Security Council plus Germany on the one hand, and Iran […]

Juan Cole

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What the Laws of War Allow (Madar)

What the Laws of War Allow (Madar)

Chase Madar writes at Tomdispatch.com What the Laws of War Allow Do the WikiLeaks War Logs Reveal War Crimes — Or the Poverty of International […]

Juan Cole

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Egypt's Saturday Night Massacre and the Presidential Race

Egypt’s Saturday Night Massacre and the Presidential Race

The election of Egypt’s new president to succeed deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak, has taken on increased importance and has become more unpredictable because of the […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (114)

Omar Khayyam (114)

At first I looked for the pen of fate,  and the tablet on which it wrote, and heaven and hell in the skies above. Then […]

Juan Cole

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