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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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Confessions of an Ex-Zionist: My Judaism will not stand for the Mass Slaughter in Gaza

Confessions of an Ex-Zionist: My Judaism will not stand for the Mass Slaughter in Gaza

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – I grieve for the people of Israel and Palestine, both of whom are being abused and terrorized […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Colonialism
Britain: Its Empire and Corporations, and Their Current Traces

Britain: Its Empire and Corporations, and Their Current Traces

Review of Philip J. Stern, Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 2023. Munich (Special to Informed Comment) – […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
Americans Want a Ceasefire. It's Our Politicians Who Are Out of Touch

Americans Want a Ceasefire. It’s Our Politicians Who Are Out of Touch

By Farrah Hassen ( Otherwords ) – Two years ago, filmmaker Mohannad Abu Rizk asked children in Gaza about their dreams. One young girl responded, […]

OtherWords

Israel/ Palestine
‘We remain Afraid of the Future’ – how Palestinian Children’s Optimism was Fading even before this Crisis

‘We remain Afraid of the Future’ – how Palestinian Children’s Optimism was Fading even before this Crisis

By Ritesh Shah, University of Auckland | In October alone, more children were reported to have died in Gaza than the total number of children […]

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Nakba 2.0: Israeli Gov't Minister Describes War on Gaza as another Catastrophic Ethnic Cleansing

Nakba 2.0: Israeli Gov’t Minister Describes War on Gaza as another Catastrophic Ethnic Cleansing

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As Maya Angelou wisely advised, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Members of the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Nuremberg Charter and the War on Gaza

The Nuremberg Charter and the War on Gaza

( Counterpunch ) – “In preparation for the Nazi war crimes trials in 1945, representatives of Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States […]

Richard Drake

censorship
The University of Pennsylvania must Defend its Faculty’s Right to Condemn War Crimes

The University of Pennsylvania must Defend its Faculty’s Right to Condemn War Crimes

Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association University of Pennsylvania Liz Magill President, the University of Pennsylvania president@upenn.edu   John Jackson Provost, […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Arms Sales
Bad Times in Gaza and Ukraine:  Good Times for the Military-Industrial Complex

Bad Times in Gaza and Ukraine: Good Times for the Military-Industrial Complex

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The New York Times headline said it all: “Middle East War Adds to Surge in International Arms Sales.” The conflicts in Gaza, […]

William D. Hartung

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A Tale of Two Sets of Dead Babies: The Preemies of Gaza and Imaginary Beheadings

A Tale of Two Sets of Dead Babies: The Preemies of Gaza and Imaginary Beheadings

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s repeated shelling in the vicinity of hospitals and clinics in Gaza has led 20 of 38 hospitals to close […]

Juan Cole

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