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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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al-Qaeda
President Obama’s Address on Change in the Middle East

President Obama’s Address on Change in the Middle East

May 19, 2011 Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery “A Moment of Opportunity” U.S. Department of State May 19, 2011 As […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Syria Sanctions target al-Asad ahead of Obama Speech

Syria Sanctions target al-Asad ahead of Obama Speech

The Obama administration is now targeting Bashar al-Asad and other top Syrian officials with financial sanctions. The US Treasury Department has extensive abilities to freeze […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
12 Killed in Big Anti-NATO Demonstration in Afghanistan

12 Killed in Big Anti-NATO Demonstration in Afghanistan

The LAT reports that a night-time raid by NATO forces that left 4 dead provoked a big demonstration in Taloqan in northern Afghanistan, the repression […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Salaita: Dressing like a Terrorist

Salaita: Dressing like a Terrorist

Steven Salaita writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Dressing Like a Terrorist Like many others, I was dismayed to learn of the two […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Drake the Heroic Whistleblower

Drake the Heroic Whistleblower

Is Thomas Drake, the National Security Agency whistleblower a hero or a criminal? A hero, obviously. Drake revealed to the Baltimore Sun how how the […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Tripoli’s Gradual Collapse:  ICC Indictment of Qaddafi and Ghanem’s Defection

Tripoli’s Gradual Collapse: ICC Indictment of Qaddafi and Ghanem’s Defection

Libyan Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem has defected from the Qaddafi regime and fled to Tunisia. This defection is a big deal. Ghanem had been at […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Shihade: A New Era for Palestinians

Shihade: A New Era for Palestinians

Magid Shihade writes in a guest column for Informed Comment The Palestinian Unity Agreement and the Beginning of New Era The agreement of reconciliation between […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Arabs:  90% say Qaddafi illegitimate, 75% Want him Forcibly Removed

Arabs: 90% say Qaddafi illegitimate, 75% Want him Forcibly Removed

I received this press release from the Doha Debates (a member of the Qatar Foundation) by email. The results vis-a-vis Libya are not surprising, since […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Meyer: After Bin Laden: Israel & Middle East Peace

Meyer: After Bin Laden: Israel & Middle East Peace

Carlyn Meyer writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: I recently returned from a trip to Israel and the West Bank. I am not […]

Juan Cole

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