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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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Israel's Colonial Revenge Genocide in Gaza is only the latest in a Long History of such Massacres

Israel’s Colonial Revenge Genocide in Gaza is only the latest in a Long History of such Massacres

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I find peculiar the conviction of so many politicians in Europe and North America, not to mention Israel itself, that […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Breaking Free from the Cycle of Violence: The Reality of the Gaza Conflict

Breaking Free from the Cycle of Violence: The Reality of the Gaza Conflict

Al-Rimal neighbourhood in Gaza on Oct 10, 2023 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor] by Omer Carullah Sevim (Middle East Monitor ) – At the start of […]

Middle East Monitor

Eastern Europe
Israel-Gaza Conflict: An Opportunity for Putin in Ukraine while the World is Distracted

Israel-Gaza Conflict: An Opportunity for Putin in Ukraine while the World is Distracted

By Robert M. Dover, University of Hull | – Time is an ally of Russia in the Ukrainian conflict. Russia needs to reduce its rate […]

The Conversation

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Israel in Palestinian Gaza: Revenge is more satisfying than Peace

Israel in Palestinian Gaza: Revenge is more satisfying than Peace

(Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Over the years, the United States has endowed Israel with more than $150 billion in assistance, making it possible […]

Richard Forer

Africa
Suffering in the Shadows: Humanitarian Calamities That Aren’t on the World’s Agenda

Suffering in the Shadows: Humanitarian Calamities That Aren’t on the World’s Agenda

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox ( Tomdispatch.com) – Various versions of the aphorism “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography” have been […]

Tomdispatch

Israel/ Palestine
The Gaza Strip: Why the History of this Densely Populated Enclave is Key to understanding the Current Conflict

The Gaza Strip: Why the History of this Densely Populated Enclave is Key to understanding the Current Conflict

By Maha Nassar, University of Arizona | – (The Conversation) – The focus on conflict in the Middle East has again returned to the Gaza […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
We can still avoid “Catastrophic Inundation” if we Slash Carbon Pollution – Michael E. Mann’s “Our Fragile Moment”

We can still avoid “Catastrophic Inundation” if we Slash Carbon Pollution – Michael E. Mann’s “Our Fragile Moment”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Informed Comment is pleased to present below an interview with climate scientist Michael E. Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
“We all just evaporate:” Extreme Heat Overwhelms Phoenix’s Unhoused Community

“We all just evaporate:” Extreme Heat Overwhelms Phoenix’s Unhoused Community

Deanna Pistono/Cronkite News ( Cronkite News ) – PHOENIX – Near the intersection of S. 11th Avenue and W. Jefferson Street in Phoenix, the heat […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Israel/ Palestine
Why the Al-Aqsa Mosque Complex is Important to the Current Palestinian-Israeli Clashes

Why the Al-Aqsa Mosque Complex is Important to the Current Palestinian-Israeli Clashes

By Ken Chitwood, University of Southern California | – As a scholar of global Islam, I teach an introduction to Islam course and include a […]

The Conversation

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