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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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Homelessness
How America Abandoned our Poor: Confronting the Needless Scourge of Poverty

How America Abandoned our Poor: Confronting the Needless Scourge of Poverty

( Tomdispatch.com ) – On the island of Manhattan, where I live, skyscrapers multiply like metal weeds, a vertical invasion of seemingly unstoppable force. For […]

Liz Theoharis

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New Gaza Conflict shows that "Abraham Accords" can't bring Peace as Long as Israelis keep Palestinians Occupied and Stateless

New Gaza Conflict shows that “Abraham Accords” can’t bring Peace as Long as Israelis keep Palestinians Occupied and Stateless

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The conflict that broke out on October 7, 2023, between Palestinian militants and Israel underlined once again that the status […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Troops Kill 6 West Bank Palestinian Protesters, including a Minor, as Demonstrations against Israeli Killings of Civilians Break Out

Israeli Troops Kill 6 West Bank Palestinian Protesters, including a Minor, as Demonstrations against Israeli Killings of Civilians Break Out

( IMEMC ) – An 18-year-old Palestinian man and a 13-year-old child were the latest in a long list of civilians killed on Saturday, October […]

International Middle East Media Center

Corporations
Medicare Advantage Overbills Taxpayers by $140 Billion a Year — Enough to Wipe Out Medicare Premiums

Medicare Advantage Overbills Taxpayers by $140 Billion a Year — Enough to Wipe Out Medicare Premiums

  Jake Johnson ( Commondreams.org ) – A report published Wednesday estimates that privately run, government-funded Medicare Advantage plans are overcharging U.S. taxpayers by up […]

Common Dreams

Death Penalty
US celebrates Nobel for Iran's Narges Mohammadi, but We have Executions, Torture and Prisoner Abuse Too

US celebrates Nobel for Iran’s Narges Mohammadi, but We have Executions, Torture and Prisoner Abuse Too

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize this year to Iranian feminist and human rights worker Narges Mohammadi, 51. […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Strategic Weaponization of Water Against Palestine is a War Crime

Israel’s Strategic Weaponization of Water Against Palestine is a War Crime

by Anjuman Rahman AnjumanAleena ( Middle East Monitor ) – The universal human right to water, ensuring “sufficient safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water […]

Middle East Monitor

Green Energy
Price Drops for Clean Technologies could become a Game Changer for Green Energy Transition

Price Drops for Clean Technologies could become a Game Changer for Green Energy Transition

By Carolina Kyllmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The past decade has seen a sharp drop in prices for clean technologies, which […]

Clean Energy Wire

Antisemitism
In Historic Announcement, Biden Bans Anti-Muslim, Anti-Jewish Discrimination under Title VI for Federal Agencies

In Historic Announcement, Biden Bans Anti-Muslim, Anti-Jewish Discrimination under Title VI for Federal Agencies

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It is a truism that there are some ethnic groups in the United States toward whom it is still permitted […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Top 6 Reasons why Global Temperatures are Breaking all the Records

Top 6 Reasons why Global Temperatures are Breaking all the Records

By Andrew King, The University of Melbourne | – The world is very warm right now. We’re not only seeing record temperatures, but the records […]

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