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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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End Predatory Private Medicare “Advantage” Plans Now

End Predatory Private Medicare “Advantage” Plans Now

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) — Wendell Potter, a New York Times bestselling author, highly respected health care and campaign finance reform advocate, authority […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Afghanistan
How War Divides Us:  All the Ways our 21st Century Wars have Polarized Americans

How War Divides Us: All the Ways our 21st Century Wars have Polarized Americans

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Blame Donald Trump and all too many of his followers, but don’t just blame him or them. Yes, he was indeed […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Batteries
In 2023, 86% of New Power Capacity in US will come from Renewables, with a Majority of it Solar

In 2023, 86% of New Power Capacity in US will come from Renewables, with a Majority of it Solar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Department of Energy has announced that that in 2023, 82% of new additions to electricity generation capacity in the […]

Juan Cole

Ethiopia
Mass Killings of Ethiopian Migrants By Saudi Arabia at Yemen Border May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity

Mass Killings of Ethiopian Migrants By Saudi Arabia at Yemen Border May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity

Saudi border guards have killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers who tried to cross the Yemen-Saudi border between March 2022 and […]

Human Rights Watch

Afghanistan
Afghan Refugees who aided the U.S. are Stuck in Legal Limbo 2 Years after Kabul’s Fall

Afghan Refugees who aided the U.S. are Stuck in Legal Limbo 2 Years after Kabul’s Fall

By: Ariana Figueroa – ( Georgia Recorder ) – WASHINGTON —  Two years ago, Farzana Jamalzada and her husband made the difficult decision to separately […]

Georgia Recorder

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Washington for First Time terms violent Israeli Squatter-Settlers "Terrorists," but US Needs to Let UNSC Impose Sanctions

Washington for First Time terms violent Israeli Squatter-Settlers “Terrorists,” but US Needs to Let UNSC Impose Sanctions

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It was a normal warm summer evening in the Palestinian village of Burqa in Ramallah district until the […]

Mohammed Samaana

Education
Protesting Punitive Measures against Iranian Women Students

Protesting Punitive Measures against Iranian Women Students

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran c/o H.E. Mr. […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Israel/ Palestine
Israel's Shin Bet Security Agency views "terrorist" Israeli Squatter-Settlers attacking Palestinians as Security Threat to Israel

Israel’s Shin Bet Security Agency views “terrorist” Israeli Squatter-Settlers attacking Palestinians as Security Threat to Israel

By Adnan Abu Amer ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli General Security Agency, Shin Bet, has recently issued a document in which it […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
While World's Eyes were on Lahaina, Canadian Provincial Capital of Yellowknife was being Evacuated  for Wildfires

While World’s Eyes were on Lahaina, Canadian Provincial Capital of Yellowknife was being Evacuated for Wildfires

By Andrew Weaver, University of Victoria | = (The Conversation) – The devastating wildfire that destroyed the historic Maui town of Lahaina in Hawaii was […]

The Conversation

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