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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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Israelis Rally against Gov't for 33rd Week, denouncing Branding Palestinian with Star of David and sending Women to back of Bus

Israelis Rally against Gov’t for 33rd Week, denouncing Branding Palestinian with Star of David and sending Women to back of Bus

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – For the 33rd week in a row, thousands of demonstrators came out Saturday night in Israel to protest the attempt […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Drilling our way to Climate Doom: The US leads the World in Oil and Gas Production

Drilling our way to Climate Doom: The US leads the World in Oil and Gas Production

By Edward Hunt | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The United States is producing record amounts of oil and natural gas, despite the […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Authoritarianism
70 Years ago, an Anglo-US Coup condemned Iran to Decades of Oppression -- But now the People are fighting Back

70 Years ago, an Anglo-US Coup condemned Iran to Decades of Oppression — But now the People are fighting Back

By Simin Fadaee, University of Manchester | – The 1953 coup d’etat in Iran ushered in a period of exploitation and oppression that has continued […]

The Conversation

CIA
On Anniversary of Republican Party's overthrow of the Iranian Gov't; Let's remember that on Jan. 6 it used the Same Techniques against our elected President

On Anniversary of Republican Party’s overthrow of the Iranian Gov’t; Let’s remember that on Jan. 6 it used the Same Techniques against our elected President

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As the indictments by grand juries at the federal and state level show, there is good reason to believe that […]

Juan Cole

Constitution
Trump's Actions have Disqualified him from the Presidency -- as Georgia Indictment and Civil War History Show

Trump’s Actions have Disqualified him from the Presidency — as Georgia Indictment and Civil War History Show

By Joseph Ferguson, Loyola University Chicago and Thomas A. Durkin, Loyola University Chicago | – (The Conversation) – After three indictments of former President Donald […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Germany: Even with Reduced Subsidies, Non-Gasoline Cars Comprised 46% of New Registrations in First 7 Months of 2023

Germany: Even with Reduced Subsidies, Non-Gasoline Cars Comprised 46% of New Registrations in First 7 Months of 2023

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The share of fully electric passenger cars in Germany continues to grow quickly, with […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

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Imperial Hubris:   70 Years ago, the CIA overthrew the Parliamentary Gov't of Mosaddegh in Iran, and Washington has been Complaining about Iran ever Since

Imperial Hubris: 70 Years ago, the CIA overthrew the Parliamentary Gov’t of Mosaddegh in Iran, and Washington has been Complaining about Iran ever Since

Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment: Feature) – On August 19, seventy years ago, the legitimate government of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh was toppled in a […]

Fariba Amini

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Squatters in Palestinian West Bank are Deploying Terrorism against Indigenous Population

Israeli Squatters in Palestinian West Bank are Deploying Terrorism against Indigenous Population

  by Wafa Aludaini wafa_Gaza   ( Middle East Monitor ) – In the intensive care room in the Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation (BASR) […]

Middle East Monitor

Kurds
Amid growing Tension between Russia, Iran and the US, Syria’s Kurds have been Sidelined

Amid growing Tension between Russia, Iran and the US, Syria’s Kurds have been Sidelined

By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin | – In north-east Syria, the 12-year conflict is far from over. Russian fighter jets buzz US surveillance drones, […]

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