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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?

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Napoleon’s Egypt I am repeating this posting for Monday, since many readers skip the weekends. I just received an advance copy of my new book, […]

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How to Create an Angry American Repeated from Sunday A clever montage of Bush administration falsehoods and denials regarding the Iraq War, via YouTube (film-maker’s […]

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Us Airstrike Kills 15 Children Women

US Airstrike Kills 15 Children, Women, Men; Mosul Rocked by Death Squad, Roadside Bomb Killings; Shiite UIA Rejects Arming Sunni Arabs The United States military […]

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Last Neocon Attacks Hillary You Might

The Last Neocon Attacks Hillary You might gather from a cursory examination of the wire services that “the Pentagon” has attacked Senator Hillary Clinton for […]

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June Attacks In Iraq At All Time High

June Attacks in Iraq at All-Time High Da’wa Party Protests Saudi Jihadis Reuters obtained from the US Department of Defense statistics that show there were […]

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Plame Case Thrown Out National Security

Plame Case Thrown Out; National Security Imperilled A federal judge has thrown out the lawsuit of Valerie Plame Wilson against Bush administration figures Irv Lewis […]

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4 Multinational Force Troops Killed

4 Multinational Force troops Killed Turks Shell northern Iraq Turkey intensively shelled Kurdish PKK positions inside Iraq, drawing a sharp rebuke from the Iraqi side. […]

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Sunni Bloc Returns To Parliament Lat Is

Sunni Bloc Returns to Parliament ABC News Raw Footage The LAT is reporting that the Sunni Arab Iraqi Accord Front is ending its suspension of […]

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