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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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IAEA Finds no Proof of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program In its April 28 report, the International Atomic Energy Agency mentioned the UNSC mandate to Iran […]

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Iraq Vp Warns Bush Against Iran Attack

Iraq VP Warns Bush against Iran Attack Ramadi Fighting Leads to Evacuation of One District Adil Abdul Mahdi, whom the Americans wanted for the prime […]

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Iraq And Oil Crunch Update See Alan

Iraq and the Oil Crunch? Update: See Alan Richards’s reply at end Jim Krane of the Associate Press quotes analysts who seem to blame the […]

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Petition To Conference Of Presidents_29

Petition to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations My readers who teach or have taught in post-secondary education continue kindly to be […]

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Kaplan In Slate On Global Americana

Kaplan in Slate on Global Americana Many, many thanks to Fred Kaplan for his write-up in Slate of the Global Americana Institute project to translate […]

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30 Dead In Baqubah Battles Shiites

30 Dead In Baqubah Battles Shiites

30 Dead in Baqubah Battles Shiites Seek to Keep Interior A battle between 100 guerrillas and Iraqi army forces in Baqubah (northeast of Baghdad) on […]

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Petition To Conference Of Presidents

Petition To Conference Of Presidents

Petition to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (I’ve set up a new petition site at https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/875967959 because the first one was […]

Juan Cole

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31 Killed In Guerrilla Violence

31 Killed In Guerrilla Violence

31 Killed in Guerrilla Violence Kurdish Situation Angers Turkey AP reports Iraq violence Tues-Weds. There were major car bombings in Baghdad, and some 15 bodies […]

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Zarqawi Makes Recruitment Tape

Zarqawi Makes Recruitment Tape

Zarqawi Makes Recruitment Tape Crackdown on Mahdi Army in Najaf Reuters reports 18 deaths during a relatively light day of violence in the Iraqi civil […]

Juan Cole

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