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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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Shiite Religious Parties Dominate 10

Shiite Religious Parties Dominate 10

Shiite Religious Parties dominate 10 of 18 Provinces Talabani calls for Government of National Unity The Los Angeles Times reports that the secular Iraqiya list […]

Juan Cole

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Fundamentalist Shiites Will Dominate

Fundamentalist Shiites Will Dominate

Fundamentalist Shiites Will Dominate New Parliament Secularists Lose Badly Bush Poll Numbers on Iraq Fall The American public is not in a mood to be […]

Juan Cole

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Arato Guest Editorial On Election

Arato Guest Editorial On Election

Arato Guest Editorial on the Election Election, Government Formation and the Question of Historic Compromise in Iraq Andrew Arato “In the midst of the great […]

Juan Cole

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Demonstrations Over Fuel Price

Demonstrations Over Fuel Price

Demonstrations over Fuel Price Increases in Iraq Al-Zaman: Now that the elections are safely over, the government of Ibrahim Jaafari has tripled the price of […]

Juan Cole

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Bushist Police State And Interlibrary

Bushist Police State And Interlibrary

The Bushist Police State and Interlibrary Loan “Alice: While you talk, he’s gone!More: And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he […]

Juan Cole

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Parties Jockey For Power In Wake Of

Parties Jockey For Power In Wake Of

Parties Jockey for Power in Wake of Elections; Dulaimi willing to Ally with Shiites Since Bush is going to say Sunday that the Sunni Arab […]

Juan Cole

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Bush Spying On Americans Wire Tapping

Bush Spying On Americans Wire Tapping

Bush Spying on Americans Wire tapping the telephones of American citizens without a court order is illegal. They impeached Clinton for a minor dalliance in […]

Juan Cole

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Religious Shiite Coalition Sweeping

Religious Shiite Coalition Sweeping

Religious Shiite Coalition Sweeping South; Allawi’s Showing Weak [If you’re in the giving mood this season, The History News Network” is a worthy cause.] Al-Zaman […]

Juan Cole

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One That Got Away Cnn Is Reporting

One That Got Away Cnn Is Reporting

The One that Got Away CNN is reporting that Iraqi authorities had arrested Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist, in Ramadi, but mistakenly released him. […]

Juan Cole

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