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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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Hersh On Journalism And Internet

Hersh On Journalism And Internet

Hersh on Journalism and the Internet Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh is interviewed in The Guardian. He has some canny comments on journalism and blogging. […]

Juan Cole

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Revenge Of Baghdad Bob Revenge Of

Revenge Of Baghdad Bob Revenge Of

The Revenge of Baghdad Bob “The Revenge of Baghdad Bob” is my current piece in Salon.com about the bizarrely unrealistic assessments of the Iraq War […]

Juan Cole

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Talabani And Al Hakim Call For Role

Talabani And Al Hakim Call For Role

Talabani and al-Hakim Call for Role for Shiite, Kurdish Paramilitaries 4 US Soldiers Killed Guerrillas killed 4 US servicemen on Wednesday in separate incidents. Other […]

Juan Cole

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33 Dead In Tuesday Attacks Over 70

33 Dead In Tuesday Attacks Over 70

33 Dead in Tuesday Attacks, over 70 Wounded At least 33 persons died in guerrilla attacks or from friendly fire on Tuesday. The Australian Broadcasting […]

Juan Cole

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Kirkuk Police Defy Their Dismissal By

Kirkuk Police Defy Their Dismissal By

Kirkuk Police Defy their Dismissal by Interior Ministry More Car Bombs Wreak Havoc The Associated Press reports, ‘ Four car bombings within seven minutes killed […]

Juan Cole

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Quran Splashed With Urine At

Quran Splashed With Urine At

Quran Splashed with Urine at Guantanamo The Pentagon released this news late Friday in order to defeat the US news cycle, which closes down for […]

Juan Cole

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Sunni Arab Issue Continues To Bedevil

Sunni Arab Issue Continues To Bedevil

Sunni Arab Issue Continues to Bedevil Iraq Ed Wong of the New York Times reports: ‘ Attacks continued across central and northern Iraq on Sunday. […]

Juan Cole

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Hizbullah Wins Big In South Lebanon

Hizbullah Wins Big In South Lebanon

Hizbullah Wins Big in South Lebanon Hizbullah and Amal, along with some representatives of Saad al-Hariri’s “Future” movement swept the elections in South Lebanon. Lebanon […]

Juan Cole

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Bombings Shootings In Balad Tikrit

Bombings Shootings In Balad Tikrit

Bombings, Shootings in Balad, Tikrit, Samarra, Mahmudiyah Sunni Clerics Condemn Marginalization of their Community, Protest US Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports a suicide attack on an Iraqi […]

Juan Cole

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