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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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What Do You Do If Democracies Defy You

What Do You Do If Democracies Defy You

What do you Do if Democracies Defy You? The US and British support for democratization in the Middle East is a deeply contradictory policy, since […]

Juan Cole

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Democracy Now Transcript Here Is

Democracy Now Transcript Here Is

Democracy Now Transcript Here is a transcript of my interview this morning with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now. For Southeast Michigan readers: What would have […]

Juan Cole

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Sadrist Funeral Targeted Funeral

Sadrist Funeral Targeted Funeral

Sadrist Funeral Targeted The funeral targeted by a bombing that killed 47 and wounded 84 in Mosul was for “Hisham al-Araji, the Mosul representative for […]

Juan Cole

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Breaking News Government To Be Formed

Breaking News Government To Be Formed

Breaking News: Government to Be Formed Bombing at Shiite Mosque in Mosul Kills 36 It has been announced that the Shiites and the Kurds have […]

Juan Cole

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30 Us Contractors Wounded 26 More

30 Us Contractors Wounded 26 More

30 US contractors Wounded, 26 More Corpses Found Guerrillas detonated another bomb near the al-Sadeer Hotel in downtown Baghdad on Wednesday, wounding 30 American contractors. […]

Juan Cole

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Huge Truck Bomb Kills At L_111035929701973743

Huge Truck Bomb Kills at least 3, wounds Dozens Officials Assassinated A guerrilla detonated a huge truck bomb in downtown Baghdad early Wednesday morning, between […]

Juan Cole

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Hundreds Of Thousands Of Shiites Stage

Hundreds Of Thousands Of Shiites Stage

Hundreds of Thousands of Shiites Stage Pro-Syrian Demonstration in Beirut Hizbullah’s call for a huge pro-Syrian demonstration in Beirut was answered by hundreds of thousands […]

Juan Cole

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Awful Crap From Wolfowitz I Was

Awful Crap From Wolfowitz I Was

Awful Crap from Wolfowitz I was looking at this rreport of Major Isaiah Wilson, official US army historian, which concluded that the US military lost […]

Juan Cole

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Al Hakim Us Troops Out Le Monde

Al Hakim Us Troops Out Le Monde

Al-Hakim: “US Troops Out!” Le Monde reported Monday that Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the cleric who leads the United Iraqi Alliance, rejects a long-term presence for […]

Juan Cole

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