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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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Guerrillas Kill 33 Wound Dozens

Guerrillas Kill 33 Wound Dozens

Guerrillas Kill 33, Wound Dozens The guerrilla war in Iraq boiled along on Monday. In addition to the operations around Baquba reported yesterday morning, AP […]

Juan Cole

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Foreign Occupation Has Produced

Foreign Occupation Has Produced

Foreign Occupation has Produced Radical Muslim Terrorism Fareed Zakariya argues that Bush got one thing right. Zakariya writes: ” Bush never accepted the view that […]

Juan Cole

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12 Killed 26 Wounded At Baquba Roundup

12 Killed 26 Wounded At Baquba Roundup

12 Killed, 26 Wounded at Baquba Roundup: Looting, Kidnapping, and Shortage of Recruits The Iraqi parliament will meet March 16, whether or not it can […]

Juan Cole

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Us Intervention In 1957 Lebanese

Us Intervention In 1957 Lebanese

US Intervention in 1957 Lebanese Elections A reader writes by email concerning the question of whether the United States engineered the parliamentary elections of 1957 […]

Juan Cole

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Asad Pledges 2 Stage Withdrawal

Asad Pledges 2 Stage Withdrawal

Asad Pledges 2-Stage Withdrawal President Bashar al-Asad of Syria gave a major policy speech [Arabic link] to the Syrian parliament on Saturday on Lebanon. He […]

Juan Cole

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Kurdish Shiite Negotiations Grand_06

Kurdish Shiite Negotiations Grand_06

Kurdish-Shiite Negotiations Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani put pressure Saturday on the United Iraqi Alliance to maintain its unity and to speed up the formation of […]

Juan Cole

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Samarra Turmoil Afp Reports That Iraqi

Samarra Turmoil Afp Reports That Iraqi

Samarra Turmoil AFP reports that Iraqi police in Samarra announced a daytime curfew aimed at preventing the holding of mass demonstrations called for by the […]

Juan Cole

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Constitutional Issues Professor Nathan

Constitutional Issues Professor Nathan

Constitutional Issues Professor Nathan Brown has written an overview of constitutional issues (link is pdf). Andrew Arato writes by email: This is the more or […]

Juan Cole

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Public Support For Iraq War Collapsing

Public Support For Iraq War Collapsing

Public Support for Iraq War CollapsingMajority of Americans want to Bring Some Troops Home Zogby international found that in late February the percentage of Americans […]

Juan Cole

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