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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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Demonstration Against Lack Of Security

Demonstration Against Lack Of Security

Demonstration Against lack of Security at Basra University Hundreds of students and faculty demonstrated Thursday against the failure of Coalition troops in the southern Shiite […]

Juan Cole

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Senior Member Of College Of Ayatollahs

Senior Member Of College Of Ayatollahs

Senior Member of College of Ayatollahs Slams US The al-Hawzah al-`Ilmiyyah is the seminary center of leading Shiite clerics in Najaf, which exercises enormous moral […]

Juan Cole

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Bushs Diplomatic Failures Hurt Us

Bushs Diplomatic Failures Hurt Us

Bush’s Diplomatic Failures Hurt US Reservists The way in which reservists have been virtually kidnapped by the Bush administration, with 170,000 now on active duty […]

Juan Cole

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For Journalist Lawrence Pintaks

For Journalist Lawrence Pintaks

For journalist Lawrence Pintak’s analysis of the fallout for the US in the Muslim world of Israel’s unilateral attack on Syria this week, see: http://www.commondreams.org/ […]

Juan Cole

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Attempts To Moderate Stance Of Igc On

Attempts To Moderate Stance Of Igc On

Attempts to Moderate Stance of IGC on Turks The Bush administration is saying that it will not take “no” for an answer from the Interim […]

Juan Cole

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One Us Soldier Wounded One Iraqi

One Us Soldier Wounded One Iraqi

One US soldier Wounded, One Iraqi Policemen Killed and another Wounded Guerillas fired rocket-propelled grenades at a US convoy near Balad on Wednesday, wounding one […]

Juan Cole

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Protesters Pelt Us Troops In Baghdad

Protesters Pelt Us Troops In Baghdad

Protesters Pelt US Troops in Baghdad: Rally by the Army of the Mahdi Protesters from the Sadrist “Army of the Mahdi” gathered again Wednesday at […]

Juan Cole

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Khamenei Calls For Sunni Shiite Unity

Khamenei Calls For Sunni Shiite Unity

Khamenei Calls for Sunni-Shiite Unity in Iraq: SCIRI: no Separation of Religion and State Abdul Aziz al-Hakim of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in […]

Juan Cole

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Riots In Baghdad Rioting Continued For

Riots In Baghdad Rioting Continued For

Riots in Baghdad Rioting continued for the third day in Baghdad, this time by nearly 2000 former members of the Iraqi secret police, who want […]

Juan Cole

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