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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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Afghanistan
The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan  (Review)

The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan (Review)

Review of Ahmad Shuja Jamal and William Maley, The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan (London: Hurst and Co., 2023). Munich, Germany (Special to Informed […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Donald Trump
Beneath the Trump Circus, American Democracy faces up to a vital Challenge

Beneath the Trump Circus, American Democracy faces up to a vital Challenge

By Emma Shortis, RMIT University | – Former US President Donald J Trump has been charged with 34 felony counts in New York. In the […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
The Shift from Pink to Green in Latin America:  Can the United States Become a Green Good Neighbor?

The Shift from Pink to Green in Latin America: Can the United States Become a Green Good Neighbor?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Gustavo Petro doesn’t just want to transform his own country; he wants to change the world. The new leader of Colombia, […]

John Feffer

Progressive Politics
How to Create Positive Change: Danielle Moodie and Wajahat Ali at Progress Network (Video)

How to Create Positive Change: Danielle Moodie and Wajahat Ali at Progress Network (Video)

The Progress Network | How does change actually occur? And what are the best tactics for bringing large coalitions together? Hosts of Democracy-ish, Danielle Moodie […]

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Corruption
US Joins Civilized World:  Trump’s Arraignment for Electoral Corruption is just like former French President Sarkozy’s

US Joins Civilized World: Trump’s Arraignment for Electoral Corruption is just like former French President Sarkozy’s

Revised. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s arraignment today has been widely denounced by the US Right as politically motivated and unprecedented. But high officers […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
As Tax Day Approaches:  Is the Federal Budget Moral or Immoral?

As Tax Day Approaches: Is the Federal Budget Moral or Immoral?

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – April, the month tax filings are due, prompts us to ponder what our income taxes pay for.  Are […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Nonviolence
The Tragic U.S. Choice to Prioritize War Over Peacemaking

The Tragic U.S. Choice to Prioritize War Over Peacemaking

( Code Pink ) – In a brilliant Op-Ed published in the New York Times, the Quincy Institute’s Trita Parsi explained how China, with help […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Drones
How Russian and Iranian Drone Strikes further dehumanize Warfare

How Russian and Iranian Drone Strikes further dehumanize Warfare

By Jordan Richard Schoenherr, Concordia University | – Along with the recent reciprocal drone strikes by Iran and the United States in Syria, Russia continues […]

The Conversation

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Many Civil Wars:  The Extremist Israeli Gov't has Roiled Relations with Biden and US Jews and Highlighted the Occupation of Palestine

Many Civil Wars: The Extremist Israeli Gov’t has Roiled Relations with Biden and US Jews and Highlighted the Occupation of Palestine

Oakland, Ca. (Feature: Special to Informed Comment) | – Some 450,000 Israeli protesters massed again this weekend against Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s efforts to […]

H. Scott Prosterman

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