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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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Arab World
Xi announces "New Era" in China-Saudi Relationship with $30 bn. in Deals, as Arabs Seek to Offset Dependence on Washington

Xi announces “New Era” in China-Saudi Relationship with $30 bn. in Deals, as Arabs Seek to Offset Dependence on Washington

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz on Thursday signed an agreement with visiting Chinese Premier Xi Jinping […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
First US Leases to Build Wind Farms off California’s Coast are Let: The Amazing Technology

First US Leases to Build Wind Farms off California’s Coast are Let: The Amazing Technology

By Matthew Lackner, UMass Amherst | – (The Conversation) – Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential […]

The Conversation

International Criminal Court
Can the Int’l Criminal Court Hold Israel Responsible for Crimes in Palestine?

Can the Int’l Criminal Court Hold Israel Responsible for Crimes in Palestine?

Mustafa-Fetouri | – Last February, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said it has jurisdiction over Gaza, Occupied Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem. The office […]

Middle East Monitor

Bill of Rights
Will America’s Forever Prison Finally Close on Biden’s Watch: The Fate of Guantánamo

Will America’s Forever Prison Finally Close on Biden’s Watch: The Fate of Guantánamo

( Tomdispatch.com) – As of December 8, 2022, Guantánamo Bay detention facility — a prison offshore of American justice and built for those detained in […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Authoritarianism
Women's Revolt in Iran reaches Household of Leader Khamenei, as his Sister denounces "Despotic Caliphate"

Women’s Revolt in Iran reaches Household of Leader Khamenei, as his Sister denounces “Despotic Caliphate”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Badri Hosseini Khamenei, the sister of Iran’s clerical Leader Ali Khamenei, just issued a public broadside against him on her […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Xi lands in Saudi Arabia: What does China want from the Arabs?

Xi lands in Saudi Arabia: What does China want from the Arabs?

( Middle East Monitor ) – The problem with most Western media’s political analyses is that they generally tend to be short-sighted and focused mostly […]

Ramzy Baroud

Russia
The Forgotten War: what Russia could win from the reignited Conflict in Syria

The Forgotten War: what Russia could win from the reignited Conflict in Syria

Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham | – (The Conversation) – Largely overshadowed by the war in Ukraine, Syria remains a deeply divided and violent country, […]

The Conversation

Corporations
Congress Has No Business Shoveling Another $847 Billion Into the Military Industrial Complex

Congress Has No Business Shoveling Another $847 Billion Into the Military Industrial Complex

By Lindsay Koshgarian | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Can you imagine the audacity to fail a multi-trillion dollar audit of public funds, and then […]

OtherWords

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U.S. State Department Slams Al Jazeera for taking Israeli Assassination of Abu Akleh to Int'l Criminal Court, though US asked Court to Investigate Russia

U.S. State Department Slams Al Jazeera for taking Israeli Assassination of Abu Akleh to Int’l Criminal Court, though US asked Court to Investigate Russia

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Qatar-based satellite news channel Al Jazeera has referred the case of one of its slain reporters, Shireen Abu Akleh […]

Juan Cole

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