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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?

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Israeli Genocide in Gaza:  Dwarf Babies, 300% Spike in Miscarriages, 4K Malnourished Expectant Mothers

Israeli Genocide in Gaza: Dwarf Babies, 300% Spike in Miscarriages, 4K Malnourished Expectant Mothers

By Mustafa Aziz ( Middle East Monitor ) – The ongoing Israeli genocidal war against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip since 7 October […]

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Shamash
Shamash! “Victory over Carbon”

Shamash! “Victory over Carbon”

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Trump Administration to draw Down Troop Presence in New, Fundamentalist Syria

Trump Administration to draw Down Troop Presence in New, Fundamentalist Syria

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tara Copp at AP reports that the Trump administration will withdraw some of the 2000 troops now based in southeastern […]

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Iran
Mideast Peace Depends on an unlikely Trump-Iran Nuclear Deal

Mideast Peace Depends on an unlikely Trump-Iran Nuclear Deal

By Simon Mabon, Lancaster University For the second week in a row, senior officials from the United States and Iran will get together to take […]

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African American History and the Black Civil Rights Movement teach us how to Confront Trump

African American History and the Black Civil Rights Movement teach us how to Confront Trump

By Douglas H. White ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently, in an executive order, President Trump directed the removal of “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” from […]

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French President Macron demands Immediate Gaza Ceasefire, Resumption of Civilian Aid, Palestinian State

French President Macron demands Immediate Gaza Ceasefire, Resumption of Civilian Aid, Palestinian State

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – French President Emmanuel Macron spoke by telephone Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Paris’s plan to recognize a […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
Turkey’s Youth on the Frontlines of Protests

Turkey’s Youth on the Frontlines of Protests

High school students have now joined university students in protests that have rocked the country since March 19 Written byArzu Geybullayeva ( Global Voices ) […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

Israel/ Palestine
Project Esther: Suppressing Palestinian Solidarity in the US

Project Esther: Suppressing Palestinian Solidarity in the US

By Tariq Kenney-Shawa | – ( Al-Shabaka ) – On October 7, 2024, marking one year since Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood operation, the conservative DC-based Heritage […]

Al-Shabaka

Climate Crisis
Europe was Hottest Ever Recorded last Year, and is Heating up Faster than any other Continent

Europe was Hottest Ever Recorded last Year, and is Heating up Faster than any other Continent

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Copernicus Climate Change Service (abbreviated as C3S) has just issued The European State of the Climate for 2024. These […]

Juan Cole

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