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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 Juan Cole

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Climate Crisis
Climate Emergency: Europe Parched, Farms Fallow, as Lakes and Rivers Dry up in worst Drought since time of Christ

Climate Emergency: Europe Parched, Farms Fallow, as Lakes and Rivers Dry up in worst Drought since time of Christ

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Europe is in the throes of a once-in-500 years severe drought that is making its rivers into shallow streams and […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghan Women are refusing to remain Silent One Year after the Taliban Takeover

Afghan Women are refusing to remain Silent One Year after the Taliban Takeover

By Homa Hoodfar, Concordia University and Mona Tajali, Agnes Scott College | – (The Conversation) – On Aug. 15, it will be a year since […]

The Conversation

Death Penalty
Why Is Iran Executing So Many Prisoners?

Why Is Iran Executing So Many Prisoners?

By Giovana Faria | – ( RFE/RL ) – With a long list of crimes punishable by death, Iran put at least 314 prisoners to […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Climate Crisis
Climate Change Threatens the Most Iconic U.S. Landscapes, from Joshua Trees to Wetlands

Climate Change Threatens the Most Iconic U.S. Landscapes, from Joshua Trees to Wetlands

By Farrah Hassen | – ( Otherwords ) – Over the past decade, I’ve traveled countless times to the desert regions east of San Bernardino […]

OtherWords

Books
In Honor of Salman Rushdie, Novelist and Stabbing Victim: Midnight's Other Children, by Juan Cole

In Honor of Salman Rushdie, Novelist and Stabbing Victim: Midnight’s Other Children, by Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Salman Rushdie, Booker Prize-winning novelist, was repeatedly stabbed on Friday at a literary event at Chautauqua Institution in western New […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
From the Greatest Generation to the Trump Generation: Can America’s Drastic Decline be Reversed?

From the Greatest Generation to the Trump Generation: Can America’s Drastic Decline be Reversed?

( Tomdispatch.com) – I find nothing strange in Joe Biden, at 79 (going on 80), being the oldest president in our history and possibly planning […]

Tom Engelhardt

Climate Crisis
Why Climate Activists Need to Celebrate the Inflation Reduction Act, a major Turning Point despite its Warts

Why Climate Activists Need to Celebrate the Inflation Reduction Act, a major Turning Point despite its Warts

By Daniel Hunter | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – Congress just passed a major $375 billion climate bill, and it will be signed by the […]

Waging Nonviolence

Antarctica
The World’s biggest Ice Sheet is more vulnerable to Global Warming than Scientists previously Thought

The World’s biggest Ice Sheet is more vulnerable to Global Warming than Scientists previously Thought

By Chris Stokes, Durham University and Guy Paxman, Durham University | – The eastern two thirds of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet so […]

The Conversation

Corruption
Trump may have Stolen Classified Nuclear Weapons Documents, but tried to Destroy Iran over its Civilian Program

Trump may have Stolen Classified Nuclear Weapons Documents, but tried to Destroy Iran over its Civilian Program

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – According to the Washington Post, former president Donald Trump is suspected of having kept classified nuclear secrets at his Mar-a-Lago […]

Juan Cole

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