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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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Iranian Protesters demand Justice after Deaths in Abadan’s Building Collapse

Iranian Protesters demand Justice after Deaths in Abadan’s Building Collapse

Written by Fred Petrossian | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Hundreds of Iranians took to the streets in Abadan, the capital of the southwestern oil-rich province […]

Global Voices

Authoritarianism
Elections: a Global Ranking rates US Weakest among Liberal Democracies

Elections: a Global Ranking rates US Weakest among Liberal Democracies

By Toby James, University of East Anglia; and Holly Ann Garnett, Royal Military College of Canada | – Defending democracy has suddenly become one of […]

The Conversation

War
Destroying the Town Is Not Saving It: Two Unsung Heroes as Role Models for the Air Force

Destroying the Town Is Not Saving It: Two Unsung Heroes as Role Models for the Air Force

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Twenty years ago, I left the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs for my next assignment. I haven’t been back since, […]

William J. Astore

Climate Crisis
Ukraine War: Europe declares Independence of Russian Petroleum, Looks to Mass Transit, EVs to Achieve "Freedom" Goal

Ukraine War: Europe declares Independence of Russian Petroleum, Looks to Mass Transit, EVs to Achieve “Freedom” Goal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France 24, with AFP, reports that the 27-member European Union succeeded on Monday in agreeing to a sixth round of […]

Juan Cole

Ireland
Sympathy for Colonized Ireland in the US Gov't Doesn't Extent to Colonized Palestine

Sympathy for Colonized Ireland in the US Gov’t Doesn’t Extent to Colonized Palestine

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) – A recent Congressional cross-party delegation visit to the UK and Ireland in order to save the Good Friday Agreement […]

Mohammed Samaana

Israel/ Palestine
Major Human Rights Groups Call for End of Impunity for Israeli Apartheid Policies in Palestinian Territories

Major Human Rights Groups Call for End of Impunity for Israeli Apartheid Policies in Palestinian Territories

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Ex-Al Jazeera Chief, Wadah Khanfar, has blasted Western mainstream media over its failure to […]

Middle East Monitor

Arms Sales
The lasting Consequences of School Shootings on the Students who Survive Them

The lasting Consequences of School Shootings on the Students who Survive Them

By Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University; Bokyung Kim, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts; Hannes Schwandt, Northwestern University; Marika Cabral, The University […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Will Japan be the Godzilla of Deep Sea Current Energy?

Will Japan be the Godzilla of Deep Sea Current Energy?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If you were going to try to generate electricity from a deep water ocean current, you’d like it to be […]

Juan Cole

National Security State
Supreme Court Expands Government Secrecy Powers in Torture-Related Case

Supreme Court Expands Government Secrecy Powers in Torture-Related Case

By Robert Pallitto | – (Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The U.S. government doesn’t want to acknowledge a Polish torture site that everyone knows […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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