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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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Ukraine war pushes German homeowners' demand for rooftop Solar, Batteries, in bid for Independence

Ukraine war pushes German homeowners’ demand for rooftop Solar, Batteries, in bid for Independence

By Paul Gordon | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The war in Ukraine and the associated energy crisis are pushing homeowners in record […]

Clean Energy Wire

Authoritarianism
Iran Must Release Prominent Anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah (MESA)

Iran Must Release Prominent Anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah (MESA)

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association | – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Gigi Hadid’s Palestine Pledge and ‘Anti-Palestinianism’: The Great Vogue Controversy

Gigi Hadid’s Palestine Pledge and ‘Anti-Palestinianism’: The Great Vogue Controversy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Arab News reports that Vogue did an instagram posting about model Gigi Hadid’s pledge to donate her fall earnings […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Revolution and Exile:  A Poignant New Memoir of Iran

Revolution and Exile: A Poignant New Memoir of Iran

Review by Fariba Amini. Neda Toloui-Semnani, They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of my Parents, New York: Little A, 2022. Newark, Delaware (Special to […]

Fariba Amini

Israel/ Palestine
While world focuses on plight of Ukraine's children, endless trauma of Gaza's children should not be ignored

While world focuses on plight of Ukraine’s children, endless trauma of Gaza’s children should not be ignored

( Jordan Times ) – More than two million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded that country. The majority have been women and children […]

Michael Jansen

China
The New Eurasian Wars on our Endangered Planet

The New Eurasian Wars on our Endangered Planet

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Just as the relentless grinding of the earth’s tectonic plates produces earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, so the endless superpower struggle for […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Climate Crisis
Oil Sheikhs have us Behind the 8-Ball: The UAE’s mixed Signals on Oil underline need for US to move Rapidly to Green Transportation

Oil Sheikhs have us Behind the 8-Ball: The UAE’s mixed Signals on Oil underline need for US to move Rapidly to Green Transportation

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – America is paying the price for lagging behind in its adoption of electric vehicles and in putting in more electric […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Ukraine, Libya, and the Enduring Global Disorder

Ukraine, Libya, and the Enduring Global Disorder

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – According to some analyses, the ongoing war in Ukraine appears to have finally put to rest the illusion […]

Sabina Henneberg

Russia
Russia in Ukraine: Is Turkey’s neutrality Option Viable?

Russia in Ukraine: Is Turkey’s neutrality Option Viable?

By Omar Kosh | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Turkish politicians waited for several days before describing the events in Ukraine as a […]

Middle East Monitor

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