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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
Keep it in the Ground: We can’t limit Global Heating to Safe Levels unless We Ban all new Oil and Gas Fields

Keep it in the Ground: We can’t limit Global Heating to Safe Levels unless We Ban all new Oil and Gas Fields

By David Waltham | – As a professor of geophysics, I have spent 36 years training young geologists destined to work in the fossil fuel […]

The Conversation

art and photography
The Nativity, Jesus and Mary in Paintings of the Muslim Mughal Court of India

The Nativity, Jesus and Mary in Paintings of the Muslim Mughal Court of India

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Here’s a Christmas entry. The Mughal dynasty, originating in what is now Uzbekistan, ruled India from 1526 until the 18th […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Will the US 'Combating Islamophobia Act'  signal a Change towards hate Crime in America?

Will the US ‘Combating Islamophobia Act’ signal a Change towards hate Crime in America?

( Middle East Monitor) – The result of a vote in the US House of Representatives on 14 December may signal a change in Washington’s […]

Ramzy Baroud

Authoritarianism
2021: a grim year for Free Speech as hundreds of Journalists are arrested in an increasingly authoritarian World

2021: a grim year for Free Speech as hundreds of Journalists are arrested in an increasingly authoritarian World

By Dina Matar | – Hundreds of journalists killed or arrested, rising numbers of female media workers targeted, floods of misinformation and hate speech and […]

The Conversation

Conspiracy Theories
Why our Democracy is Ailing: Another Grim winter for our Unmasked, Unvaccinated, Disputatious, Confrontational, Conspiratorial, and disturbed Country

Why our Democracy is Ailing: Another Grim winter for our Unmasked, Unvaccinated, Disputatious, Confrontational, Conspiratorial, and disturbed Country

( Tomdispatch.com) – Whether the pandemic that’s swept the world started from a bat or not, as 2021 ends, I think it’s safe to say […]

Tom Engelhardt

Archaeology
Israeli Archeologists find Christian Ring with Image of Christ as Shepherd in Shipwreck from era of Constantine

Israeli Archeologists find Christian Ring with Image of Christ as Shepherd in Shipwreck from era of Constantine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A marine unit of the Israel Antiquities Authority diving off the ruins of the ancient city of Caesarea Maritima has […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
American Colonialism Left Iraq in Environmental Crisis, Polluted, Corrupt and Crime-Ridden

American Colonialism Left Iraq in Environmental Crisis, Polluted, Corrupt and Crime-Ridden

By Haifa Zangana | – (Middle East Monitor ) – The devastation caused by man to the environment is no longer a secret; nature is […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ Glacier: how its Collapse could trigger global Floods and swallow Islands

Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ Glacier: how its Collapse could trigger global Floods and swallow Islands

By Ella Gilbert | – The massive Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 65cm if it were […]

The Conversation

Pentagon
Congress Keeps Spending Nearly 1/4 of our Budget on the Pentagon, but it Hasn’t won any Wars for Decades

Congress Keeps Spending Nearly 1/4 of our Budget on the Pentagon, but it Hasn’t won any Wars for Decades

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Professional sports is a cutthroat business. Succeed and the people running the show reap rich rewards. Fail to meet expectations and […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

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