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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 Tomdispatch

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Let’s Take the Profit Out of War

Let’s Take the Profit Out of War

By Sam Pizzigati | – ( Otherwords.org) – After all, we grew up living it or hearing about it. The 20th century rates as the […]

Sam Pizzigati

Afghanistan
Biden got 117,000 Afghans Out: Contrast that Time Trump Abruptly Withdrew Troops from Syria and refused to Help Kurdish Allies

Biden got 117,000 Afghans Out: Contrast that Time Trump Abruptly Withdrew Troops from Syria and refused to Help Kurdish Allies

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Richard N. Ojeda, an Army vet and former West Virginia state representative tweeted out an observation that I would like […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Are Coal Plants even Legal, given dire Climate Impact?  German Court rules Planners Must Consider Alternatives

Are Coal Plants even Legal, given dire Climate Impact? German Court rules Planners Must Consider Alternatives

German court rules against coal-fired Datteln 4 plant

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Afghanistan
Afghan women’s lives are now in danger from the Taliban – but they have always faced male violence

Afghan women’s lives are now in danger from the Taliban – but they have always faced male violence

By Jenevieve Mannell | – The takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban has undoubtedly put women’s lives in danger and threatened their human rights in […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Naftali Bennett once led Effort to insert Israeli Propaganda into Wikipedia, now He’s Trying to Influence US Foreign Policy

Naftali Bennett once led Effort to insert Israeli Propaganda into Wikipedia, now He’s Trying to Influence US Foreign Policy

( Middle East Monitor) – Online Palestinian outlet Quds News Network resurfaced a video clip this week from over a decade ago featuring current Israeli […]

Asa Winstanley

Bush
Top 4 Times US Troops were Bombed under Republican Presidents and No one Resigned or was Impeached

Top 4 Times US Troops were Bombed under Republican Presidents and No one Resigned or was Impeached

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The silly season has descended permanently on Washington, D.C., so that minor congressmen are calling for the resignation or even […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
‘The Taliban Are Looking for Me:’  Many Unable to Flee Afghanistan Face Grave Risks

‘The Taliban Are Looking for Me:’ Many Unable to Flee Afghanistan Face Grave Risks

Patricia Gossman | Associate Asia Director | – Human Rights Watch – Thursday’s bombing at Kabul’s international airport has drastically curtailed evacuation flights for at-risk […]

Human Rights Watch

Afghanistan
The history of the Taliban is crucial in understanding their success now – and also what might happen next

The history of the Taliban is crucial in understanding their success now – and also what might happen next

By Ali A. Olomi | – The rapid takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban left many surprised. To Ali Olomi, a historian of the Middle […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Bennett's "Natural Growth" Rhetoric can't conceal Israel's colonial Land Grab

Bennett’s “Natural Growth” Rhetoric can’t conceal Israel’s colonial Land Grab

( Middle East Monitor) – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is playing with words to advance the colonial state’s de-facto annexation of the occupied West […]

Ramona Wadi

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