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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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After Trump picked Feud with Shiite Nat'l Guard, Iraqi PM-designate says 1/2 US Troops will Leave Iraq this year, the Rest in '21

After Trump picked Feud with Shiite Nat’l Guard, Iraqi PM-designate says 1/2 US Troops will Leave Iraq this year, the Rest in ’21

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The current nominee to be the next prime minister of Iraq, Adnan al-Zurfi, says that He has asked the US […]

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With 53,000 Covid-19 Cases, Iran Can't get Needed Medical Supplies: Trump Admin must Ease Sanctions

With 53,000 Covid-19 Cases, Iran Can’t get Needed Medical Supplies: Trump Admin must Ease Sanctions

(Washington DC) – Broad US-imposed economic sanctions are negatively affecting the Iranian government’s ability to adequately respond to the mounting health consequences of the coronavirus […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Top 7 Lessons from Israeli-Occupied Palestine on Surviving Lockdown

Top 7 Lessons from Israeli-Occupied Palestine on Surviving Lockdown

By Ramzy Baroud | @RamzyBaroud | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Call it a ‘quarantine’, a ‘shelter-in-place’, a ‘lockdown’ or a ‘curfew’, we […]

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Climate Crisis
Sorry, Climate Change Denialists, but Coronavirus Makes Green Energy even More Urgent

Sorry, Climate Change Denialists, but Coronavirus Makes Green Energy even More Urgent

By John Hewson | Climate deniers have been hanging out for the United Nations’ next big summit to fail. In a sense, the coronavirus and […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Why America's anti-Science and Anti-Intellectual Attitudes doom it to Coronavirus "Pearl Harbor"

Why America’s anti-Science and Anti-Intellectual Attitudes doom it to Coronavirus “Pearl Harbor”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The surgeon general, Jerome Adams, has announced that the coming week will see enormous numbers of coronavirus deaths and hospitalizations, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Blocks Coronavirus Respirators, Aid, to Gaza until Remains of 2 Israeli Invaders are Returned

Israel Blocks Coronavirus Respirators, Aid, to Gaza until Remains of 2 Israeli Invaders are Returned

By Motasem A Dalloul | @abujomaaGaza | ( Middle East Monitor ) – In response to a humanitarian appeal launched by the Palestinian Ministry of […]

Middle East Monitor

Books
A Malignant Contagion: Trumpism's Mindlessness on Coronavirus  and Albert Camus’ 'The Plague'

A Malignant Contagion: Trumpism’s Mindlessness on Coronavirus and Albert Camus’ ‘The Plague’

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Albert Camus’ The Plague evokes the malign contagion of Trumpism — the mindless death cult that contaminates America with […]

Dan Dinello

Banking
When Renters and Homeowners and Small Businesses need a Bailout, the Fed gives it to Big Corporations

When Renters and Homeowners and Small Businesses need a Bailout, the Fed gives it to Big Corporations

By Nomi Prins | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – To say that these are unprecedented times would be the understatement of the century. Even as […]

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Donald Trump
At Last, Someone is Suing Fox "News" for Journalistic Malpractice in Misguiding People over Seriousness of Coronavirus

At Last, Someone is Suing Fox “News” for Journalistic Malpractice in Misguiding People over Seriousness of Coronavirus

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I have long thought that Fox Cable “News” was open to lawsuits for its persistent purveying of falsehoods to viewers, […]

Juan Cole

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