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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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Protesting Flawed Disciplinary Process toward Student Protesters at Swarthmore

Protesting Flawed Disciplinary Process toward Student Protesters at Swarthmore

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Valerie Smith President Swarthmore College president@swarthmore.edu Dear President Smith and colleagues: We write on […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Conservative Muslim Cleric in North Gaza denounces Hamas for violating Islamic Laws of War

Conservative Muslim Cleric in North Gaza denounces Hamas for violating Islamic Laws of War

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rushdi Abualouf of the BBC reported on a new fatwa or considered legal opinion issued by the conservative Salafi scholar […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Targeting UNRWA Could Harm Israel’s Own Interests

Targeting UNRWA Could Harm Israel’s Own Interests

srael is strengthening the case of those who question its international legitimacy

Foreign Policy in Focus

Climate Crisis
Extreme Weather has already cost Vulnerable Island Nations $141 Billion

Extreme Weather has already cost Vulnerable Island Nations $141 Billion

Emily Wilkinson, ODI Global; Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Matt Bishop, University of Sheffield, and Vikrant Panwar, ODI Global (The […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Netanyahu, Delirious at Trump’s Return, Dumps his Defense Minister to Pursue Complete Occupation of Gaza

Netanyahu, Delirious at Trump’s Return, Dumps his Defense Minister to Pursue Complete Occupation of Gaza

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It was no coincidence that Israeli PM Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu chose the US Election Day to fire […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Democratic Party
Gaza:   Harris lost because her Party represented War Mongering, Q.E.D.

Gaza: Harris lost because her Party represented War Mongering, Q.E.D.

( The Times of Israel) – My beloved grandmother Savta Greta z”l often liked to use the acronym “Q.E.D.”  – an abbreviation of the Latin […]

Shamai Leibowitz

Donald Trump
A New Age of Presidential Unilaterism?

A New Age of Presidential Unilaterism?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As the dust settles over election day, it’s worth reflecting that it’s not only the election results that have been at […]

Karen J. Greenberg

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Germany: For First time, Wind and Solar Power Generation exceeds Fossil Fuels

Germany: For First time, Wind and Solar Power Generation exceeds Fossil Fuels

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy analysis firm reports that for the first nine months of 2024, Germany generated more electricity from wind […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Newly Elected Trump is Threatening to turn back the Tide on America’s environmental Laws and reverse Climate Progress

Newly Elected Trump is Threatening to turn back the Tide on America’s environmental Laws and reverse Climate Progress

By Stephen Lezak, University of Oxford and Barbara Haya, University of California, Berkeley | – The Cuyahoga River, which runs through downtown Cleveland, Ohio, used […]

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