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Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest
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Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new study by Dilek Koptekin et al., a Swiss-Turkish team, has appeared in Science that combines archeological and genetics […]

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

06/30/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

06/30/2025 By The Conversation

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Climate Change
Sea Level Rise Speeding up as Humans burn more Fossil Fuels

Sea Level Rise Speeding up as Humans burn more Fossil Fuels

TeleSur | – – The rise in global sea levels has accelerated since the 1990s amid rising temperatures, with a thaw of Greenland’s ice sheet […]

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Kurds
The U.S. Is Permanently Occupying Northern Syria, and That’s Trouble

The U.S. Is Permanently Occupying Northern Syria, and That’s Trouble

By Reese Erlich | (The Progressive) | – – When President Barack Obama started bombing Syria in 2014, he enjoyed bipartisan support in Washington, D.C. […]

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Pentagon
The US is near to Turning a Corner in Afghanistan etc. and always Will be

The US is near to Turning a Corner in Afghanistan etc. and always Will be

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – If you’re in the mood, would you consider taking a walk with me and, while we’re […]

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Syria: War is over at the Center, but Powers nibbling at Edges

Syria: War is over at the Center, but Powers nibbling at Edges

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Where people live and how many of them there are constitute basic questions for any social […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Joining BDS, Israeli Gov't to Boycott Israeli Film in Paris

Joining BDS, Israeli Gov’t to Boycott Israeli Film in Paris

Middle East Monitor | – – The Israeli government is to boycott the Paris Film Festival over the organiser’s decision to air a movie that […]

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censorship
Robots, kittens and Netflix: Turkish curbs on the media reach ludicrous levels

Robots, kittens and Netflix: Turkish curbs on the media reach ludicrous levels

By Ozge Ozduzen | (The Conversation) | – – Regulation and censorship mechanisms have recently reached absurd levels in Turkey. Two stark recent examples illustrate […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
‘Fake News!’: the view from Israel’s Occupation

‘Fake News!’: the view from Israel’s Occupation

By Rebecca L. Stein | (OpenDemocracy.net | – – Over the course of the last two decades, amidst the ascendance of nationalist extremism in Israel, […]

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Russia warns Israel on Syria strikes, danger to Russian Troops

Russia warns Israel on Syria strikes, danger to Russian Troops

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – BBC Monitoring reports on a statement in Russian at the site of its Ministry of Foreign […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump’s Plan to use Fossil Fuels to dominate the Globe

Trump’s Plan to use Fossil Fuels to dominate the Globe

( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The new U.S. energy policy of the Trump era is, in some ways, the oldest energy policy on Earth. Every […]

Michael T. Klare

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