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 […]
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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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, […]
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 […]
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 […]