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

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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The hidden superpower of 'Black Panther': Scientist role models

The hidden superpower of ‘Black Panther’: Scientist role models

At a time of a war on science, scientific role models are more important than ever #blackpanther #marvel

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US, having Destroyed Iraq, won't give a Dime to Reconstruction

US, having Destroyed Iraq, won’t give a Dime to Reconstruction

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In an exclusive, Reuters reports today that the Trump administration is going into the Iraq reconstruction […]

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Yemen
Yemeni Peace Nobelist Karman: Saudi Arabia, UAE are occupying Yemen

Yemeni Peace Nobelist Karman: Saudi Arabia, UAE are occupying Yemen

Middle East Monitor | – – Yemeni Nobel Peace laureate Tawakkol Karman called for an end to the Saudi-led coalition’s military occupation of Yemen in […]

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Evolution
In Blow for British White Nationalists, Their Ancestor was Black

In Blow for British White Nationalists, Their Ancestor was Black

TeleSur | – – The connection often made between Britishness and whiteness was “not an immutable truth,” said Yoan Diekmann, a computational biologist. Cutting-edge DNA […]

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Feminism
Why Iranians are Really protesting Compulsory Veiling Laws

Why Iranians are Really protesting Compulsory Veiling Laws

By Moujan Mirdamadi | (The Conversation) | – – Protests against Iran’s mandatory hijab law – which requires all women to wear it in public […]

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Afghanistan
Did the Pentagon’s War on Drugs Confound Counter-Terrorism?

Did the Pentagon’s War on Drugs Confound Counter-Terrorism?

By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – 2017 was a year of investigations for U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM).  There was the investigation of the […]

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Donald Trump
American Allegory?  Trump Aide Porter resigns amid Charges of Spousal Abuse (Video)

American Allegory? Trump Aide Porter resigns amid Charges of Spousal Abuse (Video)

Washington Post | (Video Clip) | – – “Jennie Willoughby is one of two ex-wives of White House aide, Rob Porter alleging emotional and physical […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Syria: Deir al-Zor attack on US Troops, allies, Shows their Vulnerability

Syria: Deir al-Zor attack on US Troops, allies, Shows their Vulnerability

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – US troops and the Kurdish and Arab fighters among whom they are embedded came under a […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s New Admirers: The White Nationalist Right

Israel’s New Admirers: The White Nationalist Right

By Harry Blain | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – A famously anti-Semitic movement has come to admire modern Israel’s “ethnonationalism.” That speaks volumes […]

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