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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

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Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

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Congressional Efforts to Expand NSA Spying on Americans are still a Danger

Congressional Efforts to Expand NSA Spying on Americans are still a Danger

By David Ruiz | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – The debate over how to reauthorize certain NSA surveillance authorities has seen a whirlwind of […]

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Inequality
GOP tax plan doubles down on policies that are crushing the middle class

GOP tax plan doubles down on policies that are crushing the middle class

Steven Pressman | (The Conversation) | – – The U.S. middle class has always had a special mystique. It is the heart of the American […]

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Displaced and Refugees
1,000 Days of War Bringing 'Apocalypse' on Yemen: Oxfam

1,000 Days of War Bringing ‘Apocalypse’ on Yemen: Oxfam

TeleSur | – – The U.K.-based group said more than 5,000 people have died since the beginning of the war in March 2015. Yemen is […]

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Yes, America, there is a Class War, and you Just Lost It

Yes, America, there is a Class War, and you Just Lost It

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Republican Party did not just overhaul the tax code and they did not cut “your” […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Will Palestine Request Full UN Membership in January 2018?

Will Palestine Request Full UN Membership in January 2018?

TeleSur | – – Egypt introduced a draft resolution to the Security Council to reject a decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. […]

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Houthi
Saudi strikes have killed 136 civilians in Yemen, as Huthis Rocket Riyadh

Saudi strikes have killed 136 civilians in Yemen, as Huthis Rocket Riyadh

Middle East Monitor | – – Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen have killed at least 136 civilians since 6 December, Reuters reported. […]

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Afghanistan
How Hawks and ambitious Generals pioneered our generational Warfare

How Hawks and ambitious Generals pioneered our generational Warfare

By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – I remember the day President Obama let me down.  It was December 1, 2009, and as […]

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Donald Trump
Trump Nat'l Security Speech:  Is he the real threat to National Security?

Trump Nat’l Security Speech: Is he the real threat to National Security?

Trump’s National Security Strategy document is about as confused and wrongheaded piece of writing you’d ever want to see. It says, “Jihadist terrorist organizations present […]

Juan Cole

Saleh
Yemen: Will Saudis try to Impose Ahmed Ali Saleh, son of Dictator?

Yemen: Will Saudis try to Impose Ahmed Ali Saleh, son of Dictator?

Brian Whitaker | ( al-Bab.com) | – – When Yemen held parliamentary elections in 1997 Ahmed Ali Saleh, then aged 24, was a first-time candidate. […]

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