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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
Archaeology

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, […]

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

08/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

08/24/2025 By The Conversation

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Dear John Kelly: Yes, Slavery was wrong in 1860s & Muslims helped Convince Americans to end It

Dear John Kelly: Yes, Slavery was wrong in 1860s & Muslims helped Convince Americans to end It

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – John Kelly’s ignorant remarks about the Civil War and compromise on Laura Ingraham’s show have rightly […]

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Corruption
How dangerous to Trump are charges against Manafort, Gates & Papadopoulos?

How dangerous to Trump are charges against Manafort, Gates & Papadopoulos?

By Rachel Caufield | (The Conversation) | – – Five months into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of cooperation between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia […]

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Bill of Rights
Is Israel trying to Occupy the US 1st Amendment?

Is Israel trying to Occupy the US 1st Amendment?

Anti-BDS Legislation backed by Israel Lobbies threatens Americans’ Freedom of Speech

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al-Qaeda
Is Bin Laden Shaping America more than our Founding Fathers?

Is Bin Laden Shaping America more than our Founding Fathers?

The ‘War on Terror’ is destroying Democracy

Juan Cole

Slavery and Trafficking
That Time when Muslim Tunisia advised the Antebellum US to Abolish Slavery

That Time when Muslim Tunisia advised the Antebellum US to Abolish Slavery

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Revised classroom version Some observers imply that in 1861, most people in the world believed in […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
No Compromise: Let's not forget Kelly's 'Empty Barrel' Smear

No Compromise: Let’s not forget Kelly’s ‘Empty Barrel’ Smear

Kelly seems not to think enslaving people of African Heritage was Always Wrong

Juan Cole

African-Americans
Upshot of Mueller Probe: Putin did to US what we did to Iran and Iraq

Upshot of Mueller Probe: Putin did to US what we did to Iran and Iraq

US Middle East policy often seemed similar to Putin’s Plot on America via Trump

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump will regret Making the Iran Nuclear Deal a two-way relationship

Trump will regret Making the Iran Nuclear Deal a two-way relationship

By Jacopo Scita | (Informed Comment) | – – When President Trump, in the middle of his first speech at the United Nations, referred to […]

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Corruption
Midnight at Mar-a-Lago: The walls close in on Genghis Con

Midnight at Mar-a-Lago: The walls close in on Genghis Con

By David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – Yesterday the former chairman of President Trump’s presidential campaign and the architect of last year’s Republican […]

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