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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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Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Over 1 million children in ‘unlivable’ circumstances

Gaza: Over 1 million children in ‘unlivable’ circumstances

By Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | (Informed Comment) | – – Over a million children in Gaza are living in impoverished circumstances due to electricity shortages, causing […]

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Employment
Green Energy Jobs: Top 7 Pieces of Rare Good News for US Workers on Labor Day

Green Energy Jobs: Top 7 Pieces of Rare Good News for US Workers on Labor Day

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – 1. The Christian Science Monitor says that in 2016, US solar businesses employed 260,077 workers – […]

Juan Cole

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Will Trump Kill the Dream for These Immigrants?

Will Trump Kill the Dream for These Immigrants?

By Marcelo Rochabrun | (ProPublica) | – – With the president reportedly at the point of canceling DACA, some of its 800,000 beneficiaries describe what […]

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Donald Trump
How Trump's pardon of Arpaio changed America

How Trump’s pardon of Arpaio changed America

By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson | (Otherwords.org) | – – The president called a man who freely violated people’s constitutional rights a “patriot.” What does that make […]

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Archaeology
Syria's Heritage, and the World's, that the War Destroyed--From Palmyra to Castles

Syria’s Heritage, and the World’s, that the War Destroyed–From Palmyra to Castles

Written by Alreem Kamal | ( GlobalVoices.org) | – – Syria's story is one that has been weaved through families from one millennium to the […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Are Muslims allowed to be Sympathetic Victims in US Media, or only Perpetrators?

Are Muslims allowed to be Sympathetic Victims in US Media, or only Perpetrators?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Libyan activist Hend Amry makes an important point about the relative lack of interest of television […]

Juan Cole

Natural Disasters
Media Ignore Harvey's Devastation of Working Class Communities

Media Ignore Harvey’s Devastation of Working Class Communities

By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – “Hurricanes don’t care if you’re rich, poor, white, or black—but that doesn’t mean that […]

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Buddhism
Burma: Satellite Shows Massive Arson against Muslims by Buddhists

Burma: Satellite Shows Massive Arson against Muslims by Buddhists

Human Rights Watch . | – – 700 Buildings Destroyed in Single Muslim Village in Rakhine State (New York) – New satellite imagery shows several […]

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Bill of Rights
Khizr Khan: Liberty requires Vigilance & Sacrifice in defense of Constitution

Khizr Khan: Liberty requires Vigilance & Sacrifice in defense of Constitution

The Atlantic | (Video Report) | – – “Liberty requires vigilance and sacrifice so we remain standing in defense of our Constitution and its values,” […]

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