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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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Corporations
America the Unwell: The Corporate Greed Threatening our Stability

America the Unwell: The Corporate Greed Threatening our Stability

( Tomdispatch.com ) – One thing our government doesn’t like doing is challenging the greed of health insurance companies. I can speak with some authority […]

Andrea Mazzarino

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Time to end the "No Daylight" Approach to America's Israel Policy

Time to end the “No Daylight” Approach to America’s Israel Policy

Monterey, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Last month’s sad passing of Martin Indyk provides an opportunity to reflect on the US Middle East […]

Glenn E. Robinson

Food Insecurity
Yemen: Israeli Port Attack Possible War Crime: Retaliatory July Strike on Hodeidah Threatens Food, Aid, Electricity Supply

Yemen: Israeli Port Attack Possible War Crime: Retaliatory July Strike on Hodeidah Threatens Food, Aid, Electricity Supply

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – The Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port on the evening of July 20, 2024, were an apparently unlawful indiscriminate or […]

Human Rights Watch

Iran
Remembering a Democratic Iran under Mosaddegh, which the US Overthrew

Remembering a Democratic Iran under Mosaddegh, which the US Overthrew

Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment) – When I was very young, in my early teens, I remember that we always had radio Iraq on.  I […]

Fariba Amini

History
Gaza is in Rubble now;  But it was a great Intellectual Hub of the Roman Empire

Gaza is in Rubble now; But it was a great Intellectual Hub of the Roman Empire

By Christopher Mallan, The University of Western Australia | – (The Conversation) – The years 2023 and 2024 will certainly be remembered as some of […]

The Conversation

Economy
Gaza War, Lack of Palestinian Labor, drives Contraction of Israeli GDP, with 46K Businesses Shuttered

Gaza War, Lack of Palestinian Labor, drives Contraction of Israeli GDP, with 46K Businesses Shuttered

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on continuing his total war on Gaza is not only inflicting untold misery on […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel has reduced the "Humanitarian Safe Zone" to only 11% of Gaza, as it Forces Thousands to move Again

Israel has reduced the “Humanitarian Safe Zone” to only 11% of Gaza, as it Forces Thousands to move Again

( Middle East Monitor ) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Saturday that Israel has reduced the so-called “humanitarian zone” in […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
CO2-Driven Global Heating is a Silent Killer, Stalking the Vulnerable

CO2-Driven Global Heating is a Silent Killer, Stalking the Vulnerable

By Myles David Sergeant, McMaster University | – (The Conversation) – Extreme heat is a silent killer. From time to time, we hear about shocking […]

The Conversation

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Polio Pause: UN Calls for Urgent Ceasefire to allow 640K Children to be Vaccinated, as Gaza Polio Victim Confirmed

Polio Pause: UN Calls for Urgent Ceasefire to allow 640K Children to be Vaccinated, as Gaza Polio Victim Confirmed

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A ten-month-old child in Gaza has been confirmed stricken with polio, as several other children have displayed symptoms consistent with […]

Juan Cole

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