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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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Israel/ Palestine
Israel killed 1.8% of Gaza's Population, Official Figures Show

Israel killed 1.8% of Gaza’s Population, Official Figures Show

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel has killed around 1.8% of Gaza’s population since 7 October amid a devastating war on the enclave, according […]

Middle East Monitor

Human Rights
The Geneva Conventions at 75: do the laws of war still have a fighting chance in today’s bloody world?

The Geneva Conventions at 75: do the laws of war still have a fighting chance in today’s bloody world?

By Marnie Lloydd,New Zealand Centre for Public Law and Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington | – (The Conversation) – It has been […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
A Friendly Amendment: Trump, Vance and MAGA are not so much Weird as downright Creepy

A Friendly Amendment: Trump, Vance and MAGA are not so much Weird as downright Creepy

Oakland, CA. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The branding of MAGA creeps as “weird” is horribly unfair to all the decent weird people in […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel/ Palestine
The World Court says Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Land is Illegal: 4 steps Other Countries can take now

The World Court says Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Land is Illegal: 4 steps Other Countries can take now

By Myra Williamson, Auckland University of Technology | – Peace in the Middle East seems further away than ever. The assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Covering Gaza: The deadliest War for Journalists

Covering Gaza: The deadliest War for Journalists

Written byWalid El Houri ( Globalvoices.org ) – On July 31, Al Jazeera journalists Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi were killed by Israel in the […]

Global Voices

China
Over half of new Car sales in China in July were EVs, as America faces threat of Falling Behind

Over half of new Car sales in China in July were EVs, as America faces threat of Falling Behind

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In July, China reached an unprecedented inflection point for an industrialized society, with more electric cars purchased than internal combustion […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
On the Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Carbon Colonialism yet Reigns

On the Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Carbon Colonialism yet Reigns

By Aviva Chomsky ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On August 9, 2001, in Colombia, riot police and private security forces from the Cerrejón coal mine — […]

Aviva Chomsky

Islam-hatred
Refusing to call out Islamophobia has emboldened the Far Right – and Britain's current Violence is the Result

Refusing to call out Islamophobia has emboldened the Far Right – and Britain’s current Violence is the Result

By Chris Allen, University of Leicester | – (The Conversation) – As someone who has researched Islamophobia in Britain for a quarter of a century, […]

The Conversation

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B'Tselem accuses Israeli Authorities of Systematically Torturing Thousands of Palestinian Prisoners

B’Tselem accuses Israeli Authorities of Systematically Torturing Thousands of Palestinian Prisoners

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The brave and meticulous Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem has issued a report aptly entitled “Welcome to Hell” on the […]

Juan Cole

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