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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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Opposing a Bill Proposed by National Union of Israel Students to make Criticizing Israeli Gov't a Firing Offense

Opposing a Bill Proposed by National Union of Israel Students to make Criticizing Israeli Gov’t a Firing Offense

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | = Elhanan Fellheimer Chairman, National Union of Israeli Students Prof. Arie Zaban President of Bar-Ilan […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Donald Trump
An Election in Danger? The Fragile State of American Democracy

An Election in Danger? The Fragile State of American Democracy

By Julian Zelizer and Karen J. Greenberg ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Officials and election experts are now struggling in a big-time way. How, they wonder, […]

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Bigger than Dobbs: The War on Women is a War on Democracy

Bigger than Dobbs: The War on Women is a War on Democracy

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In 2018, the US National Sexual Violence Resource Center published that 81% of women reported experiencing some […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel Lobbies
US an "Open Field" for Manipulation by Israeli Propaganda: Mass Consciousness Activities

US an “Open Field” for Manipulation by Israeli Propaganda: Mass Consciousness Activities

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel has long relied on its much-vaunted hasbara — propaganda — to obscure the […]

Middle East Monitor

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How Drones form part of Hezbollah's deterrence Strategy against Israel

How Drones form part of Hezbollah’s deterrence Strategy against Israel

By Emilie El Khoury, Queen’s University, Ontario | – (The Conversation) – The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah recently released videos showing footage from one of […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Wooing MAGA Billionaires, Fascist Felon Trump holds a Fire Sale on his Potential Presidency

Wooing MAGA Billionaires, Fascist Felon Trump holds a Fire Sale on his Potential Presidency

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – At the dawn of Nazi Germany a few weeks after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor, Reichstag president Hermann […]

Dan Dinello

Europe
Europe: The Onslaught of the Far Right

Europe: The Onslaught of the Far Right

Munich (Special to Informed Comment) – After the results of the elections to the European Union parliament were announced on the night of June 9, […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

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Shortening the Kill Chain: Silicon Valley aims to turn our World into an AI Wargame

Shortening the Kill Chain: Silicon Valley aims to turn our World into an AI Wargame

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Venture capital and military startup firms in Silicon Valley have begun aggressively selling a version of automated warfare that will deeply […]

William D. Hartung

Children
Israeli Forces have killed or Separated from their Families 35,000 Palestinian Children in Gaza

Israeli Forces have killed or Separated from their Families 35,000 Palestinian Children in Gaza

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Save the Children said Monday that in addition to the some 14,000 children killed by the Israeli military according to […]

Juan Cole

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