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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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Colonialism
Architects of Failure: 100 years of Sykes-Picot

Architects of Failure: 100 years of Sykes-Picot

By Akil N. Awan | ( History Today) | – – How an agreement signed in 1916 became shorthand for western treachery, greed and the […]

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Israel/ Palestine
PCBS: “Israel Controls More than 85% of the Land of Historical Palestine”

PCBS: “Israel Controls More than 85% of the Land of Historical Palestine”

By Saed Bannoura | PCBS/ IMEMC | – – Excerpted for IC This is a special statistical bulletin by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics […]

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British PM Cameron's tiff with Trump over Muslims: The Hypocrisy Factor

British PM Cameron’s tiff with Trump over Muslims: The Hypocrisy Factor

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – When Donald Trump announced his monstrous and yet daffy plan to exlude Muslims from the United […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
Trump's Politics of Whiteness and the CIA tip that Jailed Nelson Mandela

Trump’s Politics of Whiteness and the CIA tip that Jailed Nelson Mandela

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency provided the tip to the Apartheid South African government […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
The Biggest threat to the Mideast isn't ISIL, it's bad, Corrupt Governance

The Biggest threat to the Mideast isn’t ISIL, it’s bad, Corrupt Governance

By Marwan Muasher | (Project Syndicate) | – – WASHINGTON, DC – A recent survey of 100 Arab thought leaders conducted by the Carnegie Endowment […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Nakba (Catastrophe)!  Where did all the Palestinians Go?

Nakba (Catastrophe)! Where did all the Palestinians Go?

AJ+ | (Video report) | – – “In 1948, around 80% of Palestinians were forced out of their homes during the creation of Israel. That […]

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Militarization
No US Troops on the Ground in Iraq & Syria . . . until there Were

No US Troops on the Ground in Iraq & Syria . . . until there Were

By Peter Van Buren | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – One of the most popular apps these days is Snapchat. It allows the sender […]

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Top 3 Signs Bill Clinton didn't kill himself to "give" the Palestinians a State

Top 3 Signs Bill Clinton didn’t kill himself to “give” the Palestinians a State

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Former President Bill Clinton on Saturday claimed “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state,” […]

Juan Cole

Pollution
Michael Moore Says Flint Water Crisis Is a Racist 'Hate Crime'

Michael Moore Says Flint Water Crisis Is a Racist ‘Hate Crime’

TeleSur | – – Filmmaker Michael Moore calls the Flint water crisis an issue of racism, as the mostly Black and poor residents of the […]

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