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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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ISIL/ Daesh Threatens to attack Saudi Arabia after Executions

ISIL/ Daesh Threatens to attack Saudi Arabia after Executions

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) has pledged to attack and destroy the two Saudi political prisons, al-Ha’ir (Riyadh) […]

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Nuclear weapons
What is an H-Bomb?

What is an H-Bomb?

Arirang News | (Video Short Documentary) | – – “So North Korea claims it′s a hydrogen not an atomic bomb that it′s tested. But what […]

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Guns
A Letter from Norway on our Epidemic of Mass Shootings

A Letter from Norway on our Epidemic of Mass Shootings

By John L Hanson | (Informed Comment) | – – Why is it easier to buy a gun than to board a Plane? Why doesn’t […]

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Iraq
In Iraq, some Sunni refugees' bulwark against ISIL is . . . the Gated Community

In Iraq, some Sunni refugees’ bulwark against ISIL is . . . the Gated Community

Kamal al-Ayash | Fallujah | (Niqash.org) | – – Families who fled the [so-called] Islamic State [group] have found new homes in a residential complex […]

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Human Rights
Saudi Arabia: Prominent Shia Cleric dead in largest mass execution since 1980

Saudi Arabia: Prominent Shia Cleric dead in largest mass execution since 1980

Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – Saudi authorities carried out the largest mass execution in the country since 1980, putting 47 men to […]

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Iraqi Shiites up in Arms, claim Saudi "Spying on behalf of ISIL/Daesh"

Iraqi Shiites up in Arms, claim Saudi “Spying on behalf of ISIL/Daesh”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Saudi Arabia’s execution on Saturday of prominent Shiite cleric Nimr Baqir al-Nimr has so far not […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Do Drug Gangs in Mexico kill more than ISIL? & other Big Security threats that will Surprise You

Do Drug Gangs in Mexico kill more than ISIL? & other Big Security threats that will Surprise You

By Natasha Ezrow | (The Conversation) | – – This has been a remarkably violent year – and many of the worst threats to human […]

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Far Right
White Oregon Terrorists mocked: YeeHaw-dists, Y'all-Qaeda

White Oregon Terrorists mocked: YeeHaw-dists, Y’all-Qaeda

AJ+ | (Video Report) | – – “A group of armed men took over a building on federal land in remote western Oregon. They’ve been […]

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Syria
Syrian Peace Groups: This is not a Civil War, it is a Set of Foreign Invasions

Syrian Peace Groups: This is not a Civil War, it is a Set of Foreign Invasions

By Mairead Maguire | (Inter Press Service) |- – BELFAST (IPS) – In November 2015 I visited Syria together with an International Peace delegation. This […]

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