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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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ISIL's Assault on History: Blows Up 1st Century Baal Shamin Temple in Palmyra

ISIL’s Assault on History: Blows Up 1st Century Baal Shamin Temple in Palmyra

RFE / RL | – – Gunmen from the Islamic State (IS) militant group have blown up a first century A.D. temple in the ancient […]

Juan Cole

National Security State
Jeb Bush’s Torquemada Platform (Political Cartoon)

Jeb Bush’s Torquemada Platform (Political Cartoon)

Paul Jamiol | (Jamiol’s World) Via Jamiol’s World

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Coal
Coal Industry Collapsing in Appalachia, leaving behind Blighted Landscape

Coal Industry Collapsing in Appalachia, leaving behind Blighted Landscape

By Laura Gottesdiener. | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – In Appalachia, explosions have leveled the mountain tops into perfect race tracks for Ryan Hensley’s all-terrain vehicle […]

Juan Cole

Arab Americans
GOP Islamophobia:  Scott Walker thinks there are only “a Handful” of “Reasonable Muslims”

GOP Islamophobia: Scott Walker thinks there are only “a Handful” of “Reasonable Muslims”

Via Bridge Project Tracking islamophobia

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Apartheid
President of Israel declares Israeli Squatting in Palestinian West Bank a "Right", key to Zionism

President of Israel declares Israeli Squatting in Palestinian West Bank a “Right”, key to Zionism

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Monday declared Israeli squatting on the Palestinian West Bank a “right” […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
A CIA Eyewitness blows the Whistle on Bushie Torturers still Justifying Crimes

A CIA Eyewitness blows the Whistle on Bushie Torturers still Justifying Crimes

By John Kiriakou | (Foreign Policy in Focus/ Otherwords.org) | – – They can call it anything they want, but the CIA tortured its prisoners. […]

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African-Americans
Trump in Alabama:  Playing George Wallace & making Latinos the new N-Word

Trump in Alabama: Playing George Wallace & making Latinos the new N-Word

Margaret Howell and Jo Ankier | (TheLipTV Video News Commentary) | – – “Donald Trump held a pep rally at the Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Alabama […]

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Iraq
Can Iraq’s Shiite Militias save the Country from Sectarian Division?  Qais al-Khazali thinks So

Can Iraq’s Shiite Militias save the Country from Sectarian Division? Qais al-Khazali thinks So

By Mohammed al-Zaidi | Najaf | (Niqash.org) | – – NIQASH meets Qais al-Khazali, head of one of Iraq’s most feared militias. The cleric and […]

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Apartheid
Israel: Surge in Unlawful Palestinian Home Demolitions:  126 in West Bank Left Homeless

Israel: Surge in Unlawful Palestinian Home Demolitions: 126 in West Bank Left Homeless

Human Rights Watch | – – (Jerusalem) – The Israeli military unlawfully demolished at least 39 structures in Bedouin Palestinian communities in the West Bank […]

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