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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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Israel/ Palestine
Nonviolence in the Holy Land: Fear, Love and Palestine with Sami Awad

Nonviolence in the Holy Land: Fear, Love and Palestine with Sami Awad

  Nonviolence Radio Nonviolence Radio Team     Former Holy Land Trust Executive Director Sami Awad. (Facebook/Sami Awad) Subscribe to “Nonviolence Radio” on Apple Podcasts, […]

Waging Nonviolence

Haredim
Israel’s Army Exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox: A Jewish State divided over the Jewish Religion

Israel’s Army Exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox: A Jewish State divided over the Jewish Religion

By Michael Brenner, American University | – Just when you think nothing can surprise you anymore in Israeli politics, someone always comes along with a […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
S. Africa Will Arrest Dual Nationals Fighting in Gaza, Demands Halt to Starvation of Palestinians

S. Africa Will Arrest Dual Nationals Fighting in Gaza, Demands Halt to Starvation of Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – South Africa’s Townpress reports that Naledi Pandor, the country’s foreign minister, pledged this week to arrest any South African/ Israeli […]

Juan Cole

Books
The film ‘Dune’: Techno-Orientalism, and Intergalactic Islam

The film ‘Dune’: Techno-Orientalism, and Intergalactic Islam

“Based on Herbert’s 1965 science fiction classic, “Dune” is a tale of a rising duke, intergalactic power struggles, a precious spice, and lethal spaceworms. The […]

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Donald Trump
Trump Showed Us Who He Is the First Time: Term 2 Would Be a Thousand Times Worse

Trump Showed Us Who He Is the First Time: Term 2 Would Be a Thousand Times Worse

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently my partner and I had brunch with some old comrades, folks I first met in the 1996 fight to stop […]

Rebecca Gordon

Climate Crisis
In First, Rich Nations Cut CO2 4.5% in ’23 but still Grew, as Coal fell to 1900 Levels

In First, Rich Nations Cut CO2 4.5% in ’23 but still Grew, as Coal fell to 1900 Levels

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The International Energy Agency issued a report this month that contains a kernel of significant hope for halting the poisoning […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Partisans' use of Disinformation

Israel Partisans’ use of Disinformation

by Tariq Kenney-Shawa  ( Al-Shabaka ) – During campaigns of genocide and ethnic cleansing, disinformation is a potent weapon—a tool to dehumanize victims, justify mass violence, […]

Al-Shabaka

Ecology
Calls for a ‘Green’ Ramadan revive Islam’s long Tradition of Sustainability and Care for the Planet

Calls for a ‘Green’ Ramadan revive Islam’s long Tradition of Sustainability and Care for the Planet

By Noorzehra Zaidi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County | – For many Muslims breaking fast in mosques around the world this Ramadan, something will be […]

The Conversation

CIA
US Intelligence: Israel's Netanyahu not Viable, not Moderate and is Provoking Terrorism

US Intelligence: Israel’s Netanyahu not Viable, not Moderate and is Provoking Terrorism

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Annual Threat Assessment of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Avril Haines) contains some important information that […]

Juan Cole

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