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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

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Apartheid
Who does Jerusalem belong To?

Who does Jerusalem belong To?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – Far right Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu commemorated Israel’s “Jerusalem Day” with a speech in which he […]

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Environment
Seattle Activists, Native Americans Kayak to Protest Shell Arctic Drilling

Seattle Activists, Native Americans Kayak to Protest Shell Arctic Drilling

By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | — Kayaks began lining up on the shores of Seattle’s Elliot Bay early Saturday morning in preparation […]

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Islam-hatred
Sharia Law Comes To Walmart, According To Allen West

Sharia Law Comes To Walmart, According To Allen West

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) | – “”Fox News contributor Allen West went to Walmart and thought he was the victim of “Sharia law” […]

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Counter-Terrorism
As ISIL takes Ramadi:  America's Hydra Problem in the Middle East

As ISIL takes Ramadi: America’s Hydra Problem in the Middle East

By Inge Fryklund | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | — In the Greek myth, Heracles battles the Hydra — a multi-headed reptilian monster that was […]

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Apartheid
Illegal Israeli Squatters uproot hundreds of Palestinian olive trees near Hebron

Illegal Israeli Squatters uproot hundreds of Palestinian olive trees near Hebron

HEBRON (Ma’an) – Israeli settlers destroyed and uprooted hundreds of olive saplings in the Palestinian town of al-Shuyoukh northeast of Hebron in the southern West […]

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Arab Spring
Death Sentence for Morsi:  Egypt's Junta takes another step toward being N. Korea

Death Sentence for Morsi: Egypt’s Junta takes another step toward being N. Korea

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – That the only freely elected president Egypt has ever known has been sentenced to death is only […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Floating Graveyard: 6000 Migrants, incl. Rohingya Muslims, Marooned in SE Asia Seas

Floating Graveyard: 6000 Migrants, incl. Rohingya Muslims, Marooned in SE Asia Seas

By Kanya D’Almeida | — UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – On Thursday, May 14, a group of journalists rented a boat from Ko Lipe, a small […]

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Books

A Journalist Journeys to the Heart of the Quran (Muslim Scripture)

By JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN for ISLAMiCommentary : Carla Power Great journalists invite us to be companions with them on their journeys […]

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Apartheid
Palestinian Christians, under Pressure, Honored by Pres. Abbas as they welcome New Saints

Palestinian Christians, under Pressure, Honored by Pres. Abbas as they welcome New Saints

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — In the run up to Pope Francis’ canonization of two Palestinian nuns, President Mahmoud Abbas praises Palestinian Christians for the “distinctive dimension” […]

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