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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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Iran
Iran’s Rouhani:  Not Seeking the Bomb, Willing to show Flexibility

Iran’s Rouhani: Not Seeking the Bomb, Willing to show Flexibility

Ann Curry of NBC News gets a scoop, with an interview with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, in which he restates Iran’s position that it is […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Top Ten Solar Power good news Stories Today

Top Ten Solar Power good news Stories Today

Climate change produced by human burning of fossil fuels is a dire challenge to life as we know it on earth, and it will likely […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
Brazilian President Snubs Obama:   How US Cyber Espionage will Destroy the Internet

Brazilian President Snubs Obama: How US Cyber Espionage will Destroy the Internet

The USG Open Source Center reports on Brazilian press reaction to President Dilma Roussef’s decision to cancel her state visit to Washington DC this fall, […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Solar Car of the Future:  Sunswift Solar Two-Seater looks like an ordinary Coupe

Solar Car of the Future: Sunswift Solar Two-Seater looks like an ordinary Coupe

Giles Parkinson writes that this year Sunswift is making a revolutionary and exciting entry in the annual University of New South Wales solar car competition: […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
How the National Security State creates its own Whistleblowers, with a Letter to the Next One (Engelhardt)

How the National Security State creates its own Whistleblowers, with a Letter to the Next One (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com Dear Whistleblower, I don’t know who you are or what you do or how old you may be. I just […]

Juan Cole

Syria
UN Report Conclusive Sarin used on wide Scale, Points to Syrian Regime

UN Report Conclusive Sarin used on wide Scale, Points to Syrian Regime

When reports of a chemical weapons attack in Rif Dimashq near Damascus on August 21 first surfaced, some observers questioned whether these were really chemical […]

Juan Cole

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44 yearly Murders by Firearms in Britain [220 equiv.] vs. 8,583 in US;  US Navy now Menaced

44 yearly Murders by Firearms in Britain [220 equiv.] vs. 8,583 in US; US Navy now Menaced

Aaron Alexis carried out the mass murder of 13 people at the Navy Yard with an AR-15 assault rifle and a shotgun. AR-15 Bushmasters are […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Thousand-Year Flood in Colorado:  Climate Change & Extreme Weather

Thousand-Year Flood in Colorado: Climate Change & Extreme Weather

Commondreams.org writes The number of people missing or "unaccounted for" amid what experts are calling a thousand-year flood event in Colorado, is now more than […]

Juan Cole

Syria
The Hubris of the Syria Interventionists

The Hubris of the Syria Interventionists

The hawks who are deeply disappointed that diplomacy has likely forestalled a US military intervention in Syria in the foreseeable future often attempt to tug […]

Juan Cole

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