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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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Poll: Americans have no Idea what Biden Means when he says he is a Zionist, or What Israel’s Ideology is

Poll: Americans have no Idea what Biden Means when he says he is a Zionist, or What Israel’s Ideology is

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Shibley Telhami and Michael Hammer have a new commentary out based on their polling at the University of Maryland’s Critical […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
We can end Mass Atrocities in Gaza and Beyond

We can end Mass Atrocities in Gaza and Beyond

Shimri Zameret  ( Waging Nonviolence ) – In the past few weeks, the number of innocent Palestinian civilians killed in attacks by the Israeli government […]

Waging Nonviolence

Corruption
CNN Admits its Policy of Submitting to Israeli Censorship ‘Has Been in Place for Years’

CNN Admits its Policy of Submitting to Israeli Censorship ‘Has Been in Place for Years’

By Julia Conley | – ( Commondreams.org ) – CNN has long been criticized by media analysts and journalists for its deference to the Israeli […]

Common Dreams

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1.1 mn. Children of Gaza caught in a Health Nightmare that Worsens Every Day; Clinics attacked 600 Times

1.1 mn. Children of Gaza caught in a Health Nightmare that Worsens Every Day; Clinics attacked 600 Times

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – UNICEF’s Executive Director, Catherine Russell, said this week that “Children in Gaza are caught in a nightmare that worsens with […]

Juan Cole

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Israeli Government Divided over Settling Israelis in Gaza

Israeli Government Divided over Settling Israelis in Gaza

By Leonie Fleischmann, City, University of London | – After more than 90 days of war in Gaza, in which at least 22,000 Palestinians are […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israel: Gaza Workers Held Incommunicado for Weeks

Israel: Gaza Workers Held Incommunicado for Weeks

( Human Rights Watch) – (Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities held thousands of workers from Gaza in incommunicado detention for several weeks following the October 7 […]

Human Rights Watch

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Genocide Denialism and the South African Complaint: USG Spokesmen like Kirby are the Goebbels of the 21st Century

Genocide Denialism and the South African Complaint: USG Spokesmen like Kirby are the Goebbels of the 21st Century

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden Administration continues to run a scam on the US public and the world by running interference for the […]

Juan Cole

Corporations
We Deserve Medicare for All, But What We Get Is Medicare for Wall Street

We Deserve Medicare for All, But What We Get Is Medicare for Wall Street

By Les Leopold | – ( Commondreams.org ) – The United States health care system—more costly than any on earth—will become ever more so as […]

Common Dreams

Climate Crisis
Renewables now Generate more of Britain's Electricity than Fossil Fuels

Renewables now Generate more of Britain’s Electricity than Fossil Fuels

By Will de Freitas, The Conversation | – (The Conversation) – At the start of 2016, in an article noting some exciting changes in British […]

The Conversation

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