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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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Environment
Oceans Turning Acid from Carbon Emissions, Point to Biological Breakdown

Oceans Turning Acid from Carbon Emissions, Point to Biological Breakdown

The other problem with flooding carbon emissions into the atmosphere in such massive amounts, besides the certitude that it will cause the surface temperature of […]

Juan Cole

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O’Donnell would have Joined Hare Krishnas

O’Donnell would have Joined Hare Krishnas

Christine O’Donnell, candidate for senator in Delaware, was clearly a religious seeker in her youth. Bill Maher played a clip last night in which she […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iran Wins Iraqi Elections 7 Months Later

Iran Wins Iraqi Elections 7 Months Later

Although it make take some time yet to form a government in Iraq, Friday may have been a turning point. If so, it was a […]

Juan Cole

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On Paladino and Taking People Out

On Paladino and Taking People Out

The thing that most disturbed me about the altercation between NY gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino and NY Post reporter Fred Dicker was Paladino’s threat to […]

Juan Cole

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Blogfather in Iran sentenced to 19.5 years for Dissent

Blogfather in Iran sentenced to 19.5 years for Dissent

Iran jails blogfather Hussein Derakhshan for nearly 20 years for blogging. Derakhshan made a lot of enemies when he started justifying the Ahmadinejad regime in […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
27 US Fuel Trucks Torched as Pakistan Blocks US Supplies at Khyber Pass for 2nd Day

27 US Fuel Trucks Torched as Pakistan Blocks US Supplies at Khyber Pass for 2nd Day

Tensions between the United States (‘NATO”) and the Pakistani government boiled over on Thursday and Friday after American helicopter gunships killed 3 Pakistani Frontier Corpsmen […]

Juan Cole

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Americans are always Shouting About Religion But Don’t Know Much About It

Americans are always Shouting About Religion But Don’t Know Much About It

Did you ever wonder how all that hysteria got going in August and September about mosque-building in the United States, in which Americans demonstrated themselves […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Redd: What About Jerusalem?

Redd: What About Jerusalem?

Adrienne Redd writes in a guest column for Informed Comment After remaining silent for the first month of the semester, a student in my seminar […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Update on German Terrorist Plot

Update on German Terrorist Plot

Update: The plot is alleged to have been hatched by young Muslim-German men who had been attending the same mosque in Hamburg where the 9/11 […]

Juan Cole

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