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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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Bush could be Arrested in Europe: Turley to Olbermann

Bush could be Arrested in Europe: Turley to Olbermann

Keith Olbermann interviews Jonathan Turley on London mayor Boris Johnson’s warning that if Bush comes to Europe to flog his ‘memoirs’, he might be arrested. […]

Juan Cole

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“Don’t Touch My Junk”: The Rap Video

“Don’t Touch My Junk”: The Rap Video

Mike Adams at NaturalNews.com has a rap video on the intrusiveness of the new TSA inspections at airports. It is based on the protest of […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Southern Afghans Have Never Heard of 9/11

Southern Afghans Have Never Heard of 9/11

An opinion survey carried out in Helmand and Kandahar provinces showed that 92% of the Afghan respondents (1000 men) had never heard of 9/11. Most […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Juppe: Afghanistan a 'Trap'; NATO stuck There Past 2014

Juppe: Afghanistan a ‘Trap’; NATO stuck There Past 2014

At the NATO summit in Lisbon, it is expected to be announced that although 2014 is the target date by which NATO and US troops […]

Juan Cole

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Jon Stewart on the Rachel Maddow Show

Jon Stewart on the Rachel Maddow Show

Jon Stewart interviewed by Rachel Maddow: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Juan Cole

Egypt
Cleopatra:  A Power to be Reckoned With

Cleopatra: A Power to be Reckoned With

This article about Cleopatra in the Smithsonian Magazine questions the image of her in subsequent Western literature as a mere seductress. The author argues that […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Bush-Cheney Use of Torture Derails Ghailani Prosecution

Bush-Cheney Use of Torture Derails Ghailani Prosecution

This is how George W. Bush and Dick Cheney got Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, suspected of involvement in the bombing of two US embassies in East […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afvietnam

Afvietnam

Los Angeles Times, November 17, 2010: “As NATO leaders meet in Lisbon this weekend, the U.S. is expected to endorse a plan for slow withdrawal […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Allawi Predicts new Iraqi Government will Fall Quickly

Allawi Predicts new Iraqi Government will Fall Quickly

Iyad Allawi in London is throwing cold water on the idea that a stable Iraqi government is now being formed. According to Reuters he is […]

Juan Cole

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