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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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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Squatter-Settlers storm 3rd Holiest Site in Islam to mark Jewish New Year

Israeli Squatter-Settlers storm 3rd Holiest Site in Islam to mark Jewish New Year

( Middle East Monitor ) – Hundreds of Israeli settlers on Sunday forced their way into the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem […]

Middle East Monitor

Authoritarianism
Mahsa Amini: A Year into the Protest Movement in Iran, this is What's Changed

Mahsa Amini: A Year into the Protest Movement in Iran, this is What’s Changed

Mahsa Amini: a year into the protest movement in Iran, this is what’s changed By Afshin Shahi, Keele University | = Iran’s rulers continue to […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Libya's Climate Disaster Shows we Can't afford Erratic leaders Like Trump and Haftar any More

Libya’s Climate Disaster Shows we Can’t afford Erratic leaders Like Trump and Haftar any More

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – For the past two weeks the Mediterranean has been reeling from the massive devastation wrought regionally by Hurricane Daniel, the […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
How Mahsa Amini’s Death became a Rallying Call for Thousands of Iranians

How Mahsa Amini’s Death became a Rallying Call for Thousands of Iranians

By Michael Scollon and Fereshteh Ghazi A combo photo shows Mahsa Amini (left) in the hospital on September 16, 2022, and her father and grandmother […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Climate Crisis
Summer 2023's Climate-Driven Record-Breaking heat is not 'The New Normal,' since the abnormalities will Keep on Coming

Summer 2023’s Climate-Driven Record-Breaking heat is not ‘The New Normal,’ since the abnormalities will Keep on Coming

Scott Denning, Colorado State University | – Summer 2023 has been the hottest on record by a huge margin. Hundreds of millions of people suffered […]

The Conversation

Arab World
Expansion of BRICS, the anti-G7, in the Mideast: Is the Oil Gulf no Longer Pax Americana?

Expansion of BRICS, the anti-G7, in the Mideast: Is the Oil Gulf no Longer Pax Americana?

Exeter (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – BRICS, a group of five developing countries that include China, Russia, and India, has invited another six countries […]

Hamdullah Baycar

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis: UN Launches Flash Appeal to Aid 250,000 Libyans hit by Devastating Floods

Climate Crisis: UN Launches Flash Appeal to Aid 250,000 Libyans hit by Devastating Floods

( UN News ) – Disaster struck on Sunday when torrential rains from Storm Daniel led two dams close to the now devastated port city […]

UN News

Batteries
How Zinc-Ion Batteries may solve our Renewable Energy Storage Problem

How Zinc-Ion Batteries may solve our Renewable Energy Storage Problem

By Storm William D Gourley, McMaster University and Drew Higgins, McMaster University | – (The Conversation) – Hotter summers, drier forests, rising waters: climate change […]

The Conversation

BRICS
As US drags out Israel Normalization Deal with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Drifts toward China

As US drags out Israel Normalization Deal with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Drifts toward China

Cairo (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – With the announcement of the expansion of the BRICS bloc many were surprised to see traditional US allies […]

Nick Mehling

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