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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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Climate Crisis
Young Montanans are fighting Climate Change in Court for all our Sakes

Young Montanans are fighting Climate Change in Court for all our Sakes

By Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The wording in Article IX, Section 1, of Montana’s constitution couldn’t be clearer: “The state and […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis: Flood Death Toll in Libya's Derna may reach 20,000

Climate Crisis: Flood Death Toll in Libya’s Derna may reach 20,000

( Middle East Monitor ) – The death toll in Derna as a result of the catastrophic flooding in Libya may reach 20,000, the city’s […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
30 Years after Arafat-Rabin Handshake, clear Flaws in Oslo Accords doomed peace Talks to Failure

30 Years after Arafat-Rabin Handshake, clear Flaws in Oslo Accords doomed peace Talks to Failure

By Maha Nassar, University of Arizona | – On Sept. 13, 1993, the world watched as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization […]

The Conversation

China
Mideast AI:  Saudi, UAE Chip imports from US imperiled by Their Close China Ties

Mideast AI: Saudi, UAE Chip imports from US imperiled by Their Close China Ties

London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Efforts by Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to join the race […]

Neil Thompson

Anti-intellectualism
‘Era Of Repression’: Iran Purges Ranks Of University Professors Ahead Of Veil Protest Anniversary

‘Era Of Repression’: Iran Purges Ranks Of University Professors Ahead Of Veil Protest Anniversary

By Hannah Kaviani Fereshteh Ghazi ( RFE/RL ) – Encouraging students to hold unauthorized demonstrations. Encouraging students to sing antiestablishment slogans. Encouraging female students to […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Anti-intellectualism
Why Defining Criticism of Israeli Policies as “antisemitism” Harms Campus Freedom of Speech (BRISMES)

Why Defining Criticism of Israeli Policies as “antisemitism” Harms Campus Freedom of Speech (BRISMES)

Statement of the British Society for Middle East Studies and the European Legal Support Center on the IHRA Definition of antisemitism as a challenge to […]

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War is not Inevitable, and Social Scientists are Finding Peace Movements more Effective

War is not Inevitable, and Social Scientists are Finding Peace Movements more Effective

Greenfield, MA (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – I am heartened each time I come across a study affirming that waging war is not an […]

H. Patricia Hynes

China
The South China Sea’s Resource Wars and Environmental Collapse

The South China Sea’s Resource Wars and Environmental Collapse

By Joshua Frank ( Tomdispatch.com) – It’s an ocean of conflict and ecological decline. Despite its vast size — 1.3 million square miles — the […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
Why Solar panel technology is set to be Turbo-Charged

Why Solar panel technology is set to be Turbo-Charged

By Bruno Vicari Stefani, CSIRO; and Matthew Wright, University of Oxford | – Solar panel technology has made enormous progress in the last two decades. […]

The Conversation

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