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Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest
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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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Democratic Senate Ponders Iraq Massive

Democratic Senate Ponders Iraq Massive Bombings Shake Shiite districts in Baghdad Since the Democrats now have a majority in the Senate, Barbara Slavin writes, they […]

Juan Cole

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Prosterman Guest Editorial Where Is

Prosterman Guest Editorial Where Is

Prosterman Guest Editorial: Where is Ike? WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS A PRESIDENT WITH IKE’S INTEGRITY AND COURAGE SUEZ & BUDAPEST – 50 YEARS LATER […]

Juan Cole

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Al Zaman Good Riddance To Rumsfeld

Al Zaman Good Riddance To Rumsfeld

Al-Zaman: Good Riddance to Rumsfeld Osman: Abu Ghraib scandal should have required his Resignation The Times of Baghdad [al-Zaman] editorializes in the third person on […]

Juan Cole

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What Does It Mean For Iraq Fourth

What Does It Mean For Iraq Fourth

What does it Mean for Iraq? The fourth popular revolution of the twenty-first century (after the Ukraine, Lebanon and Kyrgyzstan) swept America on Tuesday, as […]

Juan Cole

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Is Bush Unhinged Calling Hannah Arendt

Is Bush Unhinged Calling Hannah Arendt

Is Bush Unhinged? Calling Hannah Arendt Journalist Bill Gallagher of Detroit’s Channel 2 News joins Andrew Sullivan in asking the increasingly unavoidable question: Is George […]

Juan Cole

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Baquba Police Kill 20 Pro Saddam

Baquba Police Kill 20 Pro Saddam

Baquba Police Kill 20 Pro-Saddam Demonstrators; Khalilzad to Depart Someone, [presumably, Shiite militiamen] fired mortar rounds into the Sunni Arab Adhamiya district of Baghdad on […]

Juan Cole

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Iran Iraqi Shiites Celebrate Mosul

Iran Iraqi Shiites Celebrate Mosul

Iran, Iraqi Shiites Celebrate Mosul, Baquba, West Baghdad Demonstrate The US military announced that guerrillas had killed 3 US GIs in Iraq over Saturday and […]

Juan Cole

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Saddam To Hang Shiites Kurds Celebrate

Saddam To Hang Shiites Kurds Celebrate

Saddam to Hang; Shiites, Kurds Celebrate Some Sunnis Protest The Daily Telegraph reports that the death verdict against Saddam Hussein announced Sunday has sharpened further […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq Jittery Over Saddam Verdict

Iraq Jittery Over Saddam Verdict

Iraq Jittery over Saddam Verdict Dozens of Sunnis killed by Police Commandos Special Police Commandoes killed 53 al-Qaeda fighters in Iraq on Saturday, according to […]

Juan Cole

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