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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
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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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Hate Radio And Disney Slapp Daily Kos

Hate Radio and a Disney SLAPP Daily Kos has the saga of one person’s campaign against hate radio. Spocko’s problem, that he was posting audio […]

Juan Cole

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Muqtada Al Sadr And Sunnis Mickey Kaus

Muqtada Al Sadr And Sunnis Mickey Kaus

Muqtada al-Sadr and the Sunnis Mickey Kaus of Kausfiles saw the Mehr report that I linked to yesterday and inquired, ‘ [I was baffled] by […]

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Al Maliki Hints At Early Departure

Al Maliki Hints At Early Departure

Al-Maliki Hints at Early Departure Saddam Executed by Militiamen Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has said that he would like to step down before the end […]

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Uia Woos Muqtada Inquiry Launched Into

Uia Woos Muqtada Inquiry Launched Into

UIA woos Muqtada Inquiry Launched into Saddam Execution Irregularities MENA, the Egyptian news agency, reports a demonstration of hundreds of persons on Tuesday in Habhab […]

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Apocalypse Ii In Samarra Us Kills 6 At

Apocalypse II in Samarra US Kills 6 at National Dialogue Front Office CBS/AP report that an angry crowd of Sunni Arab demonstrators in the northern […]

Juan Cole

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Conflicting Accounts Of Cia And Saddam

Conflicting Accounts Of Cia And Saddam

Conflicting accounts of CIA and Saddam, 1959-1963 My posting last Saturday, For Whom the Bell Tolls: Top Ten Ways the US Enabled Saddam Hussein has […]

Juan Cole

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Us Reaction To 1963 Baath Coup Since

Us Reaction To 1963 Baath Coup Since

US Reaction to 1963 Baath Coup Since the 1963 Baath coup has come up here twice this week, I thought readers might be interested in […]

Juan Cole

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Rosen On Shiite Execution Of Saddam

Rosen On Shiite Execution Of Saddam

Rosen on Shiite Execution of Saddam Nir Rosen at Iraqslogger has a fine analysis of the Sunni Arab reaction to the hanging of Saddam, and […]

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Saddam Buried Malikis New Strategy

Saddam Buried Malikis New Strategy

Saddam Buried Maliki’s New Strategy? Saddam Hussein was laid to rest in the village of al-Awjah near Tikrit, his birthplace. In Salahuddin Province there is […]

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