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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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Iraqs Divided Loyalties And Bremer

Iraqs Divided Loyalties And Bremer

Iraq’s Divided Loyalties and Bremer Walls Phil Smucker writes perceptively from Baghdad in The Scotsman about the discontents of Iraqis and their ethnic divisions. I […]

Juan Cole

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Black On Iraq One Year Later Eric Black

Black On Iraq One Year Later Eric Black

Black on Iraq, One Year Later Eric Black of the Minneapolis Star Tribune contributes among the better entries in the “War in Iraq: One year […]

Juan Cole

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Muhsin Abdul Hamid Sunnis Are Majority

Muhsin Abdul Hamid Sunnis Are Majority

Muhsin Abdul Hamid: The Sunnis are the Majority ash-Sharq al-Awsat: The leader of the [Sunni] Iraqi Islamic Party, Muhsin Abdul Hamid, gave a long interview […]

Juan Cole

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Threat Of Hyper Inflation Guardian

Threat Of Hyper Inflation Guardian

Threat of Hyper-Inflation The Guardian reports that the British head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Basra, Patrick Nixon, is warning about the dangers of […]

Juan Cole

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Engelhardt Follow Money In Iraq Tom

Engelhardt Follow Money In Iraq Tom

Engelhardt: Follow the Money in Iraq Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch.com has very suggestive insights this week on Iraq, especially with regard to the role of […]

Juan Cole

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More Us Soldiers Killed Steady And

More Us Soldiers Killed Steady And

More US Soldiers killed The steady and depressing drumbeat of US deaths and woundings in Iraq continues unabated. At 5 am on Saturday in Tikrit, […]

Juan Cole

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Shiite Crowds Preachers Denounce

Shiite Crowds Preachers Denounce

Shiite Crowds, Preachers, Denounce Interim Constitution az-Zaman, ash-Sharq al-Awsat; wire services: The Shiite clerical leader Muhammad al-Ya`qubi called on high school students and students in […]

Juan Cole

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Wave Of Killings At Sunni Mosques

Wave Of Killings At Sunni Mosques

Wave of Killings at Sunni Mosques Reuters reports on a wave of killings at Sunni mosques. Both worshippers and Sunni clerics have been killed. Some […]

Juan Cole

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Red Herrings On Discount At Washington

Red Herrings On Discount At Washington

Red Herrings on Discount at Washington Post Poor Dana Priest at the Washington Post caught the frankly shitty assignment of summarizing Undersecretary of Defense for […]

Juan Cole

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