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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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Blast Kills 6-7, wounds dozens at Baghdad Hotel Two cars full of explosives raced toward the Baghdad Hotel early Sunday in Baghdad. The hotel, where […]

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Masoud Barzani Confirms That Interim

Masoud Barzani confirms that the Interim Governing Council’s Consensus is against Turkish Troops Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democracy Party and prominent member of […]

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Mahdis Birthday Celebrated By 1 Million

Mahdi’s Birthday Celebrated by 1 Million Shiites in Iraq; Muqtada promises shadow government Hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million and a half Shiite worshippers crowded […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi Hospitals Still Not Functional Us

Iraqi Hospitals still not Functional US spokesmen keep insisting that Iraq’s over 200 major hospitals are back to functioning normally. This statement is manifestly not […]

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Us Destroying Orchards Of Uncooperative

US Destroying Orchards of the Uncooperative Patrick Cockburn of the Guardian says that US troops are tearing up orchards belonging to clans that they believe […]

Juan Cole

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Rush Limbaugh And Pat Robertson Both

Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson Both far rightwing commentators Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson have been in the news this weekend. Limbaugh, of course, is […]

Juan Cole

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Veiling And Male Cousins Noted

Veiling and Male Cousins Noted ignoramus Stanley Kurtz, an India anthropologist who wrote his dissertation on a psychoanalytic theory of Hindu mother goddesses and who […]

Juan Cole

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Baghdad Most Dangerous City In World

“Baghdad Most Dangerous City in the World” “We’ve had people Killed on our Front Lawn” David Enders, a recent U-M graduate, has been trying to […]

Juan Cole

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Lame Pr Letters Supposedly From Us

Lame PR Letters supposedly from US Soldiers Backfire on Bush Administration LEDYARD KING GANNETT NEWS SERVICE The Olympian Online WASHINGTON — Letters from hometown soldiers […]

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