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Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest
Archaeology

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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Israel/ Palestine
Why the Violence between Israel and the Palestinians may be entering a devastating new Phase

Why the Violence between Israel and the Palestinians may be entering a devastating new Phase

By Susan de Groot Heupner, Griffith University | – (The Conversation) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rushed to the Middle East last week […]

The Conversation

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No, Militant Israeli Squatters haven't Exceeded 500K in Occupied Palestine:  It is more Like 733,000

No, Militant Israeli Squatters haven’t Exceeded 500K in Occupied Palestine: It is more Like 733,000

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – AP is reporting that what it calls the Israeli “settler” population in the Palestinian West Bank has now exceeded 500,000, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel: Illegal Collective Punishment against Palestinians

Israel: Illegal Collective Punishment against Palestinians

( Human Rights Watch ) – (Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities’ actions to seal the family homes in the occupied West Bank of two Palestinians suspected […]

Human Rights Watch

Corruption
No Amount of Fraud Deters Government Agencies When It Comes to Privatizing Medicare

No Amount of Fraud Deters Government Agencies When It Comes to Privatizing Medicare

By Ana Malinow and Kay Tillow | – ( Commondreams.org) – On January 17, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) announced 48 new […]

Common Dreams

Republican Party
The Nightmare of Republican Voter Suppression

The Nightmare of Republican Voter Suppression

By Clarence Lusane | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The fundamental right to vote has been a core value of Black politics since the colonial […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
In 4th Quarter, for first time Hybrid and Electric Vehicles outsold Diesel and Gasoline Cars in the European Union

In 4th Quarter, for first time Hybrid and Electric Vehicles outsold Diesel and Gasoline Cars in the European Union

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the European Union in the fourth quarter of 2022, for the first time in history diesel- and gasoline-powered automobiles […]

Juan Cole

International Criminal Court
What international Law says about Israel’s planned Destruction of Palestinian assailants’ Homes

What international Law says about Israel’s planned Destruction of Palestinian assailants’ Homes

Robert Goldman, American University | – After a deadly attack that killed seven people outside an East Jerusalem synagogue, the Israeli government responded by sealing […]

The Conversation

censorship
Right-Wing Pro-Israeli Group Standwithus, close to Israeli Gov’t, Harasses GWU Professor

Right-Wing Pro-Israeli Group Standwithus, close to Israeli Gov’t, Harasses GWU Professor

Middle East Studies Association – Committee on Academic Freedom | – Letter to the president of GWU regarding Professor Lara Sheehi President Mark S. Wrighton […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Israel
Why Isn’t Israel Helping the only other Jewish Head of State, in Ukraine?

Why Isn’t Israel Helping the only other Jewish Head of State, in Ukraine?

By John Feffer | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – There are currently only two Jewish heads of state in the world. The […]

John Feffer

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