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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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Authoritarianism
May 14 will be Turkey’s Most Consequential Election in History

May 14 will be Turkey’s Most Consequential Election in History

( Globalvoices.org) – This year marks the 100th year since the founding of the Republic of Turkey. May 14 of this year will also mark […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

Climate Crisis
Exxon Scientists Accurately Forecast Climate Change back in the 1970s – What if it hadn’t been Covered up and We had Acted

Exxon Scientists Accurately Forecast Climate Change back in the 1970s – What if it hadn’t been Covered up and We had Acted

By John Grant, Sheffield Hallam University | – Writers of speculative- and science-fiction often identify a key point in time and explore how a seemingly […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
The Real Failure of January 6th: How America’s Insurrectionists Crossed the Rubicon of History

The Real Failure of January 6th: How America’s Insurrectionists Crossed the Rubicon of History

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Americans tuning into the television news on January 8th eyed a disturbingly recognizable scene. In an “eerily familiar” moment of “déjà […]

Karen J. Greenberg

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Netanyahu Proposes More Guns to Solve Israeli-Palestinian Violence as Tit-for-Tat Attacks Multiply

Netanyahu Proposes More Guns to Solve Israeli-Palestinian Violence as Tit-for-Tat Attacks Multiply

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Although violence between Israelis and Palestinians only rose to the level of being covered by cable television news on Saturday, […]

Juan Cole

National Security State
Classified into Paralysis

Classified into Paralysis

Nashville (Special to Informed Comment) – It looks like Donald Trump gets off the hook for his defiant mishandling of classified documents. If former vice […]

Michael G. Roskin

African-Americans
Pain of Police Killings ripples outward to traumatize Black People and Communities across US

Pain of Police Killings ripples outward to traumatize Black People and Communities across US

By Denise A. Herd, University of California, Berkeley | – (The Conversation) – As the video goes public of Black police officers in Memphis beating […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Thomas Friedman shows that liberal Jews have no Reason left to defend Israel

Thomas Friedman shows that liberal Jews have no Reason left to defend Israel

By Nasim Ahmed ( Middle east Monitor ) – I watched the recent discussion between Thomas Friedman and Peter Beinart with great interest. Friedman, a […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Gigawatts of Offshore Wind Power in Big Apple Pipeline: Dirty Fossil Power Plants in Queens, NY, to become Green Energy Hubs

Gigawatts of Offshore Wind Power in Big Apple Pipeline: Dirty Fossil Power Plants in Queens, NY, to become Green Energy Hubs

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rise Light & Power LLC announced on Tuesday that it will invest in an offshore wind facility so as to […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Arresting Greta Thunberg:  Germany's Crackdown on anti-Coal Protests is not a Good Look

Arresting Greta Thunberg: Germany’s Crackdown on anti-Coal Protests is not a Good Look

By Edgar Meza | – ( CleanEnergy Wire ) – The protests against the razing of the village of Lützerath in order to expand the […]

Clean Energy Wire

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