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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
Archaeology

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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Sen. Bernie Sanders, "Embarrassed" by "racist" Israeli Government, Threatens to Withhold Aid

Sen. Bernie Sanders, “Embarrassed” by “racist” Israeli Government, Threatens to Withhold Aid

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) came on Face the Nation Sunday. In the course of the interview, Sanders lashed out at […]

Juan Cole

China
China Dominates Solar and Wind Energy:  Can the U.S. and Europe Finally Catch Up?

China Dominates Solar and Wind Energy: Can the U.S. and Europe Finally Catch Up?

By Michael Jacobs, University of Sheffield | – Climate change policy has entered a new era. The growing row between the United States and the […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Amid Massive Natural Disaster, Turkey’s Erdogan Wields Censorship and Prepares for Dicey Polls

Amid Massive Natural Disaster, Turkey’s Erdogan Wields Censorship and Prepares for Dicey Polls

Written byCivic Media Observatory   This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. It features a summary of a year-long research on […]

Global Voices

African-Americans
Is the new AP African American Studies course Dangerous? Students don’t think so

Is the new AP African American Studies course Dangerous? Students don’t think so

Naseem Rakha   Maurice Cowley is teaching college-level African American Studies at McDaniel High School.   ( Oregon Capital Chronicle ) – Three days after […]

Oregon Capital Chronicle

Democratic Party
Jimmy Carter's Greatest Triumph:  Guinea Worm on Verge of Extinction, with only 13 Cases in 2022

Jimmy Carter’s Greatest Triumph: Guinea Worm on Verge of Extinction, with only 13 Cases in 2022

Former President Jimmy Carter’s family has announced that he is undergoing hospice care at home, a sign of his imminent passing. In his honor, I […]

Juan Cole

European Union
Ukraine war has exposed the Folly – and unintended Consequences – of ‘Armed Missionaries’

Ukraine war has exposed the Folly – and unintended Consequences – of ‘Armed Missionaries’

By Ronald Suny, University of Michigan | – ( The Conversation) – The evening before Russia invaded Ukraine, it seemed to many observers – me […]

Ronald Suny

Far Right
Saudi-owned LIV Golf "Sportswashes" Rights Abuses

Saudi-owned LIV Golf “Sportswashes” Rights Abuses

By Leila Saad, Research Assistant | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is attempting to “sportswash” the country’s egregious […]

Human Rights Watch

censorship
You can’t be for Liberty if you’re for banning Books

You can’t be for Liberty if you’re for banning Books

By Bill Tubbs | – ( Iowa Capital Dispatch) – Two years ago in my column in the North Scott Press, I introduced “Signs that […]

Iowa Capital Dispatch

Africa
Israeli Delegate Expelled from African Union Summit, in what may be First Global South Reaction to new Extremist Netanyahu Government

Israeli Delegate Expelled from African Union Summit, in what may be First Global South Reaction to new Extremist Netanyahu Government

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Saturday at the opening of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Israeli delegate was asked to […]

Juan Cole

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