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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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Given their Enormous Windfall Profits, Oil Companies are not paying Enough for their Environmental Damage

Given their Enormous Windfall Profits, Oil Companies are not paying Enough for their Environmental Damage

By Robert (Bob) L. Ascah, University of Alberta | – At the end of the third quarter reporting season in October, the Big Four oilsands […]

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Children
Yemen: Ukraine War, boosting Wheat Prices, has increased Food Insecurity and Acute Malnutrition for Children

Yemen: Ukraine War, boosting Wheat Prices, has increased Food Insecurity and Acute Malnutrition for Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Russia’s War on Ukraine has added to global inflation along many dimensions, including higher gasoline and fossil gas prices. It […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Turkey marks International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women with disturbing Femicide Numbers

Turkey marks International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women with disturbing Femicide Numbers

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Scores of women are killed in Turkey on regular basis, according to local women’s organizations. The number […]

Global Voices

Climate Crisis
We Have not Yet been Defeated:  Who will Pay for an Overheating Earth?

We Have not Yet been Defeated: Who will Pay for an Overheating Earth?

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On October 29th, 75-year-old Saifullah Paracha, Guantánamo Bay’s oldest detainee, was finally […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
Climate Change is increasing the Intensity of Tropical Storms, and even Weak ones are now Fiercer

Climate Change is increasing the Intensity of Tropical Storms, and even Weak ones are now Fiercer

Wei Mei, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Shang-Ping Xie, University of California, San Diego Tropical cyclones have been growing stronger worldwide over […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
The Pakistani Mega-Flood and our Climate Emergency

The Pakistani Mega-Flood and our Climate Emergency

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Here is a talk I recently gave about the mega-flood this fall in Pakistan, which affected 33 million people, inundated […]

Juan Cole

Africa
What Climate Debt Does the North Owe the South?

What Climate Debt Does the North Owe the South?

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Richer countries haven’t met their $100 billion promise to help poorer countries move beyond fossil fuels. Where’s the […]

John Feffer

Far Right
Oath Keepers Convictions shed Light on the Limits of free Speech – and the Threat posed by Militias

Oath Keepers Convictions shed Light on the Limits of free Speech – and the Threat posed by Militias

By Amy Cooter, Middlebury Institute of International Studies | – The verdicts in a high-profile, monthslong trial of Oath Keepers militia members were, as one […]

The Conversation

Bashar al-Assad
Syria: Families of ‘Disappeared’ Deserve Answers:  UN Proposal Offers Promising Pathway (HRW)

Syria: Families of ‘Disappeared’ Deserve Answers: UN Proposal Offers Promising Pathway (HRW)

( Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – United Nations member countries should establish an international, independent entity to track and identify those missing and disappeared […]

Human Rights Watch

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