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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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Climate Crisis
Top 3 Reasons Climate Change is creating Record-Breaking Deluges and Flash Floods

Top 3 Reasons Climate Change is creating Record-Breaking Deluges and Flash Floods

By Frances Davenport, Colorado State University | – A powerful storm system triggered flooding in the Appalachians in late July, inundating and sweeping away homes […]

The Conversation

Bill of Rights
Justice Alito Laments Disrespect for Religion as Americans Abandon Faith - Will his Dobbs Push them Further Away?

Justice Alito Laments Disrespect for Religion as Americans Abandon Faith – Will his Dobbs Push them Further Away?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – CNN’s Ariane de Vogue, reports that Justice Samuel Alito, a right wing Catholic, gave a speech in Rome for Notre […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Faced with Killing of American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, US Priority has been to Preserve Israel's Impunity

Faced with Killing of American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, US Priority has been to Preserve Israel’s Impunity

( Middle East Monitor) – The developments in the “investigation” into the targeted killing of Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh point rather too […]

Ramona Wadi

Conspiracy Theories
Afraid of *Everything* - The Paranoid Nature of American Foreign and Domestic Policy

Afraid of *Everything* – The Paranoid Nature of American Foreign and Domestic Policy

( Tomdispatch.com ) – I have a brother with chronic schizophrenia. He had his first severe catatonic episode when he was 16 years old and […]

William J. Astore

Health
On Their 57th Anniversary, Medicare and Medicaid Remain Under Threat

On Their 57th Anniversary, Medicare and Medicaid Remain Under Threat

By Max Richter | – ( Commondreams.org ) – You may wonder why former President Harry Truman is sitting close by while President Lyndon B. […]

Common Dreams

Climate Crisis
Surprise Dem Senate Bill makes US Global Climate Leader, Sees 40% Carbon Reduction by 2030

Surprise Dem Senate Bill makes US Global Climate Leader, Sees 40% Carbon Reduction by 2030

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a huge surprise on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and the Chairman of the Senate Energy and […]

Juan Cole

Food Security
The Turkey-Russia-Ukraine Grain Agreement and the Weaponization of Food

The Turkey-Russia-Ukraine Grain Agreement and the Weaponization of Food

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – When Russia bombed the port in Odesa last week, it was not an auspicious beginning to the new […]

John Feffer

Israel
Israel fears a Nightmare Scenario as the Crisis with Russia escalates

Israel fears a Nightmare Scenario as the Crisis with Russia escalates

By Adnan Abu Amer | – Israel is convinced that Moscow’s threat to close down the Jewish Agency in Russia is retaliation for the Zionist […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Why Britain's 104°F (40°C) Heatwave was made many Times more Likely by Humans burning Fossil Fuels

Why Britain’s 104°F (40°C) Heatwave was made many Times more Likely by Humans burning Fossil Fuels

By Ben Clark, University of Oxford; Friederike Otto, Imperial College London; and Luke Harrington, University of Waikato | – (The Conversation) – Every heatwave occurring […]

The Conversation

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