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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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Russia
Chomsky: America’s Orwellian Doublespeak on Aggressive War Fatally Weakens its Case on Ukraine

Chomsky: America’s Orwellian Doublespeak on Aggressive War Fatally Weakens its Case on Ukraine

By David Barsamiand Noam Chomsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – David Barsamian: Let’s head into the most obvious nightmare of this moment, the war […]

Tomdispatch

Congress
A Distinctly Native Criminal Class:  Was Rep. Loudermilk Part of the Jan. 6 Insurrection?  How many in Congress Were?

A Distinctly Native Criminal Class: Was Rep. Loudermilk Part of the Jan. 6 Insurrection? How many in Congress Were?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – There are 435 representatives in the House, and you and I have not heard of most of them. In some […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Israel’s ‘Open-Air Prison’ at 15:  Israel, Egypt Restrictions Blight Palestinian Lives

Gaza: Israel’s ‘Open-Air Prison’ at 15: Israel, Egypt Restrictions Blight Palestinian Lives

Human Rights Watch – (Gaza) – Israel’s sweeping restrictions on leaving Gaza deprive its more than two million residents of opportunities to better their lives, […]

Human Rights Watch

China
Biden’s Golden Opportunity to Reverse Course on China

Biden’s Golden Opportunity to Reverse Course on China

Originally published in Hankyoreh. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Joe Biden has wrapped up his first trip to Asia. He met with new […]

John Feffer

African-Americans
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

By Kris Manjapra, Tufts University | – The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
This Week's Climate Disasters in the US are Giving us a Glimpse of our Future if we don't Stop CO2

This Week’s Climate Disasters in the US are Giving us a Glimpse of our Future if we don’t Stop CO2

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – We’re only midweek, but we have already seen serial disasters across the United States that have been exacerbated by the […]

Juan Cole

censorship
In Demolishing Muslim protestors' homes, India is taking a Leaf from of Israel's Book

In Demolishing Muslim protestors’ homes, India is taking a Leaf from of Israel’s Book

( Middle East Monitor ) – Over the weekend Indian authorities bulldozed several homes belonging to Muslims in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). […]

Omar Ahmed

Christianity
Patriarchy and Purity Culture Silence Evangelical, Southern Baptist Women amid Sexual Abuse Scandals

Patriarchy and Purity Culture Silence Evangelical, Southern Baptist Women amid Sexual Abuse Scandals

By Julie Ingersoll, University of North Florida | – A devastating yearlong investigation into the executive committee of the largest conservative evangelical denomination in the […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
My Pandemic in Three Acts:  Dealing with the Disease that Never Seems to Leave Town

My Pandemic in Three Acts: Dealing with the Disease that Never Seems to Leave Town

By Nina Burleigh | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – On New Years’ Eve 2019, Americans celebrated the advent of the roaring ‘20s with fireworks and champagne, […]

Tomdispatch

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