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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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Far Right
Let’s avoid the Other F-Word: If it is Democracies versus Fascism, We’re Stuck in Forever Wars

Let’s avoid the Other F-Word: If it is Democracies versus Fascism, We’re Stuck in Forever Wars

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Timothy Snyder, Levin Professor of History at Yale University, is a scholar of surpassing brilliance. His 2010 book Bloodlands: Europe Between […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Climate Crisis
Biden's Green New Deal: 100 Gigawatts of New Solar, in Biggest Energy Program since FDR's TVA

Biden’s Green New Deal: 100 Gigawatts of New Solar, in Biggest Energy Program since FDR’s TVA

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden just launched a series of executive orders and other measures for solar energy that have the potential to […]

Juan Cole

International Criminal Court
Libya:  Russia's Far Right Wagner Group set Landmines, Booby Traps near Capital, Tripoli

Libya: Russia’s Far Right Wagner Group set Landmines, Booby Traps near Capital, Tripoli

International Criminal Court Must Investigate

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Why does the world allow Israel to continue its oppression of Palestinians?

Why does the world allow Israel to continue its oppression of Palestinians?

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Thirty-one-year-old Ghofran Warasnah was shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces located at the […]

Middle East Monitor

Guns
Guns in the US:  Why the NRA is so Successful at preventing Reform

Guns in the US: Why the NRA is so Successful at preventing Reform

By Thomas Gift, UCL | – In the wake of the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas that killed 19 children and two teachers, Democrats […]

The Conversation

Batteries
It is now Cheaper to Switch from Coal directly to Wind and Solar than to Natural Gas

It is now Cheaper to Switch from Coal directly to Wind and Solar than to Natural Gas

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Matthew Gray at Transition Zero writes that it is now cheaper in North America and Europe to switch from coal […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Even CNN concluded that Israeli Snipers Targeted Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh; But this Tactic is Routine

Even CNN concluded that Israeli Snipers Targeted Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh; But this Tactic is Routine

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s public relations and diplomacy may be running into a few pitfalls, as US mainstream media outlet CNN explicitly […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
Stinky seaweed is clogging Caribbean beaches – but a New Zealand solution could turn it into green power and fertiliser

Stinky seaweed is clogging Caribbean beaches – but a New Zealand solution could turn it into green power and fertiliser

By Saeid Baroutian, University of Auckland; and Terrell Thompson, University of Auckland | – Rotting seaweed has plagued the Caribbean for more than 10 years […]

The Conversation

CIA
The Ultimate Blowback Planet:  Remembering Chalmers Johnson

The Ultimate Blowback Planet: Remembering Chalmers Johnson

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Once upon a time, long, long ago — actually, it was early in the year 2000 — I was involved in […]

Tom Engelhardt

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