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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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Don't Let War Hawks use Putin to Shift our Gaze from Our Huge Social Problems, from Racism to Climate

Don’t Let War Hawks use Putin to Shift our Gaze from Our Huge Social Problems, from Racism to Climate

( Tomdispatch.com ) – I recently participated in a commemoration of Martin Luther King’s address “Beyond Vietnam — A Time to Break Silence,” originally delivered […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Climate Crisis
Hearkening Back to Ancient Glory, Greece opens Largest double-sided solar farm in Europe

Hearkening Back to Ancient Glory, Greece opens Largest double-sided solar farm in Europe

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Maeve Campbell at Euronews/ Reuters reports that Greece has brought online the continent’s largest double-sided solar facility, which will generate […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
The Richest Americans pay 3.4% in Federal Taxes, a rate 5 Times Less than most People

The Richest Americans pay 3.4% in Federal Taxes, a rate 5 Times Less than most People

By Paul Kiel, Ash Ngu, Jesse Eisinger and Jeff Ernsthausen | – ( ProPublica ) – Which people and professions rake in the most income […]

ProPublica

Climate Crisis
The Navajo Nation takes on the Climate Emergency

The Navajo Nation takes on the Climate Emergency

By Fiona L.Q. Flaherty | – (Cronkite News ) – PHOENIX – For many years, Tsegi Canyon on the Navajo Nation struggled: Its dry walls […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Feminism
Vladimir Putin, the Czar of macho Politics, is threatened by Gender and Sexuality Rights

Vladimir Putin, the Czar of macho Politics, is threatened by Gender and Sexuality Rights

By Valerie Sperling, Alexandra Novitskaya, Janet Elise Johnson, and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom | – Vladimir Putin has mentioned “gender freedoms” more than once to justify […]

The Conversation

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Is Joe Biden Right that the Russians are committing Genocide in Ukraine?

Is Joe Biden Right that the Russians are committing Genocide in Ukraine?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Kevin Liptak reports for CNN that on a visit to Iowa President Biden talked to reporters about Russian actions in […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Thawing permafrost is Massively reshaping the Arctic landscape,  as We heat up the Climate

Thawing permafrost is Massively reshaping the Arctic landscape, as We heat up the Climate

By Mark J. Lara, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | – Across the Arctic, strange things are happening to the landscape. Massive lakes, several square […]

The Conversation

Iraq War
From Mosul to Raqqa to Mariupol, Killing Civilians is a Crime no Matter Who Does it

From Mosul to Raqqa to Mariupol, Killing Civilians is a Crime no Matter Who Does it

( Code Pink ) – Americans have been shocked by the death and destruction of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, filling our screens with bombed buildings […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Cold War
I may have failed as a Tax Resister, but Corporate America is Hugely Successful at it

I may have failed as a Tax Resister, but Corporate America is Hugely Successful at it

( Tomdispatch.com) – Every April, as income-tax returns come due, I think about the day 30 years ago when I opened my rented mailbox and […]

Rebecca Gordon

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