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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
Archaeology

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

08/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

08/24/2025 By The Conversation

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Climate Crisis
Colonialism: why leading Climate Scientists have finally acknowledged its Link with Climate Change

Colonialism: why leading Climate Scientists have finally acknowledged its Link with Climate Change

By Harriet Mercer, University of Cambridge | – The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)‘s sixth and latest report on the impact of global warming […]

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Democracy
France: Macron's Pyrrhic Victory -- Is his Neoliberalism Producing the Far Right?

France: Macron’s Pyrrhic Victory — Is his Neoliberalism Producing the Far Right?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Romain Brunet at France 24 termed Emannuel Macron’s win in the presidential election a “Pyrrhic victory.” In 280-275 BC, Pyrrhus, […]

Juan Cole

Food Security
Ukraine Crisis: Yemen urgently needs Seeds to Avoid Famine given Global Wheat Shortages

Ukraine Crisis: Yemen urgently needs Seeds to Avoid Famine given Global Wheat Shortages

(Special to Informed Comment) – On top of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis created by a seven year war, Yemen is facing a new threat […]

Daniel Martin Varisco

Climate Crisis
The Double Whammy of Industrial Waste and the Climate Crisis

The Double Whammy of Industrial Waste and the Climate Crisis

Birmingham, Ala. (Special to Informed Comment) – According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) of the United States Congress, about one-third of chemical facilities in […]

Gregory A. Cade

Climate Crisis
Are We Approaching the most Dangerous Point in Human History?

Are We Approaching the most Dangerous Point in Human History?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Face it, we’re living in a world that, while anything but exceptional, is increasingly the exception to every rule. Only the […]

Tom Engelhardt

Christianity
E. Orthodox Christians in Jerusalem accuse Israel of Violating Freedom of Worship over Easter Holy Fire Ceremony

E. Orthodox Christians in Jerusalem accuse Israel of Violating Freedom of Worship over Easter Holy Fire Ceremony

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Palestine’s foreign ministry on Saturday called on the Biden administration to pressure Israel to cease its encroachments on the religious […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Auto Workers, Climate Groups Team Up to Demand Union-Made, Electric Postal Vehicles

Auto Workers, Climate Groups Team Up to Demand Union-Made, Electric Postal Vehicles

By Brian Wakamo | – (Inequality.org ) – After nearly 30 years in the labor movement, Cindy Estrada is well familiar with the corporate playbook. […]

Inequality.org

Climate Crisis
Pushing Back on ‘Soft Climate Denial’

Pushing Back on ‘Soft Climate Denial’

( Otherwords.org) – The Biden administration claims to “believe the science” on climate, but its actions need to catch up with its words. By Basav […]

Basav Sen

art and photography
Contemporary Muslim Artists continue to adapt Islamic Patterns to challenge Ideas about fixed Culture

Contemporary Muslim Artists continue to adapt Islamic Patterns to challenge Ideas about fixed Culture

By Soheila Kolahdouz Esfahani, Western University | – What is culture? In today’s globalized world, we are familiar with seeing various cultural objects and ornamentation […]

The Conversation

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