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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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Afghanistan
Biden Seeks to Seize Afghanistan’s Assets

Biden Seeks to Seize Afghanistan’s Assets

By John Sifton | Asia Advocacy Director | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – The Biden administration has decided to recommend directing $3.5 billion […]

Human Rights Watch

Afghanistan
US Sanctions on Afghanistan are Complicit in Mass Hunger, even as Biden withholds $3.5 bn in Afghan Money

US Sanctions on Afghanistan are Complicit in Mass Hunger, even as Biden withholds $3.5 bn in Afghan Money

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Kevin Liptak and Natasha Bertrand report at CNN that the Biden administration has decided to split the $7 billion in […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
If the US Gov't Can Swing into Action on Covid, why Can't it provide us Universal Health Care?

If the US Gov’t Can Swing into Action on Covid, why Can’t it provide us Universal Health Care?

( Othwerwords.org ) – There has been a Jekyll and Hyde quality to American health care over the past two years. One the one hand, […]

Sonali Kolhatkar

Coal
Bet on institution building, not Manchin

Bet on institution building, not Manchin

By Katey Lauer | – This story was first published by The Forge. (Waging Nonviolence ) – Last year, I wrote an article in The […]

Waging Nonviolence

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
What responsibility do Western troops fighting ISIL have for the Children that Terrorists use as Human Shields?

What responsibility do Western troops fighting ISIL have for the Children that Terrorists use as Human Shields?

By Beth Morrison and Shannon Zimmerman | – Islamic State recently staged their most sophisticated attack since 2019 – a prison break to release former […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
From War on Terror to War on Climate Change:  US Army to seek Green Electricity by 2030

From War on Terror to War on Climate Change: US Army to seek Green Electricity by 2030

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US military has been worried deeply for over a decade about the impact of the climate emergency on its […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
The Terrifying World of 2025:  The Coming MAGA Cultural Revolution?

The Terrifying World of 2025: The Coming MAGA Cultural Revolution?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – I’ve just wrapped up my shift at BurgerBoy and I don’t have much time before the weekly self-criticism session at town […]

John Feffer

Apartheid
US Gov't depends on Amnesty Int'l for Human Rights Reports, but Rejects Finding of Israeli Apartheid

US Gov’t depends on Amnesty Int’l for Human Rights Reports, but Rejects Finding of Israeli Apartheid

( Otherwords.org ) – One day last spring, Palestinians in Israel and the occupied West Bank declared a general strike to protest years of repression […]

Phyllis Bennis

Climate Crisis
The Rich produce the most Heat-Trapping CO2, but Heat Waves hit the Poorest Hardest

The Rich produce the most Heat-Trapping CO2, but Heat Waves hit the Poorest Hardest

By Mojtaba Sadegh, John Abatzoglou, and Mohammad Reza Alizadeh | – Spend time in a developing country during a heat wave and it quickly becomes […]

The Conversation

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