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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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Israel/ Palestine
The Obliteration Doctrine, and the West’s Complicity

The Obliteration Doctrine, and the West’s Complicity

Obliteration and the West’s Complicity A Two-Part Q&A on Dr Steinbock’s The Obliteration Doctrine DG Team       Dr Steinbock’s highly topical new book The Obliteration Doctrine […]

Dan Steinbock

Health
No Country is an Island: Trump’s Destruction of Global Heath will Bite us on the Posterior

No Country is an Island: Trump’s Destruction of Global Heath will Bite us on the Posterior

By William deBuys ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The totalitarian playbook that Donald Trump seems to follow lacks a chapter. Power-crazed the president may be, but […]

William deBuys

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Saudi Arabia in Modern History

Saudi Arabia in Modern History

Book Review – David Commins, “Saudi Arabia: A Modern History” (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Greece
Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

The protest represents a multi-dimensional struggle: economic, geopolitical, and ethical. Written by Elvis Takahashi Mantello Protesters gather at Piraeus port to block a shipment believed […]

Global Voices

Israel/ Palestine
Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

By Peter Greste, Macquarie University (The Conversation) – The New York-based media freedom organisation, the Committee to Protect Journalists, is scrupulous with its words. So, […]

The Conversation

Abbasid Empire
Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Northeastern England fell to the Vikings in 865, and they held it for several decades. They not only had what […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Saudi authorities have been carrying out an unprecedented surge in executions in 2025 without apparent due process, Human Rights […]

Human Rights Watch

Nuclear weapons
What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?

What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?

Eighty Years of Talking Peace and Preparing for Nuclear War

Tomdispatch

China
Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%

Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Car News China reports that in the first half of 2025, consumers in that country bought 10,891,000 passenger vehicles. But […]

Juan Cole

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