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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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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema angers Progressives, draws support of 40% of Republicans

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema angers Progressives, draws support of 40% of Republicans

By Diannie Chavez and Brenda Rivas | – ( Cronkite News ) – WASHINGTON – Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s refusal to back the Biden administration’s […]

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Climate Crisis
Don’t be diverted from the Climate Emergency by Lifestyle Issues like Meat Eating

Don’t be diverted from the Climate Emergency by Lifestyle Issues like Meat Eating

By Taha Yasseri and Mary Sanford | – Ten years ago, when we ranked the most controversial articles on Wikipedia, George W. Bush was at […]

The Conversation

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Dozens of masked Israeli Black Shirts attack homes in small Palestinian Town, Injure Residents, including a Toddler

Dozens of masked Israeli Black Shirts attack homes in small Palestinian Town, Injure Residents, including a Toddler

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian newspaper Quds gives the details of an attack this week by Israeli squatter-settlers on native Palestinians of the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
UN:  Removal of Indigenous Population - 2020 saw the highest number of displaced Palestinians registered in Years

UN: Removal of Indigenous Population – 2020 saw the highest number of displaced Palestinians registered in Years

( Middle East Monitor) – Each year, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) provides proof of the fallacy upon which the two-state compromise […]

Ramona Wadi

Afghanistan
Bearing witness in Afghanistan — a conversation with Kathy Kelly on ending war and listening to its victims

Bearing witness in Afghanistan — a conversation with Kathy Kelly on ending war and listening to its victims

( Waging Noviolence ) – This week, Michael Nagler and Stephanie Van Hook talk to Kathy Kelly, life-long nonviolence activist, co-founder of Voices for Creative […]

Waging Nonviolence

Afghanistan
“A Horrible Mistake”:  Recovering from America’s Imperial Delusions

“A Horrible Mistake”: Recovering from America’s Imperial Delusions

( Tomdispatch.com) – The bad news stemming from the ill-planned and ill-managed U.S. evacuation of the Afghan capital just kept coming in. The Washington Post […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Asian-Americans
Top 5 Things Wrong with the Mainstreamed Racist Republican "Replacement Theory"

Top 5 Things Wrong with the Mainstreamed Racist Republican “Replacement Theory”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dan Primack and Russell Contreras at Axios survey the ways in which the anti-Semitic, white supremacist “replacement theory” is being […]

Juan Cole

Arab Americans
For the First time, Israeli Apartheid was Broached in Congress by Rashida Tlaib - and then the Racist Epithets rained Down

For the First time, Israeli Apartheid was Broached in Congress by Rashida Tlaib – and then the Racist Epithets rained Down

( Middle East Monitor) – [It is rare] for Israeli apartheid to be raised as a topic of discussion in the US Congress. In fact, […]

Asa Winstanley

Afghanistan
For Afghan Women, the Frightening Return of ‘Vice and Virtue’

For Afghan Women, the Frightening Return of ‘Vice and Virtue’

By Heather Barr | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – There is no better symbol for the disappearance of women’s rights in Afghanistan […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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