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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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Lesson of Biden victory for Republicans: There aren't enough poorly educated White People to win with a Politics of Racial Grievance Any More

Lesson of Biden victory for Republicans: There aren’t enough poorly educated White People to win with a Politics of Racial Grievance Any More

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Now that the judges have laughed Trump’s challenges and conspiracy theories out of court, it is time to consider further […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
From Salmonella to Workers' Injuries: Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections on Way Out

From Salmonella to Workers’ Injuries: Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections on Way Out

By Isaac Arnsdorf ( ProPublica) – Six days after President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture notified food safety […]

ProPublica

Employment
Facing Holiday Rush, Frontlines Retail Workers Urge Billionaire Bosses to Share the Wealth

Facing Holiday Rush, Frontlines Retail Workers Urge Billionaire Bosses to Share the Wealth

By Chuck Collins | – ( Inequality.org) – This essential workforce is hustling to help holiday shoppers while also organizing hazard pay and other COVID-19 […]

Inequality.org

Debt
The Pentagon couldn’t Protect us from the Pandemic: Will Biden dare Cut its Budget?

The Pentagon couldn’t Protect us from the Pandemic: Will Biden dare Cut its Budget?

By William D. Hartung and Mandy Smithberger | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Now that Joe Biden is slated to take office as the 46th […]

Tomdispatch

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Why the world is Safer if Biden can Reinstitute Iran Nuclear Deal

Why the world is Safer if Biden can Reinstitute Iran Nuclear Deal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iran has no nuclear weapons, and no nuclear weapons program using diverted enriched uranium. It has a civilian nuclear enrichment […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
Republicans have become the Party of Zombies and Loss at Polls won’t stop them from Coming for Biden

Republicans have become the Party of Zombies and Loss at Polls won’t stop them from Coming for Biden

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – How else would you describe Americans who deny a pandemic that’s killed 250,000 people and the election that repudiated […]

John Feffer

Germany
Germany dedicates $11 bn. to joint Green Hydrogen Plants abroad for Imports to Power its Fuel Cells

Germany dedicates $11 bn. to joint Green Hydrogen Plants abroad for Imports to Power its Fuel Cells

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – A new project launched by Germany’s development cooperation organisation GIZ is supposed to prepare the […]

Clean Energy Wire

Domestic Terrorism
Greece had a neo-Nazi Problem, too; here's how Athens dealt with it

Greece had a neo-Nazi Problem, too; here’s how Athens dealt with it

By Georgios Samaras | – When a wave of right-wing extremism hit Greece in 2012, few would have predicted that Golden Dawn, one of the […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
In Bid to Kill a Biden return to Iran nuclear Deal, Israel Assassinates Leading Nuclear Scientist

In Bid to Kill a Biden return to Iran nuclear Deal, Israel Assassinates Leading Nuclear Scientist

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Iranian newspaper Ettela’at reports that on Friday, what it called “armed terrorist elements” mounted an assault on the automobile […]

Juan Cole

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