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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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After the Erratic Trump, can America Rejoin the World?

After the Erratic Trump, can America Rejoin the World?

By John Feffer | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – It simply doesn’t make a lot of sense to entrust leadership to a country […]

John Feffer

Donald Trump
Trump 2024? Presidential comebacks have mixed success

Trump 2024? Presidential comebacks have mixed success

By Robert Speel | – American author F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that “there are no second acts in American lives.” Yet it’s already assumed […]

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In Slight to Biden, Israel sends Squatters to cut Palestinian East Jerusalem off from Palestinian Bethelehem, West Bank

In Slight to Biden, Israel sends Squatters to cut Palestinian East Jerusalem off from Palestinian Bethelehem, West Bank

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Alarabiya reports that the government of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has let bids for 1257 new segregated Israeli-only housing […]

Juan Cole

Banking
Say no to Austerity for Workers: McConnell and the GOP are about to pull the "We have no money" scam

Say no to Austerity for Workers: McConnell and the GOP are about to pull the “We have no money” scam

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Not surprisingly the national debt is a subject of concern. Liberal and Left economists, most of whom […]

John Buell

Donald Trump
Despite Losses at Polls and in Court, Trump Crowds in D. C. cry "Coup," "Fraud" and "2nd American Revolution"

Despite Losses at Polls and in Court, Trump Crowds in D. C. cry “Coup,” “Fraud” and “2nd American Revolution”

By MacKenzie Belley | – ( Cronkite News/ Arizona PBS) WASHINGTON – Tens of thousands of people turned the streets of Washington into a sea […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Donald Trump
The Goldilocks Apocalypse: No Return to Normalcy after Trump

The Goldilocks Apocalypse: No Return to Normalcy after Trump

(Tomdispatch.com) – Imagine for a moment that Hillary Clinton had won the presidential election in 2016. Imagine, in other words, that the “blue wall” of […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
Importance of Middle East Plummets as Britain, Ireland, Denmark announce 2030 Funeral for New Gasoline Cars

Importance of Middle East Plummets as Britain, Ireland, Denmark announce 2030 Funeral for New Gasoline Cars

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Middle East is likely to plummet in significance for the United States over the next two decades. Let’s face […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
What Trump’s claim of a ‘stolen election’ means for activists today

What Trump’s claim of a ‘stolen election’ means for activists today

( Waging Nonviolence ) – I’m encountering a great deal of alarm among progressive activists regarding continued Republican claims of a stolen election. Do these […]

George Lakey

Climate Crisis
Why do People reject the Science of Climate Crisis, and can their Minds be Changed?

Why do People reject the Science of Climate Crisis, and can their Minds be Changed?

By Peter Ellerton | – Why do humans instinctively reject evidence contrary to their beliefs? Do we understand why and how people change their mind […]

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