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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, […]

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

08/25/2025 By Global Voices

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

08/25/2025 By F. Douglas Stephenson

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Plot to kidnap Michigan's governor grew from the militia movement's toxic mix of constitutional falsehoods and half-truths

Plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor grew from the militia movement’s toxic mix of constitutional falsehoods and half-truths

By John E. Finn | – The U.S. militia movement has long been steeped in a peculiar – and unquestionably mistaken – interpretation of the […]

The Conversation

Health Care
Can Trump's Plan to Steal your Social Security, Medicare be Stopped?

Can Trump’s Plan to Steal your Social Security, Medicare be Stopped?

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans promoting the backlash against the federal government […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

France
Republican Food: French President Macron nails his colours to the Mast of Islamophobia

Republican Food: French President Macron nails his colours to the Mast of Islamophobia

By Chris Myant ( OpenDemocracy.net) – In the small Provençal town of Aups, where the local Catholic church declares République française: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité [The […]

Open Democracy

Donald Trump
Call for Fox Media News Monopoly to be Broken up: Rupert Murdoch an "arrogant cancer on ... democracy" - Rudd

Call for Fox Media News Monopoly to be Broken up: Rupert Murdoch an “arrogant cancer on … democracy” – Rudd

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has called for the break up of his country’s media monopolies (almost all major […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Ask Amy Coney Barrett If Bosses Should Be Free to Fire Workers at Will

Ask Amy Coney Barrett If Bosses Should Be Free to Fire Workers at Will

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – What is at stake in the battle over the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett? For most commentators […]

John Buell

Authoritarianism
Patriotism, American Style: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Patriotism, American Style: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sacramento, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – What is Patriotism? Let’s begin with the difficult part: defining and understanding patriotism. Patriotism refers to the feelings […]

Bahman Fozouni

Donald Trump
Talking Tough and Carrying a Radioactive Stick:  The Nuclearization of American Diplomacy

Talking Tough and Carrying a Radioactive Stick: The Nuclearization of American Diplomacy

( Tomdispatch.com ) – On August 21st, six nuclear-capable B-52H Stratofortress bombers, representing approximately one-seventh of the war-ready U.S. B-52H bomber fleet, flew from their […]

Michael T. Klare

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Graham to Blacks, Immigrants: 'You can go anywhere in this state, you just have to be a Conservative'

Graham to Blacks, Immigrants: ‘You can go anywhere in this state, you just have to be a Conservative’

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lindsey Graham couldn’t have another debate with his rival for one of South Carolina’s senate seats, Jamie Harrison, because he […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Despite ambiguity in international law, Palestinians are winning the ‘legitimacy war’

Despite ambiguity in international law, Palestinians are winning the ‘legitimacy war’

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Ramzy Baroud

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