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Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest
Archaeology

Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new study by Dilek Koptekin et al., a Swiss-Turkish team, has appeared in Science that combines archeological and genetics […]

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

06/30/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

06/30/2025 By The Conversation

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Why Countries should use Coronavirus Economic Stimulus to Transition to Green New Deal

Why Countries should use Coronavirus Economic Stimulus to Transition to Green New Deal

By Rachel Waldholz | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Foundations are calling on the EU to use any economic stimulus enacted in response to […]

Clean Energy Wire

Israel/ Palestine
The World Turned its Back on Gaza's Palestinians, but Qatar is donating $150mn to support coronavirus battle

The World Turned its Back on Gaza’s Palestinians, but Qatar is donating $150mn to support coronavirus battle

Qatar will be sending $150 million in aid to the besieged Gaza Strip to support United Nations humanitarian programmes and efforts to help combat the […]

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Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei Pulls a Trump on Coronavirus: Denies Own Responsibility, Blames a Foreign Country (US)

Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei Pulls a Trump on Coronavirus: Denies Own Responsibility, Blames a Foreign Country (US)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump and his cronies in the GOP got high-level, frantic briefings from US intelligence in January and February that the […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Thucydides’ Other War:  His Chilling Account of the plague of Athens and What it can Teach us Now

Thucydides’ Other War: His Chilling Account of the plague of Athens and What it can Teach us Now

By Chris Mackie | – The coronavirus is concentrating our minds on the fragility of human existence in the face of a deadly disease. Words […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
Coronavirus and the 'Shock Doctrine': Does Even this Disaster have to Make Rich Richer and Poor Poorer?

Coronavirus and the ‘Shock Doctrine’: Does Even this Disaster have to Make Rich Richer and Poor Poorer?

By Sam Pizzigati and Sarah Anderson | – ( Otherwords.org) – Powerful interests used the Great Recession to hardwire more inequality into our system. This […]

Sam Pizzigati

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Nicola’s Books Staff Picks for Best New Reads – Support our Indie Bookstores, Stay Sane by Reading

Nicola’s Books Staff Picks for Best New Reads – Support our Indie Bookstores, Stay Sane by Reading

Nicola’s Books | Ann Arbor’s Premier Independent Book Store | 734-662-0600 | info@nicolasbooks.com You need to read some books while sheltering in place to keep […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
What Americans Don’t Know About the hardships of Military Families

What Americans Don’t Know About the hardships of Military Families

By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – As each of my husband’s Navy submarine deployments came to an end, local spouses would e-mail […]

Tomdispatch

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As US Pulls Military Trainers from Iraq, will the Coronavirus Finally End America's Forever Wars?

As US Pulls Military Trainers from Iraq, will the Coronavirus Finally End America’s Forever Wars?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Will the coronavirus result in the second withdrawal of US troops from Iraq? There is an increasing question of whether […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Medical Worker on Covid-19:  Struck me How Different it is when I saw Young Guy gasping out Pink Froth

Medical Worker on Covid-19: Struck me How Different it is when I saw Young Guy gasping out Pink Froth

By Lizzie Presser | – (ProPublica ) – As of Friday, Louisiana was reporting 479 confirmed cases of COVID-19, one of the highest numbers in […]

ProPublica

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