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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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Afghanistan
Did the US Commit War Crimes in Afghanistan?  International Prosecutors want to Find Out

Did the US Commit War Crimes in Afghanistan? International Prosecutors want to Find Out

By Hurst Hannum | – International prosecutors tasked with looking into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan have no shortage of potential targets. Afghan soldiers and […]

The Conversation

Antisemitism
Knowledge of the Holocaust wanes for Millennials, Gen Z, Even as Anti-Semitism Rises

Knowledge of the Holocaust wanes for Millennials, Gen Z, Even as Anti-Semitism Rises

By Jonmaesha Beltran | – (Cronkite News) – PHOENIX – Seventy-five years after the atrocities of Auschwitz, memories of the Holocaust are fading for younger […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

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Not Giving up on Happiness:  Care of the Self and Well-Being in a Plague Year

Not Giving up on Happiness: Care of the Self and Well-Being in a Plague Year

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The specter of plague haunts our world, and it brings with it not only the ghouls of disease and death […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders
The Dem Primary is Over, and we need Bernie Sanders to lead on Health Care from the Senate

The Dem Primary is Over, and we need Bernie Sanders to lead on Health Care from the Senate

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – On Tuesday, I cast a joyless vote for the very much politically doomed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the […]

David Faris

Donald Trump
Trumpandemic: Trump Spreads the Germs of Racial Hatred and Xenophobia

Trumpandemic: Trump Spreads the Germs of Racial Hatred and Xenophobia

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – President Donald Trump has systematically focused on a xenophobic rebranding of COVID-19 as a “Chinese virus” to help cover […]

Dan Dinello

Epidemics
Blues in the time of Pandemic, 1919 -- "In a few days influenza would be controlled"

Blues in the time of Pandemic, 1919 — “In a few days influenza would be controlled”

Middlebury, Vt. (Special to Informed Comment) – The great influenza pandemic of 1918-19 , which raged in the aftermath of the 1914-18 World War, killed […]

Shalom Goldman

Donald Trump
Trump Admin. in "Historic" withdrawal of Troops from 3 Iraq Bases amid Ongoing Rocket Attacks

Trump Admin. in “Historic” withdrawal of Troops from 3 Iraq Bases amid Ongoing Rocket Attacks

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – AFP is reporting that the US military is withdrawing US troops from 3 Iraqi bases. They are al-Qa’im in the […]

Juan Cole

censorship
That time America used to have Draconian Censorship of Just the sort Trump Dreams of

That time America used to have Draconian Censorship of Just the sort Trump Dreams of

By Adam Hochschild | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Every month, it seems, brings a new act in the Trump administration’s war on the media. […]

Tomdispatch

Epidemics
Why the 'herd immunity' route to fighting coronavirus is unethical and potentially dangerous

Why the ‘herd immunity’ route to fighting coronavirus is unethical and potentially dangerous

By Arindam Basu | – As most of the world tries to suppress the coronavirus spread, some countries are going it alone – trying to […]

The Conversation

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