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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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Trump's Buddies in Saudi Arabia abolish Flogging, but Dissidents are Still Dying in its Jails and Journalists being Threatened

Trump’s Buddies in Saudi Arabia abolish Flogging, but Dissidents are Still Dying in its Jails and Journalists being Threatened

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Middle East Online reports that Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment. Henceforward, offenders will be fined or jailed […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
Billionaire Bonanza 2020: Wealth Windfalls, Tumbling Taxes, and Pandemic Profiteers

Billionaire Bonanza 2020: Wealth Windfalls, Tumbling Taxes, and Pandemic Profiteers

By Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo and Sophia Paslaskiis | – Billionaire Wealth and the Pandemic ( Inequality.org) – In its 34th annual list of global […]

Inequality.org

Climate Crisis
With much of the planet on lockdown, Earth Day goes digital

With much of the planet on lockdown, Earth Day goes digital

By Madison Staten | – PHOENIX (Cronkite News) – The irony of indoor celebrations of a day dedicated to the outdoors is not lost on […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Donald Trump
How the Tiny 'Reopen' protest movement was Astroturfed and boosted by Fake Grassroots Tactics

How the Tiny ‘Reopen’ protest movement was Astroturfed and boosted by Fake Grassroots Tactics

By Marc Ambinder | – Many Americans have been under strict stay-at-home orders, or at least advisories, for more than a month. People are frustrated […]

The Conversation

Iran
Sneak Peak at Juan Cole’s Exciting new translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Sneak Peak at Juan Cole’s Exciting new translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Bloomsbury is offering a Sneak peak at The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in Juan Cole’s new, “radically modern” translation. .@ibtauris is publishing @jricole's new, radically […]

Juan Cole

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Israel's Occupation Policies may Contribute to deaths of Many Elderly Palestinians, But Palestinian Youth are Poised to Flourish

Israel’s Occupation Policies may Contribute to deaths of Many Elderly Palestinians, But Palestinian Youth are Poised to Flourish

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The age bias of the novel coronavirus has geopolitical implications. Although it is not true that it leaves children and […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Iran fails to contain COVID-19 as internal political clashes prevent a timely and unified response

Iran fails to contain COVID-19 as internal political clashes prevent a timely and unified response

By Ezzatullah Mehrdad | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Since the outbreak of COVID-19 started in Iran in February 2020, internal political clashes have prevented the […]

Global Voices

China
Trump trots out Blaming China for his own Pitiful Covid-19 Failures

Trump trots out Blaming China for his own Pitiful Covid-19 Failures

The Republican Party is trying to shift blame for President Donald Trump’s disastrous coronavirus policies onto China. Chinese communists, Republican leaders claim, hid the pandemic […]

Reese Erlich

Donald Trump
Some Medieval Towns handled Plagues Better than Trump's Unequal, Rundown America

Some Medieval Towns handled Plagues Better than Trump’s Unequal, Rundown America

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – King Soloman in Ecclesiastes 1:9 tells us that “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

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