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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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Climate Crisis
Flames to Floods: How Europe’s Devastating Wildfires are fuelling its next Climate Crisis

Flames to Floods: How Europe’s Devastating Wildfires are fuelling its next Climate Crisis

By Ioanna Stamataki, University of Greenwich (The Conversation) – In recent years, I have all too often found myself passing over an active wildfire when […]

The Conversation

Featured
Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sixty years ago, July 30, 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, former […]

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Omar Khayyam
FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:1

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:1

British man of letters Edward FitzGerald translated the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám from two Persian manuscripts and published it in 1859. He had substantial help […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle Eastern Studies Association of North America | – Letter to Harvard University concerning the cancellation of a special issue […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Authoritarianism
An Ailing Old American Empire Lashes Out

An Ailing Old American Empire Lashes Out

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As a retired U.S. Air Force officer, I firmly believe in civilian control of our military. This country should be a […]

William J. Astore

Far Right
Christian Nationalism’s Plot on Civil Society: The Seven Mountains Mandate

Christian Nationalism’s Plot on Civil Society: The Seven Mountains Mandate

Oakwood, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A concerning story out of Georgia offers a window into the rise and possible demise of an […]

Matthew Boedy

Israel/ Palestine
New Peace Plan increases Pressure on Israel and US as Momentum grows for Palestinian Statehood

New Peace Plan increases Pressure on Israel and US as Momentum grows for Palestinian Statehood

By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin (The Conversation) – A new vision for Middle East peace emerged this week which proposes the withdrawal of Israel […]

The Conversation

Academic Freedom
Protesting CUNY for Letting 4 Adjunct Faculty Go over Palestinian Rights and Suspending a Student

Protesting CUNY for Letting 4 Adjunct Faculty Go over Palestinian Rights and Suspending a Student

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to the City University of New York protesting the non-reappointment […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Bill of Rights
Corrupt DoJ Shields Trump on Epstein, Extorts CBS and Columbia U. in Protection Racket

Corrupt DoJ Shields Trump on Epstein, Extorts CBS and Columbia U. in Protection Racket

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Gangster president Trump and his Justice Department lackeys are engaged in a coordinated cover-up of his entanglements with […]

Dan Dinello

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