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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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Iran
Trump's Ham-fisted Mideast "Plan" gave Iran an opening in the Next Palestinian Movement

Trump’s Ham-fisted Mideast “Plan” gave Iran an opening in the Next Palestinian Movement

By Omar Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor) – There are early signs that another uprising, or Intifada, will erupt in occupied Palestine. A […]

Middle East Monitor

Immigration
Homeland Secrets: Shootings by Homeland Security agents get little scrutiny

Homeland Secrets: Shootings by Homeland Security agents get little scrutiny

War Zone By Derek Hall, Mackenzie Shuman, Devan Sauer, Nicole Ludden and José-Ignacio Castañeda Perez | – Howard Center for Investigative Journalism | – ( […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Bernie Sanders
The Fall of France to the Nazis?  Chris Matthews and Corporate Democrats' Bernie Derangement Syndrome

The Fall of France to the Nazis? Chris Matthews and Corporate Democrats’ Bernie Derangement Syndrome

NB Matthews apologized for his remarks on 2/24/20 Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I was watching MSNBC Saturday afternoon during the voting at the Nevada […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Kushner "Deal of the Century": If Only America's Profound Betrayal of the Palestinian People Came as a Shock

The Kushner “Deal of the Century”: If Only America’s Profound Betrayal of the Palestinian People Came as a Shock

Eau Claire, WI (Special to Informed Comment) – President Trump unveiled his administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan at the White House on January 28, 2020, telling […]

Ali Abootalebi

Bernie Sanders
Sanders' Medicare for All: Why the Nevada Culinary Workers revolted against their Union Bosses

Sanders’ Medicare for All: Why the Nevada Culinary Workers revolted against their Union Bosses

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – In the days leading up to the Nevada Democratic caucus media frequently referred to the “powerful” 60,000 […]

John Buell

Congress
The Age of Trump and Pseudo America: Phonying Up our Key Institutions

The Age of Trump and Pseudo America: Phonying Up our Key Institutions

( Tomdispatch.com) – The impeachment of the president of the United States! Surely such a mega-historic event would reverberate for weeks or months, leaving in […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Bernie Sanders
Why the Russian Petro-state is actually terrified of a Bernie Sanders Presidency:  The Green New Deal

Why the Russian Petro-state is actually terrified of a Bernie Sanders Presidency: The Green New Deal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused by Western intelligence agencies of seeking to interfere in the 2020 US elections […]

Juan Cole

Inscriptions
The Prophet Muhammad’s Wives and Muslim Women in Early Arabian Rock Inscriptions

The Prophet Muhammad’s Wives and Muslim Women in Early Arabian Rock Inscriptions

Ahmad Bin Ghanim al-Ida’ published a photograph of an inscription he found south of al-Ula (near ancient Hijr) in Saudi Arabia. It was picked up […]

Juan Cole

Health Care
The Lie of Health Care ‘Choice’

The Lie of Health Care ‘Choice’

( Otherwords) – In our corporate-run health system, consumer “choices” are shaped entirely by profit-seeking monopolists. By Jim Hightower | February 19, 2020 Lyndon Johnson […]

Jim Hightower

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