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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?  3 Possible reasons Trump is threatening Turkey with Sanctions after Greenlighting Syria Invasion

Why? 3 Possible reasons Trump is threatening Turkey with Sanctions after Greenlighting Syria Invasion

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump is slapping sanctions on Turkey for invading northern Syria after Trump told Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan that it would […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How Palestinian women successfully defended their village from demolition

How Palestinian women successfully defended their village from demolition

By Sarah Flatto Manasrah | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – One year after Israel gave the green light to demolish Khan al-Amar, the small Bedouin […]

Waging Nonviolence

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Trump's Saigon Evacuation Moment, as US Troops Flee and Syrian/Russian Forces are invited in by Kurds

Trump’s Saigon Evacuation Moment, as US Troops Flee and Syrian/Russian Forces are invited in by Kurds

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – For us oldsters, one of the iconic photographs of the twentieth century was the last US military helicopter taking off […]

Juan Cole

Kurds
As Turkish troops move in to Syria, the risks are great – including for Turkey itself

As Turkish troops move in to Syria, the risks are great – including for Turkey itself

By Mehmet Ozalp | – Turkey did not waste much time in launching an attack on Syrian soil just days after US President Donald Trump […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Amerexit? Trump and the End of the Anglo-American Order

Amerexit? Trump and the End of the Anglo-American Order

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Donald Trump may prove to be the ultimate Brexiteer. Back in August 2016, in the midst of his presidential campaign, he […]

Tom Engelhardt

Health
In the Billionaires' America, Inequality Is Literally Killing Us

In the Billionaires’ America, Inequality Is Literally Killing Us

( Otherwords.org) – Again and again, studies show that the richer wealthy Americans become, the shorter the rest of us live. What do the folks […]

Sam Pizzigati

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Kurds consider Asking for Russian No-Fly Zone as Moscow demands Foreign Armies leave Syria

Kurds consider Asking for Russian No-Fly Zone as Moscow demands Foreign Armies leave Syria

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A CNN exclusive by Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne reveals that Gen. Mazloum Kobani Abdi told the US, “I need […]

Juan Cole

Coal
Dig Beneath the World’s Far-Right Governments — You’ll Find Fossil Fuels

Dig Beneath the World’s Far-Right Governments — You’ll Find Fossil Fuels

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – From Brazil to India to the United States, extractive industries have aligned themselves with authoritarian governments waging war on minority […]

Basav Sen

Ethiopia
Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize for Freeing Ethiopia's Dissidents, but Challenges still Await

Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize for Freeing Ethiopia’s Dissidents, but Challenges still Await

By Mohammed Girma | – Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian Prime Minister, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. He becomes the 100th Nobel Peace Prize winner, […]

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