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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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Climate Change
Vanishing Tropical Rainforests are the Lungs of our Planet: We can Still Save them (and Ourselves)

Vanishing Tropical Rainforests are the Lungs of our Planet: We can Still Save them (and Ourselves)

By Robin Chazdon | The green belt of tropical rainforests that covers equatorial regions of the Americas, Africa, Indonesia and Southeast Asia is turning brown. […]

The Conversation

Sudan
As Sudan Crowds Demand Civilian Rule, Was Al-Bashir's Overthrow just another Military Coup?

As Sudan Crowds Demand Civilian Rule, Was Al-Bashir’s Overthrow just another Military Coup?

By Khalil Charles | @khalilcharles | – According to well-informed sources, on the night of 22 February this year, as the invited guests in Sudan’s […]

Middle East Monitor

Immigration
Atrocity: American Concentration Camps for Immigrant Children

Atrocity: American Concentration Camps for Immigrant Children

By By Lizet Ocampo | – Children are suffering and dying. Enough is enough. By Lizet Ocampo | July 3, 2019 Over the past several […]

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Climate Change
What Happens when Climate Emergency Drowns Whole Nations?

What Happens when Climate Emergency Drowns Whole Nations?

By Sarah M. Munoz | – Global climate change is endangering small island countries, many of them developing nations, potentially harming their ability to function […]

The Conversation

Colonialism
Israel Systematically Hiding Documents Proving Expulsion, Oppression of Palestinians

Israel Systematically Hiding Documents Proving Expulsion, Oppression of Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hagar Shezaf at the Israeli newspaper of record, Haaretz [“The Land”], reveals that a secretive Israeli agency has been systematically […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Can Trump's Impending War on Iran be Stopped?

Can Trump’s Impending War on Iran be Stopped?

Eric Stoner | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – Since coming to power, the Trump administration has had Iran in its crosshairs. The United States unilaterally […]

Waging Nonviolence

Immigration
American Concentration Camps, Then and Now

American Concentration Camps, Then and Now

By Harry Blain | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – When human beings are framed as a national security threat, barbed wire is the […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Bill of Rights
Your Fourth of July and My Fourth of July (in the Age of Trump)

Your Fourth of July and My Fourth of July (in the Age of Trump)

Ann Arbor | (Informed Comment) | – – Revised for the the Age of Trump: Your Fourth of July is tanks in the streets. My […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Cole in Time Magazine for the Fourth of July on Lydia Maria Child and Islam

Cole in Time Magazine for the Fourth of July on Lydia Maria Child and Islam

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Time Magazine does an annual feature on unsung moments in American history for their 4th of July edition. This year […]

Juan Cole

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