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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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Afghanistan
2 Dead in Afghan Protests Against American Quran-Burning Plans

2 Dead in Afghan Protests Against American Quran-Burning Plans

The Pashtun-majority province of Logar just south of Kabul saw further protests on Sunday against American threats of Quran-burning, which turned deadly, leaving two dead […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Stewart Nails Hannity Lying (Same as ‘Stewart Nails Hannity Breathing’)

Stewart Nails Hannity Lying (Same as ‘Stewart Nails Hannity Breathing’)

Jon Stewart nails Sean Hannity for dishonestly showing only part of an Obama clip and distorting its meaning. (At 5:30 in). Actually, I think the […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghans Demonstrate Against US Quran-Burning That Never Happened

Afghans Demonstrate Against US Quran-Burning That Never Happened

Saturday witnessed a second wave of demonstrations against the threats by small American fundamentalist churches (especially the Dove Outreach group of some 50 in Gainesville, […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Top Ways 9/11 Broke Islamic Law

Top Ways 9/11 Broke Islamic Law

On the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, it is clear that al-Qaeda was a tiny fringe terrorist movement, not a globe-straddling threat to […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Top Stories More Important than Quran-Burning Nut Job

Top Stories More Important than Quran-Burning Nut Job

The horrible era of anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States yielded a one-day silly season on Thursday, covered wall-to-wall by the US cable news channels. […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
The Invisible Deluge in Pakistan (Cole in Tomdispatch)

The Invisible Deluge in Pakistan (Cole in Tomdispatch)

My essay on the strange near-invisibility of the world-historical Great Deluge in Pakistan during the past month is out at Tomdispatch.com (click here). Excerpt: ‘ […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
They used to Burn Catholic Churches, now they Burn Mosques

They used to Burn Catholic Churches, now they Burn Mosques

The hysteria about mosques in the United States is nothing new in our history. Even though the United States was founded by a ragtag series […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Iraqi Soldier Kills 2 Americans, Wounds 9

Iraqi Soldier Kills 2 Americans, Wounds 9

The killing of two American servicemen and the wounding of 9 others by a Kurdish member of Iraqi special operations unit on Tuesday at Tuz […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Hellegers: American Income Inequality is the Cause of our Crisis

Hellegers: American Income Inequality is the Cause of our Crisis

Plutarch, writing almost 2,000 years ago, told us that “an imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” […]

Juan Cole

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