Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed…
Juan Cole: Earth Hottest On Record Again, as CO2 Still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The American Meteorological Society has issued its annual climate report, this one summarizing changes in 2024 now that all…
Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli state by now has a long and sanguinary history of murdering writers and journalists in cold blood.…
Wildfire ‘Apocalypse’ in Türkiye As Temperature Rises to Record 122.9º F
Although the very highest temperatures were elsewhere, it was so hot and dry in northwestern Turkey south of Istanbul that massive fires broke out at Bursa and elsewhere in that…
Juan Cole: Israeli Cruise Ship Becomes Flying Dutchman
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Extreme-right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to turn Israel into a 21st century version of the Flying…
Juan Cole: We’re All Palestinians Now
How Trump Is Middle-Easternizing the United States.
Israeli Minister: ‘Gaza Must Be in Ruins for Decades,’ As Airstrike Kills Children Seeking Water
Keeping millions of Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children, living in ruins for decades is not the sort of goal announced by sane, civilized, ordinary European politicians.
Israel Continues to Starve, Target Gaza Civilians in Ongoing Genocide
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The fascist government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to wage war on Gaza civilians, in the longest and…
Juan Cole: America’s Worsening Solar Gap With China, Which Installs 100 Panels Per Second
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – According to Asia Society Policy Institute Senior Fellow Lauri Myllyvirta, China installed 93 gigawatts of solar in May, along…
Juan Cole: The Current Iran War Will Likely End Soon, But the Arms Race Will Heat Up
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Al Jazeera bureau chief in Tehran, Abdul Qader Fayez, reports from “informed sources” in Tehran that Iran’s clerical…
Juan Cole: Iraqi Shiites Demand Expulsion of US Troops after Israel Attacks Iran
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli-Iranian War of 2025 has put Iraq in an extremely difficult situation. The country’s Shiite majority sympathizes with…
Juan Cole: Iran’s Hypersonic Missiles Hit Israeli Refinery, Military Sites, as Israel does the same to Tehran
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel and Iran continued to trade airstrikes on each other on Saturday. Israel struck the Iranian Ministry of Defense,…
Greta Thunberg and 11 other Volunteers set out on Mercy Mission to Gaza
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Anadolu Agency reports that the humanitarian aid ship, the “Madeleine,” set out for Gaza on Sunday from Catania…
Juan Cole: Genetic Study shows ‘Phoenicians,’ like all ‘Nations’ were a Multi-Ethnic Franchise
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Harald Ringbauer et al. writing in Nature report on a genetic study of the ancient Phoenicians that is really…