Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Archives for May 2005

Uncategorized
Boycott Of Israeli Universities Wrong

Boycott Of Israeli Universities Wrong

Juan Cole

Boycott of Israeli Universities Wrong: AAUP The American Association of University Professors has quite rightly come out against a recent resolution of the British Association of University Teachers (one of two main such organizations in the UK) that an academic boycott should be imposed on the University of Haifa and Bar Ilan University. Long-time readers […]

Uncategorized
Disaster Of Destroying Voice Of

Disaster Of Destroying Voice Of

Juan Cole

The Disaster of Destroying the Voice of America Arabic Service Corey Pein in the Columbia Journalism Review writes about the current state of play with regard to “Radio Sawa.” The real tragedy here in my view is that the Voice of America Arabic service was destroyed by Norman Pattiz of Westwood One. The VOA was […]

Uncategorized
Us Military Tied Down By Afghanistan

Us Military Tied Down By Afghanistan

Juan Cole

US Military Tied down by Afghanistan, Iraq The US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq pretty much exhaust the conventional army capacity of the US military (and then some– the reserves are being over-used). This according to Gen. Richard Myers. Washington spinmeisters scrambled to attempt to cover up the contradiction with President Bush’s recent assertion that […]

Uncategorized
Jaafari Rethinks Debaathification 23

Jaafari Rethinks Debaathification 23

Juan Cole

Jaafari Rethinks Debaathification 23 Killed in Violence Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari caused a major stir with a speech on Monday that seemed to back off the policy of debaathification or the exclusion from high office of former Baath civilian and military officials. Some Shiite parliamantarians were furious. At the same time, Jaafari has been under […]

Uncategorized
41 Killed 76 Wounded In Bombings Among

41 Killed 76 Wounded In Bombings Among

Juan Cole

41 Killed, 76 Wounded in Bombings Among Wounded: 5 US Soldiers The guerrilla campaign of mass violence continued unrelentingly on Sunday. Guerrillas in the far northern, largely Turkmen city of Telafar, sent a car bomb into the midst of a funeral for a just-assassinated local Kurdish leader. The bomb killed 30 mourners and wounded more […]

Uncategorized
Nuclear Option Algeria And David Humes

Nuclear Option Algeria And David Humes

Juan Cole

The Nuclear Option, Algeria and David Hume’s Perfect Commonwealth What has the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s got to do with the dictatorial way the US Senate Republicans have begun acting with regard to judicial appointments? The war pitted secular and religious forces against one another, killing over 100,000 persons in constant village massacres […]

Uncategorized
11 Killed 40 Wounded In Saturday Bomb

11 Killed 40 Wounded In Saturday Bomb

Juan Cole

11 Killed, 40 Wounded in Saturday Bomb Marathon Guerrillas detonated at least 5 bombs in Baghdad on Saturday, killing 11 and wounding 40 persons. It was the second day of mayhem in the capital. The Guardian writes, Minutes later, another suicide bomber ploughed into a civilian convoy outside the offices of the National Dialogue Council, […]

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 7
  • Page 8
  • Page 9

Primary Sidebar

Support Independent Journalism

Click here to donate via PayPal.

Personal checks should be made out to Juan Cole and sent to me at:

Juan Cole
P. O. Box 4218,
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2548
USA
(Remember, make the checks out to “Juan Cole” or they can’t be cashed)

STAY INFORMED

Join our newsletter to have sharp analysis delivered to your inbox every day.
Warning! Social media will not reliably deliver Informed Comment to you. They are shadowbanning news sites, especially if "controversial."
To see new IC posts, please sign up for our email Newsletter.

Social Media

Bluesky | Instagram

Popular

  • Gaza, Yemen, Iran: Trump's Opening Gambits in the Middle East (Juan Cole on The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini)
  • Gaza: The Horror, The Horror . . .
  • Britain, France and Canada threaten Israel with Concrete Sanctions if Gaza War is not Halted
  • Stopping Israel's Attack on Civil Society, Justice and Human Rights: A Call to Action
  • Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Gaza Yet Stands


Juan Cole's New Ebook at Amazon. Click Here to Buy
__________________________

Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires



Click here to Buy Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam


Click here to Buy The Rubaiyat.
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved