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 March 2016

Bernie Sanders
Bravest man in Politics:  Bernie Sanders harshly criticizes Israeli Occupation: 'Absurd' Settlements, 44% Unemployment

Bravest man in Politics: Bernie Sanders harshly criticizes Israeli Occupation: ‘Absurd’ Settlements, 44% Unemployment

contributors

TeleSur The Vermont senator called himself a “friend” and “partner” of Israel but called for an end to occuption of Palestine. After Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders decided against attending the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference, he outlined his views on the Palestine-Israel conflict and the wider Middle East via video, calling himself […]

Featured
How not to talk about Muslims after a Fringe Terrorist Group attacks

How not to talk about Muslims after a Fringe Terrorist Group attacks

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – 1. Stop calling Daesh “the Islamic State.” They are manipulating you. They aren’t a state and they aren’t Islamic. If some fringe cult took over some villages in Mexico and called itself “The Vatican,” then committed terrorism, would journalists blithely say on air “Today, the Vatican […]

Climate Change
Climate Warming Accelerating Carbon Release from Thawing Arctic Soils, Dartmouth Study Finds

Climate Warming Accelerating Carbon Release from Thawing Arctic Soils, Dartmouth Study Finds

contributors

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media contact: John Cramer | john.cramer@dartmouth.edu | 603-646-9130 HANOVER, N.H. – March 16, 2016 – Warmer, wetter conditions in the Arctic are accelerating the loss of carbon stored in tundra and permafrost soils, creating a potential positive feedback that further boosts global temperatures, a Dartmouth College study finds. The findings appear in […]

Belgium
Brussels Attacks: It isn't about Molenbeek, it is about a Broken Belgian Government

Brussels Attacks: It isn’t about Molenbeek, it is about a Broken Belgian Government

contributors

By Martin Conway | (The Conversation) | – – Just as during the German invasions of 1914 and 1940, war, it seems, is coming to France through Belgium. If one follows the logic of the statements of various French political leaders since the bloody attacks in Paris on November 13, Belgium has become the base […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli decision to ban Palestinian products ‘racist’: Palestine PM

Israeli decision to ban Palestinian products ‘racist’: Palestine PM

contributors

Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Sunday slammed the recent Israeli decision to ban Palestinian food products from entering Jerusalem as “racist.” “Israel is moving forward with attempts to isolate Jerusalem from its surroundings and erase its identity,” Hamdallah said during an opening of a Palestinian […]

Bernie Sanders
Amy Goodman:  Media 'manufacturing consent' for Trump over Sanders via Blackout

Amy Goodman: Media ‘manufacturing consent’ for Trump over Sanders via Blackout

contributors

Bernieforpresident | (CNN’s Reliable Sources Video) | – – “DemocracyNow! host Amy Goodman told CNN’s Brian Stelter that his network and most other mainstream media were “manufacturing consent” for Donald Trump by giving him more airtime than other candidates.” Bernieforpresident: “Amy Goodman rips CNN for airing Trump’s empty stage instead of Sanders’ speech’

Israel/ Palestine
Will the Int'l Criminal Court charge Israeli PM Netanyahu with war crimes?

Will the Int’l Criminal Court charge Israeli PM Netanyahu with war crimes?

contributors

TeleSur \ – – The cases, brought to the court by several legal and activist groups, include wide-ranging charges of war crimes against Israel[i officials]. A Palestinian delegation presented documents to the International Criminal Court to try Israel[i officials] — and possibly Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — for war crimes. The delegation, acting on behalf […]

Saudi Arabia
Is Saudi Arabia's 'Islamic' Coalition against Terrorism a Paper Tiger?

Is Saudi Arabia’s ‘Islamic’ Coalition against Terrorism a Paper Tiger?

Juan Cole

By Frud Bezhan | ( RFE/RL ) | – – Saudi Arabia made a splash when it announced the formation of a 34-country "Islamic" alliance against terrorism in December — and followed it up with a massive military exercise that ended last week. The mainly Sunni Muslim coalition — which includes regional power and NATO-member […]

Democratic Party
Hillary Clinton goes full Neocon at AIPAC, Demonizes Iran, Palestinians

Hillary Clinton goes full Neocon at AIPAC, Demonizes Iran, Palestinians

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I once heard Hillary Clinton give her AIPAC speech at a university. It doesn’t change much, just as US policy toward the Mideast doesn’t change much. She was still a senator then. Much of the audience was Middle East experts, who could barely keep themselves from […]

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Page 7
  • …
  • Page 18
  • Next Page »

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

  • Albanese Sanctions: Marco Rubio now Acting just Like Putin, Charging Human Rights Officials
  • Trump Brings back Torture, Big Time
  • Solar Power outstripped all others in Europe last Month for First Time
  • Israeli Minister: 'Gaza must be in Ruins for Decades,' as Airstrike Kills Children seeking Water
  • Stop Israel's Dystopian Concentration Camp in Gaza before it is Too Late

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