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 February 2019

European Union
Morocco Produced 35% of its Electricity from Renewables in 2018

Morocco Produced 35% of its Electricity from Renewables in 2018

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Morocco produced 35% of its electricity last year from wind, solar, and hydroelectric sources, putting it on track to its goal of getting 42% from green sources by 2020. It had a further goal of 52% renewables by 2030, but now hopes to go even faster. In contrast, the US […]

Immigration
Defeating Fascism: What a Danish Woman Imam and Swiss Progressives can teach us

Defeating Fascism: What a Danish Woman Imam and Swiss Progressives can teach us

George Lakey

She used her networking skills to track down some of the extremist leaders of the anti-immigrant movement, then she went to see them.

Counter-Terrorism
Half a Million Dead, $5.9 Trillion Bill: The True Costs of US 'Global War on Terror'

Half a Million Dead, $5.9 Trillion Bill: The True Costs of US ‘Global War on Terror’

Stephanie Savell

in the last two years, the U.S. has launched strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen.

Antisemitism
French Neo-Nazis Desecrate Jewish Cemetery with Swastikas in Alsace

French Neo-Nazis Desecrate Jewish Cemetery with Swastikas in Alsace

AFP

Strasbourg (AFP) – Around 80 graves have been daubed with swastikas at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France, local officials said, hours ahead of nationwide marches on Tuesday against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks. The damage was discovered on Tuesday morning at a cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim, close to the border with Germany […]

Israel/ Palestine
John Legend: "For too long it has been out of balance for progressives to speak up for the rights of Palestinians"

John Legend: “For too long it has been out of balance for progressives to speak up for the rights of Palestinians”

Maan News Agency

“It means we see a young Palestinian kid not as a future security threat or demographic challenge, but as a future father, mother and lover.”

Donald Trump
Sleepwalking into our Constitutional Crisis in the Age of Trump

Sleepwalking into our Constitutional Crisis in the Age of Trump

Juan Cole

As a historian of the Middle East, let me just point out that declaring a state of emergency is a means of creating a president for life

nuclear weapons
Resetting the Nuclear Doomsday Clock

Resetting the Nuclear Doomsday Clock

John Buell

In addition to the mini-nukes to be loaded onto missiles on nuclear subs, Trump is also advocating a modernized anti missile defense system

Climate Change
Over our Heads: Climate Crisis Produces Stationary Catastrophic Weather Systems

Over our Heads: Climate Crisis Produces Stationary Catastrophic Weather Systems

The Conversation

If tropical cyclones are moving more slowly, this can leave particular regions bearing the brunt of the rainfall

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Anchor on IDF Troops sent to Occupied Palestine: ‘We get back Animals’

Israeli Anchor on IDF Troops sent to Occupied Palestine: ‘We get back Animals’

Maan News Agency

The New Right Party will call on Attorney General Mandelblit to investigate Kotler’s comments for libel.

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Page 7
  • …
  • Page 15
  • 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

  • Israel's Netanyahu banks on TACO Trump as he Launches War on Iran to disrupt Negotiations
  • A Pariah State? Western Nations Sanction Israeli Cabinet Members
  • Israel: Will Ultra-Orthodox Jews' Opposition to Conscription Bring down Netanyahu's Gov't
  • Women's Cancer Rates are Rising in the Oil Gulf: is Global Heating causing it?
  • Threat to Rule of Law: Sen. Padilla thrown to Ground, Cuffed at Noem DHS Press Conference

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