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

Main Content

Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance
Academic Freedom

Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance

Mehmet Rakipoglu and İbrahim Ozcosar

By Mehmet Rakipoğlu and İbrahim Özcoşar | – Exeter, UK and Mardin, Türkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the aftermath of 7 October […]

Juan Cole Fundraiser
DONATED:$9,136
SUPPORTERS:109
TARGET:$30,000
REMAINING:$20,864
Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

10/21/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Trump pushing Allies to Buy US Gas is bad Economics and a Climate Catastrophe

Trump pushing Allies to Buy US Gas is bad Economics and a Climate Catastrophe

10/21/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Donald Trump
The New Model of Autocratic Cooperation: The US, Russia and the Middle East

The New Model of Autocratic Cooperation: The US, Russia and the Middle East

Quincy, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Today, and particularly in the Middle East, concepts like national interest, class, and geopolitics are fading compared […]

Scott Corey

Omar Khayyam
“And one by one crept silently to Rest:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:21

“And one by one crept silently to Rest:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:21

Stanza 21 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám continues with the theme of the shortness of life […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Major Israeli Violations of Gaza Ceasefire, With Extensive Bombardment, killing 51 Palestinians

Major Israeli Violations of Gaza Ceasefire, With Extensive Bombardment, killing 51 Palestinians

By Brett Wilkins | – ( Commondreams.org ) – Gaza officials said that at least 51 Palestinians, including numerous children, were killed across the strip […]

Common Dreams

Anti-Vaccination
A Matter of Life and Death: Trump, RFK Jr. and Lies that Kill

A Matter of Life and Death: Trump, RFK Jr. and Lies that Kill

By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The Senate Finance Committee hearing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was explosive. The Secretary of […]

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump
Ypsilanti, named for a Greek Freedom Fighter against Tyranny, Rallies against Trump on “No Kings” Day

Ypsilanti, named for a Greek Freedom Fighter against Tyranny, Rallies against Trump on “No Kings” Day

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the 1820s Greece waged a successful war of independence against an authoritarian king, the Ottoman Emperor Mahmoud II. The […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Our Fourth Amendment Rights Are Endangered Like Never Before

Our Fourth Amendment Rights Are Endangered Like Never Before

Trump is trying to disappear the part of the Constitution that stops the government from searching your house — or seizing you — without a […]

OtherWords

Displaced and Refugees
As Gaza rebuilds, what Lessons can be learned from Nagasaki in 1945?

As Gaza rebuilds, what Lessons can be learned from Nagasaki in 1945?

By Gwyn McClelland, University of New England (The Conversation) – At first, there might not seem to be any immediate similarities between a devastated Nagasaki […]

The Conversation

Featured
Infectious Diseases “Spiraling out of Control” in Gaza as Israel Cuts Aid Entry in Half

Infectious Diseases “Spiraling out of Control” in Gaza as Israel Cuts Aid Entry in Half

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The terms of the Trump ceasefire in Gaza required Israeli authorities to allow 600 trucks of food and medical aid […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Can Netanyahu Survive Peace?

Can Netanyahu Survive Peace?

By John Strawson, University of East London (The Conversation) – Now a ceasefire has come into effect in Gaza, Israel’s long-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, […]

The Conversation

  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • …
  • Page 3039
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Omar Khayyam

“And one by one crept silently to Rest:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:21

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Major Israeli Violations of Gaza Ceasefire, With Extensive Bombardment, killing 51 Palestinians

Common Dreams

Anti-Vaccination

A Matter of Life and Death: Trump, RFK Jr. and Lies that Kill

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump

Ypsilanti, named for a Greek Freedom Fighter against Tyranny, Rallies against Trump on “No Kings” Day

Juan Cole

Popular

  • A Matter of Life and Death: Trump, RFK Jr. and Lies that Kill
  • Major Israeli Violations of Gaza Ceasefire, With Extensive Bombardment, killing 51 Palestinians
  • Ypsilanti, named for a Greek Freedom Fighter against Tyranny, Rallies against Trump on "No Kings" Day
  • The Trump Administration's steps toward a Military Occupation of America
  • Our Fourth Amendment Rights Are Endangered Like Never Before
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved