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

Juan Cole

Featured
Yes, Liz Cheney, AOC is right that US is Running Concentration Camps for Refugees

Yes, Liz Cheney, AOC is right that US is Running Concentration Camps for Refugees

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been under fire for an Instagram message she sent out in which she characterized the holding facilities for refugees and other undocumented entrants into the US run by ICE and by private companies (for which it is a $2 billion a year industry) as “concentration camps.” Human […]

Israel/ Palestine
Kushner's Bahrain conference collapsing--No Palestine, Israel Officials, charges of attempting to Buy off Palestinians

Kushner’s Bahrain conference collapsing–No Palestine, Israel Officials, charges of attempting to Buy off Palestinians

Juan Cole

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — US Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt has stated that next week’s Bahrain economic workshop is the first part of the United State’s peace plan known as “Deal of the Century.” Greenblatt has also emphasized to the Israeli news agency “i24NEWS” that the workshop will be concidsered as “apolitical” due to the Palestinian […]

Featured
Solar Growing by leaps and Bounds in India, fueling Irrigation and Jobs

Solar Growing by leaps and Bounds in India, fueling Irrigation and Jobs

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Solar energy is one of the fastest-growing energy sectors in the world, and has the great advantage of producing no carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that is raising the average surface temperature of the earth. India is now for the first time in history investing more in solar energy than […]

Featured
Alleging False Flag, Iran Speaker accuses US of Gulf of Oman Tanker Attacks

Alleging False Flag, Iran Speaker accuses US of Gulf of Oman Tanker Attacks

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iran’s speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, said Monday that he believed that the United States might have staged the attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week. Larijani said that such an attempt to frame Iran would be consistent with current US policy, which is to […]

Featured
Trump Heights on Stolen Golan an Indictment of Colonial White Privilege

Trump Heights on Stolen Golan an Indictment of Colonial White Privilege

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a publicity stunt Trumpian in its iniquity and emptiness, the government of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu put up a sign in the Occupied Syrian Golan Heights, saying “Trump Heights.” There isn’t really any settlement there yet, just a sign, just as there isn’t any reality to Trump more […]

Afghanistan
Once Again Pompeo Displays Hopeless Ignorance of Sunni & Shiite, Iran and Taliban

Once Again Pompeo Displays Hopeless Ignorance of Sunni & Shiite, Iran and Taliban

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Washington Post reports that when US Secretary of State “Benghazi Mike” Pompeo gave his breathless news conference last Thursday to finger Iran for the oil tanker explosions in the Gulf of Oman, he indicted Iran for another act of violence at the same time. Mary Papenfus at HuffPo notes […]

Climate Change
No More War for Oil: Buy an Electric Car & Never hear about Tankers Again

No More War for Oil: Buy an Electric Car & Never hear about Tankers Again

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As the warmonger faction in the Trump administration milks the attack on two oil tankers near the Straits of Hormuz for all its potential as a new Gulf of Tonkin pretext for hostilities, everyone should keep in mind the cargo. The cargo is petroleum, to run your car or Japan’s […]

Featured
Whoever Hit the Gulf Tankers, Pompeo was Wrong to Finger Iran before Evidence Was In

Whoever Hit the Gulf Tankers, Pompeo was Wrong to Finger Iran before Evidence Was In

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The mysterious mines that blew up two tankers, one of them Japanese-owned and operated, on Wednesday, sent a frisson of fear through the Gulf, since it was clear that Trump warmongers would blame Iran and then use the incident as a springboard to war. Despite the confident pronouncements of “Benghazi […]

Corruption
Trump Broadcasts Free Ad via Disney to Thuggish Regimes, requesting Hacked Dirt on Dems

Trump Broadcasts Free Ad via Disney to Thuggish Regimes, requesting Hacked Dirt on Dems

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump revealed again on Wednesday that he has no legal or ethical compass. In an interview with ABC news Chief Anchor George Stephanopolous, Trump was asked if he would go to the FBI if a foreign government contacted him with dirt on his Democratic opponent or if he would accept […]

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 227
  • Page 228
  • Page 229
  • Page 230
  • Page 231
  • …
  • Page 1599
  • 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

  • Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu
  • Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest
  • Misreading and Misrepresenting Iran
  • 12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict
  • Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Judge and Ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his Adventures

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