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

While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit
Asia

While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit

Neil Thompson

Beijing raised its profile at the annual Shanghai Cooperation Council summit of non-Western countries just by providing a forum. London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) […]

“Take the Cash in Hand:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:12

“Take the Cash in Hand:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:12

09/11/2025 By Juan Cole

Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover

Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover

09/11/2025 By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

More Stories

Corruption
Top 10 Ways that the United States is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

Top 10 Ways that the United States is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

The US is so corrupt that our ruling, Republican Party, would even deny human-made climate change and adopt pro-carbon policies

Juan Cole

Immigration
Democrats To Deny Funding to Trump's Muslim Visa Ban on 2nd Anniversary

Democrats To Deny Funding to Trump’s Muslim Visa Ban on 2nd Anniversary

We are dropping American made bombs on countries … the US then made the decision to block those people inside those countries…”

TeleSur

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians need Int’l Protection until Israeli Occupation Ends: PLO

Palestinians need Int’l Protection until Israeli Occupation Ends: PLO

Netanyahu has made clear that even Israeli squatter installations considered illegal by Israeli law will not be removed

Maan News Agency

Islamophobia
How to Talk about Islamophobia in the Age of Trump: There aren't Two Sides to Bigotry

How to Talk about Islamophobia in the Age of Trump: There aren’t Two Sides to Bigotry

Trump cynically invoked the dreaded Muslim Boogeyman.

Basil Abdelkarim

Pentagon
Our Man from Boeing: Has the Arms Industry Captured Trump's Pentagon?

Our Man from Boeing: Has the Arms Industry Captured Trump’s Pentagon?

Candidate Donald Trump saw the revolving door between government and industry as a problem.

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump
Bolton & Trump's Gerontocrats may drag us into Venezuela over Oil when they could just buy an EV

Bolton & Trump’s Gerontocrats may drag us into Venezuela over Oil when they could just buy an EV

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – There are many things wrong with National Security Adviser John Bolton, but the worst is his fixation on petroleum politics. […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Social Media Ridicule: Emirates' Gender Equality Award Winners All Men

Social Media Ridicule: Emirates’ Gender Equality Award Winners All Men

“Wow really nailed the diversity there. One of those dudes was wearing grey”

TeleSur

Iran
Syria and Iran Sign Strategic Economic Plan, including Tartus Naval Base

Syria and Iran Sign Strategic Economic Plan, including Tartus Naval Base

There was also rehabilitation of the ports of Tartus and Latakia as well as construction of a 540 megawatt energy plant

AFP

Afghanistan
Trump & Taliban Close to Deal on US Withdrawal, but Risk of Free For All

Trump & Taliban Close to Deal on US Withdrawal, but Risk of Free For All

Trump decided last month to pull half of the 14,000-strong force from Afghanistan

AFP

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1001
  • Page 1002
  • Page 1003
  • Page 1004
  • Page 1005
  • …
  • Page 3025
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Featured

Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators’ Offices in Qatar

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis

Why Conflict Refugees are Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Risks

The Conversation

Christianity

Is Trump Christian America’s Golden Calf?

Liz Theoharis

Featured

How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation

Dan Steinbock

Popular

  • Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators' Offices in Qatar
  • Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children's Health
  • Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance
  • Morocco Produces 1 gigawatt of Solar Panels Annually, as it turns to Floatovoltaics
  • Trump as a Slow-Motion Apocalypse
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved