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

The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy
Featured

The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – How much are women and girls–half of humanity–valued?  When men violate us for sex in prostitution.  When […]

The 6 Superpowers that Faith Communities bring to nonviolent Struggle

The 6 Superpowers that Faith Communities bring to nonviolent Struggle

10/05/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

Hamas and Israel are on the Verge of a Ceasefire; Denial of Palestinian Agency Could Derail it

Hamas and Israel are on the Verge of a Ceasefire; Denial of Palestinian Agency Could Derail it

10/05/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Donald Trump
The Trump Show:  The Real Fake News is obsessing about the President 24/7

The Trump Show: The Real Fake News is obsessing about the President 24/7

Never, not ever, has a single human being been so inescapable.

Tom Engelhardt

Iran
Trump's New Iran Oil Sanctions may Hurt Americans more than Iran

Trump’s New Iran Oil Sanctions may Hurt Americans more than Iran

Panic over prices at the pump

The Conversation

BDS
Top Chefs bow out of Israel Food Festival under BDS/ Boycott pressure

Top Chefs bow out of Israel Food Festival under BDS/ Boycott pressure

Two leading chefs have pulled out of the Tel Aviv-hosted Round Tables food festival following pressure from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, reported […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Change
All our Dystopias Now: Climate Crisis, Plutocracy and Hyper-Nationalism

All our Dystopias Now: Climate Crisis, Plutocracy and Hyper-Nationalism

(Tomdispatch.com) – The mid-term elections are over, and the Democrats have regained the House, but the rest of American political reality remains intact. Meanwhile, the […]

John Feffer

Featured
Scotland was first Industrialized Country to Run wholly on Wind in October

Scotland was first Industrialized Country to Run wholly on Wind in October

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scotland generated enough wind power from onshore wind turbines in October to fuel electricity for five million homes, that is, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Chomsky: Occupation, Gaza ‘Concentration Camp’ turning Israel Fascist

Chomsky: Occupation, Gaza ‘Concentration Camp’ turning Israel Fascist

‘Keeping a Jackboot on people’s necks’

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel: Lieberman Quits over PM refusal to War on Gaza, Gov’t Totters

Israel: Lieberman Quits over PM refusal to War on Gaza, Gov’t Totters

By Jonah Mandel | – Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced his resignation on Wednesday and called for early elections after a […]

AFP

Featured
Trump's Visa Ban, Rhetoric Scare off Foreign Students, Threatening 450K Jobs

Trump’s Visa Ban, Rhetoric Scare off Foreign Students, Threatening 450K Jobs

Educating students from abroad is a $42 bn industry in the US

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
Khashoggi killing: Strongest evidence linking murder to MBS

Khashoggi killing: Strongest evidence linking murder to MBS

A message captured in the audio record of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi is widely believed to be an instruction to notify the Crown Prince […]

Middle East Monitor

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1051
  • Page 1052
  • Page 1053
  • Page 1054
  • Page 1055
  • …
  • Page 3033
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Iran

“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:17

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s Abduction of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is a clear Violation of International Law

The Conversation

Academic Freedom

Protesting Northwestern U’s Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”

Committee on Academic Freedom

Arab World

Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Popular

  • As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note
  • Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity
  • Where does the Arab and Muslim world stand on Trump’s Gaza peace plan? Expert Q&A
  • Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump's Gaza "Peace" Plan
  • The Fragile Peace of Trump's Gaza Plan
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved