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 Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up
China

The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Al Jazeera bureau chief in Tehran, Abdul Qader Fayez, reports from “informed sources” in Tehran that Iran’s clerical Leader, […]

US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity

US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity

06/23/2025 By The Conversation

No Kings!  This is What Democracy Looks Like

No Kings! This is What Democracy Looks Like

06/23/2025 By Tomdispatch

More Stories

Antisemitism
Right's ban on phrase "Polish Death Camps" Backfires on Warsaw

Right’s ban on phrase “Polish Death Camps” Backfires on Warsaw

Sławomir Sierakowski | (Project Syndicate) | – – A new Polish law criminalizes blaming Poles for any wrongdoing against other nations. But the move only […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
The ‘Girls of Revolution Street’ Protest Iran's Compulsory Hijab Laws

The ‘Girls of Revolution Street’ Protest Iran’s Compulsory Hijab Laws

By Mahsa Alimardani | ( GlobalVoices.org ) | – – A spate of defiant Iranian women have taken to the streets of Tehran to protest […]

contributors

Syria
Turkey/Syria: Border Guards Shoot, Block Fleeing Syrians

Turkey/Syria: Border Guards Shoot, Block Fleeing Syrians

Exposes Asylum Seekers to Further Risk, Abuse

contributors

Featured
Russia Mounts intensive Syria Air Campaign in Response to Downed Jet

Russia Mounts intensive Syria Air Campaign in Response to Downed Jet

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Russian side of the story, presented in the Syrian press, is that an al-Qaeda-linked group […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Young US Jews Write 700 Letters of Solidarity to Ahed Tamimi

Young US Jews Write 700 Letters of Solidarity to Ahed Tamimi

TeleSur | – – Two left-wing groups in the U.S. organized the letters campaign and protests marking the the 17th birthday of the imprised Palestinian […]

contributors

Arms Sales
Huge Military Budgets Make Us Broke, Not Safe

Huge Military Budgets Make Us Broke, Not Safe

By Miriam Pemberton | (Otherwords.org) | – – Backing down from nuclear war would make us a lot safer than piling more money into the […]

contributors

Donald Trump
The Nunes Memo, Spirit Cooking and Pizzagate

The Nunes Memo, Spirit Cooking and Pizzagate

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The confident pronouncements by pundits and politicians that the Nunes memo is a dud, dead on […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
Clashes between Saudi forces, armed gangs in Yemen

Clashes between Saudi forces, armed gangs in Yemen

Middle East Monitor | – – Violent clashes broke out Thursday in Al-Mahrah governorate between Saudi Arabia’s forces and unidentified armed smugglers, Aden Tomorrow reported. […]

contributors

film
Alt-Right Trolls Try to Tank ‘Black Panther’ Score on Rotten Tomatoes

Alt-Right Trolls Try to Tank ‘Black Panther’ Score on Rotten Tomatoes

TeleSur | – – Facebook seems to have deleted the racist, sexist group’s page while the popular movie-ranking site announced its plan as hate speech. […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1156
  • Page 1157
  • Page 1158
  • Page 1159
  • Page 1160
  • …
  • Page 2997
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Bill of Rights

Protesting to San Jose State U. for Firing Tenured Professor Sang Hea Kil for Palestine Protest

Committee on Academic Freedom

Bill of Rights

Mahmoud Khalil, Released on Bail from ICE Detention, says “Justice will Prevail”

Common Dreams

Featured

Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True

Juan Cole

Uncategorized

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Popular

  • Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True
  • Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East
  • Colonial Logic, not Jewish Wisdom Guides Israel's Wars
  • Trump's contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation
  • The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved