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

Why Weren’t the October 7 attacks Avoided?
Featured

Why Weren’t the October 7 attacks Avoided?

Dan Steinbock

On October 7, 2023 – two years ago – the Hamas-led offensive was portrayed as “Israel’s 9/11” that came out of the blue. This assumption […]

“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám  1:18

“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:18

10/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order

Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order

10/06/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

journalism
Danger: Sinclair is advancing its agenda using the public broadcast spectrum

Danger: Sinclair is advancing its agenda using the public broadcast spectrum

By Amanda Lotz | (The Conversation) | – – On March 31, Deadspin produced a video showing a chorus of local news anchors delivering the […]

contributors

Israel/ Palestine
#MeToo? Ahed Tamimi’s lawyer accuses Israeli interrogators of sexual harassment

#MeToo? Ahed Tamimi’s lawyer accuses Israeli interrogators of sexual harassment

Middle East Monitor | – – Israeli lawyer Gaby Lasky who is defending Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi has accused investigators of sexual harassment, Arab48.com reported […]

contributors

Syria
Russian, Iranian, Turkish Presidents Meet to Discuss Syria, isolate Trump

Russian, Iranian, Turkish Presidents Meet to Discuss Syria, isolate Trump

TeleSur | – – The meeting signals a shift towards dialogue between what have previously been opposing camps throughout most of Syria’s war. The presidents […]

contributors

Featured
Top 5 Ways Iran is not very much like Hitler's Germany

Top 5 Ways Iran is not very much like Hitler’s Germany

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In that interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman violated Godwin’s law and […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Egypt fines Press for alleging Sisi vote-buying

Egypt fines Press for alleging Sisi vote-buying

Breaking News added by Informed Comment: Egyptian Security Police have raided the website of the offices of Masr al-Arabia and arrested its editor, apparently over […]

contributors

Denialism
How Trump's Gutting of Tailpipe Standards will make China Auto Leader Worldwide

How Trump’s Gutting of Tailpipe Standards will make China Auto Leader Worldwide

By Greg Dotson | (The Conversation) | – – The Trump administration on Monday, April 2, took steps to ease pollution and efficiency rules for […]

contributors

Iranian-Americans
Between Iranian and American (AJ+ Video)

Between Iranian and American (AJ+ Video)

Yara Elmjouie | (AJ+ Video Clip) | – – “Iranian-American AJ+ Producer Yara Elmjouie takes us to meet his parents and reflects on his own […]

contributors

China
Oceania and Eastasia? New Cold War, this Time against both Russia and China?

Oceania and Eastasia? New Cold War, this Time against both Russia and China?

( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Think of it as the most momentous military planning on Earth right now. Who’s even paying attention, given the […]

Michael T. Klare

Featured
Is Saudi Crown Prince's 'Recognition' of Israel anything New or Positive?

Is Saudi Crown Prince’s ‘Recognition’ of Israel anything New or Positive?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Former Israeli prison guard at the notorious Ktzi’ot Prison camp for Palestinians and now editor-in-chief of […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1166
  • Page 1167
  • Page 1168
  • Page 1169
  • Page 1170
  • …
  • Page 3034
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Featured

The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy

H. Patricia Hynes

Authoritarianism

The 6 Superpowers that Faith Communities bring to nonviolent Struggle

Waging Nonviolence

Israel/ Palestine

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

The Conversation

Featured

It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain

Richard Penaskovic

Popular

  • Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity
  • It Doesn't Have to Hurt: Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain
  • Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump's Gaza "Peace" Plan
  • Protesting Northwestern U's Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as "Antisemitism"
  • The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved