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

European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel
European Union

European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, passed a resolution asking European Union member states to recognize a Palestinian […]

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

09/12/2025 By The Conversation

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

09/12/2025 By Tomdispatch

More Stories

Donald Trump
Trump "Religious Freedom" Order Opens Way for LGBT Bias

Trump “Religious Freedom” Order Opens Way for LGBT Bias

Human Rights Watch | – – License for Actions Harmful to Women, LGBT People (Washington, DC) – An executive order issued by President Donald Trump […]

contributors

censorship
Paying for Facebook?  Will Egyptian Social Media Users have to Register With Gov’t?

Paying for Facebook? Will Egyptian Social Media Users have to Register With Gov’t?

By Afef Abrougu. | ( Global Voices ) | – – Sixty Egyptian members of parliament recently approved a draft law on “the regulations of […]

contributors

Bernie Sanders
Trumpcare is the best Advertisement for Nationalizing Insurance

Trumpcare is the best Advertisement for Nationalizing Insurance

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The sadism and greed of the American Republican Party was on full display Thursday, as the […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Dems to GOP After Trumpcare Vote: hey, hey, say Goodbye (in Next Election)

Dems to GOP After Trumpcare Vote: hey, hey, say Goodbye (in Next Election)

By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – President Trump celebrated with House Republicans in the White House Rose Garden amid growing […]

contributors

Iran
Syria: Rebels denounce De-escalation Zones ok'd by Russia, Iran, Turkey

Syria: Rebels denounce De-escalation Zones ok’d by Russia, Iran, Turkey

TeleSur | – – Signatories to the agreement say that there should be a cessation of hostilities in safe zones designated by the three powers […]

contributors

Foreign Policy
American Amnesia in the Garden of War

American Amnesia in the Garden of War

By John Dower | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Some years ago, a newspaper article credited a European visitor with the wry observation that Americans […]

contributors

art and photography
Picture of the Day:  Iranian Woman Tambourine Player, 1848

Picture of the Day: Iranian Woman Tambourine Player, 1848

British Museum | Persian Costumes | – – “Portrait of a young woman; single-page painting mounted on album folio. A young woman kneels on a […]

contributors

Donald Trump
How President Bannon's Whiteboard Sank Trump

How President Bannon’s Whiteboard Sank Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s approval ratings are in the toilet compared to any other modern president at this stage […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Dear Director Comey:  We're Nauseous too, at your Disingenuous Self-Defense

Dear Director Comey: We’re Nauseous too, at your Disingenuous Self-Defense

Sam Seder | (Majority Report) | (Video News Clip) | – – “In this Majority Report clip, we watch FBI Director James Comey defend his […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1314
  • Page 1315
  • Page 1316
  • Page 1317
  • Page 1318
  • …
  • Page 3025
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Academic Freedom

Celebrating Court Ruling Striking down Trump’s $2 Billion Funding Freeze on Harvard

Middle East Studies Association

Donald Trump

Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health

Dan Dinello

Iran

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

Juan Cole

Brazil

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

Middle East Monitor

Popular

  • Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators' Offices in Qatar
  • Is Trump Christian America's Golden Calf?
  • How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation
  • Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover
  • While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved