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

Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State
Featured

Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

09/23/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State  – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

09/23/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Iran
ISIL Threatens To Conquer Iran, issuing Rare Video In Persian

ISIL Threatens To Conquer Iran, issuing Rare Video In Persian

Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) | – – The militant group Islamic State (IS) has vowed in a rare video message in Persian that includes […]

contributors

Donald Trump
The Hundred Days From Hell

The Hundred Days From Hell

David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – As the sun rises on the 11th full week of the disgrace-riddled Barnum & Bailey dystopia known […]

contributors

Donald Trump
Is Trump really a Fascist?

Is Trump really a Fascist?

By David Prochaska | (Informed Comment) | – – The “highly unusual,” “unprecedented” Trump administration is leading us into “uncharted territory,” but where exactly? Since […]

contributors

Featured
Iran is Back:  With Int'l Sanctions lifted and Putin Friendly, Tehran is on a Roll

Iran is Back: With Int’l Sanctions lifted and Putin Friendly, Tehran is on a Roll

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iranian petroleum sales to its top four Asian customers rose nearly 60% year on year in […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
The White House Wouldn't Post Trump Staffers' Financial Disclosures. So We Did

The White House Wouldn’t Post Trump Staffers’ Financial Disclosures. So We Did

by Ariana Tobin and Derek Kravitz | (ProPublica) | – – In a remarkable Friday night news dump, the Trump administration made dozens of White […]

contributors

Israel/ Palestine
Israel knicks 25 Acres Of Palestinian Lands In Salfit for Colonial Purposes

Israel knicks 25 Acres Of Palestinian Lands In Salfit for Colonial Purposes

IMEMC | – – The Israeli government is planning to illegally confiscate 25 acres of Palestinian lands, in Salfit district, in the northeastern part of […]

contributors

Iraq
Mosul: ISIL Deploys Ideological Booby Trap As It Retreats

Mosul: ISIL Deploys Ideological Booby Trap As It Retreats

David Patrikarakos | ( RFE/RL ) | – – The coalition battling to take the Iraqi city of Mosul from the extremist [so-called] “Islamic State” […]

contributors

Climate Change
Putin joins ranks of Climate Denialists in support of Trump

Putin joins ranks of Climate Denialists in support of Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Russian President Vladimir Putin has abruptly become a climate-change denialist, apparently under the influence of key […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraqis Weigh in on Airstrike That Killed Hundreds In Mosul

Iraqis Weigh in on Airstrike That Killed Hundreds In Mosul

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – There is plenty of speculation about how hundreds of non-combatants were killed in Mosul, all apparently […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1334
  • Page 1335
  • Page 1336
  • Page 1337
  • Page 1338
  • …
  • Page 3029
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Omar Khayyam

“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

Middle East Monitor

Islamophobia

Muslim-Led Story-Telling is Changing the TV Narrative of Irrational Violence

The Conversation

Colonialism

76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Riyadh-Islamabad "Islamic NATO" to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can't draw the Line at Genocide, they can't Draw the Line at Democracy
  • 76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine
  • "Real Estate Bonanza:" The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza
  • Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved