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

Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program
Featured

Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France, the United Kingdom and Germany (the “E3”) on Thursday sent a formal letter to the UN Security Council asking […]

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

08/29/2025 By The Conversation

From Guernica to Gaza:  The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

From Guernica to Gaza: The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

08/29/2025 By Norman Solomon

More Stories

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Turkey's Syrian blowback

Turkey’s Syrian blowback

London (Informed Comment) – With the New Year terrorist attack in Istanbul now being claimed by the Islamic State (IS) movement, it is clear that […]

Neil Thompson

Dissent
Can Popular Mobilization & Sanctuary stop Trump's Deportation Plans?

Can Popular Mobilization & Sanctuary stop Trump’s Deportation Plans?

By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – Cost, impossible logistics, political opposition, and community resistance could spell the end of the president-elect’s […]

contributors

Donald Trump
GOP Russia Hawks attack Trump:  McCain Says he Must 'Stand Up' to Putin

GOP Russia Hawks attack Trump: McCain Says he Must ‘Stand Up’ to Putin

TeleSur | – – On Friday, Trump congratulated Putin for not retaliating to Obama’s expulsions. On the same day a top aide to President-elect Donald […]

contributors

Authoritarianism
Preparing for the Normalization of a Neofascist White House

Preparing for the Normalization of a Neofascist White House

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It is 2017, and shortly the White House will be inhabited by an unscrupulous, corrupt narcissist […]

Juan Cole

Russia
No, it's not a new Cold War: The USSR is Gone Forever

No, it’s not a new Cold War: The USSR is Gone Forever

By Ghia Nodia | (Project Syndicate) | – – MOSCOW – This New Year’s Eve marks the 25th anniversary of the formal dissolution of the […]

contributors

Israel/ Palestine
2016: A deadly year in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory and Israel

2016: A deadly year in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory and Israel

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The past year has been one of the deadliest and most violent in recent years for […]

contributors

Authoritarianism
Wall Street Journal Wouldn't Call a Lie a Lie If Trump Says It

Wall Street Journal Wouldn’t Call a Lie a Lie If Trump Says It

TeleSur | – – The paper is worried about objectivity, said WSJ editor-in-chief Gerard Baker. The Wall Street Journal would not call a lie a […]

contributors

Donald Trump
America’s Major Challenges in Middle East Policy, 2017

America’s Major Challenges in Middle East Policy, 2017

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The incoming Trump administration is riven by a profound division between those determined to avoid deep […]

Juan Cole

Health Care
Rethinking The Cost of War

Rethinking The Cost of War

By Mike Hixenbaugh for The Virginian-Pilot, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica | – – There are many ways to measure the cost of U.S. involvement in […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1369
  • Page 1370
  • Page 1371
  • Page 1372
  • Page 1373
  • …
  • Page 3020
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Genocide

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

The Conversation

Featured

There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children*

H. Patricia Hynes

Omar Khayyam

“Red Wine!” – the Nightingale cries to the Rose: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:6

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don't Enable the Slaughter in Gaza
  • Don't Blame Israel for Violating Jewish Ethics
  • There's no Such thing as Someone Else's Children*
  • The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
  • More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved