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

China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal
China

China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lauri Myllyvirta writes at Carbon Brief that China’s CO2 emissions over-all fell by 1% in the past 12 months, and […]

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

05/16/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

05/16/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

More Stories

Free Syrian Army
US to 'Reconsider' Backing for Syrian Rebels After Boy Beheaded

US to ‘Reconsider’ Backing for Syrian Rebels After Boy Beheaded

TeleSur | – – The killers claim to be fighters om a rebel group that has received both financial and arms support from the United […]

contributors

Far Right
Secret Service Investigating Trump Advisor who Wants Hillary Clinton Shot for Treason

Secret Service Investigating Trump Advisor who Wants Hillary Clinton Shot for Treason

Wochit News | (Video News Report) | – – “During a radio interview this week. New Hampshire Representative Al Baldasaro, a Trump delegate who reportedly […]

contributors

Featured
Top 4 Republican Plagiarisms of the Democrats

Top 4 Republican Plagiarisms of the Democrats

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The scandal over Melania Trump’s stealing Michelle Obama’s lines for her convention speech should make us […]

Juan Cole

Internet
Iranian Hardliners Want to Stop Blocking Twitter — to Defeat Saudi Propaganda

Iranian Hardliners Want to Stop Blocking Twitter — to Defeat Saudi Propaganda

By Mahsa Alimardani | ( GlobalVoices.org) | – – A group of Iranian government hardliners, who typically stand at the forefront of policies curtailing freedom […]

contributors

Authoritarianism
WikiLeaks Release 300K Emails Related to Turkey’s ruling Party

WikiLeaks Release 300K Emails Related to Turkey’s ruling Party

TeleSur | – – The group leaked the documents despite being under a major cyber attack for more than 24 hours by suspected allies of […]

contributors

Featured
Rep. Steve King, White People and 'Civilization'

Rep. Steve King, White People and ‘Civilization’

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Rep. Steve King objected to a comment during a cable news discussion at MSNBC that this […]

Juan Cole

Plutocracy
GOP Convention Opens in City Pillaged by Its Policies

GOP Convention Opens in City Pillaged by Its Policies

TeleSur | – – Cleveland, once called the Mistake on the Lake, hosts nominating convention of the political party that authored its downfall Just a […]

contributors

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli opposition leader warns of ‘uprising of hatred’ in Israel

Israeli opposition leader warns of ‘uprising of hatred’ in Israel

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog warned of what he called “growing hatred and racism” in Israel […]

contributors

Christians
Newt Should Check out Mike Pence's Christian Sharia

Newt Should Check out Mike Pence’s Christian Sharia

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Newt Gingrich suggested late last week on cable tv that Muslim Americans should be asked if […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1396
  • Page 1397
  • Page 1398
  • Page 1399
  • Page 1400
  • …
  • Page 2984
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Corporate Surveillance

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

Juan Cole

Immigration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

The Conversation

Donald Trump

Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives

Juan Cole

Syria

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

The Conversation

Popular

  • Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump's Motives
  • Even as it Strikes Deals with Trump, the Gulf Embraces Chinese Tech Giants
  • Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration
  • Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes
  • As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved