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

As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
Featured

As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as President Trump and members of his entourage in Doha, Qatar, discussed how to end the Israeli war on […]

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

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

05/15/2025 By Juan Cole

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

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

05/15/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Denialism
Not the Onion: Trump: 'No California Drought & I will Solve it'

Not the Onion: Trump: ‘No California Drought & I will Solve it’

TeleSur | – – The presumptive GOP nominee told supporters in Fresno, California on Friday that he does not believe the state is currently facing […]

contributors

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
In Fight against ISIL, does US have to Choose between Turkey & YPG Kurds?

In Fight against ISIL, does US have to Choose between Turkey & YPG Kurds?

By James Miller | ( RFE/ RL ) The fight against extremists from the Islamic State (IS) militant group is heating up on two fronts.  […]

contributors

Featured
Modern Mongols:  Sunni Arabs outraged at Iran role in Iraqi Gov't Fallujah Campaign

Modern Mongols: Sunni Arabs outraged at Iran role in Iraqi Gov’t Fallujah Campaign

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – BBC Monitoring surveyed the Arabic press on 27 May for the issue of the Iranian role […]

Juan Cole

Free Syrian Army
ISIL Advance Traps 165,000 Syrians at Closed Turkish Border

ISIL Advance Traps 165,000 Syrians at Closed Turkish Border

By Gerry Simpson | ( Human Rights Watch ) | – – There are two walls on the Turkey-Syria border. One is manned by Turkish […]

contributors

Solar Energy
Solar Surges: Renewable Energy Jobs Topped 8 Million in 2015

Solar Surges: Renewable Energy Jobs Topped 8 Million in 2015

By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – In the U.S. alone, solar grew nearly 22% since the previous year On […]

contributors

Israel/ Palestine
After Obama in Hiroshima:  Israel’s Gigantic Nuclear Elephant

After Obama in Hiroshima: Israel’s Gigantic Nuclear Elephant

TeleSur | – – The criminalization of truth when it comes to Israel’s nuclear capabilities means that its arsenal has been converted into a gigantic […]

contributors

Democracy
Kurdish lawmakers Depart Baghdad:  "Straighten up or We Won't Be Back"

Kurdish lawmakers Depart Baghdad: “Straighten up or We Won’t Be Back”

By Histyar Qader | Erbil | (Niqash.org) | – – After protestors invaded Baghdad’s Green Zone, Iraqi Kurdish politicians fled home. Despite the fact that […]

contributors

Barack Obama
Obama in Hiroshima, Memorial Day and the Iran Deal

Obama in Hiroshima, Memorial Day and the Iran Deal

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Obama in Hiroshima gave an anti-war speech. He said, ” But among those nations like […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders
Sanders:  "Tough Guy Trump" is afraid to Debate me

Sanders: “Tough Guy Trump” is afraid to Debate me

TeleSur | – – Trump initially told reporters he would “love to debate Bernie.” The Republican nominee flip flopped from his initial openess to debating […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1417
  • Page 1418
  • Page 1419
  • Page 1420
  • Page 1421
  • …
  • Page 2984
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Bill of Rights

Rümeysa Öztürk freed, as Judge Warns of Grave Threat to Free Speech

Common Dreams

Syria

Syrian Women and Children return to rebuild, leaving Husbands Behind

Open Democracy

Conspiracy Theories

When Politics Leaves Reality Behind

Bahman Fozouni

Israel/ Palestine

The Obscenity of Collective Punishment in Gaza

John Feffer

Popular

  • Are Cyberattacks and Iran's Port Explosion the First Salvo in Disrupting U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks?
  • Even as it Strikes Deals with Trump, the Gulf Embraces Chinese Tech Giants
  • Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump's Motives
  • Donald Trump's Feverish Lust for Green Energy Resources isn't about the Climate
  • Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved