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

Lebanon’s Solar Capacity surged since 2020 to 1.5 gigawatts, as Homeowners tired of Blackouts
Climate Crisis

Lebanon’s Solar Capacity surged since 2020 to 1.5 gigawatts, as Homeowners tired of Blackouts

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Lebanese Ministry of Energy has let three bids for new solar farms of 15 megawatts each, for a total […]

Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South

Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South

09/29/2025 By Human Rights Watch

A Strategy for Controlling an Out-of-Control Government: Alliance, Defiance, Noncompliance

A Strategy for Controlling an Out-of-Control Government: Alliance, Defiance, Noncompliance

09/29/2025 By Tomdispatch

More Stories

Featured
RIP Shimon Peres:  Last Great Israeli leader to believe in 2 State solution

RIP Shimon Peres: Last Great Israeli leader to believe in 2 State solution

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I met an emperor once, but have only met a couple of presidents. Shimon Peres (1923-2016) […]

Juan Cole

Militarization
If Spec Ops are the future of the US Military, it isn't Winning many Wars

If Spec Ops are the future of the US Military, it isn’t Winning many Wars

By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Americans expect to be number one.  First Lady Michelle Obama recently called the United States the “greatest country on […]

contributors

Democratic Party
Vote For Hillary Clinton Or Die in a Fiery Apocalypse: A Letter To Young Progressives

Vote For Hillary Clinton Or Die in a Fiery Apocalypse: A Letter To Young Progressives

By David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – Dear young progressives, If recent polls are to be believed, younger progressive voters like you are […]

contributors

Featured
The Presidential Debate that did not really Happen

The Presidential Debate that did not really Happen

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Regular readers will know that in my view the 2016 presidential election did not happen. Likewise, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Apartheid Wall Is the Muse to Trump's Mexico Border Wall

Israel Apartheid Wall Is the Muse to Trump’s Mexico Border Wall

By TeleSur | – – Trump’s signature campaign propsosal is modeled, he says, on Israel’s “successful separation barrier.” Ahead of Monday’s presidential debate between U.S. […]

contributors

Featured
Syria, Russia push to take East Aleppo pocket as airstrikes kill 66, wound 200

Syria, Russia push to take East Aleppo pocket as airstrikes kill 66, wound 200

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Only a week after seeming to agree to a ceasefire, Russia and the Syrian regime in […]

Juan Cole

Copts
Egypt: New Church Law Discriminates Against Christians

Egypt: New Church Law Discriminates Against Christians

By Human Rights Watch | – – Authorities Fail to Prevent, Punish Violent Attacks (Tunis) – A long-awaited new law maintains restrictions over the construction […]

contributors

Corruption
Mainstream Media focusing on Political Infotainment, not Policy

Mainstream Media focusing on Political Infotainment, not Policy

By Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Donald Trump is one of those stupid guys who thinks […]

contributors

Iraq
ISIL used Chem on US Troops in Iraq; but this time US Gov't isn't talking WMD

ISIL used Chem on US Troops in Iraq; but this time US Gov’t isn’t talking WMD

By Michelle Bentley | (The Conversation) | – – The group known as Islamic State (IS) reportedly used a sulpur-mustard gas against US troops in […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1422
  • Page 1423
  • Page 1424
  • Page 1425
  • Page 1426
  • …
  • Page 3031
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

censorship

Jimmy Kimmel’s Reinstatement shows the Power of Noncooperation

Waging Nonviolence

Israel/ Palestine

The Path to Genocide is protected by the International Community

Ramona Wadi

Featured

Israel’s Netanyahu addresses Empty UN Chamber with Genocidal Claims after Mass Walkout

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Microsoft cuts Israeli Military off from its Azure Cloud over Mass Surveillance of Civilians

Binoy Kampmark

Popular

  • Israel's Netanyahu addresses Empty UN Chamber with Genocidal Claims after Mass Walkout
  • Do UN "Snapback" Sanctions really Matter to the Iranian Economy and its Nuclear Program?
  • Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas: PA Ready to Govern Gaza, Demands End to Starvation and Genocide
  • Rivers are heating up faster than the Air − that’s a Problem for aquatic Life and People
  • The Death of Civil Rights in the Age of Trump
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved