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

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
Archaeology

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

08/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

08/24/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Featured
Reinventing Saudi Arabia after Oil:  The Prince's $2 Trillion Gamble

Reinventing Saudi Arabia after Oil: The Prince’s $2 Trillion Gamble

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, 30, the deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia laid out his vision […]

Juan Cole

Republican Party
Are Cruz And Kasich smart enough to stop Trump?

Are Cruz And Kasich smart enough to stop Trump?

By Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola, Jimmy Dore | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Ted Cruz and John Kasich are doing their best […]

contributors

al-Qaeda
Inclusive Governing key to preventing 5th Wave of Violent Radicalism

Inclusive Governing key to preventing 5th Wave of Violent Radicalism

By Carl Bildt | (Project Syndicate) | – – STOCKHOLM – Muscular language has become increasingly prevalent in the debate about how to counter the […]

contributors

Bernie Sanders
Over 80 senators push Obama to increase military aid to Israel; but not Bernie

Over 80 senators push Obama to increase military aid to Israel; but not Bernie

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — More than 80 percent of American senators signed a letter addressed to US President Barack Obama […]

contributors

Health
Now the 1% Live 15 yrs longer than the Poorest:  The Death Gap's Increasing

Now the 1% Live 15 yrs longer than the Poorest: The Death Gap’s Increasing

By Sam Pizzigati | ( Otherwords.org) | – – Rich people live longer than poor people. No big news there — we’ve known that health […]

contributors

Featured
ISIL Endgame:  Obama to send 250 more US Troops into Syria

ISIL Endgame: Obama to send 250 more US Troops into Syria

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Obama is announcing Monday morning in Hanover, Germany, that he will send another 250 US […]

Juan Cole

Hillary Clinton
It's Possible: Koch Brother Says Hillary Clinton Might Be Best Choice for Him

It’s Possible: Koch Brother Says Hillary Clinton Might Be Best Choice for Him

By Jon Queally, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – Asked if he could actually see himself supporting Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical general election […]

contributors

Human Rights
Defeating ISIL in Iraq while Protecting Civilians:  Don't destroy Mosul to "Save" It

Defeating ISIL in Iraq while Protecting Civilians: Don’t destroy Mosul to “Save” It

Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – Iraqi government forces gearing up to drive Islamic State fighters from Mosul should prioritize protection of civilians. […]

contributors

Bush
Not al-Qaeda:  Abu Zubayda as Bush's Mengele Experiment

Not al-Qaeda: Abu Zubayda as Bush’s Mengele Experiment

By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Intro: Rebecca Gordon catches the nightmarish quality of those [Bush] years, now largely buried, in the […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1467
  • Page 1468
  • Page 1469
  • Page 1470
  • Page 1471
  • …
  • Page 3018
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Afghanistan

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

ProPublica

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

The Conversation

Academic Freedom

The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza

Shamai Leibowitz

Omar Khayyam

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

Juan Cole

Popular

  • From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming
  • The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
  • Cartoonish Trump is making America a Caricature, and I should Know
  • America may have invaded Iraq for its Oil, but Solar Power is what Iraqis now Want
  • Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved