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

Israel/ Palestine
Int’l Criticism mounts over massive Israeli ‘land grab’ in Palestinian West Bank

Int’l Criticism mounts over massive Israeli ‘land grab’ in Palestinian West Bank

By Killian Redden | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian and international leaders joined a growing chorus of criticism this week […]

contributors

Featured
Syria's Kurds to declare Federal Province

Syria’s Kurds to declare Federal Province

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Syria’s Kurds have decided to declare a federal province in the northeast of the country and […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
An Offer we can't Refuse: Trump threatens "Riots" if Brokered Convention Sidelines Him

An Offer we can’t Refuse: Trump threatens “Riots” if Brokered Convention Sidelines Him

By Mark Sovel and Nik Zecevic | (TheLipTV Video Report) | – – “Donald Trump warned of riots if the Republican party denies him the […]

contributors

Arab Spring
Forgetting Tahrir: The Man on Horseback and the fate of Egypt's Revolution

Forgetting Tahrir: The Man on Horseback and the fate of Egypt’s Revolution

Neil Serougi | ( OpenDemocracy ) | – – Why would a country that showed itself so courageous in confronting Mubarak’s repression now be content […]

contributors

Russia
Why is Putin Really withdrawing from Syria?

Why is Putin Really withdrawing from Syria?

By Alexander Titov | (The Conversation) | – – Back in September 30 2015, when Vladimir Putin unexpectedly announced the deployment of the Russian air […]

contributors

Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders' Path Forward: The Disappointed Generation

Bernie Sanders’ Path Forward: The Disappointed Generation

TeleSur | – – Since the beginning of the presidential campaign Bernie Sanders has received little coverage and has been counted out of having any […]

contributors

Far Right
If it's Trump versus Clinton, what does it Mean for Iran and ISIL Policy?

If it’s Trump versus Clinton, what does it Mean for Iran and ISIL Policy?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – – Despite Donald Trump’s big wins on Tuesday, he is still only halfway to the delegate […]

Juan Cole

Militarization
Has the Pentagon become Lawless, Corrupt & only overseen by Civilian Hawks?

Has the Pentagon become Lawless, Corrupt & only overseen by Civilian Hawks?

Gregory D. Foster | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Item: Two U.S. Navy patrol boats, with 10 sailors aboard, “stray” into Iranian territorial waters, […]

contributors

Israel/ Palestine
Israel returns to pre-Oslo policy of vast land confiscations

Israel returns to pre-Oslo policy of vast land confiscations

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel has reinstated a policy of confiscating vast swathes of Palestinian land for settlement expansion in […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1503
  • Page 1504
  • Page 1505
  • Page 1506
  • Page 1507
  • …
  • 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
  • In move that could Bring in NATO, Spain joins Italy in Sending Rescue Ship for Sumud Gaza Aid Flotilla
  • Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas: PA Ready to Govern Gaza, Demands End to Starvation and Genocide
  • Is Benjamin Netanyahu on a Mission to Realize a Greater Israel?
  • Kimmel Saga no Laughing Matter: Trump and the North Koreanization of America
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved