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

Britain, France and Canada threaten Israel with Concrete Sanctions if Gaza War is not Halted
Canada

Britain, France and Canada threaten Israel with Concrete Sanctions if Gaza War is not Halted

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Britain, France and Canada issued a statement on Monday, demanding that the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu cease its military […]

Gaza faces Catastrophic Famine

Gaza faces Catastrophic Famine

05/20/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Trump Lifting Syria Sanctions is a win for Middle Power Turkey

Trump Lifting Syria Sanctions is a win for Middle Power Turkey

05/20/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Bashar al-Assad
ISIL beheaded Dozens in Palmyra, but how Strategic is the City?

ISIL beheaded Dozens in Palmyra, but how Strategic is the City?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – Nearly 500 people died in the campaign by Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) to take the Syrian city of […]

Juan Cole

censorship
TPP and Fast Track Harm Web Creativity and Users' Rights:  Tech Companies to Congress

TPP and Fast Track Harm Web Creativity and Users’ Rights: Tech Companies to Congress

By Maira Sutton | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – In a In a joint letter to Congress released this week, more than 250 technology companies […]

contributors

Barack Obama
Obama: Climate change deniers endanger national security

Obama: Climate change deniers endanger national security

WTNH News8 | (Video) – “President Barack Obama says climate change deniers are endangering national security.” WTNH News8 “Obama: Climate change deniers endanger national security”

contributors

Bashar al-Assad
As Palmyra Falls, Who Supports Bashar al-Assad in Syria? (Charles Glass)

As Palmyra Falls, Who Supports Bashar al-Assad in Syria? (Charles Glass)

VICE News | (Video) “VICE News and the New York Review of Books have partnered to create Talking Heads, a series about the big issues […]

contributors

Apartheid

Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age

by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary — Q & A with REBECCA STEIN: Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age (Stanford University Press, […]

contributors

al-Qaeda
Washington asks, "Who lost Ramadi?" But Washington never had Ramadi

Washington asks, “Who lost Ramadi?” But Washington never had Ramadi

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | — The inside-the-Beltway debate set off by the fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi to Daesh (ISIS, […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
Israel: Court Permits Discriminatory Evictions of Palestinian-Israeli Villagers

Israel: Court Permits Discriminatory Evictions of Palestinian-Israeli Villagers

Human Rights Watch | – Arab Villages in Israel, West Bank Face New Displacement (Jerusalem) – Separate Israeli Supreme Court decisions issued on May 5, […]

contributors

Environment
Solar, Wind don't do this:  21,000 Gallons of Oil Stain Santa Barbara, CA Coastline

Solar, Wind don’t do this: 21,000 Gallons of Oil Stain Santa Barbara, CA Coastline

By Nicholas Sirianno | (Mountain Weekly News) — About 25 miles north of Santa Barbara, CA Refugio State Beach, a quiet white-sand surf and popular […]

contributors

Bashar al-Assad
Syrian Opposition, Caught between Assad & Extremists, Despair at World's Neglect

Syrian Opposition, Caught between Assad & Extremists, Despair at World’s Neglect

By Haroro J. Ingram with L. T. Anthony | (The Conversation) | – Syrian civilians are trapped in the middle of a holocaust: prizes in […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1624
  • Page 1625
  • Page 1626
  • Page 1627
  • Page 1628
  • …
  • Page 2985
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

censorship

Stopping Israel’s Attack on Civil Society, Justice and Human Rights: A Call to Action

Human Rights Watch

Donald Trump

Detained! Trump’s America as one Big Black Site

Andrea Mazzarino

Donald Trump

Gaza, Yemen, Iran: Trump’s Opening Gambits in the Middle East (Juan Cole on The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini)

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

The Gaza Precedent: Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid

Middle East Monitor

Popular

  • Libyan Gov't Decries Fake News about Taking 1 mn. Palestinian Refugees: "Committed to the Palestinian Cause"
  • Gaza, Yemen, Iran: Trump's Opening Gambits in the Middle East (Juan Cole on The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini)
  • For all Trump's new Mideast Contracts, Two Big Deals Elude Him
  • Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration
  • Gaza: The Horror, The Horror . . .
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved