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

The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy
Featured

The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – How much are women and girls–half of humanity–valued?  When men violate us for sex in prostitution.  When […]

The 6 Superpowers that Faith Communities bring to nonviolent Struggle

The 6 Superpowers that Faith Communities bring to nonviolent Struggle

10/05/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

Hamas and Israel are on the Verge of a Ceasefire; Denial of Palestinian Agency Could Derail it

Hamas and Israel are on the Verge of a Ceasefire; Denial of Palestinian Agency Could Derail it

10/05/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Acidification of Oceans
The Immorality of harming the Earth:  Burning Fossil Fuels is Today's Golden Calf

The Immorality of harming the Earth: Burning Fossil Fuels is Today’s Golden Calf

By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) – – In the latter half of the nineteenth century, we began to burn fossil fuels rather casually, without […]

contributors

art and photography
5,000 Hanging Skirts:  How Women Remember War Rape in Kosova

5,000 Hanging Skirts: How Women Remember War Rape in Kosova

By Frances Trix | (Informed Comment) | – – On 12 June, 5,000 skirts and dresses were hung on 45 clotheslines in the football stadium […]

Juan Cole

Colonialism
The Forgotten Costs of War in the Middle East

The Forgotten Costs of War in the Middle East

By David Vine | (Tomdispatch.com) | – First, they tried to shoot the dogs. Next, they tried to poison them with strychnine. When both failed […]

contributors

Featured
Can Leftist Kurdish Militia cut ISIL/ Daesh off from Turkish Supply Routes and Kill the Caliphate?

Can Leftist Kurdish Militia cut ISIL/ Daesh off from Turkish Supply Routes and Kill the Caliphate?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The intrepid Liz Sly of the Washington Post gets the story of the attempt of the […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
Young Middle East Millennials' Digital Split From Fundamentalism  (Cole Interview)

Young Middle East Millennials’ Digital Split From Fundamentalism (Cole Interview)

Elliot Hill | (TheLipTV Video Interview) | – – “Millennials in the Middle East are forming a clear generational gap between themselves and their elders, […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
Bernie Sanders On How We Should Pay For War

Bernie Sanders On How We Should Pay For War

By John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “John Iadarola (Think Tank) discusses Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ recent policy announcement regarding […]

contributors

Food Security
“The Gaza Kitchen: Cuisine, Resistance, and Remembrance in Palestine” with Laila El-Haddad

“The Gaza Kitchen: Cuisine, Resistance, and Remembrance in Palestine” with Laila El-Haddad

By JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary Cooking and conflict? It’s a different approach, but it works, and these blended themes still resonate five years after […]

contributors

Apartheid
Norway Insurance Co. divests from Israeli Firms in Palestinian West Bank

Norway Insurance Co. divests from Israeli Firms in Palestinian West Bank

By IMEMC News | – – The Norwegian insurance giant, KLP Kapitalforvaltning, has divested two international building material companies from its investment portfolio because of […]

contributors

Democratic Party
Hillary Clinton kicks off Campaign in NYC:  Says Heir to FDR pro-Middle Class Policies (Full video)

Hillary Clinton kicks off Campaign in NYC: Says Heir to FDR pro-Middle Class Policies (Full video)

NewsGoingViral | (Full Video) | – – Hillary Clinton kicks off campaign at Roosevelt Island, New York City. Positions self as heir of New Deal, […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1659
  • Page 1660
  • Page 1661
  • Page 1662
  • Page 1663
  • …
  • Page 3033
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Iran

“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:17

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s Abduction of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is a clear Violation of International Law

The Conversation

Academic Freedom

Protesting Northwestern U’s Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”

Committee on Academic Freedom

Arab World

Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Popular

  • As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note
  • Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity
  • Where does the Arab and Muslim world stand on Trump’s Gaza peace plan? Expert Q&A
  • It Doesn't Have to Hurt: Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain
  • Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump's Gaza "Peace" Plan
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved