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

For First time in History, Renewables Overtook Coal in Global Electricity Production in H1
Climate Crisis

For First time in History, Renewables Overtook Coal in Global Electricity Production in H1

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy analysis firm has released its global electricity report for the first half of 2025, and it contains […]

Juan Cole Fundraiser
DONATED:$581
SUPPORTERS:8
TARGET:$30,000
REMAINING:$29,419
Israel/Palestine: States Should Act to Halt Atrocities

Israel/Palestine: States Should Act to Halt Atrocities

10/08/2025 By Human Rights Watch

A Case for Nonviolent Resistance:  MAGA Men and Rage

A Case for Nonviolent Resistance: MAGA Men and Rage

10/08/2025 By Andrea Mazzarino

More Stories

Climate Change
Global Warming:  G7's Coal Plants are Weapons of Mass Destruction aimed at World's Poor

Global Warming: G7’s Coal Plants are Weapons of Mass Destruction aimed at World’s Poor

By Sean Buchanan | (Inter Press Service) | – – LONDON, Jun 6 2015 (IPS) – As heads of state and government of the G7 […]

contributors

Iraq
Weapons of the Wet:  ISIL/ Daesh Cuts water to Iraqi Towns south of Ramadi

Weapons of the Wet: ISIL/ Daesh Cuts water to Iraqi Towns south of Ramadi

Ben Wedeman | (CNN Video) | – – “Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) ISIS has closed off a dam to the north of the Iraqi city of […]

contributors

Featured
Iraq needs another National Party:  Tariq Aziz's Baath Party Ruined the Country

Iraq needs another National Party: Tariq Aziz’s Baath Party Ruined the Country

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | — Tariq Aziz, the former deputy prime minister and former foreign minister of Iraq, is dead at 79. […]

Juan Cole

Democracy
Surprise!  Corporate Media declining to report on Big Money in Politics

Surprise! Corporate Media declining to report on Big Money in Politics

By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – “Now more than ever before Americans deserve to know about the need for campaign finance […]

contributors

Democracy
Will the fight against ISIL Bankrupt the Iraqi Gov't?  Is it hemorrhaging hundreds of billions?

Will the fight against ISIL Bankrupt the Iraqi Gov’t? Is it hemorrhaging hundreds of billions?

By Ibrahim Saleh | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) It’s hard to get an accurate figure on how much Iraq’s fight against the Islamic State group has […]

contributors

Displaced and Refugees
Yemen:  Saudi Airstrikes kill 58, including dozens of Women and Children

Yemen: Saudi Airstrikes kill 58, including dozens of Women and Children

RT | (Video report) — “Saudi-led coalition warplanes are continuing to pound Houthi targets in Yemen despite the rebels agreeing to UN-backed peace talks. The […]

contributors

Democracy
Will Turkey's Election end hopes for Turkish-Kurdish Rapprochement?

Will Turkey’s Election end hopes for Turkish-Kurdish Rapprochement?

By Mustafa Gurbuz | (Informed Comment) | – – Whatever the election outcome on Sunday, prospects for Kurdish Peace Process are grim. Yet, regardless whether […]

contributors

Apartheid
The Wrath of Netanyahu:  What does Orange Telecom's departure from Israel really Mean for BDS?

The Wrath of Netanyahu: What does Orange Telecom’s departure from Israel really Mean for BDS?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Stephane Richard, the CEO of the French telecommunnications company Orange embroiled himself in an international incident […]

Juan Cole

Drone Warfare
The True Cost of America's Ongoing Wars:  Sebastian Junger, Spencer Ackerman et al.

The True Cost of America’s Ongoing Wars: Sebastian Junger, Spencer Ackerman et al.

Michael Moynihan, “The Business of Life” | VICE News Video | — “The AUMF (The “Authorization of the Use of Military Force”) was a bill […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1665
  • Page 1666
  • Page 1667
  • Page 1668
  • Page 1669
  • …
  • Page 3035
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

Trump’s Gaza Initiative: Chance for Peace or Empty Words?

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine

The Two Years of Fighting since October 7 have transformed the Middle East

The Conversation

Juan Cole

IC Fundraising Appeal: Support Independent Journalism in a Year of Living Dangerously

Juan Cole

Featured

Why Weren’t the October 7 attacks Avoided?

Dan Steinbock

Popular

  • Why Weren't the October 7 attacks Avoided?
  • The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy
  • No, Despite Hegseth, we Don't need an even "More Lethal" NATO
  • Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order
  • How Trump is Demolishing U. S. Global Power and its World Order
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved