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

Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children
Featured

Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

09/15/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

09/15/2025 By Michael T. Klare

More Stories

Apartheid
Israel earmarks vast area of Palestinian Hebron/ al-Khalil land for annexation

Israel earmarks vast area of Palestinian Hebron/ al-Khalil land for annexation

HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israel has earmarked around 2,000 dunams (500 acres) of private Palestinian land for annexation in the Hebron district, local activists say. Muhammad […]

contributors

Banking
Putin on the Nile:  an Isolated Russia Seeks friends in Egypt w/ offer of Nuclear Plant

Putin on the Nile: an Isolated Russia Seeks friends in Egypt w/ offer of Nuclear Plant

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation paid a state visit to Cairo on Tuesday, consulting with […]

Juan Cole

Bashar al-Assad
Syria:  Dear Bashar al-Assad:  Barrel Bombs Are No Laughing Matter

Syria: Dear Bashar al-Assad: Barrel Bombs Are No Laughing Matter

By Philippe Bolopion | (Human Rights Watch) | — It speaks volumes when the leader of a country feels emboldened to respond with humor when […]

contributors

Climate Change
Abandoning Diesel: Battery-powered train brings low-carbon commuting to UK

Abandoning Diesel: Battery-powered train brings low-carbon commuting to UK

Reuters | — “The first battery-powered passenger train to run on Britain’s tracks in over 50 years completes a five-week trial in a bid to […]

contributors

Barack Obama
Against Torture:  American Heroes who Indicted Cheney's Dark Side

Against Torture: American Heroes who Indicted Cheney’s Dark Side

By Rebecca Gordon | (Tomdispatch.com) Why was it again that, as President Obama said, “we tortured some folks” after the 9/11 attacks? Oh, right, because […]

contributors

Israel/ Palestine
As Sweden opens Palestine Embassy, President Abbas Visits

As Sweden opens Palestine Embassy, President Abbas Visits

Euronews | – “The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is in Sweden for talks with the country’s new Prime Minister Stefan Lofven. It is his first […]

contributors

Iran
2nd Iranian Commander killed in Iraq defending Samarra Golden Dome

2nd Iranian Commander killed in Iraq defending Samarra Golden Dome

By RFE/RL | – A commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been killed in Iraq, Iranian media reported. The Tasnim news agency, […]

contributors

Barack Obama
Obama on his Foreign Policy: Between Realism and Idealism

Obama on his Foreign Policy: Between Realism and Idealism

By Matthew Iglesias | (Vox) – “When it comes to foreign policy, is President Obama a realist or an idealist? Turns out he rejects both […]

contributors

art and photography
Beaten over call for co-existence: French artist's religious graffiti

Beaten over call for co-existence: French artist’s religious graffiti

RT | – “French grafitti artist ‘Combo’ got beaten for a graffiti of himself in Arabic clothes with the world ‘coexist’, with symbols of three […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1718
  • Page 1719
  • Page 1720
  • Page 1721
  • Page 1722
  • …
  • Page 3026
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Iran

“Take the Cash in Hand:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:12

Juan Cole

Donald Trump

Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Climate Crisis

Remembering William Blake on our Relationship with Nature in an Age of Environmental Degradation

Mark Vernon

Featured

Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators’ Offices in Qatar

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Scientists Prove Justinian's Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis
  • Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators' Offices in Qatar
  • European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel
  • Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover
  • Iran Seeks China's help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in "4th Industrial Revolution"
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved