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

Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1
Featured

Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

09/20/2025 By The Conversation

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students  to Dept. of Education

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students to Dept. of Education

09/20/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

More Stories

Apartheid
Palestinian Education: another victim of Israel's Gaza War

Palestinian Education: another victim of Israel’s Gaza War

By Aimee Shalan and Samer Abdelnour Al-Shabaka is an independent non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and foster public debate on Palestinian human rights […]

contributors

Featured
Iraq:  Is al-Maliki Preparing to Make a Coup?

Iraq: Is al-Maliki Preparing to Make a Coup?

Nouri al-Maliki, who is seeking a third term as prime minister of Iraq in the teeth of widespread opposition, abruptly began acting like a strongman […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Israel can't Afford to Lose Jews Like Me

Israel can’t Afford to Lose Jews Like Me

by DAVID H. SCHANZER for ISLAMiCommentary David Schanzer Writing in the New York Times . . . , columnist Shmuel Rosner labeled non-Israeli liberal Jews […]

contributors

Apartheid
The Israeli assault has caused $150 million damage to Gaza food industry

The Israeli assault has caused $150 million damage to Gaza food industry

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The Israeli offensive on Gaza has caused “huge losses” for the already-struggling food industry in the coastal enclave, a national industry […]

contributors

Iraq
The US intervened again in Iraq in Part to Save the Yazidis:  Who are They?

The US intervened again in Iraq in Part to Save the Yazidis: Who are They?

By Petr Kubalek via RFE/RL Islamic militants this week encircled thousands of members of the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq, prompting the Obama administration to […]

contributors

History
Gaza and the Struggle for Palestine:  Historical Background (Pt. 1, a)

Gaza and the Struggle for Palestine: Historical Background (Pt. 1, a)

By William R. Polk Like many observers I am both sick at heart and emotionally drained from watching and reading about the horrible events in […]

contributors

Featured
The Cruel Jest of American "Humanitarian Aid" to Iraq

The Cruel Jest of American “Humanitarian Aid” to Iraq

By Juan Cole The United States of America has no claim on the language of “humanitarian aid” to Iraq after what it did to that […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
West Bank Continues Uprising, Israeli Army Injures 40 at Hebron Demo for Gaza

West Bank Continues Uprising, Israeli Army Injures 40 at Hebron Demo for Gaza

HEBRON (Ma’an) — At least 40 Palestinians were injured in central Hebron on Friday afternoon as Israeli forces dispersed hundreds taking part in rallies condemning […]

contributors

Climate Change
"Move a little Inland:"  Press Lord Cranky Billionaire Rupert Murdoch on what to do about Global Warming

“Move a little Inland:” Press Lord Cranky Billionaire Rupert Murdoch on what to do about Global Warming

By Climate State “According to Murdoch we just have to move a bit inland and the worst is a temperature rise of 3 degree and […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1819
  • Page 1820
  • Page 1821
  • Page 1822
  • Page 1823
  • …
  • Page 3028
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Authoritarianism

Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

contributors

censorship

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Human Rights Watch

Donald Trump

The “Defense” Department has always been about War

Tomdispatch

Featured

Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Popular

  • Riyadh-Islamabad "Islamic NATO" to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
  • Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can't draw the Line at Genocide, they can't Draw the Line at Democracy
  • Smotrich's Apocalyptic "Decisive Plan" for Gaza
  • Stephen Colbert: "We are all Jimmy Kimmel"
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved