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

German Chancellor Merz in Historic Rebuke of Israel:  Attacks on Civilians not Justified by Hamas Terror
Featured

German Chancellor Merz in Historic Rebuke of Israel: Attacks on Civilians not Justified by Hamas Terror

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Because of the Nazi Holocaust in which six million European Jews were murdered, German governments have felt a need to […]

Protesting Punishing a Commencement Address on Palestine at George Washington U.

Protesting Punishing a Commencement Address on Palestine at George Washington U.

05/28/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

The End of Human Rights?  Donald Trump Has Ripped Off the Human Rights Veneer That Once Graced U.S. Foreign Policy

The End of Human Rights? Donald Trump Has Ripped Off the Human Rights Veneer That Once Graced U.S. Foreign Policy

05/28/2025 By William D. Hartung

More Stories

Bill of Rights
ACLU Complains: CIA to Filter Release by Senate of  Torture Report

ACLU Complains: CIA to Filter Release by Senate of Torture Report

(By Sarah Lazare) The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to partially lift the media and public blackout of its 6,300 page investigation into widespread […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Hope for Ending Gas and Coal:  US Wind Energy Is Breaking Records

Hope for Ending Gas and Coal: US Wind Energy Is Breaking Records

Originally published on AWEA. Washington, D.C., — Wind energy is breaking records across the U.S., thanks to long-needed transmission upgrades that are relieving congestion on the power grid and allowing more clean energy to reach consumers. Last…

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
US National Security hijacked, flown into Bermuda Triangle of Mysteries

US National Security hijacked, flown into Bermuda Triangle of Mysteries

(By Tom Engelhardt) Isn’t there something strangely reassuring when your eyeballs are gripped by a “mystery” on the news that has no greater meaning and […]

Juan Cole

Featured
Top 5 Things wrong with US AID Social Media Plot Against Cuba

Top 5 Things wrong with US AID Social Media Plot Against Cuba

(By Juan Cole) The US Agency for International Development established a microblogging platfrom similar to Twitter for Cubans. It used it to promote critical discussion […]

Juan Cole

Barack Obama
Ted Cruz Pwned by own Facebook Poll on Obamacare (Young Turks)

Ted Cruz Pwned by own Facebook Poll on Obamacare (Young Turks)

Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks: “Facebook Poll Hilariously Backfires On Senator” Crooks & Liars writes: Ted Cruz, Don’t Ask The Question If You Don’t […]

Juan Cole

Constitution
Supreme Court enshrines Plutocracy, but Dissent says Conservatives Substituted Opinion for Fact

Supreme Court enshrines Plutocracy, but Dissent says Conservatives Substituted Opinion for Fact

Central to the Supreme Court’s campaign finance decisions in the John Roberts era is that the government’s only legitimate interest in this area is preventing direct, quid pro quo corruption — a donor demanding that a specific law be passed, or…

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Alarming new study makes today’s climate change more comparable to Earth’s worst mass extinction

Alarming new study makes today’s climate change more comparable to Earth’s worst mass extinction

Posted on 2 April 2014 by howardlee The Permian Mass Extinction 251.9 million years ago, otherwise known as “The Great Dying,” was the closest this planet has come to extinguishing all complex life on Earth. Around 90% of all species died out in…

Juan Cole

Barack Obama
Get ready for More Disappearing Airliners: Obama moots giving Syrian Rebels Anti-Aircraft Missiles

Get ready for More Disappearing Airliners: Obama moots giving Syrian Rebels Anti-Aircraft Missiles

(By James McMichael [jamesmcmichael.dc@gmail.com]) President Obama is considering supplying Syrian rebels with Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (Manpads). These antiaircraft missiles are small enough to be […]

Juan Cole

political Islam
The Paradox of Turkey's Victorious Erdogan:  Authoritarianism burnishes his 'democratic' credentials

The Paradox of Turkey’s Victorious Erdogan: Authoritarianism burnishes his ‘democratic’ credentials

(By Niall Finn) Sunday’s local elections was the first time the Turkish people have had a chance to vote since last summer’s Gezi Park movement rocked […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1850
  • Page 1851
  • Page 1852
  • Page 1853
  • Page 1854
  • …
  • Page 2988
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Human Rights

Syria: Türkiye-backed Armed Groups Detain, Extort Civilians

Human Rights Watch

Children

What Malnutrition is doing to Gaza’s Starving Babies in their 1st 1000 Days of Life

The Conversation

Featured

Gaza “a Gaping Wound on Humanity:” Spain Convenes Int’l Conference to call for Arms Embargo on Israel

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Siege Politics: Netanyahu’s Crisis-Driven Grip on Power

Foreign Policy in Focus

Popular

  • Genetic Study finds Echoes of the Early Modern Ethnic Cleansing of Spain's Muslims
  • Gaza "a Gaping Wound on Humanity:" Spain Convenes Int'l Conference to call for Arms Embargo on Israel
  • Starving Babies: The Self-Liquidation of U.S. Global Soft Power
  • Morocco Plans Floating Solar PV over Reservoirs to Stop Evaporation
  • German Chancellor Merz in Historic Rebuke of Israel: Attacks on Civilians not Justified by Hamas Terror
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved