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

More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis
Featured

More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American […]

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

08/28/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

08/28/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

CIA
Pakistan: CIA "Bin Laden" Unit's Fake Vaccination Ploy Sparked Polio Crisis

Pakistan: CIA “Bin Laden” Unit’s Fake Vaccination Ploy Sparked Polio Crisis

(By Sarah Lazare) A Pakistani official on Thursday slammed the CIA's fake vaccination drive in 2011 for fueling distrust of polio eradication campaigns and driving […]

Juan Cole

Drones
The True Costs of Remote Control Drone Wars

The True Costs of Remote Control Drone Wars

(By Pratap Chatterjee via Tomdispatch) Enemies, innocent victims, and soldiers have always made up the three faces of war. With war growing more distant, with […]

Juan Cole

Barack Obama
Did the GOP Obsession with Monica Lewinsky contribute to 9/11?  Is the Benghazi hysteria deja vu?

Did the GOP Obsession with Monica Lewinsky contribute to 9/11? Is the Benghazi hysteria deja vu?

(By Juan Cole) The reemergence in the news of Monica Lewinsky is also a reminder of one of the lowest deeds in modern politics, the […]

Juan Cole

GCC
Saudi-Iran Struggle and the Syrian Proxy War can only be Resolved by Diplomacy

Saudi-Iran Struggle and the Syrian Proxy War can only be Resolved by Diplomacy

(By Robert Mason) The current foreign policy tensions between Iran and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) pivot around Iran’s nuclear programme, ideology […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Global Warming could Uncork East Antarctic Ice Shelf, Leading to Massive Sea Rise

Global Warming could Uncork East Antarctic Ice Shelf, Leading to Massive Sea Rise

(By Andrea Germanos) A small amount of ice in the East Antarctic holding back an area of marine ice like a "cork" is at risk […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Nat'l Climate Assessment Says We’re in Trouble. This Chart Shows Why.

Nat’l Climate Assessment Says We’re in Trouble. This Chart Shows Why.

This animated chart from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences shows the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Note the spike? Measuring CO2 in parts per million (ppm), the chart shows, first, how the amount of the gas…

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Human Rights NGOs Call for Palestine to take Israel to International Criminal Court

Human Rights NGOs Call for Palestine to take Israel to International Criminal Court

(By Human Rights Watch) (Jerusalem) – Palestine should urgently seek access to the International Criminal Court (ICC), a group of 17 Palestinian and international human […]

Juan Cole

Featured
Is Israeli PM Netanyahu's Case against Iran Collapsing?

Is Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Case against Iran Collapsing?

(By Juan Cole) Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has determinedly beaten the drums for war with Iran, though his lack of any actual overt action […]

Juan Cole

Economy
Dark Triad:  Right wing Conservatives far more likely to be Sociopaths

Dark Triad: Right wing Conservatives far more likely to be Sociopaths

PROOF! Conservatives and CEOs Really ARE Evil Psychopaths (via Americans Against The Tea Party) Have you ever wondered why today’s conservatives never seem make any […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1861
  • Page 1862
  • Page 1863
  • Page 1864
  • Page 1865
  • …
  • Page 3019
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Omar Khayyam

“Red Wine!” – the Nightingale cries to the Rose: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:6

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism

Thugs R Us: How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power

Andrea Mazzarino

Israel/ Palestine

Don’t Blame Israel for Violating Jewish Ethics

Yakov M. Rabkin

Democratic Party

Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza

Norman Solomon

Popular

  • When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
  • Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don't Enable the Slaughter in Gaza
  • The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
  • How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing
  • Don't Blame Israel for Violating Jewish Ethics
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved