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

The New Model of Autocratic Cooperation: The US, Russia and the Middle East
Donald Trump

The New Model of Autocratic Cooperation: The US, Russia and the Middle East

Scott Corey

Berkeley, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Today, and particularly in the Middle East, concepts like national interest, class, and geopolitics are fading compared […]

Juan Cole Fundraiser
DONATED:$8,346
SUPPORTERS:100
TARGET:$30,000
REMAINING:$21,654
“And one by one crept silently to Rest:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:21

“And one by one crept silently to Rest:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:21

10/20/2025 By Juan Cole

Major Israeli Violations of Gaza Ceasefire, With Extensive Bombardment, killing 51 Palestinians

Major Israeli Violations of Gaza Ceasefire, With Extensive Bombardment, killing 51 Palestinians

10/20/2025 By Common Dreams

More Stories

Libya
America Black Ops Wars in 134 Countries

America Black Ops Wars in 134 Countries

(By Nick Turse) They operate in the green glow of night vision in Southwest Asia and stalk through the jungles of South America.  They snatch […]

contributors

Domestic Surveillance
NSA Collects Hundreds of Millions SMS Text Messages every Day

NSA Collects Hundreds of Millions SMS Text Messages every Day

(By Mike Masnick) NSA Collecting Hundreds Of Millions Of Text Messages Daily, Looking At ‘Untargeted’ Messages & Data (via Techdirt) The latest in the ongoing […]

contributors

Kerry urges opposition to attend Geneva on eve of vote

Kerry urges opposition to attend Geneva on eve of vote

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday put in a last-ditch plea to Syria’s opposition-in-exile to attend next week’s peace talks in Switzerland.

News Aggregator

Featured
Five Reasons Benghazi Wasn't Hillary Clinton's Fault

Five Reasons Benghazi Wasn’t Hillary Clinton’s Fault

(By Juan Cole) Republicans like Marco Rubio are making hay of a Senate report on the Benghazi attack on a US consulate that left 4 […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
The Great Urban-Rural Struggle over the Constitution in Egypt

The Great Urban-Rural Struggle over the Constitution in Egypt

(By Juan Cole) The tale of two constitutions, 2012 and 2014, in Egypt has to be seen in my view as significantly an urban-rural struggle. […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Obama NSA Defense FAIL: The al-Mihdar Red Herring

Obama NSA Defense FAIL: The al-Mihdar Red Herring

In his speech on the National Security Agency domestic surveillance program on Friday, Obama offered an explanation of its origins: “The program grew out of […]

Juan Cole

The BDP’s difficult choices over Dec 17

The BDP’s difficult choices over Dec 17

At last, the Kurdish movement had found an interlocutor who gave hope of a political solution and peace.

News Aggregator

Books
Books go Online for Free in Norway

Books go Online for Free in Norway

(By AFP) Literature goes online for free in Norway (via AFP) Most books published in Norway before 2001 are going online for free thanks to […]

contributors

Iran
American Public Pushes back against AIPAC Senators seeking Iran Conflict

American Public Pushes back against AIPAC Senators seeking Iran Conflict

(By Sarah Lazare) A congressional drive for new sanctions on Iran, backed by the lobbying muscle of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, is meeting […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1942
  • Page 1943
  • Page 1944
  • Page 1945
  • Page 1946
  • …
  • Page 3039
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Donald Trump

Ypsilanti, named for a Greek Freedom Fighter against Tyranny, Rallies against Trump on “No Kings” Day

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights

Our Fourth Amendment Rights Are Endangered Like Never Before

OtherWords

Displaced and Refugees

As Gaza rebuilds, what Lessons can be learned from Nagasaki in 1945?

The Conversation

Featured

Infectious Diseases “Spiraling out of Control” in Gaza as Israel Cuts Aid Entry in Half

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Whitewashing Gas Exploration in Post-Genocide Gaza
  • A Matter of Life and Death: Trump, RFK Jr. and Lies that Kill
  • Ypsilanti, named for a Greek Freedom Fighter against Tyranny, Rallies against Trump on "No Kings" Day
  • The Trump Administration's steps toward a Military Occupation of America
  • Infectious Diseases "Spiraling out of Control" in Gaza as Israel Cuts Aid Entry in Half
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved