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

Pope Leo XIV Demands Gaza Ceasefire, as Israeli Tank Crew Shells Church, Kills 3 Women
Featured

Pope Leo XIV Demands Gaza Ceasefire, as Israeli Tank Crew Shells Church, Kills 3 Women

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that an Israeli tank crew fired on the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza, […]

Tunisia’s Slow Unraveling: From Arab Spring Beacon to Police State

Tunisia’s Slow Unraveling: From Arab Spring Beacon to Police State

07/18/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Atomic Nightmare: Remember Los Alamos

Atomic Nightmare: Remember Los Alamos

07/18/2025 By Tomdispatch

More Stories

US politics
Turning the Tables on the Surveillance Class (Cole on Majority Report)

Turning the Tables on the Surveillance Class (Cole on Majority Report)

Here are part 1 and part 2 of Michael Brooks’s interview of me on Sam Seder’s Majority Report on Monday. Part 1: and Part 2:

Juan Cole

Turkey
Police Clear Taksim Square: Turkey's Protests and the Neoliberal Market (Cole interview)

Police Clear Taksim Square: Turkey’s Protests and the Neoliberal Market (Cole interview)

Update On Tuesday morning, police in Istanbul moved on protesters at Taksim Square, using teargas and water cannon to clear them out. Police began dismantling […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Its the Corporations, Stupid:  Why we are 2nd Amendment Fundamentalists but the 4th Amendment doesn’t Count

Its the Corporations, Stupid: Why we are 2nd Amendment Fundamentalists but the 4th Amendment doesn’t Count

The Second Amendment to the Constitution is interpreted by lawmakers and judges in an absolute manner. Every American, we are constantly told– even mentally ill […]

Juan Cole

Turkey
Istanbul Rising:  VICE Explains the Turkish Protests (Video)

Istanbul Rising: VICE Explains the Turkish Protests (Video)

VICE: “On Friday, May 31, Turkish riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray into a peaceful protest held to save Gezi Park, one of […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Gitmo comes Home to America: Torture, Gag Orders and Legal Dirty Tricks have Corrupted the System (Brittain)

Gitmo comes Home to America: Torture, Gag Orders and Legal Dirty Tricks have Corrupted the System (Brittain)

Victoria Brittain writes at Tomdispatch.com A four-month hunger strike, mass force-feedings, and widespread media coverage have at last brought Guantanamo, the notorious offshore prison set […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
How America Became Orwellian: A Short History of Big Brother Sam (ProPublica)

How America Became Orwellian: A Short History of Big Brother Sam (ProPublica)

Cora Currier, Justin Elliott and Theodoric Meyer write at ProPublica On Wednesday, the Guardian published a secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over data […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
We Misunderstood Barack:  He only wanted the Domestic Surveillance to be Made Legal, not to End It

We Misunderstood Barack: He only wanted the Domestic Surveillance to be Made Legal, not to End It

We misunderstood Barack Obama years ago when he slammed the Bush administration for arbitrary intrusion in the privacy of citizens, in the name of the […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Sen. Wyden Warned us in 2011 that the Government was Running wild on Surveillance (Video)

Sen. Wyden Warned us in 2011 that the Government was Running wild on Surveillance (Video)

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) warned two years ago that when the US public discovered how the Patriot Act is actually interpreted by the FBI and […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
"I am Bradley Manning" Celebrity Support Video (Leaked Teaser)

“I am Bradley Manning” Celebrity Support Video (Leaked Teaser)

“I am Bradley Manning” [Leaked teaser] : for celebrity support video.

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1989
  • Page 1990
  • Page 1991
  • Page 1992
  • Page 1993
  • …
  • Page 3005
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

Albanese’s ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide’ Report

Ramzy Baroud

Donald Trump

Trump Brings back Torture, Big Time

Rebecca Gordon

Egypt

Egypt brings Africa’s Largest Wind Farm Online on Red Sea Coast, Powers 1.1 mn. Households

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Israel confines most Palestinians in Gaza to just 21 sq mi., Kills 112 in One Day

International Middle East Media Center

Popular

  • Gaza: It's not "Complicated"
  • Trump Brings back Torture, Big Time
  • The Most American King: Interview on Jordan with Aaron Magid
  • Zohran Mamdani’s last Name reflects Centuries of intercontinental Trade, Migration and cultural Exchange
  • Israeli Minister: 'Gaza must be in Ruins for Decades,' as Airstrike Kills Children seeking Water
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved