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

As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note
Authoritarianism

As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note

Arnold Oliver

Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – During some of the large anti-war demonstrations during the 1960’s some of the protesters gave flowers to the […]

The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

10/02/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Where does the Arab and Muslim world stand on Trump’s Gaza peace plan? Expert Q&A

Where does the Arab and Muslim world stand on Trump’s Gaza peace plan? Expert Q&A

10/02/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Domestic Surveillance
Germans Vigorously Protest Massive British/ NSA Spying on Email, Telephone Calls

Germans Vigorously Protest Massive British/ NSA Spying on Email, Telephone Calls

The German government has demanded answers from the British state with regard to revelations by Edward Snowden that the British spy agency GCHQ has a […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
Under European Pressure, Tunisia suspends Sentence of 3 Protesters who Bared Breasts

Under European Pressure, Tunisia suspends Sentence of 3 Protesters who Bared Breasts

A Tunisian court has given suspended sentences to three European members of Femen (2 French, 1 German) who had bared their breasts in public to […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt: Morsi Fails to Appease Critics as Violence breaks out in Provinces

Egypt: Morsi Fails to Appease Critics as Violence breaks out in Provinces

Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi gave a major speech on Wednesday, commemorating his first year in office and attempting to mollify his political opposition, which is […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Correa on Smearing of Snowden:  “The World Order is not only unjust, it is immoral”

Correa on Smearing of Snowden: “The World Order is not only unjust, it is immoral”

The USG Open Source Center gives highlights from the Ecuadorean press on the issue of asylum for Edward Snowden. It includes a translation of President […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Did the Supreme Court strike down DOMA because it was Theocratic?

Did the Supreme Court strike down DOMA because it was Theocratic?

The Supreme Court decision authored by Justice Kennedy spends a lot of time arguing that marriage is a matter for the states to regulate, and […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Texas Near-Ban on Abortion foiled by People's 'Gallery Filibuster'

Texas Near-Ban on Abortion foiled by People’s ‘Gallery Filibuster’

This is the “gallery filibuster” — shouting by pro-choice advocates in the Senate halls after Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis’s filibuster was shut down– that so […]

Juan Cole

Russia
Snowden:  Top Ten Signs that Putin might not be on Washington’s Side

Snowden: Top Ten Signs that Putin might not be on Washington’s Side

The American political class and corporate press professed itself shocked, shocked, when Russian President Vladimir Putin declined to order the arrest Edward Snowden, marooned in […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Critics: Obama’s Climate Plan a Day Late and a Penny Short (Lazare)

Critics: Obama’s Climate Plan a Day Late and a Penny Short (Lazare)

President should renounce “all of the above” energy strategy and nation's reliance on dirty fossil fuels, say environmentalists – Sarah Lazare, staff writer, Commondreams Environmentalists […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
NSA says they can’t reveal if they Spied on You because it would ‘Help Our Enemies’ (Larson)

NSA says they can’t reveal if they Spied on You because it would ‘Help Our Enemies’ (Larson)

Jeff Larson writes at ProPublica Shortly after the Guardian and Washington Post published their Verizon and PRISM stories, I filed a freedom of information request […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2009
  • Page 2010
  • Page 2011
  • Page 2012
  • Page 2013
  • …
  • Page 3032
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Authoritarianism

Federal Court: Trump Administration Violated First Amendment By Deporting Foreign Citizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy

Middle East Studies Association

Nonviolence

Veterans for Peace and Justice: Can Warriors Stop Endless Wars?

William D. Hartung

Featured

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Abuse of History for Politics

Yoram Meital

Genocide

Overwhelming Evidence of Genocide against Palestinians: a Legal Expert unpacks the UN Report on Gaza

The Conversation

Popular

  • Benjamin Netanyahu's Abuse of History for Politics
  • Do UN "Snapback" Sanctions really Matter to the Iranian Economy and its Nuclear Program?
  • Lebanon's Solar Capacity surged since 2020 to 1.5 gigawatts, as Homeowners tired of Blackouts
  • Israel's Netanyahu addresses Empty UN Chamber with Genocidal Claims after Mass Walkout
  • Jimmy Kimmel's Reinstatement shows the Power of Noncooperation
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved