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

Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”
China

Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With the prospect of new Iranian nuclear power plants looking dim after Israeli and American bombing of its civilian nuclear […]

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

09/13/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

09/13/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Uncategorized
Media Ignores Climate Change Background of Increased Flooding (Media Matters Short)

Media Ignores Climate Change Background of Increased Flooding (Media Matters Short)

As The Scientific American noted a couple of years ago: In a 2011 study published in Nature, “. . . researchers examined daily records of […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Checkpoint: The Every Day Life of Humiliation for Palestinians (Short Documentary)

Checkpoint: The Every Day Life of Humiliation for Palestinians (Short Documentary)

Checkpoint – Every Day Life in Palestine Documentary ( Subtitles ) ” Published on Apr 27, 2013 A film showing the day to day reality […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Taliban Attack UN Agency in Kabul, Wounding 7

Taliban Attack UN Agency in Kabul, Wounding 7

The Taliban launched a major attack in the capital of Kabul on Friday, injuring 7 people with a car bomb at the International office of […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Civil Disobedience and Jail Time for Opposing Big Oil: Tim DeChristopher (Moyers Interview)

Civil Disobedience and Jail Time for Opposing Big Oil: Tim DeChristopher (Moyers Interview)

Bill Moyers interviews Tim DeChristopher, leader of Peaceful Uprising, who just got out of jail after serving a two-year sentence for peacefully disrupting an oil […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized

Nice Speech on Closing Gitmo, Mr. President; but It’s still Open (Schanzer)

David Schanzer writes at Islamicommentary: David Schanzer In his speech at the National Defense University, President Obama made his most impassioned and compelling argument to […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
My Visit to the Iraqi National Museum (Photo Gallery)

My Visit to the Iraqi National Museum (Photo Gallery)

Here is a photo gallery from my visit on May 9, 2013, to the Iraqi National Museum, courtesy the Ministry of Culture. Ancient Iraq or […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
"If you Eat a 2000 Hamburgers in the Name of Vegetarianism, You aren't an Extremist Vegetarian"; Nabil responds to Woolwich Murder

“If you Eat a 2000 Hamburgers in the Name of Vegetarianism, You aren’t an Extremist Vegetarian”; Nabil responds to Woolwich Murder

Nabil goes in: A British Muslim responds to the Woolwich murder in which Lee Rigby, 25, of 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
When Politicians promise 'Lower Taxes' they are promising Collapsed Bridges

When Politicians promise ‘Lower Taxes’ they are promising Collapsed Bridges

The next time you hear politicians campaigning on “lower taxes,” you should realize two things. First, they don’t intend to lower your taxes, which are […]

Juan Cole

Drones
President Obama and Counter-Terrorism:  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

President Obama and Counter-Terrorism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Here are the good, the bad and the ugly things in President Obama’s important speech on counter-terrorism Thursday, and in the off-stage steps he has […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2015
  • Page 2016
  • Page 2017
  • Page 2018
  • Page 2019
  • …
  • Page 3025
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

The Conversation

Authoritarianism

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

Tomdispatch

Asia

While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit

Neil Thompson

Iran

“Take the Cash in Hand:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:12

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators' Offices in Qatar
  • Is Trump Christian America's Golden Calf?
  • European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel
  • Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover
  • While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved