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

Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
Featured

Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:”  FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

09/17/2025 By Juan Cole

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

09/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

More Stories

Iraq
Iraq 10 Years Later: The Bitter Days Continue because Policy didn't put  People First (Al-Sheemary)

Iraq 10 Years Later: The Bitter Days Continue because Policy didn’t put People First (Al-Sheemary)

Banen Al-Sheemary ( @balsheem), a young Iraqi-American woman and activist, writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Ten years today, I remember sitting in […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Will the CIA’s Black Sites and Subcontracting of Tortue Come out with Public Indictment? (Currier)

Will the CIA’s Black Sites and Subcontracting of Tortue Come out with Public Indictment? (Currier)

Cora Currier writes at ProPublica: Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun with six terrorism-related counts. The announcement that […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
How the Big Banks are getting Away with It (Moyers Interview)

How the Big Banks are getting Away with It (Moyers Interview)

Former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and long-time Republican Sheila Bair tells Bill Moyers what the big banks have done and that they’re […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Isaac Asimov Predicts Interactive Internet 25 Years Ago

Isaac Asimov Predicts Interactive Internet 25 Years Ago

Renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov predicts the interactive World Wide Web in 1988, 25 years ago.* *correction from “20 yrs, which is how the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Right: Obama Undermined Netanyahu, Endangers Israel with Call for Palestinian State

Israeli Right: Obama Undermined Netanyahu, Endangers Israel with Call for Palestinian State

President Obama’s speech to students in Jerusalem is covered by Aljazeera. Obama did complain a little about the Israeli occupation of the Palestinians, but he […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Phil Donohue Recalls how he Was Fired From MSNBC for Being anti-war (Goodman Interview)

Phil Donohue Recalls how he Was Fired From MSNBC for Being anti-war (Goodman Interview)

At Democracy Now! Phil Donohue recalls how then General Electric-owned NBC fired him from his popular and top-rated talk show on MSNBC in spring of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Obama slights Palestinians, who stage Tent Protests

Obama slights Palestinians, who stage Tent Protests

Aljazeera English reports on Obama’s opening remarks on arrival in Israel, and how he called Palestine the historic homeland of the Jews but neglected to […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
As Obama Greets Iranians on Nowruz, He's Made some Medicines hard to Afford (Jahanpour)

As Obama Greets Iranians on Nowruz, He’s Made some Medicines hard to Afford (Jahanpour)

Farhang Jahanpour writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, is one of the oldest festivals celebrated in the world. […]

Juan Cole

Iran
As Israelis Press Obama on Iran, Let’s Remember they Urged Iraq War, Too

As Israelis Press Obama on Iran, Let’s Remember they Urged Iraq War, Too

The Israeli leadership, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, will attempt to strong-arm President Barack Obama, during his visit to Israel, into attacking Iran. (In part […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2039
  • Page 2040
  • Page 2041
  • Page 2042
  • Page 2043
  • …
  • Page 3027
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Brazil

The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,

Global Voices

China

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

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine

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

The Conversation

Popular

  • Scientists Prove Justinian's Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis
  • The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,
  • Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar's strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance
  • Israel's Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children
  • France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza's Mass Graves
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved