Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • RSS
  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2026 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

Largest Offshore Solar Farm (1 GW) in World Goes 100% Live off China Coast
China

Largest Offshore Solar Farm (1 GW) in World Goes 100% Live off China Coast

Juan Cole

five miles off Dongying is where China Energy CHN Energy has located its $1.2 billion offshore solar panel array, the largest in the world

How to turn Extreme Weather Tragedies into Climate Victories

How to turn Extreme Weather Tragedies into Climate Victories

01/20/2026 By Waging Nonviolence

Yemen: The Human Cost of Imperial Ambitions

Yemen: The Human Cost of Imperial Ambitions

01/20/2026 By Foreign Policy in Focus

More Stories

Uncategorized
Nuke'em:  Russia's Plan to Nix Meteor Danger

Nuke’em: Russia’s Plan to Nix Meteor Danger

US lawmakers are having a hearing on how to deal with the threat of asteroids, which polished off the dinosaurs and could polish off us. […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iranians in West Slam Impact of US Sanctions on People

Iranians in West Slam Impact of US Sanctions on People

Iranian expatriates don’t agree on much. But as this video interview with a range of high-powered thinkers by the National Iranian-American Council shows, they all […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Our Coal addiction is Killing Us

Our Coal addiction is Killing Us

Documentary on what the 600 coal plants in the US are doing to our health and well-being. The government should announce a crash program to […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
What we Did to Iraq

What we Did to Iraq

Sunni radicals hit Baghdad Tuesday morning on the anniversary of the beginning of the US war on Iraq, killing over 50 people in attacks on […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
UAE Launches 100 Megawatt Solar Energy Plant, Largest in Mideast

UAE Launches 100 Megawatt Solar Energy Plant, Largest in Mideast

Although the Gulf makes its way in life by selling petroleum, countries like Qatar and the United Arab Emirates don’t engage in that sordid game […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
What Would a Rand Paul Libertarian Foreign Policy Look Like? (Cole @ Truthdig)

What Would a Rand Paul Libertarian Foreign Policy Look Like? (Cole @ Truthdig)

My essay, “What Would a Rand Paul Libertarian Foreign Policy Look Like?”, is out at Truthdig Excerpt: “On Saturday, Paul emerged as the winner of […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
What we Lost:  Top Ten Ways the Iraq War Harmed the US

What we Lost: Top Ten Ways the Iraq War Harmed the US

As the tenth anniversary of the launching of the Iraq War approaches, I’ll be making some comments about the episode at this blog, which for […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraq's Teens Drowning in Hopelessness  (Arwa Damon)

Iraq’s Teens Drowning in Hopelessness (Arwa Damon)

CNN’s Arwa Damon reports from Baghdad on the sense of hopelessness among even upper-class Iraqi teens today. AFP gives support to Ms. Damon’s findings: a […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Remembering Rachel Corrie, 10 Years Later

Remembering Rachel Corrie, 10 Years Later

Rachel Corrie’s parents speak out on the tenth anniversary of her killing by the Israeli operator of a military bulldozer, who ran over her as […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2084
  • Page 2085
  • Page 2086
  • Page 2087
  • Page 2088
  • …
  • Page 3071
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

Trump’s Gaza Board and the Return of Colonialism

Middle East Monitor

Dissent

What Iran’s latest Protests tell us about Power, Memory and Resistance

The Conversation

Donald Trump

Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade

Mohammad Eslami

Climate Crisis

2025 was Earth’s 3rd-Warmest Year on Record

Yale Climate Connections

Popular

  • Why China is Defying Trump's Tariffs on Iran Trade
  • A Triple Entente? Türkiye interested in joining Saudi-Pakistan Nuclear Security Pact
  • Minneapolis is Healing the Wounds of Hatred by Leading with Love
  • Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres
  • Trump's $1.5 trillion Gamble: Will Endless Conflict win Midterm Votes?
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved