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
Christmas in Bethlehem has special Significance for Palestinians

Christmas in Bethlehem has special Significance for Palestinians

Euronews reports on Christmas in Bethlehem and the Palestinians: Some 15,000 pilgrims are in the city and, despite fears raised by the Gaza fighting, hotels […]

Juan Cole

Syria
200 Dead, Many Children, in Syrian aerial bombing of Halfaya

200 Dead, Many Children, in Syrian aerial bombing of Halfaya

Opposition forces said that Syrian fighter jets bombed the town of Halfaya near Hama on Sunday. The bombs struck a crowd standing in line to […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Muslims of Liberated Saraqeb, Syria, put up Christmas Tree for Local Christians

Muslims of Liberated Saraqeb, Syria, put up Christmas Tree for Local Christians

Muslims of Syrian town of Saraqeb put up Christmas tree for local Christians. The young man who is being interviewed stresses the unity of all […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt's Controversial Fundamentalist Constitution Meets Low Turnout

Egypt’s Controversial Fundamentalist Constitution Meets Low Turnout

Egyptians went to the polls again Saturday in the second round of the constitutional referendum. The provinces or governorates that voted in this round were […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Abraham Lincoln on the Purpose of Government (Or He Wouldn’t be in GOP Today)

Abraham Lincoln on the Purpose of Government (Or He Wouldn’t be in GOP Today)

From Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters …, Volume 1, p. 92: “If we except the light and the air of heaven, no […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Top Ten Ways NRA Stole Christmas this Year

Top Ten Ways NRA Stole Christmas this Year

The tone deaf and horrifyingly self-serving speech given by Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association on Friday cast a pall over our holiday season. […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
The Real War on Christmas:  GOP  Rejection of Tax Rise on Rich could End Tax-Break for Charitable Giving

The Real War on Christmas: GOP Rejection of Tax Rise on Rich could End Tax-Break for Charitable Giving

Many worthy institutions in the United States, from universities and cancer research centers to soup kitchens, art galleries and public radio, are supported by donations […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Fundamentalist Constitution Provokes Street Clashes in Alexandria, 77 Wounded

Fundamentalist Constitution Provokes Street Clashes in Alexandria, 77 Wounded

As Egyptians in 17 governorates head to the polls on Saturday in the second round of the controversial referendum on the new constitution, tension still […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Dear GOP:  Please don’t Cut Children’s Food Stamps: Our Rich aren’t Overtaxed

Dear GOP: Please don’t Cut Children’s Food Stamps: Our Rich aren’t Overtaxed

The irrational GOP insistence on bankrupting our government by insisting on exempting the rich from taxes has reached the point where they just kicked 300,000 […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2107
  • Page 2108
  • Page 2109
  • Page 2110
  • Page 2111
  • …
  • 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