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

© 2026 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts
Dissent

Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts

Mohammad Eslami

Political slogans grew sharper, and in some places the protests shifted from economic dissent to open calls for regime change.

Gaza: Six Reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging Conflict in the Middle East

Gaza: Six Reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging Conflict in the Middle East

01/10/2026 By Ramzy Baroud

Electric car Registrations in Germany rise by 43% in 2025, despite end of Subsidies

Electric car Registrations in Germany rise by 43% in 2025, despite end of Subsidies

01/10/2026 By Clean Energy Wire

More Stories

Uncategorized
Morsi: Between Human Rights and Extremism

Morsi: Between Human Rights and Extremism

Egyptian President-elect Muhammad Morsi addressed an enormous crowd in Tahrir Square on Friday, paying homage to the revolution that allowed him to come to power […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Feminist Brooke Shields-Tom Cruise Cartoon of the Day

Feminist Brooke Shields-Tom Cruise Cartoon of the Day

Explanation here..

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Mideast Twitter: Gulf Giants, Arab Spring Midgets

Mideast Twitter: Gulf Giants, Arab Spring Midgets

Jeune Afrique (Young Africa), has a piece on social media in the Arab world. It shows that by volume of tweets, Twitter in the Middle […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Top Six Things Congress would do if they Cared if we are Healthy

Top Six Things Congress would do if they Cared if we are Healthy

Health care is essential, and no American should be without insurance to pay for it. But prevention of diseases and injuries is as important as […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Low Life Expectancy tracks with Opposition to Obamacare (Map)

Low Life Expectancy tracks with Opposition to Obamacare (Map)

Life expectancy in the United States by state (2009 statistics): Hawaii has the longest life expectancy among the states, so maybe Obama thought it isn’t […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Patriotism and PTSD (Levinson)

Patriotism and PTSD (Levinson)

Nan Levinson writes at Tomdispatch.com: Mad, Bad, Sad  What’s Really Happened to America’s Soldiers By Nan Levinson “PTSD is going to color everything you write,” […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Supreme Court declines to take US Health Care in direction of Sub-Saharan Africa

Supreme Court declines to take US Health Care in direction of Sub-Saharan Africa

Well, we dodged the bullet of looking like Zimbabwe on this issue. But we still need a single payer system. And the court exempting states […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Supreme Courts and Democracy in Egypt, Pakistan and the United States

Supreme Courts and Democracy in Egypt, Pakistan and the United States

As the US Supreme Court rules on the universal health care plan, it is worth considering that all of a sudden the courts are playing […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Supreme Court declines to take US Health Care in Direction of Sub-Saharan Africa (Map)

Supreme Court declines to take US Health Care in Direction of Sub-Saharan Africa (Map)

Well, we dodged the bullet of looking like Zimbabwe on this issue. But we still need a single payer system. And the court exempting states […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2158
  • Page 2159
  • Page 2160
  • Page 2161
  • Page 2162
  • …
  • Page 3067
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Dissent

Facing protests and new Threats from Trump, is the Iranian Regime on its last legs?

The Conversation

Climate Crisis

Trump’s anti-Climate Policies are Driving up Insurance Costs for Homeowners

Yale Climate Connections

Donald Trump

Regime Change in Venezuela: American “Justice” as the “Supreme International Crime”

Dan Steinbock

Iran

“A Blind Understanding:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:33

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel Rally against Military Conscription, with one Killed after they attack Bus
  • Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report
  • Iran Protests have put the Country's Political System on Trial
  • Trump's anti-Climate Policies are Driving up Insurance Costs for Homeowners
  • With Maduro Abduction, the US Addiction to Regime Change is now farcical
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved