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

Could Trump’s Diversion of Venezuelan Oil to US Save the Iranian Regime?
China

Could Trump’s Diversion of Venezuelan Oil to US Save the Iranian Regime?

Juan Cole

China imported 389,000 barrels per day of Venezuelan oil in 2025, about 4% of its total

‘Neither Gaza nor Lebanon!’ Iranian Unrest is about more than the Economy

‘Neither Gaza nor Lebanon!’ Iranian Unrest is about more than the Economy

01/11/2026 By The Conversation

Thousands march in Minneapolis to protest ICE after Shooting

Thousands march in Minneapolis to protest ICE after Shooting

01/11/2026 By Minnesota Reformer

More Stories

Turkey
KAYAOĞLU: Turkey’s Crackdown on the Press recalls Military’s Tactics

KAYAOĞLU: Turkey’s Crackdown on the Press recalls Military’s Tactics

Barin Kayaoğlu writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: AKP and “Back to the Future” Turkish-Style BARIN KAYAOĞLU [For the Turkish version of this […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Romney:  “I’m not concerned about the very poor.”

Romney: “I’m not concerned about the very poor.”

Quarter-billionaire Mitt Romney to Soledad O’Brien on CNN: “Romney says, “I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Chart:  Euro-American boycott of Iranian Petroleum would Fail

Chart: Euro-American boycott of Iranian Petroleum would Fail

Courtesy Courtesy crudeoilpeak.info Europe doesn’t loom that large already. And, Asia and other global South areas would take up the slack.

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Marsh on Obama:  The Party’s Over

Marsh on Obama: The Party’s Over

Taylor Marsh writes in a guest column for Informed Comment The Party’s Over There’s a reason Obama reelect doesn’t have a slogan. All they’ve got […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Tomgram: Michael Klare, No Exit in the Persian Gulf?

Tomgram: Michael Klare, No Exit in the Persian Gulf?

All of a sudden, the Strait of Hormuz has become the most combustible spot on the planet, the most likely place to witness a major conflict between well-armed adversaries.  Why, of all locales, has it become so explosive?

Juan Cole

Syria
Syria’s Crisis Deepens:  Does Internationalization Loom?

Syria’s Crisis Deepens: Does Internationalization Loom?

The events of the past five days in Syria may be a game changer, both domestically and internationally. Last Thursday, opposition forces said, 100 people […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Iran Through the Looking Glass

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Iran Through the Looking Glass

Reverse the story, though, and it immediately becomes a malign, if unimaginable, fairy tale.  Of course, no Iranian elite forces will ever operate along the U.S. border…

Tom Engelhardt

Israel/ Palestine
Can Obama Prevail against a Romney-Netanyahu Ticket? – Robertson

Can Obama Prevail against a Romney-Netanyahu Ticket? – Robertson

John Robertson writes in a guest column for Informed Comment CAN OBAMA PREVAIL AGAINST A ROMNEY-NETANYAHU TICKET? Paul Pillar and Leslie Gelb – both of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Way Forward in the Middle East — Peled & Peled

The Way Forward in the Middle East — Peled & Peled

Yoav Peled and Horit Herman Peled write in a guest column for Informed Comment The Way Forward in the Middle East Reversing a bi-partisan US […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2208
  • Page 2209
  • Page 2210
  • Page 2211
  • Page 2212
  • …
  • Page 3068
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

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

Ramzy Baroud

Germany

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

Clean Energy Wire

Colonialism

Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self

Juan Cole

nuclear weapons

An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

Michael T. Klare

Popular

  • Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self
  • Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report
  • Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts
  • Iran Protests have put the Country's Political System on Trial
  • Gaza: Six Reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging Conflict in the Middle East
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved