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

Britain, France and Canada threaten Israel with Concrete Sanctions if Gaza War is not Halted
Canada

Britain, France and Canada threaten Israel with Concrete Sanctions if Gaza War is not Halted

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Britain, France and Canada issued a statement on Monday, demanding that the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu cease its military […]

Gaza faces Catastrophic Famine

Gaza faces Catastrophic Famine

05/20/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Trump Lifting Syria Sanctions is a win for Middle Power Turkey

Trump Lifting Syria Sanctions is a win for Middle Power Turkey

05/20/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Uncategorized
American Noir: Arizona anti-Immigrant Law penned by Private Prison Industry, says NPR

American Noir: Arizona anti-Immigrant Law penned by Private Prison Industry, says NPR

NPR reports that Arizona’s fascist immigration law was cooked up and in large part written by the private prison industry in the state, which saw […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Mission Impossible:  Iraq

Mission Impossible: Iraq

Mission Impossible: Government Formation Producer and screenwriter: The United States Starring: Nuri al-Maliki, Iyad Allawi, Ammar al-Hakim, Salih al-Mutlak, Muqtada al-Sadr, Tariq al-Hashimi Sound and […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Scary Tea Party Compilation

Scary Tea Party Compilation

You can’t make this stuff up. Vote Sanity suggests that however angry you might be about the current situation, it is important that you vote […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Obama fails to Galvanize the Youth on Daily Show

Obama fails to Galvanize the Youth on Daily Show

President Obama came on Jon Stewart’s Daily show on Wednesday. This was the president’s chance to rally the youth, who typically don’t vote in midterms. […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli extremists Provoke Clashes in Umm al-Fahm

Israeli extremists Provoke Clashes in Umm al-Fahm

The extremist “Our Land of Israel” group that opposes any negotiations with Arabs or relinquishing of conquered territory staged a provocative march Wednesday in Umm […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
On Beating Uppity Liberal Women: Afghanistan and Kentucky

On Beating Uppity Liberal Women: Afghanistan and Kentucky

Afghanistan style (Taliban version): American style (Tea Party version): For more on woman-stomper Tim Profitt and Rand Paul see HuffPo. The episode puts Paul’s youthful […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
A North-South Global Climate War?

A North-South Global Climate War?

This looks to me like a sort of north-south global war, with the North inflicting profound damage on the South: Here are carbon dioxide emissions […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Suzuki: Our Global Economy is not Sustainable

Suzuki: Our Global Economy is not Sustainable

I had the pleasure of hearing biologist David Suzuki lecture at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday night during my recent short trip to Australia. […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Karzai and the Iranian Slush Pile

Karzai and the Iranian Slush Pile

The revelation that Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai receives millions in influence peddling payments from Iran is full of ironies. It demonstrates that the US and […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2218
  • Page 2219
  • Page 2220
  • Page 2221
  • Page 2222
  • …
  • Page 2985
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

censorship

Stopping Israel’s Attack on Civil Society, Justice and Human Rights: A Call to Action

Human Rights Watch

Donald Trump

Detained! Trump’s America as one Big Black Site

Andrea Mazzarino

Donald Trump

Gaza, Yemen, Iran: Trump’s Opening Gambits in the Middle East (Juan Cole on The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini)

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

The Gaza Precedent: Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid

Middle East Monitor

Popular

  • Libyan Gov't Decries Fake News about Taking 1 mn. Palestinian Refugees: "Committed to the Palestinian Cause"
  • Gaza, Yemen, Iran: Trump's Opening Gambits in the Middle East (Juan Cole on The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini)
  • For all Trump's new Mideast Contracts, Two Big Deals Elude Him
  • Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration
  • Gaza: The Horror, The Horror . . .
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved