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

California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear
Academic Freedom

California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – California Governor Gavin Newsom assumed the mantle of national leadership when he announced California’s “Election Rigging Response […]

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

08/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

08/18/2025 By Dan Steinbock

More Stories

Uncategorized
Palin:  "We must support our North Korean Allies"

Palin: “We must support our North Korean Allies”

Sarah Palin discussing foreign affairs with Glenn Beck is sort of like Lindsay Lohan discussing sobriety with Paris Hilton. Unsurprisingly, when asked about the Korean […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Photo of the Day:  Nile Valley from Space

Photo of the Day: Nile Valley from Space

NASA image from space of Alexandria, Cairo and the Nile Valley at night. Greater Cairo, now with an estimated population of 18 million, shines like […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Pashtuns lose Parliament, Violence up 70% in Afghanistan

Pashtuns lose Parliament, Violence up 70% in Afghanistan

Most of the results of the disputed parliamentary election in Afghanistan were announced on Wednesday. Altogether 24 candidates were disqualified from parliament because the Independent […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Scammed in Afghanistan

Scammed in Afghanistan

The announcement by the New York Times that one of the supposedly prominent Taliban with whom the Karzai government has been negotiating turns out to […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Tyger, Tyger, a fire snuffed out

Tyger, Tyger, a fire snuffed out

The Romantic poet William Blake wrote, in the age of European colonial expansion and encounter with Asian fauna: TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forests […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Looking for PETN, Scanning Grandma at the Airport, and the Future of Air Travel

Looking for PETN, Scanning Grandma at the Airport, and the Future of Air Travel

In all the furor about the new TSA scanners and pat-downs at airports, what surprises me is that there is very little discussion of what […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Congressional “Study” Attacking Climate Change Found to be Plagiarized, Error-Ridden

Congressional “Study” Attacking Climate Change Found to be Plagiarized, Error-Ridden

A USA Today investigation of a 2006 congressional “study” attacking climate change reveals that 35 of the 91 pages are plagiarized from a textbook by […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
NATO sets 2014 Deadline for Afghanistan Withdrawal (but not US), as Thousands demonstrate in London

NATO sets 2014 Deadline for Afghanistan Withdrawal (but not US), as Thousands demonstrate in London

The Afghan Pajhwok News Agency reports a seeming discrepancy between statements of NATO and US officials with regard to when the Afghanistan mission will wind […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Bush could be Arrested in Europe: Turley to Olbermann

Bush could be Arrested in Europe: Turley to Olbermann

Keith Olbermann interviews Jonathan Turley on London mayor Boris Johnson’s warning that if Bush comes to Europe to flog his ‘memoirs’, he might be arrested. […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2243
  • Page 2244
  • Page 2245
  • Page 2246
  • Page 2247
  • …
  • Page 3016
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Featured

Saudi Arabia in Modern History

Marc Martorell Junyent

Greece

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

Global Voices

Israel/ Palestine

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

The Conversation

Abbasid Empire

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Psychopathocracy 3.0
  • Under the Sea: China's Digital Silk Road and the Middle East
  • The Obliteration Doctrine, and the West's Complicity
  • After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?
  • New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved