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

Psychopathocracy 3.0
Donald Trump

Psychopathocracy 3.0

Juan Cole

This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

08/16/2025 By Middle East Monitor

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

08/16/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Climate Crisis
Getting Mad and Getting Even:  Is California’s Climate Lawsuit against Big Oil a Gamechanger?

Getting Mad and Getting Even: Is California’s Climate Lawsuit against Big Oil a Gamechanger?

Reprinted from Tomdispatch.com : See the original site for Tom Engelhardt’s crucial introduction. ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The depths of depravity into which unvarnished capitalism […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis:  Recent Evidence suggests Economists have severely underestimated the Financial Hit

Climate Crisis: Recent Evidence suggests Economists have severely underestimated the Financial Hit

By Timothy Neal, UNSW Sydney | – Scientists say severe climate change is now the greatest threat to humanity. Extreme weather is expected to upend […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israel/Palestine: Devastating Civilian Toll as Parties Flout Legal Obligations

Israel/Palestine: Devastating Civilian Toll as Parties Flout Legal Obligations

( Human Rights Watch ) – (Jerusalem) – Palestinian armed groups carried out a deadly assault on October 7, 2023, that killed several hundred Israeli […]

Human Rights Watch

Featured
Can Hamas Survive the Stupidity of its ISIL-Style Tactics in its Drive against the Grey Zone?

Can Hamas Survive the Stupidity of its ISIL-Style Tactics in its Drive against the Grey Zone?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hamas leaders have said they were driven to their attack on Israel this weekend by two major considerations, the danger […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Rep. Tlaib grieves Palestinian and Israeli Lives lost after Hamas Attacks, Calls for end of Apartheid

Rep. Tlaib grieves Palestinian and Israeli Lives lost after Hamas Attacks, Calls for end of Apartheid

By: Ken Coleman – ( Michigan Advance) – Israel on Sunday formally declared war on Hamas after the Islamist militant group waged a series of […]

Michigan Advance

Israel/ Palestine
If Ukrainians had taken the Steps Palestinians just took Would they be seen as Heroes?

If Ukrainians had taken the Steps Palestinians just took Would they be seen as Heroes?

  by Faaiz Gilani FaaizGilani ( Middle East Monitor ) – As we watch the events unfolding in the besieged Gaza Strip, where resistance fighters […]

Middle East Monitor

Featured
Tribalism versus International Law in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Tribalism versus International Law in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!” Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Hamas Attacks kill at least 600 Israelis, Mostly Civilians, including 260 at Music Festival

Hamas Attacks kill at least 600 Israelis, Mostly Civilians, including 260 at Music Festival

(Middle East Monitor ) – At least 600 Israelis have been killed in the ongoing military escalation with Palestinian groups in Gaza, according to local […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli PM Netanyahu: "We have decided to Halt Electricity, Fuel, Goods to Gaza"

Israeli PM Netanyahu: “We have decided to Halt Electricity, Fuel, Goods to Gaza”

( Middle East Monitor ) – Following security cabinet meeting held early on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Israeli occupation will […]

Middle East Monitor

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 227
  • Page 228
  • Page 229
  • Page 230
  • Page 231
  • …
  • Page 3015
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

The Obliteration Doctrine, and the West’s Complicity

Dan Steinbock

Health

No Country is an Island: Trump’s Destruction of Global Heath will Bite us on the Posterior

William deBuys

Featured

Saudi Arabia in Modern History

Marc Martorell Junyent

Greece

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

Global Voices

Popular

  • Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard
  • Saudi Arabia in Modern History
  • Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel
  • Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)
  • Under the Sea: China's Digital Silk Road and the Middle East
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved