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

Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program
Featured

Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France, the United Kingdom and Germany (the “E3”) on Thursday sent a formal letter to the UN Security Council asking […]

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

08/29/2025 By The Conversation

From Guernica to Gaza:  The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

From Guernica to Gaza: The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

08/29/2025 By Norman Solomon

More Stories

Iraq
Will Sistani Declare Jihad on US?

Will Sistani Declare Jihad on US?

Hamza Hendawi and Qassim Abdul Zahra of AP get the scoop: Their sources in Najaf tell them that young Shiite men belonging to the “Troops […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Hagee Anti-Semitism and Endorsement of McCain

Hagee Anti-Semitism and Endorsement of McCain

John McCain actively sought and accepted the endorsement of pastor John Hagee. Breaking News: CNN is reporting that McCain has just repudiated Hagee, specifically over […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Cole on Newshour

Cole on Newshour

The Newshour with Jim Lehrer will be doing an Iraq segment this evening on the Public Broadcasting Service, and I will be one of the […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Assassinations of High Officials; 36 Killed, Wounded in Baghdad; Iraqiya Rebuffs al-Maliki

Assassinations of High Officials; 36 Killed, Wounded in Baghdad; Iraqiya Rebuffs al-Maliki

Signs that things weren’t that calm in Baghdad on Wednesday: Guerrillas assassinated Colonel Abdul Kareem Muhsin, the director of the protection department in the ministry […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Appeasement Breaks out Everywhere

Appeasement Breaks out Everywhere

After all that trouble George W. Bush caused with his foolish speech before the Israeli Knesset condemning negotiation with bad guys, it turns out that […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Poll: Americans Want their Iraq News

Poll: Americans Want their Iraq News

The Zogby news release, below, about a new poll demonstrates that Informed Comment is giving the American people what they want in the way of […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Reuters/Zogby: Obama Opens up 10 Point Lead on McCain

Reuters/Zogby: Obama Opens up 10 Point Lead on McCain

Zogby Polling has permitted the reprinting of the below. What I take away from it is that in a four-way race Nader would hurt Clinton […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
American Idol and American Politics

American Idol and American Politics

I find it a little eerie how closely the finale of the television program American Idol resembles the presidential race. Here you have an older […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
4 Awakening Council Members Killed; Iraqi Army enters Sadr City; Provincial election Date provokes Row

4 Awakening Council Members Killed; Iraqi Army enters Sadr City; Provincial election Date provokes Row

The Iraqi Army moved into part of Sadr City without meeting resistance on Tuesday, according to McClatchy. Raheem Salman of LAT blogs the scene in […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2463
  • Page 2464
  • Page 2465
  • Page 2466
  • Page 2467
  • …
  • Page 3020
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Genocide

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

The Conversation

Featured

There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children*

H. Patricia Hynes

Omar Khayyam

“Red Wine!” – the Nightingale cries to the Rose: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:6

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don't Enable the Slaughter in Gaza
  • Don't Blame Israel for Violating Jewish Ethics
  • There's no Such thing as Someone Else's Children*
  • The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
  • More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved