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

Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza
Democratic Party

Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza

Norman Solomon

San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic […]

Iran’s Water Crisis Opens A New Front With Israel

Iran’s Water Crisis Opens A New Front With Israel

08/26/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

‘Green Islam’: how Muslims are powering environmental Action across the World

‘Green Islam’: how Muslims are powering environmental Action across the World

08/26/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Iraq
Kurdish Press Freedoms Curtailed

Kurdish Press Freedoms Curtailed

The parliament of the Kurdistan Regional Authority, a part of Iraq, has just passed a very dangerous press law, which has drawn vigorous protests from […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Former US interrogator recounts torture cases in Afghanistan and Iraq

Former US interrogator recounts torture cases in Afghanistan and Iraq

The USG Open Source Center translates an interview in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo with Damien Corsetti, a former private in the US army who […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Pelosi on Republicans: They Like this War

Pelosi on Republicans: They Like this War

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she has been surprised at the depth of support for the Iraq War among Republicans in […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Muqtada Hits the Books; Said to aim at one day being Ayatollah

Muqtada Hits the Books; Said to aim at one day being Ayatollah

The Associated Press reports that Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr has gone back to his studies of Shiite law and jurisprudence in Najaf. He began work toward […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
40 Dead, 125 Wounded in Amara Bombings; Bombings in Baghdad leave 30 Dead or Wounded

40 Dead, 125 Wounded in Amara Bombings; Bombings in Baghdad leave 30 Dead or Wounded

Militiamen detonated three car bombs in downtown Amara on Wednesday, killing over 40 persons and wounding 125. The southern Shiite city of Amara–capital of Maysan […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Ayatollah Huckabee’s Fatwa

Ayatollah Huckabee’s Fatwa

In Shiite Iran, only a Shiite may be president. Not a Sunni Muslim, not a Christian, and not a secularist. Article 115 of the current […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Rubaie: No Permanent Bases; Bombing Near Allawi’s Compound; Basra Christians cancel Christmas Celebrations

Rubaie: No Permanent Bases; Bombing Near Allawi’s Compound; Basra Christians cancel Christmas Celebrations

Iraq’s national security adviser, Muwaffaq al-Rubaie, said Tuesday that the Iraqi nation would never permit permanent US military bases in that country. He named some […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
"Cole in Salon: The GOP’s Iran option is off the table

"Cole in Salon: The GOP’s Iran option is off the table

My column in Salon.com, “The GOP’s Iran option is off the table.” The subhead is: “Rudy Giuliani was counting on Iran as a weapon of […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Giuliani, Reagan, and Kissing up to Ayatollahs with fancy Cakes

Giuliani, Reagan, and Kissing up to Ayatollahs with fancy Cakes

I just saw this campaign ad for Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign. He says that Iran held US embassy hostages for 444 days. Then they were […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2493
  • Page 2494
  • Page 2495
  • Page 2496
  • Page 2497
  • …
  • Page 3019
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

European Union

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

Global Voices

Health

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

F. Douglas Stephenson

Archaeology

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Middle East Monitor

Popular

  • From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming
  • Cartoonish Trump is making America a Caricature, and I should Know
  • Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead
  • Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
  • The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved