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

In move that could Bring in NATO, Spain joins Italy in Sending Rescue Ship for Sumud Gaza Aid Flotilla
Featured

In move that could Bring in NATO, Spain joins Italy in Sending Rescue Ship for Sumud Gaza Aid Flotilla

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday, the socialist government of Pedro Sánchez in Spain announced that it would dispatch a rescue ship to be […]

The Death of Civil Rights in the Age of Trump

The Death of Civil Rights in the Age of Trump

09/26/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

Is Benjamin Netanyahu on a Mission to Realize a Greater Israel?

Is Benjamin Netanyahu on a Mission to Realize a Greater Israel?

09/25/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

BRICS
As US drags out Israel Normalization Deal with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Drifts toward China

As US drags out Israel Normalization Deal with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Drifts toward China

Cairo (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – With the announcement of the expansion of the BRICS bloc many were surprised to see traditional US allies […]

Nick Mehling

Climate Crisis
Young Montanans are fighting Climate Change in Court for all our Sakes

Young Montanans are fighting Climate Change in Court for all our Sakes

By Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The wording in Article IX, Section 1, of Montana’s constitution couldn’t be clearer: “The state and […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis: Flood Death Toll in Libya's Derna may reach 20,000

Climate Crisis: Flood Death Toll in Libya’s Derna may reach 20,000

( Middle East Monitor ) – The death toll in Derna as a result of the catastrophic flooding in Libya may reach 20,000, the city’s […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
30 Years after Arafat-Rabin Handshake, clear Flaws in Oslo Accords doomed peace Talks to Failure

30 Years after Arafat-Rabin Handshake, clear Flaws in Oslo Accords doomed peace Talks to Failure

By Maha Nassar, University of Arizona | – On Sept. 13, 1993, the world watched as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization […]

The Conversation

China
Mideast AI:  Saudi, UAE Chip imports from US imperiled by Their Close China Ties

Mideast AI: Saudi, UAE Chip imports from US imperiled by Their Close China Ties

London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Efforts by Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to join the race […]

Neil Thompson

Anti-intellectualism
‘Era Of Repression’: Iran Purges Ranks Of University Professors Ahead Of Veil Protest Anniversary

‘Era Of Repression’: Iran Purges Ranks Of University Professors Ahead Of Veil Protest Anniversary

By Hannah Kaviani Fereshteh Ghazi ( RFE/RL ) – Encouraging students to hold unauthorized demonstrations. Encouraging students to sing antiestablishment slogans. Encouraging female students to […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Anti-intellectualism
Why Defining Criticism of Israeli Policies as “antisemitism” Harms Campus Freedom of Speech (BRISMES)

Why Defining Criticism of Israeli Policies as “antisemitism” Harms Campus Freedom of Speech (BRISMES)

Statement of the British Society for Middle East Studies and the European Legal Support Center on the IHRA Definition of antisemitism as a challenge to […]

contributors

Featured
War is not Inevitable, and Social Scientists are Finding Peace Movements more Effective

War is not Inevitable, and Social Scientists are Finding Peace Movements more Effective

Greenfield, MA (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – I am heartened each time I come across a study affirming that waging war is not an […]

H. Patricia Hynes

China
The South China Sea’s Resource Wars and Environmental Collapse

The South China Sea’s Resource Wars and Environmental Collapse

By Joshua Frank ( Tomdispatch.com) – It’s an ocean of conflict and ecological decline. Despite its vast size — 1.3 million square miles — the […]

Tomdispatch

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 251
  • Page 252
  • Page 253
  • Page 254
  • Page 255
  • …
  • Page 3030
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Featured

Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank

Mohammed Samaana

Climate Crisis

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

Frida Berrigan

Israel/ Palestine

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

Middle East Studies Association

Featured

Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State

H. Scott Prosterman

Popular

  • "Real Estate Bonanza:" The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza
  • Netanyahu Says he's making Israel a "Sparta:" He means a global Pariah State
  • In move that could Bring in NATO, Spain joins Italy in Sending Rescue Ship for Sumud Gaza Aid Flotilla
  • Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov't is Coming for the West Bank
  • As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved