Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

Donate

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google+
  • Email
  • RSS
  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2022 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

Does Megadrought of the 500s in Yemen help Explain the Rise of Islam?
Archaeology

Does Megadrought of the 500s in Yemen help Explain the Rise of Islam?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new article in the journal Science gives evidence for a prolonged dry spell in the kingdom of Himyar (which […]

European Union Ministers Agree on Climate Bills, the De Facto End of Gasoline Cars by 2035

European Union Ministers Agree on Climate Bills, the De Facto End of Gasoline Cars by 2035

07/03/2022 By Kerstine Appunn

‘We are Ready to receive You’: Blue States prepare for Influx of Patients seeking Abortion Care

‘We are Ready to receive You’: Blue States prepare for Influx of Patients seeking Abortion Care

07/03/2022 By Cronkite News Arizona PBS

More Stories

Uncategorized

No Security Council Resolution Los

No Security Council Resolution? The Los Angeles Times reported today that the Bush administration will likely not seek a UN Security Council Resolution authorizing war […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized

Iraq And Al Qaida Again Attempts To Tie

Iraq and al-Qaida (Again) The attempts to tie Baathist Iraq to al-Qaida continue among the hawks in Washington, and they continue to be without logical […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized

Whatever Happened To Iraqi Airforce

Whatever Happened to the Iraqi Airforce (Iran-Iraq relations) Someone asked of the 1990 pilot defections: >1) Were these defections spontaneously carried out by Iraqi pilots, […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized

Iraqi Terrorism And War With Iraq There

Iraqi Terrorism and War with Iraq? There is a double standard in Western approaches to Middle Eastern movements. On the whole and by and large, […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized

Guardian Blows Whistle On Ersatz Middle

The Guardian Blows the Whistle on the Ersatz Middle East Experts http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html: US thinktanks give lessons in foreign policy Brian Whitaker reports on the network […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized

No Iraq Link To Al Qaida Thanks To M

No Iraq link to al-Qaida Thanks to M.S. for his further comments. There is also, however, no credible evidence of *indirect* Iraqi, Baathist support for […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized

Iran Has Turned Over 16 Al Qaida

Iran has turned over 16 al-Qaida terrorists to Saudi Arabia, according to Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister. These were Saudi nationals who had […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized

Al Qaida Acted Alone For Anyone

al-Qaida acted alone For anyone interested in the documents on Usama Bin Laden, a very useful web site is: http://www.robert-fisk.com/understanding_enemy.htm The September 11 operation was […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized

Us Isolation On Iraq There Were Several

US Isolation on Iraq There were several international and national developments with regard to the coming US attack on Iraq on Wednesday. On Wednesday, German […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2579
  • Page 2580
  • Page 2581
  • Page 2582
  • Page 2583
  • …
  • Page 2585
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Arms Sales

Unlike SCOTUS, Iraqi Kurds are Rethinking Lax Gun Laws after Shootings; Will even Iraq be Safer than the US?

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis

US Supreme Court Deals Blow to Climate Action: Ruling Limits Administration’s Ability to Restrict Carbon Emissions from Power Plants

Human Rights Watch

Bangladesh

Climate change and rapid Urbanization blamed for the worst Flood in over a Century in northeastern Bangladesh

Global Voices

Climate Crisis

Climate Crisis: even temporarily overshooting an Extra 3.6°F (2°C) would cause permanent Damage to Earth’s Species

The Conversation

Popular

Apartheid: How a Reluctant UN Official Was convinced to so Describe Israeli Policies toward Palestinians
American gun culture is based on frontier mythology – but ignores how common gun restrictions were in the Old West
In 13 Years, Gasoline will be as Illegal in Europe as Heroin for New Car Buyers
As US Electric Vehicle Sales Double in One Year, Biden calls for Lowering their Price to Defeat Oil Tyrant Putin
Palestinians ‘are not animals in a zoo’: On Kanafani and the need to redefine the role of the ‘victim intellectual’
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2022 All Rights Reserved

Posting....