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

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard
Abbasid Empire

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Northeastern England fell to the Vikings in 865, and they held it for several decades. They not only had what […]

Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

08/13/2025 By Human Rights Watch

What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?

What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?

08/13/2025 By Juan Cole

More Stories

Uncategorized
Straw Man Resolution In Congress

Straw Man Resolution In Congress

Straw Man Resolution in Congress: Joking around with the Lives of the Troops Brad Blog gives the text of Democratic congressman and retired Marine Colonel […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Dozens Dead In Another Black Friday

Dozens Dead In Another Black Friday

Dozens Dead in another Black Friday Shiite Worshippers Massacred Suicide bombers went into two Shiite religious centers [Husayniyyahs] in Khaniqin northeast of Baghdad on Friday […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Blowing In Wind In Background Of

Blowing In Wind In Background Of

Blowing in the Wind In the background of today’s entries, Bob Dylan’s “blowing in the wind” is playing. How many roads must a man walk […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Skin Is Peeling Off New Iraq White

Skin Is Peeling Off New Iraq White

The Skin is Peeling off the New Iraq: White Phosphorus and Torture Al-Quds al-Arabi: First, the Pentagon was forced to admit that it had in […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Woodward And Insider Trading Bob

Woodward And Insider Trading Bob

Woodward and Insider Trading Bob Woodward, who as a young man exposed the Watergate burglaries has now become wrapped up in a scandal himself. He […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Preparations For

Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Preparations For

Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Preparations for Cairo Conference Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari revealed Tuesday that nearly 200 prisoners detained by the Ministry of the Interior […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Woman Bomber Unrepentant Al Hayat

Woman Bomber Unrepentant Al Hayat

Woman Bomber Unrepentant Al-Hayat: Sajidah Mubarak Atrus al-Rishawi, who attempted to detonate a belt bomb at the Radisson SAS hotel in Amman last Wednesday night […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Muslims And 5 Questions Somebody Named

Muslims And 5 Questions Somebody Named

Muslims and the 5 Questions Somebody named Dennis Prager wrote a frankly bigotted op-ed for the LA Times asking “Muslims” 5 questions. The questions are […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Strange Death Of Moustapha Akkad

Strange Death Of Moustapha Akkad

The Strange Death of Moustapha Akkad; Zarqawi and “Halloween” The ironies and dangers of globalization are tragically epitomized in the death last week of Hollywood […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2672
  • Page 2673
  • Page 2674
  • Page 2675
  • Page 2676
  • …
  • Page 3014
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Omar Khayyam

“Those who Stood before the Tavern” – FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:3

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

As Netanyahu moves toward full Takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a Crisis of international Credibility

The Conversation

censorship

On Occidental College’s Disciplining of Students Protesting Gaza

Committee on Academic Freedom

Featured

War Crimes Then and Now: Hiroshima to Gaza

Peter G. Prontzos

Popular

  • Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike
  • Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas
  • Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within
  • Trump to Xi: 'Hold our Beer' - EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%
  • How Israel's Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved