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

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

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

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

09/23/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State  – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

09/23/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Uncategorized
Guerrillas Gather At Ramadi Us Riposte

Guerrillas Gather At Ramadi Us Riposte

Guerrillas Gather at Ramadi US Riposte Iraq has banned non-Iraqi Arabs from coming to Iraq in the build-up to the December 15 elections. I think […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Questions About Readiness Of Iraqi

Questions About Readiness Of Iraqi

Questions about Readiness of Iraqi Army New US Assault The strategy of the Bush administration in Iraq depends heavily on standing up battle-ready units of […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Guest Editorial Achcar Indeed They Are

Guest Editorial Achcar Indeed They Are

Guest Editorial: Achcar & Shalom, on US Withdrawal “Strategic Redeployment” vs. “Out Now” Gilbert Achcar and Stephen R. Shalom Whatever the limitations of Rep. Murtha’s […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Poll Shows Mixed Results For Bush

Poll Shows Mixed Results For Bush

Poll Shows Mixed Results for Bush Highlights of the CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll on Bush and Iraq. It is a very small poll with a whopping […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Cole In Salon And Truthdig In Salon

Cole In Salon And Truthdig In Salon

Cole in Salon and Truthdig In Salon.com today, I ask “Did Bush plan to Bomb al-Jazeera?” And present new evidence that Rumsfeld considered the Arabic […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Wilkerson Cheney May Be War Criminal

Wilkerson Cheney May Be War Criminal

Wilkerson: Cheney May be a War Criminal Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff of Colin Powell, told the BBC that Vice President Dick Cheney may […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Shiite Militiamen Terrorize Sunni

Shiite Militiamen Terrorize Sunni

Shiite Militiamen Terrorize Sunni Arabs Khalilzad Agrees to Talk to Sunni Guerrillas Now terrorists are killing Christian (Chaldo-Assyrian) politicians. The New York Times seems to […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Khalilzad To Talk To Iranians Monday

Khalilzad To Talk To Iranians Monday

Khalilzad to talk to Iranians Monday in Iraq was characterized by the usual mayhem, much of it with a dark sectarian character. Two prominent members […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Us Air Power To Replace Infantry In

Us Air Power To Replace Infantry In

US Air Power to Replace Infantry in Iraq; Distant President Trapped in Utopianism Veteran journalist Seymour Hersh is reporting in the New Yorker that the […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2684
  • Page 2685
  • Page 2686
  • Page 2687
  • Page 2688
  • …
  • Page 3029
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Omar Khayyam

“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

Middle East Monitor

Islamophobia

Muslim-Led Story-Telling is Changing the TV Narrative of Irrational Violence

The Conversation

Colonialism

76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Riyadh-Islamabad "Islamic NATO" to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can't draw the Line at Genocide, they can't Draw the Line at Democracy
  • 76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine
  • "Real Estate Bonanza:" The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza
  • Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved