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

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
Archaeology

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

08/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

08/24/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Uncategorized
Cole On Knowing His Own History And

Cole On Knowing His Own History And

Cole on Knowing his Own History; and Isaiah Berlin I don’t usually bother to reply at any length to my Neocon critics. Mostly this is […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Can They Handle It Hawi As Communist

Can They Handle It Hawi As Communist

Can they Handle it? Hawi as Communist A reader writes: ‘ I noted with some relish the subtleties of perception. You and Al-Jazeera identify Georges […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Beirut Bombing Kills Communist

Beirut Bombing Kills Communist

Beirut Bombing Kills Communist Opposition Leader The victory in Sunday’s polling of the anti-Syrian faction in Lebanese politics has not led to social peace. The […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Condi Cant Count Condi Rice Seems

Condi Cant Count Condi Rice Seems

Condi Can’t Count Condi Rice seems extremely confused about military affairs and the nature of guerrilla wars: Interviewed on CNN during her visit to the […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
37 Dead In Attacks On Monday Al Zaman

37 Dead In Attacks On Monday Al Zaman

37 Dead in Attacks on Monday Al-Zaman, the ‘Times of Baghdad,’ refers to “a sudden and unprecedented deterioration of the security situation in Baghdad” on […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Helman On Un Option Ambassador Gerald

Helman On Un Option Ambassador Gerald

Helman on UN Option Ambassador Gerald B. Helman writes: “. . . On replacing the US with the UN in Iraq[:] It seems clear that […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
United Nations Strategy As Resolution

United Nations Strategy As Resolution

The United Nations Strategy as a Resolution of the Iraq Crisis The United States has failed militarily in Iraq, and the situation there is deteriorating […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
45 Dead Dozens Wounded In Guerrilla

45 Dead Dozens Wounded In Guerrilla

45 Dead, Dozens Wounded in Guerrilla Attacks Restaurant Bombing Mocks Operation Lightning The Associated Press reports that a guerrilla wearing a bomb belt walked into […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Fixing Intelligence Around Facts Part

Fixing Intelligence Around Facts Part

Fixing the Intelligence Around the Facts Part Deux AP has gotten hold of the text of some more Downing Street Memos. Mark Danner at Tomdispatch.com […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2722
  • Page 2723
  • Page 2724
  • Page 2725
  • Page 2726
  • …
  • Page 3018
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Afghanistan

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

ProPublica

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

The Conversation

Academic Freedom

The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza

Shamai Leibowitz

Omar Khayyam

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

Juan Cole

Popular

  • From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming
  • The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
  • Cartoonish Trump is making America a Caricature, and I should Know
  • America may have invaded Iraq for its Oil, but Solar Power is what Iraqis now Want
  • Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved