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

China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal
China

China’s Power Sector Emissions fall 5.8% in Q1, as Renewables rapidly Replace Coal

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lauri Myllyvirta writes at Carbon Brief that China’s CO2 emissions over-all fell by 1% in the past 12 months, and […]

A New Aid Regime for Gaza: Humanitarian Facade, Military Core

A New Aid Regime for Gaza: Humanitarian Facade, Military Core

05/17/2025 By Global Voices

For all Trump’s new Mideast Contracts, Two Big Deals Elude Him

For all Trump’s new Mideast Contracts, Two Big Deals Elude Him

05/17/2025 By Shahram Akbarzadeh

More Stories

Christianity
Why White Christian Nationalists are Freaked out: Liberals are More likely to be Non-Religious than Christian

Why White Christian Nationalists are Freaked out: Liberals are More likely to be Non-Religious than Christian

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ironically, White Christian nationalism has captured the U.S. government despite its steep decline in popularity among the public. The Pew […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s bombing of Gaza caused untold environmental Damage − Can it Recover?

Israel’s bombing of Gaza caused untold environmental Damage − Can it Recover?

By Lesley Joseph, University of South Carolina (The Conversation) – The war in Gaza has come with an awful cost. Tens of thousands of Palestinian […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
How the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy

How the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy

By Norman Solomon ( Tomdispatch.com) – Donald Trump’s power has thrived on the economics, politics, and culture of war. The runaway militarism of the last […]

Norman Solomon

Featured
Germany: A Not-So-Green Departing Government, A Future Coalition even Less Ambitious on Climate?

Germany: A Not-So-Green Departing Government, A Future Coalition even Less Ambitious on Climate?

Zwickau/Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– When Germans voted in a national election in September 2021, 33% of the population considered that the environment […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s West Bank Offensive looks very much like a Prelude to Annexation

Israel’s West Bank Offensive looks very much like a Prelude to Annexation

by Rabia Ali ( Middle East Monitor ) – As its armed forces intensify their assault on the northern West Bank, concerns are mounting over […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel
Israel escalates strikes in Syria amid post-Assad transition: A pattern of regional expansion

Israel escalates strikes in Syria amid post-Assad transition: A pattern of regional expansion

Written byWalid El Houri ( Globalvoices.org ) – On February 25, 2025, as Syria’s new government convened a national dialogue to chart the nation’s future […]

Global Voices

Featured
Should Biden, Blinken, Austin and Trump be tried at the Hague for Gaza Genocide?

Should Biden, Blinken, Austin and Trump be tried at the Hague for Gaza Genocide?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The civil society human rights NGO DAWN (Democracy for the Arab World Now) has submitted a detailed filing to the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why Trump’s Gaza “Reconstruction Proposal” is Doomed to Failure

Why Trump’s Gaza “Reconstruction Proposal” is Doomed to Failure

By Ali Asgary, York University, Canada There have been many conversations around U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal to permanently displace Palestinians from Gaza to […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Surviving Hard Times: The Last Generation of Black Americans under Jim Crow and the Culture of Racism in America

Surviving Hard Times: The Last Generation of Black Americans under Jim Crow and the Culture of Racism in America

By Douglas H. White ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Today, racism remains a poisonous force in America. Fascism and authoritarianism are on the rise and President […]

Tomdispatch

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 25
  • Page 26
  • Page 27
  • Page 28
  • Page 29
  • …
  • Page 2984
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Donald Trump

That Sucking Sound you hear is Trump Flushing America down the Toilet

Tom Engelhardt

Featured

As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals

Juan Cole

Corporate Surveillance

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

Juan Cole

Immigration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

The Conversation

Popular

  • Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration
  • Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump's Motives
  • As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
  • Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes
  • US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved