Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

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

© 2026 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended?
Bahrain

Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended?

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

From diplomatic architects to shock absorbers – Iranian missiles raining down on the Gulf Cooperation Council , targeting US military facilities

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues

03/03/2026 By Norman Solomon

How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn

How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn

03/02/2026 By Dan Steinbock

More Stories

Uncategorized
Garner On Reasons For Delay In

Garner On Reasons For Delay In

Garner on Reasons for Delay in Returning Sovereignty to Iraq I can remember in April of 2003 when I complained on an email list about […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Can Iraq Embrace Democracy Paul

Can Iraq Embrace Democracy Paul

Can Iraq Embrace Democracy? Paul McGeough of the Australian newspaper, The Age wonders thoughtfully whether the US attempt to impose democracy on Iraq will succeed. […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Womens Classes At Shiite Mosques Shiite

Womens Classes At Shiite Mosques Shiite

Women’s classes at Shiite Mosques Shiite women in Iraq are attending lessons in mosques, according to Ashraf Khalil, writing in Women’s eNews. Khalil does not […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Most Of Them Are People Who Come From

Most Of Them Are People Who Come From

Most of them are People who Come from the Area and have certain Sympathies . . . Barbara Ferguson reports that ‘ Major Jewish organizations […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Our Oil Is Sweet But They Let

Our Oil Is Sweet But They Let

Our Oil is Sweet, but They Let the Terrorists Kill Us Newsday reports that 9 more Iraqi civilians were killed in attacks throughout Iraq on […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Iraq One Year Later Welcome To Quagmire

Iraq One Year Later Welcome To Quagmire

Iraq One Year Later: Welcome to the Quagmire My essay “Welcome to the Quagmire” is at Salon.com today.

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Attention Readers Of Soldiers Of

Attention Readers Of Soldiers Of

Attention: Readers of Soldiers of Fortune Magazine Walter Pincus writes for the Washington Post about a new contract being let by the US government for […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Zawahiri Cornered I Know That Mass

Zawahiri Cornered I Know That Mass

Zawahiri Cornered? I know that the mass media is concentrating on the firefight in Waziristan, where the Pakistani army has pinned down some 400 fighters, […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Rosen Furious Survivors Attacked

Rosen Furious Survivors Attacked

Rosen: “Furious Survivors Attacked Cameramen” Nir Rosen, intrepid Baghdad-based reporter has thoughtful reflections in the Asia Times on the huge car bombing of the Mount […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2941
  • Page 2942
  • Page 2943
  • Page 2944
  • Page 2945
  • …
  • Page 3085
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Climate Crisis

Trumped! The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

Tom Engelhardt

China

Could China’s EVs be the Real Winner of Trump’s Oil War in Iran and the Gulf?

Juan Cole

Democratic Party

Iran Strike: Democrats call for immediate Vote on Trump War Powers

Michigan Advance

Donald Trump

The Nihilism of Trump’s War Games

Truthdig

Popular

  • Could China's EVs be the Real Winner of Trump's Oil War in Iran and the Gulf?
  • Iran: Was Washington Reframing its Red Line before Israel Attacked?
  • The Nihilism of Trump’s War Games
  • How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn
  • The Strait of Hormuz and Iran: Where Geography becomes a Weapon
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved