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

From Gaza to America and Vietnam, the Prospect of a Peacemaker Pope
Featured

From Gaza to America and Vietnam, the Prospect of a Peacemaker Pope

Richard Penaskovic

Auburn, Al. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It’s not surprising that Pope Leo XIV took the name Leo in honor of Pope Leo XIII […]

Protesting NYU’s Withholding of Degree over Gaza Protest

Protesting NYU’s Withholding of Degree over Gaza Protest

05/21/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Trump isn’t even Trying to Hide the Racism Anymore

Trump isn’t even Trying to Hide the Racism Anymore

05/21/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

More Stories

Uncategorized
Combatting Extremism In Yemen Asharq Al

Combatting Extremism In Yemen Asharq Al

Combatting extremism in Yemen Asharq al-Awsat reports that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Salih has formed a council of senior Muslim clergymen to preach to Yemen’s […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Al Qaida Funding Two Contradictory

Al Qaida Funding Two Contradictory

al-Qaida Funding Two contradictory reports are out. Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal says that his government has blocked $90 mn. from going to al-Qaida […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Al Qaida In Iran Iran Has Denied

Al Qaida In Iran Iran Has Denied

al-Qaida in Iran Iran has denied a Washington Post report that two senior al-Qaida figures are hiding out in far eastern Iran near the Afghan […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Bin Ladin Back In Control Al Quds Al

Bin Ladin Back In Control Al Quds Al

Bin Ladin Back in Control? Al-Quds al-`Arabi, a London newspaper, is reporting that Bin Ladin is firmly back in control of al-Qa’ida and that the […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
No Security Council Resolution Los

No Security Council Resolution Los

No Security Council Resolution? The Los Angeles Times reported today that the Bush administration will likely not seek a UN Security Council Resolution authorizing war […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Iraq And Al Qaida Again Attempts To Tie

Iraq And Al Qaida Again Attempts To Tie

Iraq and al-Qaida (Again) The attempts to tie Baathist Iraq to al-Qaida continue among the hawks in Washington, and they continue to be without logical […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Whatever Happened To Iraqi Airforce

Whatever Happened To Iraqi Airforce

Whatever Happened to the Iraqi Airforce (Iran-Iraq relations) Someone asked of the 1990 pilot defections: >1) Were these defections spontaneously carried out by Iraqi pilots, […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Iraqi Terrorism And War With Iraq There

Iraqi Terrorism And War With Iraq There

Iraqi Terrorism and War with Iraq? There is a double standard in Western approaches to Middle Eastern movements. On the whole and by and large, […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Guardian Blows Whistle On Ersatz Middle

Guardian Blows Whistle On Ersatz Middle

The Guardian Blows the Whistle on the Ersatz Middle East Experts http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html: US thinktanks give lessons in foreign policy Brian Whitaker reports on the network […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2979
  • Page 2980
  • Page 2981
  • Page 2982
  • Page 2983
  • …
  • Page 2986
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

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

Global Voices

Donald Trump

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

Shahram Akbarzadeh

China

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

Juan Cole

Uncategorized

Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many

Foreign Policy in Focus

Popular

  • Gaza, Yemen, Iran: Trump's Opening Gambits in the Middle East (Juan Cole on The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini)
  • Gaza: The Horror, The Horror . . .
  • Britain, France and Canada threaten Israel with Concrete Sanctions if Gaza War is not Halted
  • Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration
  • Stopping Israel's Attack on Civil Society, Justice and Human Rights: A Call to Action
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved