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

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

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

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state today, […]

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

09/21/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

09/21/2025 By Global Voices

More Stories

Democratic Party
Jimmy Carter's Man in Sudan

Jimmy Carter’s Man in Sudan

Strasbourg, France (Special to Informed Comment) – I am not quite able to remember the first time I met President Carter, but I do remember […]

John Goodman

Climate Crisis
Climate Emergency: Intense Downpours, Flash Floods will Increasingly Strike Britain

Climate Emergency: Intense Downpours, Flash Floods will Increasingly Strike Britain

By Elizabeth Kendon, University of Bristol | – (The Conversation) – In July 2021, Kew in London experienced a month’s rain in just three hours. […]

The Conversation

Health Care
Two Mothers: Dying with Dignity and What Makes that Possible

Two Mothers: Dying with Dignity and What Makes that Possible

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – So many crises — from war to mass species die-offs to climate meltdown […]

Tomdispatch

Batteries
Iran discovered to have 10% of World's Lithium Deposits, in Good News for China's EV Industry

Iran discovered to have 10% of World’s Lithium Deposits, in Good News for China’s EV Industry

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Indian Express reports from Iran’s PressTV that the country has discovered a deposit of 8.5 million tons of lithium […]

Juan Cole

Corporations
Before RR Co. Norfolk Southern Poisoned Palestine, Oh., It Poisoned the Ohio Statehouse

Before RR Co. Norfolk Southern Poisoned Palestine, Oh., It Poisoned the Ohio Statehouse

The company plied state lawmakers with cash and lobbied against common sense rail safety measures.   By Jim Hightower | ( Otherwords.org – “The Wreck […]

OtherWords

Afghanistan
Women’s Sports Going Downhill In Afghanistan As Taliban Denies The Right To Ski

Women’s Sports Going Downhill In Afghanistan As Taliban Denies The Right To Ski

By Mansoor Khosrow | – ( RFE/ RL ) – The majestic mountains in the central province of Bamiyan are known as Afghanistan’s skiing capital. […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Bill of Rights
Why Tennessee’s Law limiting Drag Performances likely violates the First Amendment

Why Tennessee’s Law limiting Drag Performances likely violates the First Amendment

By Mark Satta, Wayne State University | – (The Conversation) – On March 2, 2023, Tennessee became the first state to enact a law restricting […]

The Conversation

Corruption
37 Israeli ‘Top Guns’ Boycott Training to Protest Gutting of Courts; Most El Al Pilots decline to fly PM to Italy

37 Israeli ‘Top Guns’ Boycott Training to Protest Gutting of Courts; Most El Al Pilots decline to fly PM to Italy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli Air Force, like its other armed forces, heavily depends on reservists. That was why Egypt was able to […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
How to beat the Fracking Frenzy--Lessons from the Campaign that ended it in Ireland

How to beat the Fracking Frenzy–Lessons from the Campaign that ended it in Ireland

The successful Irish anti-fracking struggle offers key insights on community power building for anti-extraction movements all over the world. Jamie Gorman

Waging Nonviolence

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 332
  • Page 333
  • Page 334
  • Page 335
  • Page 336
  • …
  • Page 3029
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

The Conversation

Academic Freedom

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students to Dept. of Education

Committee on Academic Freedom

Donald Trump

Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism

Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

contributors

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
  • Smotrich's Apocalyptic "Decisive Plan" for Gaza
  • Stephen Colbert: "We are all Jimmy Kimmel"
  • Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved