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

Saudi Arabia in Modern History
Featured

Saudi Arabia in Modern History

Marc Martorell Junyent

Book Review – David Commins, “Saudi Arabia: A Modern History” (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – […]

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

08/13/2025 By Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

08/13/2025 By Human Rights Watch

More Stories

Far Right
When it comes to Guns, the US is a Third World Country run by Corporate Lobbyists for a Profit

When it comes to Guns, the US is a Third World Country run by Corporate Lobbyists for a Profit

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 21 are dead in another mass shooting, including 19 schoolchildren. The white slavers of the Old Souoth used to call […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
As Biden heads to Israel, Bennett announces 4,427 New Squatter Units on Palestinian Land; State Department Tut-Tuts

As Biden heads to Israel, Bennett announces 4,427 New Squatter Units on Palestinian Land; State Department Tut-Tuts

( Middle East Monitor ) – “In the face of enemy violence, the Zionist answer has always been settlement, security and immigration,” Israeli Prime Minister […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
Climate Change: radical Activists benefit social Movements – History shows Why

Climate Change: radical Activists benefit social Movements – History shows Why

By Heather Alberro, Nottingham Trent University | – Wynn Bruce set himself on fire on April 22 2022 – Earth Day. His self-immolation in front […]

The Conversation

Arms Sales
Arsenal of Autocracy?    The Major Weapons Makers Cash in Worldwide, Not Just in Ukraine

Arsenal of Autocracy? The Major Weapons Makers Cash in Worldwide, Not Just in Ukraine

By William D. Hartung | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – These are good times to be an arms maker. Not only are tens of billions of […]

William D. Hartung

Carbon Footprint
Extinction Rebellion inspires Shell Consultant to Resign over Company's Bad Faith on Climate Emergency, Call for More Resignations

Extinction Rebellion inspires Shell Consultant to Resign over Company’s Bad Faith on Climate Emergency, Call for More Resignations

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a letter of resignation to the Shell executive committee that she posted to her Linkedin page, Caroline Dennett, the […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran: Arrests Amid Economic Protests: Attempt to Suppress Growing Social Movements

Iran: Arrests Amid Economic Protests: Attempt to Suppress Growing Social Movements

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities have arrested several prominent activists on baseless accusations amid labor union strikes and ongoing protests against rising […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Right of return: The Nakba (1948 Calamity) is back on Palestinian Agenda

Right of return: The Nakba (1948 Calamity) is back on Palestinian Agenda

( Middle East Monitor ) – For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba – or Catastrophe – is a thing of the […]

Ramzy Baroud

Food Insecurity
War in Ukraine is pushing global acute Hunger to the highest Level in this Century

War in Ukraine is pushing global acute Hunger to the highest Level in this Century

By Daniel Maxwell, Tufts University | – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has produced a terrible humanitarian crisis in eastern Europe. It also is worsening conditions […]

The Conversation

Featured
Saudi Arabia Snubs US, Rejects Russia Boycott, as Rumors Fly Biden may meet with the Crown Prince

Saudi Arabia Snubs US, Rejects Russia Boycott, as Rumors Fly Biden may meet with the Crown Prince

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as the possibility of a visit to Riyadh by President Joe Biden after his upcoming trip to Israel is […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 445
  • Page 446
  • Page 447
  • Page 448
  • Page 449
  • …
  • Page 3014
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

China

Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%

Juan Cole

Iran

Iran’s President Says Rebuilding Nuclear Sites Futile Without Talks With Washington

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Israel/ Palestine

Beyond Recognition: Is a Palestinian State even Possible Anymore?

The Conversation

Featured

Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas
  • Trump to Xi: 'Hold our Beer' - EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%
  • Beyond Recognition: Is a Palestinian State even Possible Anymore?
  • Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard
  • Why the Gaza War won't End: Israel's Strategic Goal has been Ethnic Cleansing
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved