Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new study by Dilek Koptekin et al., a Swiss-Turkish team, has appeared in Science that combines archeological and genetics […]
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Colonial Logic, not Jewish Wisdom Guides Israel’s Wars
Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – With missiles flying across West Asia, I am reminded of my trip to Iran in 2016, when I […]
Israel’s Attacks have Exposed Iran’s Weaknesses, but it is in Little Danger of Collapsing
By Farhang Morady, University of Westminster The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said that his country’s campaign in Iran “could certainly” lead to regime […]
Trump can’t Stop the Green Energy Revolution any More than Horses could Stop the Automobile
( Tomdispatch.com ) – He lived over 1,000 years ago, but King Canute’s life still has some important lessons for our own time. After conquering […]
Iran’s Grand Strategy – Vali Nasr
Book Review: Vali Nasr, “Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History”, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Islamic Republic […]
64 Palestinians in Gaza Killed trying to Reach Aid Centers in 24 Hours
( IMEMC ) – Updated: On Wednesday, Day 93 since the resumption of the genocide, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians […]
Resistance Works: How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization, Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More
David Vine ( Tomdispatch.com ) – At a time when many may feel that good news has gone the way of the dodo, look no […]
Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s militarily useless, entirely unprovoked and wholly illegal air war on Iran differs significantly from its previous wars in the […]
America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?
( Middle East Monitor ) – US foreign policy in the Middle East appears to be adrift, no longer guided by fixed strategies or clear […]
Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace
By Matt Fitzpatrick, Flinders University (The Conversation) – In the late 1960s, the prevailing opinion among Israeli Shin Bet intelligence officers was that the key […]
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