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

Genocide Scholars:  Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know
Featured

Genocide Scholars: Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the last day of August, 2025, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, a scholarly body with more than 500 […]

The Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit and the Middle East in a Multipolar World

The Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit and the Middle East in a Multipolar World

09/06/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Israel’s ‘Refuseniks’: a growing Number of Soldiers are refusing to Serve in Netanyahu’s War on Gaza

Israel’s ‘Refuseniks’: a growing Number of Soldiers are refusing to Serve in Netanyahu’s War on Gaza

09/06/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

African-Americans
"A Certain Hope Died:" How the White nationalist Republican Party used up Colin Powell, then Spit Him Out

“A Certain Hope Died:” How the White nationalist Republican Party used up Colin Powell, then Spit Him Out

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Colin Powell died on Monday, not long after his rival inside the Bush administration, Donald Rumsfeld. Both of them tore […]

Juan Cole

Antisemitism
Trivializing the Holocaust: Georgia GOP Senatorial Wannabe Herschel Walker Fumbles Backwards, Coached by Trump

Trivializing the Holocaust: Georgia GOP Senatorial Wannabe Herschel Walker Fumbles Backwards, Coached by Trump

Oakland, CA. (Special to Informed Comment) – Maybe Republicans don’t know the historical significance of the swastika. Many don’t know the history of WWII. Thanks […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Crime
Top Trump Fundraiser Boasted of Raising $3 Million to Support Jan. 6 “Save America” Rally

Top Trump Fundraiser Boasted of Raising $3 Million to Support Jan. 6 “Save America” Rally

By Joaquin Sapien and Joshua Kaplan | – The Insurrection The Effort to Overturn the Election ( ProPublica) – As much as $3 million may […]

ProPublica

Afghanistan
How US-Soviet Cold War Competition led to Fall of the Afghan Left and Collapse of the Country into Fundamentalism

How US-Soviet Cold War Competition led to Fall of the Afghan Left and Collapse of the Country into Fundamentalism

By Luis Edel Abreu Veranes | – From the turbulent 1970s ( Middle East Monitor) – With its geographic centrality on the Asian continent, Afghanistan […]

Middle East Monitor

Featured
Will Israel's Muslim Fundamentalists help Pass Marijuana Bill?

Will Israel’s Muslim Fundamentalists help Pass Marijuana Bill?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jack Khoury and Noa Shpigel report at Haaretz that the Israeli government is advancing a marijuana bill that may gain […]

Juan Cole

Houthi
Saudi-Iranian Rapprochement would bring Stability to Mideast, but would it make America Irrelevant?

Saudi-Iranian Rapprochement would bring Stability to Mideast, but would it make America Irrelevant?

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Since 1979, when Iranian students stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and held American […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
Celebrating Rep. Barbara Lee, our Cassandra who warned against the Failed 20-Year Wars

Celebrating Rep. Barbara Lee, our Cassandra who warned against the Failed 20-Year Wars

( Tomdispatch.com ) – For decades, I kept a poster on my wall that I’d saved from the year I turned 16. In its upper […]

Rebecca Gordon

Climate Crisis
Can the Collapse of West Antarctica's Ice Sheet and massive Sea Level Rise be Avoided?

Can the Collapse of West Antarctica’s Ice Sheet and massive Sea Level Rise be Avoided?

By Dan Lowry, Mario Krapp, and Nick Golledge | – ( The Conversation) – Rising seas are already making storm damage more costly, adding to […]

The Conversation

CO2
Sordid Advantage: America can't avert Climate Hellhole because Manchin, Sinema are Corporate Hired Mercenaries

Sordid Advantage: America can’t avert Climate Hellhole because Manchin, Sinema are Corporate Hired Mercenaries

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American journalists like to personalize stories and create horse races empty of real content. That is why most Americans don’t […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 550
  • Page 551
  • Page 552
  • Page 553
  • Page 554
  • …
  • Page 3023
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Donald Trump

Why Trump’s Fight with India could have global Repercussions

The Conversation

Chemical Weapons

Will Cancer Prove to be Another Weapon in Israel’s War in Gaza?

Joshua Frank

Climate Crisis

Global Solar skyrockets 64% in H1, as Trump SecEnergy Wright gets Schooled

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam

“But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot,” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:9

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Global Solar skyrockets 64% in H1, as Trump SecEnergy Wright gets Schooled
  • How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza
  • The full Seizure of Gaza: A Path toward Isolation and Collapse
  • A Reluctant (Iranian) Exile: Minister without Portfolio
  • Researching the Roots of War to Fight Militarism
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved