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

Under the Sea: China’s Digital Silk Road and the Middle East
China

Under the Sea: China’s Digital Silk Road and the Middle East

Neil Thompson

London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – China-US geopolitical rivalries have manifested in many arenas from esoteric ones like export controls over semiconductor chips, to […]

The Obliteration Doctrine, and the West’s Complicity

The Obliteration Doctrine, and the West’s Complicity

08/15/2025 By Dan Steinbock

No Country is an Island: Trump’s Destruction of Global Heath will Bite us on the Posterior

No Country is an Island: Trump’s Destruction of Global Heath will Bite us on the Posterior

08/15/2025 By William deBuys

More Stories

Climate Crisis
Arizona goes for Electric Cars, Big Time, despite being a Red State: “We get Clear Skies”

Arizona goes for Electric Cars, Big Time, despite being a Red State: “We get Clear Skies”

By Brooke Newman | – ( Cronkite News ) – WASHINGTON – For a mostly red state, Arizona has a lot of blue-state company when […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Climate Crisis
Extreme Rain and Snow Storms are being caused by Humans burning Coal, Oil:  Global Evidence

Extreme Rain and Snow Storms are being caused by Humans burning Coal, Oil: Global Evidence

By Gavin D. Madakumbura, Alex Hall, Chad Thackeray and Jesse Norris | – The big idea ( The Conversation ) – Human activities, such as […]

The Conversation

Featured
"Chaos" in Israeli Parliament over Apartheid-style Law against Family Unification for Palestinian-Israelis

“Chaos” in Israeli Parliament over Apartheid-style Law against Family Unification for Palestinian-Israelis

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al-Quds Al-Arabi [Arab Jerusalem] reports “chaos” in the Israeli parliament as it debated into the wee hours of Tuesday morning […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Thousands of Women protest Throughout Turkey as gov't withdraws from Istanbul Convention on Women's Rights

Thousands of Women protest Throughout Turkey as gov’t withdraws from Istanbul Convention on Women’s Rights

By Arzu Geybullayeva | ( Globalvoices.org) – Thousands of women marched across the largest cities in Turkey on July 1, to protest Turkey’s official withdrawal […]

Global Voices

Authoritarianism
How Florida's Political "Survey" of Universities threatens Freedom of Speech

How Florida’s Political “Survey” of Universities threatens Freedom of Speech

( Otherwords.org ) – Florida officials say they want to promote “intellectual freedom” — by using political surveys to target university funding. By Jill Richardson […]

Jill Richardson

Climate Crisis
Suburban living is the worst for carbon emissions – new research

Suburban living is the worst for carbon emissions – new research

By Sabrina Zwick | – ( The Conversation ) – Work, education, entertainment, or simply better connectivity all draw people to cities. By the end […]

The Conversation

Climate Change
Kuwait is the Hottest Place on Earth; Lytton, Canada was Right Behind it, and then it Burned Down; This is not Normal

Kuwait is the Hottest Place on Earth; Lytton, Canada was Right Behind it, and then it Burned Down; This is not Normal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mohammed Haddad at Al Jazeera English reports that in June, at least 23 countries experienced at least 122° F. (50° […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
By phasing out coal-fired plants -- Now! -- we can save millions of lives

By phasing out coal-fired plants — Now! — we can save millions of lives

( Sustainability Times ) – Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are driving climate change, which imperils the health of life on the planet […]

Sustainability Times

Climate Change
We Can't go Carbon Neutral without Reducing Plastics:  1 ton of plastic creates 5 tons of CO2 emissions

We Can’t go Carbon Neutral without Reducing Plastics: 1 ton of plastic creates 5 tons of CO2 emissions

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Avoiding and better managing plastic waste should receive much greater attention by the German […]

Clean Energy Wire

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 589
  • Page 590
  • Page 591
  • Page 592
  • Page 593
  • …
  • Page 3015
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Greece

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

Global Voices

Israel/ Palestine

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

The Conversation

Abbasid Empire

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

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism

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

Human Rights Watch

Popular

  • Trump to Xi: 'Hold our Beer' - EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%
  • Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard
  • Beyond Recognition: Is a Palestinian State even Possible Anymore?
  • Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)
  • Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved