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

“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza
Donald Trump

“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza

Dan Steinbock

When the bombing of Gaza will finally cease, the U.S. administration will push the post-genocide opportunity for property development. In this quest, Tony Blair is […]

“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

09/22/2025 By Juan Cole

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

09/22/2025 By Middle East Monitor

More Stories

Climate Crisis
Turkey's Night of the Living Sea Snot: Global Heating, Industrial Pollution Endanger Marmara Sea

Turkey’s Night of the Living Sea Snot: Global Heating, Industrial Pollution Endanger Marmara Sea

By Doga Celik | – ( GlobalVoices.org ) – The Marmara Sea is a pristine body of water, extending from the Dardanelles Strait to the […]

Global Voices

African-Americans
If we truly honored Juneteenth, we would end the exception in the 13th amendment

If we truly honored Juneteenth, we would end the exception in the 13th amendment

By Emma Jordan-Simpson | – (Waging Nonviolence ) – In my inbox this morning from a major nonprofit organization that should have known better was […]

Waging Nonviolence

History
The Qur’an and Black Lives Matter  (Podcast)

The Qur’an and Black Lives Matter (Podcast)

My interview is at Renovatio concerning my forthcoming article on equality in the Qur’an, which I wrote in honor of the Black Lives Matter movement. […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Right now it Doesn’t Look like we can Keep Global Heating to an Extra 2.7° F.; But we Can Change That

Right now it Doesn’t Look like we can Keep Global Heating to an Extra 2.7° F.; But we Can Change That

By Christopher Hedemann, Eduardo Gresse, and Jan Petzold | – ( The Conversation ) – If you read the scientific literature, there seem to be […]

The Conversation

Featured
UN Slams new Israeli gov't of Bennett for new Squatter-Settlements in Palestine, a 'Flagrant Violation of Int'l Law'

UN Slams new Israeli gov’t of Bennett for new Squatter-Settlements in Palestine, a ‘Flagrant Violation of Int’l Law’

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, Tor Wennesland, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, gave a long a disturbing oral […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
After the nightmare of the Gaza massacre, what comes next?

After the nightmare of the Gaza massacre, what comes next?

The bombing was the worst I’ve experienced, but it can’t contain the Palestinian uprising that is showing the world the true face of Israel[/pullquote] By […]

Open Democracy

Israel/ Palestine
Why does Israel ban Palestinian mothers from accompanying sick children from Gaza seeking treatment in the West Bank?

Why does Israel ban Palestinian mothers from accompanying sick children from Gaza seeking treatment in the West Bank?

By Eman Abusidu | – ( Middle East Monitor) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) pointed out in its 2020 annual report that, “All patients […]

Middle East Monitor

nuclear weapons
Do We Really need Multi-Billion-Dollar Naval Vessels that can deliver 16,128 Hiroshimas?

Do We Really need Multi-Billion-Dollar Naval Vessels that can deliver 16,128 Hiroshimas?

( Tomdispatch.com) – Groton and New London, Connecticut, are home to about 65,000 people, three colleges, the Coast Guard Academy, 15 nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed submarines capable […]

Frida Berrigan

African-Americans
Top US Officer Gen. Milley Schools GOP Reps. on Critical Race Theory, Need for Military to Study Society: "I Have Read Marx and Lenin"

Top US Officer Gen. Milley Schools GOP Reps. on Critical Race Theory, Need for Military to Study Society: “I Have Read Marx and Lenin”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Republicans in Congress really miss the days of red baiting and the Communist threat. Dick Nixon made his bones […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 608
  • Page 609
  • Page 610
  • Page 611
  • Page 612
  • …
  • Page 3029
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Donald Trump

The “Defense” Department has always been about War

Tomdispatch

Featured

Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Iran

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

Committee on Academic Freedom

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
  • 76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine
  • Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1
  • Stephen Colbert: "We are all Jimmy Kimmel"
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved