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

76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine
Colonialism

76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state today, […]

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

09/21/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

09/21/2025 By Global Voices

More Stories

Israel/ Palestine
'Putting lipstick on a pig': New Israeli PM Bennett is More Extreme than Netanyahu, so why is Washington Fawning over New Gov't?

‘Putting lipstick on a pig’: New Israeli PM Bennett is More Extreme than Netanyahu, so why is Washington Fawning over New Gov’t?

( Middle East Monitor ) – When former US President Barack Obama used an old cliché to denigrate his political opponent, the late US Senator […]

Ramzy Baroud

Iraq
This tiny minority of Iraqis follows an ancient Gnostic religion – and there’s a chance they could be your neighbors too

This tiny minority of Iraqis follows an ancient Gnostic religion – and there’s a chance they could be your neighbors too

By James F. McGrath | – ( The Conversation ) – In March 2021 Pope Francis became the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
When You Lift from the Bottom, Everyone Rises: Have We Entered America's Third Era of Reconstruction?

When You Lift from the Bottom, Everyone Rises: Have We Entered America’s Third Era of Reconstruction?

( Tomdispatch.com) – West Virginia, a state first established in defiance of slavery, has recently become ground zero in the fight for voting rights. In […]

Liz Theoharis

Featured
Iran's Raisi: Supports renewed Nuclear Deal, Seeks Lifting of US Sanctions, and Restored Saudi Diplomatic Relations

Iran’s Raisi: Supports renewed Nuclear Deal, Seeks Lifting of US Sanctions, and Restored Saudi Diplomatic Relations

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In his first press conference on Monday, newly elected President Ebrahim Raisi expressed support for the negotiations in Vienna toward […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
Jim Crow was Never Dead, but the Black Church can Lead the Way in Banishing Voter Suppression

Jim Crow was Never Dead, but the Black Church can Lead the Way in Banishing Voter Suppression

By Rev. Susan K. Smith and Rev. Levon C. Manzie | ( Otherwords.org) – We suspected it for years, and now we know it: Jim […]

OtherWords

Iran
Iran election: what Ebrahim Raisi’s victory will mean for his country – and the rest of the world

Iran election: what Ebrahim Raisi’s victory will mean for his country – and the rest of the world

By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam | – When Iranians elect a new leader, the world watches. So the election of Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline right-winger, to replace […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
The Navajo and Hopi are Abandoning Coal, but need help with Clean-Up and Transition to Renewables

The Navajo and Hopi are Abandoning Coal, but need help with Clean-Up and Transition to Renewables

By Alyssa Marksz | – ( Cronkite News) – WASHINGTON – Navajo and Hopi witnesses agreed the region needs to move away from its economic […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Featured
Far Right Israeli PM Bennett slams Iran Nuclear Talks for Tehran's Poor Rights Record (Israel has 200 Nukes and has Killed Thousands of Occupied Palestinians)

Far Right Israeli PM Bennett slams Iran Nuclear Talks for Tehran’s Poor Rights Record (Israel has 200 Nukes and has Killed Thousands of Occupied Palestinians)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – New extreme-right Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett came out on Sunday to argue that the election of an extreme-right Iranian […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza’s Summer: Destruction, Pandemic, and Climate Change

Gaza’s Summer: Destruction, Pandemic, and Climate Change

By Asmaa Abu Mezied | – ( Al-Shabaka ) – In 2013, the UNDP warned of the increasing occurrence of dangerous heatwaves in Palestine over […]

Al-Shabaka

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 609
  • Page 610
  • Page 611
  • Page 612
  • Page 613
  • …
  • Page 3029
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

The Conversation

Academic Freedom

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students to Dept. of Education

Committee on Academic Freedom

Donald Trump

Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism

Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

contributors

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
  • Smotrich's Apocalyptic "Decisive Plan" for Gaza
  • Stephen Colbert: "We are all Jimmy Kimmel"
  • Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved