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

How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation
Featured

How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation

Dan Steinbock

As The Voice of Hind Rajab is winning over Hollywood, the real-life story is fostering complicity allegations against the Israeli military and Western complicity. New […]

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

09/09/2025 By Juan Cole

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

09/09/2025 By Open Democracy

More Stories

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Pilot: Destroying Gaza Civilian Apt. Buildings "was a way to vent the army's frustration"

Israeli Pilot: Destroying Gaza Civilian Apt. Buildings “was a way to vent the army’s frustration”

By Wafa Aludaini | – ( Middle East Monitor) – After 11 days of Israeli bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip, an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire came […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
In Revolution, Shareholders vote Climate Activist Hedge Funders onto Board of ExxonMobil

In Revolution, Shareholders vote Climate Activist Hedge Funders onto Board of ExxonMobil

By Mark DesJardine and Tima Bansal | – One of the most expensive Wall Street shareholder battles on record could signal a big shift in […]

The Conversation

nuclear weapons
A small GOP-dominated Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Coalition is waging a frightening campaign for nuclear rearmament

A small GOP-dominated Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Coalition is waging a frightening campaign for nuclear rearmament

(Responsible Statecraft) – Democrats might control the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government right now, but a small Republican-dominated Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) […]

Medea Benjamin Marcy Winograd

Climate Crisis
"This will Change the World:" Dutch Court orders Shell to reduce CO2 by 45% by 2030

“This will Change the World:” Dutch Court orders Shell to reduce CO2 by 45% by 2030

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a historic ruling, a tribunal in the Netherlands has ruled that Royal Dutch Shell must reduce its and its […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
They’re Not Conservatives, They’re Extremists

They’re Not Conservatives, They’re Extremists

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – By mislabelling the radical members of the Republican Party “conservative,” the mainstream media gives them a veneer of […]

John Feffer

Israel/ Palestine
Despite massive losses, the Palestinians have altered the course of history

Despite massive losses, the Palestinians have altered the course of history

( Middle East Monitor) – The “Palestinian Revolt of 2021” will go down in history as one of the most influential events to have shaped […]

Ramzy Baroud

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel’s violence is enacted through discriminatory land-use policies

How Israel’s violence is enacted through discriminatory land-use policies

By Irit Katz and Haim Yacobi | – On May 21, a ceasefire was agreed to between Israel, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, putting an end […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
A Year Later:  Are Palestinians like George Floyd?

A Year Later: Are Palestinians like George Floyd?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – May 26 was the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by Minnesota police, and President Biden had the […]

Juan Cole

Elections
Iran:  The Election Trump did succeed in Spoiling

Iran: The Election Trump did succeed in Spoiling

Oxford, U.K (Special to Informed Comment) – Although Iran is one of the few countries in the Middle East that has regular presidential, parliamentary and […]

Farhang Jahanpour

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 616
  • Page 617
  • Page 618
  • Page 619
  • Page 620
  • …
  • Page 3024
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Donald Trump

Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health

Dan Dinello

Iran

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

Juan Cole

Brazil

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis

Trump as a Slow-Motion Apocalypse

Tom Engelhardt

Popular

  • Morocco Produces 1 gigawatt of Solar Panels Annually, as it turns to Floatovoltaics
  • Genocide Scholars: Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know
  • Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children's Health
  • New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells, Despite Trump Denials
  • Israel’s ‘Refuseniks’: a growing Number of Soldiers are refusing to Serve in Netanyahu’s War on Gaza
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved