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

Pakistan now gets 25% of its Electricity from Solar, Plans Solar Panel factory
China

Pakistan now gets 25% of its Electricity from Solar, Plans Solar Panel factory

Juan Cole

Only about 20 countries globally get a quarter or more of their power from solar.

Juan Cole Fundraiser
DONATED:$22,541
SUPPORTERS:279
TARGET:$30,000
REMAINING:$7,459
Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

12/17/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

12/17/2025 By Tomdispatch

More Stories

journalism
‘Rightly’ as a New Soft Power Tool: The Motivation behind Al Jazeera’s American Right-Wing Platform

‘Rightly’ as a New Soft Power Tool: The Motivation behind Al Jazeera’s American Right-Wing Platform

Exeter (Special to Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera announcement to launch a right-wing media platform, Rightly, in the US surprised many people, including its employees. […]

Hamdullah Baycar

Epidemics
Rich Nations are Getting Vaccines, Poor Countries Not: Which is a Big Danger to Rich Countries

Rich Nations are Getting Vaccines, Poor Countries Not: Which is a Big Danger to Rich Countries

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Our commercial media have followed the ups and downs of the vaccine roll out in the United […]

John Buell

Far Right
We're Stalked by the 4 Horsemen of Apocalyptic Media: Rush, Roger, Rupert, and The Donald May Ride Forever

We’re Stalked by the 4 Horsemen of Apocalyptic Media: Rush, Roger, Rupert, and The Donald May Ride Forever

By Robert Lipsyte | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – The Four Horsemen of our media apocalypse — Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, and Donald Trump […]

Tomdispatch

Featured
Ayatollah Sistani Affirms Religious Freedom to Pope Francis in HIstoric Iraq Meeting

Ayatollah Sistani Affirms Religious Freedom to Pope Francis in HIstoric Iraq Meeting

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Saturday, Pope Francis met in the holy city of Najaf with Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the spiritual leader of […]

Juan Cole

Green Transportation
The Future of Airflight:  German electric air taxi pioneer Volocopter raises $238 mn

The Future of Airflight: German electric air taxi pioneer Volocopter raises $238 mn

( Clean Energy Wire) – German urban air mobility company Volocopter has raised an additional 200 million euros in funding from a wide range of […]

Julian Wettengel

Inequality
If We Want to Renew Democracy, We Need to Tax the Ultra-Wealthy

If We Want to Renew Democracy, We Need to Tax the Ultra-Wealthy

By Madeleine Johnsson | – ( Inequality.org ) – Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act of 2021, introduced March 1, could […]

Inequality.org

Far Right
The Byzantine Empire was Multicultural, So why are QAnon and White Supremacists Idolizing it?

The Byzantine Empire was Multicultural, So why are QAnon and White Supremacists Idolizing it?

By Roland Betancourt | – From Charlottesville to the Capitol, medieval imagery has been repeatedly on show at far-right rallies and riots in recent years. […]

The Conversation

Chaldeans
Pope Francis Preaches Tolerance in War Torn Iraq, and Even Militias Welcome Him

Pope Francis Preaches Tolerance in War Torn Iraq, and Even Militias Welcome Him

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that Pope Francis began his unprecedented trip to Iraq on Friday, his first visit abroad since the […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
How Biden is already being drawn into unwinnable Tit for Tat with Iraqi Militias

How Biden is already being drawn into unwinnable Tit for Tat with Iraqi Militias

( 48hills.org ) – For the first time, the Biden Administration ordered a cross-border military attack in the Middle East. On February 26, seven US […]

Reese Erlich

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 688
  • Page 689
  • Page 690
  • Page 691
  • Page 692
  • …
  • Page 3059
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Iran

One Year After Assad’s Fall: Iran’s Strategic Collapse In Syria

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

European Union

The Transatlantic Rift over Gaza’s Future

Foreign Policy in Focus

Donald Trump

Israel is Sinking into the Abyss of Netanyahu’s Dictatorship

H. Scott Prosterman

Entertainment

“With them the seed of Wisdom:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:28

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Syrian-Australian Muslim halts Indian-Australian ISIL Attack on Jewish Australians
  • Conflict in Mecca: The Prophet Muhammad and Soft Power
  • Benjamin Netanyahu's Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption
  • Three Things that might Trigger massive Ice Sheet Collapse
  • Sudan's Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved