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

Climate Crisis
As Party of Climate Denial Meets, Wildfires Rage and Hurricanes Target Gulf Coast

As Party of Climate Denial Meets, Wildfires Rage and Hurricanes Target Gulf Coast

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – One of the speakers at the Republican National Convention on Monday evening was Nikki Haley, formerly Trump’s ambassador to the […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Fed Prosecutors Target Steve Bannon's Murky Non-Profit: Was his White Nationalism just a way to Get Rich off the Rubes?

Fed Prosecutors Target Steve Bannon’s Murky Non-Profit: Was his White Nationalism just a way to Get Rich off the Rubes?

by Yeganeh Torbati | – ( ProPublica ) – Near the end of a lengthy indictment detailing fraud allegations against Stephen Bannon, former Donald Trump […]

ProPublica

Far Right
Explaining Nikki Haley's Racism toward Palestinians

Explaining Nikki Haley’s Racism toward Palestinians

Reprinted from 05/16/2018 when Haley was US ambassador to the UN and was regularly bashing Palestinians US Ambassador to the United Nations Nimrata “Nikki” Singh […]

Juan Cole

China
Will China's bruited $400 Bn. investment in Iran make Beijing an Oil Gulf Power?

Will China’s bruited $400 Bn. investment in Iran make Beijing an Oil Gulf Power?

By Niranjan Jose | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The relationship between China and Iran has been in the spotlight recently. A huge, […]

Middle East Monitor

Christianity
Why does Donald Trump appeal to so many Evangelical Christians?

Why does Donald Trump appeal to so many Evangelical Christians?

By Emma Long | – “He’s following the radical left agenda, take away your guns, destroy your second amendment, no religion, no anything, hurt the […]

The Conversation

Culture
Kanye West Offends Muslims by appropriating Angels of Death and Resurrection for his Sneaker Lines

Kanye West Offends Muslims by appropriating Angels of Death and Resurrection for his Sneaker Lines

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Muslim twittersphere was on fire this week with the news that Kanye West’s Adidas lines would offer two new […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
The Triumph of Monopoly Capitalism is Hurting American Workers' Life Expectancy

The Triumph of Monopoly Capitalism is Hurting American Workers’ Life Expectancy

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – As summer comes to an end the economic news is strangely bipolar. Business Insider reported that From […]

John Buell

Democracy
Memorialize This!  Black Women organized for 19th Amendment, but did not get the Vote

Memorialize This! Black Women organized for 19th Amendment, but did not get the Vote

By Erin L. Thompson | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On August 26, 2020, Alice in Wonderland will get some company. She will be joined […]

Tomdispatch

Democratic Party
Biden's long foreign-policy record signals how he'll reverse Trump, rebuild old alliances and lead the pandemic response

Biden’s long foreign-policy record signals how he’ll reverse Trump, rebuild old alliances and lead the pandemic response

By Klaus W. Larres | – Even without a flashy virtual Democratic National Convention to formally introduce his presidential campaign, Joe Biden would be well […]

The Conversation

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 776
  • Page 777
  • Page 778
  • Page 779
  • Page 780
  • …
  • 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