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

Stephen Colbert and I:  The Tightening of Right-Wing Censorship
Featured

Stephen Colbert and I: The Tightening of Right-Wing Censorship

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Paramount Global corporation has fired late night comedian Stephen Colbert even though Colbert dominated his time spot. Paramount owns […]

Turkey becomes the First to Censor Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok

Turkey becomes the First to Censor Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok

07/19/2025 By Arzu Geybullayeva

Green Energy and protecting Nature get the Thumbs up in Climate Change study in 68 Countries

Green Energy and protecting Nature get the Thumbs up in Climate Change study in 68 Countries

07/19/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Donald Trump
Trump, putting Profit Motive and Reelection over Public Health, Undermining Coronavirus Social Distancing Strategy

Trump, putting Profit Motive and Reelection over Public Health, Undermining Coronavirus Social Distancing Strategy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s daily dog and pony show, which he holds at 6-8 pm every evening to catch audiences tuning in for […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Checkpoints of Death?  How Israel's Illegal Occupation of Palestinian West Bank exacerbates the Coronavirus Crisis

Checkpoints of Death? How Israel’s Illegal Occupation of Palestinian West Bank exacerbates the Coronavirus Crisis

By Robert Andrews | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Every morning, tens of thousands of Palestinians line up at one of over 140 […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
"Get it Yourselves!" - Trump's 'Every Man for himself' Approach to the Covid-19 National Emergency

“Get it Yourselves!” – Trump’s ‘Every Man for himself’ Approach to the Covid-19 National Emergency

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – A crisis, according to self-help and leadership books, reveals much about a person’s character. The same can be said […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
Why Countries should use Coronavirus Economic Stimulus to Transition to Green New Deal

Why Countries should use Coronavirus Economic Stimulus to Transition to Green New Deal

By Rachel Waldholz | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Foundations are calling on the EU to use any economic stimulus enacted in response to […]

Clean Energy Wire

Israel/ Palestine
The World Turned its Back on Gaza's Palestinians, but Qatar is donating $150mn to support coronavirus battle

The World Turned its Back on Gaza’s Palestinians, but Qatar is donating $150mn to support coronavirus battle

Qatar will be sending $150 million in aid to the besieged Gaza Strip to support United Nations humanitarian programmes and efforts to help combat the […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei Pulls a Trump on Coronavirus: Denies Own Responsibility, Blames a Foreign Country (US)

Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei Pulls a Trump on Coronavirus: Denies Own Responsibility, Blames a Foreign Country (US)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump and his cronies in the GOP got high-level, frantic briefings from US intelligence in January and February that the […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Thucydides’ Other War:  His Chilling Account of the plague of Athens and What it can Teach us Now

Thucydides’ Other War: His Chilling Account of the plague of Athens and What it can Teach us Now

By Chris Mackie | – The coronavirus is concentrating our minds on the fragility of human existence in the face of a deadly disease. Words […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
Coronavirus and the 'Shock Doctrine': Does Even this Disaster have to Make Rich Richer and Poor Poorer?

Coronavirus and the ‘Shock Doctrine’: Does Even this Disaster have to Make Rich Richer and Poor Poorer?

By Sam Pizzigati and Sarah Anderson | – ( Otherwords.org) – Powerful interests used the Great Recession to hardwire more inequality into our system. This […]

Sam Pizzigati

Books
Nicola’s Books Staff Picks for Best New Reads – Support our Indie Bookstores, Stay Sane by Reading

Nicola’s Books Staff Picks for Best New Reads – Support our Indie Bookstores, Stay Sane by Reading

Nicola’s Books | Ann Arbor’s Premier Independent Book Store | 734-662-0600 | info@nicolasbooks.com You need to read some books while sheltering in place to keep […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 793
  • Page 794
  • Page 795
  • Page 796
  • Page 797
  • …
  • Page 3005
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Human Rights Watch

US: Lift Sanctions on Leading Palestinian Human Rights Organization

Human Rights Watch

Asian-Americans

Zohran Mamdani’s last Name reflects Centuries of intercontinental Trade, Migration and cultural Exchange

The Conversation

Featured

Israeli Minister: ‘Gaza must be in Ruins for Decades,’ as Airstrike Kills Children seeking Water

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Albanese’s ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide’ Report

Ramzy Baroud

Popular

  • The Most American King: Interview on Jordan with Aaron Magid
  • Trump Brings back Torture, Big Time
  • Israeli Minister: 'Gaza must be in Ruins for Decades,' as Airstrike Kills Children seeking Water
  • Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Begins Disarmament after 47 Years of Conflict with Türkiye
  • Pope Leo XIV Demands Gaza Ceasefire, as Israeli Tank Crew Shells Church, Kills 3 Women
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved