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

Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead
Featured

Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Political Scientist and liberal Zionist Michael Walzer gave an interview early in the Israeli campaign against Gaza in which he […]

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

08/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

08/24/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Israel/ Palestine
Without the Right of Citizenship in a State, Palestinians are Doomed To Poverty and Unsustainability

Without the Right of Citizenship in a State, Palestinians are Doomed To Poverty and Unsustainability

(Middle East Monitor) – The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) remains in perpetual financial crisis. Spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna has warned […]

Ramona Wadi

Corruption
Can't we All get a Presidential Pardon from Life Imprisonment in the Trump Penal Colony?

Can’t we All get a Presidential Pardon from Life Imprisonment in the Trump Penal Colony?

(Tomdispatch.com) – Here’s the truth of it: I’d like a presidential pardon. Really, I would. And I think I deserve it more than Michael Milken […]

Tom Engelhardt

Afghanistan
Will Trump outreach to Taliban really bring Peace, or is this another Cheap Election-Year Stunt?

Will Trump outreach to Taliban really bring Peace, or is this another Cheap Election-Year Stunt?

By Niamatullah Ibrahimi | – The US has signed an historic agreement with the Taliban that sets Washington and its NATO allies on a path […]

The Conversation

Featured
"The Triumph of Apartheid:" Did the Trump/Kushner Plan help Israel's Netanyahu return to Power?

“The Triumph of Apartheid:” Did the Trump/Kushner Plan help Israel’s Netanyahu return to Power?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Three Israeli television news channels’ exit polls suggest that indicted prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s far-right racist Likud Party fell just […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders
The Corporate Democrats' Biden Obsession

The Corporate Democrats’ Biden Obsession

Notre Dame, IN (Special to Informed Comment) – The Establishment wing of the Democratic Party is so worried about the possibility of a Sanders victory […]

Tarek R. Dika

Pentagon
Assad and Putin have Waged Total Air War on Idlib's Civilians, Learning from US Bombing of Iraq

Assad and Putin have Waged Total Air War on Idlib’s Civilians, Learning from US Bombing of Iraq

Paul Rogers | – ( OpenDemocracy.net) – The tactics of Syrian and Russian forces are unforgiveable – but scarcely different to what the US and […]

Open Democracy

Displaced and Refugees
Top 5 Ways Syria is the Worst Humanitarian Crisis of the 21st Century

Top 5 Ways Syria is the Worst Humanitarian Crisis of the 21st Century

By Shelley Inglis | – Remember former President Barack Obama’s infamous red line speech in 2012? In that speech, the president made it clear that […]

The Conversation

Featured
Russia backs Damascus as it closes Syrian Airspace, Threatens to down Turkish Jets

Russia backs Damascus as it closes Syrian Airspace, Threatens to down Turkish Jets

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkey shot down two Syrian fighter jets over Idlib province this weekend and Turkish drones and artillery took out armor […]

Juan Cole

Russia
Turkey and Russia lock horns in Syria as fear of outright war escalates

Turkey and Russia lock horns in Syria as fear of outright war escalates

By Mehmet Ozalp | – As the nine-year Syrian civil war enters its final turn, Turkey and Russia, long-time allies in Syria, are on the […]

The Conversation

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 815
  • Page 816
  • Page 817
  • Page 818
  • Page 819
  • …
  • Page 3018
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

The Conversation

Academic Freedom

The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza

Shamai Leibowitz

Omar Khayyam

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

Common Dreams

Popular

  • From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming
  • The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
  • Cartoonish Trump is making America a Caricature, and I should Know
  • America may have invaded Iraq for its Oil, but Solar Power is what Iraqis now Want
  • Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved