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

Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest
Archaeology

Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new study by Dilek Koptekin et al., a Swiss-Turkish team, has appeared in Science that combines archeological and genetics […]

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

06/30/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

06/30/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Donald Trump
Trump’s Assault on the Constitution: Politics as World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.

Trump’s Assault on the Constitution: Politics as World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.

(Otherwords.org ) -Either our system is going to break, or Trump’s finally going to fail. It’s an exhausting drama. Does Trump understand democracy? I’m really […]

Jill Richardson

Education
Trump v. Duke U.-UNC:  Why the Study of Cultures is Essential to our National Security

Trump v. Duke U.-UNC: Why the Study of Cultures is Essential to our National Security

By Nicholas Tampio | After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, a commission formed to figure out why the attacks occurred. One of the culprits, […]

The Conversation

Israel
As Israel struggles to form a Government, why do its poorest immigrants vote for the right and far right?

As Israel struggles to form a Government, why do its poorest immigrants vote for the right and far right?

By Amandine Desille | – The Israeli election was held on September 17, but it remains unclear who – Benyamin Netanyahu (Likud) or his main […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Anti-Palestinianism is the modern day McCarthyism

Anti-Palestinianism is the modern day McCarthyism

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – As regular readers of this column will know, the McCarthyite atmosphere in Britain against supporters of Palestinian rights […]

Middle East Monitor

Arms Sales
Forget Nukes: Now for the Hypersonic Weapons Race

Forget Nukes: Now for the Hypersonic Weapons Race

( Tomdispatch.com) – Hypersonic weapons close in on their targets at a minimum speed of Mach 5, five times the speed of sound or 3,836.4 […]

Rajan Menon

Donald Trump
Pompeo, Complicit in Ukraine Call, hides behind the State Department he Persecuted in Benghazi Conspiracy Theory

Pompeo, Complicit in Ukraine Call, hides behind the State Department he Persecuted in Benghazi Conspiracy Theory

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a Kansas oil man in the back pocket of Koch Industries and a mealy-mouthed convert […]

Juan Cole

censorship
On Khashoggi Murder Anniversary: Trump's other Dangerous Conversations besides Ukraine, with Saudi Bin Salman

On Khashoggi Murder Anniversary: Trump’s other Dangerous Conversations besides Ukraine, with Saudi Bin Salman

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – CNN reports that, in addition to Trump’s Ukraine conversation last July, the transcripts of his telephone calls with Saudi crown […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Not done Destroying Earth, Germany's Far Right to Make anti-Climate Activism Major Plank in Campaign

Not done Destroying Earth, Germany’s Far Right to Make anti-Climate Activism Major Plank in Campaign

By Julian Wettengel | – (Clean Energy Wire) – Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has made its critique of policy to reduce greenhouse […]

Clean Energy Wire

CIA
Trump isn’t the First: the Government has often Persecuted Whistleblowers

Trump isn’t the First: the Government has often Persecuted Whistleblowers

By Jennifer M. Pacella | – When President Donald Trump likened a whistleblower’s White House sources to spies and made a lightly veiled reference to […]

The Conversation

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 864
  • Page 865
  • Page 866
  • Page 867
  • Page 868
  • …
  • Page 2999
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

Guterres: “Seeking Food Must Not Be A Death Sentence”

International Middle East Media Center

Climate Crisis

Earth is Trapping much more Heat than Climate Models Forecast – and the Rate has Doubled in 20 Years

The Conversation

Featured

The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line

Mohammad Eslami and Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Israel/ Palestine

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

Ramzy Baroud

Popular

  • The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel's Attack Crossed a Moral Line
  • America's worsening Solar Gap with China, which installs 100 Panels per Second
  • The Assault on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: The US v. Canada
  • How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country
  • Netanyahu's 'New Middle East:' Same old Colonialism
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved