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

Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1
Featured

Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

09/20/2025 By The Conversation

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students  to Dept. of Education

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students to Dept. of Education

09/20/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

More Stories

Ukraine
Ukraine gave up its Nukes for a US Security Pledge; Then Trump Muscled Zelensky by Cutting Mil. Aide

Ukraine gave up its Nukes for a US Security Pledge; Then Trump Muscled Zelensky by Cutting Mil. Aide

(Informed Comment) – In the coverage of the current scandal, no one seems to be writing about the national security debt the US (and others) […]

William H. Espinosa

Islam
The Qur’an, the Prophet, and a Forgotten History – Juan Cole in conversation with Hamza Yusuf

The Qur’an, the Prophet, and a Forgotten History – Juan Cole in conversation with Hamza Yusuf

From the podcast of the journal Renovatio: Journal of Zaytuna College. Juan Cole’s Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires (2018) retells the […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
World's Largest offshore Windfarm to power 1 mn British Homes & other Good Climate News

World’s Largest offshore Windfarm to power 1 mn British Homes & other Good Climate News

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hanna Ziady at CNN Business reports that just next year, in 2020, the world’s largest offshore wind farm will open […]

Juan Cole

Constitution
Trump’s Ukraine Plotting Has Been Happening in Plain Sight. So Why Didn’t We See It?

Trump’s Ukraine Plotting Has Been Happening in Plain Sight. So Why Didn’t We See It?

It’s not just that there’s a lot to pay attention to.

ProPublica

Constitution
Founders: Removal from office is not the only purpose of impeachment

Founders: Removal from office is not the only purpose of impeachment

By Clark D. Cunningham | – As Congress moves toward a possible formal impeachment of President Donald Trump, they should consider words spoken at the […]

The Conversation

censorship
With outbreak of New Demonstrations, Egyptian Authorities warn Foreign Journalists not to do their Jobs

With outbreak of New Demonstrations, Egyptian Authorities warn Foreign Journalists not to do their Jobs

(Al-Bab.com) – The Egyptian authorities have issued a notice to accredited foreign journalists based in Cairo. Basically it seeks to restrict their reporting of demonstrations […]

Brian Whitaker

Climate Crisis
As humans burn fossil fuels, global sea level is rising 2x the rate of the 20th century

As humans burn fossil fuels, global sea level is rising 2x the rate of the 20th century

By Cassandra Brooks | – The U.N.‘s climate panel report released Sept. 25 makes crystal clear that the planet’s oceans, snow and ice are in […]

The Conversation

Egypt
Egypt's Sisi Regime again Engages in Mass Arrests of Protesters as West looks the other Way

Egypt’s Sisi Regime again Engages in Mass Arrests of Protesters as West looks the other Way

(Informed Comment) – The sheer brutality of Egypt’s Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s military regime once again came to light, following another crackdown and mass arrests on […]

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Pentagon
Bestselling Pentagon Fiction: Beware of Defense Secretaries Pledging Reform

Bestselling Pentagon Fiction: Beware of Defense Secretaries Pledging Reform

Co-author: Mandy Smithberger | – (Tomdispatch.com) – For the Pentagon, happy days are here again (if they ever left). With a budget totaling more than […]

William D. Hartung

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 895
  • Page 896
  • Page 897
  • Page 898
  • Page 899
  • …
  • Page 3028
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump

The Department of War is Back; But no Wars won in Decades

William J. Astore

Featured

France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves

H. Scott Prosterman

Omar Khayyam

“Look to the Rose:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
  • Riyadh-Islamabad "Islamic NATO" to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can't draw the Line at Genocide, they can't Draw the Line at Democracy
  • Smotrich's Apocalyptic "Decisive Plan" for Gaza
  • Stephen Colbert: "We are all Jimmy Kimmel"
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved