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

Why Weren’t the October 7 attacks Avoided?
Featured

Why Weren’t the October 7 attacks Avoided?

Dan Steinbock

On October 7, 2023 – two years ago – the Hamas-led offensive was portrayed as “Israel’s 9/11” that came out of the blue. This assumption […]

“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám  1:18

“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:18

10/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order

Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order

10/06/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Saudi Arabia
Is Saudi Arabia Losing the War in Yemen?

Is Saudi Arabia Losing the War in Yemen?

By Mustafa Fetouri | – Is Saudi Arabia losing its military campaign in Yemen despite being the stronger party enjoying the support of its many […]

Middle East Monitor

Eurasia
What does it Mean that South Ossetia is Celebrating Independence?

What does it Mean that South Ossetia is Celebrating Independence?

By Richard Foltz | – Tskhinval, Republic of South Ossetia (Informed Comment) – On May 29 South Ossetians celebrated the signing of their declaration of […]

Richard Foltz

Constitution
A Wroth Mueller Comes for Nancy Pelosi:  Rashida Tlaib is Right

A Wroth Mueller Comes for Nancy Pelosi: Rashida Tlaib is Right

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bob Mueller measures his words, but he is as Merriam Webster’s thesaurus has it, angered, apoplectic, ballistic, choleric, enraged, foaming, […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Robert Mueller Statement Transcript: If we had Found Trump Innocent, We would Have Said So

Robert Mueller Statement Transcript: If we had Found Trump Innocent, We would Have Said So

Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered a 10-minute speech from the Justice Department on Wednesday: Transcript: Two years ago, the Acting Attorney General asked me to […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
One of Europe's Last Migrant Rescue Ships Defies European Political Pressure to Save African Lives

One of Europe’s Last Migrant Rescue Ships Defies European Political Pressure to Save African Lives

By Susan H. Smith | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Over nearly five years, the small German charity Sea-Watch has saved more than 37,000 […]

Waging Nonviolence

Climate Change
No, Nuclear Power can't Solve our Environmental Crisis

No, Nuclear Power can’t Solve our Environmental Crisis

By Heidi Hutner and Erica Cirino | – Aeon | – In November 2018, the Woolsey Fire scorched nearly 100,000 acres of Los Angeles and […]

Aeon

Haredim
The Fall of Netanyahu's Government is a Struggle over the Meaning of Jewishness, not just a Power Play

The Fall of Netanyahu’s Government is a Struggle over the Meaning of Jewishness, not just a Power Play

By Joyce Dalsheim | – Benjamin Netanyahu has hit a snag that could derail his chances of becoming the longest-serving prime minister in the history […]

The Conversation

Featured
Why Israeli Gov't May Fall: Like US, Secularists and Fundamentalists are Polarized

Why Israeli Gov’t May Fall: Like US, Secularists and Fundamentalists are Polarized

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – We’ll know later today whether prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu will succeed in forming a government. If not, Israel will have […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Climate Crisis: 'We've created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself – I'm terrified', writes Earth scientist

Climate Crisis: ‘We’ve created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself – I’m terrified’, writes Earth scientist

By James Dyke | – The coffee tasted bad. Acrid and with a sweet, sickly smell. The sort of coffee that results from overfilling the […]

The Conversation

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 952
  • Page 953
  • Page 954
  • Page 955
  • Page 956
  • …
  • Page 3034
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Featured

The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy

H. Patricia Hynes

Authoritarianism

The 6 Superpowers that Faith Communities bring to nonviolent Struggle

Waging Nonviolence

Israel/ Palestine

Hamas and Israel are on the Verge of a Ceasefire; Denial of Palestinian Agency Could Derail it

The Conversation

Featured

It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain

Richard Penaskovic

Popular

  • Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity
  • It Doesn't Have to Hurt: Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain
  • Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump's Gaza "Peace" Plan
  • Protesting Northwestern U's Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as "Antisemitism"
  • The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved