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

Pakistan now gets 25% of its Electricity from Solar, Plans Solar Panel factory
China

Pakistan now gets 25% of its Electricity from Solar, Plans Solar Panel factory

Juan Cole

Only about 20 countries globally get a quarter or more of their power from solar.

Juan Cole Fundraiser
DONATED:$22,541
SUPPORTERS:279
TARGET:$30,000
REMAINING:$7,459
Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

12/17/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

12/17/2025 By Tomdispatch

More Stories

Israel/ Palestine
How US Law Restricting Satellite Imagery of Palestine-Israel Hurts Health, Environmental Research

How US Law Restricting Satellite Imagery of Palestine-Israel Hurts Health, Environmental Research

by Zena Agha | – Bipartisan legislation passed by the US Congress in 1997 limits the quality and availability of satellite imagery of Palestine-Israel. The […]

Al-Shabaka

Iran
Crickets from European Union over Questionable UK Seizure of Iran tanker: With Brexit, London should Get Used to It

Crickets from European Union over Questionable UK Seizure of Iran tanker: With Brexit, London should Get Used to It

By Barry Ryan | – It’s rare to experience silence in this age of political anger and loudness, of bombastic tweets, insulting truths and incredible […]

The Conversation

Arms Sales
The US is Flooding the World with Guns: Congress Can Stop That

The US is Flooding the World with Guns: Congress Can Stop That

By John Lindsay-Poland | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – When gun exporters and importers gather at a trade conference at the Trump Hotel […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Democratic Socialists of America
It isn’t Just Trump: It is Washington DC out to get The Squad

It isn’t Just Trump: It is Washington DC out to get The Squad

Trump’s not the only one terrified of these four congresswomen — leading Democrats apparently are, too

Peter Certo

Iran
Are the Iran-Trump Tanker, Drone  incidents in the Strait of Hormuz a Form of Guerrilla War?

Are the Iran-Trump Tanker, Drone incidents in the Strait of Hormuz a Form of Guerrilla War?

By Rockford Weitz | – Tensions between the United States, Iran and other countries are flaring again in the Strait of Hormuz. There are competing […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Does Israel’s Netanyahu need another Gaza War to remain Prime Minister (and out of Jail)?

Does Israel’s Netanyahu need another Gaza War to remain Prime Minister (and out of Jail)?

( Middle East Monitor) Media reports of an impending Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip are now a regular occurrence. The frequency of these […]

Ramzy Baroud

Featured
Even Red States are going Solar, dumping Coal, as just Good Business

Even Red States are going Solar, dumping Coal, as just Good Business

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Arizona, despite being GOP-dominated, is number 3 in the US for residential solar power production. In the first quarter of […]

Juan Cole

Environmentalism
A Total Disgrace': Outrage as Trump EPA Says It Won't Ban Pesticide Linked to Brain Damage in Children

A Total Disgrace’: Outrage as Trump EPA Says It Won’t Ban Pesticide Linked to Brain Damage in Children

“The EPA is endangering the lives of children to protect pesticide industry profits.”

Common Dreams

Displaced and Refugees
Are Syrian Refugees a Danger to the West?

Are Syrian Refugees a Danger to the West?

By Arie Kruglanski, David Webber, Erica Molinario and Katarzyna Jaśko | – While today’s news is full of stories about refugees and migrants to the […]

The Conversation

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 953
  • Page 954
  • Page 955
  • Page 956
  • Page 957
  • …
  • Page 3059
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Iran

One Year After Assad’s Fall: Iran’s Strategic Collapse In Syria

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

European Union

The Transatlantic Rift over Gaza’s Future

Foreign Policy in Focus

Donald Trump

Israel is Sinking into the Abyss of Netanyahu’s Dictatorship

H. Scott Prosterman

Entertainment

“With them the seed of Wisdom:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:28

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Syrian-Australian Muslim halts Indian-Australian ISIL Attack on Jewish Australians
  • Conflict in Mecca: The Prophet Muhammad and Soft Power
  • Benjamin Netanyahu's Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption
  • Three Things that might Trigger massive Ice Sheet Collapse
  • Sudan's Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved