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

Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran
Featured

Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s militarily useless, entirely unprovoked and wholly illegal air war on Iran differs significantly from its previous wars in the […]

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

06/18/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

06/18/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

International Criminal Court
ICC judges to decide on Arrest Warrants for Israeli and Hamas Leaders: a legal Breakdown

ICC judges to decide on Arrest Warrants for Israeli and Hamas Leaders: a legal Breakdown

By Avidan Kent, University of East Anglia | — (The Conversation) – The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has been a […]

The Conversation

Retirement
If Trump wins, will Anyone ever be able to Afford to Retire?

If Trump wins, will Anyone ever be able to Afford to Retire?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The Washington Post headline reads: “A big problem for young workers: 70- and 80-year-olds who won’t retire.” For the first time […]

Rebecca Gordon

Featured
"Entire Families Vanished:"  Israeli Air Force Burns up 20 Refugee Tents, kills 40, in Strikes on Humanitarian Zone

“Entire Families Vanished:” Israeli Air Force Burns up 20 Refugee Tents, kills 40, in Strikes on Humanitarian Zone

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera Arabic reports that the Israeli occupation army committed yet another massacre on Monday evening, targeting a tent encampment […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghanistan Slides Into 'Ever More Hellish Conditions' After New 'Morality' Law Enacted

Afghanistan Slides Into ‘Ever More Hellish Conditions’ After New ‘Morality’ Law Enacted

By Abubakar Siddique and RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi ( RFE/RL ) – The Taliban has attempted to police the public appearances and behavior of millions of Afghans, […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Iran
Is it time to retire the Phrase ‘Arab-Israeli Conflict?’ Hostilities now extend beyond those Boundaries

Is it time to retire the Phrase ‘Arab-Israeli Conflict?’ Hostilities now extend beyond those Boundaries

By Nader Habibi, Brandeis University | – (The Conversation) – The current phase of fighting in the Middle East began almost a year ago, with […]

The Conversation

Egypt
Egyptian President al-Sisi’s Ankara Visit:  A Turning Point in Turkey-Egypt Relations

Egyptian President al-Sisi’s Ankara Visit: A Turning Point in Turkey-Egypt Relations

Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – On Wednesday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made a historic visit to Turkey. This is the first time […]

Volkan Isbasaran

Sudan
Sudan: Abusive Warring Parties Acquire New Weapons

Sudan: Abusive Warring Parties Acquire New Weapons

Renew, Expand UN Arms Embargo

Human Rights Watch

Homelessness
America’s Catch-22:  Not enough Affordable Housing, but it’s increasingly Illegal to be Homeless

America’s Catch-22: Not enough Affordable Housing, but it’s increasingly Illegal to be Homeless

By Cedar Monroe and Liz Theoharis In 2019, a group of homeless folks were living on a deserted piece of land along the Chehalis River, […]

Tomdispatch

Featured
Semi-Automatic Guns à la Dr. Seuss:  Would you like One on the Road, Would you Like one in a School?

Semi-Automatic Guns à la Dr. Seuss: Would you like One on the Road, Would you Like one in a School?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – WLKY: “The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office says shots were fired on Interstate 75 near London, Kentucky. Deputies are looking for […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 93
  • Page 94
  • Page 95
  • Page 96
  • Page 97
  • …
  • Page 2995
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Solar Energy

Recycling Solar Panels will Reduce Waste, but We Should Repair and Reuse First

The Conversation

Congress

Congress Considers War Powers Resolution Rejecting an Iran War

Medea Benjamin

Featured

Iraqi Shiites Demand Expulsion of US Troops after Israel Attacks Iran

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism

American Spring? How nonviolent Protest in the US is Accelerating

Waging Nonviolence

Popular

  • Iran's Hypersonic Missiles Hit Israeli Refinery, Military Sites, as Israel does the same to Tehran
  • An Iranian-American View: Tehran will Never Surrender
  • Iraqi Shiites Demand Expulsion of US Troops after Israel Attacks Iran
  • Why did Israel defy Trump – and risk a major War – by striking Iran now? And what happens next?
  • American Spring? How nonviolent Protest in the US is Accelerating
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved