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

Bernie Sanders
Biden vs. Bernie—a Foreign Policy Faceoff

Biden vs. Bernie—a Foreign Policy Faceoff

Supporters of former Vice President Joe Biden praise him as a man with extensive foreign policy experience. He’s living proof, however, that extensive doesn’t necessarily […]

Reese Erlich

Rape
White Nationalism is a Lost Cause in an Increasingly Rainbow America

White Nationalism is a Lost Cause in an Increasingly Rainbow America

The U.S. will never be a white country again

The Conversation

Feminism
Can Feminist Foreign Policy make us More Secure and our Societies more Just?

Can Feminist Foreign Policy make us More Secure and our Societies more Just?

By Kristina Lunz, Nina Bernarding | – ( Heinrich Boll Stiftung) – Introduction: Kristina Lunz and Nina Bernarding, who are leading the Centre for Feminist […]

contributors

Climate Change
Tipping Point:  For 1st Time in US History, Renewables made more Electricity than Coal in April

Tipping Point: For 1st Time in US History, Renewables made more Electricity than Coal in April

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Avery Thompson Popular Mechanics reports that in the month of April for the first time in US history, the country […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Why did the Trump Admin. Obstruct UN Resolution against War Rape that Amal Clooney Supported?

Why did the Trump Admin. Obstruct UN Resolution against War Rape that Amal Clooney Supported?

Trump is a vulgar libertine with overwhelming support from evangelicals

The Conversation

Climate Change
Ruining the Planet: Not only are the German Far Right Scary Racists, they're Climate Denialists to Boot

Ruining the Planet: Not only are the German Far Right Scary Racists, they’re Climate Denialists to Boot

Right-wing parties poised to bring climate scepticism to European parliament, with Germany’s AfD leading the way

Clean Energy Wire

Israel/ Palestine
Why Hunger Strikes? Most of the 800,000 Palestinians who have cycled through Israeli Jails haven't Committed a Crime

Why Hunger Strikes? Most of the 800,000 Palestinians who have cycled through Israeli Jails haven’t Committed a Crime

One of the many ways in which Israel seeks to oppress and control the Palestinian population is by imprisoning those who lead the resistance to […]

Ramzy Baroud

Democratic Party
The Democrats can Crush unpopular Trump in 2020, but only if they Run to the Left

The Democrats can Crush unpopular Trump in 2020, but only if they Run to the Left

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new CNN/SSRS poll of about 1,000 people shows that among a random sample of registered voters, Bernie Sanders and […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Socialism
The GOP is Demonizing the Left in New Red Scare, but US Public wants . . . Socialism

The GOP is Demonizing the Left in New Red Scare, but US Public wants . . . Socialism

The policies they’re attacking are enormously popular with America’s workaday majority

Jim Hightower

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 989
  • Page 990
  • Page 991
  • Page 992
  • Page 993
  • …
  • 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