By Adnan Abu Amer | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – As soon as it was announced that Israel is heading for yet another General Election, and the visit of US President Joe Biden to the region next month was confirmed, it was obvious that Israel’s illegal settlers are going to take advantage of […]
- Africa (239)
- Animals (1)
- Asia (1,227)
- Australasia (9)
- Australia (25)
- Authoritarianism (384)
- Canada (7)
- Cats (1)
- Celtic Religion (1)
- Culture (521)
- Dehydration (1)
- Democracy (326)
- Dissent (434)
- Ecology (1)
- Economy (1,031)
- Agriculture (3)
- Banking (67)
- Carbon Footprint (6)
- Corporations (50)
- Cryptocurrency (2)
- Debt (21)
- Degrowth (1)
- Democratic Socialism (20)
- Demographic Decline (1)
- Development (26)
- Downward Mobility (1)
- Employment (118)
- Food Insecurity (21)
- Homelessness (15)
- Industry (5)
- Inequality (423)
- Inflation (5)
- infrastructure (10)
- Insurance (1)
- Investment (92)
- Market Crash (10)
- Middle Class (61)
- Monopolies (8)
- Neoliberalism (202)
- Plutocracy (618)
- Poverty (206)
- Regulation (3)
- Sanctions (4)
- Taxes (37)
- Technology (3)
- Trade (114)
- Weapons sales (7)
- Education (157)
- Elderly (3)
- Electricity Cost (2)
- Energy (1,710)
- Batteries (50)
- Coal (139)
- Fossil Fuels (324)
- Fracking (50)
- Geothermal (7)
- Green ammonia (5)
- Green Energy (409)
- Green Hydrogen (8)
- Heat Pumps (6)
- Hydroelectric (15)
- Natural Gas (107)
- Nuclear Energy (157)
- Petroleum (299)
- Power Grid (12)
- Pumped Hydro (6)
- Solar Energy (403)
- Tar Sands (13)
- Wave Energy (9)
- wind energy (336)
- Environment (2,631)
- Climate Change (1,555)
- Acidification of Oceans (54)
- Agriculture (26)
- Biodiversity (12)
- Climate Refugees (2)
- CO2 (121)
- Dehydration (5)
- Denialism (147)
- Desalinization (4)
- Desertification (158)
- Divestment (2)
- Dust Storms (6)
- Environmental Investment (1)
- Extreme Weather (296)
- Flooding (137)
- Food Supply (2)
- Forests (18)
- Green New Deal (40)
- Greenwashing (3)
- Mass Extinction (61)
- Methane (20)
- Net Carbon Zerio (8)
- Nitrous Oxide (2)
- Rainforests (19)
- Rivers (11)
- Sea Level (335)
- Soil Carbon Release (14)
- Super Storms (258)
- wildfires (237)
- Wood Buildings (1)
- Climate Crisis (1,278)
- Drought (294)
- Ecology (10)
- Environmentalism (392)
- Green Transportation (251)
- Ice Melt (133)
- Invasive Species (2)
- Islands (1)
- Oceans (101)
- Oil Spills (7)
- Pollution (229)
- Water (94)
- wildlife (19)
- Climate Change (1,555)
- Europe (1,347)
- Featured (3,969)
- fiction (5)
- Food (14)
- G20 (1)
- Guns (9)
- Health (674)
- History (347)
- Human Rights (1,453)
- Apartheid (263)
- censorship (297)
- Death Penalty (30)
- Disappeared (3)
- Displaced and Refugees (575)
- Food Insecurity (25)
- Gay rights (29)
- Genocide (53)
- Human Rights Watch (90)
- Migrants (4)
- Slavery and Trafficking (16)
- Starvation (4)
- Torture (98)
- Trans Rights (3)
- Transgender Rights (4)
- Unlawful Imprisonment (102)
- Unlwful Killing (78)
- War Crimes (398)
- War Rape (7)
- Immigration (20)
- International (803)
- Islamophobia (376)
- Juan Cole (270)
- Latin America (99)
- Latinos (4)
- leisure (21)
- media (474)
- Middle East (9,470)
- Arab World (5,177)
- Iran (1,302)
- Israel (905)
- Israel/ Palestine (3,237)
- Israel/Palestine (9)
- Kurds (289)
- Turkey (579)
- Turkiye (105)
- military (125)
- Modernism (3)
- nationalism (116)
- NATO (37)
- Natural Disasters (13)
- Neocolonialism (1)
- nuclear weapons (105)
- Patriarchy (10)
- Peace (137)
- Persian mythology (1)
- Pete Buttigieg (1)
- Planetary Exploration (1)
- Popular Culture (24)
- Poverty (12)
- privacy (21)
- racism (464)
- Rape (8)
- religion (1,478)
- Rights (141)
- robots (3)
- Romance (1)
- science (154)
- Secular (West) (9)
- Secularism (30)
- Sexual Assault (2)
- South Pacific (2)
- Spirituality (22)
- Statelessness (15)
- Stranded Assets (1)
- Surveillance (279)
- Terrorism (1,092)
- Tolerance (6)
- Uncategorized (8,078)
- United Nations (150)
- Urbanization (4)
- US Foreign Policy (1,318)
- US politics (5,290)
- Anti-War Movement (13)
- Campaign Finance (31)
- Censors (22)
- Central Intelligence Agency (63)
- Charity (1)
- Civil Rights (96)
- Congress (78)
- Conspiracy Theories (23)
- Constitution (399)
- Courts (15)
- crime (12)
- Democratic Party (956)
- Democratic Socialists of America (22)
- Domestic Terrorism (20)
- Drone Warfare (27)
- Espionage (124)
- Ethnicities (382)
- Far Right (389)
- FBI (47)
- Foreign Policy (204)
- Gay Rights (17)
- Guns (95)
- Immigration (236)
- Israel Lobbies (129)
- Marijuana (4)
- Militarization (272)
- National Security State (473)
- Native Americans (40)
- Nuclear arsenal (7)
- penitentiaries (6)
- Pentagon (562)
- Police (43)
- prison reform (9)
- Private Prisons (2)
- Progressive Politics (12)
- Puerto Rico (30)
- Religious Right (15)
- Reproductive Choice (66)
- Republican Party (2,947)
- Supreme Court (133)
- Voter suppression (36)
- Whistleblowers (7)
- Xenophobia (9)
- Veterans (35)
- Voting Rights (16)
- War (509)
- White Supremacists (228)
- wikileaks (8)
- women (554)
- workers (231)
- Writing (5)
- Youth (212)
Uncategorized
The ‘Arab Factor’ in bringing down the Israeli Government
By Jeff Halper | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel is in the midst of a political stalemate. Bennett’s centre-right government has resigned and new elections will be held in late October/early November. It does not really matter who wins; certainly in terms of the Palestinian citizens of Israel are the colonised Palestinians […]
Why are States we don’t like ‘Regimes’ while friendly ones have ‘Governments’?
By Omar Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – On Monday, recently-promoted White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, when mentioning US President Joe Biden’s planned trip to Riyadh (which has now scheduled for next month) almost referred to the “Saudi regime“, before abruptly correcting herself, instead used the more sanitised word “government”. The […]
How Long Will We Sacrifice Our Kids to the Gun Lobby’s Paranoia?
( Otherwords ) – Mass shootings are good for gun sales. In the days following the horrific school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, firearm stocks rose. Gun buyers, conditioned to fear new restrictions, tend to run out and buy more weapons after shootings like this one. They seem to believe that lawmakers will respond to mass […]
Muslims and the War on Terror: Two-Plus Decades of ‘Othering’
By Anoa J. Changa | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The phrase “War on Terror” invokes many different feelings and images depending upon one’s position in America and the world. While many understand it merely as a descriptor for a new frontier in American foreign policy and war, for others it has meant […]
A Warm thanks to Informed Comment Readers – The Best People
From Juan Cole Thanks to a last minute surge of support, we had a great year again with regard to fundraising, and we hope to do great things with your support. Informed Comment readers have improved the site tremendously over the years with their feedback and suggestions, and in a world where so little seems […]
Climate Emergency Pushing White Christmas out of Germany
( CleanEnergy Wire) – Global warming is making white Christmas a thing of the past in Germany, the country’s national weather service DWD has said. Comparing the years 1961 to 1990 with the period between 1991 and 2020, the meteorologists found that the chance to see a full snow cover between December 24 and 26 […]
Informed Comment Annual Fundraising Appeal
From Juan Cole | – We need your help! Informed Comment is almost unique in focusing on US foreign policy and Middle East affairs from a progressive perspective, in addition to providing crucial information on the climate emergency and progressive social policy. We carry original reporting, and curate the best coverage on these issues that […]
Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas gives Israel a Year to Withdraw from Palestinian Territories or he will go to the Int’l Court
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – According to Al Jazeera, Mahmoud Abbas, the president of Palestine, gave an uncharacteristically vehement speech at the UN General Assembly on Friday. He said, “The crimes against the Palestinians in their own country committed by the Israeli Occupation authority will not halt their struggle to achieve liberty on their land.” […]