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

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Israel Lobby And Reply To Drezner

Israel Lobby And Reply To Drezner

Juan Cole

The Israel Lobby And a Reply to Drezner Philip Weiss weighs in on the Mearsheimer and Walt paper on the Israel lobby at The Nation. It is a fine, searching, level-headed treatment. The big surprise: The influence of Leon Uris on American political science! Thanks to bloggers, by the way, for taking up the issue […]

Uncategorized
Settling Iraq Before It Blows Up

Settling Iraq Before It Blows Up

Juan Cole

Settling Iraq before it Blows Up A renewed debate on the possible partition of Iraq is emerging. Let’s get one thing out of the way. As for letting a civil war rage, deliberately, I don’t understand. Everyone is (rightly) complaining about world inaction on the genocide in the Sudan. But here you want to provoke […]

Uncategorized
Racial Mccarthyism On Right Petition I

Racial Mccarthyism On Right Petition I

Juan Cole

Racial McCarthyism on the Right The petition I set up to defend John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt from scurrilous charges of anti-Semitism (which is to say, racism) for daring write an academic paper on the Israel lobby, is percolating along, accumulating signatures from post-secondary teachers, as I had hoped. Academics from all over the country […]

Uncategorized
Defending Bloggers From Slaps It Was

Defending Bloggers From Slaps It Was

Juan Cole

Defending Bloggers from SLAPs It was bound to happen. “Blogger hit with Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit.” Props to MBA for trying to help.

Uncategorized
Guerrillas Kill 25 Sistani Supports

Guerrillas Kill 25 Sistani Supports

Juan Cole

Guerrillas Kill 25 Sistani supports Gradual US Withdrawal Bombings and assassinations left some 25 persons dead in Iraq on Saturday, including 17 who just showed up in the street dead, with some showing signs of torture. 70 GIs have been killed in Iraq in the past month, and over 2400 have been killed since the […]

Uncategorized
Susan Sarandon And Death Threats Susan

Susan Sarandon And Death Threats Susan

Juan Cole

Susan Sarandon and Death Threats Susan Sarandon’s description of how alone and obviously afraid she felt as she received death threats and faced massive hostility from the public over her opposition in 2003 to the war is touching. ‘ In an interview to be shown on the Jonathan Dimbleby programme today, Sarandon recalled how she […]

Uncategorized
Iaea Finds No Proof Of Iranian Nuclear

Iaea Finds No Proof Of Iranian Nuclear

Juan Cole

IAEA Finds no Proof of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program In its April 28 report, the International Atomic Energy Agency mentioned the UNSC mandate to Iran of last February: ‘ • re-establish full and sustained suspension of all enrichment related and reprocessing activities,including research and development, to be verified by the Agency; • reconsider the construction […]

Uncategorized
Iraq Vp Warns Bush Against Iran Attack

Iraq Vp Warns Bush Against Iran Attack

Juan Cole

Iraq VP Warns Bush against Iran Attack Ramadi Fighting Leads to Evacuation of One District Adil Abdul Mahdi, whom the Americans wanted for the prime minister of Iraq, warned Washington Friday not to attack Iran. “We will not allow anyone to attack anyone,” He said. (Since Iraqi politicians can’t keep bombs from going off all […]

Uncategorized
Iraq And Oil Crunch Update See Alan

Iraq And Oil Crunch Update See Alan

Juan Cole

Iraq and the Oil Crunch? Update: See Alan Richards’s reply at end Jim Krane of the Associate Press quotes analysts who seem to blame the high price of petroleum in part on the shambles in Iraq. Iraq could be exporting nearly 3 million barrels a day (bbd) if the guerrilla war was not resulting in […]

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1220
  • Page 1221
  • Page 1222
  • Page 1223
  • Page 1224
  • …
  • Page 1600
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Support Independent Journalism

Click here to donate via PayPal.

Personal checks should be made out to Juan Cole and sent to me at:

Juan Cole
P. O. Box 4218,
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2548
USA
(Remember, make the checks out to “Juan Cole” or they can’t be cashed)

STAY INFORMED

Join our newsletter to have sharp analysis delivered to your inbox every day.
Warning! Social media will not reliably deliver Informed Comment to you. They are shadowbanning news sites, especially if "controversial."
To see new IC posts, please sign up for our email Newsletter.

Social Media

Bluesky | Instagram

Popular

  • Four Decades of War between Iran and America
  • Regime Change: From Thomas Jefferson to Donald Trump
  • Trump never saw a Wind Farm in China, but Beijing has half of all Installed Wind Capacity and will Eat America's Lunch in this Industry
  • In Too Much of the US, Israel's Gaza Genocide Has Been Made Invisible
  • Did the US and Israeli Attack leave the Islamic Republic of Iran Stronger?

Gaza Yet Stands


Juan Cole's New Ebook at Amazon. Click Here to Buy
__________________________

Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires



Click here to Buy Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam


Click here to Buy The Rubaiyat.
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved