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

Israel
Israel at 65: Welcome to the Neighborhood (Map)

Israel at 65: Welcome to the Neighborhood (Map)

Juan Cole

Satire Israel (in red) is welcomed into the Muslim Middle East in 2013 Zionism: The theory that because murderous Nazis hated Jews in the 1930s and 1940s, all Jews should now crowd into a narrow strip of land between the Mediterranean and 400 million angry Muslims.

Uncategorized
Gun “Control” “Legislation,” Parodied by Saturday Night Live

Gun “Control” “Legislation,” Parodied by Saturday Night Live

Juan Cole

Saturday Night Live satirizes the minimalism of the gun registration bill proposed by Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)

Uncategorized
Class Hatred and Bad Memories of Thatcher

Class Hatred and Bad Memories of Thatcher

Juan Cole

The hatred for the late Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister, among a broad segment of the British public has manifested itself in visible and undeniable ways in the week after her death, but these are not highlighted on American television. The status quo corporate media are afraid of admitting that policy-makers who favor the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Palestine PM Fayyad Resigns, a Victim of Israeli and US funding cut-off and backlash against Austerity

Palestine PM Fayyad Resigns, a Victim of Israeli and US funding cut-off and backlash against Austerity

Juan Cole

The man recognized by the Palestine government based in Ramallah as prime minister, Salam Fayyad, has tendered his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas. The most immediate cause of the dispute between the two was that, under pressure from crowds and from the Fateh party, the minister of finance, Nabil Qassis, tendered his resignation. Fayyad rejected […]

Uncategorized
Jonathan Winters, RIP  (Video: of Classic Standup Routine)

Jonathan Winters, RIP (Video: of Classic Standup Routine)

Juan Cole

Comedian Jonathan Winters has died at 87. Winters was a pioneer in improvisational standup and the use of impressions in mini-skits within the monologue. He deeply influenced Robin Williams. Dana Carvey’s mix of impressions and irony seems to me also to stand in the Winters tradition. In many ways, our contemporary comedic sensibility owes a […]

Environment
Arctic Summer Ice Cap will be gone in 20 Years: NOAA (Time-Lapse Video)

Arctic Summer Ice Cap will be gone in 20 Years: NOAA (Time-Lapse Video)

Juan Cole

Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration now predict that the arctic will be iceless during summers in as little as ten to twenty years, as a result of global warming caused by humans dumping billions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. Here is NASA’s time-lapse video of the […]

Egypt
Egypt: As Mubarak retrial begins, Judge Recuses Self

Egypt: As Mubarak retrial begins, Judge Recuses Self

Juan Cole

Former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was brought to a courtroom on Saturday for the beginning of his retrial on charges of ordering hundreds of peaceful demonstrators killed in January and February 2011 during the revolution against him. The trial was abruptly postponed, however, when Judge Mustafa Hasan Abdullah recused himself. He had been involved in […]

Energy
Amazing Green Energy News:  World's Largest Wind Farm opens in UK, as Libya prepares to go Solar

Amazing Green Energy News: World’s Largest Wind Farm opens in UK, as Libya prepares to go Solar

Juan Cole

1. World’s Largest Wind Farm The London Array offshore wind farm has just gone live, generating 630 MW of electricity in the first phase. An expansion will allow it, two years hence to add another 200 megawatts. Here is a video report. 2. Libya Solar Libya has announced that it plans to get a fifth […]

Iran
"Losing my Religion" in Tehran (Music Video)

“Losing my Religion” in Tehran (Music Video)

Juan Cole

Iranian mashup of R.E.M’s 1991 hit, “Losing my Religion”, set in Tehran. REM LOSING MY RELIGION at Tehran from Hamed Zarepoor on Vimeo. h/t reddit.com

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 617
  • Page 618
  • Page 619
  • Page 620
  • Page 621
  • …
  • Page 1612
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Juan Cole Fundraiser
DONATED:$18,668
SUPPORTERS:207
TARGET:$30,000
REMAINING:$11,332

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

  • Sorry, White Nationalists, Europeans were Black until the Rise of Rome, and Rome was Multiracial
  • Syrian FM: Israel’s deadly Incursion against Islamic Group a ‘War Crime’ after 13 killed
  • Pope Leo XIV: "We Know Israel does not ... Accept" Palestinian State, But "We see it as the only Solution"
  • Vanishing Future? The Arab World Faces 2x Global Heating, Corruption and High Tech Divide
  • Amnesty: So-Called Gaza 'Ceasefire' becoming Smokescreen for continued Israeli Genocide

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