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

Iran: A Visionary Life to Remember
Featured

Iran: A Visionary Life to Remember

Fariba Amini

then he got involved in the student movement. It was the height of the Vietnam war.

Juan Cole Fundraiser
DONATED:$13,814
SUPPORTERS:160
TARGET:$30,000
REMAINING:$16,186
Israel’s Desperate Quest to Erase the History of the Gaza Genocide

Israel’s Desperate Quest to Erase the History of the Gaza Genocide

11/13/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

Protesting Cancellation of Conference on “Palestine and Europe” at the Collège de France

Protesting Cancellation of Conference on “Palestine and Europe” at the Collège de France

11/13/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

More Stories

RAK Zoo opens its doors to the public

RAK Zoo opens its doors to the public

RAK Zoo opened its doors for the first time on Tuesday with its owner and residents positive it will help boost tourism in the emirate.

News Aggregator

Banking
Climate Protesters Flood Wall Street - And A Polar Bear Is Arrested

Climate Protesters Flood Wall Street – And A Polar Bear Is Arrested

AJ+ “Hundreds of people attended the #FloodWallStreet demonstration to protest the role big business plays in fueling climate change. The protest was largely peaceful, but […]

Juan Cole

Economy
Student Debt Factories:  The Scandal of For-Profit Colleges

Student Debt Factories: The Scandal of For-Profit Colleges

By Astra Taylor and Hannah Appel via Tomdispatch.com Imagine corporations that intentionally target low-income single mothers as ideal customers. Imagine that these same companies claim […]

contributors

Bashar al-Assad
The Syrian Maelstrom:  How Repression, Drought & Climate Change Drove the Civil War

The Syrian Maelstrom: How Repression, Drought & Climate Change Drove the Civil War

By Tareq Ramadan Long before March of 2011, when Syrian demonstrations calling for reform and in some cases, regime change, morphed into a full-blown military […]

contributors

Afghanistan
13 Years after US started Bombing it, Afghanistan Still Unstable

13 Years after US started Bombing it, Afghanistan Still Unstable

News Analysis: Afghan Deal Leaves Room For National Disunity By Frud Bezhan via RFE/RL After months of wrangling and high tension, Afghanistan has finally named […]

contributors

censorship
Shock & Awe In Syria:  It never Works

Shock & Awe In Syria: It never Works

By Juan Cole The London pan-Arab daily “Hayat” [Life] reports this morning on the air strikes conducted on ISIL positions in Raqqah, Syria, by the […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Largest Climate Rally ever in New York City, other World Capitals

Largest Climate Rally ever in New York City, other World Capitals

By Deirdre Fulton, Commondreams.org Global mobilization is exceeding expectations on Sunday, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets demanding action on climate […]

contributors

Displaced and Refugees
I lived to see the Day when thousands of Kurds take Refuge in Turkey

I lived to see the Day when thousands of Kurds take Refuge in Turkey

Reuters: “About 60,000 Syrian Kurds flee into Turkey in the space of 24 hours, a deputy prime minister says, as Islamic State fighters seize dozens […]

contributors

Dissent
"Operation Ice ISIS":  'Anonymous' Hackers take on Extremist Group on Social Media

“Operation Ice ISIS”: ‘Anonymous’ Hackers take on Extremist Group on Social Media

France24: ” This week #TECH24 brings you an EXCLUSIVE interview with Anonymous on why (and how) the collective decided to join the fight against the […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1815
  • Page 1816
  • Page 1817
  • Page 1818
  • Page 1819
  • …
  • Page 3047
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

al-Qaeda

Former al-Qaeda leader invited to White House, Peaceful Muslim Mayor gets Cold Shoulder

The Conversation

Academic Freedom

Fear & Loathing in the Halls of Academe: Trump’s Columbia U.

Tomdispatch

Featured

Syrian President Meets Trump, Pledges to fight ISIL and seek Security Pact with Israel

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

The world is preparing to rebuild Gaza but Few are ready for the Climate Cost

Global Voices

Popular

  • No, ancient Hebrew Slaves didn't Build the Giza Pyramids
  • Syrian President Meets Trump, Pledges to fight ISIL and seek Security Pact with Israel
  • Will Climate Change force Tehran to Evacuate?
  • Israelis Block Syringes, Refrigerators for UNICEF Vaccination of Toddlers in Gaza
  • A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian King: A new Statue in Tehran
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved