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

© 2026 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts
Dissent

Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts

Mohammad Eslami

Political slogans grew sharper, and in some places the protests shifted from economic dissent to open calls for regime change.

Gaza: Six Reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging Conflict in the Middle East

Gaza: Six Reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging Conflict in the Middle East

01/10/2026 By Ramzy Baroud

Electric car Registrations in Germany rise by 43% in 2025, despite end of Subsidies

Electric car Registrations in Germany rise by 43% in 2025, despite end of Subsidies

01/10/2026 By Clean Energy Wire

More Stories

Epidemics
Ebola's not the First Racial Germ Panic:  The Long History of Xenophobia and Scapegoating

Ebola’s not the First Racial Germ Panic: The Long History of Xenophobia and Scapegoating

By Dan Dinello The attempt by some GOP politicians to tie the ebola outbreak to immigration issues is nothing new in American or European history. […]

contributors

Democracy
Bernie Sanders on Breaking Big Money’s Grip on Elections (Moyers)

Bernie Sanders on Breaking Big Money’s Grip on Elections (Moyers)

Bill Moyers: “Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s independent senator, is angry about what he sees as big money’s wholesale purchase of political power. It’s a grave threat, […]

contributors

Israel
Fierce Entanglements require Dialogue:  Israeli-Palestinian conflict rooted in their different stories about the World

Fierce Entanglements require Dialogue: Israeli-Palestinian conflict rooted in their different stories about the World

By Donald Ellis When I was in Israel for a year on a Fulbright conducting research I interviewed Israelis, Palestinians, and Israeli Arabs. I asked […]

contributors

Bashar al-Assad
US Dilemma in Syria:  Moderate Stronghold Falls to al-Qaeda, Fighters desert to Extremists

US Dilemma in Syria: Moderate Stronghold Falls to al-Qaeda, Fighters desert to Extremists

By Juan Cole In a big setback for the Obama administration’s Syria policy, the al-Qaeda affiliate Succor Front (Jabhat al-Nusra) took the town of Deir […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
Israel's Exclusion of Palestinians from Area C Costs Pals. $2.2 bn a Year

Israel’s Exclusion of Palestinians from Area C Costs Pals. $2.2 bn a Year

World Bank “If businesses and farms were permitted to develop on Area C land, 61 percent of the West Bank, it would add as much […]

contributors

Civil Rights
Will growing gap between rich and poor influence midterm elections?

Will growing gap between rich and poor influence midterm elections?

CCTV “In the United States, the gap between rich and poor is the highest it has been since 1928. This gap is painfully obvious in […]

contributors

African-Americans
Was Sen. Lindsey Graham just Joking when he Supported White Men in Male Only Clubs?

Was Sen. Lindsey Graham just Joking when he Supported White Men in Male Only Clubs?

The Young Turks: “”In a statement, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tried to play off a joke he made at a private, all-male dinner as totally […]

contributors

Climate Change
The Pentagon wants to Surrender to Climate Change, not Fight It

The Pentagon wants to Surrender to Climate Change, not Fight It

By Eric Bonds via Foreign Policy in Focus The Pentagon recently released a new report sounding the alarm on the national security threats posed by […]

contributors

Featured
Iraq: US dismayed Shiite Gov't hasn't Armed Sunni Tribes fighting ISIL

Iraq: US dismayed Shiite Gov’t hasn’t Armed Sunni Tribes fighting ISIL

By Juan Cole The pan-Arab London daily Hayat [Life] reports that members of the al-Anbar provincial council say they have met with American officials who […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1815
  • Page 1816
  • Page 1817
  • Page 1818
  • Page 1819
  • …
  • Page 3067
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

nuclear weapons

An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

Michael T. Klare

Climate Crisis

Melting Ice Makes the Greenland Minerals Trump Wants Dangerous to Extract: Climate Change

The Conversation

Featured

Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report

Juan Cole

Donald Trump

The Power Play President

John Feffer

Popular

  • Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel Rally against Military Conscription, with one Killed after they attack Bus
  • Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report
  • Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self
  • Iran Protests have put the Country's Political System on Trial
  • With Maduro Abduction, the US Addiction to Regime Change is now farcical
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved