Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • RSS
  • 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

Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change
Acidification of Oceans

Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change

Juan Cole

the “residents of Bonaire were wrongly treated differently from residents of the European Netherlands.”

The Iranian Protests Explained: Outside Intervention will only undercut Efforts by Iranians to transform their System

The Iranian Protests Explained: Outside Intervention will only undercut Efforts by Iranians to transform their System

01/29/2026 By Foreign Policy in Focus

Fossil Fuels are Doomed — and Trump can’t Save them

Fossil Fuels are Doomed — and Trump can’t Save them

01/29/2026 By The Conversation

More Stories

Domestic Surveillance
When Greenwald met Snowden: "Spark a ... movement against the dangers of state surveillance"

When Greenwald met Snowden: “Spark a … movement against the dangers of state surveillance”

(By Glenn Greenwald via Tomdispatch) [This essay is a shortened and adapted version of Chapter 1 of Glenn Greenwald’s new book, No Place to Hide: […]

Juan Cole

al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
Yemeni anti-Al-Qaeda Campaign gains Popular Support but US Embassy forced to Close

Yemeni anti-Al-Qaeda Campaign gains Popular Support but US Embassy forced to Close

(By Robert Sharp) As Yemen enters the post-National Dialogue Conference period, theory and practice are colliding; the constitutional referendum will take place in June followed […]

Juan Cole

Barack Obama
 Operation American Spring aims to drive Obama from office this Friday

Operation American Spring aims to drive Obama from office this Friday

Operation American Spring promises to drive Obama from office this Friday (via Raw Story ) Self-styled revolutionary patriots plan to converge on Washington, D.C., this […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
The Real Egyptian Divide is between Tahrir Self-Government and Authoritarians of all Stripes

The Real Egyptian Divide is between Tahrir Self-Government and Authoritarians of all Stripes

(By Haifaa G. Khalafallah) Revolutions or coups seeking to change modern Egypt, whether in 1919 or 1952, never challenged the familiar patterns of power relations, […]

Juan Cole

Bush
Top 5 Signs that it is Rove who is Brain Dead, not Hillary

Top 5 Signs that it is Rove who is Brain Dead, not Hillary

(By Juan Cole) Karl Rove was reported to have raised questions about Hillary Clinton’s mental well-being because of her fall in late 2012. He later […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
John Oliver: What if TV Climate Debates were 97 to 3 as in Real Science?

John Oliver: What if TV Climate Debates were 97 to 3 as in Real Science?

“John Oliver hosts a mathematically representative climate change debate, with the help of special guest Bill Nye the Science Guy, of course.” John Oliver LastWeekTonight: […]

Juan Cole

Barack Obama
Reich on Obama Walmart Photo-Op: "What numbskull arranged this?"

Reich on Obama Walmart Photo-Op: “What numbskull arranged this?”

(By John Queally) A low-wage Walmart employee in California has a simple message for President Obama on behalf of the millions of workers who find […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
US Military Report:  War effort in Afghanistan was bedeviled by Corruption, made it Worse

US Military Report: War effort in Afghanistan was bedeviled by Corruption, made it Worse

Enlarge Air Force aerial porters load a shipping container onto a C-130 Hercules cargo plane at Forward Operating Base Salerno, Khost Province, Afghanistan, Sept. 22, 2013. The 19th MCT, a small squadron of Air Force surface movement controllers and…

Juan Cole

Barack Obama
Dear GOP:  Here are Some Basic Real Questions to ask about Benghazi & CIA

Dear GOP: Here are Some Basic Real Questions to ask about Benghazi & CIA

(By Michael G. Roskin) With a Congressional committee about to seize on the Benghazi question (as part of the 2014 election campaign), some previously unasked […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1914
  • Page 1915
  • Page 1916
  • Page 1917
  • Page 1918
  • …
  • Page 3074
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Donald Trump

How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied

Juan Cole

Dissent

Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine

Aid by permission: How Israel’s NGO ban is reshaping life and survival in Gaza

Prism

Afghanistan

Old Bonespurs Spits on Graves of European NATO Soldiers who gave Lives for US in Afghanistan

Juan Cole

Popular

  • A Blood Bath Took Place in Iran
  • How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied
  • Is the End of the UN Relief & Works Agency for Palestinians the End of the Int'l Order?
  • An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can't draw the Line at Genocide, they can't Draw the Line at Democracy
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved