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

How many people has ICE maimed, killed or Disappeared in Minnesota?
Asian-Americans

How many people has ICE maimed, killed or Disappeared in Minnesota?

Janelle Carlson

Many of those detained are left without their medication which can lead to life-threatening complications

What will a rebuilt Gaza look like? The competing visions for the Strip’s future

What will a rebuilt Gaza look like? The competing visions for the Strip’s future

02/05/2026 By The Conversation

The Epstein Files: Blackmail and the Tantalizing Israeli Connection

The Epstein Files: Blackmail and the Tantalizing Israeli Connection

02/05/2026 By Middle East Monitor

More Stories

Nuke expert: Iran a decade from bomb, but PM playing politics

Nuke expert: Iran a decade from bomb, but PM playing politics

Former head of Israeli Atomic Energy Commission Uzi Eilam says Tehran may not even want nuke, but Netanyahu working public into lather for political gain

News Aggregator

Africa
Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls

Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls

Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls (via AFP) A new Boko Haram massacre has killed hundreds in Nigeria’s northeast, a […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Climate Change in the U.S. in 8 Frightening Charts

Climate Change in the U.S. in 8 Frightening Charts

By Brian Kahn Follow @blkahn The newly released National Climate Assessment spans 30 chapters with thousands of references on how climate change is impacting the U.S. The report took more than 300 scientists and 4 years to prepare, including addressing…

Juan Cole

American Jews
Muslim-haters Pam Geller & J. Farah Attack Spielberg, Liberal Jews as Appeasers

Muslim-haters Pam Geller & J. Farah Attack Spielberg, Liberal Jews as Appeasers

This liberal Jew is disgusted by the constant comparisons of Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, of 2014 America to pre-Nazi Germany, and now, of liberal Jews to Nazi appeasers. Muslim-basher Pam Geller is outraged that Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation…

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Emails suggest Google and the NSA are closer than we knew

Emails suggest Google and the NSA are closer than we knew

reputation has been shaken by evidence to suggest its relationship with the US National Security Agency (NSA) is cosier than anyone thought. If emails obtained by Al Jazeera are to be believed, relations between Google chairman Eric Schmidt and NSA…

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
Is Fall of Homs a turning point in Regime's Quest to Retake Syria?

Is Fall of Homs a turning point in Regime’s Quest to Retake Syria?

(By Juan Cole) The Governor of Homs Province, Talal al-Barazi said Wednesday that 80 percent of the rebel fighters in that city have now been […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Israeli Pres. Peres: Netanyahu blocked 2011 Peace Deal with Palestinians

Israeli Pres. Peres: Netanyahu blocked 2011 Peace Deal with Palestinians

Israel’s Peres says Netanyahu blocked 2011 peace deal (via AFP) Israeli President Shimon Peres said Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blocked a 2011 peace […]

Juan Cole

Economy
Rep. Paul Ryan targets Poor as his “Signature Issue”, and I do Mean Targets (Cartoon)

Rep. Paul Ryan targets Poor as his “Signature Issue”, and I do Mean Targets (Cartoon)

By Paul Jamiol, from Jamiol’s World

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Rep. Louie Gohmert: Constitution only fit for Americans who ‘cling to God and guns’

Rep. Louie Gohmert: Constitution only fit for Americans who ‘cling to God and guns’

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) recently asserted that the U.S. Constitution only applied to people “who cling to their God and their guns.” Speaking at a rally in Iowa for Republican Senate candidate Sam Clovis on Friday, Gohmert recalled that he had…

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1920
  • Page 1921
  • Page 1922
  • Page 1923
  • Page 1924
  • …
  • Page 3076
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Omar Khayyam

“How many Kisses might it take:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:35

Juan Cole

Iran

How a US/Israeli Strike on Iran could Provoke a wider Conflict

Paul Rogers

Israel/ Palestine

Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arab-Islamic Culture in late Ottoman and British Palestine

Middle East Monitor

Featured

The Israeli Military’s Denial of the Gaza Death Toll was always to Shape Western News Reporting

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Harari deconstructs the Israeli Narrative from within
  • American Reich: Kristi Noem's DHS is the Department of Homeland Subjugation
  • Shooting Protesters from Minneapolis to Tehran
  • Iran regime: A Plato's Republic thought experiment gone too far?
  • Turning Point: Wind and Solar outstrip Fossil Fuels in Europe for First Time
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved