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

Neocon Nightmare: Americans Flee Iraq as US Embassy is Hit and Oil Ports are Closed
Featured

Neocon Nightmare: Americans Flee Iraq as US Embassy is Hit and Oil Ports are Closed

Juan Cole

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shi’a al-Sudani on Wednesday called up Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian and condemned Trump’s “unjust war”

Dahiyeh: the Beirut Suburb at the Heart of a Deadly Israeli Military Doctrine

Dahiyeh: the Beirut Suburb at the Heart of a Deadly Israeli Military Doctrine

03/15/2026 By The Conversation

As Hell Rains Down on Iran, Western Media averts its Gaze

As Hell Rains Down on Iran, Western Media averts its Gaze

03/15/2026 By Truthdig

More Stories

Bahrain
US Ally Bahrain's Courts are Corrupt, in service of Injustice

US Ally Bahrain’s Courts are Corrupt, in service of Injustice

Human Rights Watch A police officer in Bahrain who kills a protester in cold blood or beats a detainee to death might face a sentence […]

contributors

Democracy
Press Freedom is the Issue, not Glenn Greenwald's Personality

Press Freedom is the Issue, not Glenn Greenwald’s Personality

By Barry Eisler via Freedom of the Press Foundation: One of the most fascinating aspects of Glenn Greenwald’s journalism is the way it provokes various […]

contributors

Bush
Bush-Cheney Committed War Crimes: Terrorism Czar

Bush-Cheney Committed War Crimes: Terrorism Czar

Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! has an exclusive interview: ” Exclusive: Bush Committed War Crimes Says Ex-Counterterrorism Czar Richard Clarke” Excerpt: Amy Goodman: “Do you think […]

contributors

Crime
Not Snowden but *Keith Alexander*: Hero or Traitor (the debate we should be having)

Not Snowden but *Keith Alexander*: Hero or Traitor (the debate we should be having)

By Juan Cole NBC News’s Brian Williams interviewed Edward Snowden in Moscow on Wednesday night. But then Mr. Williams followed it up with a panel […]

Juan Cole

Guatemala Town Threatens to Expel Jews

Guatemala Town Threatens to Expel Jews

A town in Guatemala has asked its Jewish residents to register with the municipality and warned that they face expulsion. Click here for the rest […]

News Aggregator

African-Americans
Maya Angelou: 'Still I Rise' (video)

Maya Angelou: ‘Still I Rise’ (video)

Poet Maya Angelou dies at 86. Maya Angelou reads ‘Still I Rise’

contributors

Climate Change
Rapid climate changes deadlier than asteroid impacts in Earth’s past

Rapid climate changes deadlier than asteroid impacts in Earth’s past

Posted on 27 May 2014 by howardlee The link between rapid climate changes and mass extinctions has been strengthened in a recent paper by Jourdan et al in “Geology.” The authors demonstrate that the extraordinarily huge volcanic eruptions of the…

contributors

China
The NSA Effect:  China tells its banks to remove IBM servers as Spyware

The NSA Effect: China tells its banks to remove IBM servers as Spyware

THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT has urged its banks to stop using servers built by IBM because it believes that they might be used for espionage. According to unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg, the People’s Bank of China and the Chinese Ministry of Finance…

contributors

Constitution
"Joe the Plumber": "Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights."

“Joe the Plumber”: “Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights.”

“Joe the Plumber”: “Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights.” (via The Political Carnival) “Joe the Plumber” (Sam Wurzelbacher, the not-plumber), wrote the following […]

contributors

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1921
  • Page 1922
  • Page 1923
  • Page 1924
  • Page 1925
  • …
  • Page 3089
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Donald Trump

The Loneliness Epidemic in Trump’s America, and How Communities are Forming

Tomdispatch

Iran

Iranian-Americans Want Diplomacy to Triumph over War – NIAC

contributors

Climate Crisis

The Unexpected Winner of the Iran War? Green Energy in Asia and Europe

Neil Thompson

Human Rights

Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Using White Phosphorus (HRW)

Human Rights Watch

Popular

  • "Iran Will Decide When this Ends:" Juan Cole on Sam Seder's "Majority Report"
  • Iran's Samson Option: Gulf Oil Reprisals for Kharg would Crash the World Economy
  • "The Horror! The Horror:" Trump and the White Man's Burden Redux
  • From Gaza to Lebanon and Iran: The Normalization of Atrocity
  • Iran War and Bible Prophecy: Some Conservative Christians See End-Time Omens
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved