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

Trump’s War on Somalia: Bombings, Slashing Food Aid, Promoting Climate Change
Agriculture

Trump’s War on Somalia: Bombings, Slashing Food Aid, Promoting Climate Change

Juan Cole

Climate change is at least somewhat implicated in the social dislocations that fuel terrorism in Somalia

Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death

Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death

02/18/2026 By Middle East Monitor

The Apocalyptic President: The Personification of an Imperial Power (and Planet) in Decline

The Apocalyptic President: The Personification of an Imperial Power (and Planet) in Decline

02/18/2026 By Tom Engelhardt

More Stories

astronomy and outer space
Real-Life "Gravity:"  Space Repair Walk and NASA's Breakthroughs 2013

Real-Life “Gravity:” Space Repair Walk and NASA’s Breakthroughs 2013

CBS reports on today’s space walk by astronauts to repair the cooling system at the International Space Station: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration reports […]

Juan Cole

Drones
How many American Weddings would have to get hit by Drones before they were Banned?

How many American Weddings would have to get hit by Drones before they were Banned?

(By Tom Engelhardt) The headline — “Bride and Boom!” — was spectacular, if you think killing people in distant lands is a blast and a […]

contributors

Popular Culture
Video of the Day: Fox News wishes you 'Happy Holidays' (War on Christmas Fail)

Video of the Day: Fox News wishes you ‘Happy Holidays’ (War on Christmas Fail)

Cenk Uygur of Young Turks reports on Fox Cable News’ hypocrisy in hyping a mythical “war on Christmas” that allegedly involves forbidding the phrase “Merry […]

Juan Cole

art and photography
Sufi Center in Hama, Syria, c. 1900 (Photo of the Day)

Sufi Center in Hama, Syria, c. 1900 (Photo of the Day)

(From Gertrude Bell, Syria: The Desert and the Sown, 1908) Hama is a small, mainly Sunni Arab city in the center-west of Syria famed for […]

Juan Cole

Featured
Obama will Veto new Iran Sanctions, Israel War Mandate pushed by AIPAC Senators

Obama will Veto new Iran Sanctions, Israel War Mandate pushed by AIPAC Senators

(By Juan Cole) In his end-of-the-year press conference, President Obama had to defend his Iran negotiations in the face of a revolt within his own […]

Juan Cole

Erdogan expected to bounce back from corruption probe blow

Erdogan expected to bounce back from corruption probe blow

Turkish prime minister has been hurt by arrests of people close to him – and his government’s response – but his presidential prospects are still […]

News Aggregator

Europe Lawmakers Push Back on Circumcision

Europe Lawmakers Push Back on Circumcision

Encouraged by Israeli diplomats, parliamentarians from the Council of Europe have submitted a motion opposing an earlier resolution condemning ritual circumcision of boys. Click here […]

News Aggregator

Afghanistan
American Public: Invasion of Afghanistan a Mistake, Speed up Withdrawal

American Public: Invasion of Afghanistan a Mistake, Speed up Withdrawal

(By Sarah Lazare) More than twelve years after the initial invasion, U.S. public opinion of the so-called Good War in Afghanistan appears to be souring. […]

contributors

Human Rights
UN: A Million Palestinians will Need Food aid in Israel-blockaded Gaza Next Year

UN: A Million Palestinians will Need Food aid in Israel-blockaded Gaza Next Year

PressTv reports, “The UN says nearly a million Palestinians are expected to need food aid in the Gaza Strip next year” Their blurb: “About 800-thousand […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2001
  • Page 2002
  • Page 2003
  • Page 2004
  • Page 2005
  • …
  • Page 3081
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Donald Trump

From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

Middle East Monitor

Australasia

S. Australia Wholesale Electricity Prices fall 30% with Solar, Revealing Trump’s High-Cost Fossil Fuels Scam

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Who Fears the Truth? The Deep Fake Campaign to Silence Francesca Albanese on the Gaza Genocide

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine

The Disappearance of Palestine

John Feffer

Popular

  • S. Australia Wholesale Electricity Prices fall 30% with Solar, Revealing Trump's High-Cost Fossil Fuels Scam
  • Iran has more Options up its sleeve than Trump and Netanyahu Assume
  • Who Fears the Truth? The Deep Fake Campaign to Silence Francesca Albanese on the Gaza Genocide
  • The Disappearance of Palestine
  • How 3 local BDS campaigns won the divestment of millions in Israeli bonds
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved