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

Saudis to invest Billions in Renewable Power in Turkiye, incl. 2 Gigs of New Solar
Climate Crisis

Saudis to invest Billions in Renewable Power in Turkiye, incl. 2 Gigs of New Solar

Juan Cole

Cheap solar and wind can replace imports of expensive and possibly unreliable fossil gas as well as imports of expensive and polluting black coal

Steadfast Resistance under Occupation from Minneapolis to Palestine

Steadfast Resistance under Occupation from Minneapolis to Palestine

02/09/2026 By Waging Nonviolence

Our Enduring Nuclear Nightmare: The End of New START

Our Enduring Nuclear Nightmare: The End of New START

02/09/2026 By Tomdispatch

More Stories

Israel/ Palestine
Brandeis U. Owes Jimmy Carter an Apology: Israelis agree they run Apartheid State, as Far Right Wing Coalition Emerges

Brandeis U. Owes Jimmy Carter an Apology: Israelis agree they run Apartheid State, as Far Right Wing Coalition Emerges

In 2007, Jimmy Carter’s book Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid created a firestorm of controversy. Brandeis University initially said it would only allow Carter to speak […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Tina Fey tells off Republicans Todd Akin, Joe Walsh and Richard Mourdock (Video)

Tina Fey tells off Republicans Todd Akin, Joe Walsh and Richard Mourdock (Video)

Comedian Tina Fey tells off the Republican candidates for the Senate and the House of Representatives as “gray-faced men with 2-dollar hair cuts” who are […]

Juan Cole

Drones
The United Nations will Investigate Civilian Deaths in US Drone Strikes

The United Nations will Investigate Civilian Deaths in US Drone Strikes

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism writes The United Nations plans to set up a special investigation unit examining claims of civilian deaths in individual US […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt President condemns Israeli Air Raids on Gaza

Egypt President condemns Israeli Air Raids on Gaza

Aljazeera Arabic is reporting on a speech by Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi on Wednesday evening Cairo time, in which the Muslim Brotherhood figure condemned Israeli […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Open Source Center Reports from Sept. 12 on Libya Consulate Attack Support Crowd Protests

Open Source Center Reports from Sept. 12 on Libya Consulate Attack Support Crowd Protests

Republican critics of the Obama administration’s evolving accounts of what happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 imply that there was early certainty in the […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Lesley Gore to Todd Akin, Joe Walsh and Richard Mourdock: "You Don't Own Me" (Video)

Lesley Gore to Todd Akin, Joe Walsh and Richard Mourdock: “You Don’t Own Me” (Video)

Given the rise of neo-patriarchy, especially in the Republican Party, which keeps trying to control women’s bodies and put women in their (subordinate place), Lesley […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Mourdock, Rape as a Gift of God, and Islamic Sharia

Mourdock, Rape as a Gift of God, and Islamic Sharia

Indiana candidate for the US Senate Richard Mourdock, who has been endorsed by Mitt Romney, has caused a stir by calling children conceived of rape […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
The Most Bloated Election in History (Engelhardt)

The Most Bloated Election in History (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com Democratic Mockpocalypse Obesity is an American plague — and no, I’m not talking about overweight Americans.  I’m talking about our […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Romney's Major Flip-Flops in the Third Debate

Romney’s Major Flip-Flops in the Third Debate

Gov. Mitt Romney continued his amazing chameleon act in the third presidential debate, apparently reversing several of his earlier talking points on foreign policy in […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2133
  • Page 2134
  • Page 2135
  • Page 2136
  • Page 2137
  • …
  • Page 3078
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Cities

Why Futuristic “Smart Cities” Like Saudi Arabia’s Neom are Destined to Fail

The Conversation

Featured

When Delay becomes Killing in Gaza: Wisdom from the Talmud

Shamai Leibowitz

Israel/ Palestine

How the Middle Powers Cynically left Gaza to be Genocided

Ramzy Baroud

Dissent

‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ hasn’t faded in Iran — it’s being actively eliminated

The Conversation

Popular

  • Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" Grift: Con of the Century
  • Why Futuristic "Smart Cities" Like Saudi Arabia's Neom are Destined to Fail
  • How the Middle Powers Cynically left Gaza to be Genocided
  • When Delay becomes Killing in Gaza: Wisdom from the Talmud
  • The Epstein Files: Blackmail and the Tantalizing Israeli Connection
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved