Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • 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

California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives
Bill of Rights

California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives

H. Scott Prosterman

Efforts to legally declare any criticism of Israeli policy to be sanctionable anti-Semitism have reached a crisis point

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

01/13/2026 By Human Rights Watch

How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

01/13/2026 By The Conversation

More Stories

Uncategorized
Sunday’s Recommended Reading

Sunday’s Recommended Reading

(Still getting used to this new plugin. If the link is truncated below, just click on the tweet’s author or the hashtag & it should […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Top Ten ways Corporate Food is Making us Fat and threatening our Food Supplies

Top Ten ways Corporate Food is Making us Fat and threatening our Food Supplies

While it is much better than the fascisms of the Right and the Left, one of the big drawbacks of corporate democracy is that the […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Benghazi & Libya Developments

Benghazi & Libya Developments

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Tweets of the  Day (Updated)

Tweets of the Day (Updated)

Juan Cole

Libya
‘Free Libya’ Crowds in Benghazi rally against Militias, Drive al-Qaeda out of City

‘Free Libya’ Crowds in Benghazi rally against Militias, Drive al-Qaeda out of City

The attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 was seen by many observers as a sign of Libyan radicalism or instability […]

Juan Cole

Drones
Are Judges finally Standing up to Secretive Drone Assassinations? (Searle)

Are Judges finally Standing up to Secretive Drone Assassinations? (Searle)

Jack Searle writes at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Three federal appeal court judges greeted US government efforts to block the release of information on […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Tunisian Muslim Leader Warns of Dangers of Violent Fundamentalism

Tunisian Muslim Leader Warns of Dangers of Violent Fundamentalism

As the Tunisian Ministry of the Interior announced that no demonstrations would be permitted on Friday, the Muslim leader Rached Ghanoushi warned of the dangers […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Heartbeats around the World (Video)

Heartbeats around the World (Video)

“Engage: A Cloud-Sourced Film, or, “Heartbeats around the World”:

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife and Sacred History from Judaism to Islam

The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife and Sacred History from Judaism to Islam

The Harvard Magazine gives a full account of the deciphering by Professor Karen L. King of a fragmentary Coptic fragment on papyrus from the otherwise […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2135
  • Page 2136
  • Page 2137
  • Page 2138
  • Page 2139
  • …
  • Page 3068
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Donald Trump

Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine

Richard Drake

Donald Trump

Looking Back on a Low, Dishonest Decade

Rebecca Gordon

China

Could Trump’s Diversion of Venezuelan Oil to US Save the Iranian Regime?

Juan Cole

Dissent

‘Neither Gaza nor Lebanon!’ Iranian Unrest is about more than the Economy

The Conversation

Popular

  • Could Trump's Diversion of Venezuelan Oil to US Save the Iranian Regime?
  • ‘Neither Gaza nor Lebanon!’ Iranian Unrest is about more than the Economy
  • Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts
  • Gaza: Six Reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging Conflict in the Middle East
  • Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be able to Celebrate its 47th Anniversary?
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved