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

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

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

Juan Cole

The horrid Bill Maher and his guest Van Jones even guffawed about dead Gaza babies.

US military Action in Iran risks igniting a regional and global Nuclear Cascade

US military Action in Iran risks igniting a regional and global Nuclear Cascade

01/31/2026 By The Conversation

Dance and Music are potent forms of cultural Defiance in Palestine

Dance and Music are potent forms of cultural Defiance in Palestine

01/31/2026 By Waging Nonviolence

More Stories

Uncategorized
The World’s Super-Rich have Stashed $21 Trillion in Offshore Accounts (Mathiason)

The World’s Super-Rich have Stashed $21 Trillion in Offshore Accounts (Mathiason)

Nick Mathiason writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Investigative economist James Henry exhaustively trawled through financial information held by the IMF, World Bank, Bank […]

Juan Cole

art and photography
Egypt: Military Pulls the Strings (Tahrir Graffitti)

Egypt: Military Pulls the Strings (Tahrir Graffitti)

Photograph by Juan Cole of graffiti, Tahrir Square, mid-May 2012, showing the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces as the puppeteer of Egyptian politics. (Since […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Syrian Baath Escalates, Uses Jets to Bomb Aleppo

Syrian Baath Escalates, Uses Jets to Bomb Aleppo

When I was interviewed by the BBC last week about rebel advances in Damascus, I cautioned that putting some armed bands in some neighborhoods would […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Romney, and Aryan Racial Theory as a basis for Foreign Policy

Romney, and Aryan Racial Theory as a basis for Foreign Policy

I heard Mitt Romney’s tepid and unremarkable foreign policy speech, which had a lot of posturing but no substance, on Tuesday. I was taken aback […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Dear Fox Cable News: Muhammad Morsi is not the new Prime Minister of Egypt (I know you don’t really care, just sayin’)

Dear Fox Cable News: Muhammad Morsi is not the new Prime Minister of Egypt (I know you don’t really care, just sayin’)

Egypt’s president, Muhammad Morsi, appointed a new prime minister today, Hisham Qandil. Given that Fox Cable News spends its time falsifying video of president Obama […]

Juan Cole

art and photography
Zorah in a Yellow Robe (Matisse Painting)

Zorah in a Yellow Robe (Matisse Painting)

. Henri Matisse, Zorah: La Robe Jaune. Oil on Canvass. Morocco, 1912. Collection Cowles it has been argued that Matisse stepped back, on his first […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Cole Twitter, Facebook,, Email, Books (Repeat)

Cole Twitter, Facebook,, Email, Books (Repeat)

Some book keeping for new readers. Subscribe to postings by email here You can follow the blog via Twitter @jricole. The Facebook Informed Comment fan […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
The Three Lies Michele Bachmann Tells about American Muslims (Saunders)

The Three Lies Michele Bachmann Tells about American Muslims (Saunders)

Doug Saunders writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: The Three Myths About Muslims That Have Poisoned American Politics The attacks on two of […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (196) “I’m going to completely divorce reason and religion”

Omar Khayyam (196) “I’m going to completely divorce reason and religion”

I’m going to murder my grief               with a bottle                    of […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2156
  • Page 2157
  • Page 2158
  • Page 2159
  • Page 2160
  • …
  • Page 3075
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Omar Khayyam

“Once dead you never shall return:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:34

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis

Climate Change: 55 Weather Disasters costing a Billion Dollars Each hit our Earth the Past Year

Yale Climate Connections

Climate Crisis

Iran’s Biggest Centers of Protest also have Extreme Pollution and Water Shortages

The Conversation

Dissent

A Blood Bath Took Place in Iran

Fariba Amini

Popular

  • All the 15 Hottest Spots on Earth on Thursday were in Australia; Will it become Uninhabitable?
  • An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?
  • Trump Says Iran Wants To Talk As US Warships Arrive In Middle East Waters
  • The United States of Consumption: Drowning in Debt and . . . Waste
  • Fossil Fuels are Doomed -- and Trump can't Save them
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved