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

How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied
Donald Trump

How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied

Juan Cole

Occupied people do not have rights, and they do not even have the right to have rights. They are lesser.

Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

01/25/2026 By The Conversation

Aid by permission: How Israel’s NGO ban is reshaping life and survival in Gaza

Aid by permission: How Israel’s NGO ban is reshaping life and survival in Gaza

01/25/2026 By Prism

More Stories

Egypt
One to Go

One to Go

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Tunisia), Ali Abdullah Saleh (Yemen), Muammar Qadhafi (Libya), Hosni Mubarak (Egypt); from: VOA report on Afro-Arab summit, October 10, 2010, […]

Juan Cole

Yemen
Was there a Yemeni Revolution?

Was there a Yemeni Revolution?

Aljazeera Arabic is reporting that later in the day Sunday, clashes between armed groups of pro-Saleh and anti-Saleh gunmen broke out in the capital, where […]

Juan Cole

Yemen
Yemen's Saleh Narrowly Avoids Death, Civil war Looms

Yemen’s Saleh Narrowly Avoids Death, Civil war Looms

Yemeni president for life Ali Abdullah Saleh nearly reached the end of his term on Friday, when rockets slammed into the mosque where he was […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Libya Rebels take Key Western Mountains, Train Women Fighters

Libya Rebels take Key Western Mountains, Train Women Fighters

The Free Libya forces centered at Benghazi are turning out to have a vivid political imagination. For instance, they are training female soldiers for the […]

Juan Cole

Bahrain
Top Struggles in the Arab Spring Today

Top Struggles in the Arab Spring Today

The Arab Spring began with peaceful protests in Tunis, Cairo, Alexandria, and elsewhere in the region, with masses of demonstrators giving their elites a choice […]

Juan Cole

art and photography
US Should Move Navy Base from Bahrain

US Should Move Navy Base from Bahrain

In the wake of the brutal crackdown by the monarchy of Bahrain on the largely peaceful protest movement this winter and spring, the United States […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Carbon Emissions Record, Food to Double in Price

Carbon Emissions Record, Food to Double in Price

It is hard to decide which is the worst news in the International Energy Agency’s new study. The central piece of bad news is that […]

Juan Cole

Yemen
Yemen in Flames

Yemen in Flames

The political situation in Yemen continued to deteriorate on Tuesday. Since Sunday, 50 protesters have been killed by troops and security forces in the country’s […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Time to Begin Leaving Afghanistan

Time to Begin Leaving Afghanistan

Memorial Day, in my view, should be a time of reflection not only on the sacrifices made for the nation in war but on whether […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2255
  • Page 2256
  • Page 2257
  • Page 2258
  • Page 2259
  • …
  • Page 3072
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

African-Americans

Dr. King would be Standing beside All Who are now Standing up for Our Democracy

Mitchell Zimmerman

censorship

Protesting the Unprecedented Lethal State Violence against Protests by the Islamic Republic of Iran

Committee on Academic Freedom

Donald Trump

Trump’s Comic Book Foreign Policy

Alfred W. McCoy

China

Largest Offshore Solar Farm (1 GW) in World Goes 100% Live off China Coast

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Greenland Defense Front - The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video)
  • Why Ending Republican Control Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership
  • Old Bonespurs Spits on Graves of European NATO Soldiers who gave Lives for US in Afghanistan
  • Iraqi Gov't Agrees with US to Take Custody of 7,000 ISIL Fighters in Light of Syrian Instability
  • Is Netanyahu the Trojan Horse in Trump's "Board of Peace" for Gaza?
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved