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

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

California’s New Law Outlawing Criticism of Israel Quashes Academic Freedom, Criminalizes Teachers
Academic Freedom

California’s New Law Outlawing Criticism of Israel Quashes Academic Freedom, Criminalizes Teachers

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A California District Court hearing on was held on Wednesday, December 17, over an injunction sought by […]

Juan Cole Fundraiser
DONATED:$23,661
SUPPORTERS:293
TARGET:$30,000
REMAINING:$6,339
“Another Cup to Drown the Memory:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:30

“Another Cup to Drown the Memory:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:30

12/22/2025 By Juan Cole

Climate Breakdown: Even “Weak” Cyclones cause Fatal Flooding as Oceans Heat Up

Climate Breakdown: Even “Weak” Cyclones cause Fatal Flooding as Oceans Heat Up

12/22/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Uncategorized
Top Ten Horrible Things done to Us by Outgoing Sen. Joe Lieberman

Top Ten Horrible Things done to Us by Outgoing Sen. Joe Lieberman

Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) announced Tuesday that he would not seek reelection in 2012, and progressive Americans breathed a sigh of collective relief. It is […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
Juan Cole: Tunisia Uprising "Spearheaded by Labor Movements, by Internet Activists, by Rural Workers; It’s a Populist Revolution" (Democracy Now!)

Juan Cole: Tunisia Uprising “Spearheaded by Labor Movements, by Internet Activists, by Rural Workers; It’s a Populist Revolution” (Democracy Now!)

My interview on Tunisia on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now!, which aired on Tuesday, is on the Web. A transcript is here. Here is the YouTube […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
Tunisian Revolution Shakes, Inspires Middle East – Cole in Truthdig

Tunisian Revolution Shakes, Inspires Middle East – Cole in Truthdig

My column is out at Truthdig on the wider repercussions in the Middle East of the Tunisian events, “Tunisian Revolution Shakes, Inspires Middle East”. Excerpt: […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
No News is Good News (for Them)

No News is Good News (for Them)

Does anyone doubt that if Tunisia’s president had been overthrown by an Islamic Revolution, there would have been 24/7 coverage of it in US media? […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
New Tunisian Government Declares Total Liberty of Information, as the Opposition Demands more Change

New Tunisian Government Declares Total Liberty of Information, as the Opposition Demands more Change

The Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) managed to remain in control of Tunisia on Monday, with Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi announcing a national unity government in […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
King on Guns, War and Non-Violence as a Social Movement

King on Guns, War and Non-Violence as a Social Movement

‘ I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality. ‘ – Martin Luther King, Jr. ‘ All history teaches us […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
New Wikileaks: US Knew Tunisian Gov. Rotten Corrupt, Supported Ben Ali Anyway

New Wikileaks: US Knew Tunisian Gov. Rotten Corrupt, Supported Ben Ali Anyway

The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten released a series of US diplomatic cables from 2006 on massive and pervasive corruption and nepotism in Tunisia and its effect […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
Tunisia:  Government of National Unity or Tanks in the Street?

Tunisia: Government of National Unity or Tanks in the Street?

The video on Aljazeera shows Tunis as a war zone on Saturday afternoon, with burned out vehicles in the streets and heavy black smoke floating […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
Tunisia between Democracy and Anarchy

Tunisia between Democracy and Anarchy

Tunisians woke Saturday morning to delirious joy at the advent of political liberty, but many worried about the simultaneous advent of social anarchy. The fall […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2273
  • Page 2274
  • Page 2275
  • Page 2276
  • Page 2277
  • …
  • Page 3061
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Featured

Israel: Polling suggests Extreme-Right Netanyahu Coalition in Trouble, as Tens of Thousands Protest

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Palestine solidarity in Ukraine is all about shared experiences

Waging Nonviolence

Biodiversity

“I don’t see Palestine as an isolated story”

Global Voices

Featured

UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Israel: Polling suggests Extreme-Right Netanyahu Coalition in Trouble, as Tens of Thousands Protest
  • California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries
  • "We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:" World's Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months
  • UN's IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia
  • From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved