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

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

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

Juan Cole

China imported 389,000 barrels per day of Venezuelan oil in 2025, about 4% of its total

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

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

01/11/2026 By The Conversation

Thousands march in Minneapolis to protest ICE after Shooting

Thousands march in Minneapolis to protest ICE after Shooting

01/11/2026 By Minnesota Reformer

More Stories

Uncategorized
WTF? Ahmadinejad making Sense on Climate Change; Defends Nuclear Program as Alternative to Carbon Poisoning

WTF? Ahmadinejad making Sense on Climate Change; Defends Nuclear Program as Alternative to Carbon Poisoning

The USG Open Source Center translates Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at Copenhagen on consumerism, hydrocarbon imperialism, massive military budgets, and obscene profit-seeking as the […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
The Associated Press: Pakistan bans minister's travel after graft ruling

The Associated Press: Pakistan bans minister’s travel after graft ruling

The Associated Press: Pakistan bans minister's travel after graft ruling In summer-fall of 2007, the military dictatorship of Gen Pervez Musharraf was coming unravelled in […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Babylon’s last alcohol seller arrested

Babylon’s last alcohol seller arrested

AFP: Babylon's last alcohol seller arrested: family Paul Wolfowitz said that Iraqi Shiites would be better friends for the US than the Saudis because they […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
OSC: Fatwa against Poppies, China Moves in; Obstacles to Trade with Pakistan

OSC: Fatwa against Poppies, China Moves in; Obstacles to Trade with Pakistan

The USG Open Source Center rounds up Afghanistan Development News for November. Critics of the war often allege that only economic improvement will settle the […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
| Pakistan | President Zardari under pressure after NRO ruling

| Pakistan | President Zardari under pressure after NRO ruling

DAWN.COM | Pakistan | President Zardari under pressure after NRO ruling Pakistan’s Supreme Court declined to extend a martial law ordinance that granted amnesty to […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Pelosi says Obama must sell War; Contractor Surge in Afghanistan;

Pelosi says Obama must sell War; Contractor Surge in Afghanistan;

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says that it is up to President Obama to sell his troop surge to Democrats in Congress. Then she […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Bomber strikes at Khosa’s house in D.G. Khan

Bomber strikes at Khosa’s house in D.G. Khan

DAWN.COM | Provinces | Bomber strikes at Khosa’s house in D.G. Khan A suicide bomber failed to reach his target and instead blew up innocents […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Arrest warrant for Livni issued in London

Arrest warrant for Livni issued in London

FT.com / UK – Arrest warrant for Livni issued in London This incident is admittedly only a minor brouhaha, since former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
China wins struggle for Pipelinestan

China wins struggle for Pipelinestan

A common explanation for the US presence in Afghanistan is Washington’s interest in Central Asian fuel sources– natural gas in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and petroleum […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2365
  • Page 2366
  • Page 2367
  • Page 2368
  • Page 2369
  • …
  • Page 3068
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

Gaza: Six Reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging Conflict in the Middle East

Ramzy Baroud

Germany

Electric car Registrations in Germany rise by 43% in 2025, despite end of Subsidies

Clean Energy Wire

Colonialism

Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self

Juan Cole

nuclear weapons

An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

Michael T. Klare

Popular

  • Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self
  • Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report
  • Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts
  • Iran Protests have put the Country's Political System on Trial
  • Gaza: Six Reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging Conflict in the Middle East
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved