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

Was Colonialism a Crime?  Algerian Parliament Criminalizes 130 Years of French Rule
Algeria

Was Colonialism a Crime? Algerian Parliament Criminalizes 130 Years of French Rule

Juan Cole

Bennoune He wrote not only of innumerable massacres by French commanders of local populations but also of a vast transfer of landed wealth

Juan Cole Fundraiser
DONATED:$24,295
SUPPORTERS:300
TARGET:$30,000
REMAINING:$5,705
West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology

West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology

12/26/2025 By The Conversation

From Steamships to Sovereignty: How Iraq’s old Arteries challenge modern Myths

From Steamships to Sovereignty: How Iraq’s old Arteries challenge modern Myths

12/26/2025 By Ibrahim Al-Marashi

More Stories

Uncategorized
5 Us Troops At Least 9 Iraqis Dead

5 Us Troops At Least 9 Iraqis Dead

5 US Troops, at least 9 Iraqis Dead Violence up 36 Percent in Iraq The incidents of violence on Friday and Saturday in Iraq that […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Two Faces Of Bush This Graphic Is Part

Two Faces Of Bush This Graphic Is Part

Two Faces of Bush This graphic is part of a new Democratic Party initiative to focus on the “two-facedness” of George W. Bush, which is […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Us Assault On Ramadi Rockets In

Us Assault On Ramadi Rockets In

US Assault on Ramadi Rockets in Baghdad Kill 4 Sadrists, AMS threaten Fresh Uprisings President George W. Bush cited a poll done in June and […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Of Iron Fists And Oil Sabotage Marine

Of Iron Fists And Oil Sabotage Marine

Of Iron Fists and Oil Sabotage Marine Killed in Anbar Guerrillas in Anbar Province killed a Marine on Thursday. US forces clashed with guerrillas in […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Violence Allawi Sistani And Elections

Violence Allawi Sistani And Elections

Violence, Allawi, Sistani and Elections Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani continues to be concerned as to whether elections will be held in January in Iraq, and […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Iraq Violence Kills At Least 24 Wounds

Iraq Violence Kills At Least 24 Wounds

Iraq Violence Kills at Least 24, Wounds over 100 Sistani Criticizes Election Plans The guerrilla war and American military assertiveness together wrought havoc in several […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Cat Stevens Deported I Know That It Is

Cat Stevens Deported I Know That It Is

Cat Stevens Deported I know that it is faintly ridiculous that Cat Stevens a.k.a. Yusuf Islam was deported on Wednesday from the US after the […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
If America Were Iraq What Would It Be

If America Were Iraq What Would It Be

If America were Iraq, What would it be Like? President Bush said Tuesday that the Iraqis are refuting the pessimists and implied that things are […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Western Press On Religious Violence In

Western Press On Religious Violence In

The Western Press on Religious Violence in Iraq Howard LaFranchi of the Christian Science Monitor gives further, searching consideration to the mysterious murder of clerics […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2841
  • Page 2842
  • Page 2843
  • Page 2844
  • Page 2845
  • …
  • Page 3062
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Iran

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

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis

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

The Conversation

Donald Trump

The “President of Peace” Prepares for War: The Donroe Doctrine Hits Home

William D. Hartung

Featured

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

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Why Stop with the Kennedy Center? Cabinet Officials add Hyphenated -Trump to their Names
  • Global South is now 1/3 of major EV Markets, Leaving US in the Dust
  • California's New Law Outlawing Criticism of Israel Quashes Academic Freedom, Criminalizes Teachers
  • For Christmas: Jesus' Life-Giving Breath and Persian Love Poetry
  • What World was Jesus born into? A Historian describes the turbulent Times of the real Nativity
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved