The Hormuz Energy Crisis becomes the Red Sea Crisis (Juan Cole and Ian Masters)
Juan Cole Informed Comment My interview with Ian Masters is at his Background Briefing Background Briefing with Ian Masters · July 30, 2026 – Juan Cole | Larry Tye |…
Amid Hormuz Crisis, China plans 50% Increase in Green Energy by 2030
Juan Cole Informed Comment Al Jazeera reports that China is attempting to accelerate its already impressive green energy revolution in the face of the disruption of petroleum and natural gas…
Hormuz, Mandeb, Black Sea: Wars and Diesel Chokepoints Spike World Inflation
Juan Cole Informed Comment The Iran War will erode the purchasing power of American consumers this summer, according to CNBC, especially because of high diesel prices. That projection helps explain…
Iran’s Kuwait Water Plant Strike: Oil Prices and Trans-regional War
Juan Cole Informed Comment In response to the renewed American bombing of southeastern Iran ports and facilities, including civilian infrastructure, the Iranian military responded Saturday with attacks on US bases…
At Khamenei’s Funeral, Public Censure of Talks with US
Juan Cole Informed Comment The multi-day funeral ceremonies for the assassinated leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ended this past week with four stages. On Monday, enormous crowds staged a…
Confronting the Palestine Exception of the American Historical Association
Juan Cole Statement by US Scholars Speak: Amid pivotal elections underway, a growing coalition of historians are demanding accountability for war crimes in Gaza and election interference at the oldest…
Iran: Progress on Sanctions Relief at Swiss Talks with US
Juan Cole Fars News reported on comments by Iranian negotiator Hossein Ghorbanzadeh about the course of the talks on Sunday at the Burgenstock Resort near Lucerne, Switzerland. He indicated that…
Hegseth Compares D-Day Troops to Europe’s Migrants
Juan Cole Informed Comment Whiskey Pete Hegseth, speaking 82 years after the Allied storming of the beaches of Nazi-occupied France, appears to have sided with . . . the Nazis.…
Hormuz Jolts S. Korea to Grow Wind&Solar 3X by 2030 to 100 GW
Juan Cole for Informed Comment South Korea, the world’s 13th largest economy, spends more of its gross domestic product to import fossil fuels than almost any other country on earth,…
Trump blasts Netanyahu as Iran Talks Stall over Beirut
Juan Cole Informed Comment Monday began with a statement issued by the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs cautioning that the United States and Israel, by their egregious violations of the…
Hormuz Crisis hits Asia and Africa Hard, Spurs EV Buying
Juan Cole Informed Comment The release of massive strategic petroleum reserves in the US, China and Europe, along with austerity measures around the world, have kept the Hormuz crisis from…
South Lebanon’s History of Resistance
Juan Cole for Informed Comment The Israeli destruction of south Lebanon, with Bint Jbeil having been apparently wiped off the face of the earth, and some of Nabatieh in ruins…