Juan Cole Informed Comment President Trump on Sunday warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to stop striking at Russian diesel refineries. While these Ukrainian strikes have had an impact on global…
Juan Cole Informed Comment The 19th century American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan stressed that a great maritime empire needn’t control the seas but rather must establish dominance over what…
Juan Cole Informed Comment Academics For Peace on Instagram posted my video for Historians for Peace and Democracy, protesting the refusal of the Council of the American Historical Association to…
Juan Cole Informed Coment On Friday, the UN General Assembly, in a non-binding resolution, voted almost unanimously for the adoption of maps that show the true size of Africa rather…
Juan Cole Informed Comment The Trump administration continues to fire on civilian Iranian targets in a campaign that has intensified in the first week of September, after a relatively quiet…
Juan Cole Informed Comment The UN Environmental Programme has issued a new report that admits that the world will almost certainly exceed the Paris Treaty goal of limiting global heating…
Juan Cole Informed Comment A new University of Massachusetts-Amherst opinion poll, conducted August 21 – 26, finds profound American disillusionment with President Trump, with his Iran War, and with its…
Juan Cole Informed Comment The military front in the US war on Iran had been quiet in August, but on Sunday the US launched missile attacks on Larak island in…
Juan Cole Informed Comment The Israeli-US war on Iran, initiated six months ago, cost consumers around the world a jaw-dropping $330 billion in extra petroleum and fossil gas import costs…
Juan Cole Informed Comment Climate change devastated towns and villages of Nepal on August 26 with enormous flash floods that were produced by a melting glacier. The size, speed and…
Juan Cole Informed Comment President Prabowo Subianto of Indonesia has just announced a plan to halt all imports of petroleum and liquefied natural gas within three years. He said, “We…
Juan Cole Informed Comment The Turkish government has become an ever greater thorn in the side of the expansionist, far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. On Friday, Turkish Justice…
Juan Cole Informed Comment Diesel prices are high in many markets around the world, but we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Energy analyst Ron Bousso at Reuters warns that the Hormuz…
Juan Cole Informed Comment The new Mecca Defense Pact signed by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signals a regional response to the new insecurity in the region provoked by the…
Juan Cole Informed Comment Hafiz Rasheed at The New Republic writes that the Democratic senatorial candidate for Michigan, Abdulrahman “Abdul” El Sayed, faced a barrage of racist attacks as soon…
