By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the Sunday before Christmas, Pope Francis said, “May the weapons be silenced and Christmas carols resound!” according to…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment At the Versailles Peace Conference after the war and more specifically at its San Remo satellite conference, Britain was awarded a League of Nations…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The strategic situation in Syria is dire for the Baathist government of Bashar al-Assad. Typically in military history, if…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The collapse of the Baathist government of Syria in the north of the country, as the al-Qaeda affiliate HTS…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The World Cup, disputed territory and green energy are three of the things that increasingly make the world go…
If there is a will to use them to cut carbon dioxide production, as there is in China, then places will be found to put them — as China is…
By Juan Cole / TomDispatch President Joe Biden has now joined the ranks of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush as a president whose Middle East policy crashed and burned…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations is again warning of imminent famine in northern Gaza. A panel of the Integrated Food Security…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bill Clinton is a Rhodes scholar and a voracious reader. He is not a stupid man. He is, however,…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ta-Nehisi Coates made the argument for US reparations for slavery in 2014 in The Atlantic. In that essay, he…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The limited strikes on Iran carried out by Israeli fighter-jets early on Saturday morning Tehran time above all demonstrated…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli military has begun giving southern Lebanon the Gaza treatment. Some 25% of Lebanese are under “evacuation orders,”…
The Jordanian foreign ministry on Thursday condemned the remarks by Smotrich as a “reflection of religious fanaticism.”
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a radio interview with France Inter on Saturday, French president Emmanuel Macron called for an arms embargo against…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli assassination of Hassan Nasrallah has implications for the struggle of Iran and its alliance of resistance against…
