Juan Cole: Cyberpunk Nation
How Donald Trump's America Is Being Hacked by White Nationalism.
Juan Cole: Israel Gives the Gaza Treatment to West Bank Camps, Expelling 40,000 Palestinians
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The BBC reports that Israeli forces have invaded three Palestinian refugee camps in the Palestinian West Bank — Jenin,…
Juan Cole: Palestinian Life Expectancy in Gaza Cut from 75.5 to 40.6 Years by Israeli Total War
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – An article just published in The Lancet by Prof Michel Guillot et al. found that the campaign against Gaza…
Juan Cole: UK Parliamentary Committee to British Gov.—Recognize Palestinian State for Sustainable Peace
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The British Parliament has the longest history of any parliament, since it was the first, so it has had…
Juan Cole: CBS’ 60 Minutes Exposes the Biden Administration’s Complicity in Gaza Genocide, Interviews the Whistleblowers
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The amazingly brave Cecilia Vega at CBS’ 60 Minutes did a groundbreaking segment on Sunday in which she interviewed…
Juan Cole: New Solar Installations Double to 24.5 Gigawatts in 2024 in India
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – India installed 24.5 new gigawatts of solar power in 2024, along with 3.4 gigawatts of new wind. That represented…
Juan Cole: Brazilian Judiciary Orders Investigation of Israeli Soldier-Tourist for War Crimes in Gaza
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – According to Junio Silva at the Brazilian newspaper Metrópoles , on December 31, Federal Judge Raquel Soares Charelli directed…
Juan Cole: Pope Francis — ‘I Think of Gaza, of so Much Cruelty; of the Children Machine-Gunned’
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…
Juan Cole: Why Iran can’t Stand up for the al-Assad Government and Russia isn’t Offering Air Support
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…
Juan Cole: How a Radical Fundamentalist take-over of Damascus could Change the Middle East
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…
Juan Cole: Morocco to Double Green Energy in Sahara in Anticipation of 2030 World Cup
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…
China Opens World’s Largest Offshore Solar Power Facility, as US Falls Further Behind
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…