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…
China exports 68 GW of Solar PV amid Hormuz Energy Crisis
Juan Cole Informed Comment The Ember energy think tank reports the numbers for China’s green energy exports this spring and they are mind-blowing. The Hormuz energy crisis is having predictable…
How America’s Addiction to War led to Self-Harm
Hugh J. Curran In a recent interview on CBC, Timothy Snyder, an historian at the University of Toronto, noted that the U.S. is in “a catastrophic self-destructive mode”. The war…
Michigan Prof’s Only Offense: Humanizing Palestinians
Shamai Leibowitz Informed Comment I am a Jewish American-Israeli, and a veteran of the IDF. But according to the University of Michigan administration, I am someone who needs to be…
Netanyahu’s Hezbollah War Masks a Mission of Destruction
Robin Andersen Informed Comment As Israel destroys villages in Southern Lebanon committing crimes of war, US media use the same Gaza genocide playbook. Hezbollah is simply being substituted for Hamas.…
The Plague of Plastic: The Other Petroleum Curse
H. Patricia Hynes for Informed Comment Microplastics, those miniscule particles smaller than 5 millimeters which plastics physically break down into, have now infiltrated every part of the planet – from…
Putin to Iran: You Are Fighting Courageously for Independence and Sovereignty
Juan Cole for Informed Comment Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met on Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg for 90 minutes as part of his attempt to…
A Quicksand Feeling: How Iraq Has Been Roiled By The Israel-US War on Iran
Alex Poppe for Informed Comment I taught at an international school in Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq from 2011 to 2013. I returned to the Kurdish region to teach at a university…
Surging Gas Prices & Oil Wars of US-Israel, Iran, Kuwait
Juan Cole Informed Comment On Saturday morning the US and/ or Israel attacked the Khuzestan Petrochemical Special Economic Zone at Mahshahr and several other petrochemical sites around Ahvaz, a city…
A View From Tehran: War Caused A New Kind Of Stability
Peiman Salehi Informed Comment In Tehran, the expected signs of wartime breakdown are largely absent. The conventional logic of war tends to follow a simple assumption: sustained external pressure leads…