By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The 2025 “World Happiness Report,” produced by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, powered by Gallup…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ashraf al-Hur reports at al-Quds al-`Arabi that the extremist government in Israel has escalated its military attacks on the…
How Donald Trump's America Is Being Hacked by White Nationalism.
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…
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…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The word of the year was certainly “genocide.” It was alleged of Israel’s Gaza campaign by South Africa in…
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…
"What's been done to the Palestinians is considered extremely unfair by almost everybody in the world, outside of Western Europe and the United States."
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) – 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,”…
