Arizona Dems End GOP Sweetheart Saudi Deal
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Arizona state government of Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs and Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes are terminating the license…
Libya’s Climate Disaster Shows We Can’t Afford Erratic Leaders Like Trump and Haftar Anymore
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – For the past two weeks the Mediterranean has been reeling from the massive devastation wrought regionally by Hurricane Daniel,…
Israeli Minister Eliyahu: The Palestinians Aren’t Under Apartheid, They’re Just in a Prison Camp
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Other members of the the extremist Jewish Power Party are adding fuel to the firestorm that broke out last…
58% Depressed: The Racism of Israel’s Apartheid Regime Toward Palestinians Shows in Their Mental Health
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – While the Democrats in Washington, D.C. conduct a bizarre debate about whether Israel is a racist state, The World…
Israel Moves Toward ‘Dictatorship’ and Polarization
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the eve of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s controversial visit to the United States, which several members of Congress…
Is Turkey Abandoning Russia to Turn Back Toward the West?
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Given the decisions announced by Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, some have speculated…
Iraq’s Climate Crisis
America's War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl.
On This 4th of July We Need to Declare a War of Independence From Fossil Fuels and Climate Change
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, kicked off the Revolutionary War in earnest, which the Continental Army…
The Biden Effect: Electric Vehicle Sales Skyrocket 79% in US in Q1
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Laws have consequences. The Inflation Reduction Act passed by the Biden administration and the Democrats in Congress (with no…
The Limits of Saudi Normalization With Israel
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration is devoting what energy the State Department has aside from the effort to defend Ukraine to…
Israeli Extremists Storm al-Aqsa Mosque Complex
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that dozens of Israeli squatters, with Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir at…
China and the Axis of the Sanctioned
How America's divide-and-rule strategy in the middle east backfired.
Lula is Right — The UN Security Council Can’t Resolve Major Conflicts
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made a state visit to Portugal and Spain last week. He was…
5 Other Modern Presidents Who Should Have Been Indicted for Their Crimes
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Seeing Trump arraigned in New York on Tuesday was satisfying even if the outcome of the trial cannot be…
Trump and the Triviality of Evil
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A New York Grand Jury empaneled by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has indicted the former president, Donald John…