Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Award winning journalist,Trudy Lieberman, a former president of the Association of Health Care Journalists, alerts us that it is now “open-enrollment season – the yearly grand bazaar when insurers and agents for them hawk Medicare Advantage plans – which just opened for coverage starting January 1, 2026. Lieberman […]
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Archives for 2025
How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East
By Farinaz Basmechi, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa (The Conversation) – Last month marked the third anniversary of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, an uprising that has been described as the country’s most significant movement since the establishment of the Islamic Republic. Though authoritarian powers and patriarchal systems continue to oppress, women journalists in […]
What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This year 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Vietnam from the “American War.” The war officially ended in 1973 but the remaining Americans fled South Vietnam in chaotic air and sea lifts two years later as North Vietnam forces invaded to unite their country. […]
“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23
The grimness of the teaching, that life is short is leavened by lighthearted advice to enjoy yourself while you can
Samhain, the Celtic New Year, and Halloween
Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Celts, who lived about 3,000 years ago in an area which is now Gaul (France), Ireland, Wales, Scotland, England & Brittany, celebrated their new year during the Lunar calendar, around the 1st week of November, but it is now generally known as the eve of November […]
Socialism or Barbarism: Reviving the History of the American Left
By Eric Ross | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – More than a century ago, from a Berlin prison cell where she was confined for her uncompromising opposition to the slaughter of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg warned, “Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.” Her diagnosis remains […]
Hurricane Melissa was 33% more Destructive in Jamaica because of People-Caused Climate Breakdown
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hurricane Melissa is the most devastating storm to hit Jamaica in recorded history, CNN reports. It rapidly intensified over the past few days, with its winds reaching 185 miles per hour at the time of landfall. This intensification is a feature of hot water, and the Caribbean in that area […]
Sudan Mass Atrocities in Captured Darfur City: Rampant Abuse of Fleeing Civilians by RSF
Human Rights Watch – (Nairobi) – Dozens of videos posted on social media in recent days show Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carrying out extrajudicial killings and other serious violations against people fleeing North Darfur’s capital, El Fasher, Human Rights Watch said today. Thousands of people are leaving following the RSF takeover of the city on October 26, 2025. […]
The Int’l Court of Justice Demands Israel let UN Aid Flow into Gaza, but to what Avail?
By Ben L Murphy, University of Liverpool (The Conversation) – The UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), demanded that Israel allow aid into Gaza in an advisory opinion on October 22. It held that Israel is in breach of its obligations as a UN member state by having failed to do so […]
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