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Beware of Health Insurance Companies Bearing Gifts
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Beware of Health Insurance Companies Bearing Gifts

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When it comes to Medicare Advantage,“beware of health insurance companies bearing gifts”, just like “beware of Greeks […]

Can the Arab League’s Break with Hamas Shift the Course of History?

Can the Arab League’s Break with Hamas Shift the Course of History?

08/19/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

‘There’s no such Thing as someone else’s Children’ – Omar El Akkad bears witness to the Destruction of Gaza and the West’s quiet Assent

‘There’s no such Thing as someone else’s Children’ – Omar El Akkad bears witness to the Destruction of Gaza and the West’s quiet Assent

08/19/2025 By The Conversation

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A Second Palestine? Neo-Ottoman “Sultan” Erdogan Captures Syria’s Kurdish Enclave of Afrin

A Second Palestine? Neo-Ottoman “Sultan” Erdogan Captures Syria’s Kurdish Enclave of Afrin

By Dr. Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkey’s capture of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria has added a new […]

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China
China met Carbon Intensity Goals 3 Years Early, but it Isn't Nearly Enough

China met Carbon Intensity Goals 3 Years Early, but it Isn’t Nearly Enough

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I am not a fundamentalist in any other area of life. But I am a carbon […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Egypt's Electoral Farce: Polls show Al-Sisi lacks legitimacy & gov't is Unstable

Egypt’s Electoral Farce: Polls show Al-Sisi lacks legitimacy & gov’t is Unstable

By Pamela Abbott & Andrea Teti | (The Conversation) | – – Egyptians are voting in presidential elections on March 26-28. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who […]

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Internet
Facebook Deletes Gaza-Based  Safa News, which had 1.3 mn Followers

Facebook Deletes Gaza-Based Safa News, which had 1.3 mn Followers

this year alone 500 pages of Palestinian journalists, activists and bloggers have been deleted

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Donald Trump
All Donald, All the Time: America's Ruin as Spectacle

All Donald, All the Time: America’s Ruin as Spectacle

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – A record? Come on! Don’t minimize what’s happening. It’s far too unique, too unprecedented even […]

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China
Could China oil Exchange & Green Energy pull the plug on the Dollar?

Could China oil Exchange & Green Energy pull the plug on the Dollar?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Kate Duguid at Reuters reports the alarm at UBS that China’s new oil futures exchange will […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestine: 17% increase in Israel’s squatter settlements under Trump

Palestine: 17% increase in Israel’s squatter settlements under Trump

Middle East Monitor | – – Construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank surged 17 per cent during the first year of US President […]

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Saudi Arabia
Yemen: Thousands Protest 3 Years of West-backed Saudi War

Yemen: Thousands Protest 3 Years of West-backed Saudi War

TeleSur | – – in Since the military offensive began 10,000 people have been killed, and 53,000 wounded. In Yemen‘s capital Sanaa, tens of thousands […]

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Donald Trump
Trumpism: Why having US Ambassadors in 1/3 of Countries & Spec Ops in 3/4s is Bad

Trumpism: Why having US Ambassadors in 1/3 of Countries & Spec Ops in 3/4s is Bad

Monica Duffy Toft | (The Conversation) | – – A strong legacy of U.S. leadership and engagement in global politics has been reduced today to […]

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