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Beware of Health Insurance Companies Bearing Gifts
Corporations

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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Iran
Israel Lobby asks Congress to Approve Attack on Iran & to Exempt Israel from Sequester

Israel Lobby asks Congress to Approve Attack on Iran & to Exempt Israel from Sequester

News from what Ross Perot used to call the guys in sharkskin suits and alligator shoes– the lobbyists who routinely outvote you and me on […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt on the Brink: The Danger of a Left-Liberal Boycott of Elections

Egypt on the Brink: The Danger of a Left-Liberal Boycott of Elections

My column is out at Truthdig, entitled “Egypt on the Brink”. Excerpt: “the opposition says it is withdrawing from parliamentary elections scheduled for April… The […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Why there will be Masses in the Streets Protesting Climate Change  (Engelhardt)

Why there will be Masses in the Streets Protesting Climate Change (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com: Two Sundays ago, I traveled to the nation’s capital to attend what was billed as “the largest climate rally in […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Austerity and the threat to Democracy, in the US, Europe and the Middle East

Austerity and the threat to Democracy, in the US, Europe and the Middle East

The “sequester” is actually, of course, the American form of austerity, or cut-backs in government spending during a recession. Austerity, or stingy government in Europe […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Muslim Opposition to the Muslim Religious Right Grows, from Egypt to Bangladesh

Muslim Opposition to the Muslim Religious Right Grows, from Egypt to Bangladesh

The headlines this week were full of stories from the Muslim world about Muslims attacking the Muslim religious Right, whether the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt […]

Juan Cole

Drones
How the US Decides Drone-kill People when it Doesn’t Know Who they Are (Currier)

How the US Decides Drone-kill People when it Doesn’t Know Who they Are (Currier)

Cora Currier writes at ProPublica Earlier this week, we wrote about a significant but often overlooked aspect of the drone wars in Pakistan and Yemen: […]

Juan Cole

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Taking on Creeping Creationism in Public Schools (Moyers Video)

Taking on Creeping Creationism in Public Schools (Moyers Video)

Bill Moyers interviews Zack Kopplin on keeping the teaching of Creationism in public-funded public schools. US students are not making the gains in science and […]

Juan Cole

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After Benedict:  Religions have to Democratize if they are to Survive

After Benedict: Religions have to Democratize if they are to Survive

The US television news coverage of Benedict XVI’s last day in office was extremely annoying because it mostly wasn’t good journalism. CNN kept talking about […]

Juan Cole

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New Light on the CIA Coup in Iran on its 60th Anniversary: Why “Argo” Needs a Prequel (Sternfeld)

New Light on the CIA Coup in Iran on its 60th Anniversary: Why “Argo” Needs a Prequel (Sternfeld)

Lior Sternfeld writes in a guest column for Informed Comment 2013 marks the sixtieth anniversary to the most atrocious intervention of the US in the […]

Juan Cole

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