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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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Afghanistan
Clueless in the District of Columbia (Engelhardt)

Clueless in the District of Columbia (Engelhardt)

I was thinking that in light of the labor and youth revolutions of 2011, Washington’s focus on Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the past […]

Juan Cole

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90% of Libya in Rebel Hands

90% of Libya in Rebel Hands

The LAT reports that the rebellion against Muammar Qaddafi’s 41-year dictatorship in Libya headed toward an end-game on Wednesday, as Misurata, the country’s third-largest city […]

Juan Cole

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30% of Libya in Hands of Youth Movement

30% of Libya in Hands of Youth Movement

If we begin at the eastern border of Libya with Egypt this morning and move west, we find the country is now divided in two, […]

Juan Cole

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Qaddafi's Bombardments Recall Mussolini's

Qaddafi’s Bombardments Recall Mussolini’s

The strafing and bombardment in Tripoli of civilian demonstrators by Muammar Qaddafi’s fighter jets on Monday powerfully recalled the tactics of some decades ago of […]

Juan Cole

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The Gates of Hell Have Opened in Tripoli

The Gates of Hell Have Opened in Tripoli

I am watching Aljazeera Arabic, which is calling people in Tripoli on the telephone and asking them what is going on in the capital. The […]

Juan Cole

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Revolutionary Situation in Libya

Revolutionary Situation in Libya

After the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi fell to the protest movement on Sunday, clashes broke out in the Libyan capital of Tripoli late that […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Alimagham:  What Egypt & Tunisia Tell us About Iran

Alimagham: What Egypt & Tunisia Tell us About Iran

Pouya Alimagham writes in a guest column for Informed Comment What the Egyptian and Tunisian Revolutions Tell Us about Iran There has been much debate […]

Juan Cole

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Top Five Myths about the Middle East Protests

Top Five Myths about the Middle East Protests

5. Dear right wing blogosphere and also Bill Maher: You can’t generalize about women’s position in Muslim countries based on a reprehensible mob attack on […]

Juan Cole

Yemen
Days of Rage in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain

Days of Rage in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain

ITN has video on Friday’s dramatic protests in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain (for the latter scroll down). Some 80 protesters have been killed in the […]

Juan Cole

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