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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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White Terrorism

White Terrorism

Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged assassin of Federal judge John M. Roll and five others and attempted assassin of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), was clearly […]

Juan Cole

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DOJ Subpoenas Twitter Account of Wikileaks Volunteer and now Iceland MP

DOJ Subpoenas Twitter Account of Wikileaks Volunteer and now Iceland MP

The US Department of Justice has subpoenaed from Twitter the private emails of former Wikileaks activist Birgitt Jonsdottir, now a member of Iceland’s parliament. She […]

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Egypt
Egyptian Muslims Throng in Thousands to Protect Christians

Egyptian Muslims Throng in Thousands to Protect Christians

Thousands of Muslims honored a promise made by their leaders and showed up at Christmas Mass or at candlelight vigils outside Egyptian churches on Friday, […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Today in Apartheid

Today in Apartheid

Israeli troops made an incursion into the Palestinian city of al-Khalil (which the Israelis call Hebron) and killed the wrong man, invading his apartment and […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Wikileaks: US Offered to Block anti-Whaling Protesters

Wikileaks: US Offered to Block anti-Whaling Protesters

Some environmentalists are arguing that whales and dolphins are so intelligent, social and self-aware that they deserve a special status, of non-human individuals with basic […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Wainwright:  Taseer’s Assassination Lays Bare Contradictions in Pakistani Islam

Wainwright: Taseer’s Assassination Lays Bare Contradictions in Pakistani Islam

Aadil Wainwright writes from Pakistan in a guest column for Informed Comment: The assassination of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer has laid bare a crucial debate […]

Juan Cole

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Iran’s Oily Revenge on US Drivers, US Troops

Iran’s Oily Revenge on US Drivers, US Troops

They’re baaaack. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is being chaired by Iran at the moment. And Iran thinks the run-up of the price […]

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Iraq
Sadr Returns Triumphantly to Najaf

Sadr Returns Triumphantly to Najaf

Al-Zaman (The Times of Baghdad) writes in Arabic that Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Sadr Movement, returned on Wednesday to Najaf after 4 years […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Wikileaks: Israelis ‘Intend to Keep the Gazan Economy on the Brink of Collapse’

Wikileaks: Israelis ‘Intend to Keep the Gazan Economy on the Brink of Collapse’

The Norwegian newspaper Aftenpost has released a March, 2008, US embassy cable describing the Israeli blockade and siege of Occupied Gaza as an attempt to […]

Juan Cole

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