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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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Pat Robertson’s Racist Blaming of Haitian Victims; and the Televangelist Misuse of History

Pat Robertson’s Racist Blaming of Haitian Victims; and the Televangelist Misuse of History

h/t Daily Kos: Evangelist Pat Robertson manages to blame Haitians for the earthquake, instead of a shift in tectonic plates: And you know Christy, something […]

Juan Cole

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Foreign, Afghan Troops Allegedly Kill 6 at Rally against Western Burning of Qur'an

Foreign, Afghan Troops Allegedly Kill 6 at Rally against Western Burning of Qur’an

Oh, no. Here we go again. Some 2000 villagers from near Lashkar Gah in Helmand province mounted a demonstration against the alleged desecration of the […]

Juan Cole

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How Wall Street Could Help Haiti and Partially Redeem those Bonuses

How Wall Street Could Help Haiti and Partially Redeem those Bonuses

ITN has early video of the earthquake devastation of Port au Prince, Haiti. For a quick overview of the Haitian economy, see this site. It […]

Juan Cole

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6 Allied Troops Killed in Afghanistan; Poll Shows Afghans Upbeat

6 Allied Troops Killed in Afghanistan; Poll Shows Afghans Upbeat

Six NATO troops were killed in hostile action in Afghanistan on Monday, three of them Americans. The US troops appear to have been killed in […]

Juan Cole

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Republicans Reject Reid Half Measures, Embrace Gangsta Rap

Republicans Reject Reid Half Measures, Embrace Gangsta Rap

Satire Republicans were outraged Monday by two-year-old remarks of Democratic Senate Majority leader Harry Reid about the electability of Barack Obama, in which Reid (an […]

Juan Cole

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Could the Pakistani Government Fall over Karachi Violence? What would it Mean for Obama’s War on al-Qaeda?

Could the Pakistani Government Fall over Karachi Violence? What would it Mean for Obama’s War on al-Qaeda?

The ongoing political turmoil in a major Pakistani city to which few Americans pay much attention could nevertheless prove pivotal to the Obama administration’s AfPak […]

Juan Cole

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Ahmad: Shahid Alam on Israeli Exceptionalism

Ahmad: Shahid Alam on Israeli Exceptionalism

Ahrar Ahmad reviews M. Shahid Alam. Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 274 pp., for IC Ahrar Ahmad writes: […]

Juan Cole

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The Other Cartoon Death Threats

The Other Cartoon Death Threats

Drudge Retort says, “Political cartoonist Mark Fiore wrote on his blog that he’s receiving death threats over a 90-second animated film he created that teaches […]

Juan Cole

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Why Republicans are Worried

Why Republicans are Worried

The corporate media are in the tank for a Republican comeback in 2010, and the GOP may in fact pick up some seats in the […]

Juan Cole

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