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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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Karzai: Talk to Mullah Omar; Mutwakkil: Taliban would Break with al-Qaeda; Indo-Pak Rivalry in Afghanistan

Karzai: Talk to Mullah Omar; Mutwakkil: Taliban would Break with al-Qaeda; Indo-Pak Rivalry in Afghanistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged the United States to back talks between his government and Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban. Former Taliban foreign […]

Juan Cole

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Silverman: Iraqi Electoral Law Passes but Dangers Loom

Silverman: Iraqi Electoral Law Passes but Dangers Loom

Adam L. Silverman writes in a guest op-ed for Informed Comment: Politics and Politicking: Iraqi Elections, the Failure of Reconciliation, and the Consolidation of Power […]

Juan Cole

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US Soldier Killed in Afghanistan; Taliban dismiss Operation Cobra's Anger as unimportant; Gates: US has Lost Track of Usamah

US Soldier Killed in Afghanistan; Taliban dismiss Operation Cobra’s Anger as unimportant; Gates: US has Lost Track of Usamah

A US soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the US continued a new operation, Cobra’s Anger, in Helmand Province, announcing […]

Juan Cole

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Two Extremists Attack Rawalpindi Mosque, Kill 40, wound Nearly 100

Two Extremists Attack Rawalpindi Mosque, Kill 40, wound Nearly 100

The Taliban Movement of Pakistan, headquartered in South Waziristan, struck at Rawalpindi again on Friday. Two militants scaled a ladder to drop into a mosque […]

Juan Cole

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OSC: Pakistani Editorials on Obama AfPak Policy

OSC: Pakistani Editorials on Obama AfPak Policy

The USG Open Source Center rounds up Pakistani Urdu editorials concerning President Barack Obama’s new Afghanistan policy. Pakistan: Urdu Press Roundup on Barack Obama’s New […]

Juan Cole

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Bin Laden Said in Afghanistan; Pakistanis complain that Obama 'Kept them in the Dark'

Bin Laden Said in Afghanistan; Pakistanis complain that Obama ‘Kept them in the Dark’

A Taliban guerrilla in Pakistani custody insists that he met Bin Laden in the mountainous province of Ghazni inside Afghanistan. The allegation is plausible. The […]

Juan Cole

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Carter: Soviets "attempting to conquer the fiercely independent Muslim people of that country"

Carter: Soviets "attempting to conquer the fiercely independent Muslim people of that country"

Jimmy Carter, Speech on Afghanistan (January 4, 1980), warning “Fifty thousand heavily armed Soviet troops have crossed the border and are now dispersed throughout Afghanistan, […]

Juan Cole

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Sachs: ‘There hasn’t been two seconds of intelligent discussion about living standards in Afghanistan’

Sachs: ‘There hasn’t been two seconds of intelligent discussion about living standards in Afghanistan’

Nieman Watchdog > Ask This > 'There hasn't been two seconds of intelligent discussion about living standards in Afghanistan' Afghanistan is an economic basket case. […]

Juan Cole

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Afghanistan, Neighbors React to the Obama Plan

Afghanistan, Neighbors React to the Obama Plan

Radio Azadi reports in Dari Persian that the government of President Hamid Karzai has greeted the Obama plan for that country “warmly”. Kabul interprets the […]

Juan Cole

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