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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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Australian Press Releases Abu Ghraib Photos

Australian Press Releases Abu Ghraib Photos

For those with strong stomachs, more Abu Ghraib torture photos may be seen here. They are courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald. The Australian press […]

Juan Cole

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Da’wa Breaks with UIA; Torture Used to get up Iraq War

Da’wa Breaks with UIA; Torture Used to get up Iraq War

According to al-Zaman, writing in Arabic, Nuri al-Maliki’s Islamic Mission Party (Da’wa) has rejected an appeal from cleric Abdul Aziz al-Hakim of the Islamic Supreme […]

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Cole at Bill Moyers Journal re: Pakistan, Today, Friday May 15

Cole at Bill Moyers Journal re: Pakistan, Today, Friday May 15

Juan Cole and Shahan Mufti discuss the Pakistan crisis on Bill Moyers Journal, PBS, Friday May 15 (9 pm in most markets but check local […]

Juan Cole

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Wertheim: Wilders’ Lethal Words

Wertheim: Wilders’ Lethal Words

Anne-Ruth Wertheim writes in a guest op-ed for IC: Words can incite violence. These are the kind of words Geert Wilders used in the Dutch […]

Juan Cole

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Obama Reversal on Torture Photos: Is He Afraid they would Destabilize Iraq?

Obama Reversal on Torture Photos: Is He Afraid they would Destabilize Iraq?

President Obama has reversed himself on his earlier determination not to oppose a ruling by a Federal judge that remaining photos of the torture and […]

Juan Cole

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Pakistani Public Sees Taliban as Dangerous; New Front Opened at Peochar

Pakistani Public Sees Taliban as Dangerous; New Front Opened at Peochar

Pakistani troops say that they have cleared Buner of Taliban guerrillas: “‘Normalcy is returning to Buner. People have started harvesting their crops and shops are […]

Juan Cole

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Gas Attack on School girls in Afghanistan

Gas Attack on School girls in Afghanistan

A suspected gas attack on a girl’s school sent 84 girls to hospital in Kapisa Province north of Kabul. There are suspicions that this was […]

Juan Cole

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Cole in Salon: The Hidden Hand of Dick Cheney

Cole in Salon: The Hidden Hand of Dick Cheney

My column for Salon.com, “The hidden hand of Dick Cheney” is now out. Excerpt: ‘ don’t dismiss Dick Cheney as a fading punch line, or […]

Juan Cole

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Al-Libi Case Eloquent Testimony against Torture

Al-Libi Case Eloquent Testimony against Torture

The best refutation of Dick Cheney’s insistence that torture was necessary and useful in dealing with threats from al-Qaeda just died in a Libyan prison. […]

Juan Cole

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