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Beware of Health Insurance Companies Bearing Gifts
Corporations

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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How Contractor CEOs get Rich off Taxpayers

How Contractor CEOs get Rich off Taxpayers

By Sam Pizzigati | ( Otherwords.org ) – Does anyone have a sweeter deal than military contractor CEOs? The United States spent more last year […]

Sam Pizzigati

Featured
Muslims are understandably Protesting Qur’an Burning in Sweden, but the Qur’an itself urges them to do so Peacefully

Muslims are understandably Protesting Qur’an Burning in Sweden, but the Qur’an itself urges them to do so Peacefully

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Swedish police permitted the burning of the Muslim scripture, the Qur’an (Koran) in front of the Iraqi embassy in […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Officials Now Promoting Impunity for Settler-Colonial Violence

Israeli Officials Now Promoting Impunity for Settler-Colonial Violence

Ramona Wadi walzerscent   ( Middle East Monitor ) – If Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, can find excuses for the hilltop youth’s colonial […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
Renewables covered more than Half of German Electricity Consumption in the first half of 2023

Renewables covered more than Half of German Electricity Consumption in the first half of 2023

( Clean Energy Wire) – Wind, solar and other renewable energy sources covered 52 percent of German electricity consumption in the first six months of […]

Julian Wettengel

Displaced and Refugees
Debunking Migration Myths: Why People really Move, and Why most Migration happens in the Global South

Debunking Migration Myths: Why People really Move, and Why most Migration happens in the Global South

By Avery Anapol and Mend Mariwany | – (The Conversation) – Around the world, borders between countries are getting tougher. Governments are making it more […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
SCOTUS Ruling on Race and College Admissions: We've already Seen this Movie in Michigan and it Doesn't End Well

SCOTUS Ruling on Race and College Admissions: We’ve already Seen this Movie in Michigan and it Doesn’t End Well

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Conservatives in the United States have a stealth function of supporting white supremacy, even if they deny it. Maybe some […]

Juan Cole

Colonialism
Fascist Italy's forgotten Concentration Camps in Libya

Fascist Italy’s forgotten Concentration Camps in Libya

Mustafa Fetouri MFetouri   ( Middle East Monitor ) – On 30 August 2008, Italy and Libya signed their Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership, […]

Middle East Monitor

Arctic
Climate Crisis: Meltwater is Creating Millions of Hairline Cracks in Greenland’s Ice Sheet, Destabilizing it with a form of Hydro-Fracking

Climate Crisis: Meltwater is Creating Millions of Hairline Cracks in Greenland’s Ice Sheet, Destabilizing it with a form of Hydro-Fracking

(The Conversation) – Alun Hubbard, University of Tromsø | – I’m striding along the steep bank of a raging white-water torrent, and even though the […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
American Inquisition: Field Notes from the Frontlines of the Government’s War on the Left

American Inquisition: Field Notes from the Frontlines of the Government’s War on the Left

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky ( Tomdispatch.com) – “There must be some kind of way out of here…” As night fell over the South River Forest, the […]

Tomdispatch

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