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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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Business can no Longer Ignore Extreme Heat, Climate Emergency as they Threaten Bottom Line

Business can no Longer Ignore Extreme Heat, Climate Emergency as they Threaten Bottom Line

By David Lont, University of Otago; Martien Lubberink, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; and Paul Griffin, University of California, Davis | – […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Sinema goes for Inflation Reduction Act as Princeton’s ZERO Labs deems it will boost Solar Energy 5-Fold

Sinema goes for Inflation Reduction Act as Princeton’s ZERO Labs deems it will boost Solar Energy 5-Fold

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) is reported to have signed on to the Schumer-Manchin energy bill, accurately termed the Inflation Reduction […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Clean Energy Booming, Coal Plants Closing, despite Supreme Court ruling against EPA

Clean Energy Booming, Coal Plants Closing, despite Supreme Court ruling against EPA

By Morgan Fischer | – ( Cronkite News ) – WASHINGTON – When the Supreme Court ruled this summer that the EPA could not force […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Climate Crisis
Germany gets 20% of its Electricity from the Sun: July marks third monthly Solar Power output Record

Germany gets 20% of its Electricity from the Sun: July marks third monthly Solar Power output Record

By Edgar Meza | – Referencing: Germany’s “PV Magazine”. Photovoltaic systems in Germany generated a new record level of electricity in the month July 2022, […]

Clean Energy Wire

Corporations
The plastic Crisis has deep corporate Roots: to protect our Planet, they need to be exposed

The plastic Crisis has deep corporate Roots: to protect our Planet, they need to be exposed

By Alice Mah, University of Warwick | – This spring, I taught a new undergraduate course in environmental sociology. Most of my students took the […]

The Conversation

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Taken for a Ride: Saudi-led OPEC+ snubs Biden with tiny Oil Increase, Despite Arms Sales, Fist Bump

Taken for a Ride: Saudi-led OPEC+ snubs Biden with tiny Oil Increase, Despite Arms Sales, Fist Bump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – At its meeting in Vienna yesterday, the enlarged “+” version of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting States (OPEC+) decided to […]

Juan Cole

Arms Sales
U.S. Lawmakers Demand Federal Scrutiny of How US Tech got into Turkey’s Drones

U.S. Lawmakers Demand Federal Scrutiny of How US Tech got into Turkey’s Drones

By Umar Farooq | – ( ProPublica ) – As countries around the globe add armed drones to their arsenals, federal lawmakers are pressing the […]

ProPublica

Dissent
Why the Storming of the Iraqi Parliament is no Moment of Liberation

Why the Storming of the Iraqi Parliament is no Moment of Liberation

By Haifa Zangana | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Why does the occupation of the Iraqi Parliament building in the Green Zone in […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
Afghanistan a year after the Taliban Accupation: An ongoing War on Human Rights

Afghanistan a year after the Taliban Accupation: An ongoing War on Human Rights

By Ferdouse Asefi, University of Toronto | – The word “anniversary” usually brings about happy and memorable moments. But Aug. 15 marks one year since […]

The Conversation

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