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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?

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‘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

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Lebanon's Plan to Deport 15K Syrian Refugees per month back to Syria Is Unsafe and Unlawful

Lebanon’s Plan to Deport 15K Syrian Refugees per month back to Syria Is Unsafe and Unlawful

By Lama Fakih, Director, Middle East and North Africa Division | – Human Rights Watch – Lebanon’s caretaker Minister of the Displaced Issam Charafeddine announced […]

Human Rights Watch

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Militant white identity politics on full display in GOP political ads featuring high-powered weapons

Militant white identity politics on full display in GOP political ads featuring high-powered weapons

By Ryan Neville-Shepard, University of Arkansas and Casey Ryan Kelly, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | – (The Conversation) – Republican Eric Greitens, a candidate for Missouri’s […]

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On Cusp of Biden visit to Saudi Arabia, GAO questions US Accounting for Civilian Harm caused in Yemen by its Weapons

On Cusp of Biden visit to Saudi Arabia, GAO questions US Accounting for Civilian Harm caused in Yemen by its Weapons

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden is on the cusp of going off to Saudi Arabia as one part of his upcoming Middle East […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Review of Ilham Tohti, We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks

Review of Ilham Tohti, We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks

Tuebingen (Special to Ann Arbor) – Review of Ilham Tohti, We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks (London: Verso, 2022). Ilham Tohti, a […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

censorship
Iran’s latest surge in executions heavily targets Baloch minority

Iran’s latest surge in executions heavily targets Baloch minority

By Hamid Yazdan Panah | – Iran is in a midst of yet another surge in executions, reaching a rate of killings in 2021 that […]

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Feminism
Returning to Reno:  In the Shadow of Roe’s Undoing

Returning to Reno: In the Shadow of Roe’s Undoing

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently, I told my friend Mimi that, only weeks from now, I was returning to Reno to help UNITE-HERE, the hospitality […]

Rebecca Gordon

Israel/ Palestine
Occupying Habits. Everyday Media as Warfare in Israel-Palestine

Occupying Habits. Everyday Media as Warfare in Israel-Palestine

Reviw of Daniel Mann, Occupying Habits. Everyday Media as Warfare in Israel-Palestine. London: I.B. Tauris ( Middle East Monitor) – “Sovereignty is made out of […]

Ramona Wadi

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Cities need to embrace green innovation now to cut heat deaths in the future

Cities need to embrace green innovation now to cut heat deaths in the future

By Alex Boston, Simon Fraser University | – (The Conversation) – In late June 2021, North America’s most severe heat wave in history hit British […]

The Conversation

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The Islamic Peace Studies Initiative

The Islamic Peace Studies Initiative

The Islamic Peace Studies Initiative – Presentation by Juan Cole at the Conference “Fi Subul al-Salām: Pacifism and Nonviolence in Contemporary Islam” at Manchester University, […]

Juan Cole

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