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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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Yes, Anti-China invective in Foreign Policy puts a Target on Asian-Americans' Backs

Yes, Anti-China invective in Foreign Policy puts a Target on Asian-Americans’ Backs

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Chrissy Teigen is right. Anti-China invectives “put a target on Asian people’s backs,” yet the rhetoric gets more hysterical by […]

Martin Powers

Egypt
How the Imperial past set the Stage for Nile Dam Conflicts between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia

How the Imperial past set the Stage for Nile Dam Conflicts between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia

By Mahemud Tekuya | – Ever since construction began a decade ago, there’s been serious contention between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian […]

The Conversation

Health Care
Biden’s Bandaid, or Top 8 Reasons why we need Medicare for All

Biden’s Bandaid, or Top 8 Reasons why we need Medicare for All

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) — Distinguished economist Michael Hudson writes that by “conquering the brains of a country by shaping how people think, […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

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Separation of Religion and State declared by Revolutionary Sudan's once-Muslim fundamentalist Officers in Peace Deal with southern Guerrillas

Separation of Religion and State declared by Revolutionary Sudan’s once-Muslim fundamentalist Officers in Peace Deal with southern Guerrillas

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Sudan Tribune reports that Sudan cemented the separation of religion and state on Sunday. Military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan […]

Juan Cole

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When Leaders Kill: Biden's characterization of Putin applies to Neoliberal Ideologies, Too

When Leaders Kill: Biden’s characterization of Putin applies to Neoliberal Ideologies, Too

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The presidents who control more than 90 percent of the world’s nuclear arsenal had a bit of […]

John Buell

Egypt
Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt's grand novelist, physician and global activist

Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt’s grand novelist, physician and global activist

By Adele Newson-Horst | – Egyptian novelist, physician, sociologist and global activist Nawal El Saadawi died on 21 March 2021 at the age of 89. […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Our Longest War is Ending without Victory, but will we Even Notice?

Our Longest War is Ending without Victory, but will we Even Notice?

“Ours is the cause of freedom. We’ve defeated freedom’s enemies before, and we will defeat them again… [W]e know our cause is just and our […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Donald Trump
University of Michigan Women Deans Decry Regent Weiser's urging that 'witch' Gov. Whitmer be 'burned at stake'

University of Michigan Women Deans Decry Regent Weiser’s urging that ‘witch’ Gov. Whitmer be ‘burned at stake’

Ron Weiser, a real estate billionaire, is the head of the Michigan Republican Party. In videotaped remarks last Thursday, he referred to Michigan governor Gretchen […]

Juan Cole

China
Biggest East Asian move into Mideast since the Mongol Empire: In Open Challenge to US, China inks 25-year, $400 bn Deal with Iran

Biggest East Asian move into Mideast since the Mongol Empire: In Open Challenge to US, China inks 25-year, $400 bn Deal with Iran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Saturday, IRNA reports, Iran and China signed a 25-year cooperation agreement. The signatures were affixed in Tehran by Iranian […]

Juan Cole

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