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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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The Decades-Long Struggle Over Big Corporations and Poverty Wages

The Decades-Long Struggle Over Big Corporations and Poverty Wages

By Phil Mattera | – ( Inequality.org ) – The Senate Parliamentarian dealt a strong blow to the Fight for $15 movement by ruling that […]

Inequality.org

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Oil Spikes on Yemeni Houthi droning of Saudi Petroleum Cities, in Argument for Wind and Solar Power

Oil Spikes on Yemeni Houthi droning of Saudi Petroleum Cities, in Argument for Wind and Solar Power

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – According to Al Jazeera, the Saudi military acknowledged that the Helpers of God or Houthis [pronounced like Ruthie] of Yemen […]

Juan Cole

journalism
‘Rightly’ as a New Soft Power Tool: The Motivation behind Al Jazeera’s American Right-Wing Platform

‘Rightly’ as a New Soft Power Tool: The Motivation behind Al Jazeera’s American Right-Wing Platform

Exeter (Special to Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera announcement to launch a right-wing media platform, Rightly, in the US surprised many people, including its employees. […]

Hamdullah Baycar

Epidemics
Rich Nations are Getting Vaccines, Poor Countries Not: Which is a Big Danger to Rich Countries

Rich Nations are Getting Vaccines, Poor Countries Not: Which is a Big Danger to Rich Countries

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Our commercial media have followed the ups and downs of the vaccine roll out in the United […]

John Buell

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We're Stalked by the 4 Horsemen of Apocalyptic Media: Rush, Roger, Rupert, and The Donald May Ride Forever

We’re Stalked by the 4 Horsemen of Apocalyptic Media: Rush, Roger, Rupert, and The Donald May Ride Forever

By Robert Lipsyte | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – The Four Horsemen of our media apocalypse — Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, and Donald Trump […]

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Ayatollah Sistani Affirms Religious Freedom to Pope Francis in HIstoric Iraq Meeting

Ayatollah Sistani Affirms Religious Freedom to Pope Francis in HIstoric Iraq Meeting

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Saturday, Pope Francis met in the holy city of Najaf with Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the spiritual leader of […]

Juan Cole

Green Transportation
The Future of Airflight:  German electric air taxi pioneer Volocopter raises $238 mn

The Future of Airflight: German electric air taxi pioneer Volocopter raises $238 mn

( Clean Energy Wire) – German urban air mobility company Volocopter has raised an additional 200 million euros in funding from a wide range of […]

Julian Wettengel

Inequality
If We Want to Renew Democracy, We Need to Tax the Ultra-Wealthy

If We Want to Renew Democracy, We Need to Tax the Ultra-Wealthy

By Madeleine Johnsson | – ( Inequality.org ) – Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act of 2021, introduced March 1, could […]

Inequality.org

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The Byzantine Empire was Multicultural, So why are QAnon and White Supremacists Idolizing it?

The Byzantine Empire was Multicultural, So why are QAnon and White Supremacists Idolizing it?

By Roland Betancourt | – From Charlottesville to the Capitol, medieval imagery has been repeatedly on show at far-right rallies and riots in recent years. […]

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