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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60
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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sixty years ago, July 30, 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, former […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

08/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

08/06/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Arms Sales
Trump’s Art of the Arms Deal:  Filling up the Volatile Middle East with High-Tech Weapons

Trump’s Art of the Arms Deal: Filling up the Volatile Middle East with High-Tech Weapons

( Tomdispatch.com) – The United States has the dubious distinction of being the world’s leading arms dealer. It dominates the global trade in a historic […]

William D. Hartung

Saudi Arabia
Saudis now Boycott, Oppose Turkey, but once Sought its Security Umbrella: Clinton Files

Saudis now Boycott, Oppose Turkey, but once Sought its Security Umbrella: Clinton Files

By Daud Abdullah | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – This is one of the uncomfortable questions raised by the newly declassified Clinton files. […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Stunning Doubling of Severe Natural disasters in past 20 Years, many driven by Climate Emergency

Stunning Doubling of Severe Natural disasters in past 20 Years, many driven by Climate Emergency

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction issued a report today concluding that natural disasters caused by the human […]

Juan Cole

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Plot to kidnap Michigan's governor grew from the militia movement's toxic mix of constitutional falsehoods and half-truths

Plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor grew from the militia movement’s toxic mix of constitutional falsehoods and half-truths

By John E. Finn | – The U.S. militia movement has long been steeped in a peculiar – and unquestionably mistaken – interpretation of the […]

The Conversation

Health Care
Can Trump's Plan to Steal your Social Security, Medicare be Stopped?

Can Trump’s Plan to Steal your Social Security, Medicare be Stopped?

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans promoting the backlash against the federal government […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

France
Republican Food: French President Macron nails his colours to the Mast of Islamophobia

Republican Food: French President Macron nails his colours to the Mast of Islamophobia

By Chris Myant ( OpenDemocracy.net) – In the small Provençal town of Aups, where the local Catholic church declares République française: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité [The […]

Open Democracy

Donald Trump
Call for Fox Media News Monopoly to be Broken up: Rupert Murdoch an "arrogant cancer on ... democracy" - Rudd

Call for Fox Media News Monopoly to be Broken up: Rupert Murdoch an “arrogant cancer on … democracy” – Rudd

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has called for the break up of his country’s media monopolies (almost all major […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Ask Amy Coney Barrett If Bosses Should Be Free to Fire Workers at Will

Ask Amy Coney Barrett If Bosses Should Be Free to Fire Workers at Will

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – What is at stake in the battle over the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett? For most commentators […]

John Buell

Authoritarianism
Patriotism, American Style: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Patriotism, American Style: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sacramento, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – What is Patriotism? Let’s begin with the difficult part: defining and understanding patriotism. Patriotism refers to the feelings […]

Bahman Fozouni

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