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Medicare Advantage Overpayment Tops $100 Billion
Medicare Advantage results in a “$100 billion annual payoff for attracting inexpensive enrollees, upcoding disease severity, and biased price-setting procedures.”
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Censoring Pro-Palestinian Speech; Attacks on Muslims
“The contradiction at the heart of Israel has been that a state founded by victims of racism was itself a racist state. For some time, that meant Israel had to carry out a difficult balancing act: an apartheid system with the rhetoric of liberal values, tolerance, and antiracism. And it became necessary to distort the concept of antisemitism to include criticism of Israeli apartheid.”
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Hezbollah Expert: Hamas Trying to Follow in Hezbollah’s Footsteps, Israel Pursuing Exodus of Palestinians
“How good is Israel at ‘defending itself’? We’re not seeing it significantly inflicting damage on Hamas’ infrastructure, only deliberate large-scale targeting of civilian areas. Those brandishing this ‘right’ must be fully aware that all Israel does is punish a population? In reality, all Israel seems to be doing is taking this opportunity to pursue a long-standing dream: force a large-scale exodus out of Gaza, the home of 2 million or so Palestinians, many of whom in the first place escaped other areas of Palestine to be trapped there. Hamas is first and foremost attempting to break the prevailing military-security status-quo…
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Noted Nonviolent Activist Deported by Israel on the Way Forward
“I have spent my life advocating for Palestinians and Israelis to use nonviolent means to resolve their conflicts. Because Israel feared Palestinian unity and mass nonviolent action, I was expelled by the government in 1988. Since then, I have, on several occasions, personally advocated with Hamas leaders to abandon armed struggle and embrace nonviolent campaigns. Yet, today, Palestinians and Israelis are once again killing each other.”
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Israeli “Intent to Kill in the Thousands”: * International Law * Ethnic Cleansing
“Israel plans to flatten Gaza. This is beyond comprehension. There’s no irony that in the name of battling ‘barbarism,’ Israel with the backing of the U.S. and most European capitals, will unleash a genocidal campaign.”
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Minimizing Gaza Deaths; Disinformation from Israel on Iran; Falsehoods on Baby Beheadings
The Intercept reports: “‘Beheaded Babies’ Report Spread Wide and Fast — but Israel Military Won’t Confirm It.” The Electronic Intifada reports: “Biden lied about seeing photos of beheaded Israeli children.”
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Israel and Palestinians in Gaza: Current Disaster and Roots
“If Israel had fulfilled the conditions it undertook at its 1949 admission to the United Nations, that ‘refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date,’ the Gaza Strip would not exist today as a ghetto of suffering and source of terror.”
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Israel: “War Crimes” and “Genocide”
“Israel has been imposing a land, air, and sea blockade on the Gaza Strip for nearly two decades, impoverishing much of the crowded enclave’s population and denying millions sufficient access to clean water and other necessities. Children, who make up roughly half of Gaza’s population, have been disproportionately affected.”
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Beyond Israel vs. Hamas
Mustafa Barghouti of the Palestinian National Initiative — which is independent of both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority — was on GPS with Fareed Zakaria on CNN and gave an overview with critical context about the conflict.
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Nobel Peace Prize Watch Faults Award’s Selection Process
“In his latest book, The Real Nobel Peace Prize, to be released on Nov. 11, he explains how Alfred Nobel, “over 50 years before the first nuclear bomb, understood what was coming and established his peace prize for a global co-operation to end war.”
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“With a tiny staff, it has managed to place on the air and in newspapers, points of view otherwise excluded from the national debate.”
Howard Zinn