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Trump’s Immigrant Gulags:  A Bonanza For Private Prison Corporations
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Trump’s Immigrant Gulags: A Bonanza For Private Prison Corporations

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When it comes to for-profit, private corporate incarceration of immigrants, making lots of money is like drinking […]

“The Bird is on the Wing”: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:7

“The Bird is on the Wing”: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:7

08/30/2025 By Juan Cole

The price of genocide: How US Funding sustains an unraveling Israeli Economy

The price of genocide: How US Funding sustains an unraveling Israeli Economy

08/30/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Assyrians
Iraq: Can Mosul's Christians ever Go Home to their Historic Neighborhoods?

Iraq: Can Mosul’s Christians ever Go Home to their Historic Neighborhoods?

Nawzat Shamdeen | Berlin | (Niqash.org) | – – They have been harassed, threatened, have lost all their worldly goods and forced to flee. What, […]

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Iraq
The tragedy of Iraq's Sunnis

The tragedy of Iraq’s Sunnis

By Chloe Cornish IRIN | – – KIRKUK (IRIN) – Iraq is congested with armed men: Kurdish peshmerga in the north; forlorn Iraqi army troops […]

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Iraq
Are U.S., Russian Arms Supplies to Iraq, Syria a Blessing to Rebel Groups?

Are U.S., Russian Arms Supplies to Iraq, Syria a Blessing to Rebel Groups?

Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – The United States and Russia are escalating arms sales to two of […]

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Israel
West Bank:  Clashes as thousands march in slain Palestinian’s funeral

West Bank: Clashes as thousands march in slain Palestinian’s funeral

Ma’an News Agency | – – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Thousands of Palestinians marched in the funeral of Ahmad Izzat Khatatbeh, 25, who died on Thursday […]

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Green Energy
100 per cent renewable energy by 2050 achievable, necessary – Greenpeace

100 per cent renewable energy by 2050 achievable, necessary – Greenpeace

The Tree | – – 100 per cent renewable energy for all is achievable by 2050, creating jobs and cutting fuel costs, according to Greenpeace’s […]

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With Iran deal, & Russia in Syria, is Israel being Boxed In?

With Iran deal, & Russia in Syria, is Israel being Boxed In?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – With the success of the Iran deal virtually assured and with Russia moving into Syria, Israel’s […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Syria flying Russia-supplied Drones, Fighter Jets against ISIL/ Daesh

Syria flying Russia-supplied Drones, Fighter Jets against ISIL/ Daesh

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The puzzle of Russian intentions in Syria will likely be revealed by president Vladimir Putin at […]

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National Security State
Why are U.S. Special Ops Forces Deployed in 135 Nations?

Why are U.S. Special Ops Forces Deployed in 135 Nations?

By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – You can find them in dusty, sunbaked badlands, moist tropical forests, and the salty spray of third-world […]

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Pentagon
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, PTSD and the Psychology of War

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, PTSD and the Psychology of War

By Arnold Oliver | (Informed Comment) | – – More than five years ago a soldier named Bowe Bergdahl left his U.S. Army unit in […]

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