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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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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Reports: Reluctant Russian Soldiers Oppose 'Secret' Syria Mission

Reports: Reluctant Russian Soldiers Oppose ‘Secret’ Syria Mission

By Tom Balmforth | ( RFE/ RL ) MOSCOW — Several Russian soldiers are seeking help from human rights advocates to oppose what they say […]

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Aqsa Crisis: PM Netanyahu wants Israeli Forces to use Live Fire against Rock Throwing Demonstrators

Aqsa Crisis: PM Netanyahu wants Israeli Forces to use Live Fire against Rock Throwing Demonstrators

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Thousands of demonstrators came out in Jordan on Friday to protest what appears to be a […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Israel has moved 600,000 Squatters onto Palestinian Land in West Bank

Israel has moved 600,000 Squatters onto Palestinian Land in West Bank

By IMEMC News | – – About 600 thousand settlers live in the West Bank and half of them are in Jerusalem district, said the […]

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Immigration
How the GOP's decades of Angry Resentment Led to Frankentrump

How the GOP’s decades of Angry Resentment Led to Frankentrump

By Randall Stephens | (The Conversation) | – – The latest Republican presidential primary debate had it all: denunciations of President Obama, angry rants about […]

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censorship
Can Digital India flourish without Freedom of Speech?  PM Modi in Silicon Valley

Can Digital India flourish without Freedom of Speech? PM Modi in Silicon Valley

Priya Satia | (Huffington Post) | – – The Indian community of Silicon Valley is preparing to welcome Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with open […]

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Trump Pledges to "Look into" Paranoid Charges of Muslim-American Terror camps

Trump Pledges to “Look into” Paranoid Charges of Muslim-American Terror camps

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump has probably benefited so far from giving long stemwinders of a speech on the […]

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Iran
As Iran takes on ISIL/ Daesh, can it avoid the Sectarian Trap?

As Iran takes on ISIL/ Daesh, can it avoid the Sectarian Trap?

By Shahram Akbarzadeh | (Informed Comment) | – – In an obvious attempt to show initiative and good will, President Hassan Rouhani recently declared Iran’s […]

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Children
Rights group: Israelis have killed nearly 2000 Palestinian children since 2000

Rights group: Israelis have killed nearly 2000 Palestinian children since 2000

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — More than 1,991 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces and extremists since 2000, according […]

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Dissent
A Guru for Our Time:  Eqbal Ahmad and the life of Dissent from Empire

A Guru for Our Time: Eqbal Ahmad and the life of Dissent from Empire

By Stuart Schaar | (Informed Comment) | – – In the early 1960s I was living in Rabat while researching my doctoral dissertation for Princeton […]

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