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

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 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

Risking Regional Chaos:  The US-Israeli Plan to End UN Peacekeeping in S. Lebanon

Risking Regional Chaos: The US-Israeli Plan to End UN Peacekeeping in S. Lebanon

08/30/2025 By The Conversation

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‘Bibi in Bible Land’: The Likud Party Miscalculates and loses on Iran Deal

‘Bibi in Bible Land’: The Likud Party Miscalculates and loses on Iran Deal

By Shalom L. Goldman | (Informed Comment) | – – Now that the Democratic senators have blocked a challenge to the Iran deal, pundits are […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Can Syrian Asylee Airlift from Turkey to Sweden be Crowd-Funded? Iranian Expats Think So

Can Syrian Asylee Airlift from Turkey to Sweden be Crowd-Funded? Iranian Expats Think So

By Elisabeth Braw | (RFE/ RL) | – – A group of Iranian emigres and friends has announced an ambitious project to mount a crowdfunded […]

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Palestine
Over Israeli, US Objections, UN votes to raise Palestinian flag at HQ

Over Israeli, US Objections, UN votes to raise Palestinian flag at HQ

Ma’an News | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United Nations General Assembly voted late Thursday in favor of raising the Palestinian flag at its […]

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Barack Obama
Top 5 Reasons Obama defeated GOP, AIPAC effort to vote Down Iran Deal

Top 5 Reasons Obama defeated GOP, AIPAC effort to vote Down Iran Deal

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – 40 Democratic senators and two independent senators stood with President Obama on Thursday, preventing any congressional […]

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Barack Obama
Is the Obama Admin. pressuring CIA to paint a Rosy Picture of War on ISIL?

Is the Obama Admin. pressuring CIA to paint a Rosy Picture of War on ISIL?

Elliot Hill and Mark Sovel | (TheLipTV Video Report) | – – “ISIS intelligence reports are being cooked by the Obama administration, according to over […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Why Young Iraqis Are Risking Their Lives to Get to Europe

Why Young Iraqis Are Risking Their Lives to Get to Europe

By Marwan Jabbar | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – Iraq’s security crisis means that if you are “different”, you may be a threat to […]

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Chemical Weapons
ISIL's campaign may be going chemical – why no international outcry?

ISIL’s campaign may be going chemical – why no international outcry?

Michelle Bentley | (The Conversation) | – – Evidence is mounting that [so-called] Islamic State (IS) [group] is using chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria […]

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Democratic Party
Clinton Calls For Tougher Response To Russia On Syria, Ukraine

Clinton Calls For Tougher Response To Russia On Syria, Ukraine

By RFE/RL | – – WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state who is now a leading contender to be the next […]

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al-Qaeda
Russia Ramping up Military Involvement in Syria?

Russia Ramping up Military Involvement in Syria?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reuters reports, based on sources in Beirut, that Russia is increasing its involvement in Syria, backing […]

Juan Cole

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