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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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Helpless Giant:  How Imperial US Elites Tied America Down All by Themselves

Helpless Giant: How Imperial US Elites Tied America Down All by Themselves

By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch For America’s national security state, this is the age of impunity.  Nothing it does — torture, kidnapping, assassination, illegal surveillance, […]

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The Court Trial of Bibi Netanyahu

The Court Trial of Bibi Netanyahu

By Juan Cole Dark Satire: Irony alert Prosecutor: “Justices of the International Criminal Court, I shall demonstrate to you that this man (points at detained […]

Juan Cole

Christians
Is Pope Francis the Green Pope?

Is Pope Francis the Green Pope?

By Robyn Purchia Pope Francis is putting a smile on environmentalists’ faces again. In an address at the University of Molise on Saturday, an agricultural […]

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US politics
Draft notices sent out 100 Years Late

Draft notices sent out 100 Years Late

By Cory Doctorow A US Selective Service database merge used two-digit years, and didn’t sanity-check its threatening notices to 19th century men who’d apparently failed […]

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History
Palestine 1896

Palestine 1896

First film footage taken of Ottoman Palestine (Lumiere Bros.), in 1896. Palestine 1896 h/t William Dalrymple Kemal Karpat wrote that according to the Ottoman Census […]

Juan Cole

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The Map:  A Palestinian Nation Thwarted & Speaking Truth to Power

The Map: A Palestinian Nation Thwarted & Speaking Truth to Power

By Juan Cole Reprint edn. … As part of my original posting, I mirrored a map of modern Palestinian history that has the virtue of […]

Juan Cole

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Top 7 Really Disturbing News from Iraq

Top 7 Really Disturbing News from Iraq

1. Last Wednesday Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki angrily lashed out at the Kurds, accusing them of harboring the terrorists of the so-called ‘Islamic State.’ Since […]

Juan Cole

Israel Lobby
Gaza's Children Trapped by Israeli Airstrikes, Naval Bombardment, over 20 Dead

Gaza’s Children Trapped by Israeli Airstrikes, Naval Bombardment, over 20 Dead

By Sarah Lazare As the human rights crisis grows more acute in this besieged strip, the number of dead and injured children continues to rise […]

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Bill of Rights
NSA Spying: Now It's Personal

NSA Spying: Now It’s Personal

By Eva Galperin and Nadia Kayyali via EFF Imagine that you watched a police officer in your neighborhood stop ten completely ordinary people every day […]

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