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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 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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Uneasy Caliphate: Inside Hawija in Iraq

Uneasy Caliphate: Inside Hawija in Iraq

By Shalaw Mohammed | Hawija NIQASH visited Hawija, a large northern Iraqi town near Kirkuk, which is currently controlled by Sunni Muslim extremists and local […]

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Bush
Blackwater: Nice State Dept. you have here, shame if Anything happened to It

Blackwater: Nice State Dept. you have here, shame if Anything happened to It

State Department official documented in memo that mercenary threatened him just weeks before Nisour Square massacre By Jon Queally As the trial continues against Blackwater […]

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Apartheid
In the Deaths of 3 Israeli Teens, Likud Policies are also Implicated

In the Deaths of 3 Israeli Teens, Likud Policies are also Implicated

By Juan Cole The kidnapping and killing of three Israeli squatter youth whose parents usurped Palestinian land has produced a paroxysm of hatred and calls […]

Juan Cole

Barack Obama
Katrina to arch-Neocon Bill Kristol: Be Accountable, Enlist in the Iraqi Army

Katrina to arch-Neocon Bill Kristol: Be Accountable, Enlist in the Iraqi Army

“Katrina vanden Heuvel [editor of The Nation] and Bill Kristol tussled over Iraq on ABC’s This Week today when vanden Heuvel lumped in Kristol with […]

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Books
What the Arab Youth Movements have Wrought:  Don’t Count them Out Yet

What the Arab Youth Movements have Wrought: Don’t Count them Out Yet

By Juan Cole via Tomdispatch.com Three and a half years ago, the world was riveted by the massive crowds of youths mobilizing in Cairo’s Tahrir […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
Photo of the Day:  Egyptian Youth Demanded end to Military Trials for Civilians

Photo of the Day: Egyptian Youth Demanded end to Military Trials for Civilians

By Juan Cole Now On the June 30 anniversary of the determined masses gathered in their millions at Tahrir Square and in city centers throughout […]

Juan Cole

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The Debacle of the Caliphates:  Why al-Baghdadi's Grandiosity doesn't Matter

The Debacle of the Caliphates: Why al-Baghdadi’s Grandiosity doesn’t Matter

By Juan Cole Ibrahim al-Badri, a run-of-the-mill Sunni Iraqi cleric, gained a degree from the University of Baghdad at a time when pedagogy there had […]

Juan Cole

Bush
Hyenas vs. Rhinos:  Who could the NYT get to write an Op-ed on Iraq?  Hmm...

Hyenas vs. Rhinos: Who could the NYT get to write an Op-ed on Iraq? Hmm…

By Juan Cole New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan did a quick study and found that critics of the paper of record over its […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Barzani:  Kurdish Rule To Stay In Kirkuk

Barzani: Kurdish Rule To Stay In Kirkuk

Via RFE/RL Iraqi Kurdish leader Masud Barzani has said that there is no going back on autonomous Kurdish rule in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk […]

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