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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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Koch Bros. Laguna Beach Black Sabbath targets Green Energy Activists with Greenbacks

Koch Bros. Laguna Beach Black Sabbath targets Green Energy Activists with Greenbacks

Via Sourcewatch and The Young Turks: Anti-Regulation Energy Initiative At a secretive summit held in June 2014 at a resort in Laguna Beach, California, the […]

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Neo-Zangid State erases Syria-Iraq Border, cuts Hizbullah off from Iran

Neo-Zangid State erases Syria-Iraq Border, cuts Hizbullah off from Iran

By Juan Cole With the alleged fall to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria of Qa’im on Saturday, and of Talafar a few days […]

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Christianity
Inside Mosul: ISIS fears Popular Uprising; Baathists cry Foul

Inside Mosul: ISIS fears Popular Uprising; Baathists cry Foul

By a Special Correspondent via Niqash.org NIQASH’s correspondent takes a walk around Mosul to see how the city has changed since extremists took it over […]

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Climate Change
Fiji to Rich Carbon-Spewing Nations: History will Judge you for Sinking Us!

Fiji to Rich Carbon-Spewing Nations: History will Judge you for Sinking Us!

By Jon Queally The interim prime minister of Fiji on Thursday condemned the international community for its continued failure to address the crisis of climate […]

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Climate Change
Global Warming is about to Decimate the Building Blocks of Life in the Ocean

Global Warming is about to Decimate the Building Blocks of Life in the Ocean

By Alex Kirby Researchers warn that marine life could be dramatically affected as climate change threatens to cause severe reduction of plankton – the key […]

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Afghanistan
Afghanistan Elections:  Abdullah refuses to Concede, Protests Erupt charging Fraud

Afghanistan Elections: Abdullah refuses to Concede, Protests Erupt charging Fraud

By Frud Bezhan via RFE/RL KABUL — As allegations of fraud in Afghanistan’s runoff election pile up, protest movements have mobilized against what they see […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Palestinians 66 Yrs Later: An Unsustainable Refugee Crisis

Palestinians 66 Yrs Later: An Unsustainable Refugee Crisis

By Pierre Krähenbühl via EurActiv Commissioner General of the United United Nations Relief and Works Agency Pierre Krähenbühl writes on the unsustainability of the Palestine […]

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Iraq: Ayatollah Sistani hints that Parliament should dump al-Maliki as Muqtada mobilizes "Peace Brigades"

Iraq: Ayatollah Sistani hints that Parliament should dump al-Maliki as Muqtada mobilizes “Peace Brigades”

The chorus for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq to step down grew louder on Friday, as Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani of Najaf had his […]

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Militarization
Flashback: All the Ways the Neocons were Wrong about Iraq

Flashback: All the Ways the Neocons were Wrong about Iraq

via Bernie Sanders US Senator Dick Cheney “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no […]

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