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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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U.S. Officials Acknowledge Moral Issues at Stake in Gaza

U.S. Officials Acknowledge Moral Issues at Stake in Gaza

By Edward Hunt ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Over the past several months, officials in Washington have acknowledged that one of the fundamental […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Donald Trump
‘Hell No!’: Trump Allies’ Plan to Privatize Medicare Draws Alarm and Outrage

‘Hell No!’: Trump Allies’ Plan to Privatize Medicare Draws Alarm and Outrage

  Jake Johnson A right-wing coalition that’s been laying the policy groundwork for another Trump presidency has developed a plan to further privatize Medicare by […]

Common Dreams

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Systemic Journalistic Malpractice: How Western Journalism Failed in covering Gaza

Systemic Journalistic Malpractice: How Western Journalism Failed in covering Gaza

At the beginning of their classic Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman pondered the proposition that “media are independent and committed to discovering and […]

Mohamed Jegham

Iraq
Washington Chooses Genocide over Diplomacy in the Middle East

Washington Chooses Genocide over Diplomacy in the Middle East

( Code Pink ) – On February 7, 2024, a U.S. drone strike assassinated an Iraqi militia leader, Abu Baqir al-Saadi, in the heart of […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Climate Crisis
In our National Crisis, We need Public Voices of Optimism -- not Gadflies circling a Black Hole

In our National Crisis, We need Public Voices of Optimism — not Gadflies circling a Black Hole

Sacramento (Special to Informed Comment) – Who is a public intellectual? What role should they play? Searching the internet yields several answers. Alan Lightman’s The […]

Bahman Fozouni

nuclear weapons
The Utter Madness of Nuclear Arsenals, as Global ‘Titanic’ Picks up Speed

The Utter Madness of Nuclear Arsenals, as Global ‘Titanic’ Picks up Speed

By Norman Solomon ( Tomdispatch.com) – Yes, the Doomsday Clock keeps ticking — it’s now at 90 seconds to midnight, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic […]

Tomdispatch

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Saudis Contradict Blinken: Want Actual Palestinian State now, not Vague 'Peace Process'

Saudis Contradict Blinken: Want Actual Palestinian State now, not Vague ‘Peace Process’

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – On Tuesday afternoon (6 February 2024), U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took part in a joint press […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Israel/ Palestine
Why Cutting the Funding of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza is a Humanitarian Catastrophe

Why Cutting the Funding of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza is a Humanitarian Catastrophe

By Emilie El Khoury, Queen’s University, Ontario | – (The Conversation) – Shortly after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its ruling in the […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
A Trumpian Bacchanalia in 2024?

A Trumpian Bacchanalia in 2024?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – I was born on July 20, 1944, almost two years after Joe Biden arrived on this planet and almost a year […]

Tom Engelhardt

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