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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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Is Saudi Arabia using "Sportswashing" to Simply Hide its Human Rights Abuses -- Or is there a Bigger Strategy at Play?

Is Saudi Arabia using “Sportswashing” to Simply Hide its Human Rights Abuses — Or is there a Bigger Strategy at Play?

By Ben Rich, Curtin University and Leena Adel, Curtin University | – As Saudi Arabia continues to open up internationally, it is yet again in […]

The Conversation

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Iraq’s Climate Crisis: America’s War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl

Iraq’s Climate Crisis: America’s War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl

( Tomdispatch.com ) – It was one of the fabled rivers of history and the Marines needed to cross it. In early April 2003, as […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
To Stop Global Heating, Cut Military Spending

To Stop Global Heating, Cut Military Spending

By Alliyah Lusuegro | ( Otherwords.org ) – Not long ago, I couldn’t step outside my home without pulling on my KN95 mask.  As smoke […]

OtherWords

Africa
Tunisia: Crisis as Black Africans Expelled to Libya Border

Tunisia: Crisis as Black Africans Expelled to Libya Border

( Human Rights Watch) – (Tunis) – Tunisian security forces have collectively expelled several hundred Black African migrants and asylum seekers, including children and pregnant […]

Human Rights Watch

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The Stabbing attack against women at the U. of Waterloo underscores the Dangers of Polarizing Rhetoric about Gender

The Stabbing attack against women at the U. of Waterloo underscores the Dangers of Polarizing Rhetoric about Gender

By Shana MacDonald, University of Waterloo and Alysia Kolentsis, University of Waterloo | – In the wake of the recent stabbing attack on a University […]

The Conversation

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Turkiye's Erdogan Urges NATO membership for Ukraine, but Stiff-Arms Sweden over Kurdish Issue

Turkiye’s Erdogan Urges NATO membership for Ukraine, but Stiff-Arms Sweden over Kurdish Issue

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan invited Ukraine’s leader, Volodomir Zelensky, to Istanbul for consultations. Zelensky arrived late on Friday and met […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Israeli Far Right's Alliance with PM Netanyahu is Leading the Mideast into Madness

The Israeli Far Right’s Alliance with PM Netanyahu is Leading the Mideast into Madness

Amr Hamzawy     ( Middle East Monitor ) – Once again, the extreme religious right in Israel demonstrates its never-ending racism, violence and inhumanity […]

Middle East Monitor

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Shifting to Electric Vehicle Fleets Would save State, Local Governments Millions

Shifting to Electric Vehicle Fleets Would save State, Local Governments Millions

  Liam Coates/Cronkite News ( Cronkite News) – WASHINGTON – Arizona governments could save almost $283 million over the next 10 years if roughly 20,000 […]

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Climate Crisis
Why are so Many Climate Records breaking all at Once?

Why are so Many Climate Records breaking all at Once?

By Kimberley Reid, Monash University | – (The Conversation) – In the past few weeks, climate records have shattered across the globe. July 4 was […]

The Conversation

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