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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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China
India, 3rd biggest CO2 Emitter, will Pause new Coal Plants for 5 Years in favor of Batteries, New Solar

India, 3rd biggest CO2 Emitter, will Pause new Coal Plants for 5 Years in favor of Batteries, New Solar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sibi Arasu at the Associated Press reports that the Indian government is going to pause new coal plants for 5 […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
A man without a Strategy: How Netanyahu is provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank

A man without a Strategy: How Netanyahu is provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank

Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud   After signing a military decree on 18 May, allowing illegal Israeli Jewish settlers to reclaim the abandoned Homesh settlement located […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Increasing Heat is already a Factor in human Migration – New Study

Increasing Heat is already a Factor in human Migration – New Study

By Rita Issa, University of East Anglia | – It was getting hotter. Frank May got off his mat and padded over to look out […]

The Conversation

Pentagon
The Compulsion to Intervene: Why Washington Underwrites Violence in Ukraine

The Compulsion to Intervene: Why Washington Underwrites Violence in Ukraine

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Allow me to come clean: I worry every time Max Boot vents enthusiastically about a prospective military action. Whenever that Washington […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Donald Trump
Smoking Gun: Trump's Theft of Classified Iran Materials Caught on Tape, May bring him down

Smoking Gun: Trump’s Theft of Classified Iran Materials Caught on Tape, May bring him down

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When Trump murdered several people by drone at Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020, including Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani, […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Turkey: what to expect from Erdoğan, his ultranationalist Alliance and their ‘Family Values’ Pledges

Turkey: what to expect from Erdoğan, his ultranationalist Alliance and their ‘Family Values’ Pledges

Balki Begumhan Bayhan, Coventry University | – (The Conversation) – After a bitter and hard-fought campaign that went to a second run-off vote, Recep Tayyip […]

The Conversation

Environment
Environmental Hazard: How Russia's War in Ukraine Threatens the Planet

Environmental Hazard: How Russia’s War in Ukraine Threatens the Planet

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has resulted in the deaths so far of more than 8,700 Ukrainian civilians, […]

John Feffer

US Foreign Policy
The Wars we don’t (Care to) See: Aggression Made Easy

The Wars we don’t (Care to) See: Aggression Made Easy

By David Barsamian and Norman Solomon ( Tomdispatch.com ) – [The following is excerpted and adapted from David Barsamian’s recent interview with Norman Solomon at […]

Tomdispatch

Batteries
Tipping Point? Global Investments in Low-Carbon Energy Outstrip Fossil Fuel Commitments by 1.7 to 1 for First Time in World History

Tipping Point? Global Investments in Low-Carbon Energy Outstrip Fossil Fuel Commitments by 1.7 to 1 for First Time in World History

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Globally, investors will sink $1.7 trillion into low-carbon energy this year — for the first time more than will be […]

Juan Cole

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Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

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