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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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The Market Won't Save Us:  How to Rapidly Reduce Deadly Fossil Fuel Use

The Market Won’t Save Us: How to Rapidly Reduce Deadly Fossil Fuel Use

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The burning of fossil fuels—oil, coal, natural gas—is responsible for nearly 90 percent of global carbon emissions. Despite […]

John Feffer

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The Limits of Saudi Normalization with Israel

The Limits of Saudi Normalization with Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration is devoting what energy the State Department has aside from the effort to defend Ukraine to achieving […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
75 Years Later, Israel Blocking Palestinian Refugees’ Return

75 Years Later, Israel Blocking Palestinian Refugees’ Return

Omar Shakir Israel and Palestine Director, Middle East and North Africa Division   @OmarSShakir From the morgues of Cairo to the cells of Guantanamo, I’ve […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
More than two dozen Cities and States are suing Big Oil over Climate Change – they just got a Boost from the US Supreme Court

More than two dozen Cities and States are suing Big Oil over Climate Change – they just got a Boost from the US Supreme Court

By Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School and John Dernbach, Widener University | – Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous […]

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White Nationalists, Hindu Supremacists: the Pathologies of the World’s Two Largest Democracies

White Nationalists, Hindu Supremacists: the Pathologies of the World’s Two Largest Democracies

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Are you worried about the rising political power of violent white nationalists […]

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China
China's Solar Power Installations Skyrocket by 36.6%, may install 100 Gigs of New Solar this Year

China’s Solar Power Installations Skyrocket by 36.6%, may install 100 Gigs of New Solar this Year

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the first four months of 2023, China’s solar power installations increased by an incredible 36.6 percent year over year, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Nakba:  Remembering Israel's Massacre of Palestinians at Tantura

Nakba: Remembering Israel’s Massacre of Palestinians at Tantura

Nasim Ahmed Nasimbythedocks     ( Middle East Monitor ) – On this day in May 1948, up to 200 Palestinians were massacred by Israeli […]

Middle East Monitor

Asian-Americans
Chinese Immigrants sue over New DeSantis Law in Florida Barring them from Buying Homes or Land

Chinese Immigrants sue over New DeSantis Law in Florida Barring them from Buying Homes or Land

By: Mitch Perry – Chinese citizens who live and work in Florida have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a law recently signed […]

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Women’s secret war: the inside story of how the US military sent female soldiers on covert combat missions to Afghanistan

Women’s secret war: the inside story of how the US military sent female soldiers on covert combat missions to Afghanistan

By Jennifer Greenburg, University of Sheffield | – A US Army handbook from 2011 opens one of its chapters with a line from Rudyard Kipling’s […]

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