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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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What can the West learn from Kenya about Geothermal Power?

What can the West learn from Kenya about Geothermal Power?

Clean Energy Wire / ARD ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Kenya signaled its interest in becoming the first African nation in an international ‘climate […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

China
Goodbye to the American Century:  China India and the Emerging New World Order

Goodbye to the American Century: China India and the Emerging New World Order

( Tomdispatch.com) – Not so long ago, political analysts were speaking of the “G-2” — that is, of a potential working alliance between the United […]

Michael T. Klare

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Is Israel Over-Hyping the Supposed Iran Threat?

Is Israel Over-Hyping the Supposed Iran Threat?

Review of Jonathan G. Leslie, Fear and Insecurity: Israel and the Iran Threat Narrative (London: Hurst and Co., 2022). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
The Symbolic Nakba Commemoration at the UN Showed  Discomfort with the Truth that Israel Expelled the Palestinians

The Symbolic Nakba Commemoration at the UN Showed Discomfort with the Truth that Israel Expelled the Palestinians

Ramona Wadi walzerscent     ( Middle East Monitor ) – “The thought that an international organisation could mark the establishment of one of its […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
EPA Again Proposes Restrictions on Power Plant Carbon Dioxide Emissions

EPA Again Proposes Restrictions on Power Plant Carbon Dioxide Emissions

By: Robert Zullo     ( The Wisconsin Examiner ) – The Obama administration’s 2015 Clean Power Plan — intended to cut carbon emissions from […]

Wisconsin Examiner

African-Americans
The Nation of Islam: A brief History

The Nation of Islam: A brief History

By Joseph R. Stuart, Brigham Young University | – May 2023 marks 98 years since the birth of civil rights leader Malcolm X, formerly Malcolm […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
2/3s of the Summer Dry Air that encourages Wildfires comes from Humanity burning Fossil Fuels

2/3s of the Summer Dry Air that encourages Wildfires comes from Humanity burning Fossil Fuels

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The earth’s atmosphere can make things wet or dry them out depending on the water vapor pressure. When there is […]

Juan Cole

Employment
In DeSantis’ “Free” State of Florida, Union Freedom is under Attack

In DeSantis’ “Free” State of Florida, Union Freedom is under Attack

by Rebekah Entralgo ( Inequality.org ) – In what Governor Ron DeSantis likes to call his “freedom state” of Florida, the freedom to belong to […]

Inequality.org

Democracy
On its 75th birthday, Israel still can’t Agree on What it means to be a Jewish State and a Democracy

On its 75th birthday, Israel still can’t Agree on What it means to be a Jewish State and a Democracy

By Eran Kaplan, San Francisco State University | – As Israel celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding, and nearly a century and a half […]

The Conversation

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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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