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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

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The End of Human Rights?  Donald Trump Has Ripped Off the Human Rights Veneer That Once Graced U.S. Foreign Policy

The End of Human Rights? Donald Trump Has Ripped Off the Human Rights Veneer That Once Graced U.S. Foreign Policy

By Ashley Gate and William D. Hartung ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The Trump administration seems intent on undermining America’s ability to make human rights a […]

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Morocco Plans Floating Solar PV over Reservoirs to Stop Evaporation

Morocco Plans Floating Solar PV over Reservoirs to Stop Evaporation

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Morocco is on a green energy roll, as the government’s far-sighted plan to move the North African country to renewables […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Syria: Türkiye-backed Armed Groups Detain, Extort Civilians

Syria: Türkiye-backed Armed Groups Detain, Extort Civilians

New Syrian Government Should Ensure Accountability Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Syrian National Army (SNA) factions that fought the Assad government with backing from Türkiye […]

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Children
What Malnutrition is doing to Gaza’s Starving Babies in their 1st 1000 Days of Life

What Malnutrition is doing to Gaza’s Starving Babies in their 1st 1000 Days of Life

By Nina Sivertsen, Flinders University; Annette Briley, Flinders University, and Tahlia Johnson, Flinders University (The Conversation) – Last week, the United Nations warned more than […]

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Gaza “a Gaping Wound on Humanity:” Spain Convenes Int’l Conference to call for Arms Embargo on Israel

Gaza “a Gaping Wound on Humanity:” Spain Convenes Int’l Conference to call for Arms Embargo on Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Spanish wire service EFE reports that delegations from 20 countries met Sunday in Madrid in a push to pressure […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Siege Politics: Netanyahu’s Crisis-Driven Grip on Power

Siege Politics: Netanyahu’s Crisis-Driven Grip on Power

Even mild criticism produces splenetic reactions from the Israeli leader. By Imran Khalid | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – By now, it should […]

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Starving Babies:  The Self-Liquidation of U.S. Global Soft Power

Starving Babies: The Self-Liquidation of U.S. Global Soft Power

( Tomdispatch.com ) – With the Oval Office looking more like a middle school classroom every day, let’s recall the way, once upon a time, […]

Alfred W. McCoy

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Genetic Study finds Echoes of the Early Modern Ethnic Cleansing of Spain’s Muslims

Genetic Study finds Echoes of the Early Modern Ethnic Cleansing of Spain’s Muslims

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A genetic history study of Spain by Gonzalo Oteo-Garcia et al. in Genome Biology eloquently confirms the story of the […]

Juan Cole

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WHO: 94% of Gaza Hospitals Damaged or Destroyed

WHO: 94% of Gaza Hospitals Damaged or Destroyed

( Middle East Monitor ) – The UN reported on Friday that at least 94% of hospitals in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, with […]

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