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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 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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Climate Crisis
For many Island Species, the next Tropical Cyclone may be their Last

For many Island Species, the next Tropical Cyclone may be their Last

By Simon Valle, Bangor University and David Jorge Pereira, University of Birmingham (The Conversation) – When a major cyclone tears through an island nation, all […]

The Conversation

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EVs will Make Up 25% of New Car Sales Globally in 2025, up from 20% last Year

EVs will Make Up 25% of New Car Sales Globally in 2025, up from 20% last Year

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Electric vehicles are expected to make up some 25% of cars sold globally in 2025, according to the International Energy […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Kneecap Band Member’s Arrest is not the Issue, Criminalizing Opposition to Genocide of Palestinians Is

Kneecap Band Member’s Arrest is not the Issue, Criminalizing Opposition to Genocide of Palestinians Is

  by Brendan Ciarán Browne and     Elian Weizman ( Middle East Monitor ) – Anyone with the most modest modicum of common sense […]

Middle East Monitor

Books
Why ‘The Coin’ by Palestinian writer Yasmin Zaher has won the Dylan Thomas Prize

Why ‘The Coin’ by Palestinian writer Yasmin Zaher has won the Dylan Thomas Prize

(The Conversation) – Daniel G. Williams, Swansea University (The Conversation) – Yasmin Zaher’s remarkable novel The Coin has won the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Green Enterprise: 1 Gigawatt He Dreiht North Sea Wind Farm receives no Gov’t Subsidies

Green Enterprise: 1 Gigawatt He Dreiht North Sea Wind Farm receives no Gov’t Subsidies

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first giant Vestas offshore wind turbine of the German He Dreiht (“It Spins”) project in the North Sea has […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
‘Killing all Humanity’: 2 Israeli Embassy Workers Killed in ‘Horrific’ Washington, DC Shooting

‘Killing all Humanity’: 2 Israeli Embassy Workers Killed in ‘Horrific’ Washington, DC Shooting

“We are grounded first and foremost in the belief that all human life is precious, which is precisely why we are struggling for a world […]

Common Dreams

Israel/ Palestine
Israelis’ Blinkered Media Drive Public Doubts on Gaza’s Hunger Plight

Israelis’ Blinkered Media Drive Public Doubts on Gaza’s Hunger Plight

By Jori Breslawski, Tel Aviv University and Carlo Koos, University of Bergen (The Conversation) – Under mounting international pressure, Israel announced on May 19, 2025, […]

The Conversation

Colonialism
500 Years of Inflicted Horrors, from the New World to Israel

500 Years of Inflicted Horrors, from the New World to Israel

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Leon Golub once related a story to a mutual friend. A Chicago artist famous for large canvases depicting crimson torture rooms in […]

Greg Grandin

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Islam:  A New History

Islam: A New History

A Review of Islam: A New History, from Muhammad to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2025) by John Tolan Detroit (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) […]

Joseph Richard Preville

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