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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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We're not at War: Why is Congress giving $778 Billion of our Money to the Pentagon?

We’re not at War: Why is Congress giving $778 Billion of our Money to the Pentagon?

( Code Pink) – Despite a disagreement over some amendments in the Senate, the United States Congress is poised to pass a $778 billion military […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Climate Crisis
Top 6 Ways to Rescue Our Planet

Top 6 Ways to Rescue Our Planet

By Phoebe Barnard and William Moomaw | – For some time, the Earth’s natural resources have been depleted faster than they can be replaced. The […]

The Conversation

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Nuclear Talks:  Iran thumbs nose at US, betting on China as new Superpower

Nuclear Talks: Iran thumbs nose at US, betting on China as new Superpower

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The recent round of talks in Vienna between Iran and Germany plus the 4 members of the UN Security Council […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The Donald Also Rises?   The Far Right Continues to Build Its International

The Donald Also Rises? The Far Right Continues to Build Its International

( Tomdispatch.com) – What alt-right guru Steve Bannon failed to create, German taxpayers have just stepped in to revive: a Nationalist International. Thanks to the […]

John Feffer

Islam
The Qur'an and Plato's Republic:  Hellenism and Early Islam  (Juan Cole Video Interview)

The Qur’an and Plato’s Republic: Hellenism and Early Islam (Juan Cole Video Interview)

Interview by Ziryab Jamal of Juan Cole | – “THE QUR’ĀN’S CHAPTER “The Cow” contains a verse (2:138) having to do with believers being dyed […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
How dual loyalties created an ethics problem for Chris Cuomo and CNN

How dual loyalties created an ethics problem for Chris Cuomo and CNN

By Jane E Kirtley | – CNN anchor Chris Cuomo conceded in March, 2021 that he could not, ethically, cover the sexual harassment allegations against […]

The Conversation

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We do it to Ourselves: 30 Gun Homicides in England in 2020 (167 US Equiv.), vs. 13,620 in US

We do it to Ourselves: 30 Gun Homicides in England in 2020 (167 US Equiv.), vs. 13,620 in US

Revised The murders by a high school student in Oxford, Michigan, who was given a gun by his parents even though he was making death […]

Juan Cole

Corporations
Blame Corporate Greed for Inflation

Blame Corporate Greed for Inflation

By Sarah Baron | – ( Otherwords.org) – CEOs are taking every opportunity to further pad their own pockets. Here’s how to hold them accountable. […]

OtherWords

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Yemeni journalist accused of spreading atheism is jailed for 15 years in Saudi Arabia

Yemeni journalist accused of spreading atheism is jailed for 15 years in Saudi Arabia

( Al-Bab.com) – A Yemeni journalist has become the latest victim of Saudi Arabia’s laws against religious disbelief. Thirty-year-old Ali Muhsin Abu Lahoum worked in […]

Brian Whitaker

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