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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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Republicans reject Gov't Vaccine Mandates for Men, seek state Pregnancy Mandates on Women

Republicans reject Gov’t Vaccine Mandates for Men, seek state Pregnancy Mandates on Women

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Texas GOP delegation in Congress, led by Rep. Chip Roy and Sen. Ted Cruz, are threatening to shut down […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
After America:   The Russo-Turkish Tango in Afghanistan

After America: The Russo-Turkish Tango in Afghanistan

The Kremlin is making overtures to the new Taliban government in Afghanistan. On October 21, at a meeting of the Valdai Club, President Vladimir Putin […]

Nikola Mikovic

Israel/ Palestine
No, Opposing Israeli Apartheid Policies is not anti-Semitism, and Most Universities are rejecting IHRA Propaganda Ploy

No, Opposing Israeli Apartheid Policies is not anti-Semitism, and Most Universities are rejecting IHRA Propaganda Ploy

On the first of October, the University of Bristol fired Professor David Miller, a world renowned expert on the Israel lobby, the Zionist movement and […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Why the Arctic getting more Rain than Snow will be bad news for the whole world

Why the Arctic getting more Rain than Snow will be bad news for the whole world

By Richard Hodgkins | – Before the end of this century, most of the Arctic will for the first time receive more rain than snow […]

The Conversation

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Both UN Official and US Amb. to UN Warn Israel Squatter Violence toward Palestinians is Escalating

Both UN Official and US Amb. to UN Warn Israel Squatter Violence toward Palestinians is Escalating

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Tuesday, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, delivered alarming remarks to the United […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel is Isolating East Jerusalem from the West Bank to Block a Viable Palestinian State

How Israel is Isolating East Jerusalem from the West Bank to Block a Viable Palestinian State

By Ali Abu Hableh | – ( Middle East Monitor) – The Israeli coalition government headed by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid has set its […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
What my 20 years in Afghanistan taught me about the Taliban – and how the west consistently underestimates them

What my 20 years in Afghanistan taught me about the Taliban – and how the west consistently underestimates them

By Sippi Azarbaijani Moghaddam | – It was April 1995, and I was preparing to travel to Afghanistan for my first volunteer post with a […]

The Conversation

Employment
The “Graveyard Shift” in a Pandemic World: The Real Meaning of Supply-Chain Woes

The “Graveyard Shift” in a Pandemic World: The Real Meaning of Supply-Chain Woes

( Tomdispatch.com) – In mid-October, President Biden announced that the Port of Los Angeles would begin operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, […]

Rebecca Gordon

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For First Time, Wind generated more Electricity in Turkey than any other Source

For First Time, Wind generated more Electricity in Turkey than any other Source

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Daily Sabah reports that on Sunday November 28, Turkey got 22.6% of its electricity from wind power, a first […]

Juan Cole

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