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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
Will Germany's New Climate Super Minister Robert Habeck Super Charge the Clean Energy Transition?

Will Germany’s New Climate Super Minister Robert Habeck Super Charge the Clean Energy Transition?

By Sören Amelang | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – As Germany’s first climate “super minister”, Green politician Robert Habeck will play a key role […]

Clean Energy Wire

Climate Crisis
Electric cars aren’t enough to hit climate targets: we need to develop better public transport too

Electric cars aren’t enough to hit climate targets: we need to develop better public transport too

By Vera O’Riordan | – Transport is responsible for 24% of energy-related carbon emissions worldwide. Half of those emissions are from carrying goods and services, […]

The Conversation

Congress
Lauren Boebert is the one with Terrorist ties, not Ilhan Omar

Lauren Boebert is the one with Terrorist ties, not Ilhan Omar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was caught on camera boasting of taunting Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) that she is a terrorist. […]

Juan Cole

Corporate Surveillance
Is Big Brother Israel a ‘stalker state’?

Is Big Brother Israel a ‘stalker state’?

( Jordan Times) – In an interview with The Washington Post, Israel’s Breaking the Silence, an ex-soldiers rights organisation, has highlighted Israel’s comprehensive surveillance of […]

Michael Jansen

Epidemics
What we know about the Omicron Corona Variant So Far

What we know about the Omicron Corona Variant So Far

By Prof. Wolfgang Preiser, Cathrine Scheepers, Jinal Bhiman, Marietjie Venter, and Tulio de Oliveira | – Since early in the COVID pandemic, the Network for […]

The Conversation

Banking
The Collapse of Turkey's Currency fuels Power Struggle

The Collapse of Turkey’s Currency fuels Power Struggle

By Bakr Sidqi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – On what was called “Black Tuesday” in the media this week, the value of […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Germany to Get Green Party Ministry of Economy, Energy and Climate in boost for President Biden

Germany to Get Green Party Ministry of Economy, Energy and Climate in boost for President Biden

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Germany’s environmentalist Green Party, led by two popular politicians, nearly doubled its seats in parliament to become a swing party […]

Juan Cole

Belgium
Belgium has decided to Label Squatter-Settler goods from Occupied Palestine as Not from Israel -- Will it start a Wave?

Belgium has decided to Label Squatter-Settler goods from Occupied Palestine as Not from Israel — Will it start a Wave?

( Middle East Monitor ) – Labelling Israeli settlement products “strengthens extremists, does not help promote peace in the region, and shows Belgium as not […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
Whether Gov'ts like it or not, Coal Plants are doomed by Cheap Solar and Wind Power

Whether Gov’ts like it or not, Coal Plants are doomed by Cheap Solar and Wind Power

By James Ha and Alison Reeve | The international climate summit in Glasgow aimed to “consign coal power to history”. But while some major coal-consuming […]

The Conversation

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