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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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Goodies for Greens in Biden's $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Act

Goodies for Greens in Biden’s $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Act

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that was passed by the Senate some time ago and then passed by […]

Juan Cole

Democracy
Feeding the Crocodile:  Do Any Republicans Still Support Democracy?

Feeding the Crocodile: Do Any Republicans Still Support Democracy?

( Otherwords) – Republicans should heed Churchill’s warning about appeasing authoritarians: “Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, it will eat him […]

Jill Richardson

Afghanistan
Armed With Online Option, Afghan Girls Say 'Bring It On' When It Comes To Taliban Education Ban

Armed With Online Option, Afghan Girls Say ‘Bring It On’ When It Comes To Taliban Education Ban

By Michael Scollon of RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi | – ( RFE/RL – Radio Azadi) – Hundreds of school-aged girls in Afghanistan are getting around the […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Climate Crisis
COP26: here’s what it would take to end coal power worldwide

COP26: here’s what it would take to end coal power worldwide

By Alex Clark | – More than 40 countries have signed an agreement at COP26, the latest UN climate change summit in Glasgow, to phase […]

The Conversation

Congress
Fightin' Joe Biden Wins big, on Jobs, Covid, the Dow and Infrastructure, but Corporate News downplays Successes

Fightin’ Joe Biden Wins big, on Jobs, Covid, the Dow and Infrastructure, but Corporate News downplays Successes

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The for-profit press thinks it knows what the story in Washington, D.C., is. Joe Biden is a boring president who […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
As Saudis, Emirates enjoy Impunity, the UN needs to Create a New Yemen War Crimes Investigation

As Saudis, Emirates enjoy Impunity, the UN needs to Create a New Yemen War Crimes Investigation

By Louis Charbonneau | United Nations Director | – ( Human Rights Watch) – Last month, the Netherlands’ ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
Even German big business CEOs say they expect to reach CO2 neutrality in 14 years

Even German big business CEOs say they expect to reach CO2 neutrality in 14 years

By Edgar Meza | – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( Clean Energy Wire) – Germany’s leading business executives are taking climate and environmental protection increasingly serious, […]

Clean Energy Wire

Environment
Sacrifice Zones:  How the EPA Allows Polluters to Make Neighborhoods breathe Carcinogens

Sacrifice Zones: How the EPA Allows Polluters to Make Neighborhoods breathe Carcinogens

Poison in the Air By Lylla Younes, Ava Kofman, Al Shaw and Lisa Song, with additional reporting by Maya Miller, photography by Kathleen Flynn for […]

ProPublica

Climate Crisis
Question for Joe Manchin after COP26: Why isn't Coal -- the New Blood Diamonds-- Illegal, Now?

Question for Joe Manchin after COP26: Why isn’t Coal — the New Blood Diamonds– Illegal, Now?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Denise Chow at NBC News reports that on Thursday at the UN climate conference Cop26, some 23 new countries signed […]

Juan Cole

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