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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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Afghanistan
Was the Afghan War a Schell Game?  Getting It Right Is Always the Wrong Approach When It Comes to America’s Wars

Was the Afghan War a Schell Game? Getting It Right Is Always the Wrong Approach When It Comes to America’s Wars

( Tomdispatch.com) – I waited almost three months for some acknowledgement, but it never came. Not a bottle of champagne. Not a congratulatory note. Not […]

Nick Turse

Climate Crisis
Global emissions almost back to pre-pandemic levels after unprecedented drop in 2020, new analysis shows

Global emissions almost back to pre-pandemic levels after unprecedented drop in 2020, new analysis shows

By Pep Canadell, Corinne Le Quéré, Glen Peters, Pierre Friedlingstein, Robbie Andrew, and Rob Jackson | – Global carbon dioxide emissions have bounced back after […]

The Conversation

Arab World
The Middle East is heating twice as Fast as the Rest of the World: How long will it be Habitable?

The Middle East is heating twice as Fast as the Rest of the World: How long will it be Habitable?

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Alarm bells are ringing at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow over the perilous […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
"Worse than a Crime":  Pentagon Inspector finds Kabul Drone Strike Killing 10 not a Violation of Law (!)

“Worse than a Crime”: Pentagon Inspector finds Kabul Drone Strike Killing 10 not a Violation of Law (!)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Paul Handley of AFP reports that the US Air Force Inspector General, Lieutenant General Sami Said, found that a drone […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Is America's Political Dysfunction harming Democracy around the World?

Is America’s Political Dysfunction harming Democracy around the World?

Congressional paralysis, voter suppression, and widespread political polarization all suggest that American democracy is far from exemplary.

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
The Climate Emergency is a Social Justice Issue - Six Charts that Show Why

The Climate Emergency is a Social Justice Issue – Six Charts that Show Why

By Sonja Klinsky | – Climate change has hit home around the world in 2021 with record heat waves, droughts, wildfires and extreme storms. Often, […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Greta Thunberg to World Leaders at COP26: Shove your 'Climate Crisis' up your Arse!

Greta Thunberg to World Leaders at COP26: Shove your ‘Climate Crisis’ up your Arse!

Can a Singing, Dancing Rebellion Save the World?

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

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Sheikh Jarrah Palestinian Families Reject Israeli theft of their Homes, turning them into Renters

Sheikh Jarrah Palestinian Families Reject Israeli theft of their Homes, turning them into Renters

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Palestinian East Jerusalem families facing expulsion from their homes by Israeli squatters in […]

Juan Cole

National Security State
The World the “American Century” Made: Quagmires, Wars and Serial Demonization

The World the “American Century” Made: Quagmires, Wars and Serial Demonization

( Tomdispatch.com ) – On February 17, 1941, less than 10 months before the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor and the U.S. found itself in a […]

Tom Engelhardt

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