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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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Top 4 Reasons Sen. Manchin will Fail to Stop the Tsunami of Green Energy and Biden will get Climate Progress

Top 4 Reasons Sen. Manchin will Fail to Stop the Tsunami of Green Energy and Biden will get Climate Progress

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia may succeed in preventing Congress from legislating the quick demise of coal and gas […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Human Rights? Saudi Arabia put a Child Dissident on Death Row for 10 Years, but has Finally Released him

Human Rights? Saudi Arabia put a Child Dissident on Death Row for 10 Years, but has Finally Released him

By Bill Van Esveld | Associate Director, MENA, Children’s Rights Division | – Nearly ten years after Ali al-Nimr was arrested by Saudi authorities in […]

Human Rights Watch

African-Americans
Anti-Imperialism You Can Try at Home:  Reparations May Be One Cure for What Ails Us

Anti-Imperialism You Can Try at Home: Reparations May Be One Cure for What Ails Us

By Mattea Kramer | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Robin Rue Simmons had been very curious about the truth of American life as a young […]

Tomdispatch

Denialism
What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words

What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words

By Benjamin Franta | – Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden […]

The Conversation

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Israeli Government defies President Biden, announces 3K new Squatter Dwellings on Palestinian Land

Israeli Government defies President Biden, announces 3K new Squatter Dwellings on Palestinian Land

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab48 reports that Israeli authorities are authorizing 3,144 new housing units for squatters on Palestinian-owned land in […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Is the Pandemic finally Subsiding in the Middle East?  New Infections at Lowest Level for More than a Year

Is the Pandemic finally Subsiding in the Middle East? New Infections at Lowest Level for More than a Year

( Al-Bab.com) – New Covid-19 cases recorded in the Middle East and North Africa averaged 19,075 a day last week. This is the first time […]

Brian Whitaker

Climate Crisis
How to Truly ‘Build Back Better’ on Climate

How to Truly ‘Build Back Better’ on Climate

This commentary was jointly produced by In These Times and Foreign Policy In Focus. ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The infrastructure and budget reconciliation […]

Basav Sen

Climate Crisis
Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future – not skyscrapers

Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future – not skyscrapers

By Ruth Saint and Francesco Pomponi | – More than half of the world’s 7.8 billion people live in cities and urban areas. By 2050, […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Is Trump one of Top Mass Murderers? Dr. Birx says he Killed 130K- 160K with Bad COVID Policy

Is Trump one of Top Mass Murderers? Dr. Birx says he Killed 130K- 160K with Bad COVID Policy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In remarks this month to Congress, Dr. Deborah Birx, former member of Trump’s White House Coronavirus Task Force, estimated that […]

Juan Cole

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