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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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Inequality
U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surged by 70 Percent, or $2.1 Trillion, During Pandemic

U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surged by 70 Percent, or $2.1 Trillion, During Pandemic

By Chuck Collins | – (Institute for Policy Studies) – Sen. Wyden’s billionaires income tax tapping those huge returns could raise big revenue to fund […]

Institute for Policy Studies

Democracy
The Sudanese people overthrew dictatorship in 2019; Can the Generals undo the Revolution?

The Sudanese people overthrew dictatorship in 2019; Can the Generals undo the Revolution?

By David E Kiwuwa | – This week the head of Sudan’s Sovereign Council, General Abdel Fattah El Burhan, declared the dissolution of the transitional […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Trump was aping Third World Dictators when he Tried to make his Coup

Trump was aping Third World Dictators when he Tried to make his Coup

( Tomdispatch.com) – As an eyewitness, I can recall the events of January 6th in Washington as if they were yesterday. The crowds of angry […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Featured
Israeli, UN, European Human Rights Experts Condemn Israel for Branding Palestinian Rights Groups "Terrorists"

Israeli, UN, European Human Rights Experts Condemn Israel for Branding Palestinian Rights Groups “Terrorists”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Monday, Israeli, European and United Nations human rights experts condemned last Friday’s decision by Israeli Foreign Minister Benny Gantz […]

Juan Cole

American Jews
The Lingering of Trumpian anti-Immigrant Hate, and Commemorating victims at Tree of Life Synagogue

The Lingering of Trumpian anti-Immigrant Hate, and Commemorating victims at Tree of Life Synagogue

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – The “3rd Commemoration” of the 2018 Pittsburgh, Tree of Life Synagogue massacre occurs on October 27. When one […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Employment
We don't need a Debt Ceiling, we Need Gov't to Invest in Truly Rewarding Jobs

We don’t need a Debt Ceiling, we Need Gov’t to Invest in Truly Rewarding Jobs

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Who is at fault for a standoff on the debt ceiling? Republicans are the obvious choice because […]

John Buell

Afghanistan
How ethnic and religious divides in Afghanistan are contributing to violence against minorities

How ethnic and religious divides in Afghanistan are contributing to violence against minorities

By Abdulkader Sinno | – Close to a hundred Afghan Shiite Muslims were killed in attacks on mosques in October 2021. One such attack took […]

The Conversation

censorship
"A Psychopath with Infinite Resources:" Al-Jabri accuses Saudi Crown Prince MBS

“A Psychopath with Infinite Resources:” Al-Jabri accuses Saudi Crown Prince MBS

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scott Pelley at CBS’s “60 Minutes” interviewed Dr. Saad al-Jabri, the number 2 man in Saudi intelligence until 2014, when […]

Juan Cole

Democracy
How Billionaires' Utopias could End American Democracy

How Billionaires’ Utopias could End American Democracy

( Inequality.org) – Great wealth can do great damage. Grand personal fortunes, we’ve come to understand, can menace our democracy and distort our economic life. […]

Sam Pizzigati

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