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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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Israel/ Palestine
Bennett's "Natural Growth" Rhetoric can't conceal Israel's colonial Land Grab

Bennett’s “Natural Growth” Rhetoric can’t conceal Israel’s colonial Land Grab

( Middle East Monitor) – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is playing with words to advance the colonial state’s de-facto annexation of the occupied West […]

Ramona Wadi

Afghanistan
US Troops caught up in ISIL-K - Taliban Civil War: Why it Proves Biden was Right to Leave

US Troops caught up in ISIL-K – Taliban Civil War: Why it Proves Biden was Right to Leave

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera Arabic reports that ISIL-K (the so-called “Islamic state group” of Iraq and the Levant in Khorasan) claimed responsibility […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
What is ISIS-K, the Organization that Bombed Kabul Airport?

What is ISIS-K, the Organization that Bombed Kabul Airport?

By Amira Jadoon and Andrew Mines | – An attack on a crowd gathered outside Kabul’s airport on Aug. 26, 2021, has left at least […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Biden says he’s prioritizing Human Rights, but is welcoming an Israeli Prime Minister who boasts about War Crimes

Biden says he’s prioritizing Human Rights, but is welcoming an Israeli Prime Minister who boasts about War Crimes

( Otherwords.org ) – Biden can’t say he’s putting human rights first and then welcome a prime minister who boasts about war crimes to the […]

Sahand Yazdanyar

China
Beijing in the Mideast: China's Asian Infrastructure Plan and Turkey's Black Sea Ambitions

Beijing in the Mideast: China’s Asian Infrastructure Plan and Turkey’s Black Sea Ambitions

By Emre Demir | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – Despite mounting opposition from political and civil society groups due to potential environmental and political issues, […]

Global Voices

Afghanistan
Perfect Storm: Hunger stalks 14 mn Afghans, 2 mn Children, from Taliban, War, climate-driven Drought, and Covid

Perfect Storm: Hunger stalks 14 mn Afghans, 2 mn Children, from Taliban, War, climate-driven Drought, and Covid

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) announced a few days ago that 14 million people in Afghanistan are at […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
The Taliban Religious Ideology is Blow-back from 200 Years of British Rule of India

The Taliban Religious Ideology is Blow-back from 200 Years of British Rule of India

By Sohel Rana and Sumit Ganguly | – Following the Taliban’s rapid taking of power in what it describes as a reestablished “Islamic Emirate of […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
The Neocons Strike Back:  Blair's Carping at Biden's Afghanistan Withdrawal is Spite that He Couldn't Recolonize the Muslim World

The Neocons Strike Back: Blair’s Carping at Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal is Spite that He Couldn’t Recolonize the Muslim World

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The architects of the “war on terror” have hit back following the humiliating US […]

Middle East Monitor

Democracy
How can America Promote Democracy When the GOP Half of the Country Doesn't Believe in it?

How can America Promote Democracy When the GOP Half of the Country Doesn’t Believe in it?

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – America desperately needs a dose of its own medicine of democracy promotion. By John Feffer | August 25, 2021 […]

John Feffer

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