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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
Biden tells G-7 he accepts Aug. 31 Kabul Airport Deadline as Taliban, fearing Flight of Capital and Skills, Forbid Evacuations Thereafter

Biden tells G-7 he accepts Aug. 31 Kabul Airport Deadline as Taliban, fearing Flight of Capital and Skills, Forbid Evacuations Thereafter

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Taliban have further foreclosed U.S. options in the current effort to evacuate any remaining Americans and eligible Afghans from […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Even love is forbidden under Israeli apartheid

Even love is forbidden under Israeli apartheid

By Muhammad Hussein | – Israel’s apartheid system directed at the Palestinians is well documented. Within Israel’s officially-recognised borders — which the state has never […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
The plight of Afghan security contractors highlights the legal and moral risks of outsourcing war

The plight of Afghan security contractors highlights the legal and moral risks of outsourcing war

By Anna Powles | – ( The Conversation ) – By first denying and then granting visas to more than 100 Afghan contractors who guarded […]

The Conversation

China
The Drawbacks of a Cold War with China in a Hot World

The Drawbacks of a Cold War with China in a Hot World

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In recent months, Washington has had a lot to say about China’s ever-expanding air, naval, and missile power. But when Pentagon […]

Michael T. Klare

Afghanistan
Former Leaders, Women, Plead with Taliban for Inclusive Afghanistan Government

Former Leaders, Women, Plead with Taliban for Inclusive Afghanistan Government

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The privately owned Afghanistan news service Tolo reports that Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid affirmed that the movement intends to form […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Where do Afghanistan’s refugees go?

Where do Afghanistan’s refugees go?

By Tazreena Sajjad | – Images of thousands of Afghans desperately trying to flee their country following a hasty U.S. withdrawal have provoked an international […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
'Ready To Resist,' Residents Of Last Anti-Taliban Stronghold, Panjshir, Brace For Uncertain Future

‘Ready To Resist,’ Residents Of Last Anti-Taliban Stronghold, Panjshir, Brace For Uncertain Future

By Farangis Najibullah | – ( RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi) – As Afghanistan’s last major bastion of anti-Taliban resistance gears up for new fighting against the […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Afghanistan
UN Rights Body Needs to Investigate Grave Taliban Abuses in Afghanistan

UN Rights Body Needs to Investigate Grave Taliban Abuses in Afghanistan

By Patricia Gossman | Associate Asia Director | – ( Human Rights Watch) – As reports mount of grave human rights abuses by the Taliban […]

Human Rights Watch

Afghanistan
Climate Emergency v. Afghanistan:  Why do TV Cable News, Pols ignore the greatest Terror Threat to the US in History?

Climate Emergency v. Afghanistan: Why do TV Cable News, Pols ignore the greatest Terror Threat to the US in History?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American cable TV news has been on an Afghanistan jag since the Taliban rapidly advanced in the country, with wall […]

Juan Cole

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