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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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United Nations Accuses Israel of 'Grave Violations' against Palestinian Children

United Nations Accuses Israel of ‘Grave Violations’ against Palestinian Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This week, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres presented a report to the 75th General Assembly on the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza Disability Rights Defender recounts harrowing Flight from Israeli Airstrikes at U.N.

Gaza Disability Rights Defender recounts harrowing Flight from Israeli Airstrikes at U.N.

By Abier Almasri | Research Assistant, Middle East and North Africa Division | @abier_i | – ( ) – Abeer al-Harakli, a 28-year-old disability rights […]

Human Rights Watch

China
Biden is a Transformative President Domestically, but from China to Iran he embraces the Same old Washington Militarism

Biden is a Transformative President Domestically, but from China to Iran he embraces the Same old Washington Militarism

America is back–to the same old, same old. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) -On the domestic front, Joe Biden is flirting with transformational policies […]

John Feffer

African-Americans
What the Supreme Court ruling on Arizona Law means for your Right to Vote

What the Supreme Court ruling on Arizona Law means for your Right to Vote

By Cornell William Clayton and Michael Ritter | – Arizona may keep two voting laws that Republicans say protect election integrity and Democrats believe will […]

The Conversation

Bush
Donald Rumsfeld, Torturer, Serial Liar, Butcher of Baghdad, dies at 88

Donald Rumsfeld, Torturer, Serial Liar, Butcher of Baghdad, dies at 88

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s death at 88 is an occasion for me to recall some of my own […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Bennett's political theatre: The decisive Israeli-Palestinian fight ahead

Bennett’s political theatre: The decisive Israeli-Palestinian fight ahead

( Middle East Monitor ) – Many Palestinians believe that the 10-21 May military confrontation between Israel and the Gaza Resistance, along with the simultaneous […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
How the Media manages to Report the Northwest Heat Dome without Mentioning the Carbon Dioxide Emissions that Drove it

How the Media manages to Report the Northwest Heat Dome without Mentioning the Carbon Dioxide Emissions that Drove it

By Kamyar Razavi | – ( The Conversation) – New normal. Record-breaking. Unprecedented. In recent days, as Western Canada and the United States have been […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
An All-American Horror Story:  How we Sacrificed our Health on the Altar of useless Nuclear Arsenals

An All-American Horror Story: How we Sacrificed our Health on the Altar of useless Nuclear Arsenals

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Yes, once upon a time I regularly absorbed science fiction and imagined futures of wonder, but mainly of horror. What else […]

Tom Engelhardt

Authoritarianism
Top 6 Things Trump should be Indicted for aside from Cheating on Taxes

Top 6 Things Trump should be Indicted for aside from Cheating on Taxes

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) The Trump organization was indicted by a New York grand jury on Wednesday and the indictment is unsealed today, according to […]

Juan Cole

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