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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
Israel's damage of the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip

Israel’s damage of the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip

By Rasha Kaloti ” – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Last May, Israel launched a series of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip following weeks […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
How colonialism’s legacy makes it harder for countries to escape poverty and fossil fuels today

How colonialism’s legacy makes it harder for countries to escape poverty and fossil fuels today

By Patrick Greiner | – ( The Conversation ) – While fossil fuels were powering wealthy nations’ economic growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, […]

The Conversation

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A Litany of Failure: Nearly 20 Years Later, the US is Still Bombing Iraq, and Iraq is Still Condemning Israeli Occupation of Palestine

A Litany of Failure: Nearly 20 Years Later, the US is Still Bombing Iraq, and Iraq is Still Condemning Israeli Occupation of Palestine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When the architects of the illegal 2003 Bush Administration war on Iraq imagined the country nearly twenty years later, they […]

Juan Cole

European Union
The Int'l Community at Berlin II wants Oil and a Stop to Emigration from Libya; What Libya needs is Strong Institutions and Peace

The Int’l Community at Berlin II wants Oil and a Stop to Emigration from Libya; What Libya needs is Strong Institutions and Peace

Mt. Berry, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment) – A lazy international press corps is missing the big story on Libya. English language news coverage of […]

John Hickman

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians need their own State and the 'Palestinian Authority' isn't it:  The PA is actually Israel's auxiliary occupation force

Palestinians need their own State and the ‘Palestinian Authority’ isn’t it: The PA is actually Israel’s auxiliary occupation force

( Middle East Monitor ) – Palestinian activist and political candidate Nizar Banat, 44, was killed in the early hours of Thursday morning. But it […]

Asa Winstanley

Joe Biden
Cold War Nostalgia is not a Policy:  Joe Biden needs a New, less Militaristic Vision for America

Cold War Nostalgia is not a Policy: Joe Biden needs a New, less Militaristic Vision for America

“I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Far Right
Gaslighting the Pentagon: Tucker Carlson, who called Iraqis 'Monkeys,' Poses as anti-Racist in defending White Supremacy from "Pig" Gen. Milley

Gaslighting the Pentagon: Tucker Carlson, who called Iraqis ‘Monkeys,’ Poses as anti-Racist in defending White Supremacy from “Pig” Gen. Milley

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Fox white nationalist (there, I’ve been redundant and repeated myself) Tucker Carlson once called Iraqis “semiliterate primitive monkeys,” managing to […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
German Transport Ministry advised that Electric Cars must Dominate new Sales by 2025, eyeing 1 Mn. EVs on Road this Year

German Transport Ministry advised that Electric Cars must Dominate new Sales by 2025, eyeing 1 Mn. EVs on Road this Year

By Edgar Meza | – Handelsblatt ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Electric cars will need to account for most new registrations in Germany in […]

Clean Energy Wire

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Sounds Like Fascism: Florida's DeSantis to Collect Political Views of Professors to defund "Hotbeds of stale Ideology"

Sounds Like Fascism: Florida’s DeSantis to Collect Political Views of Professors to defund “Hotbeds of stale Ideology”

By Julia Conley, staff writer | – ( Commondreams.org) – Democratic lawmakers and educators nationwide are expressing alarm over legislation signed this week by Florida […]

Common Dreams

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