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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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Epidemics
Is the Coronavirus deflating the Far Right?

Is the Coronavirus deflating the Far Right?

By Georgios Samaras | – In recent years, far-right political parties in Europe have capitalised on crises to build their support bases. Many have made […]

The Conversation

Bush
First the Nat'l Security State Surged Baghdad, now it is Surging Portland and Seattle

First the Nat’l Security State Surged Baghdad, now it is Surging Portland and Seattle

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – USA Today’s headline went, “Mayors see broken trust, political agenda in Trump’s surge of federal officers to US cities.” Surge? […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
The Worst Possible Leader in a Pandemic:  Trump's Authoritarianism is all about Him

The Worst Possible Leader in a Pandemic: Trump’s Authoritarianism is all about Him

( Otherwords.org ) – The Trump administration is apparently undertaking its latest effort to make 2020 more of a Kafkaesque nightmare than it already is. […]

Jill Richardson

Authoritarianism
How US Immigration Policies Foreshadowed Violence Against Protesters

How US Immigration Policies Foreshadowed Violence Against Protesters

Trump Administration Planning to Send Federal Agents to Other Cities

Human Rights Watch

Democratic Party
What Biden’s presidency means for the US-Iran Cold War

What Biden’s presidency means for the US-Iran Cold War

By Brett Sudetic and Giorgio Cafiero | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The upcoming US presidential election’s outcome is bound to significantly impact […]

Middle East Monitor

Crime
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez:  Republican Ted Yoho authorized all Men to call all Women F*cking B*tches

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: Republican Ted Yoho authorized all Men to call all Women F*cking B*tches

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It all started when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) remarked at a virtual Town Hall last week regarding the recent increase […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
The Attack of the Feds from the Deep: Autocratic Trump is Testing his Limits

The Attack of the Feds from the Deep: Autocratic Trump is Testing his Limits

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Federal agents poured into Portland, Oregon this month to crack down on anti-racism protests. They beat up peaceful protesters […]

John Feffer

Authoritarianism
Turkey: how President Erdoğan is using coronavirus to clamp down further on dissent

Turkey: how President Erdoğan is using coronavirus to clamp down further on dissent

By Balki Begumhan Bayhan | – Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian government led by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has always made use of crises to […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
Essential Work suddenly Valued during Pandemic: Why does it Pay so Little, Cost so Much?

Essential Work suddenly Valued during Pandemic: Why does it Pay so Little, Cost so Much?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In two weeks, my partner and I were supposed to leave San Francisco for Reno, Nevada, where we’d be spending the […]

Rebecca Gordon

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