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Trump’s Immigrant Gulags:  A Bonanza For Private Prison Corporations
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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
Was there Really a Russian Bounty on US Troops in Afghanistan?  A Story with Holes

Was there Really a Russian Bounty on US Troops in Afghanistan? A Story with Holes

(48Hills.org ) – On June 26, in a major front page story, The New York Times wrote that Russia paid a bounty to the Taliban […]

Reese Erlich

African-Americans
John Lewis and C.T. Vivian belonged to a long tradition of religious leaders in the civil rights struggle

John Lewis and C.T. Vivian belonged to a long tradition of religious leaders in the civil rights struggle

By Lawrence Burnley | – With the deaths of Rep. John Lewis and the Rev. Cordy Tindell “C.T.” Vivian, the U.S. has lost two civil […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Dems in Congress Craft Net Zero Carbon Climate Plan, aiming at Environmental Justice

Dems in Congress Craft Net Zero Carbon Climate Plan, aiming at Environmental Justice

By Misha Jones ( Cronkite News) | WASHINGTON – In the South Phoenix neighborhood of Lindo Park-Roesley Park, temperatures can be up to 13 degrees […]

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Authoritarianism
Trump's Secret Police whisk Portland Protesters into Unmarked Cars, but allowed Right wing armed militiamen to invade Michigan State House

Trump’s Secret Police whisk Portland Protesters into Unmarked Cars, but allowed Right wing armed militiamen to invade Michigan State House

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ryan Haas and Conrad Wilson at Oregon Public Broadcasting report that Federal agents with no name tags pulled at least […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Cut the Pentagon 10 Percent, Invest in Public Health

Cut the Pentagon 10 Percent, Invest in Public Health

By Lindsay Koshgarian ( Otherwords.org ) – It feels like the world is falling apart. But with a pandemic raging and an eviction crisis looming, […]

OtherWords

Donald Trump
Hospitals Are Suddenly Short of Young Doctors — Because of Trump’s Visa Ban

Hospitals Are Suddenly Short of Young Doctors — Because of Trump’s Visa Ban

By Dara Lind | – ( ProPublica) – As hospitals across the United States brace for a difficult six months — with the first wave […]

ProPublica

Bahrain
Qatar's Victory over Saudi, UAE Blockade Shows UN Court can be Weapon of the Weak

Qatar’s Victory over Saudi, UAE Blockade Shows UN Court can be Weapon of the Weak

By Daud Abdullah | – A press release issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 14 July described its judgement against Bahrain, Egypt, […]

Middle East Monitor

China
GOP Death Cult Forbids Mandatory Masks, Keeping US in Crisis, as China Grows 3.2%

GOP Death Cult Forbids Mandatory Masks, Keeping US in Crisis, as China Grows 3.2%

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Georgia governor Brian Kemp, one of the worst and most corrupt people in the world, is attempting to prevent municipalities […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians won't determine their own Fate, it Depends on Netanyahu's Maneuvering

Palestinians won’t determine their own Fate, it Depends on Netanyahu’s Maneuvering

By Philip Leech-Ngo | – It’s mid-July, two weeks after what many in the international media believed was Israel’s start date for the annexation of […]

The Conversation

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