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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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Mass Graves and a Tripling of Death Rate: Is Yemen what Covid-19 'Herd Immunity' looks like?

Mass Graves and a Tripling of Death Rate: Is Yemen what Covid-19 ‘Herd Immunity’ looks like?

( Al-Bab.com ) -When the coronavirus swept into the Yemeni city of Aden there was little to stand in its way. The war-torn country was […]

Brian Whitaker

al-Qaeda
Did he Win?  Osama Bin Laden wanted America Effed up with Loathing and Forever Wars

Did he Win? Osama Bin Laden wanted America Effed up with Loathing and Forever Wars

( Tomdispatch.com) – It’s July 2020 and I’m about to turn 76, which, as far as I’m concerned, officially makes me an old man. So […]

Tom Engelhardt

Donald Trump
Dangerous Delusions: Top 3 Reasons Trump/ Navarro are trying to Kneecap Dr. Fauci on Coronavirus Policy

Dangerous Delusions: Top 3 Reasons Trump/ Navarro are trying to Kneecap Dr. Fauci on Coronavirus Policy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump has sidelined Dr. Anthony Fauci again, and sent his assassin, trade adviser Peter Navarro out to attack him in […]

Juan Cole

Bashar al-Assad
As Syria Faces Hunger, will New, Severe Trump Sanctions on the Regime Harm the People?

As Syria Faces Hunger, will New, Severe Trump Sanctions on the Regime Harm the People?

Ann Arbor (Special to Informed Comment) – In the Ma`aret Misrin camp near Idlib, 45-year-old father of 10 Nasr Sultan recently told AFP that with […]

Jamal Dillman-Hasso

Israel/ Palestine
Progressive Dems, Young Jewish Americans are Challenging Right wing AIPAC and Expansionist Israeli Narratives

Progressive Dems, Young Jewish Americans are Challenging Right wing AIPAC and Expansionist Israeli Narratives

(Middle East Monitor ) – While the US administration of President Donald Trump remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional democratic leadership continues […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
Emissions of methane – a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide – are rising dangerously

Emissions of methane – a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide – are rising dangerously

By Pep Canadell, Ben Poulter, Marielle Saunois, Paul Krummel, and Rob Jackson | – Fossil fuels and agriculture are driving a dangerous acceleration in methane […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
Thousands of Israelis Protest, furious at Netanyahu's having Provoked 2nd Wave of Covid by Opening Schools, Businesses in May

Thousands of Israelis Protest, furious at Netanyahu’s having Provoked 2nd Wave of Covid by Opening Schools, Businesses in May

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A few thousand demonstrators gathered in front of the home of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Balfour St. in […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
The End of Private Health Insurance? Covid Crash shows Why we Need Medicare for All

The End of Private Health Insurance? Covid Crash shows Why we Need Medicare for All

Gainesville, Florida: The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic consequences have caused the greatest losses in health insurance enrollment in U.S. history: 5.4 million laid-off workers […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Epidemics
America's Plague of Inequality and Homelessness meets the Coronavirus Plague

America’s Plague of Inequality and Homelessness meets the Coronavirus Plague

(Tomdispatch.com ) – The novel SARS-CoV-2 has roared through the American landscape leaving physical, emotional, and economic devastation in its wake. By early July, known […]

Rajan Menon

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