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Why Stop with the Kennedy Center? Cabinet Officials add Hyphenated -Trump to their Names
Donald Trump

Why Stop with the Kennedy Center? Cabinet Officials add Hyphenated -Trump to their Names

Mitchell Zimmerman

The renaming of the Performing Arts Center followed a renaming that created the Donald J. Trump Institute for Peace

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While Bethlehem Holds First Full Christmas Since Genocide Began, Little to Celebrate in Gaza

While Bethlehem Holds First Full Christmas Since Genocide Began, Little to Celebrate in Gaza

12/25/2025 By Common Dreams

What World was Jesus born into? A Historian describes the turbulent Times of the real Nativity

What World was Jesus born into? A Historian describes the turbulent Times of the real Nativity

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76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine

76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state today, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

( Middle East Monitor ) – Yet another blistering addition to the ghoulish accounts of cruelty regarding the ongoing actions of Israel in Gaza made […]

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Corporate Surveillance
Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

Written byTactical Tech Written bySafa This article was written by Safa for the series “Digitized Divides” and originally published on tacticaltech.org. An edited version is […]

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Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1

Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

By Maha Nassar, University of Arizona (The Conversation) – Recognition of a Palestinian state is likely to dominate proceedings at the U.N. beginning Sept 23. […]

The Conversation

Academic Freedom
Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students  to Dept. of Education

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students to Dept. of Education

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to UC Berkeley regarding the university’s submission to the Department […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Donald Trump
Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Stephen Colbert:  “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

The Late Show: “We Are All Jimmy Kimmel | The Easy Way Or The Hard Way | Trump Urges NBC To Cancel Fallon And Mey…”

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Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israel, Yemen Authorities Targeting Media Workers Niku Jafarnia   Bahrain and Yemen Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division ( Human Rights Watch ) – A […]

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