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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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France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves

France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – French President Macron is taking the lead in a doomed bid to keep a two-state solution alive. […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Omar Khayyam
“Look to the Rose:”  Edward FitzGerald’s  Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

“Look to the Rose:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

Stanza no. 13 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is about the free gifts we receive from […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

By Mehmet Ozalp, Charles Sturt University (The Conversation) – Australian Muslim communities have been calling for official recognition of Islamophobia as a serious social problem […]

The Conversation

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Protesting Claremont Colleges Library Censorship of “Policing Palestine”

Protesting Claremont Colleges Library Censorship of “Policing Palestine”

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to the Claremont Colleges library condemning the censorship of the […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

By Yousef Ibrahim ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli attempt to assassinate Hamas leaders in Doha was not simply an unsuccessful military operation—it […]

Middle East Monitor

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Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

( Tomdispatch.com ) – That was President Trump’s blunt assessment of global power politics when it came to the United States and Russia following his […]

Michael T. Klare

Archaeology
Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis

Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring areas such […]

Juan Cole

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Yemen: Journalists under Assault

Yemen: Journalists under Assault

Warring Parties’ Systematic Violations Against Media Freedom Yemen’s warring parties – particularly the Houthis, the Southern Transitional Council, and the Yemeni government – have committed […]

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