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Why Stop with the Kennedy Center? Cabinet Officials add Hyphenated -Trump to their Names
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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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Iran’s Water Crisis Opens A New Front With Israel

Iran’s Water Crisis Opens A New Front With Israel

( RFE/ RL ) – Amid soaring temperatures, power blackouts, and widespread water rationing, Pezeshkian painted a grim picture of the nation’s water woes. He […]

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Environment
‘Green Islam’: how Muslims are powering environmental Action across the World

‘Green Islam’: how Muslims are powering environmental Action across the World

By Eva F Nisa, Australian National University and Faried F Saenong, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII) (The Conversation) – As the world grapples with myriad […]

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Climate Crisis
When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here

When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it an enormous […]

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European Union
How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

Europe’s distancing from Netanyahu masks deeper complicity in Gaza’s devastation and the silencing of Palestinians Written byGuest Contributor By Dalia Ismail ( Globalvoices.org ) In […]

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Health
Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) — With the Trump administration rolling back essential health insurance protections and rejecting a national, single-payer health insurance program, […]

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Archaeology
Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

  by Dr Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – History shows that famines are, for the most part, engineered.  Be it through carelessness, […]

Middle East Monitor

Iran
Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

By Peter Edwell, Macquarie University (The Conversation) – Some of the most enduring ancient myths in the Persian world were centred around gardens of almost […]

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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Political Scientist and liberal Zionist Michael Walzer gave an interview early in the Israeli campaign against Gaza in which he […]

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