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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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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sixty years ago, July 30, 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, former […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Omar Khayyam
FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:1

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:1

British man of letters Edward FitzGerald translated the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám from two Persian manuscripts and published it in 1859. He had substantial help […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle Eastern Studies Association of North America | – Letter to Harvard University concerning the cancellation of a special issue […]

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Authoritarianism
An Ailing Old American Empire Lashes Out

An Ailing Old American Empire Lashes Out

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As a retired U.S. Air Force officer, I firmly believe in civilian control of our military. This country should be a […]

William J. Astore

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Christian Nationalism’s Plot on Civil Society: The Seven Mountains Mandate

Christian Nationalism’s Plot on Civil Society: The Seven Mountains Mandate

Oakwood, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A concerning story out of Georgia offers a window into the rise and possible demise of an […]

Matthew Boedy

Israel/ Palestine
New Peace Plan increases Pressure on Israel and US as Momentum grows for Palestinian Statehood

New Peace Plan increases Pressure on Israel and US as Momentum grows for Palestinian Statehood

By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin (The Conversation) – A new vision for Middle East peace emerged this week which proposes the withdrawal of Israel […]

The Conversation

Academic Freedom
Protesting CUNY for Letting 4 Adjunct Faculty Go over Palestinian Rights and Suspending a Student

Protesting CUNY for Letting 4 Adjunct Faculty Go over Palestinian Rights and Suspending a Student

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to the City University of New York protesting the non-reappointment […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Bill of Rights
Corrupt DoJ Shields Trump on Epstein, Extorts CBS and Columbia U. in Protection Racket

Corrupt DoJ Shields Trump on Epstein, Extorts CBS and Columbia U. in Protection Racket

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Gangster president Trump and his Justice Department lackeys are engaged in a coordinated cover-up of his entanglements with […]

Dan Dinello

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In Syria, Women are Bearing the Brunt of Climate Breakdown

In Syria, Women are Bearing the Brunt of Climate Breakdown

by Zahra Zaman ( Middle East Monitor ) – Syria had been embroiled in a protracted conflict and plagued by authoritarianism for decades. While the […]

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