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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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John F. Kennedy’s Thanksgiving Ideals, 1962– How different they are from Ours

John F. Kennedy’s Thanksgiving Ideals, 1962– How different they are from Ours

The fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has brought forth a flood of books and documentaries. On this Thanksgiving, what strikes […]

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Breaking “America’s Last Taboo”

Breaking “America’s Last Taboo”

Author(s):  Alex Lubin American Zionism has made any serious public discussion of the past or future of Israel — by far the largest recipient ever […]

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NSA monitored visits of “Radicalizers” to Chat Rooms, Skin Sites to Discredit Them

NSA monitored visits of “Radicalizers” to Chat Rooms, Skin Sites to Discredit Them

Six persons living abroad, one of them a “US person,” were targeted by the National Security Agency for discrediting, according to information leaked by Edward […]

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Pope Francis:  Why are Deaths of the Homeless not a Headline but a 2-point Dow Jones rise is? (Germanos)

Pope Francis: Why are Deaths of the Homeless not a Headline but a 2-point Dow Jones rise is? (Germanos)

Andrea Germanos writes at Commondreams.org Pope Francis has issued a new document in which he rails against growing inequality, trickle-down economics and the current socioeconomic […]

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Brubeck Jazz Classic "Take Five" in Pakistan Style (Video)

Brubeck Jazz Classic “Take Five” in Pakistan Style (Video)

Dave Brubeck called the cover of his band’s classic “Take Five” (Paul Desmond) by the Pakistani musical group Sachal the “most original” he had ever […]

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The Middle East warmly welcomes Iran Deal, sees it as Step toward Denuclearizing Israel

The Middle East warmly welcomes Iran Deal, sees it as Step toward Denuclearizing Israel

Israel and Saudi Arabia have loomed large in reporting about the regional reaction to the UN Security Council plus Germany’s preliminary deal with Iran as […]

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Does the Road to Mideast Peace Run through Tehran?

Does the Road to Mideast Peace Run through Tehran?

The diplomatic breakthrough at Geneva is still only a down payment on a much bigger deal, and it is early to begin speaking of realignments […]

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Today’s America is the Real Hunger Games: Why aren’t we Terrified? (Engelhardt)

Today’s America is the Real Hunger Games: Why aren’t we Terrified? (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com: . . . gazillions of movie viewers have seen … films with the usual array of sharks, dinosaurs, anacondas, axe […]

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US-Iran War Averted by Agreement to Negotiate on Nuclear Enrichment

US-Iran War Averted by Agreement to Negotiate on Nuclear Enrichment

The decade-long Neoconservative plot to take the United States to war against Iran appears to have been foiled. In response for a loosening of sanctions, […]

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