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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

12/25/2025 By The Conversation

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Regime Broadcasts Baathist Confession re: Bombings;

Regime Broadcasts Baathist Confession re: Bombings;

Wissam Ali Kadhem Ibrahim was put on television in Iraq confessing his role in last Wednesday’s bombings. The former Baathist official described an operation that […]

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Silverman: Religion and Politics in Iraq: What Type of Sectarianism Really Exists?

Silverman: Religion and Politics in Iraq: What Type of Sectarianism Really Exists?

Adam L. Silverman writes in a guest op-ed for IC The recent increase in political violence in Iraq has once again led to renewed discussions […]

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Top Ten Differences Between Bush & Obama First 7 Months

Top Ten Differences Between Bush & Obama First 7 Months

Obama, unlike Bush: 1. Has no plans to invade any new oil countries.2. Knows who president of Pakistan is3. Knows how to safely consume pretzels4. […]

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Obama's Fate as much in the Balance as Afghan Presidential Candidates

Obama’s Fate as much in the Balance as Afghan Presidential Candidates

The Financial Times argues that the final judgment on how upright the Afghan elections were matters enormously to the Obama administration. If the US public […]

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Bush Admin. worse than our Nightmares

Bush Admin. worse than our Nightmares

It was worse. Back in the bad old days of Bush’s corrupt gang, we on the left were pilloried for suggesting that the administration was […]

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Afghanistan: 50 Dead on Election Day, with Low turnout in Some Districts

Afghanistan: 50 Dead on Election Day, with Low turnout in Some Districts

Violence that left some 50 dead, and a relatively low turnout in some provinces marred Afghanistan’s presidential election on Thursday. McClatchy reports that the largest […]

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6 US Troops Killed in Afghanistan; War Loses Majority Support

6 US Troops Killed in Afghanistan; War Loses Majority Support

The US military announced on Wednesday that 6 US troops had been killed in Afghanistan. As Afghans go to the polls in what is being […]

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Whodunnit in Baghdad

Whodunnit in Baghdad

Speculation has been flying around in the news media and on the internet about who was behind Wednesday’s gory bombings in Baghdad. Let me lay […]

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Nearly 100 Dead, 500 Wounded in 6 Bombings in Baghdad

Nearly 100 Dead, 500 Wounded in 6 Bombings in Baghdad

A series of coordinated truck bombings targeted Iraqi government ministries and other facilities on Wednesday morning, killing nearly 100 persons and wounding some 500. Poorly […]

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