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It Doesn’t Have to Hurt:  Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain
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It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain

Richard Penaskovic

Review of Sanjay Gupta, It Doesn’t Have to Hurt:Your Smart Guide to a Pain-free Life. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2025), $30.00. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, […]

“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám  1:17

“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:17

10/04/2025 By Juan Cole

Israel’s Abduction of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is a clear Violation of International Law

Israel’s Abduction of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is a clear Violation of International Law

10/04/2025 By The Conversation

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Sudan
Are Massive Protests Sudan's 'Arab Spring'?

Are Massive Protests Sudan’s ‘Arab Spring’?

Rising prices, shortages of basic commodities and a cash crisis have driven protesters to the streets

Middle East Monitor

Music
How Muslim-Americans Helped Create Modern Jazz

How Muslim-Americans Helped Create Modern Jazz

Art Blakey (in 1947) and and Ahmad Jamal (in 1959) traveled to North Africa to study Islam

Shalom Goldman

Ethnicities
America's Generation Gap: Aging White People v. Diverse Millennials

America’s Generation Gap: Aging White People v. Diverse Millennials

Rising “racial generation gap” between white people over 65 and young people of color.

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Bucking Trump & Netanyahu, Palestine to Apply For Full Membership at UN

Bucking Trump & Netanyahu, Palestine to Apply For Full Membership at UN

To obtain a full member position, Palestine needs the votes of 15 member countries of the U.N. Security Council.

TeleSur

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Biggest Stories of 2018: Israel announced Apartheid, Shot Thousands of Civilians

Biggest Stories of 2018: Israel announced Apartheid, Shot Thousands of Civilians

And the Western Press Mostly Ignored it.

Juan Cole

Pentagon
Trump's 3 Generals may be Out, but the Forever War Lobby Still Rules

Trump’s 3 Generals may be Out, but the Forever War Lobby Still Rules

( Tomdispatch.com) – Leave it to liberals to pin their hopes on the oddest things. In particular, they seemed to find post-Trump solace in the […]

Danny Sjursen

Antisemitism
2018's Biggest Stories: Synagogue Murders & Anti-Semitism in America (AJ+)

2018’s Biggest Stories: Synagogue Murders & Anti-Semitism in America (AJ+)

Anti-Semitism frequently used by white nationalists and others on the right wing to rally against social change

AJ PLUS

Immigration
Second Guatemalan Child dies Christmas Eve in US Border Protection Custody

Second Guatemalan Child dies Christmas Eve in US Border Protection Custody

By Maggy Donaldson | – Washington, DC | AFP | – An eight-year-old migrant from Guatemala died in US government custody on Tuesday, Customs and […]

AFP

Assyrians
Middle East Christians, with the population of Sweden, Celebrate Christmas

Middle East Christians, with the population of Sweden, Celebrate Christmas

The Shadow of ISIL has Receded for Most Christians in the Region

Juan Cole

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