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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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As Hurricane Michael Strikes, UN Warns cost of Climate-Linked Disasters Soaring

As Hurricane Michael Strikes, UN Warns cost of Climate-Linked Disasters Soaring

Geneva (AFP) – The economic cost of climate-related disasters hit $2.25 trillion over the last two decades, an increase of more than 150 percent compared […]

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
US State Dept. backs Freedom of Expression for Illegally Imprisoned US Student in Israel

US State Dept. backs Freedom of Expression for Illegally Imprisoned US Student in Israel

Israel’s Gilad Erdon demands Alqasem denounce Boycott (BDS) to be allowed to Enter Israel

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Climate Change
Reminder: Top 5 Climate Catastrophes to which Denialist Trump Condemned his own Supporters

Reminder: Top 5 Climate Catastrophes to which Denialist Trump Condemned his own Supporters

Reprint edition Trump delivered himself of one of the most brain-dead speeches ever given by an American president, more imbecilic even than Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” […]

Juan Cole

Supreme Court
After Mitch McConnell's coup: Democratizing the Court, Democratizing America

After Mitch McConnell’s coup: Democratizing the Court, Democratizing America

The Supreme Court is a major force adding to systematic injustice

John Buell

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Hating Muslims in the Age of Trump: The New Islamophobia looks like the Old McCarthyism

Hating Muslims in the Age of Trump: The New Islamophobia looks like the Old McCarthyism

(Reprinted at Informed Comment courtesy Tomdispatch.com.) – These days, our global political alliances seem to shift with remarkable rapidity, as if we were actually living […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
With Toady Kavanaugh’s Appointment, Trump is Turning the US into Putin’s Russia

With Toady Kavanaugh’s Appointment, Trump is Turning the US into Putin’s Russia

In the aftermath of Brett Kavanaugh being sworn in as the new Supreme Court justice, the controversies rage on. One troubling aspect of Kavanaugh is […]

Gail Ukockis

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Ed. Minister Bennett:  Shoot to Kill in Gaza, Including the Children he calls “Terrorists”

Israeli Ed. Minister Bennett: Shoot to Kill in Gaza, Including the Children he calls “Terrorists”

Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett said yesterday that he would impose a “shoot to kill” policy in Gaza, including against Palestinian children. Bennett made the […]

Middle East Monitor

BDS
Israel Continues Unlawful Imprisonment of American Student for her BDS (Boycott) Links

Israel Continues Unlawful Imprisonment of American Student for her BDS (Boycott) Links

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israel prevented the entry of a 22-year-old American student, who has Palestinian grandfather, earlier this month, and despite her being recently granted […]

Maan News Agency

Israel/ Palestine
How a Map of Palestine Drove the American Neocolonial Elite Mad

How a Map of Palestine Drove the American Neocolonial Elite Mad

Golden Oldie. I mirrored a map of modern Palestinian history that has the virtue of showing graphically what has happened to the Palestinians politically and […]

Juan Cole

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