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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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Chess is Universal; Saudi Arabia isn't: Women's Boycott, Israeli Lawsuit

Chess is Universal; Saudi Arabia isn’t: Women’s Boycott, Israeli Lawsuit

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Saudi Arabia under the hyper-active crown prince Muhammad Bin Salman is undertaking rapid changes in society […]

Juan Cole

China
Heating with Coal Takes 3 Years off Your Life: China Study

Heating with Coal Takes 3 Years off Your Life: China Study

Feng Hao | (ChinaDialogue) | – – Lives in northern China are shorter than in the south because of air pollution from heating, reports Feng Hao In […]

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Islamophobia
Ignoring Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing is Creating another Palestine

Ignoring Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing is Creating another Palestine

Middle East Monitor | – – The international community must act swiftly on the Rohingya crisis or the world will create another Palestine. That was […]

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Fossil Fuels
Oil Giants' $180 Bn Binge on Plastics to *Permanently* Pollute Oceans

Oil Giants’ $180 Bn Binge on Plastics to *Permanently* Pollute Oceans

TeleSur | – – Major chemical and petroleum companies knew about the copious amounts of water pollution caused by them as far back as the […]

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Trump’s disastrous Year in the Middle East:  Syria

Trump’s disastrous Year in the Middle East: Syria

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump on the campaign trail said many self-contradictory things about the Syrian civil war. He wanted […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why the Israeli Right is wrong to put Hopes in Trump’s Jerusalem Decision

Why the Israeli Right is wrong to put Hopes in Trump’s Jerusalem Decision

Shlomo Ben-Ami | (Project Syndicate) | – – Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital may have been bombastic, but it will not […]

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Authoritarianism
Riyadh releases more royals in corruption probe, Demands $6 bn from Alwaleed

Riyadh releases more royals in corruption probe, Demands $6 bn from Alwaleed

Middle East Monitor | – – Saudi Arabia’s authorities have released a number of detained royals allegedly involved in corruption in public office. The move […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Dogs! Israeli Minister Harasses Palestinian mothers visiting Jailed Sons

Dogs! Israeli Minister Harasses Palestinian mothers visiting Jailed Sons

Ma’an News Agency | – – “The group has estimated that some 40 percent of Palestinian men will be detained by Israel at some point […]

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Christianity
What does the Muslim Scripture say about the Birth of Jesus?

What does the Muslim Scripture say about the Birth of Jesus?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | The Qur’an, the scripture Muslims believe was brought from God by the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632), has a […]

Juan Cole

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