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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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Corruption
The Fempire Strikes Back: #MeToo and the Man-Monsters

The Fempire Strikes Back: #MeToo and the Man-Monsters

By Ann Jones. | ( Tomdispatch.com First, for the record, let me tell you my story about another of those perversely creepy Hollywood predators, a […]

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China
Leaving US in Dust, China starts $150 Million Floating Solar Plant Project

Leaving US in Dust, China starts $150 Million Floating Solar Plant Project

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Three Gorges Group project commenced in July of this year and is expected to be […]

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Climate Change
Exodus of Climate Scientists to France only the Beginning if GOP Guts Grad Education

Exodus of Climate Scientists to France only the Beginning if GOP Guts Grad Education

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – French President Emmanuel Macron has a program he calls MAPA – “Making the Planet Great Again.” […]

Juan Cole

Internet
FCC about to Destroy Internet w/out Understanding how it Works

FCC about to Destroy Internet w/out Understanding how it Works

By Erica Portnoy and Jeremy Gillula | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – Earlier this year nearly 200 Internet engineers and computer scientists sent […]

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African-Americans
African-American areas have "Worst Poverty" in Industrialized World: UN Official

African-American areas have “Worst Poverty” in Industrialized World: UN Official

TeleSur | – – Environmental racism, extreme poverty, and disease thrive on a breathtaking scale in U.S. Black communities in the South, shocking a UN […]

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Christianity
Christian Palestinians Reject meeting with Mike Pence

Christian Palestinians Reject meeting with Mike Pence

IMEMC News | – – Christian Palestinians, along with Muslims, held a protest in front of the historic Church of the Nativity, after Sunday prayers, […]

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Counter-Terrorism
3 Ways ISIL Terrorism Will Continue even after the end of the "Caliphate"

3 Ways ISIL Terrorism Will Continue even after the end of the “Caliphate”

By Brian Glyn Williams | (Informed Comment) | – – The Destruction of the Dream of Extremist Warfare, 2014-2017 On Saturday the Iraqi prime minister, […]

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Donald Trump
The Difference between Israeli Policy and Turkish: Calling Each other Terrorist State

The Difference between Israeli Policy and Turkish: Calling Each other Terrorist State

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – First, Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan gave a speech in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas on […]

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Democratic Party
If the Trump Revolution Is Possible, So Is a Progressive One

If the Trump Revolution Is Possible, So Is a Progressive One

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The increased tempo of the GOP’s snatch and grab in recent days suggests […]

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