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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

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Sorry, Trump:  China is Leading World toward first "Ecological Civilization"

Sorry, Trump: China is Leading World toward first “Ecological Civilization”

David Tyfield | (The Conversation) | – – The Trump administration’s hostility towards climate action and research leaves a void in global climate politics. Could […]

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Sharpening Contradictions:  ISIL Strikes Egyptian Christians on Palm Sunday

Sharpening Contradictions: ISIL Strikes Egyptian Christians on Palm Sunday

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) claimed responsibility Sunday for two suicide bombings at Christian churches in Lower Egypt […]

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Why We Need Political Islam

By Shlomo Ben-Ami | (Project Syndicate) | – – MADRID – US President Donald Trump has put on the back burner an executive order that […]

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Can the West Coast throw up a Green wall against Trump’s Assault on Environment?

By Arun Gupta. | ( Yes! Magazine ) | – – Despite a string of victories in the last few years limiting the expansion of […]

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Will the US missile strike be the turning point in Syria's shifting war?

Will the US missile strike be the turning point in Syria’s shifting war?

By Harout Akdedian | (The Conversation) | – – The US has struck the Syrian airbase used to launch a suspected sarin gas attack against […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Recalling Heartbreaking Zionist Massacre of Palestinian Civilians at Deir Yassin

Recalling Heartbreaking Zionist Massacre of Palestinian Civilians at Deir Yassin

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) marked on Sunday the 69th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre, […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Al-Sadr:  Russia, America and al-Assad should all get out of Syria!

Al-Sadr: Russia, America and al-Assad should all get out of Syria!

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Saturday issued a broadside demanding that Russia and the United […]

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"No new Coal Plants!" - European Energy Companies

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