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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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Kushner of Arabia:  Can Trump's Son-in-Law Figure out Iraq?

Kushner of Arabia: Can Trump’s Son-in-Law Figure out Iraq?

By Shahram Akbarzadeh | (Informed Comment) | – – Days before President Donald J. Trump ordered cruise missile strikes on Syria, his son-in-law Jared Kushner […]

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Acidification of Oceans
We are heading for the warmest climate in half a billion years

We are heading for the warmest climate in half a billion years

By Gavin Foster, Dana Royer, and Dan Lunt | (The Conversation) | – – Carbon dioxide concentrations are heading towards values not seen in the […]

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Washington's Supreme Hypocrisy on Chemical Weapons and Civilian Deaths

Washington’s Supreme Hypocrisy on Chemical Weapons and Civilian Deaths

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The use of chemical weapons by the Syrian Army in Idlib is an atrocity and the […]

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Bannon booted from US National Security Council, takes swipe at Susan Rice

Bannon booted from US National Security Council, takes swipe at Susan Rice

TeleSur | – – “General McMaster has returned the NSC to its proper function,” Bannon said in a statement. U.S. President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, […]

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As Trump Breaks it, Top Ten Things we need to do to Fix America

As Trump Breaks it, Top Ten Things we need to do to Fix America

By William R. Polk | (Informed Comment) | – – Let me suggest what seem to me to be the major categories of challenges men […]

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Climate Change
Climate Change Solutions Can’t Wait for Trump

Climate Change Solutions Can’t Wait for Trump

By Desmond Brown | (Inter Press Service) | – – BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (IPS) – From tourism-dependent nations like Barbados to those rich with natural resources […]

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ISIL:  Imbecilic Buffoon Trump leading America to Extinction

ISIL: Imbecilic Buffoon Trump leading America to Extinction

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Disturbing signs emerged Tuesday that Donald J. Trump’s odd self-presentation and erratic pronouncements could be a […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Trump Ordered 70 Airstrikes in Yemen, Twice as Many as Last Year of Obama

Trump Ordered 70 Airstrikes in Yemen, Twice as Many as Last Year of Obama

TeleSur | – – U.S. President Trump also greenlighted a group operation in Yemen in February that killed more than 30 civilians. The young U.S. […]

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How our Standing Wars are Warping Us

How our Standing Wars are Warping Us

Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – On successive days recently, I saw two museum shows that caught something of a lost American world […]

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