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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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Amal Clooney and Nadia Murad Want to Stop an ISIL Genocide

Amal Clooney and Nadia Murad Want to Stop an ISIL Genocide

Popsugar Entertainment | (Video Report) | – – “Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney is hoping to help stop a genocide at the hands of ISIL […]

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Corruption
True, Trump hasn't Criticized Putin for Navalny Arrest; but Navalny is more like Trump

True, Trump hasn’t Criticized Putin for Navalny Arrest; but Navalny is more like Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The meme du jour about the protests in Russia on Sunday is that Donald Trump did […]

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Iraq
Mosul: ISIL Scorched Earth Tactics put Civilians in Crossfire

Mosul: ISIL Scorched Earth Tactics put Civilians in Crossfire

Special Correspondent* | Niqash.org | Baghdad | – – Mosul Locals Explain Extremists’ Desperate Tactics Mosul locals, some of whom have escaped the extremists and […]

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Dissent
What the Civil Rights Movement can teach us about Resistance in Age of Trump

What the Civil Rights Movement can teach us about Resistance in Age of Trump

By Jon Else | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – On a glorious afternoon in August 1963, after the massive March on Washington for Jobs and […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Progressive Young Jews Protest AIPAC, Occupation of Palestine

Progressive Young Jews Protest AIPAC, Occupation of Palestine

TeleSur | – – Protesters gathered under the banner, “Jews won’t be free until Palestinians are, reject AIPAC, reject occupation.” Jewish protesters marched Sunday outside […]

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Cats
Video of Day:  Kitten tempted by Iran New Year Goldfish

Video of Day: Kitten tempted by Iran New Year Goldfish

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | (Video Clip) | – – March 21 was the Persian New Year (Now Ruz), marking also the first […]

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Displaced and Refugees
After Trump Massacres in Mosul, Campaign against ISIL Halted

After Trump Massacres in Mosul, Campaign against ISIL Halted

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Candidate Donald Trump called last year for carpet-bombing of Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) in Iraq and Syria. […]

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Corporate Surveillance
Can you stop House from selling out your online Privacy, as Senate Just Did?

Can you stop House from selling out your online Privacy, as Senate Just Did?

By Ernesto Falcon | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – Majority Leader McCarthy Confirms House to Immediately Act on Behalf of the Cable and Telephone […]

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A distracted Trump administration Couldn't even focus  on its own anti-ISIL summit.

A distracted Trump administration Couldn’t even focus on its own anti-ISIL summit.

By Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | – – Donald Trump’s election campaign made much of his predecessor Barack Obama’s failure to control and […]

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