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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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IC Annual Fundraiser:  Now more than Ever

IC Annual Fundraiser: Now more than Ever

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Let’s get this done, friends. I can’t do it all by myself, and need your contributions […]

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Climate Change
DAPL:  This Thanksgiving, Time to Listen to Native Americans again on Climate & Survival

DAPL: This Thanksgiving, Time to Listen to Native Americans again on Climate & Survival

Revised and updated. By Juan Cole | — The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Electricity shortage causes children’s hospital in Gaza to suspend medical care

Electricity shortage causes children’s hospital in Gaza to suspend medical care

Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA (Ma’an) — Health services in a children’s hospital in Gaza will be suspended for more than a day […]

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Democracy
From Wanda Sykes to ACLU:  How to Show Solidarity in the Age of Trump

From Wanda Sykes to ACLU: How to Show Solidarity in the Age of Trump

TeleSur | – – Building a wall of support against Trump’s wall of rhetoric is the way forward. Wanda Sykes, a Black lesbian comedian, was […]

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Donald Trump
Racism in the US runs far deeper than Trump's white supremacist fanbase

Racism in the US runs far deeper than Trump’s white supremacist fanbase

By Nicholas Guyatt | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump’s astonishing rise to the presidency has put racism at the heart of American politics. […]

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Will Turkey leave NATO for Sino-Russian Shanghai Cooperation Council?

Will Turkey leave NATO for Sino-Russian Shanghai Cooperation Council?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan is talking about joining the Shanghai Cooperation Council as a full member […]

Juan Cole

Antisemitism
Israel’s sliding definition of anti-Semitism in the Trump era

Israel’s sliding definition of anti-Semitism in the Trump era

By Heike Schotten | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – You would think that support for Israel is fundamentally at odds with anti-Semitism. If you […]

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Donald Trump
American Muslims & the Trump Administration with Juan Cole

American Muslims & the Trump Administration with Juan Cole

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs | Video Interview | – – “The election of Donald Trump was a shock to the American political […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Will Trump bolster the Military-Industrial Complex?

Will Trump bolster the Military-Industrial Complex?

By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – As with so much of what Donald Trump has said in recent months, his […]

Juan Cole

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