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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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Israeli parliament moves to ban Boycott, Divestment Backers from entering Israel

Israeli parliament moves to ban Boycott, Divestment Backers from entering Israel

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A bill preventing supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement from entering Israel was authorized on Monday for its first […]

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Democratic Party
Why the White Working Class Rebelled: Neoliberalism is Killing Them (Literally)

Why the White Working Class Rebelled: Neoliberalism is Killing Them (Literally)

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Democratic Party has been the Establishment for eight years, and the Clintons have arguably been […]

Juan Cole

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Election Westworld?  Bots were 20% of your Twitter News Feed

Election Westworld? Bots were 20% of your Twitter News Feed

By Emilio Ferrara | (The Conversation) | – – Key to democracy is public engagement – when people discuss the issues of the day with […]

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censorship
European journalists brand Turkey ‘biggest prison in the world’

European journalists brand Turkey ‘biggest prison in the world’

By Herbert Vytiska | EurActiv.de | Translated By Samuel Morgan | EurActiv | – – Curbs on press freedom have been dramatically increased since the […]

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Dear Ann Coulter:  Ben Franklin didn’t think you or Trump are White, Either

Dear Ann Coulter: Ben Franklin didn’t think you or Trump are White, Either

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Many of the anxieties that have roiled this year’s election have had an underlying theme, of […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Have Americans joined Egyptians in losing right to Protest & to Privacy?

Have Americans joined Egyptians in losing right to Protest & to Privacy?

By Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah | (Inter Press Service) | – – LONDON (IPS) – Many US citizens may instinctively believe they still live in the land […]

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Israel/ Palestine
W. Bank Palestinian farmers: Israeli squatters stole harvest of 400 olive trees

W. Bank Palestinian farmers: Israeli squatters stole harvest of 400 olive trees

NABLUS (Ma’an) — Palestinian farmers in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus reported on Monday that Israeli settlers stole the harvest of 400 […]

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Iraq
Iraq's Mosul Campaign: ISIL using civilians as Human Shields

Iraq’s Mosul Campaign: ISIL using civilians as Human Shields

Human Rights Watch | – – All Forces Should Take Necessary Precautions to Protect Civilians (Erbil) – In areas around Mosul, the Islamic State, also […]

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FBI
Top 5 Times the FBI intervened to Help the US Right Wing

Top 5 Times the FBI intervened to Help the US Right Wing

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – What is unusual about the FBI’s intervention in the 2016 election is not the intervention. The […]

Juan Cole

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