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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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Mosul Is My Hometown, Here Is Why ISIL Was Able To Stay There

Mosul Is My Hometown, Here Is Why ISIL Was Able To Stay There

Special Correspondent | Baghdad | Niqash.org | – – NIQASH’s Mosul correspondent explains why people in the city did not resist the [so-called] Islamic State […]

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Climate Change
Get some Climate attitude: Ban Coal and forget about Carbon Capture

Get some Climate attitude: Ban Coal and forget about Carbon Capture

By Lili Fuhr | ( Project Syndicate ) BERLIN – Mainstream politics, by definition, is ill equipped to imagine fundamental change. But last December in […]

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Democratic Party
Growing Global Nuclear Threat - as if Election 2016 weren't already bad enough

Growing Global Nuclear Threat – as if Election 2016 weren’t already bad enough

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Once upon a time, when choosing a new president, a factor for many voters was […]

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Far Right
The Hatred that Trump’s Lies will Leave Behind

The Hatred that Trump’s Lies will Leave Behind

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Whether Trump wins or loses (and in my view there isn’t much chance he can win), […]

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African-Americans
Federal Judge Puts End to "Insane" Voter Suppression in N. Carolina

Federal Judge Puts End to “Insane” Voter Suppression in N. Carolina

By Jon Queally, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – ‘Injunction will help make sure not a single voters’ voice is unlawfully taken […]

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Authoritarianism
Turkey: the road towards dictatorship and the west’s responsibility

Turkey: the road towards dictatorship and the west’s responsibility

By Mehmet Ugur | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – Let us stop pretending otherwise: Turkey is now under a dictatorial regime established step by step […]

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Israel/ Palestine
The Balfour Slow Genocide and the Fate of Palestinians

The Balfour Slow Genocide and the Fate of Palestinians

By Aimee Shalan | al-Shabakah | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – Current British Complicity It is not only corporate entities such as G4S in […]

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Climate Change
Top 5 urgent Climate Change/Election Stories MSM Suppressed

Top 5 urgent Climate Change/Election Stories MSM Suppressed

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I used the word “suppressed” in the title quite deliberately. Corporate television media in the United […]

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Democratic Party
FBI Faction Hostile to Clinton Possibly Behind Leaks

FBI Faction Hostile to Clinton Possibly Behind Leaks

TeleSur | – – Current FBI agents have told outlets that there are elements within the agency leaking info in order to favor Donald Trump. […]

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