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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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Climate Change
This Year Thanksgiving overlaps Paris Climate Summit: Let’s be Thankful we can Do Something

This Year Thanksgiving overlaps Paris Climate Summit: Let’s be Thankful we can Do Something

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — Reprint edn. The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Why did Turkey dare shoot down a Russian Plane?  The Proxy War in Syria

Why did Turkey dare shoot down a Russian Plane? The Proxy War in Syria

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Turkish government decision to down a Russian jet operating in the north of the Syrian […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Can France forge a grand alliance against ISIL that includes Putin & Obama?

Can France forge a grand alliance against ISIL that includes Putin & Obama?

Shelby Holliday | (WSJ Video Report) | – – “In the wake of the Paris attacks, French President Francois Hollande is traveling to Washington and […]

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Campaign Finance
Kabul on the Potomac:  How America became the most Corrupt Society in the West

Kabul on the Potomac: How America became the most Corrupt Society in the West

By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – A top government official with energy industry holdings huddles in secret with oil company executives to […]

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Russia
Putin, Furious, calls Turkey ‘accomplices of terrorists’ after Russian jet downing

Putin, Furious, calls Turkey ‘accomplices of terrorists’ after Russian jet downing

EurActiv.com | – – Russian President Vladimir Putin called Turkey’s downing of a Russian fighter jet today (24 November) a stab in the back administered […]

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Arab Americans
Americans' views of Islam depend on whether they're at war overseas

Americans’ views of Islam depend on whether they’re at war overseas

The Bridge Initiative | – – Washington, DC The Bridge Initiative, a Georgetown University research project on Islamophobia, releases today its inaugural report which traces […]

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censorship
Saudi Arabia: Poet Sentenced to Death for Apostasy

Saudi Arabia: Poet Sentenced to Death for Apostasy

Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – A Saudi court sentenced a Palestinian man to death for apostasy on November 17, 2015, for alleged […]

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Bashar al-Assad
From Putin To Khamenei: A Koran Copy With Its Own History

From Putin To Khamenei: A Koran Copy With Its Own History

By RFE/RL | – – It may not be the original version of the first . . . edition of the Koran, dating back 1,500 […]

Juan Cole

Islam-hatred
Muslims are integrated in France, but the bad guys want a clash of civilizations.

Muslims are integrated in France, but the bad guys want a clash of civilizations.

By Sebastian Rotella | ( ProPublica PARIS — Ten days after the Paris terror attacks, Europe remains on edge. Police in Belgium, anticipating a similar […]

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