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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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Turkish schools abroad victims of AKP-Gulen conflict

Turkish schools abroad victims of AKP-Gulen conflict

The struggle between the AKP and the Gulen movement threatens more than 2,000 Turkish schools abroad, which have been seen as the country’s most “valuable […]

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Climate Change
Tutu: Climate Crisis Demands we Boycott Big Oil just as we Boycotted Apartheid

Tutu: Climate Crisis Demands we Boycott Big Oil just as we Boycotted Apartheid

(By Jon Queally) Nobel laureate says ‘people of conscience’ must break ties with oil and gas companies that are destroying planet’s future. Archbishop of South […]

Juan Cole

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CBS Taps Colbert To Replace Letterman, Limbaugh Bursts Into Flames

CBS Taps Colbert To Replace Letterman, Limbaugh Bursts Into Flames

This could be the single event that our grandchildren — well, the privileged ones who know how to read and have access to e-books and such — will know as the straw that broke the left wing’s back. No less of a historian than Rush Limbaugh declared…

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Jazz legend John McLaughlin Plays Ramallah, Palestine to counteract Palestinian "Isolation"

Jazz legend John McLaughlin Plays Ramallah, Palestine to counteract Palestinian “Isolation”

Jazz guitar legend John McLaughlin plays for Palestine (via AFP) The Palestinian territories are rarely a destination for jazz musicians let alone stars of an […]

Juan Cole

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GOP Armed Services Chair:  Dropping Benghazi, Military did all it Could (Is the Witch Hunt Over?)

GOP Armed Services Chair: Dropping Benghazi, Military did all it Could (Is the Witch Hunt Over?)

(By Juan Cole) Republican Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, declared on Thursday that the US military did all it […]

Juan Cole

Public library opens on Abu Dhabi’s Corniche beach

Public library opens on Abu Dhabi’s Corniche beach

The beach library has four desktop computers and 14 iPads that are available to search the collections.

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art and photography
George W. Bush Used Top Google Results For All His Paintings;  Is he in Legal Trouble?

George W. Bush Used Top Google Results For All His Paintings; Is he in Legal Trouble?

You may have heard the recent stories about former President George W. Bush’s new exhibit of paintings of world leaders. There’s been plenty of chatter about the former President picking up painting as a hobby since leaving office. While many may have…

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Fox News climate change coverage is now 28% accurate, up from 7%

Fox News climate change coverage is now 28% accurate, up from 7%

Posted on 8 April 2014 by dana1981 The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has just published an analysis of 2013 climate coverage by the three major American cable news networks. The report and data are available online, and the results are summarized…

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Human Rights
Military Occupation as Bullying:  The Palestinian Struggle for Dignity in Hebron

Military Occupation as Bullying: The Palestinian Struggle for Dignity in Hebron

(By Johannes A. Makar) Eyewitness Hebron: Follow young Badr in his city of bullies This February, after crossing the Taba-Eliat border from Egypt, less than […]

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