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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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Top 10 Ways the US is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

Top 10 Ways the US is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

Those ratings that castigate Afghanistan and some other poor countries as hopelessly “corrupt” always imply that the United States is not corrupt. VOA reports : […]

Juan Cole

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Israeli Blockade of 40,000 Gaza Fishermen Briefly Broken by Youth Protesters

Israeli Blockade of 40,000 Gaza Fishermen Briefly Broken by Youth Protesters

About 200 Palestinian youth ctivists briefly broke the Israeli blockade on fishing off Gaza past an arbitrary 6-mile limit on Monday. World Bulletin writes: “”We […]

Juan Cole

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Can even Colbert make us laugh at America’s tragic growing Wealth Divide?

Can even Colbert make us laugh at America’s tragic growing Wealth Divide?

  Stephen Colbert on America’s astonishing wealth divide, which has even the Wall Street Journal worried: Boing Boing gives us the statistics : “#1 The […]

Juan Cole

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Americans are 5% of World Population, consume 1/4 of its Energy (infographic)

Americans are 5% of World Population, consume 1/4 of its Energy (infographic)

Source: InternationalBusinessGuide.org

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
G. Willow Wilson on her Ms. Marvel Character as Muslim-American Superhero (BBC)

G. Willow Wilson on her Ms. Marvel Character as Muslim-American Superhero (BBC)

The BBC interviews G. Willow Wilson, creator of the reboot of the Ms Marvel comic book as a young Muslim-American. Here is the BBC interview: […]

Juan Cole

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Libya Needs UN Forces, National Reconciliation to Resolve its Crisis (Al Ghwell)

Libya Needs UN Forces, National Reconciliation to Resolve its Crisis (Al Ghwell)

by Hafed Al Ghwell Libya needs to formulate a vision and a plan for what it wants to be in 10 or 20 years. It […]

Juan Cole

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Dr. Strangelove in Afghanistan: an Advice Column for the Praetorian Surveillance State

Dr. Strangelove in Afghanistan: an Advice Column for the Praetorian Surveillance State

By Tom Engelhardt Col. Manners Answers Your Questions on the Etiquette of War, Nuclear Threats, and Surveillance By Colonel Manners (with a helping hand from […]

Juan Cole

al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
Feinstein & Rogers justify NSA Spying with Syrian Rebels (Voted to Arm Syrian Rebels)

Feinstein & Rogers justify NSA Spying with Syrian Rebels (Voted to Arm Syrian Rebels)

Senator Diane Feinstein and Rep. Mike Rogers took to the airwaves on Sunday to warn that Americans are less safe than two years ago and […]

Juan Cole

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Photo of the Day: Palestinian Bedouin outside Jerusalem, 1930

Photo of the Day: Palestinian Bedouin outside Jerusalem, 1930

from Elia Photo Service via Mashriq Note that when this picture was taken the British counted roughly a million Palestinians in British Mandate Palestine, scheduled […]

Juan Cole

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