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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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Wikileaker Bradley Manning "Illegally Punished," 4 months off Life Sentence

Wikileaker Bradley Manning “Illegally Punished,” 4 months off Life Sentence

A military judge has found that Bradley Manning, who released large numbers of low-classified State Department cables to Wikileaks, was illegally punished while in the […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Frankenyear 2012:  Hottest on Record, as US emits 5 bn tons of CO2 Annually

Frankenyear 2012: Hottest on Record, as US emits 5 bn tons of CO2 Annually

Can we sue the Koch brothers and all the other dirty-energy, climate change-denying moguls yet for the billions they are costing us in climate disasters […]

Juan Cole

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Controversial, Not Controversial (Brennan v. Hagel, Big Oil v. Solar & other Media Hypocrisies)

Controversial, Not Controversial (Brennan v. Hagel, Big Oil v. Solar & other Media Hypocrisies)

Not controversial: John Brennan: Served in CIA during the torture program, designed the current US drone program that has extra-judicially killed hundreds, including children and […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Climate Change is turning Australia Purple with Blazing Heat

Climate Change is turning Australia Purple with Blazing Heat

The heat wave or “dome of heat” afflicting Australia may produce a record temperature of over 122 degrees F. (over 50 degrees C.). For temperatures […]

Juan Cole

Syria
The Syrian Opposition Attacks Bashar al-Assad’s Defiant Speech (Aljazeera & Alarabiya via OSC)

The Syrian Opposition Attacks Bashar al-Assad’s Defiant Speech (Aljazeera & Alarabiya via OSC)

The USG Open Source Center translates broadcasts from Arabic satellite television concerning the speech on Sunday of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in which he again […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Reasons Chuck Hagel Should be Secretary of Defense

Top Ten Reasons Chuck Hagel Should be Secretary of Defense

I doubt Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator from Nebraska, and I would agree about almost anything with regard to domestic US politics. Unless his […]

Juan Cole

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Climate Change is Snowballing on Obama: Time for Drama, not Gradualism! (McKibben)

Climate Change is Snowballing on Obama: Time for Drama, not Gradualism! (McKibben)

Bill McKibben writes at Tomdispatch Change usually happens very slowly, even once all the serious people have decided there’s a problem. That’s because, in a […]

Juan Cole

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Syrian Revolutionaries Continue Damascus Operations as Bashar takes to Airwaves

Syrian Revolutionaries Continue Damascus Operations as Bashar takes to Airwaves

Beleagured President Bashar al-Assad addressed the nation on Sunday, in a “Baghdad Bob” moment, in which he more or less denied he has lost control […]

Juan Cole

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Mass Shootings don’t Provoke States to Regulate Semi-Automatic Weapons (Sapien)

Mass Shootings don’t Provoke States to Regulate Semi-Automatic Weapons (Sapien)

Joaquin Sapien writes at ProPublica: Following the mass shooting in Connecticut, the Obama administration and lawmakers around the country have promised to re-examine gun control […]

Juan Cole

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