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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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Machowski:  We're already at War with Iran, though Ayatollahs have not decided to Weaponize Nukes (Video)

Machowski: We’re already at War with Iran, though Ayatollahs have not decided to Weaponize Nukes (Video)

Matthew Machowski, current Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary, University of London and an experienced Middle East analyst gives […]

Juan Cole

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Obama's Lawless Drones have caused Yemen al-Qaeda to Triple (Young Turks)

Obama’s Lawless Drones have caused Yemen al-Qaeda to Triple (Young Turks)

Cenk Uygur on the scandal of the Obama administration’s admission that it had no clear criteria for drone strikes. According to the NYT, the Obama […]

Juan Cole

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Egypt Polarized as 200,000 Tahrir demonstrators and Crowds in other Cities protest Morsi's "Temporary Dictatorship"

Egypt Polarized as 200,000 Tahrir demonstrators and Crowds in other Cities protest Morsi’s “Temporary Dictatorship”

On Wednesday morning, in the wake of a huge demonstration downtown Cairo, the crowds assembled in Tahrir Square faced tear gas barrages whenever they moved […]

Juan Cole

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Tea Party Congress Biggest Obstacle to the Electric Car (Granholm)

Tea Party Congress Biggest Obstacle to the Electric Car (Granholm)

Jennifer Granholm’s War Room guests discuss the roadblocks in the way of a major new, job-creating industry in the US, the electric vehicle. The Tea […]

Juan Cole

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Syria Charged Turkey with “Air Piracy,” New Documents Say (Schoofs and Larson)

Syria Charged Turkey with “Air Piracy,” New Documents Say (Schoofs and Larson)

Mark Schoofs and Jeff Larson write at ProPublica: Documents posted online Monday by hackers associated with the online group Anonymous appear to give new details […]

Juan Cole

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Gaza in Rubble, and Slim hopes for Peace (Abdel Kouddous)

Gaza in Rubble, and Slim hopes for Peace (Abdel Kouddous)

Sharif Abdel Kouddous on Gaza’s “Severe Damage” and Why Truce Won’t Stop the Violence of Occupation at Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!” The blurb from the […]

Juan Cole

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Tom Ricks finally Tells Fox News ("GOP TV") off on the Phony Benghazi "Issue"

Tom Ricks finally Tells Fox News (“GOP TV”) off on the Phony Benghazi “Issue”

Pulitzer Prize-winning war journalist Tom Ricks was brought on Fox Cable News to discussion Susan Rice and the so-called Benghazi affair. His retort that Fox […]

Juan Cole

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Let the Palestinians have their “Kaf-Tet Be’November” (Sternfeld)

Let the Palestinians have their “Kaf-Tet Be’November” (Sternfeld)

Lior Sternfeld writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: On November 29, 1947 the UN general assembly granted the Zionist movement one of its […]

Juan Cole

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Bigger than the IT Revolution: Solar is Going to Electronics Firms, Energy Giants Left Behind (Video)

Bigger than the IT Revolution: Solar is Going to Electronics Firms, Energy Giants Left Behind (Video)

Excellent documentary on the fast-breaking solar technology revolution. From www.vpro.nl/ backlight.

Juan Cole

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