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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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Israel/ Palestine
Mass Protests and False Hope:  Israel's Supreme Court is no Friend of the Palestinian People

Mass Protests and False Hope: Israel’s Supreme Court is no Friend of the Palestinian People

Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud   ( Middle East Monitor ) – As hundreds of thousands, throughout Israel, joined anti-government protests, questions began to arise regarding […]

Ramzy Baroud

Africa
Tunisia: Racist Violence Targets Black Migrants, Refugees

Tunisia: Racist Violence Targets Black Migrants, Refugees

Human Rights Watch – (Tunis) – President Kais Saied’s recent attempt to mitigate the serious harm that a speech he made on February 21, 2023, […]

Human Rights Watch

Democracy
As Half a Million Israelis Protest Netanyahu Regime, it Faces setbacks in Arab World

As Half a Million Israelis Protest Netanyahu Regime, it Faces setbacks in Arab World

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hadas Gold and Amir Tal report for CNN that the tenth major weekend of protest against the plans of the […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
After the Earthquakes: Fearmongering about People fleeing disasters is a dangerous and faulty Narrative

After the Earthquakes: Fearmongering about People fleeing disasters is a dangerous and faulty Narrative

By Yvonne Su, York University, Canada, Corey Robinson, Durham University | – (The Conversation) – The death toll from the recent earthquakes in Turkey and […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Where were Defenders of Israeli Democracy Hiding when Apartheid was Growing?

Where were Defenders of Israeli Democracy Hiding when Apartheid was Growing?

Israelis continue rallies against gov’t judicial overhaul plan. By Ibrahim Hewitt ibrahimhewitt56   ( Middle East Monitor ) – It is heartening to see so […]

Middle East Monitor

Food
As SNAP Benefits are Cut:  How it Feels to Be Hungry

As SNAP Benefits are Cut: How it Feels to Be Hungry

By Beverly Gologorsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – My long-dead father used to say, “Every human being deserves to taste a piece of cake.” […]

Tomdispatch

China
Is China the New Indispensable Nation? Beijing Brokers Iran-Saudi Relations as U.S. and Israel are Sidelined

Is China the New Indispensable Nation? Beijing Brokers Iran-Saudi Relations as U.S. and Israel are Sidelined

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In an interview with Al Jazeera English, veteran Washington Iran watcher Hillary Mann Leverett asserted that, in the wake of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why the Israeli Right's new Tactic of Low-Intensity war on Palestinians Plus Economic Growth won't Work

Why the Israeli Right’s new Tactic of Low-Intensity war on Palestinians Plus Economic Growth won’t Work

by Walid Habbas  ( Al-Shabaka.org ) – Since 2021, Israeli leaders have proposed a new series of economic policies under the approach of “shrinking the conflict.” […]

Al-Shabaka

Authoritarianism
Iran: Unions and Civil Rights groups demand Democracy and social Justice

Iran: Unions and Civil Rights groups demand Democracy and social Justice

By Simin Fadaee, University of Manchester | – Forty-four years after Iranians rose up against their hated monarch in February 1979, a group of 20 […]

The Conversation

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