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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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Climate Crisis
Keep it in the Ground: We can’t limit Global Heating to Safe Levels unless We Ban all new Oil and Gas Fields

Keep it in the Ground: We can’t limit Global Heating to Safe Levels unless We Ban all new Oil and Gas Fields

By David Waltham | – As a professor of geophysics, I have spent 36 years training young geologists destined to work in the fossil fuel […]

The Conversation

art and photography
The Nativity, Jesus and Mary in Paintings of the Muslim Mughal Court of India

The Nativity, Jesus and Mary in Paintings of the Muslim Mughal Court of India

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Here’s a Christmas entry. The Mughal dynasty, originating in what is now Uzbekistan, ruled India from 1526 until the 18th […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Will the US 'Combating Islamophobia Act'  signal a Change towards hate Crime in America?

Will the US ‘Combating Islamophobia Act’ signal a Change towards hate Crime in America?

( Middle East Monitor) – The result of a vote in the US House of Representatives on 14 December may signal a change in Washington’s […]

Ramzy Baroud

Authoritarianism
2021: a grim year for Free Speech as hundreds of Journalists are arrested in an increasingly authoritarian World

2021: a grim year for Free Speech as hundreds of Journalists are arrested in an increasingly authoritarian World

By Dina Matar | – Hundreds of journalists killed or arrested, rising numbers of female media workers targeted, floods of misinformation and hate speech and […]

The Conversation

Conspiracy Theories
Why our Democracy is Ailing: Another Grim winter for our Unmasked, Unvaccinated, Disputatious, Confrontational, Conspiratorial, and disturbed Country

Why our Democracy is Ailing: Another Grim winter for our Unmasked, Unvaccinated, Disputatious, Confrontational, Conspiratorial, and disturbed Country

( Tomdispatch.com) – Whether the pandemic that’s swept the world started from a bat or not, as 2021 ends, I think it’s safe to say […]

Tom Engelhardt

Archaeology
Israeli Archeologists find Christian Ring with Image of Christ as Shepherd in Shipwreck from era of Constantine

Israeli Archeologists find Christian Ring with Image of Christ as Shepherd in Shipwreck from era of Constantine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A marine unit of the Israel Antiquities Authority diving off the ruins of the ancient city of Caesarea Maritima has […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
American Colonialism Left Iraq in Environmental Crisis, Polluted, Corrupt and Crime-Ridden

American Colonialism Left Iraq in Environmental Crisis, Polluted, Corrupt and Crime-Ridden

By Haifa Zangana | – (Middle East Monitor ) – The devastation caused by man to the environment is no longer a secret; nature is […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ Glacier: how its Collapse could trigger global Floods and swallow Islands

Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ Glacier: how its Collapse could trigger global Floods and swallow Islands

By Ella Gilbert | – The massive Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 65cm if it were […]

The Conversation

Pentagon
Congress Keeps Spending Nearly 1/4 of our Budget on the Pentagon, but it Hasn’t won any Wars for Decades

Congress Keeps Spending Nearly 1/4 of our Budget on the Pentagon, but it Hasn’t won any Wars for Decades

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Professional sports is a cutthroat business. Succeed and the people running the show reap rich rewards. Fail to meet expectations and […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

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