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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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Without Biden's Vaccination Program, a Million and a Half Americans would have died in 2021 and 12 mn would have been Hospitalized

Without Biden’s Vaccination Program, a Million and a Half Americans would have died in 2021 and 12 mn would have been Hospitalized

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden made a major pandemic policy speech on Tuesday, pleading with Americans to get vaccinated, and, indeed, to get […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
90% of California’s Precious Joshua Trees are in Danger from the Climate Emergency

90% of California’s Precious Joshua Trees are in Danger from the Climate Emergency

By Jude Binkley | – ( Cronkite News) – JOSHUA TREE, Calif. – More than a decade ago, Brendan Cummings was living in this desert […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Newly released Records Document Zionist Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians from Palestine in 1948

Newly released Records Document Zionist Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians from Palestine in 1948

( Middle East Monitor) – An investigative report in Haaretz — “Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in ’48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew” […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
2021’s US Climate Disasters revealed an East-West Divide, with one side of the Country too Wet, the other dangerously Dry

2021’s US Climate Disasters revealed an East-West Divide, with one side of the Country too Wet, the other dangerously Dry

By Shuang-Ye Wu | – Alongside a lingering global pandemic, the year 2021 was filled with climate disasters, some so intense they surprised even the […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
New Biden EPA Auto Emissions Rules mandate 10-fold Increase in annual Electric Vehicle sales by 2026

New Biden EPA Auto Emissions Rules mandate 10-fold Increase in annual Electric Vehicle sales by 2026

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In good news for electric vehicles and the greening of US transportation, the Biden administration on Monday substantially toughened automobile […]

Juan Cole

Food Insecurity
The Year in Inequality in 10 Charts: Our Economic and Racial Divides grew Wider in 2021

The Year in Inequality in 10 Charts: Our Economic and Racial Divides grew Wider in 2021

Blogging Our Great Divide by Sarah Anderson Brian Wakamo | – A year ago we had such high hopes. We expected the Covid vaccine rollout […]

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Dissent
US-Backed Al-Sisi's Gov't in Egypt Unjustly Sentences Dissidents to Years in Prison for "Spreading False News"

US-Backed Al-Sisi’s Gov’t in Egypt Unjustly Sentences Dissidents to Years in Prison for “Spreading False News”

( Human Rights Watch – An emergency court sentenced Alaa Abd al Fattah to five years in prison, and Mohamed al-Baqer and Mohamed “Oxygen” Ibrahim […]

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Carbon Footprint
Don’t care about the Build Back Better Act? Hearing People’s personal Stories might change that

Don’t care about the Build Back Better Act? Hearing People’s personal Stories might change that

By Angela Bradbery | – When U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said that he wouldn’t support President Joe Biden’s signature Build Back Better Act, he […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Revenge is a Dish best Served Green:  Biden could get around Manchin with GOP Senators Supporting Wind, Solar, Battery

Revenge is a Dish best Served Green: Biden could get around Manchin with GOP Senators Supporting Wind, Solar, Battery

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Senator Joe Manchin has attempted completely to shoot down the Build Back Better bill, underlining the thin legislative margin with […]

Juan Cole

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