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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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On How Latinos are America's Greatest Hope for Economic Growth and Renewal

On How Latinos are America’s Greatest Hope for Economic Growth and Renewal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hispanics or Latinos have been a key population in North America for four hundred years. They are now often coded […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Trump/ Kushner Total Adoption of Israeli Colonial agenda toward Palestine kills Negotiations

Trump/ Kushner Total Adoption of Israeli Colonial agenda toward Palestine kills Negotiations

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is ready to “go to the White House and continue what [he] started with [US President] Donald Trump.” With this […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Change
Green Technology alone Won't Save us: We need an Economic Revolution To Stop Climate Crisis

Green Technology alone Won’t Save us: We need an Economic Revolution To Stop Climate Crisis

By Christine Corlet Walker | – You may have missed it, but a recent report declared that the main strategy of world leaders for tackling […]

The Conversation

racism
The Sinister New Nationalism of the Republican Party

The Sinister New Nationalism of the Republican Party

The party’s assault on “globalists” and “cosmopolitans” pushes against internationalism when it’s needed most.

John Feffer

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America's Shame: 15,549 Gun Homicides in US in 2017; 32 (160) in UK

America’s Shame: 15,549 Gun Homicides in US in 2017; 32 (160) in UK

Revised We are reeling from back-to-back mass shootings, at least one of them an explicit manifestation of white nationalist terrorism in which Americans of a […]

Juan Cole

Iran
The Biggest Losers in Trump-Iran Crisis?  Gulf States.  Biggest Winner? Vladimir Putin

The Biggest Losers in Trump-Iran Crisis? Gulf States. Biggest Winner? Vladimir Putin

By Marwan Kabalan | – It is in the nature of crises, both long term and temporary, for losers and winners to emerge. It is […]

Middle East Monitor

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More Money, Fewer Jobs: Why Lavishing Billions on the Pentagon won’t Help Employment

More Money, Fewer Jobs: Why Lavishing Billions on the Pentagon won’t Help Employment

By Nia Harris, Cassandra Stimpson, and Ben Freeman | – (Tomdispatch.com ) – A Marilyn has once again seduced a president. This time, though, it’s […]

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek thinks Trump is in a Perverse Way good For U.S.; Americans Disagree

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek thinks Trump is in a Perverse Way good For U.S.; Americans Disagree

Says Backing Trump Is Right. Most Americans Would Disagree

Michael Slager

Donald Trump
White Supremacist Terrorism strikes Again in the Age of Trump and Putin

White Supremacist Terrorism strikes Again in the Age of Trump and Putin

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The slaughter of 20 persons in and around a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, by a virulent white nationalist on […]

Juan Cole

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