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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
Gaza: Unlawful Attacks in May Fighting

Gaza: Unlawful Attacks in May Fighting

Israeli Airstrikes Kill 13 Civilians; Palestinian Rockets Kill 6

Human Rights Watch

Climate Change
No More War for Oil: Buy an Electric Car & Never hear about Tankers Again

No More War for Oil: Buy an Electric Car & Never hear about Tankers Again

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As the warmonger faction in the Trump administration milks the attack on two oil tankers near the Straits of Hormuz […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Saudi and Iran: how our two countries could make peace and bring stability to the Middle East

Saudi and Iran: how our two countries could make peace and bring stability to the Middle East

By Samira Nasirzadeh and Eyad Alrefai | – Relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran have rarely been worse, […]

The Conversation

Iran
Oil-Tanker Attacks Potentially A 'Dangerous Escalation' in US-Iran Confrontation, Expert Says

Oil-Tanker Attacks Potentially A ‘Dangerous Escalation’ in US-Iran Confrontation, Expert Says

(RFE/RL) – Attacks on two commercial oil tankers in the Gulf Of Oman have escalated tensions in the Middle East and raised the prospect of […]

Frud Bezhan

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Intelligence Agency Mossad makes War on Boycott-of-Israel Movement (BDS)

Israeli Intelligence Agency Mossad makes War on Boycott-of-Israel Movement (BDS)

By Abdel Nasser Issa | – Israel not only uses its highly-trained military and security forces against what it calls Palestinian or Islamist “terrorists”, but […]

Middle East Monitor

Iran
Russia is Calling Trump's Bluff on Iran and Syria, and Winning Big

Russia is Calling Trump’s Bluff on Iran and Syria, and Winning Big

By trying to isolate Russia and Iran, the US is only isolating itself. (Moscow) – President Donald Trump won’t go to war with Iran. That […]

Reese Erlich

Iraq
As Trump heads for Another gotten-up Mideast War, Iraqi Youth stage a 20K-Strong Peace Festival

As Trump heads for Another gotten-up Mideast War, Iraqi Youth stage a 20K-Strong Peace Festival

By Laura Gottesdiener | – (Tomdispatch.com) – There’s a dark joke going around Baghdad these days. Noof Assi, a 30-year-old Iraqi peace activist and humanitarian […]

Tomdispatch

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Whoever Hit the Gulf Tankers, Pompeo was Wrong to Finger Iran before Evidence Was In

Whoever Hit the Gulf Tankers, Pompeo was Wrong to Finger Iran before Evidence Was In

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The mysterious mines that blew up two tankers, one of them Japanese-owned and operated, on Wednesday, sent a frisson of […]

Juan Cole

Sudan
In Killing 100 Protesters to Avoid Civilian Rule, Sudan's Junta Committed Historic Blunder

In Killing 100 Protesters to Avoid Civilian Rule, Sudan’s Junta Committed Historic Blunder

By Abdulwahhab Badrakhan | – It is still not clear what’s going to have a stronger influence on the choices of the military leaders in […]

Middle East Monitor

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