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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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Iran
Iran's Green Uprising 10 Years Later:  A Humanizing Legacy

Iran’s Green Uprising 10 Years Later: A Humanizing Legacy

By Pouya Alimagham (Informed Comment) – June 12, 2019 marks the tenth anniversary of what sparked the Green Uprising in Iran. While many have noted […]

Pouya Alimagham

Corruption
Trump Broadcasts Free Ad via Disney to Thuggish Regimes, requesting Hacked Dirt on Dems

Trump Broadcasts Free Ad via Disney to Thuggish Regimes, requesting Hacked Dirt on Dems

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump revealed again on Wednesday that he has no legal or ethical compass. In an interview with ABC news Chief […]

Juan Cole

Bashar al-Assad
War Crimes: Syria's Assad has Systematically Targeted Hospitals as a Battle Tactic

War Crimes: Syria’s Assad has Systematically Targeted Hospitals as a Battle Tactic

By Zaki Kaf Al-Ghazal | – Although many reports touch on the political and humanitarian situation in Syria, little has been said about the medical […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
The Defense Dep't is Open about Climate Crisis, but is a Major Emitter itself

The Defense Dep’t is Open about Climate Crisis, but is a Major Emitter itself

By Neta C. Crawford | – Scientists and security analysts have warned for more than a decade that global warming is a potential national security […]

The Conversation

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Iran to Germany:  For sake of Keeping Nuclear Deal, you Must do more to Defy Trump

Iran to Germany: For sake of Keeping Nuclear Deal, you Must do more to Defy Trump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranians are increasingly impatient with Europe’s lack of concrete steps to protect Iran from Trump’s severe sanctions, and the frustration […]

Juan Cole

Sudan
Why Sudan's deadly Crackdown on Protesters could Escalate in coming Weeks

Why Sudan’s deadly Crackdown on Protesters could Escalate in coming Weeks

By Eric Keels and Joshua Lambert | – Sudanese security forces violently removed a protest camp in the capital, Khartoum, on June 3. In addition […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Kushner thinks Israelis have Rights but Palestinians have only Needs (if they Behave)

Kushner thinks Israelis have Rights but Palestinians have only Needs (if they Behave)

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – It was a revealing and quite intersecting interview that Jared Kushner had with Jonathan Swan on Axios on HBO […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Change
You have an Earth, Madame, if you Can Keep It:  Politics of Planetary Destruction

You have an Earth, Madame, if you Can Keep It: Politics of Planetary Destruction

By David Bromwich | – (Tomdispatch.com) – More and more, we look into our screens and gizmos. And this helps us — almost as if […]

Tomdispatch

Corruption
Is Jared Kushner Literally in Bed with the Saudis?

Is Jared Kushner Literally in Bed with the Saudis?

The Guardian’s Jon Swain broke the story on Monday that Cadre, a real estate investment firm in which Jared Kushner has as much as a […]

Juan Cole

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