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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
Jared Kushner doesn't get to Decide 'What the Palestinian People Want'

Jared Kushner doesn’t get to Decide ‘What the Palestinian People Want’

Ramona Wadi | @walzerscent | – US President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” and the forthcoming economic summit in Bahrain have reaped a multitude […]

Middle East Monitor

Syria
Russia/Syria: Flurry of Prohibited Weapons Attacks

Russia/Syria: Flurry of Prohibited Weapons Attacks

( Human Rights Watch ) – (Beirut) – The Russian–Syrian joint military operation has used internationally banned and other indiscriminate weapons in unlawful attacks on […]

Human Rights Watch

Donald Trump
Top 5 Ways The Moon is part of Mars

Top 5 Ways The Moon is part of Mars

Trump tweeted that the moon is a part of Mars. People cried dementia, but here are some alternative ideas as to what he meant. 1. […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Should we cover the Sahara Desert with Solar Panels to Fight Climate Disaster?

Should we cover the Sahara Desert with Solar Panels to Fight Climate Disaster?

By Will de Freitas |- You may have seen a variant of this meme before. A map of North Africa is shown, with a surprisingly […]

The Conversation

Israel
US Blasts Turkey for drilling for NatGas in Cyprus, foiling Israel pipeline deal

US Blasts Turkey for drilling for NatGas in Cyprus, foiling Israel pipeline deal

The US Ambassador to Cyprus, Judith Garber, has expressed her deep concerns over Turkey’s continued drilling off the coast of Cyprus, and urged Turkey to […]

Middle East Monitor

Far Right
After Death Threats, Rep. Rashida Tlaib Pleads with FBI to take Far Right White Terrorism Seriously (TYT Video)

After Death Threats, Rep. Rashida Tlaib Pleads with FBI to take Far Right White Terrorism Seriously (TYT Video)

“Rep. Rashida Tlaib gets emotional while questioning FBI officials about domestic terrorism: “How is that not enough to fall under domestic terrorism if they’re targeting […]

The Young Turks

Climate Change
Climate Disaster: Our CO2 Levels are Dangerously High, but add in the Methane and it is Much Worse

Climate Disaster: Our CO2 Levels are Dangerously High, but add in the Methane and it is Much Worse

By Zoe Loh, Blagoj Mitrevski, David Etheridge, Nada Derek, Paul Fraser, Paul Krummel, Paul Steele, Ray Langenfelds, and Sam Cleland | – This week brought […]

The Conversation

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On D-Day:  Remembering the Muslim Troops who Fought the Axis

On D-Day: Remembering the Muslim Troops who Fought the Axis

Updated. By Juan Cole One of the frustrations for a world historian is the unyieldingly parochial vision of the North Atlantic common among journalists and […]

Juan Cole

War
Trump's Plan to Pardon War Criminals is Outrageous, but the Higher-Ups were Never even Charged

Trump’s Plan to Pardon War Criminals is Outrageous, but the Higher-Ups were Never even Charged

By Rebecca Gordon | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Memorial Day has come and gone and President Trump did not issue his pardons after all. There was […]

Rebecca Gordon

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