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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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Saudi Arabia
Troika Fevers:  Key American Allies in the Middle East are the Real Tyrants

Troika Fevers: Key American Allies in the Middle East are the Real Tyrants

(Tomdispatch.com) – American foreign policy can be so retro, not to mention absurd. Despite being bogged down in more military interventions than it can reasonably […]

Danny Sjursen

Israel/ Palestine
The Missing Palestinian Visual Archive

The Missing Palestinian Visual Archive

By Reem Abd Ulhamid | – The Palestinian refugee camps…why do they strive to annihilate them? 1982 Palestinian attempts to create a historical visual narrative […]

Reem Abd Ulhamid

Saudi Arabia
Is Saudi Arabia Losing the War in Yemen?

Is Saudi Arabia Losing the War in Yemen?

By Mustafa Fetouri | – Is Saudi Arabia losing its military campaign in Yemen despite being the stronger party enjoying the support of its many […]

Middle East Monitor

Eurasia
What does it Mean that South Ossetia is Celebrating Independence?

What does it Mean that South Ossetia is Celebrating Independence?

By Richard Foltz | – Tskhinval, Republic of South Ossetia (Informed Comment) – On May 29 South Ossetians celebrated the signing of their declaration of […]

Richard Foltz

Constitution
A Wroth Mueller Comes for Nancy Pelosi:  Rashida Tlaib is Right

A Wroth Mueller Comes for Nancy Pelosi: Rashida Tlaib is Right

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bob Mueller measures his words, but he is as Merriam Webster’s thesaurus has it, angered, apoplectic, ballistic, choleric, enraged, foaming, […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Robert Mueller Statement Transcript: If we had Found Trump Innocent, We would Have Said So

Robert Mueller Statement Transcript: If we had Found Trump Innocent, We would Have Said So

Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered a 10-minute speech from the Justice Department on Wednesday: Transcript: Two years ago, the Acting Attorney General asked me to […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
One of Europe's Last Migrant Rescue Ships Defies European Political Pressure to Save African Lives

One of Europe’s Last Migrant Rescue Ships Defies European Political Pressure to Save African Lives

By Susan H. Smith | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Over nearly five years, the small German charity Sea-Watch has saved more than 37,000 […]

Waging Nonviolence

Climate Change
No, Nuclear Power can't Solve our Environmental Crisis

No, Nuclear Power can’t Solve our Environmental Crisis

By Heidi Hutner and Erica Cirino | – Aeon | – In November 2018, the Woolsey Fire scorched nearly 100,000 acres of Los Angeles and […]

Aeon

Haredim
The Fall of Netanyahu's Government is a Struggle over the Meaning of Jewishness, not just a Power Play

The Fall of Netanyahu’s Government is a Struggle over the Meaning of Jewishness, not just a Power Play

By Joyce Dalsheim | – Benjamin Netanyahu has hit a snag that could derail his chances of becoming the longest-serving prime minister in the history […]

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