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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
Anti-Palestinian Hate Speech goes unpunished in Israeli Social Media

Anti-Palestinian Hate Speech goes unpunished in Israeli Social Media

By Nadim Nashif | – (Al-Shabakah) – Israel is a world leader in cybersecurity technologies and surveillance and, on platforms like Facebook and Twitter, uses […]

Al-Shabaka

Corruption
Chickens Came home to Roost: US meddled in Foreign Elections for Decades

Chickens Came home to Roost: US meddled in Foreign Elections for Decades

(Tomdispatch.com) – In this country, reactions to the Mueller report have been all-American beyond belief. Let’s face it, when it comes to election meddling, it’s […]

Tom Engelhardt

Israel/ Palestine
Dem Presidential Hopeful Accuses “Racist” Israel of “Genocide”

Dem Presidential Hopeful Accuses “Racist” Israel of “Genocide”

A veteran US politician who has announced his candidacy for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination for 2020 has described Israel as a “racist state” which […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Change
Bye Bye Miami: New Estimates Double Expected Sea Level rise to 6′

Bye Bye Miami: New Estimates Double Expected Sea Level rise to 6′

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sea level rise over the next 80 years may have been underestimated by the conservative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]

Juan Cole

journalism
Why Congress needs to empower the IRS to give nonprofit newspapers a green light

Why Congress needs to empower the IRS to give nonprofit newspapers a green light

By Magda Konieczna | – After nearly 150 years in business – as a business – The Salt Lake Tribune wants to become a nonprofit. […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Mission Accomplished?  Could US-Iran Conflict Tear Iraq Apart Again?

Mission Accomplished? Could US-Iran Conflict Tear Iraq Apart Again?

The US did to Iraq in reality what Daenarys Targaryen did to King’s Landing in the fictional Game of Thrones

Juan Cole

Iran
The Coming American Assault on Iran, Part II

The Coming American Assault on Iran, Part II

(Informed Comment) – One year ago, I wrote an article on the Trump administration’s plan for an attack on Iran. My evidence was based on […]

Tarek R. Dika

Iran
Why the Trump Admn.'s Confrontation with Iran will end Badly for . . . Trump

Why the Trump Admn.’s Confrontation with Iran will end Badly for . . . Trump

It’s hard to see how this conflict could end without the United States backing down or with a further dangerous escalation

The Conversation

Latin America
We are here because you were there: Refugees at the US-Mexican Border

We are here because you were there: Refugees at the US-Mexican Border

(Informed Comment) – Why would so many Guatemalans make the arduous journey to the US-Mexican border seeking refuge, knowing the hatred heaped on them by […]

H. Patricia Hynes

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