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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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The GOP is Demonizing the Left in New Red Scare, but US Public wants . . . Socialism

The GOP is Demonizing the Left in New Red Scare, but US Public wants . . . Socialism

The policies they’re attacking are enormously popular with America’s workaday majority

Jim Hightower

Arab Spring
How the Mideast Officer Corps and Trump derailed the Arab Spring-- and Hope

How the Mideast Officer Corps and Trump derailed the Arab Spring– and Hope

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “Al-Shebab,” said my student Jerry early in the fall 2010 semester. “We’re calling our small group al-Shebab. It means ‘The Youth.’” […]

Rebecca Gordon

Israel/ Palestine
Did Saudi Arabia offer Palestine Pres. Mahmoud Abbas Billions to bow to Kushner ‘Deal of Century’?

Did Saudi Arabia offer Palestine Pres. Mahmoud Abbas Billions to bow to Kushner ‘Deal of Century’?

Abbas said it would “mean the end of my political life,” according to sources

Maan News Agency

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Super-Majority of Arab Youth in New Poll say Religion too Important in Public Life

Super-Majority of Arab Youth in New Poll say Religion too Important in Public Life

Fully 79%, almost 4 in 5, say that the Arab world desperately needs to reform its religious institutions

Juan Cole

Yemen
The Yemen War is one of the Most Destructive since the Cold War:  UN

The Yemen War is one of the Most Destructive since the Cold War: UN

If the war were to end in 2019, the UNDP projects it would account for 140,000 deaths of children under the age of 5

Middle East Monitor

Bill of Rights
Why the Assange indictment is a Threat to the US First Amendment

Why the Assange indictment is a Threat to the US First Amendment

The American government has traditionally abstained from charging publishers of classified information for the crime of publication

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Slo-Mo Ethnic Cleansing: Israel has forced 3,000 Palestinians from their Jerusalem Homes in 15 Years

Slo-Mo Ethnic Cleansing: Israel has forced 3,000 Palestinians from their Jerusalem Homes in 15 Years

The authorities are deliberately denying Palestinians construction permits

Maan News Agency

Constitution
Mueller thinks Trump Committed Obstruction:  Why he Wrote to Barr and why Barr Lied

Mueller thinks Trump Committed Obstruction: Why he Wrote to Barr and why Barr Lied

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment): Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky at WaPo broke the story that Special Counsel Bob Mueller wrote a sharp letter to Attorney […]

Juan Cole

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Top 6 Ways to Curb America's Skyrocketing Military Tab

Top 6 Ways to Curb America’s Skyrocketing Military Tab

War is the ultimate audit and, as any American should know, the Pentagon is incapable of passing an audit

William J. Astore

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