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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
PPS: Israeli Forces detained over 6,000 Palestinian children since 2015

PPS: Israeli Forces detained over 6,000 Palestinian children since 2015

Children living in occupied East Jerusalem are the most targeted, with dozens facing arrests more than one time a month

Maan News Agency

Islamophobia
It’s Not Just that Mosque Shooter’s Islamophobia That Scares Me — It’s the Media’s

It’s Not Just that Mosque Shooter’s Islamophobia That Scares Me — It’s the Media’s

By Domenica Ghanem | – (Institute for Policy Studies) – If we want to avoid another tragic day asking ourselves how this could happen, news […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli PM Netanyahu vows to usurp much of Palestinian West Bank

Israeli PM Netanyahu vows to usurp much of Palestinian West Bank

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that he would annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins another term in […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
South Africa Embassy in Israel downgrades Relations over Apartheid

South Africa Embassy in Israel downgrades Relations over Apartheid

South Africa has downgraded its embassy to Israel, the first phase in reducing diplomatic relations between the two countries at the request of South Africa’s […]

Middle East Monitor

Libya
Gen. Hiftar's Drive to Take all of Libya Raises Atrocity Concerns

Gen. Hiftar’s Drive to Take all of Libya Raises Atrocity Concerns

Hiftar’s Forces, Rival Militias Have History of Abuses

Human Rights Watch

Islam
Spirituality without Prophets: Ibn Tufayl and the story of the feral child of philosophy

Spirituality without Prophets: Ibn Tufayl and the story of the feral child of philosophy

Hayy concludes that persuading people away from their ‘natural’ stations would only corrupt them further.

contributors

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Why Designating the Iranian Rev. Guards Terrorists would paint a big Red Target On US Troops in Iraq

Why Designating the Iranian Rev. Guards Terrorists would paint a big Red Target On US Troops in Iraq

The notion is illogical because the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is a state actor, not a non-state actor.

Juan Cole

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Florida PL's Huge Solar Battery will make as much Electricity as half a Nuclear Plant

Florida PL’s Huge Solar Battery will make as much Electricity as half a Nuclear Plant

The batteries are now so cheap that it would actually save utilities money if they used them with solar farms compared to just going on on running old coal plants

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Our Oil, Gas and Chemicals are Threatening a Catastrophic Failure of Earth's Global Systems: That is What Killed off the Dinosaurs

Our Oil, Gas and Chemicals are Threatening a Catastrophic Failure of Earth’s Global Systems: That is What Killed off the Dinosaurs

If pushed far enough, global systems can evidently collapse into a death-spiral

The Conversation

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As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note

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