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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

BY Richard Penaskovic | – Review of Sanjay Gupta, It Doesn’t Have to Hurt:Your Smart Guide to a Pain-free Life. (New York: Simon & Schuster, […]

“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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Algeria
Arab Spring Pt. 2?  Massive Crowds forced out Bouteflika, but What Next for Algeria?

Arab Spring Pt. 2? Massive Crowds forced out Bouteflika, but What Next for Algeria?

What will become of the entrenched political, military, business and tribal interests?

Brian Whitaker

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Senators Grill Rick Perry on Transfer of Nuclear Info to Saudi Arabia Despite "Troubling Actions"

Senators Grill Rick Perry on Transfer of Nuclear Info to Saudi Arabia Despite “Troubling Actions”

“Many deeply troubling actions and statements that have provoked alarm in Congress”

Juan Cole

Neoliberalism
"Free" Markets and the Attack on Democracy

“Free” Markets and the Attack on Democracy

The neoliberal deification of markets has many parents.

John Buell

Plutocracy
Our New Gilded Age and the Scandal of Constant Money Scandals

Our New Gilded Age and the Scandal of Constant Money Scandals

Then there are the dark money groups, which can receive financial contributions from any source, American or foreign.

Rajan Menon

Qur'an
On how Everything Sam Harris says about Islam is Wrong: Part 2 on “Unbelievers”

On how Everything Sam Harris says about Islam is Wrong: Part 2 on “Unbelievers”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This is the second installment in a series on Sam Harris’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad book, “The End […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Did the Same Saudi Hackers who Trapped Khashoggi Target Amazon's Bezos for Nude Photos?

Did the Same Saudi Hackers who Trapped Khashoggi Target Amazon’s Bezos for Nude Photos?

It has been alleged that the crown prince targeted expatriate Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in part because he had written critically about Trump

Juan Cole

Turkey
Turkey's Erdogan Lost Key Cities in Paranoiac Campaign that ignored Sinking Economy

Turkey’s Erdogan Lost Key Cities in Paranoiac Campaign that ignored Sinking Economy

By Ihsan Yilmaz and Erdoan Shipoli | – Votes are still being counted in local elections that took place across Turkey on Sunday, but so […]

The Conversation

Climate Change
We Don't have a Global Emissions Problem, we Have a Rich Peoples' CO2 Problem

We Don’t have a Global Emissions Problem, we Have a Rich Peoples’ CO2 Problem

American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline of a Green New Deal

The Conversation

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Political Prisoners Face Severe Abuse: Report

Saudi Political Prisoners Face Severe Abuse: Report

The Kingdom is under heavy scrutiny following the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last October

Middle East Monitor

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