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December 2004:
Putin towards a new Cold War
(BBC News)
Libya's Qaddafi ordered the assassination of Saudi prince
(New York Times)
Syria increases the number of troops deployed in Lebanon
(BBC News)
Syria accused of helping Iraqi insurgents
(Seattle Times)
China theatening Japan
(BBC News)
Fresh battles in Nepal
(BBC News)
Al Qaeda terrorists released by Saudi Arabia
(Saudi Institute)
Europeans do not welcome the melting pot
(New York Times)
A change in tone from the Palestinian propaganda
(New York Times)
Most Iraqis want the USA to leave
(Guardian)
Arab women demand political rights
(IRIN)
Palestinians optimistic about peace with Israel
(Arab News)
Poll shows declining support for terorism among Palestinians
(Jerusalem Media)
Saudi organization calls for rights of women to participate in elections
(Saudi Institute)
Democracy in the Arab world
(IDEA)
First Saudi elections in 50 years
(Arab News)
The political mosaic in Iraq
(Bahrain Times)
80 political parties to stand in Iraqi elections
(BBC News)
North Korea threatens to declare war to Japan
(BBC News)
Missile defense test fails
(BBC News)
Google to digitize world's libraries
(BBC News)
Japan exploring natural gas fields in disputed sea region
(Yahoo News)
Anarchy in Papua New Guinea
(BBC News)
Egypt and Israel sign trade deal
(BBC News)
The opposition wins elections in Romania
(BBC News)
Agricultural boom in South America
(New York Times)
Ukraine's opposition leader was poisoned
(New York Times)
Taiwan's president loses parliamentary elections
(BBC News)
Berlusconi cleared of corruption charges in Italy
(BBC News)
Child abuses in Islamic schools
(BBC News)
Rwanda controls Congo/Zaire
(BBC News)
The Shiite party in Iraq
(BBC News)
Civil war in Congo/Zaire kills 1,000 people a day
(BBC News)
World hunger
(FAO)
Iraq's preparing for elections
(New York Times)
The European Union keeps an arms embargo against China despite France and Germany
(BBC News)
France enforces French among Muslim cleric
(BBC News)
Mugabe appears to anoint Joyce Mujuru As heir
(All Africa)
Iraq accuses neighboring countries of helping insurgents
(New York Times)
OECD ranking of schoolchildren
(OECD)
The French-Chinese axis
(CHina Daily)
France signs four billion dollars of deals with China's dictators
(International Herald Tribune)
France wants Europe to life arms embargo against China's dictators
(Expatica)
France wants Europe to life arms embargo against China's dictators
(International Herald Tribune)
Osama is alive, well and free
(BBC News)
Gilles Kepel: the Jihadists are losing the war on terrorism
(Washington Post)
Gilles Kepel: the convergence between American neo-cons and the Jihadists
(Open Democracy)
Europe's increasing dependence on Russian gas
(Financial Times)
Ukraine annuls election results
(BBC News)
French hostages still held by Iraqi insurgents
(Times Online)
The USA pressures the United Nations to investigate the oil-for-food scandal
(Reuters)
The New Bush cabinet
(The State)
China to execute Tibetan leader Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche
(BBC News)
Unemployment increases in Germany
(BBC News)
Marwan Barghouti announces he will run for president of Palestine
(BBC News)
Iraq's neighbors promise to cooperate with Iraq
(RFE/FL)
Iraq's neighbors promise to cooperate with Iraq
(Teheran Times)
The United Nations plans to expand the Security Council
(New York Times)
November 2004:
Venezuela is building up a huge army
(Financial Times)
Spain involved in a coup to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea
(BBC News)
Trade agreement between China and ASEAN
(BBC News)
75% of Texans are in favor of the death penalty
(Christian Science Monitor)
French views of America
(Le Monde)
57% of Americans have an unfavorable view of France
(Rasmussen)
China's killer coal mines
(China.org)
Kofi Annan's son benefited from the oil-for-food program
(Al Jazeera)
Marwan Barghouti opts out of the Palestinian presidential election and supports Israel's favorite Mahmoud Abbas
(BBC News)
Pakistan bans a Newsweek issue that talks about Islamic terrorism
(BBC News)
Arsenals found in Falluja
(BBC News)
Chavez abolishes freedom of the press
(BBC News)
An Assessment of the Russian economy
(Research Institute of the Finnish Economy)
Pakistan's top scientist Khan provided Iran with nuclear technology
(New York Times)
Ukraine on the edge of civil war
(BBC News)
UNAIDS report on AIDS in the world
(UNAIDS)
39.4 million people have AIDS worldwide
(BBC News)
Viktor Yanukovych declared winner of Ukraine's elections, despite exit polls
(New York Times)
Viktor Yanukovych declared winner of Ukraine's elections, despite exit polls
(BBC News)
Arafat's death still a mystery
(BBC News)
The G20 meeting
(CNN)
Saudi man sues the religious fanatics who convinced his son to fight the USA
(BBC News)
Pro-western opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko wins free democratic elections in Ukraine
(BBC News)
China scraps plans for world's tallest building
(BBC News)
Elections in Namibia
(BBC News)
The Paris club of creditors reduces Iraq's debt
(New York Times)
The Paris club of creditors reduces Iraq's debt
(BBC News)
The Paris club of creditors reduces Iraq's debt
(CNN)
Did Chernobyl cause cancer in Sweden?
(BBC News)
A new political party in Egypt, led by a woman
(Al Ahram)
Burma frees 4,000 political prisoners
(BBC News)
Sri Lanka reintroduces the death penalty
(BBC News)
Continued clashes in Ivory Coast between France, the rebels and the government
(ABC)
Bush has to decide what to do about Iran, a country that does have a nuclear program
(New York Times)
The ethical and criminal investigations on Tom DeLay's sinister dealings
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Tom DeLay was cited by the House Ethics Committee for three violations this year
(Boston.com)
Tom DeLay's corporate fundraising investigated
(Washington Post)
The crimes of Tom DeLay
(Houston Indymedia)
Tom DeLay's funny money trail
(Salon)
The Republican Party changes its rules to protect the sinister Tom DeLay
(ABC News)
241 members of the House and Senate received $2,135,802 from DeLay's political action committee
(Common Dreams)
The sinister Tom DeLay
(Alternet)
Tom DeLay has been subpoenaed to testify in a Texas civil lawsuit for misuse of public funds
(CNN)
The dollar drops after Greenspan's comments on the USA trade deficit
(Bloomberg)
Greenspan says that the USA deficits pose a risk
(New York Times)
U.S. Congress approves a $800 billion increase in debt ceiling
(Bloomberg)
Berlusconi appoints former fascist Gianfranco Fini as Italy's foreign minister
France to release Arafat's medical records
The production of drugs has dramatically increased in Afghanistan, and Afghanistan now supplies 87% of world opium
(New York Times)
The production of drugs has dramatically increased in Afghanistan, and Afghanistan now supplies 87% of world opium
(BBC News)
Chirac repeats his critique of the invasion of Iraq
(CNN)
New PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas vows crackdown on violence
(CNN)
NASA's X-43A sets the new speed record for an airplane
(BBC News)
Rumours in France about Arafat's death
(Liberation)
Islamic fundamentalists kill a woman who spent her life helping Iraqis
(BBC News)
France refuses to disclose the cause of Arafat's death
(Al Bawaba)
France refuses to disclose the cause of Arafat's death
(Al Jazeera)
France refuses to disclose the cause of Arafat's death
(BBC News)
Palestinian prime minster Ahmed Qurei asks France a detailed report on the cause of Arafat's death
(Indolink)
Palestinian prime minster Ahmed Qurei asks France a detailed report on the cause of Arafat's death
(China View)
Benon Sevan, the United Nations official who is involved in the "oil for food" scandal
(Acepilots)
How Saddam stole $21 billion from the "oil for food" program
(New York Times)
Condoleeza Rice replaces Colin Powell
(New York Times)
Amnesty International calls for arms embargo in Sudan
(BBC News)
Britain, France and Germany sign deal to stop Iran's nuclear program
(New York Times)
Greece admits cheating to enter the Euro zone
(BBC News)
Ivory Coast accuses France
(BBC News)
Foreigners fleeing Ivory Coast
(CNN)
A paper on USA net liabilities
(IMF)
Taliban leader still free and calling for insurrection
(BBC News)
Anti-Islamic violence in Holland
(BBC News)
Rapid increase in foreign liabilities threatens USA economy
(Economic Policy Institute)
Bush and Blair meet to decide Palestinian policy
(New York Times)
Bavaria bans headscarves
(BBC News)
Arafat's funeral
(BBC News)
The head of NATO on European and American attitudes towards terrorism
(New York Times)
Mahmoud Abbas elected the new PLO chairman
(Al Jazeera)
Arafat's fortune
(New York Times)
Afghan women offer themselves in return for the release of United Nations hostages
(Al Jazeera)
Asian reaction to Arafat's death
(BBC News)
World reaction to Arafat's death
(BBC News)
The deal behind Arafat's death
(Corriere della Sera)
The dollar falls to an all-time low against the euro
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Iranian economists on Iran's future
(Al Jazeera)
French citizens evacuated from Ivory Coast
(CNN)
Drugs-related deaths doubled in Britain over the last ten years
(BBC News)
Another death by stoning narrowly avoided in Nigeria
(BBC News)
A French poll cites Israel as a terrorist country
(Al Jazeera)
Germany rules out war against Iran
(Al Jazeera)
Islamic terrorism in Holland
(BBC News)
Only 1/3 of Britons support the war in Iraq
(Al Jazeera)
Iran jails journalists
(New York Times)
France sends more troops to Ivory Coast
(New York Times)
Ivory Coast president orders France to withdraw
(BBC News)
Mobs attack French troops in Ivory Coast
(BBC News)
China defends Iran's right to build a nuclear bomb
(New York Times)
The birth of political parties in Iraq
(New York Times)
France bombs Ivory Coast
(BBC News)
The dollar hits an all-time low against the euro
(Forbes)
Marist poll about the USA elections
Pew Center poll about the USA elections
CNN poll about the USA elections
Gallup poll about the USA elections
Greece upset because the USA decides to call Macedonia as... "Macedonia"
(BBC News)
Ecuador to impeach its president
(BBC News)
Hong Kong's legendary magazine, The Far Eastern Economic Review, shuts down
(New York Times)
Kenya celebrates Barack Obama's election to the Senate
(BBC News)
American public opinion on foreign policy
(Chicago Council on Foreign Relations)
American public opinion on foreign policy - the full report
(Chicago Council on Foreign Relations)
October 2004:
Ukrainian elections
(BBC News)
A modern analysis of the Quran
(Journal of Syriac Studies)
Osama bin Laden's message to the USA nation
(BBC News)
Absolute chaos in Iraq kills 100,000 civilians
(BBC News)
More civil war in Somalia
(BBC News)
European leaders sign a new constitution
(BBC News)
Islamic terrorists> (MSNBC)
On the failure of French diplomacy to free the hostages in Iraq
(Le Figaro)
Allawi blames a massacre on American negligence
(ABC News)
Elections in Ukraine
(PolitInfo)
Murders increase in the USA to 16,503 a year
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Rigged elections in Tunisia
(Seattle Post)
The USA let insurgents steal tons of explosives in Iraq
(BBC News)
The dictator of Equatorial Guinea
(Fact Index)
Equatorial Guinea and Mark Thatcher's attempted coup
(Guardian)
The Pentagon, Equatorial Guinea and Mark Thatcher's attempted coup
(Guardian)
Brazil launches its first rocket into space
(BBC News)
Companies that took money from Saddam Hussein under the "oil for food" program that was supposed to feed the Iraqi people
(Daily Times)
Companies that took money from Saddam Hussein under the "oil for food" program
(CNN)
Companies that took money from Saddam Hussein under the "oil for food" program
(Washington Post)
Companies that took money from Saddam Hussein under the "oil for food" program
(Al Jazeera)
The investigation into the "oil for food" program in Iraq
(International Herald Tribune)
China is building the world's largest solar plant
(WWF)
Humans consume 20% more natural resources than the Earth can produce
(WWF)
Russia ratifies the Kyoto protocol
(BBC News)
Al Jazeera helps the abductors of an aid worker who was only helping ordinary Iraqis
(Al Jazeera)
Senegal's President on The New Plan for Africa's Development (Nepad)
(BBC News)
The most competitive economies in the world
(World Economic Forum)
Belarus president Aleksandr Lukashenko claims victory in rigged elections
(New York Times)
The Bush administration did not expect a prolonged civil war in Iraq
(New York Times)
208 Iraqi civilians die in a week
(New York Times)
Zarqawi declares his allegiance to Osama bin Laden
(Khaleej Times)
Putin urges USA voters to reelect Bush
(CNN)
Russia pressures Iran to stop its nuclear program
(BBC News)
Record trade deficit of the USA
(Washington Post)
France is the fastest growing euro economy
(BBC News)
Saddam Hussein and the weapons of mass destruction
(CIA)
The oil for food scandal implicates French officials
(Business Line)
The oil for food scandal implicates French officials
(BBC News)
The oil for food scandal implicates French officials
(Washington Times)
Civil war in Haiti
(New York Times)
The death toll in Darfur reaches 70,000
(New York Times)
Syrians love a comedy about the fall of Saddam Hussein
(BBC News)
Somalia has a new president, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed
(Allafrica)
Cambodia has a new king, Norodom Sihamoni
(BBC News)
Darfur's death toll reaches 70,000
(BBC News)
Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Baasyir is charged for a terrorist attack on a Jakarta hotel
(BBC News)
Two women sentenced to death by stoning in Nigeria
(CNN)
Germany passes law that benefits only Volkswagen
(International Herald Tribune)
John Howard wins Australian elections
(ABC News)
September 2004:
Majority of French people oppose Turkey in Europe
(Guardian)
Chernobyl
(Stanford Univ)
Brazil, Germany, Japan and India want a permanent seat at the United Nations security council
(BBC News)
Indicted arms dealer Pierre Falcone saved by Chirac
(GLobal Witness)
U.S. and France vie for the oil riches of Africa
(Final Call)
The trial of American bounty killers in Afghanistan
(BBC News)
Continuining Israeli raids into Palestine
(BBC News)
Arab states criticize Syria's occupation of Lebanon
(BBC News)
Hu Jingtao rejects democratic reforms in China
(BBC News)
Brazil is the capital of electronic crime
(BBC News)
Anne Norton's book on the influence of Leo Strauss' ideas on American politics
(Yale Univ Press)
George W Bush repeals the ban on assault weapons
(New York Times)
Putin increases central power in Russia
(New York Times)
Greece in debt after the Olympic games
(BBC News)
Mysterious explosion in North Korea
(BBC News)
Elections in Jong Kong
(BBC News)
World's views of Bush and Kerry
(BBC News)
Pakistan raid kills Chechen, Uzbek and Arab terrorists
(BBC News)
Powell accuses Sudan of genocide
(BBC News)
Rising criticism of Islamic terrorism in the Arab press
(New York Times)
Bob Graham's book "Intelligence Matters"
(Associated Press)
William Luti
(Right Web)
Vacation days in the USA
(San Francisco Chronicle)
French finance minister Nicholas Sarkozy helps Vivendi
(Associated Press)
The world's top universities
(Shanghai Tong Univ)
Nobel laureates on the world economy
(Wall Street Journal)
USa and France sponsor an anti-Syrian resolution at the United Nations
(BBC News)
China's Textile Industrial Base - Dongguan
(CTEI)
Muslim minority growing faster than any other ethnic group in India
(BBC News)
Israel spying on the USA
(Asia times)
Chalabi cleared of charges
(Al Jazeera)
South Korea secretely produced uranium for nuclear bombs
(New York Times)
Osama did not fund September 11
(CNN)
An Israeli court convicts an anti-Arab terrorist
(Al Jazeera)
United Nations adopts a resolution that Syria stops the occupation of Lebanon
(BBC News)
United Nations report on Iran
(New York Times)
Iran is about to produce a nuclear weapon
(BBC News)
Nepalese riot against Arab killing of Nepalese workers in Iraq
(BBC News)
Belgium's role in international conspiracies
(Conspiracy Planet)
Fewer refugees asking for asylum in western countries, the lowest level since 1987
(BBC News)
August 2004:
The European Union withdraws its observers from Venezuela
(Vcrisis)
Iran arrests nuclear spies
(BBC News)
Occupying power Syria presses Lebanon to extend Emile Lahoud's term
(BBC News)
Bush gives credit to Kerry for being more heroic in war
(BBC News)
China's expansion in Asia and Oceania
(New York Times)
Iraqi clerics reject violence against the USA
(BBC News)
Israeli espionage in the USA
(CNN)
Israeli espionage in the USA
(BBC News)
Shaukat Aziz elected prime minister of Pakistan
(BBC News)
France subsidizes the broadcast media
(Discover France)
France subsidizes the film industry
(French Government)
France subsidizes the newsmedia
(Discover France)
The decline of France
(Weekly Standard)
The number of poor people in the USA increases to 12.5%
(New York Times)
Bush accepts Chavez's victory in Venezuela
(USA Today)
Bush accepts Chavez's victory in Venezuela
(Washington Times)
USA ships weapon-grade plutonium to France
(Greenpeace)
France helps Italian terrorist Cesare Battisti escape
(Guardian)
France helps Italian terrorist Cesare Battisti escape
(Washington Times)
Islamic cleric opposes law against rape in Malaysia
(BBC News)
Rifkin's "European Dream"
(International Herald Tribune)
Impressions of America poll in the Arab world
(AAIUSA)
Net worth of American households
(Census)
Chavez wins the referendum on his rule in Venezuela
(New York Times)
Stem-cells research is unlikely to cure Alzheimer's
(Washington Post)
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Qaddafi of Libya warns Europe that Turkey wants to be a Traojan horse for Islam
(Novinite)
Arafat survives political struggle within the Palestinians
(New York Times)
Bush decides to bring home troops from Europe and Asia
(New York Times)
Syria releases human-right activist Aktham Naisse
(BBC News)
Chavez wins the referendum
(BBC News)
A chronology of SARS in China
(Harvard Asia)
Fighting for control of Herat in Afghanistan
(BBC News)
Palestinian students storm buildings of the Palestinian Authority demanding end to corruption and jobs
(Al Jazeera)
Georgia asks Russia to stop the military occupation of one of its regions
(BBC News)
Hutu rebels massacre Congolese Tutsi refugees in Burundi
(BBC News)
USA trade deficit reaches record level
(New York Times)
Pizza for North Korea's leader
(BBC News)
Sunni cleric issue fatwa against collaborating with the USA
(Middle East Online)
The new generation of Al Qaeda leaders
(New York Times)
An Iraqi judge orders the arrest of Chalabi
(New York Times)
The head of the Iraqi war-crime tribunal is indicted of murder
(BBC News)
Accident at a Japanese nuclear plant
(BBC News)
Yemen fights the militia of cleric Hussein al-Houthi
(BBC News)
The Arab League rejects any attempt to stop the massacre of non-Arabs by Sudanese Arabs in Darfur
(BBC News)
Chinese riot after Japan wins the final match of the Asian football tournament
(BBC News)
A United Nations report blames the government of Sudan for the massacres in Sudan
(BBC News)
Al Jazeera banned from Iraq for inciting hatred
(ABC)
Belarus: the last totalitarian regime in Europe
(Charter 97)
Trends in arms exports since the end of the Cold War
(CSIS)
Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, travels to Britain for medical reasons
(CNN)
A Taliban's story of how Taliban train in Pakistan
(New York Times)
Arab masses demonstrate in Sudan in favor of the Darfur massacres
(BBC News)
Palestinians executed by Palestinians for "collaborating" with Israel
(BBC News)
July 2004:
Comments by the president of Sudan on the massacres of Darfur
(Al Jazeera)
Fahrenheit 9/11's success in the USA
(Business Times)
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The findings of the Sep 11 commission
(New York Times)
Summary of the report of the Sep 11 commission
(New York Times)
The USA cuts funds for space research
(BBC News)
Donors pledge $1 billion to Haiti
(BBC News)
Gang-rapes and abductions of girls in Darfur by Arab militias
(CNN)
Gang-rapes and abductions of girls in Darfur by Arab militias
(Amnesty International)
The USA examines possible Iranian ties to September 11
(New York Times)
Bolivians approve in a referendum the policies that cost its president's job
(BBC News)
Turmoil within the Palestinian Authority
(BBC News)
About the Darfur
(Christian Science Monitor)
Lawlessness in Gaza
(BBC News)
Life expectancy declines in Africa
(New York Times)
India will build the tallest Buddha statue in the world
(BBC News)
Osama associate Khaled al-Harbi surrenders to Saudi Arabia
(BBC News)
Zarqawi's story
(New York Times)
Koizumi loses Japanese elections
(New York Times)
Koizumi loses Japanese elections
(BBC News)
Bolivia votes in a referendum on economic policy
(BBC News)
Musharraf replaces the Pakistan's prime minister with a technocrat to please the business community
(Daily Times)
Communist China tries to stop USA sale of weapons to free Taiwan
(New York Times)
Communist China tries to stop USA sale of weapons to free Taiwan
(BBC News)
Falluja has become a haven for terrorists and Saddam militias
(New York Times)
Libya demands Chad to surreder terrorist Ammari Saifi, wanted in Germany
(BBC News)
China plans a moon station
(BBC News)
A general trend in Europe towards getting rid of the governing parties
(New York Times)
AIDS infection rate in Asia increases sharply
(New York Times)
Libya condemns Bulgarian doctors to death penalty
(Al Jazeera)
Former army general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wins the first round of Indonesia's presidential election
(ABC News)
Saddam relatives fund insurgency
(Al Bawaba)
Libya buys the Niger unit of Exxon Mobil
(BBC News)
Spending the budget for reconstructing Iraq
(Reuters)
Almost no USA money has reached the Iraqi people yet
(Guardian)
Government of national unity in Nepal
(BBC News)
Iranians arrested in Iraq while setting a car bomb
(Associated Press)
Britain's former envoy in Baghdad criticizes Blair
(Guardian)
A French serial killer
(BBC News)
Some Iraqi insurgents break away from Zarqawi
(Washington Post)
Jordan volunteers peacekeeper troops for Iraq
(BBC News)
What Saddam Hussein revealed
(New York Times)
Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong
(Telegraph)
Troubled elections in Mongolia
(Voice of America)
June 2004:
Christopher Hitchens on the lies in Michael Moore's "Fairenheit 9/11"
(Slate)
Victims of Iran's state terrorism
(PDK)
Al Jazeera condemns beheading of American civilians but approves jihad against the USA in Iraq
(Al Jazeera)
Powell tours the refugee camp of the victims of Arab militias in Darfur
(BBC News)
The ruling Liberal Party loses the elections in Canada but retains power
(Mlive)
Barroso elected head of the European commission
(Washington Post)
Barroso elected head of the European commission
(The Age)
Bush supports Turkey's entry into the European Union
(CNN)
World air traffic increases
(Swiss Info)
Poll of Iraqi people about their new leaders
(Command Post)
Poll of Iraqi people
(Washington Post)
Poll of Iraqi people
(Yahoo News)
Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998
(Cornell)
Michael Moore's documentary tops box office in the USA
(CNN)
Michael Moore's documentary sets new record in the USA
(Washington Post)
Iran accuses USA and Britain of helping drug dealers increase their business
(Al Jazeera)
Pakistan's Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali resigns
(BBC News)
The USA Senate approves a 416 billion dollar budget
(Associated Press)
Yemen kills 46 Islamic fundamentalists
(BBC News)
Yukos replaces Simon Kukes with Victor Gerashchenko
(BBC News)
The BBC is planning an Arabic language tv station
(BBC News)
Boeing to build India's communication satellites
(BBC News)
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Amnesty International Report 2004
(Amnesty International)
ElBaradei (head of the International Atomic Energy Agency) predicts nuclear terrorism
(BBC News)
Arroyo wins elections in Philippines
(New York Times)
The new European constitution
(Guardian)
Russia provided the USA with information about terrorist attacks planned by Saddam Hussein
(New York Times)
FARC kills 34 people in Colombia
(BBC News)
USA trade deficit sets another all-time record
(Chicago Sun Times)
The Bush administration publishes false data on terrorism
(Washington Times)
A Somali resident of the USA, Nuradin Abdi, is accused of planning to bomb a shopping mall in Columbus, Ohio
(New York Times)
Abdelwahed Belkeziz, secretary general of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, accuses the Islamic world of being the cause of terrorism
(BBC News)
21 police officers killed in Nepal by Maoist rebels
(BBC News)
Few Europeans vote at the European elections and mostly for the opposition: Schroeder only gets 21%, Chirac only gets 16%, Blair 22% - Only in Spain and Italy did the ruling coalition win the majority
(BBC News)
Kofi Annan laments the world has become more unequa
(CNN)
Morocco still refusing to withdraw from occupied Sahrawi land
(Arabic News)
USA kills 80 fighters in Afghanistan
(BBC News)
Qatar and Saudi Arabia hold talks to improve strained relationships
(BBC News)
Libya tried to assassinate the ruler of Saudi Arabia
(New York Times)
Outsourcing causes 9% of lost jobs in the USA, but most of these jobs stay in the USA
(New York Times)
11 people killed in Pakistan in a terrorist attack
(CNN)
Chinese workers killed in Afghanistan
(BBC News)
Bush policies of neglecting international laws led to the abuses in Iraqi jails
(Human Rights Watch)
The G8 adopts a USA proposal to foster democracy in the Middle East
(BBC News)
A poll in Iraq shows little support for anti-American terrorism but are not crazy about democracy
(ABC)
A poll in Saudi Arabia shows popular support for both Osama bin Laden and the USA
(CNN)
Iraq's prime minister Iyad Allawi carried out anti-Saddam sabotage for the CIA
(New York Times) (BBC News)
Japan's economy is booming
(BBC News)
Sudanese children starving to death in refugee camps
(BBC News)
South Korea shocked that the USA wants to pull out troops
(BBC News)
Chile denies extradition of former Argentinian president Menem
(BBC News)
Ancient books of Iraq are intact, not destroyed as feared
(Seattle Pi)
Karzai and warlords
(New York Times)
Syria bans Kurdish political groups
(Al Jazeera)
The United Nations welcomes the removal of Saddam Hussein (one year later)
(BBC News)
Iraq's prime minister Iyad Allawi praises the USA
(BBC News)
Iraq's prime minister Iyad Allawi praises the USA
(New York Times)
Morocco designated a major non-Nato USA ally
(BBC News)
Chalabi between the USA and Iranian secret services
(New York Times)
The black market for nuclear parts is still active
(New York Times)
Still fighting in Congo
(BBC News)
Global warming in Europe
(BBC News)
Jordan jailes women who are victims of abuses (summary)
(Human Rights Watch)
Jordan jailes women who are victims of abuses
(Human Rights Watch)
Number of executions carried out in the USA
(Word IQ)
Syria and Turkey create a water problem in Iraq
(BBC News)
Iraqi civilian casualties
(BBC News)
The United Nations report that one year ago predicted 500,000 casualties in Iraq
(BBC News)
The aid agencies' report of one year ago that the Iraqi war would cause one million refugees
(Common Dreams)
Sectarian Islamic violence in Pakistan
(Council for Foreign Relations)
Radical Muslims killing Muslims
(Washington Times)
May 2004:
The Chirac-Schroeder-Zapatero axis
(Guardian)
Walt Disney's censorship of Michael Moore's documentary
(CBS News)
Walt Disney's censorship of Michael Moore's documentary
(Ireland Online)
Walt Disney's censorship of Michael Moore's documentary
(Common Dreams)
Closer economic ties between Brazil and China
(BBC New)s
Schwarzenegger's approval rating in California soars
(CBS News)
Looting of Iraq by other Arab countries
(New York Times)
Iyad Allawi named prime minister of Iraq
(BBC News)
Peace deal in Sudan
(BBC News)
A Year After Iraq War, mistrust of America in Europe ever higher
(Pew Institute)
Sudan's government admits ethnic cleansing in Darfur
(Human Rights Watch)
Amnesty International report 2004
(Amnesty International)
An Iranian plot to dupe the CIA on Iraq
(Guardian)
Indonesian cleric stopped terrorist attack in Australia
(BBC News)
France says no to troops, yes to contracts
(Associated Press)
The state of Al Qaeda
(International Institute for Strategic Studies)
More massacres in Sudan
(BBC News)
Chalabi from friend to enemy of the USA
(Al Jazeera)
The Black Death could stage a comeback
(BBC News)
Campaign Against the Trafficking of Women and Girls
(Human Rights Watch)
Disunity at the Arab League meeting
(BBC News)
Warren Buffet joins the Kerry camp
(BBC News)
John Podesta's CAP
(Center for American Progress)
The Fall of Chalabi
(Center for American Progress)
>>>
Samuel Huntington's "Clash Of Civilizations"
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Chalabi implied in scandal
(Guardian)
Another massacre in Uganda
(BBC News)
Elections in Malawi
(BBC News)
Elections in India
(BBC News)
April 2004:
Chernobyl has become a tourist destination
(Telegraph)
Chirac thinks Turkey is not fit for Europe
(Global Policy)
Muslim separatists riot in Thailand
(New York Times)
Muslim separatists riot in Thailand
(BBC News)
Syria foils a terrorist attack
(BBC News)
Qaddafi of Libya visits Western Europe
(BBC News)
Muslims massacre Christians in the Moluccas (Indonesia)
(BBC News)
France's and Russia's role in the scam of the Oil For Food program
(Al Jazeera)
Arab militia massacre Darfur people in Sudan
(Human Rights Watch)
Thousands of passengers die in a North Korean train accident
(New York Times)
France (Chirac) warns Iran against nuclear weapons
(New York Times)
Bahrain appoints a woman to head a government post
(BBC News)
>>>
Mubarak on why the USA is hated by Arabs
(Al Jazeera)
Mordechai Vanunu is freed after 18 years in jail for leaking Israel's atomic weapons secrets
(BBC News)
Progress towards peace in Liberia
(CNN)
Prodi, president of the European Union, praises Spain's decision to abandon Iraq
(New York Times)
China censors Cheney's speech
(New York Times)
Economic progress for Afghanistan
(New York Times)
Israel weakened Hamas
(New York Times)
Chemical terrorist attack thwarted in Jordan
(CNN)
Chemical terrorist attack thwarted in Jordan
(BBC News)
Chemical explosion in China
(CNN)
United Nations proposal for the government of Iraq
(BBC News)
Mashal Sarraf on the situation in Iraq
(Iraq Governing Council)
Nelson Mandela's party wins elections in South Africa again
(CNN)
Palestinians refuse Bush's peace plan
(BBC News)
South Koreans give the impeached leader a full majority
(BBC News)
Bin Laden offers truce to Europe
(BBC News)
Terrorist plot foiled in Jordan
(BBC News)
Heavy fighting between the government and the Forces for National Liberation (FNL) in Burundi
(BBC News)
Arabs commit massive atrocities in Sudan's Darfur
(Human Rights Watch)
Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika wins elections again
(BBC News)
Iran accepts United Nations inspections
(BBC News)
Conditions in Chechnya deteriorate
(Human Rights Watch)
Over one million people killed yearly in car accidents
(BBC News)
The tenth anniversary of Rwanda's massacre
(CNN)
China abolishes democracy in Hong Kong
(BBC News)
A chemical terrorist attack foiled in Britain
(BBC News)
Sudan's regime carries out ethnic cleansing against non-Muslim minorities
(BBC News)
Japan joins the USA's star-wars program
(New York Times)
March 2004:
United Nations probe into the oil-for-food scandal
(Global Policy)
Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei denounces suicide bombings
(BBC News)
Sudan's government arrest Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi
(BBC News)
Antisemitism on the rise in Europe
(BBC News)
The Serbian government provides financial support for war crime suspects
(BBC News)
A humiliating defeat for Chirac in French regional elections
(BBC News)
Bush was right on Iraq and wrong on terrorism
(Toronto Star)
A NASA plane sets new speed record
(CNN)
Hamas' new leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi
(BBC News)
Blair meets Qaddafi and Libya grants contracts to British corportation
(New York Times)
The Medicare crisis
(New York Times)
Defending civil airplanes from missiles
(New York Times)
More tax cuts for pork-barrel spending
(New York Times)
The 2.4 trillion dollar budget for 2004
(New York Times)
Adolfo Fernandez Sainz still in jail in Cuba
(International Herald Tribune)
Japan's trade surplus grows 52%
(CNN)
Chalabi searching for a sponsor
(New York Times)
Hamas' strategy in Gaza
(New York Times)
Communist China rooted for the Kuomintang candidate in Taiwan's elections
(BBC News)
Missing missiles in Ukraine
(BBC News)
A Serbian village burned near a United Nations base
(BBC News)
John Ralston Saul on "The Collapse of Globalism"
(Financial Review)
Britain favors Turkey's entry in the European Union
(Reuters)
An interview with Richard Clarke
(Guardian)
The Covenant of Hamas
(Yale University)
Southafrican president Mbeki is supporting Zimbabwe's dictator Mugabe
(Guardian)
Socialist and fascist parties make progress in France at the expense of Chirac's party
(New York Times)
The right-wing party wins the elections in El Salvador for the fourth time in a row
(BBC News)
Richard Clarke criticizes Bush on terrorism
(New York Times)
Spanish terrorists offer peace talks with the new Spanish prime minister
(BBC News)
Reasons for Israel's killing of Yassin
(BBC News)
130 people killed in Nepal's civil war
(BBC News)
The Bush/Cheney campaign sells T-shirts made in Burma, whose products are banned in the USA for human-rights violation
(Reuters)
French responsibilities in the massacre of 900,000 Rwandans
(Africaonline)
Arabs carry out mass rape in Sudan
(BBC News)
The population of the USA will increase to 420 million in 50 years
(People Daily)
Bombings in Iraq since the liberation
(The State)
Al Qaeda, pleased with the new Spanish prime minister, calls truce in Spain
(Reuters)
Pew Center's survey of world opinion on the USA
(Pew Center)
Contracts for Iraq's reconstruction
(Strike the Root)
United Nations inspector Hans Blix one year later
(CNN)
Greenspan defends the deficit
(New York Times)
Abdul Qadeer Khan's smuggling of nuclear technology
(New York Times)
Survey of Iraqi population
(Al Jazeera)
Survey of Iraqi population
(BBC News)
>>>
The story of Israel's nuclear program
(FAS)
South Africa's secret nuclear weapons program finally revealed
(CNS)
The discovery of the tenth planet of the Sun, Sedna
(CNN)
How Pakistan helped North Korea build the nuclear bomb
(New York Times)
Iraq's coalition casualties
(Lunaville)
Massacre of Kurdish protesters in Syria
(New York Times)
China finally admits that the Great Wall cannot be seen from space, one of the world's longest-lasting false myths
(CNN)
First picture of the Earth from another planet
(CNN)
The South Korean president is impeached
(BBC News)
Iran is producing highly-enriched uranium for nuclear bombs
(New York Times)
European stock markets collapse
(BBC News)
Independent politicial groups with hunge funds are helping John Kerry's campaign
(New York Times)
Abu Abbas dies in USA custody
(New York Times)
Record USA trade deficit
(New York Times)
Islamic cleric and terrorist Abu Bakar Ba'asyir released from jail in Indonesia
(BBC News)
The first galaxies that developed after the Big Bang
(NASA)
Iraqis sign the new constitution
(New York Times)
Teenage pregnancy in the USA falls
(New York Times)
Libya admit 23 tons of chemical weapons
(New York Times)
Costas Karamanlis' conservative party wins elections in Greece
(BBC News)
Austrian right-wing politician Joerg Haider is elected governor of Carinthia
(BBC News)
China increases military spending
(BBC News)
Libya ships its nuclear weapons to the USA
(BBC News)
One million refugees in Algeria
(BBC News)
India-USA cooperation in high0tech warfare
(Islamic Awakening)
Osama escapes again
(BBC News)
Osama's whereabouts
(BBC News)
China releases dissident Wang Youcai, after six years of jail
(BBC News)
Iraqi Shiites blame the USA for terrorism
(The Independent)
Maoist rebels kill 29 soldiers in Nepal
(BBC News)
Zarqawi masterminded terrorist attacks in Iraq
(BBC News)
Chavez refuses a referendum in Venezuela
(New York Times)
Zimbabwe's prison camps
(News 24)
Mikhail Fradkov appointed prime minister of Russia
(Los Angeles Times)
Mikhail Fradkov appointed prime minister of Russia
(Pravda)
New Iraqi constitution
(Reuters)
New Iraqi constitution
(Khaleej Times)
New Iraqi constitution
(BBC News)
New Iraqi constitution
(New York Times)
Schroeder defeated in regional German elections
(BBC News)
February 2004:
The political landscape in Iran after the rigged elections
(BBC News)
Todd's anti-American bestseller
(Political Affairs)
Todd's anti-American bestseller
(Guardian)
Saddam Hussein stole billions of dollars of international aid
(New York Times)
Putin's approval rating soars
(News from Russia)
The biggest demonstration in Taiwan's history
(Japan Today)
Bush refuses to cooperate with the commission investigating the September 11 terrorist attacks
(New York Times)
The "Greater Middle East Initiative" to bring democratic and cultural reform into the Arab world
(Al Jazeera)
Greenspan Urges Social Security and Medicare Cuts
(New York Times)
White land expropriation in Namibia
(BBC News)
Greenspan warns of budget crisis
(BBC News)
Putin fires his prime minister
(New York Times)
Arafat diverting humanitarian aid to fund terrorism
(Maariv)
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi plotting attacks against Shiites to cause civil war in Iraq
(BBC News)
>>>
Blix's opinion on the WMD controversy
(Guardian)
The danger of the USA budget deficit
(General Accounting Office)
Regional terrorist groups replace Al Qaeda
(New York Times)
Mass resignations among Palestinians to protest Palestinian corruption
(BBC News)
Schroeder resigns as leader of his party
(BBC News)
Corruption scandal in the Peruvian government of Alejandro Toledo
(New York Times)
Victor Vekselberg, chairman of the Tyumen Oil Company and Siberian-Urals Aluminum. and the fourth richest man in Russia, buys the Faberge' collection of Easter eggs
(New York Times)
Pakistan's top nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, confesses that he helped Iran, Libya and North Korea acquire nuclear technology
(New York Times)
The Parmalat scandal and the decline of Italy
(in Italian)
India's booming economy
(BBC News)
Islam's grievances at Davos
(India Express)
Sharon's plan to evacuate all Jewish settlers from the Gaza strip
(BBC News)
Saudi Arabia's top cleric Sheik Abdul Aziz al-Sheik condemning terrorism
(CNN)
The capture of Hassan Ghul, courier between Al Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents
(Washington Post)
January 2004:
Saddam bribed the French government to oppose the war
(Washington Post)
USA consumer debt reaches record level
(World Socialism)
WMDs imported from Iran into Iraq
(World Net Daily)
Voter registration in Afghanistan
(Afghanistan Times)
Arsenal of deadly weapons found in Texas
(CNN)
Tauzin getting a lucrative job in the pharmaceutical industry after engineering a law that benefits that industry
(Forbes)
The real cost of Bush's reform that benefits the health-care industry
(New York TImes)
Bush's plan to destroy the forests of California
(CNN)
How unprepared the FAA was before September 11
(CNN)
Capturing Osama
(BBC News)
David Kay on Weapons moved from Iraq to Syria before the war
(Telegraph)
David Kay on Weapons moved from Iraq to Syria before the war
(ABC News)
Controversy in Afghanistan over female singers
(BBC News)
Possible USA strike against Syria
(Jane's Intelligence Digest)
The black market for nuclear technology
(New York Times)
The strong euro
(BBC News)
Mubarak's reforms in Egypt
(Middle East Online)
USA federal budget
(White House)
US Air strikes kills Afghan civilians
(Pak Tribune)
US Air strikes kills Afghan civilians
(Afghan News Network)
The "Rebuild Iraq" convention
(BBC News)
Bush's demise of the space telescope
(BBC News)
Bush's demise of the space telescope
(BBC News)
The Bam earthquake
(BBC News)
Improving trade-defict data for the USA thanks to the low dollar
(BBC News)
>>>
1.2 million people killed every year by car accidents
(World Health Organization)
The political battle between reformists and conservatives in Iran
(BBC News)
Jeffrey Record's report on Bush's global war on terror
(Strategic Studies Institute)
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's interview on George W Bush
(CBS News)
Quota for women in politics in Afghanistan
(Hindustan Times)
Taliban's attacks in Afghanistan
(International Herald Tribune)
Reforming textbooks for Arab schools
(Al Jazeera)
The decline of the dollar
(Forex News)
Indian stocks reach an all-time high
(BBC News)
Libya's payment to France for a 1989 act of terrorism
(BBC News)
Health spending in the USA
(New York Times)
Bush's amnesty for millions of illegal aliens
(Washington Post)
The spread of wealth in the world
(Worldwatch)
The Carnegie report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
(Carnegie)
The Carnegie report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
(CNN)
The Carnegie report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
(BBC News)
The USA deficits and their impact on the world's economy
(IMF)
The USA deficits and their impact on the world's economy
(New York Times)
Israel accepting 18,000 Jews from Ethiopia
(BBC News)
The huge contract for Iraqi reconstruction awarded to Bechtel, a company with links to the Bush administration
(Boston Herald)
Record oil profits for Gulf states
(Gulf News)
Islamic riots in Thailand
(BBC News)
Islamic riots in Nigeria
(BBC News)
Pictures from Mars
(NASA)
Islamic laws against women in Malaysia
(BBC News)
The USA Mars mission (Spirit)
(BBC News)
Europe's Mars mission (Beagle 2)
(BBC News)
Changes caused on weather by agriculture over 8,000 years
(Nature)
The amount of oil remaining on planet Earth
(State University of New York)
December 2003:
Gallup poll of Baghdad
(Gallup)
The Sniper's Islamic motivation
(Michelle Malkin)
Afghan constitution
(International Herald Tribune)
Efforts by Tikrit tribal leaders to cooperate with the USA
(Scotsman)
Powell on USA foreign policy
(Middle East Online via Foreign Affairs)
The interrogation of Saddam Hussein
(Guardian)
The power struggle in Algeria
(BBC News)
Kuwait's decision to reform its school system
(BBC News)
The inauguration of the Kabul-Kandahar highway
(CBS News)
Saddam's $40 billion loot
(Boston Herald)
Mass graves in Algeria
(BBC News)
The conditions of the Sahrawi refugees
(All Africa)
The destruction of Bam, in Iran
(BBC News)
My pictures of the ancient city of Bam before it was destroyed
(Piero Scaruffi)
Data of executions in the USA
(Death Penalty Information Center)
Russia reducing Iraq's debt by 5.5 billion dollars
(New York Times)
Russia is a nation of alcoholics (alcohol kills almost one million Russians every year)
(Pravda)
The secrets that Libya may reveal
(Reuters)
China's agreement to buy $2 billion worth of Russian weapons next year
(CNN)
The Nuclear Partnership between Pakistan and Iran
(Reuters)
The Rise of Antisemitism in Europe
(International Herald Tribune)
Thomas Kean's comments that the September 11 attacks could have been prevented
(CBS News)
The Congressional report on the September 11 attacks: could they have been prevented?
(US Congress)
The Congressional report on the September 11 attacks
(Democracy Now)
Iraq's most wanted men (the "deck of cards"
(BBC)
Overpriced real estate in the USA
(Real Estate Consulting)
Rumours of Osama being protected by Iran
(World Net Daily)
Saddam's nuclear weapons
(Free Republic)
Mansoor Ijaz, the source of the previous articles
(Disinfopedia)
Casualties of 20th Century wars
(Matthew White)
The outlook for the Japanese economy
(BBC)
The sale of Iraqi oil
(BBC)
Environmental Industry Trends
(Mitzuv)
November 2003:
Le Monde
(New York Times)
The USA trade deficit will take the dollar down
(Fortune)
Europeans name Israel as the main threat to world peace
(Gallup Poll)
Saudi official Sheik Saleh Al-Fawzan advocates slavery as Islamic
(Worldnet)
How China's and Japan's central banks are financing the USA's national debt
(Forbes)
Richard Perle changing his mind on Iraq
(Guardian)
The oldest man and the oldest woman in the world
(News.com.au)
The Supercentenarian
(Wikipedia)
AIDS' latest statistics
(World Health Organization)
Japans' trade surplus (yes, surplus) with China
(New York Times)
20 million people killed or injured every year by car accidents
(World Health Organization)
An Isreali investigation of its own army
(BBC News)
The Bush administration's environmental agenda
(NRDC)
Radio stations in Afghanistan
(BBC News)
Torture in Egypt
(Amnesty International)
Oil revenues of Arab countries
(Gulf News)
the relationship between Osama and Saddam
(Weekly Standard)
Saudi Arabia's religious police
(New York Times)
the weak dollar
(Reuters)
Theede, the USA citizen who is now boss of Russian giant Yukos
modern slavery in Saudi Arabia
(Ondurman)
Richest people in the world
(Forbes)
Richest people by country
(www.rich-bastards.com)
Largest banks in the USA
(Federal Reserve)
Iraqi debts to France
(Reuters)
what the Iraqi detainees are revealing
(Washington Post)
China still threatening an invasion of Taiwan
(CNN)
on Number of people infected with the West Nile virus in the USA (155 have died)
(CDC)
October 2003:
Malaria kills two million people a year
(UCLA)
September 2003:
Growing structural deficits of the USA government
(General Accounting Office)
July 2003:
Asian women sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia
(Human Rights Watch)
The 28 pages blacked out by the Bush administration about SAudi Arabia's involvement in the September 11 terrorist attacks
(Indymedia)
The 28 pages blacked out by the Bush administration about SAudi Arabia's involvement in the September 11 terrorist attacks
(Washington Post)
The 28 pages blacked out by the Bush administration about SAudi Arabia's involvement in the September 11 terrorist attacks
(Islam Online)
June 2003:
The Egyptian government allows the Ibn Khaldun Center, founded in 1988 by Saad Eddin Ibrahim to promote democracy in the Arab world, to reopen
(Near International)
May 2003:
Alan Krueger on The Motivation for Terrorism
(National Center for Policy Analysis)
Saudi Arabia approves first human group organization
(Human Rights Watch)
Saudi Arabia approves first human group organization
(Al Jazeera)
Shulsky's Special Operations
(New Yorker)
Leo Strauss and the neocons
(Asia Times)
April 2003:
Oppposition to the Iraqi invasion around the world
(Gallup)
The "Iraq Liberation Act" passed in 1998
(FCNL)
US Air strikes kills Afghan civilians
(BBC News)
The "Iraq Liberation Act" passed in 1998
(Findlaw)
Bill Clinton's comments upon signing the "Iraq Liberation Act"
(Cornell University)
March 2003:
Robert Kagan's "Of Paradise and Power"
(Book Service)
Robert Kagan's "Of Paradise and Power"
(Parapundit)
February 2003:
The arrest of Khalid, mastermind of the September 11 attacks
(September 11 news)
Seven million illegal immigrants in the USA
(CNN)
January 2003:
The USA's preemptive-strike policy and supremacy in the world
(PNAC)
Japanese atrocities in WW II
(Sky City Gallery)
October 2002:
A poll shows that Arabs don't believe that Arab terrorists were involved in September 11
(USA Today)
>>>
Human Arab Development 2002
(Middle East Quarterly)
A poll shows Arabs dislike the USA
(Arab American Institute)
July 2002:
US Air strikes kills Afghan civilians
(BBC News)
Voter turnout in the 1999 European elections
(European Parliament)
John Ralston Saul on "Globalization and Democracy"
(ABC)
June 2002:
Australia refuses to ratify the Kyoto protocol
(Planet Ark)
Global climate change
(BBC News)
April 2002:
Zogby's poll on impression of the USA around the world
(Zogby)
Democracy in Mali
(Afrol)
February 2002:
The strange career of Frank Carlucci
(Counterpunk)
A poll shows that Muslims resent the USA's reaction to September 11
(BBC News)
Syria controls the elections in Lebanon
(Middle-East Intelligence Bulletin)
Main causes of death in the USA
(CDC)
January 2001:
Britain tops drug users in Europe
(BBC News)
Income, inequality and poverty during the transition to market economies
(Branko Milanovic)
>>>
Global warming according to William Grey
(Washington Post)
October 2000:
David Ownby on "Falungong as a Cultural Revitalization Movement"
1990s:
Growth in China
(IMF)