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December 2008:
How Phil Gramm engineered the Great Recession
(Mother Jones)
Why Israel feels threatened
(New York Times)
Natural disasters of 2008
(Yahoo News)
Taliban set up shadow government in Afghanistan
(Yahoo News)
Nuclear power in France
(PBS)
Chinese savings helped inflate the USA bubble
(New York Times)
Alcoholic consumption in India
(The Globe)
USA raid kills civilians in Afghanistan
(New York Times)
Experiments show that most USA citizens are willing to torture
(Reuters)
Torture is not only wrong but it doesn't work
(Democratic Underground)
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Torture by the USA
(Vanity Fair)
Iran stops supporting insurgents in Iraq
(BBC News)
Chinese exports drop for the first time in seven years
(New York Times)
USA forces kill six Afghan police officers by mistake
(New York Times)
Despicable human being: Kulbir Dhaliwal
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Russian leaders attend patriarch's funeral
(International Herald Tribune)
Georgia started the war, not Russia
(BBC News)
Murder rates in Latin America
Muslim grievances in India
(Time)
US automakers only get tough love from Washington
Chavez lets Colombian guerrillas control parts of Venezuela
November 2008:
Corruption explains Citibank's bailout
The world's oldest person dies
(BBC News)
The Czech Republic approves the USA missile defence shield
(BBC News)
Iraq approves USA pullout plan
(BBC News)
Mbeki blamed for 330,000 deaths
(BBC news)
The truth about the Georgian invasion
(New York Times)
IBM proposes high-tech plan to revive economy
(New York Times)
Gays ask to overturn democratic vote
(Chronicle)
USA airstrike in Afghanistan kills civilians
(New York Times)
October 2008:
USA air strike kills 28 people in Pakistan
(CNN)
The real story of Georgia
(New York Review of Books)
Pakistan in financial trouble
(Yahoo News)
USA missile kills 20 people in Pakistan
(BBC News)
USA missile kills 7 students in Pakistan
(BBC News)
NATO air strike kills Afghan soldiers
(BBC News)
Saudi Arabia to try 1,000 Al Qaeda suspects
(CNN)
NATO airstrike in Afghanistan kills 25 civilians
(ABC News)
NATO airstrike in Afghanistan kills 25 civilians
(New York Times)
Several mammals face extinction
(IPS)
Several mammals face extinction
(Science Daily)
Collapse of biodiversity
(New York Times)
France protects Italian terrorists
(Independent)
Executions in Saudi Arabia quadruple, mostly affecting foreigners
(New York Times)
France protects Italian terrorists
(New York Times)
Alcohol and cancer
(Potsdam Univ)
Alcohol shrinks the brain
(CNN)
How Gordon Brown saved the financial world
(New York Times)
Hindus carry out ethnic cleansing against Christians
(Reuters)
Hindus carry out ethnic cleansing against Christians
(New York Times)
New study links plastic to health risk
(Bloomberg)
New study links plastic to health risk
(US News)
New study links plastic to health risk
(Fox News)
New study links plastic to health risk
(The Australian)
New study links plastic to health risk
(Wall Street Journal)
New study links plastic to health risk
(Stangard Nerdm)
Pragmatism vs democracy
(Financial Times)
The USA surrenders to North Korea
(Yahoo News)
Property price gap
(Property Wire)
Spain in big trouble
(Wall Street Journal)
NATO killed 3,200 civilians in Afghanistan from 2005 to mid 2008
(Yahoo News)
The USA kills 30 civilians in bomb raid in Afghanistan
(New York Times)
The stock market crashes in India
(BBC News)
The stock market crashes in the Arab countries
(BBC News)
The truth about the Georgian government
(New York Times)
European bank assets often exceed the country's GDP
(Financial Times)
Dick Cheney
(Financial Times)
George Soros on the banking crisis
(Financial Times)
Paulson is repeating the mistakes of Japan
(Financial Times)
September 2008:
Jim Rogers predicts that the Federal Reserve will fail
(Money Morning)
Marc Faber on the bailout plan
(Business Media Institute)
Newt Gingrich's alternative plan
(American Spectator)
Soros against Paulson
(Financial Times)
France and Germany predict the end of the USA empire
(Financial Times)
The burst of the bubble in India and China
(Financial Times)
The bankruptcy of modern economics
(Washington Post)
The financial crisis: the blind leading the blind
(Washington Post)
The USA dives huge subsidies to automakers and allows oil companies to drill offshore
(Yahoo News)
Pakistan claims to have killed 1,000 militants
(BBC News)
$600 billion bill in Congress (just for ordinary expenses)
(New York Times)
Sarah Palin made rape victims pay for investigations
(US News)
France's president against USA-style capitalism
(Telegraph)
Germany's finance minister against USA-style capitalism
(Telegraph)
John McCain's accomplishments
(New York Times)
The real issue with the bailout
(New York Times)
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Why the dollar has not collapsed yet
(Financial Times)
The Republican and Democratic Party are keeping other parties out of the election process
(Yahoo News)
USA soldiers killed Iraqi civilians
(Yahoo News)
Bridges to nowhere in Alaska
(Yahoo News)
Corruption in the oil industry
(Yahoo News)
A NATO bomb kills two civilians
(New York Times)
The USA is bringing the war on terrorism into Pakistan
(Asia Times)
USA mille kills more than 20 in Pakistan including 8 children
(International Herald Tribune)
USA mille kills more than 20 in Pakistan including 8 children
(Washington Post)
Civilian deaths caused by NATO in Afghanistan have tripled from 2006 to 2007
(Human Rights Watch)
The USA takes over the two largest mortgage companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
(New York Times)
Massive civilian deaths confirmed in Afghanistan
(New York Times)
Argentina towards another financial crisis
(Economist)
Western dependence on Russia's gas
(Economist)
Personal wealth in the world grows to 100 trillion dollars with the top 1% of all households owning 35% of the world's wealth
(Yahoo News)
Birthdays are un-Islamic
(Yahoo News)
USA attack kills 15 civilians in Pakistan
(BBC News)
Honor killing in Pakistan
(New York Times)
August 2008:
David Walker quits and predicts collapse of the USA
(Financial Times)
New civilization discovered in the Amazons
(BBC News)
USA soldiers executed Iraqi prisoners to be released
(New York Times)
USA strikes kills 60 children in Afghanistan
(New York Times)
Iran and Israel
(Al Jazeera)
Unrecognized states of the world
(Russia Today)
Stock market and ruble suffer from Russia's invasion of Georgia
(New York Times)
Dubai's self-sufficient Ziggurat
(Dvice)
USA strikes kills 60 children in Afghanistan
(BBC News)
USA investigating a massacre of 89 civilians in Afghanistan
(New York Times)
Swiss spies helped the CIA unravel nuclear ring
(New York Times)
Islamists keep advancing in Somalia
(BBC News)
Reactions to Russian invasion of Georgia
(BBC News)
Europe's dependence on Russian natural gas
(Oil Drum)
Europe's dependence on natural gas
(Oil Drum)
Mainland China wins gold medal for repression
(United Press International)
Protesters detained in China
(Yahoo News)
China arrests protesters
(New York Times)
USA exports are growing faster than China's
(Economist)
Europe's economy is contracting
(Economist)
Euro economy contracts
(New York Times)
Large solar plants planned in California
(New York Times)
Anti-Chinese protests
(Yahoo News)
Refuting Suskind's theories
(Andrew Sullivan)
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An oil supply crunch is coming
(Chatham House)
Suskind's theory: Bush knew that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction
(Times)
Suskind's theory: Bush fabricated a letter linking September 11 and Saddam Hussein
(Telegraph)
Rwanda accuses France of involvement in the 1994 genocide
(BBC News)
Budget crisis in California
(Mercury News)
Former KGB official Putin mourns former KGB victim Solzhenitsyn
(Times)
Putin fears terrorist attack in Russia
(UPI)
Russia may counter USA bases in Eastern Europe with bases in Cuba
(Rian)
Violence resumes between Fatah and Hamas
(Yahoo News)
July 2008:
Lowest USA casualties ever in Iraq
(Yahoo News)
More than 100 countries approve Iran's nuclear program
(Yahoo News)
Links between Pakistan's secret services and Al Qaeda
(New York Times)
If independent, USA blacks would rank 16th in AIDS
(New York Times)
Republican senator took bribes from oil companies
(New York Times)
Defeating terrorism
(Rand)
Palestinian torture
(Yahoo News)
Al Qaeda condemns interfaith meeting
(Reuters)
USA soldiers killed three innocent civilians
(Associated Press)
Record deficit for the USA
(BBC News)
Chinese euphoria
(Pew Center)
Harvesting energy from space
(New York Times)
Iraq is still too dangerous for tourism
(Yahoo News)
Bombs on buses in China
(Financial Times)
Pickens' energy plan
(CNN)
USA bombing kills civilians in Iraq
(Reuters)
Osama bin Laden is more popular than Bush
(Economist)
USA bombing kills poilce officers in Afghanistan
(BBC News)
The USA ranks last in life expectancy
(BBC News)
USA bombing kills more civilians in Afghanistan
(BBC News)
Record inflation in the USA
(BBC News)
European economies decline
(Wall Street Journal)
European economies decline
(New York Times)
The Taleban set up their own justice system in Pakistan
(BBC News)
USA strike kills 47 civilians in Afghanistan
(BBC News)
Karl Rove refuses to testify
(Yahoo News)
Israel keeping three Fullbright students from traveling abroad
(New York Times)
Chinese spies in the USA
(New York Times)
Iraq wants withdrawal of USA troops
(New York Times)
Abu Dhabi buys the Chrysler building
(New York Times)
China's GDP will overtake the USA's in 2035
(Yahoo News)
Inflation in Saudi Arabia
(Yahoo News)
Sixth month of job losses in the USA
(BBC News)
Israel may strike Iran
(BBC News)
Colombia frees Western hostages
(BBC News)
Manual for Guantanamo interrogations copied from old communist manual
(New York Times)
Al Qaeda grows in Algeria
(New York Times)
June 2008:
The question of global warming
(New York Review of Books)
Al Qaeda grows in Pakistan
(New York Times)
The USA is preparing a military campaign against Iran
(New Yorker)
The USA Supreme Court forbids individual states to ban guns
(BBC News)
The Taliban rule a piece of Pakistan
(New York Times)
Afghanistan accuses Pakistan's secret services of trying to assassinate its president Karzai
(New York Times)
Cleansing of Christians in Iraq
(New York Times)
Berlusconi's first law is to help himself stay out of jail
(BBC News)
Obama leads over McCain by 12%
(Los Angeles Times)
Myanmar/Burma's new capital
(New York Times)
Jewish terrorists filmed on camera
(New York Times)
Yet another crisis in Argentina
(New York Times)
Mainland China stops tourists from visiting China during the Olympics
(New York Times)
Inflation
(New York Times)
McCain keeps flip-flopping on taxes
(New York Times)
Only 20% of Russians want to abolish the death penalty
(BBC News)
80% of Japanese approve of the death penalty
(Japan Today)
Japan executes three convicts
(Yahoo News)
China scolds the USA on economics
(New York Times)
Honda unveils the first mass-market hydrogen-propelled vehicle
(New York Times)
Dealing with Pakistan-caused nuclear proliferation
(New York Times)
Dealing with Pakistan-caused nuclear proliferation
(Times of India)
China spies into USA computers to catch dissidents
(Yahoo News)
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Pew Center's poll on worldwide attitudes towards the USA
(Pew Center)
Protests in Korea over USA beef fueled by Internet articles
(Yahoo News)
Record unemployment in the USA
(BBC News)
Turkey and Iran attack Kurds in Iraq
(New York Times)
Report accuses Bush of misleading the nation on Iraq
(Yahoo News)
Latinos more likely to use drugs, alcohol and suicide
(Yahoo News)
Cell phones danger
(New York Times)
The Taliban control a piece of Pakistan
(New York Times)
May 2008:
The food crisis
(BBC News)
The food crisis
(New York Times)
Curriculum designed to unite art and science
(New York Times)
Limit your exposure to plastic
(Knox)
Islamists win elections in Kuwait
(New York Times)
Al Jazeera virtually banned in the USA
(New York Times)
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The Democratic Recession
(New York Times)
China's ship of shame
Al Qaeda offended by conspiracy theories
April 2008:
The USA trade deficit keeps increasing despite the weak dollar
(Associated Press)
The USA shifts war from Al Qaeda to Iranian-backed militias
(Yahoo News)
Chinese repression in Tibet
(New York Times)
More ethnic riots in China
(New York Times)
Chinese video on Tibet
(Sina)
Reforms in Cuba
(Yahoo News)
Fall of the American empire and rise of the new economy
(Biddho)
Islamists advancing in Somalia
(New York Times)
The USA supporting Ukraine in NATO
(BBC News)
Hamas' racism
(New York Times)
March 2008:
Anti-Tibetan video from China
(Sina.com)
Russia to help Egypt build nuclear power plants
(BBC News)
China forbids journalists to cover the Olympic Games
(New York Times)
Chinese intellectuals condemn crackdown on Tibet
(New York Times)
The king of Bhutan introduces democracy
(New York Times)
Bush protects China's crackdown on dissidents
(New York Times)
Prominent Muslim converts to Catholicism
(Yahoo News)
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Murders per capita in the world
(Nation Master)
Chinese represssion in Tibet
(BBC News)
Poll shows most Palestinians favor violence over talks
(New York Times)
Islam to sue what it perceives as offensive to Islam
(Yahoo News)
Yemeni accuses USA of secret jails
(BBC News)
Tibetans protest against Chinese rule in Lhasa
(BBC News)
China bans the Everest for fear of Tibetan protests
(BBC News)
Collapsing dollar and stock market
(Financial Times)
China foils a terror plot
(The West)
Iraq costing $12 billion a month
(Yahoo News)
Italy tops global wiretap league
(The Register)
Italy and Holland Are number one and two in Europe in wiretapping their citizens
(New Int)
Richest people in the world
(Forbes)
Venezuela funded FARC rebels in Colombia
(BBC News)
February 2008:
China to increase military spending
(BBC News)
Islamic boycott of a book fair
(BBC News)
Venezuela and Ecuador support Colombian rebels
(Yahoo News)
Israel attacks Palestinians
(Yahoo News)
Israel attacks Palestinians
(Jerusalem Post)
Israel attacks Palestinians
(Al Jazeera)
More than 1% of USA adults are in prison
A new war looming on Sudan
Drug resistant tuberculosis on the rise in the former Soviet Union territories
No free speech in Russia
Life forms in Antartica
(Yahoo News)
Academic exodus from Israel to the USA
(Jerusalem Post)
Middle-age suicide skyrockets in the USA
(CDC)
Turning greenhouse gases into gasoline
(New York Times)
Bloody battle with Maoists in India
(BBC News)
Another gun-related masscre in the USA, the fourth shooting at a US education establishment within a week
(BBC News)
Education in the Arab world
(World Bannk)
Al Jazeera in English
(International Herald Tribune)
Muslim call to prayer in Oxford
(Reuters)
Yet another reason not to eat meat
(New York Times)
Militant killed in Syria
(BBC News)
Haliburton planning to move its headquarters to Dubai
(ABC News)
An interview with Samuel Huntington
(Islamica)
Education lagging behind in the Arab world
(World Bank)
Islamists win constitutional amendments in Turkey
(BBC News)
The need for a Muslim fourth state
(Islamica)
January 2008:
USA soldiers kill 19 civilians in Afghanistan
(New York Times)
China cracks down on dissidents
(New York Times)
The Taliban kill schoolchildren and teachers
(Yahoo News)
Hillary Clinton for Democratic candidate
(New York Times)
John McCain for Republican candidate
(New York Times)
Record growth in China
(BBC News)
Where the money for Iraq went
(Center for Public Integrity)
Bush's lies about the war in Iraq
(Center for Public Integrity)
Global Islamist and Palestinian Terrorism
(Mideastweb)
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Population of Palestine before the creation of Israel
(Mideastweb)
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