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December 2009:
Japan moves closer to China and away from USA
(New York Times)
Japan moves closer to China and away from USA
(Fiancial Times)
USA bombing kills eight children
(Canadian Press)
China investing in Afghanistan while the USA fights the Taliban
(New York Times)
What motivates suicide bombers
(Yale)
Engineers in terrorist groups
(NUFF)
The lost decade
(New York Times)
The coming dictatorship of Google
(New York Times)
Morality in the West and in Asia
(Pravda)
USA sanctions against Niger
(New York Times)
Two members of Hamas mysteriously killed in Lebanon
(Ynet)
The sex trade in Islamic countries: Pakistan
(Great Reporter)
The sex trade in Islamic countries: Indonesia
(University of Rhode Island)
The sex trade in Islamic countries: Morocco
(Vrije Univ)
The sex trade in Islamic countries: Saudi Arabia via Al Umra
(Al-Quds al-Arabi)
The sex trade in Islamic countries: Saudi Arabia
(GVNet)
The sex trade in Islamic countries: Emirates
(GVNet)
Ethnic cleansing of Christians continues in Iraq
(Fox News)
The argument for bombing Iran
(New York Times)
Africa's last colony
(BBC News)
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The Battle for Tora Bora
(New Republic)
Rumsfeld helped Osama escape
(Daily News)
Rumsfeld helped Osama escape
(New York Times)
73 Saudi soldiers killed in Yemeni insurrection
(CNN)
French politicians ask for ban on Islamic veils for women
(Fox News)
The most powerful women in the world
(Forbes)
Druglords saved the USA financial system
(The Guardian)
Druglords saved the USA financial system
(The Week)
Aminatou Haidar, the Gandhi of Western Sahara
(Christian Science Monitor)
How corrupt politicians turned health-care reform into a massive boon to insurance companies
(Guardian)
More Americans dying from lack of health care than from 9/11 attacks
(Examiner)
Stanford propaganda calling "propaganda" the documentary on Condi Rice
(Stanford Review)
A documentary on Condi Rice
(American Faust)
Condi Rice and torture
(Huffington Post)
A film on Condi Rice
(Wikipedia)
France launches major attack in Afghanistan
(BBC News)
Ugandan politician proposes anti-gay legislation
(Voice of America)
Pakistan is allied with the Afghan taliban
(New York Times)
Saudi air strike in North Yemen kill 70 civilians
(BBC News)
10,000 people have died of swine flue since april
(New York Times)
Brazil's hidden war
(Los Angeles Times)
An innovation agenda
(New York Times)
Ron Paul condemns surge of troops in Afghanistan
(Liberty Maven)
Dennis Kucinich condemns surge of troops in Afghanistan
(Fox News)
Hans Blix on Bush's and Blair's decision to go to war
(Daily Mail)
Iran trade with Latin America triples
(Al Jazeera)
Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan
(BBC News)
Controversy on climate change
(New York Times)
Record low death toll in Iraq
(Al Jazeera)
November 2009:
USA attitudes towards civilian deaths in Afghanistan
(Al Jazeera)
Prostitution in Iraq
(CNN)
October 2009:
A Muslim miracle in Russia
(ABC)
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Report on human rights
(Human Rights Watch)
Rwanda accuses France of complicity in the genocide
(Boston Globe)
Rwanda accuses France of complicity in the genocide
(IPS)
Rwanda accuses France of complicity in the genocide
(Guardian)
Rape as a weapon in Congo
(Al Jazeera)
China's economic miracle
(Facts and Details)
Drugs kill more NATO citizens than all wars combined
(New York Times)
Afghani Taliban vs Pakistani Taliban
(New York Times)
Arab immigration to Palestine in the 1920s
(Meforum)
North Korea holds 154,000 dissidents in prison camps
(BBC News)
Sudan to hang killers of USA diplomat
(Washington Post)
China executes Muslim leaders
(BBC)
Algerian-French nuclear scientist tried to join Al Qaeda
(BBC)
USA crime rate
(Disaster Center)
Murder rate per capita
(Nation Master)
The USA policy in Pakistan
(Ron Paul)
Potential of a united Korea
(Goldman Sachs)
The succession in North Korea
(NPR)
Top 100 universities in the world
(Times Higher Education)
China and the USA cooperating in Afghanistan
(New York Times)
China hides Changchun massacre of 1948
(New York Times)
50% of the babies born today will live to be 100
(BBC News)
Suicide rates
(New York Times)
Increase in suicides in Palestine
(Media Line)
September 2009:
Pakistan's terrorism
(New York Times)
China's strong ties with Iran
(New York Times)
Georgia started unjustified war
(BBC News)
European socialists keep losing elections
(New York Times)
The nuclear debate over Iran
(New York Times)
The USA has 1,000 military bases around the world
(New York Review of Books)
Russia pressures the USA to eradicate drugs from Afghanistan
(New York Times)
Soviet Intentions 1965-1985
(Intelligence News)
Castro asked the Soviet Union to nuke the USA
(New York Times)
Germany and China lead in the solar business
(New York Times)
The diet is the cause of USA health care aberrations
(New York Times)
Transatlantic Trends poll
(Transatlantic Trends)
Israel killed more than 1,300 Palestinians in Gaza, including 252 children
(BBC News)
Top arms sellers in the world
(New York Times)
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The health care system is dysfunctional
(Atlantic)
Dick Cheney on torture
(New York Times)
August 2009:
Morocco figliting Shiites and Al Qaeda
(New York Times)
China ahead of the USA in solar power
(New York Times)
China ahead of the USA in solar power
(Atlantic)
Muslim woman to be whipped because she drank alcohol
(Malaysian Insider)
Muslim woman to be whipped because she drank alcohol
(New Strait Times)
Suspicion that North Korea is helping Myanmar build a nuclear bomb
(Haaretz)
Obamacare
(New York Times)
Tajiks dominate Afghan government
(New York Times)
China's bubbles
(Prudent Bear)
Afghanistan passes law that husbands can starve wives to death
(BBC News)
Putin is welcomed as a hero in Abkhazia
(New York Times)
Kristof on North Korea
(New York Times)
Companies fueling the civil war in Congo
(Global Witness)
July 2009:
The Wall Street Bibble Mafia
(Rolling Stone)
British filmmaker tries to censor film festival because of his views on Israel
(New York Times)
Chinese hackers try to censor film festival because of Uighur documentary
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Chinese hackers try to censor film festival because of Uighur documentary
(Guardian)
Ethnic cleansing against Christians in Pakistan
(New York Times)
The financial industry hurting the USA
(New York Times)
Venezuela arming Colombia's FARC
(New York Times)
Massacres during World War II
(New York Review of Books)
The rape of Congo
(New York Review of Books)
Hamas Shifts From Rockets to Culture War
(New York Times)
Israel defiant on settlements
(Haaretz)
Israel defiant on settlements
(Haaretz)
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Global attitudes towards the USA
(Pew Center)
Statistics on patent filings
(WIPO)
Al Jazeera expelled from Palestine
(Fox News)
Cleansing of Christians in Iraq
(CNN)
The Padshahnama
(Univ of Pennsylvania)
Somali Islamist insurgents behead seven Christians who converted from Islam
(Times Online)
June 2009:
France and Germany oppose Turkey's bid to join the European Union
(BBC News)
No recovery in sight for employment
(New York Times)
Saudi Arabia funded Al Qaeda
(New York Times)
Benefits for the USA of lowering oil prices
(New York Times)
Iran's military apparatus
(New York Times)
Ukraine's political paralysis
(New York Times)
Al Qaeda threatens the USA with nuclear war
(Al Jazeera)
Dennis Ross advises Obama on Iran
(Wall Street Journal)
First BRIC meeting
(Reuters)
Roubini pessimistic on economic recovery
(Finfacts)
Faber predicts hyperinflation
(National Post)
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Towards a Jewish-Sunni alliance against Iran
(Atlantic)
The most stable economies in the recession
(The Banker)
China mandates censorship software on all computers
(New York Times)
The Jewish refugees
(New York Times)
Female illiteracy in Pakistan
(Globalis)
Mainland China blocks commemoration of Tiannamen Square protests
(New York Times)
Rising interest rates
(New York Times)
What could cause inflation
(Wall Street Journal)
Comparing Gorbachev and Obama
(Economix)
May 2009:
The financial industry owns the USA government
(Atlantic Monthly)
Rethinking the Global Money Supply
(Scientific American)
The majority of USA citizens is pro-life
(Free Press)
NATO strike kills 100 civilians in Afghanistan
(BBC News)
Socialist Norway immune to global economic crisis
(New York Times)
Spain's unemployment rate is 17.4%
(BBC News)
April 2009:
End the University as we know it
(New York Times)
Deflation in Spain
(New York Times)
NATO strike in Afghanistan kills civilians
(New York Times)
Interview with Condi Rice
(NBC)
China's dollar trap
(New York Times)
Two explanations for the new depression
(New York Times)
Taxpayers lose in bank rescue package
(New York Times)
China vies to be world leader in electric cars
(New York Times)
March 2009:
Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan helped by Pakistani officials
(New York Times)
Let the banks fail
(New York Times)
Pakistan's links to attack in Afghanistan
(New York Times)
Israeli soldiers admit atrocities in Gaza
(New York Times)
Israeli soldiers admit atrocities in Gaza
(BBC News)
Obama's slow response to the humanitarian crisis in Sudan
(New York Times)
Obama ready to move war inside Pakistan
(New York Times)
USA cocaine consumption helps rebels restart civil war in Peru
(New York Times)
The USA still has a ban against Muslim scholars
(New York Times)
AIG uses bailout money to pay bonuses to employees
(CNN)
Russian strategic bombers in Cuba and Venezuela
(CNN)
Austria on the brink of collapse
(Business Week)
Journalist convicted in Afghanistan for talking about women under Islam
(International Herald Tribune)
Pakistan plunging into anarchy
(Times Online)
The richest men in the world
(Bloomberg)
The Republican Party's solution for the economic crisis they caused
(New York Times)
Tibet commemorates 50 years of Chinese occupation
(ABC)
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How Reagan destroyed the USA economy
(New York Times)
Tibet commemorates 50 years of Chinese occupation
(United Press)
Tibet commemorates 50 years of Chinese occupation
(Bloomberg)
Tibet commemorates 50 years of Chinese occupation
(Times)
Tibet commemorates 50 years of Chinese occupation
(BBC News)
Arabs in the USA do better than Americans
(Foreign Policy)
The Taliban take over a piece of Pakistan
(New York Times)
The bulldozer "terrorist" - His family's version
(Jerusalem Post)
The bulldozer "terrorist" - Israel's official version
(Google News)
Government reshuffle in Cuba
(Christian Science Monitor)
Another mysterious mass murder in Pakistan
(New York Times)
The stock market is still overvalued
(Breakingviews.com)
Foreign students leaving the USA because of visa problems
(New York Times)
Pakistani gunmen attack Sri Lanka's cricket team
(CNN)
India immune to banking crisis
(New York Times)
Ukraine teetering
(New York Times)
February 2009:
Somalia introduces Sharia law
(BBC News)
China predicts 8% growth rate
(Xinhua)
China predicts 8% growth rate
(China Daily)
China denounces USA rights abuse
(BBC News)
Yearly changes in selected USA cities
(New York Times)
Alcohol causes cancer in women
(Science Daily)
Currency, stock market and bonds collapsing in Mexico
(Reuters)
Mexico falling into the hands of narco gangs
(Washington Post)
Mexico falling into the hands of narco gangs
(Bloomberg)
Money for idiots
(New York Times)
Stocks are expensive
(New York Times)
Shias massacred in Pakistan
(BBC News)
More Chinese troops in Tibet
(New York Times)
Shame on the USA for the case of Maher Arar
(New York Times)
Indian Muslims condemn Islamic terrorism
(New York Times)
More corruption around Berlusconi
(New York Times)
Sri Lankan war nearing end
(New York Times)
Founder of a television station that aims to counteract negative stereotypes of Muslims beheads his wife
(Times Online)
NATO killed 800 civilians in Afghanistan in 2008
(BBC News)
Japan's economy collapses
(Bloomberg)
USA missile kills 30 in Pakistan
(International Herald Tribune)
Russia to help USA in Afghanistan
(Reuters)
lessons from Japan's stagnant decade
(New York Times)
Criticizing Islam is illegal in Britain
(BBC News)
Pearlstein on the banking system bailout
(Washington Post)
Chinese exports collapse
(Bloomberg)
The Afghan civil war
(Press TV)
Impact of the economic crisis on Latin America
(BBC News)
Lessons from Japan for economic stimulus
(New York Times)
Possible link between a dam and an earthquake in China
(New York Times)
Women may pass men in job force
(New York Times)
Secular parties win elections in Iraq
(Los Angeles Times)
The most Jewish Congress ever
(Haaretz)
Shift of power in Washington
(New York Times)
Google Latitude
(PC World)
France's nuclear power program
(National Geographic)
January 2009:
Corruption in the Democratic Party
(New York Times)
World growth worst since World War II
(BBC News)
USA bombs Pakistan
(Washington Post)
Qaddafi on the Palestinian problem
(New York Times)
Use of white phosphorus bombs by Israeli forces against Gaza civilians
(Al Jazeera)
The USA lost $3.6 trillion in the financial crisis
(Bloomberg)
Arabs lost $2.5 trillion from credit crunch
(Qatar Peninsula)
Pakistan arrests Islamic militants
(Financial Times)
Al Jazeera de facto banned in the USA
(New York Times)
USA stopped Israel from attacking Iran
(New York Times)
Hezbollah's wait and see attitude about the Gaza war
(New York Times)
Bribes pervasive in Afghanistan
(New York Times)
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