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December 2011:

Thomas Edison and renewable energy (CNN)
Gang rape in Somalia (New York Times)
Concealed guns kill (New York Times)
Yuval Levin's "Beyond the Welfare State" (National Affairs)
>>> Jonah Lehrer`s Why Science Is Failing Us" (in health care) (Wired Magazine)
Hamas celebrates 24 years of armed resistance (Financial Times)
The Chinese bubble (New York Times)
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did not cause the crisis (New York Times)
Iranian passenger traveling with radioactive material in Russia (USA Today)
Hezbollah funded with drug money (New York Times)
Uzbekistan's human rights abuses (Human Rights Watch)
The Islamist Parties in the Arab world (CNN)

November 2011:

>>> Tyler Cowen`s "The Inequality That Matters" (The American Interest;)
Marcia Angell's "The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?" (New York Review of Books)
The USA exports gasoline (CNN)
Ezra Vogel on Den Xiao Ping (Charlie Rose interview)
Pakistan - the Ally from Hell (Atlantic)
How Wallmart is Changing China (Atlantic)
Shale gas revolution (New York Times)
Israel on how to stop Iran (MSNBC)
Blue and red inequalities (New York Times)

October 2011:

Turkey supports Syrian opposition (New York Times)
Consumer spending not business investment drives the economy (New York Times)
>>>Bribing doctors (Propublica)
Arab Spring Chinese Winter (Atlantic)
Surgery late in life to rip off Medicare recipients (New York Times)
Is Israel its own worst enemy? (New York Times)

September 2011:

Alessio Rastani predicting another great recession (Youtube video)
How traders make money out of the economic collapse (Yahoo News)
Local currencies in Brazil (Wall Street Journal)
Egypt-Turkey alliance (New York Times)
A comparison between USA's lost decade and Japan's lost decade (BBC News)
Noam Chomsky on assassinating Osama bin Laden (Al Jazeera)
>>>Brzezinski on the Middle East (MSNBC)
Google attacks Apple via HTC (Bloomberg)
Germany taxes prostitution (New York Times)
The collapse of the US solar industry (New York Times)
Pakistan's suicide bombings (Los Angeles Times)
China gains from crisis of US solar industry (New York Times)
China tries to sell weapons to Qaddafi (New York Times)

August 2011:

The other side of Gandhi (The Atlantic)
The Republican Party on taxing the middle class (Washington Post)
Global Liveability Survey (EIU)
The status of September 11 conspiracy theories (BBC News)
China uses rare earths to lure companies into China (New York Times)
>>>The Geopolitics of the United States, Part 1: The Inevitable Empire (John Mauldin)
China's military buildup (New York Times)
China's unbalanced economy (New York Times)
Christian fundamentalist Glenn Beck in Israel (CNN)
Pakistan's dirty war in Balochistan (New York Times)
Sudan's dirty war in the Nuba mountains (New York Times)
Turkey bombs northern Iraq (New York Times)
Rick Perry (CNN)
Ethnic violence in Pakistan (Financial Times)
The sad facts behind Rick Perry's Texas miracle (Washington Post)
The richest man in the USA about taxing the rich (New York Times)
Iraq sides with Syria's dictator (New York Times)
Isreal builds on Palestinian land (Christian Science Monitor)
Anti-Government Protests in Syria (CSPAN video)
Paulson on the downgrade (New York Times)
>>>Who is arming Al Shahab in Somalia (Somalia Report)

July 2011:

Thomas Rawski's "Human resources and China's long economic boom" (University of Pittsburgh)
>>> Mark Suster's "The End of the Web?" ("Both Sides of the Table")
Google (New York Review of Books)
More unrest in Western China (BBC News)
China's ghost economy (Youtube video)
India's billionaires (New York Times)
Ethnic minorities lost more during the recession (New York Times)
Unrest in China's far west (Washington Post)
Projected job growth (New York Times)
Health care and immortality (New York Times)
Financial crises in Europe and the USA (Financial Times)
Dozens killed in Pakistan's war against organized crime (Los Angeles Times)
San Francisco booming while the rest of the USA is still in an economic slump (San Francisco Chronicle)
South Sudan becomes independent (New York Times)
China's debt (New York Times)
China's fake boom (New York Times)

June 2011:

China saves Greece (Washington Post)
Honor killings of raped women (BBC News)
Indonesian maid beheaded in Saudi Arabia (BBC News)
The Chinese economy is in trouble (Economist)
Man robs a bank of $1 to get health care in jail (ABC News)
Turkey and Syria (BBC News)
>>>The worldwide environmental crisis (New York Times)
Environmental damage from wind and solar (New York Times)
A Sarah Palin speech (Washington Post)
Syrian depravity (New York Times)

May 2011:

Turkey towards economic collapse (Asian Times)
Why the USA tolerates Assad of Syria (Wall Street Journal)
Nigeria on the rise (New York Times)
>>>Massive increase in drug use worldwide (BBC News)
Censorship and repression in mainland China (New York Times)
The Jasmine revolution in mainland China (New York Times)
The leader of Turkey (New York Times)
Azerbajan and Armenia (New York Times)
The weak foundations of Arab democracy (New York Times)
The world's population is projected to grow to ten billion people (New York Times) rel=nofollow>NATO strike kills children in Afghanistan (Sky News)

April 2011:

Guns in the home are more likely to be used against the family than for defense (Ars Technica)
Debate on Chinese nationalism (New York Times)
USA finally thinking of eliminating subsidies for oil corporations (ABC News)
USA drone kills 25 people in Pakistan (BBC News)
Tourists killed in the USA (BBC News)
Syria tortures protesters (Human Rights Watch)
Chinese girls look for men who own a house (New York Times)
USA trained activists in the Middle East (New York Times)
Budget negotiations were driven by lobbies (New York Times)
Let us not forget the genocide in Bangladesh (Genocide Bangladesh)
New particle discovered (Technewsworld)
Could shale power the world (Time Magazine)
>>>The USA kill team in Afghanistan (Rolling Stones)
Slide show: USA kill team in Afghanistan (Rolling Stones)
Japan's nuclear crisis (Reuters)

March 2011:

>>> Peter Miller "A Thing or Two About Twins" (National Geographic)
Climate change deniers (New York Times)
Atlantis found in Spain (Reuters)
Interview with the European Commissioner for Energy on nuclear energy (Spiegel)

February 2011:

NATO helicopter kills nine boys collecting firewood in Afghanistan (New York Times)
China's educational system (Best Colleges Online)
"China puts some places off limits to journalists" (This article does not appear on the New York Times website, nor do similar articles appear on any other major news site, although the New York Times printed it on March 2 at page A4. Did the government of mainland China put that news off limits too?)
China puts some places off limits to journalists (The Hindu, the only major newspaper that dared post the news online)
No Egyptian-style freedom for Chinese protesters (New York Times)
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NATO strike kills 65 civilians in Afghanistan (New York Times)No convinctions in Israel for massacre of civilians (New York Times)
Italy's support for Qaddafi (Time)
Decoupling Quality of Life and Wealth (New York Times)
Morocco next? (The Nation)
Obama's secret 2010 project for overthrowing Arab regimes (New York Times)
Former alcoholic Glenn Beck's delusional ravings on world conspiracies (Christian Monitor)
Former alcoholic Glenn Beck's delusional ravings on world conspiracies (Los Angeles Times)
Former alcoholic Glenn Beck's delusional ravings on world conspiracies (Computerworld)
China's scarcity of water (Circle of Blue)

January 2011:

Human rights violations by the Polisario (Hurriyet)
The role of Al Jazeera in the riots (New York Times)
Japan's generation gap (New York Times)
Population growth in Muslim countries to level off (New York Times)
Protests against government in Yemen (New York Times)
Protests against government in Egypt (New York Times)
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NATO strike kills 65 civilians in Afghanistan (New York Times)How kids spend their time in the USA (Zdnet)
Hundreds of young lawyers rally in defense of the killer of Pakistani governor (New York Times)
Religious organizations applaude killing of Pakistani governor (Miami Herald)

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