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December 2012:

Wayne Barrett's investigation "Inside Donald Trump's Empire: Why He Didn't Run for President in 2012" (Daily Beast)
Decline in sperm quality worldwide (Wall Street Journal)
Germany Has Built Clean Energy Economy U.S. Rejected in 80s (Bloomberg)
Saddam's gas genocide of the Kurds (BBC News)
>>>Where would people of the world like to emigrate (Gallup)
Children ages 5 to 14 in the USA are 13 times as likely to be murdered with guns as children in other industrialized countries (New York Times)
How the gun lobby twists the data to kill more people (Washington Post)
The March of Robots Into Chinese Factories (Business Week)
China's rising wages feed robotics boom (CNN)
2011 Statistics on Sales of Robots (International Federation of Robotics)
Grillo's party is the first Internet-based party (BBC News)
Manufacturing is coming bacl to the USA (The Atlantic)
Hillary Clinton's popularity (CNN)
Obama betrays the Palestinians (Yahoo News)

November 2012:

Smoking damages memory, reasoning and learning (BBC News)
Tibetans set themselves on fire and protest (BBC News)
Side effects of marijuana (Independent)
Side effects of marijuana (National Institute for Drug Abuse)
Side effects of marijuana (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
Turkey asks for Patriot missiles (Reuters)
Energy boom in the USA (CNN)
The USA is becoming the world's main oil producer (New York Times)
The USA is becoming the world's main oil producer (CNN)
Dogmatic Conservativism (BBC News)

October 2012:

The rich are moving to the cities (New York Times)
African boom (Economist)
Ayn Rand in India (Economist)
Turkey prosecutes a pianist for insulting Islam (BBC News)
Turkey's parliament authorizes military intervention inside Syria (BBC News)

September 2012:

Incompetence in neuroscience (New Statesmen)
Democrats promptly act to expel bright creative foreign-born geniuses (New York Times)
Islamic fanatics do it again (Yahoo News)
Mexico's president blames the USA for violence at home (Yahoo News)
Boom in robotics (Forbes)

August 2012:

Drug users have lower IQ (BBC News)
Lance Armstrong (Bicycling)
Lance Armstrong (Outside Online)
Israeli rabbi calls for prayers for Iran's destruction (Yahoo News)
USA and Turkey's contingency plan for Syria (Yahoo News)
Reversing the decline in big ideas (Harvard Univ)
Japan's tolerance of the strong yen and deflation is rooted in a clash of generations (New York Times)

July 2012:

Asians surpass Hispanics as the largest wave of new immigrants to the United States (New York Times)
The USA is divided on gun control (Pew Poll)
China's boom or bust? (Economist)
The failures of TARP (Yahoo News)
Venture capital after Andreessen-Horowitz (New York Times)
Mitt Romney's tax returns (Fox News)
Nationalize the banks (New York Times)
Corruption in Macau and Fund-raising for Mitt Romney (Propublica)
North Korea's army chief removed from power (Yahoo News)
Syria helped Al Qaeda carry out attacks in Iraq (Google News)
Fraud and waste in rebuilding Iraq (USA Today)
Book says Israel killed 5 Iranian scientists (New York Times)
Confucian constitution for China (New York Times)
Fukushima a man-made disaster (BBC News)
How Arafat died (New York Times)
Hundreds of people burn a person alive for blasphemy in Pakistan (BBC News)

June 2012:

Against Obamacare (Fox News)
Obamacare hurts Obama (WBUR)
The positive impact of China on Africa (New York Times)
Putin's Russia is a close friend of Israel (New York Times)
The Hispanics of the USA (Christian Science Monitor)
The birth of the military drone (The Nation)
Conspiracy theories about Fast and Furious (Christian Science Monitor)
Obama abusing power worse than Bush (Washington Post)
The Flame virus developed by the USA and Israel against Iran (Washington Post)
How drones help Al Qaeda (New York Times)
Good and bad bacteria (New York Times)
Good bacteria (New York Times)
David Sanger of "The New York Times" on his book "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power" (Charlie Rose video)
Tensions between Iran and Azerbaijan (New York Times)
Shanghai's stock index commemorates Tiennamen Square (Sydney Morning Herald)
Boko Haram (Christian Science Monitor)

May 2012:

Obama's achievements (New York Times)
A NATO strike kills a couple and their six children (BBC)
We are living in an astonishing age of peace and prosperity (CNN)
Iranians save US ship from pirates (CNN)
The age of false friendship (Chronicle)
122 girls poisoned in Afghan school by Muslim radicals (CNN)
Pakistan arrests man who helped the USA find Osama bin Laden (New York Times)
Al Qaeda and Yemen (Time)
>>>The perils of democracy (New York Times)

April 2012:

"If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year" (Ted Nugent at the NRA Convention) (Reuters)
The decline of Japanese industry (New York Times)
China helps curb freedom of the press in Africa (New York Times)
Internet in Iraq (New York Times)
Europe's economic suicide (New York Times)
The USA towards a boom of exports (New York Times)
>>>The USA's secret campaign against Iran (Democracy Now) [video]
Post-Mubarak Economic Crisis in Egypt (All Africa)
The USA's secret campaign against Iran (New Yorker)
The two economies of the USA (New York Times)
Acid punishment for women in Pakistan (New York Times)
China's view of the USA (New York Times)
China cyber-steals industrial secrets (New York Times)

March 2012:

House prices around the world (Economist)
Argentina heading towards a new crisis (Economist)
The USA-South Korea alliance (Economist)
Osama Bin Laden's wives talk (New York Times)
Japan executes three convicts (BBC News)
Funding Brazilian culture (New York Times)
Nigerian Islamist group burning schools (New York Times)
The rich get even richer (New York Times)
>>>USA on the way to become self-sufficient in energy (New York Times)
Syria will not be bombed like Libya was (Yahoo News)
Slavery in Mauritania (CNN)
What isn't for sale? (The Atlantic)
Europe';s demographic crisis (The Atlantic)
Goldman-Sachs' unethical behavior (New York Times)
Woman sentenced to death for insulting the founder of Islam (CNN)
Wen Jiabao's speech (Reuters)
Iraqi militias kill rock fans (BBC News)

February 2012:

The border fence between India and Bangladesh (Foreign Policy)
China's next president (Washington Post)
>>> Gideon's "Zero-Sum Future" (Foreign Policy)

January 2012:

>>> "A Future Worth Choosing" (on global sustainability) (United Nations)
Sanctions will unite the Iranian people (American Conservative)
Lies by the Republican candidates (Yahoo)
Turkey determined to impose its own version of history on the world (BBC News)
The euro zone debt crisis is escalating (Yahoo)
Protests in Russia against Putin (Bloomberg)
Lower taxes for the rich (New York Times)
What Warren Buffet would do (Time Magazine)
The alliance between religion and capitalism (New York Times)
Rick Santorum and a new social agenda (New York Times)

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