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Suggested Reading of 2015

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December 2015:

Ethiopia and A.I. (Techonomy)
The microbes that help us survive (New York Times)

November 2015:

ISIS is committing genocide, torture, rape and slavery against the Yazidis in Iraq (Yahoo News)
Russian businessman smuggles nuclear material out of Russia (Yahoo News)
Gene hacking (New Yorker)
Drugs kill more people than guns or cars (Breitbart)
Japanese firms actually lag behind in adoption of computers (BBC News)
Persecution of the Hazaras in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Al Jazeera)
>>> ISIS training children in Afghanistan (video) (Al Jazeera)

October 2015:

Processed meats such as bacon, sausages and ham cause cancer ("Carcinogenicity of consumption of red and processed meat") (International Agency for Research on Cancer)
Matt Ridley on the Myth of Basic Science (Wall Street Journal)
Bill Gates on Climate Change (The Atlantic)

September 2015:

Paranoia on campus (The Atlantic)
>>> "Thucydides Trap" by Graham Allison (The Atlantic)

August 2015:

The Israeli military disagrees with Netanyahu on the Iranian threat (Christian Science Monitor)
Only the Chinese, the Vietnamese and Ghana like Putin's Russia (Pew)
US drones devasating Yemen (Rolling Stone)
The Israeli-USA crisis (The Atlantic)
The Iran deal on nuclear development (The Atlantic)
Islamic terrorists in China (Yahoo News)

July 2015:

Muslims are the fastest growing ethnic group in Moscow (Al Jazeera)
Mullah Omar in favor of peace in Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)
Mainland China refuses the international tribunal to rule over its South China Sea claims (Yahoo News)
ISIS is more dangerous than Al Qaeda (Sebastian Gorka)
South Sudan's failure story (Al Jazeera)
Saving Mes Aynak from the Taliban and the Chinese (Savingmesaynak)
Chechnya is virually independent (Economist)
Armenia and Russia (Al Jazeera)
Independence for Kurdistan? (Al Jazeera)
Foeticide in India (Al Jazeera)
Italy-based Hacking Team, known for working with governments worldwide (TechCrunch)
The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? (Oxford Univ)
The Marshall Islands are sinking in the ocean (CNN)
Michael Lewis' "How art became irrelevant" (Commentary Magazine)

June 2015:

Was Paul Kennedy Right? American Decline 30 Years On (War on the Rocks)
The New York Times publishes offensive portrait of a Pope after refusing to post offensive portraits of Mohammed (Washington Examiner)
Weather-related natural disasters (Economist)
Russia's Caucasus Islamists 'pledge allegiance' to IS (Yahoo News)
A Russian missile downed the Malaysian plane (Newsweek)
A more reasonable Putin (Yahoo News)
A permanent solution for nuclear waste (Yahoo News)
How Google got design right (Fastcodesign)
Behind the scenes in Chechnya (Al Jazeera)
Joseph Stiglitz's "Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy (Roosevelt Institute)
The giant Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban return as projections (Huffington Post)
Edward Snowden is a patriot and deserves freedom (Financial Times)
A toxic desert in Uzbekistan (Al Jazeera)

May 2015:

Bill Clinton's interview (Al Jazeera)
Who is the creator of bitcoin (Business Insider)
The CRISP revolution in Biotech (Techcrunch)
Russia's economic crisis spreads to its neighbors (Yahoo News)
Bloggers killed in Bangladesh (Al Jazeera)
Afghanistan's drug war (Al Jazeera)
Ukraine downed the Malaysian Airlines plane (Reuters)
Political overhaul in Saudi Arabia (Al Jazeera)

April 2015:

>>> Bill Gates on " The Next Epidemic - Lessons from Ebola" (New England Medical Journal)
Bill Gates on "The Next Outbreak? We're not Ready" (TED talk)
Peter Pomerantsev on Russia's information warfare (Guardian)
Hezbollah fights Al Qaeda in Syria (Yahoo News)
North Korea's nuclear program (Al Jazeera)
>>> First hologram protest ever held in Spain (Revolution News)
Saudi bombings kill scores of civilians in Yemens (McClatchy)
40 years later Vietnam is closer to the USA than to China (Yahoo News)
Chechnya's governor threatening Putin (Yahoo News)
Erdoganistan and the Armenian genocide (Front Page)
North Korea has 20 nuclear bombs according to China (Yahoo News)
The Clinton Foundation received millions from investors as Putin took over 20% of US uranium deposits (Business Insider)
The China-Pakistan economic corridor (BBC News)
The most powerful terrorist organization in the world (Yahoo News)
Turkey still denying the Armenian genocide (Al Jazeera)
Lake Baikal shrining in Russia (Al Jazeera)
Flawed forensic analyses sent dozens of people to jail and some to the death chamber in the USA (BBC News)
Saudi Arabia and France arm Lebanon (Al Jazeera)
Russia sells weapons to Iran alarming Israel (Al Jazeera)
China's slowdown (BBC News)
Violence against immigrants in South Africa (Al Jazeera)
Saudi Arabia beheads Indonesian maid (BBC News)
Hezbollah criticizes Saudi Arabia (Yahoo News)
The warlords of Afghanistan (Washington Post)
Ricky Jackson's innocence is proven after 39 years in prison, the longest-serving innocent man in US history (Yahoo News)
Arm spending skyrockets everywhere except in the West (Yahoo News)
China, Russia and Saudi Arabia post big increases in military spending (Yahoo News)
volcanoes and climate (Economist)
China's president Jinping Xi (Economist)
Belarus (Economist)
China's president Jinping Xi (New Yorker)
Comments on the Social Progress Index 2015 (CNN)
Comments on the Social Progress Index 2015 (Huffington Post)
>>> Social Progress Index 2015 (Social Progress Imperative)
Will intelligent machines make us stupid (Wall Street Journal)
DARPA working on post-GPS technology (PC World)
Israel planning to derail peace negotiations between Iran and the USA (Yahoo News)
Russia's information war (Yahoo News)
Israel targeted UN peacekeepers in Lebanon (El Pais)
Censorship in Venezuela (Economist)
China's cyber-attack against Western media content (Economist)
Why the gun lobby is winning (Economist)
Mexico's Silicon Valley (Economist)
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan (Al Jazeera)

March 2015:

Why STEM education is dangerous (Washington Post)
Hiring a good P.R. agency and you get away with murder (Amanda Knox's case) (Salon)
Netanyahu's true face (CNN)
Sexism in Silicon Valley (Atlantic)
What Netanyahu has achieved (CNN)
The Israeli elections explained (Vox)
The Narcissism Epidemics (Atlantic)
Russia and Chechnya (Economist)
Asian manufacturing (Economist)
Iran angry at world's trickery
North Korean diplomat caught with 27 kgs of gold in Bangladesh

February 2015:

35.9% of Indians suffer from Major Depressive Episodes, one of the highest rates in the world, China is at the very bottom of the list at 12% (World Health Organization)
Worldwide mergers and acquisitions totaled $3.5 trillion in 2014, up 47% from 2013 (Thomson Reuters)
Productivity started slowing down before the Great Recession (San Francisco Federal bank)
Startups were 8% of all businesses in 2011, down from 15% in 1978 (San Francisco Federal bank)

January 2015:

>>> An Interview with poet Nathaniel Mackey (Iowa Review)
Suicide in the USA (Economist)
Arabs cheer Israel (Al Arabiya)
Cyber-espionage by the USA (Spiegel)
Chomsky on the Charlie Hebdo hypocrisy (CNN)
Gorbachev on Russia-USA relations (Spiegel)
North Korea has weaponized its nuclear weapons (Korea Times)
Russia's economy (Economist)
"Putin's Way" documentary (PBS)
Ian Bogost's "We're not living in an algorithmic culture so much as a computational theocracy" (Atlantic)

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