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December 2023:

Chinese lawyer Jiang Ping (New York Times)
China's booming business with Russia (New York Times)
Hamas systematically raped, killed and burned women (BBC)
Human population may peak soon (New York Times)

November 2023:

>>> Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago (New York Times)
India tries to assassinate a Sikh dissident in the USA (New York Times)
Japan jails environmentalists (New York Times)
G42 in the United Arab Emirates funnels US technology to Chinese corporations (New York Times)
The avocado business is causing deforestation and violence in Mexico (New York Times)
Biden is making more foreign policy messes than he’s fixing (CNN)
How Netanyahu Is Undermining Biden’s Gaza Strategy (Time)
Netanyahu must go, but he won't go quietly - opinion (Jerusalem Post)
Who votes for Trump (CNN)
Netanyahu's strategy of dividing the Palestinians backfired against Israel (CNN)
The true nature of Hamas and Netanyahu (Guardian)
China is using the world’s largest known online disinformation operation to harass Americans, a CNN review finds (CNN)
It Would Be Best for Israel if Netanyahu Was Voted Out of Office (Haaretz)
A good summary of how Chimerica benefited both USA and China (New York Times)
China is closing, destroying and repurposing mosques (Human Rights Watch)
How big tech share your data (New York Times)
Climate anxiety among Gen Z (CNN)
Farewell to Russian Art: On Resistance, Complicity, and Decolonization in a Time of War (Allison Leigh)

October 2023:

Economists got it all wrong (New York Times)
A lawyer's summary of Trump's trials (video)
AI will save the world (A16z)
Trump revealed nuclear secrets that endangered the US nuclear fleet (ABC)
China's electric car-maker Nio (New York Times)
>>> Guns are now a leading cause of death for children in the USA (New York Times)
How neofascist Putin ally Steve Bannon sabotages the Republican Party (New York Times)
John Kelly on Donald Trump (CNN)

September 2023:

The Underground Historians Keeping the Truth Alive in China (New York Times)
The Netanyahu government’s next target, Israel’s free press (CNN)
China’s disappearing ministers (CNN)
Russia will eventually ally with EU and USA (Russia Today)
>>> Finland's president on Russia (New York Times)
Mexican police and army helped the cartel kill 43 students in 2014 (New York Times)
Hominids almost got extinct 900,000 years ago (Science)
Video: Sanctions on Russia are working (Hoover Inst)
Russia arrests and kills pro-war ultra-nationalists (CNN)
Coups in French-speaking Africa (Deutsche Welle)
Republicans are paranoid about China (New York Times)
The Dangers of Russian Disorder (Foreign Affairs)

August 2023:

Why Putin would want Prigozhin dead (New York Times)
The collapsing Russian ruble (Washington Post)
The billionaires who pay for Clarence Thomas' luxury vacations (Propublica)
>>> The USA is missing an opportunity: Chinese investment (Foreign Affairs)
China is losing Eastern Europe (Atlantic Council)
Russians in Georgia (Guardian)
A majority of Republicans want to stop helping Ukraine against Russia (CNN)

July 2023:

Life in wartime Russia (New York Times)
The Ongoing Mystery of Covid's Origin (New York Times)
The covid massacre in Florida (New York Times)
>>> Rajendra Gupta speculates that the universe could be 26 billion year old (Science Alert)
A survey of what experts think of war between China and USA (New York Times)
Global debt hits a record high (Russia Today)
Just get rid of plastic (Atlantic)
Clarence Thomas' friends (New York Times)
Dog cloner Hwang Woo-suk (New York Times)
The USA knew that Prigozhin was preparing to take military action against russia (New York Times)
A tax on miles driven (New York Times)

June 2023:

The Republican Party targets researchers who combat disinformation (New York Times)
>>> NANOGrav eavesdropping on gravitational waves (New York Times)
Sanctions on Russia are working (Foreign Policy)
Donald Trump knew exactly which top-secret documents he was stealing (New York Times)
Hostility towards Muslims is widespread in Germany (DW)
North Koreans are starving to death (BBC)
Narendra Modi (New York Times)
The USA is paying billions to Russia’s nuclear agency (New York Times)

May 2023:

Biden's new economic order (Politico)
How China controls the electric car battery (New York Times)
Trump's endless lies (The Hill)
Shame on CNN for hosting Trump (Guardian)
>>> Negative views of China around the world are higher than ever (Pew Research)
China’s crackdown on foreign firms (New York Times)
DNA study finds prehistoric Chinese migration to the Americas (Science Daily)
Nikolai Patrushev (Spectator)

April 2023:

>>> There is no A.I. (New Yorker)
Chinese censorship is quietly rewriting the Covid-19 story (New York Times)
There is plastic in our bodies (New York Times)
The EU is still the largest importer of Russian oil (Independent)
The Russian economy is imploding (Yale Insights)
The Wagner Group in Africa (DW)
Why California has more homeless than Texas (Reason)
The damage caused by dogs (Atlantic)
China demotes Lijian Zhao, the "Wolf Warrior" diplomat (BBC News)
Taiwan's response to China: a Xi caricature goes viral (Reuters)
Clarence Thomas, a judge of the Supreme Court, accepted gifts from a right-wing billionaire worth millions of dollars (Propublica)
>>> Ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal tells her story about her affair with Donald Trump (CNN)
170 trillion particles of plastic in ocean (NBC)
The tragedy of Juventus and Italian football (Guardian)

March 2023:

The politicization of the lab-leak theory of covid (New York Times)
You are eating plastic (KSAT)
The endless Fox News scandal (New York Times)
Ron DeSantis' book, a subtle attack on Trump (New York Times)

February 2023:

Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces (Business Insider)
China’s campaign of industrial espionage (New York Times)
Were "mask mandates" useless? (Los Angeles Times)
Netanyahu’s scheme to end the independence of Israel's Supreme Court (New York Times)
China's position on Ukraine (video)
China tries to woo Europe but underestimates Europe's stance against Russia (New York Times)
Saudi Arabia's crackdown on dissent (New York Times)
Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner mercenary group, accuses Russia’s defense minister Sergei Shoigu and general Valery Gerasimov of treason (New York Times)
Nuclear tests by North Korea contaminated food and water of neighbors (New York Times)
High level corruption in Mexico (New York Times)
Poland's rising influence in the EU (New York Times)
Ketamine addiction spreading as it is sold as a therapy for depression (New York Times)
China’s program of spy balloons (New York Times)
Trench warfare in Ukraine (New York Times)

January 2023:

>>>China's young people (Noema)
Barr’s quest to find flaws in the Russia Inquiry unraveled (New York Times)
Saudi agents controlled edits on Wikipedia (Dawnmena)
Prigozhin, head of Wagner Group, the man who may challenge Putin for power (New York Times)
China's futuristic new city, Xiongan (Foreign Policy)
Chinese espionage in the USA (BBC News)
Russia posts record current account surplus (Reuters)
Russia sells Chinese yuans (Reuters)
Elon Musk and Tesla's autopilot (New York Times)