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December 2025:

Nuclear fusion in China (New York Times)

November 2025:

A.I. research depends on Chinese scientists (New York Times)
Trump has created his own extra-judicial police force (Economist)

October 2025:

China fueling the rise in gold prices (Fortune)
Myanmar massacring protesters (BBC)
The forgotten horror of Western Tigray (Economist)
Mining gold in Pakistan (Economist)
Disappearing business people in China (Economist)
The damage of Zero Migration in the USA

September 2025:

The 4th Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou (Economist)
North Korea is becoming more aggressive (Economist)
>>> Statistical analysis of votes shows possible manipulation of results and Harris win over Trump (ETA video)
Was the 2024 election rigged? (Newsweek)
Did Trump lose the 2024 election? (Medium)
How Russia is Helping China Prepare to Seize Taiwan (RUSI)
China's yuan on the rise (Economist)
AI as a normal technology (Columbia Univ)
Joe Rogan spreads disinformation on climate change (Guardian)
Can Trump just do whatever he wants By declaring emergencies? (New York Times)
AI will automate just 5% of tasks and will produce no more than a 0.71% increase in total factor productivity over 10 years ( Video of interview)

August 2025:

China and India coming closer in the wake of Trump's trade wars (NDTV)
Jordan Vaughn on the risks of mRNA covid vaccine (Senate.gov)
A Two-tiered World of Entertainment (New York Times)
>>> North Korea can now strike anywhere in the USA (Beyond Parallel)
Georgia drifting towards Putin-style autocracy (New York Times)
Trump's inflation (CNN)
Trump's approval rating by state (USA Today)

July 2025:

US health care in the hands of conspiracy theorists (Huffpost)
A right-wing organization fighting free speech in universities (New York Times)
The 2021 Ageing Report (European Union)
A new war looms in Ethiopia (DW)
The worst states for quality of life in the USA (CNBC)
"Data Capitalism: Artificial General Intellect and the Social Brain " (Noiseburst)
Half of murders in the USA are unsolved (New York Times)
>>> The Locknet - How China Controls Its Internet and Why It Matters (Chinafile)

June 2025:

How the Supreme Power increased the power of the President (Axios)
Marijuana’s Links to Heart Attack and Stroke (New York Times)
Alcohol linked to higher risk of pancreatic cancer (International Agency for Research on Cancer)
Experts doubt FBI’s claim that crop fungus smuggled by Chinese students is a threat (Reuters)
>>> A Comprehensive Accounting of Trump’s Culture of Corruption (New York Times)
Russia is spying on China and calling it an "enemy" (New York Times)

May 2025:

>>> Trump’s First 100 Days (American Progress)
Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic (AP)
Family members of Mexican gangsters admitted to the USA by the Trump administration (Fox News)
Synthetic Polymer Contamination in Bottled Water (NIH)
Microplastics Are Everywhere (New York Times)
Black Plastic Kitchen Tools Might Expose You to Toxic Chemicals (New York Times)
What We Know About Phthalates in Plastic and Heart Disease (New York Times)
Trump aims to send US citizens back to assembly lines (CNN)

April 2025:

>>> "The rise of end-times fascism" by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor (Guardian)
Article III, a fascist organization to cripple the judicial system (Article III)

March 2025:

The Secret History of America’s Involvement in the Ukraine War (New York Times)
If you drink from plastic bottles, you absord microplastics that damage internal organs (Nature)
Putin does not want peace (New York Times)

February 2025:

>>> The Apocalyptic Decline in Birth Rates (New Yorker)
Long COVID impacting more than 1 million children (CDC)
Mrijuana addiction kills (JAMA)
Will Tavlin on "Casual Viewing" (Nplus)

January 2025:

Wildlife and wildfires (BBC)
The Biden Corruption (The Hill)
>>> The edge of anarchy (New Statesman)
Fact-checking Trump on Europe, Canada, etc (CNN)