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July 3 - China and South Korea Warn the North's Young Leader; Obama Considers Changes that would Allow for Swifter Deportations; Poverty Increases Across the South

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July 1 - Israel Vows Revenge; Should Justice Ginsberg Resign Before the Mid-Terms?; Japan Changes its Long-Standing Military Posture

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June 30 - SCOTUS Rules that Employer's Religious Beliefs Trump Employee's Rights; SCOTUS Goes After Labor Unions; Hong Kong Votes for Democracy While China Eschews Hegemony

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May 21 - The 400 Billion Russia-China Gas Deal; The Real Libyan Scandal; Democrats Join in the Republican Theatre of the Absurd

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May 18 - Unprecedented Censorship of Intelligence Officials and a Cut Off of Access to the Press; A New Foreign Policy from India's New Nationalist Leader; Is Modi a Hindu Fundamentalist or a Cynical and Dangerous Politician?

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May 11 - Ukraine's Bogus Referendum and Forthcoming Election; South Korea's Ferry Tragedy Impacts its President As Authorities Pursue Cult; Israel's Active Spying on the U.S.

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April 30 - A Critique of Obama's Small Ball Foreign Policy; A Botched Execution and Innocents on Death Row; The Rhetoric Versus the Reality of Racism

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April 28 - The Plantation Mentality of Billionaire Owners of Sports Teams; A Defense Agreement with the Philippines that has Angered China; A Way Around the Cable Monopolies Poised to Kill Net Neutrality

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April 20 - Obama's "Pivot" to Asia as he Heads to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines This Week; The Shaky Truce in Ukraine; A Turnaround with the Detroit Bankruptcy

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March 30 - The Impromtu Kerry / Lavrov Summit in Paris; Russia's Fascist and Anti-Semetic Problem; The Emerging Republican Vote-Suppression Strategy

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