January 14, 2012: Weekend
- Burma releases 651 high-profile political prisoners, U.S. rewards and praises the reforms.
- Eight-year-old girl from isolated tribe burnt alive by Amazon loggers as warning to natives.
- The case against assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists: It increases the chance of a nuclear Iran.
- How food aid undermines Haitian recovery, helped American farmers.
- "In America’s rough streets, there are four forms of currency—cash, sex, drugs, and bicycles."
- With China being blamed for American helplessness, Republican candidates raise the Red Menace.
- Chinese investigative journalists must cross province borders to do their muckraking.
- The ongoing and awful gentrification of Paris's once great soccer club.
- The past is a foreign country, but the recent past looks almost identical to the present.
- Chomsky weighs in on auto-correct.
- Sleeves received by the Wire magazine.