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Linkless thought: why do we hear nothing about China in Iraq? Did they have the good sense to sidestep the entire nightmare?
MrParker (RU) doesn't like the praise being heaped on Novaya Gazeta by Reporters without Borders.
An attempt to create jobs in Iraq. Juan Cole, for reasons I can't fathom, seems to disapprove of doing anything about jobs before security is fixed.
23rd CCC, December 27-30. Information lust; hope they provide videos again this year.
ICG report on Pakistan and the Taliban
Selective abortion in India means 7,000 fewer girls are being born each day than would be otherwise. At this rate India and China will have to fight a war, just to sort out their gender imbalances.
Abstract2001 picks up something Anna Politkovskaia was working on - mysterious illnesses of children in Chechen schools. Marina doesn't seem to know what to make of it, and neither do I.
Hard Rock Cafel sold to an American Indian tribe.
Soviet nostalgia: prewar Sukhumi (YouTube)
London tornado: Scotland Yard are on the case (RU). Satire from the Idiot.
Discovery of Gandhari documents strengthens the idea that some Chinese buddhist texts were copied from Gandhari rather than Sanskrit sources. Not that it'd make all that much difference, given how similar Gandhari and the Prakrits are.
Links betwen counterculture and cyberculture. Long video of a seminar at the Berkman centre - best thing I've seen this week, easily. Wow.
This is just a case of me being a sucker for prose style, but mmm....Martin Kettle