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- Random Roundup
Three stories catching my eye right now:
1. Rice Hoarding: As rice prices hit new highs, tripling over the course of a year in some markets, farmers across Asia are hoarding their crops and holding out for better prices. This has the potential to create an interesting struggle between rice exporter nations—Vietnam, Thailand and India—and [...]
- Here comes Season 2!
Two previews can be seen below, it starts on Showtime tonight. Those of you overseas should have BitTorrent at the ready!
- Goddamn religious censorship
There has been a round of religiously motivated censorship recently that I would like to draw everyone’s attention to.
First is the anti-Koran film Fitna which was pulled from LiveLeak due to threats according to the Underwire. Dan originally had the film embedded on his site when he talked about it a couple of days ago. [...]
- Equal Alliance, Unequal Roles
Following on the Kissinger post of last week, Kaplan has an Op-Ed in the New York Times on the Nato alliance and the unequal nature of the alliance—but unlike Kissinger, he defends it.
Predictions of NATO’s decline hold it to an impossible cold war standard. Then, a direct mortal threat to Central Europe in the form [...]
- The Traveller’s Antilibrary
Oh this is a brilliant concept (EDIT: An updated post here at Zenpundit) that Münzenberg picked up and got me thinking. I have a small stack of to-read books but it has remained small because I am often on the road. When I was younger a personal library seemed a worthy goal, but considering [...]
- Capturing the battlespace
House search. Baghdad, Iraq 2007. By Luke Wolagiewicz
Battlespace is an online exhibition of photojournalism from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The slideshow is stunning. There are some disturbing images, so be warned. These aren’t the “breakfast table” images you see in the newspapers.
Combat photography is obviously a very difficult job. The photos in [...]
- Robert Kaplan on ‘The Ghost War’
I’m rather absurdly busy with professional matters and will continue as such for the rest of the week—but to post in haste, check out Robert D. Kaplan’s book review of ‘The Ghost War’ in the IHT:
In “The Ghost War,” the New York Times reporter Alex Berenson has fashioned a smart, economically written spy novel that [...]
- Offending nationalist sensibilities?
In last week’s The Economist the Director of the International Bureau for the Democratic Party of Japan wrote in to criticise one of the magazine’s covers, pictured below.
You made fun of our respected nation’s name on a cover that is sold on newsstands all over the region. This conduct is equal to burning a national [...]
- Linkapalooza!
Friends of CA have been sending in some links in the past couple of weeks that I have neglected to share. Each of these deserve its own post I know, but I am busy as all hell. So I will introduce them each below:
First up is longtime CA friend Ken who has started up a [...]
- Mutantfrogs in the news
I would like to congratulate the Mutantfrog Travelogue crew — longtime real-life friends of Curzon and I — for a great interview in the JapanTimes. MFT is definitely one of the go-to blogs for Japanophiles, or anyone interested in East Asian culture. Keep up the good work gentlemen!
