So I’ll try to play a little catch up – I’ll have a Russia-specific one later on:
-David Mech on misunderstandings about “alpha males” that resulted from his research on wolves in the 1960s [yglesias].
-Kissinger on Clinton and the North Korean hostages – conservative counterpoint by Douglas H Paal posted here [foreign policy].
-Matt Armstrong on the recent censoring the Voice of America in its coverage of Somali politics [foreign policy].
-Pepe Escobar on Iran-Chinese relations and the New Silk Road [juan cole].
-And holy shit, according to Mark Kleiman: “US expenditure budget for Afghanistan this year is to be $65 billion; I’m not sure how much NATO and other countries add to that. The US budget alone is more than 5 times the Afghan GDP of $12.5B ($400 per capita).” [stephen walt]
-New Gahan Wilson collection out this fall, feel free to be somewhat amused [laughing squid]:
posted by behemothing
for shame for shame