Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Book Release! – Huzzah, De!
- US diplomats spied on UN leadership | World news | guardian.co.uk – The information itself is not startling, just seeing it out in the open.
- Cables teased in NYT: plans to unify Korea; Pakistan nuke standoff; U.S. threatened Germany over CIA kidnapping – Boing Boing
- The US embassy cables | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian – “Anything said or done in the name of a democracy is, prima facie, of public interest. When that democracy purports to be ‘world policeman’ – an assumption that runs ghostlike through these cables – that interest is global.”
- The Guardian: “Global diplomatic crisis” sparked by cables. U.N. spied on; Saudis want US to attack Iran; British royalty misbehaves; U.S. and U.K. intimate but snarky with each other – Boing Boing – This will be interesting to watch. To say the least.
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