Sunday, December 07, 2014

Bits and Pieces - December 7, 2014

Vladimir Putin has really ticked off Angela Merkel. Joschka Fischer comes from a left-wing background, and he sees Merkel's stance as a coming of age for German foreign policy.

John Kerry was none too friendly, either.

Russian soldiers may be refusing to go to Ukraine. Notice that "may." I take reports from those with strong feelings about the situation in Ukraine provisionally.

Long report on the "Independent Republics" of Donetsk and Luhansk.

A beautiful new Jewish museum in Warsaw.

Americans Have No Idea How Bad Inequality Really Is And if they did, they wouldn’t want European-style solutions.

Jim Austin collects old computers. Big computers.






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