Newsletter 469

[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com

[5]Colonel Gaddafi: The Last Of The Buffoon Dictators?
Links:
5. http://b.rw/n9kx0n

Kevin Connolly | BBC | 22 October 2011

"He was an old-fashioned, theatrical sort of tyrant, whose lineage you can
trace from the bombastic ravings of Mussolini, through the kilted debauchery
of Idi Amin, to the platform-heeled kleptocracy of Omar Bongo of Gabon"
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/colonel-gaddafi-last-buffoon-dictators

[7]Shanghai Gets Supersized
Links:
7. http://b.rw/orZZwY

David Devoss | Smithsonian | 20 October 2011

Brief history of Chinese boom city. Opium trade key to 19th century growth.
Now home to 23 million people and more than 200 skyscrapers. "We’re from
Shanghai. We care only about money. You want to talk politics, go to
Beijing" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/shanghai-gets-supersized

[9]Our 'Broken System' Of Criminal Justice
Links:
9. http://b.rw/qsbwGW

John Paul Stevens | NYRB | 21 October 2011

You cannot accuse the former Supreme Court judge of being an easy read, but
plenty to ponder in this review-essay focusing on the history of
discrimination against African-Americans. They are under-policed, and
over-punished [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/our-broken-system-criminal-justice

[11]Africa's Albertine Rift
Links:
11. http://b.rw/qArZhv

Robert Draper | National Geographic | 19 October 2011

Despatch from Rift Valley where a desperate, violent battle for land and
resources is playing out. "Overcrowding has spawned an anxiety so primal and
omnipresent that one hears the same plea over and over again: We want land!"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/africas-albertine-rift

[13]Post-Imperial Blues: A Letter From Vienna
Links:
13. http://b.rw/nNQsJt

Franz Cede | American Interest | 21 October 2011

Former Austrian ambassador to Moscow compares post-Habsburg Austria with
post-Soviet Russia. Very different countries, many points of comparison.
"The sudden loss of empire has a way of taking the wind out of politics in
general" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/post-imperial-blues-letter-vienna

[15]How The Nomad Found Home
Links:
15. http://b.rw/q3cKrd

Michael McRae | Outside | 21 October 2011

More than a decade ago, biologist Mike Fay walked across Africa, spurring
the creation of national parks and making him a conservation star. So why,
after fighting to protect wild places, is he now questioning the basis of
his work? [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-nomad-found-home

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz on America’s Undocumented Workers
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ruth-gomberg-muñoz-on-america’s-undocumented-workers

The anthropologist tells us about books that give voice to low-wage migrant
labourers and explains the mutual dependence of slums and “urban glamour
zones” [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ruth-gomberg-muñoz-on-america’s-undocumented-workers