Category: IOs
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Black Gold
Just watched Black Gold: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee. Despite the overbearing subtitle, it is actually pretty deft in making its case to the average 1st World coffee drinker. It starts off with the coffee side of things for the first 50 minutes or so, then spends some time on the more general issues…
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IOs and Politics
Henry notes that Putin is pushing back against the OSCE. First, I am less sanguine than Henry about the pure-drivenness of the OSCE’s motives. Makes perfect sense to me that it should be anti-Russian. Power –> institutions. Second, Putin is a scary man. “Spook spooky spook” — hilarious! Third, sure is getting chilly in East-West…