Christina Odone | Foreign Policy | 26 November 2012 Profile of Carne Ross, former British diplomat who has reinvented himself as an "independent diplomat" for hire at the United Nations, advising politicians and unrecognised states. Clients include Kosovo, South Sudan, Polisario Comments John Quiggin | National Interest | 19 November 2012 Oil does matter to the US economy, but much less than it used to. At 4% of GDP, spending on oil roughly matches spending at hotels and restaurants. Oil politics shaped American global strategy in 1970s. Shouldn't do so now Comments Serge Kovaleski and Brooks Barnes | NYT | 26 November 2012 Maker of "Innocence of Muslims", Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, out of jail, tells his story. "The making of the film is a bizarre tale of fake personas and wholesale deception. it is almost impossible to separate fact from fabrication" Comments Kristen McConnell | Health Care Blog | 16 November 2012 "Intensive care is at best a temporary detour during which a patient’s instability is monitored, analyzed, and corrected, but it is at worst a high tech torture chamber, a taste of hell during a person’s last days on earth" Comments Peter Leeson | Peter Leeson | 26 November 2012 "Human sacrifice is a technology for protecting property rights. It improves property protection by destroying part of sacrificing communities' wealth, which depresses the expected payoff of plundering them". Academic paper (PDF) Comments Jeffrey Gettleman | NYT | 25 November 2012 "The rebels have been eviscerating a dysfunctional Congolese Army, whose drunken soldiers stumble around with rocket-propelled grenades and whose chief of staff was suspended for selling crates of ammunition to elephant poachers" Comments | 
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