[BLOG] Some politics and economic links

• 3 Quarks Daily had a roundup of reactions to the PEN/Charlie Hebdo controversy.
• City of Brass notes the role of the Nation of Islam in keeping the peace in Baltimore.
• Crooked Timber considers if the British Labour Party might gain by creating a separate Scottish Party, and wonders what British Euroskepticism means for Ireland.
• The Dragon’s Tales notes the new importance of immigration from China and India for the United States, looks at China’s negotiating of a naval base with Djibouti, wonders if Russia while buy Chinese naval vessels, and notes the Ukrainian capture of two Russian soldiers.
• A Fistful of Euros argues that Greece, for all of its faults, is facing doom in order to consolidate the Eurozone.
• Geocurrents’ Martin Lewis examines the Latin American political spectrum.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money wonders what a Korean war might look like, examines the risks faced by Indonesian migrants, and looks at the India-Bangladesh border.
• The Map Room’s Jonathan Crowe shares an unduly controversial map of shrinking sea ice in the Canadian Arctic.
• Marginal Revolution notes that immigration does not undermine institutions, wonders about the need for Scottish separatism, examines the myth of abandoned British austerity, wonders how to fix Ukraine, and suggests urbanization can boost economic growth.
• Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw reflected on the Indonesian executions.
• Registan predicts political crisis in Kyrgyzstan.
• Towleroad notes</a that a European court has ordered the compensation of LGBT activists attacked in Georgia in 2012.
• The Volokh Conspiracy considers Iranian attacks on a ship registered to the American protectorate of the Marshall Islands and Libyan attacks on a ship registered to New Zealand’s Cook Islanders.
• Window on Eurasia argues that the European Union’s Eastern Partnership has failed, looks at Ukrainian hostility to Russians fighting in the Donbas, argues Russian cannot hold the Baltic States, looks at Russian Muslim demographic boosterism, notes the decline of Russian in southern Kazakhstan, looks at Armenia’s alignment of its Muslim institutions with Iran, notes the plight of Ukrainian refugees and returning Donbas fighters in Russia, and notes Russia’s loss of influence in Ukraine.
• The Financial Times‘ The World notes Polish concern over the Night Wolves, a Russian motorocycle gang.
• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell argues that British Labour should rebuild by opposing things and not working on the more difficult task of finding new policies.

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