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25 November 2011 09:01
- The more things change...US arms behemoth General Dynamics announces that it will build 125 new Abrams tanks for the Egyptian army.
- Kishore Mahbubani outlines Singapore's view of the US 'pivot'. (h/t WRM.)
- No one turned up to the Occupy Singapore protest. The activism is online instead.
- That incongruous Graham Greene reference in Tony Abbott's remarks last Thursday looks to have appeared first in Abbott's 2009 book, Battlelines, as Sunday Age International Editor Tom Hyland notes in this revealing piece about Abbott's worldview from January 2010.
- A wonderful mini-doco about 'the umbrella man', the one person in Dallas seen under an umbrella on the day Kennedy was killed. (Thanks Andrew.)
- The forgotten role of the 'United Nations' in defeating the Nazis.
- Post-Bay of Pigs plans by the US to invade Cuba.
- Japan to build a 'southern corridor' linking Vietnam and Burma, and thus Japan to India.
- Australian conscripts who went to Vietnam are 'half as likely to be still working as their peers born at around the same times'.