Thomas P.M. Barnett comments on Ethnic cleansing the old-fashioned way in Sudan. Rape is being used as a means of ethnic cleansing there, now, meaning black women are raped in the hopes that they’ll have brown babies, in effect destroying the black population. Sick, sick stuff. Barnett comments: When I get emails from people trying to shame me on my belief that globalization is a good thing because it creates connectivity that engenders binding rules sets and ultimately peace, instead offering the view that globalization is nothing more than economic slavery, I always try to keep places like Sudan in …

You know, the fact that people have forecast a world shortage of fresh water sometime in the 21st century is interesting. More so when you see something like this: Canada has only a half percent of the world’s population but it holds one-fifth of the planet’s freshwater supply, half of which is renewable. The article makes a big deal of complaining about the ostensible suppression of the bulk freshwater export industry, but I think holding off makes sense. If you set up everything now, you run a big risk of establishing what will become the world’s most lucrative trade, at …