DSquared has a post on JEM launching an attack on Khartoum today. He thinks the various militias will resemble little more than criminal gangs in the near future, with a footnote warning against our own smugness as “the Free Companies went in for this sort of thing in the fourteenth century and made lots of [...]

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A rare interview with German sociologist Jürgen Habermas makes it way onto YouTube (via SozLog). Like many, he makes the case for deliberative democracy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBl6ALNh18Q

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