[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdpei]

• Did you know that astronomers have determined that the planet HD 209458b, a gas giant orbiting very close to its sun, has winds in excess of ten thousand kilometres an hour? Centauri Dreams tells us.
• Crooked Timber reports on the astonishing news of the amazing defense of Leopold II's genocide rule in the Congo by Belgian politician Louis Michel.
• The

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[absinthe_dot_ca]

Window on Eurasia quotes someone who suggests that the Commonwealth of Independent States was a success, not as a regional integration project but rather as a mechanism to help pacify

Did something get cut off there?

Wacquant

[anonymous]

That post at The Global Sociology blog isn't by Loic Wacquant ... you've been misled by the fact that Wacquant's picture appears in the LH column.