- The Development Policy Blog dissect AusAIDs revised budget figures. (Thanks Danielle.)
- Was Darth Vader the General Haig of the Star War Universe?: a military assessment of the disastrous Battle of Hoth. Follow-up debate here.
- Part 1 of ABC journalist Sally Sara's Mama Asia series, featuring twelve inspirational Asian women.
- Dear Iran: you suck at Photoshop. (Thanks Ed.)
- Tyler Cowen on the proposed EU-US free trade deal: 'We cannot deregulate our own country, and yet we think we can deregulate a hydra-headed, 27-nation negotiating sclerotic behemoth?'
- Speculation that Obama would make a major announcement about nuclear weapons in his State of the Union speech came to nothing.
- Wonderful Socratic dialogue about just war and collective punishment.
Thursday links: AusAID, Star Wars, Mama Asia, EU-US free trade and more
Published 14 Feb 2013
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