[NEWS] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Al Jazeera notes the inequitable terms of a trade agreement between the European Union and West Africa, observes that so far north Kazakhstan isn't vulnerable to Russian irredentism in the same way as east Ukraine, explores the Northern Gateway pipeline controversy, detects Kurdish-Turkmen tension in the city of Kirkuk, and looks at the Japanese-Brazilian community.
  
• The Atlantic explains why poor American women increasingly don't wait for marriage or even relationships to become parents (what else do they have to do?) and notes the successful treatment of a mentally ill bonobo.


• BusinessWeek notes that authors of best-sellers tend to be successful American presidential candidates, comments on potential problems of Russia's South Stream pipeline project in Serbia, and notes that more airlines are cutting service to a Venezuela that doesn't want to pay their costs in scarce American dollars.


• CBC notes that Scottish independence could cause change in the flag of the United Kingdom, observes the beginning of peace talks in eastern Ukraine, notes the contamination of a salmon river in eastern Quebec by a municipal dump.


• MacLean's examines the collapse of the Iraqi military, looks at the psychology of online abusers, and explains the import of some archeological discoveries in Yukon.