[NEWS] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Al Jazeera notes anti-Muslim ads in the New York City subways, China's likely counterproductive crackdown on Uighurs, Kosovo's efforts to stem the flow of fighters to the Islamic State, and observes the spread of Buddhist anti-Muslim chauvinism from Burma to Sri Lanka.


• Bloomberg notes Japan's strengthening of sanctions against Russia, notes that super-yacht sellers in Monaco are disturbed by anti-Russian sanctions and looks at the freezing of an oligarch's assets in Italy, observes that Italian economic reforms are proceeding slowly, notes the relative strength of the Mexican economy, observes the travails of the economies of NATO-looking Ukraine and credit-crunched Russia and Bulgaria.


• Bloomberg View considers the right of migrants from countries drowned by climate change to go to polluters, looks at Japan's debt trap, an examines Ukrainian options in the wake of Russian victory in the Donbas.


• CBC reports on Iraqi claims of Islamic State plans to attack subways in the United States and Paris.


• The Inter Press Service notes the rapid growth of the world's urban population, the rapid growth of the population of the Sahel region, and the growth of intra-Caribbean migration.


• MacLean's fears that constitutional reform in the United Kingdom may complicate the Scottish question and shares Indian Mars probe MOM's Twittered photos of Mars.


• National Geographic notes the relationship between poverty and poor food, observes the role played by guano in securing American territorial claims, and looks at the eventually rapid divergence of birds from dinosaurs.


• Open Democracy is skeptical about the prospects of Ukrainian accession to the European Union, considers Ukraine's security options, looks at the Azerbaijani perspective on the Ukrainian crisis, and considers strategies for the Scottish left and South Tyrolian separatists.


• Universe Today looks at Russian contributions to the International Space Station, dates ancient Earth water, and notes that the ESA's Rosetta mission will see the Philae lander touch the surface of its target comet on the 12th of November.