[NEWS] Five politics links: free trade, Brexit, Soviet restoration, Cambodia, Malaysia

[rfmcdonald]

• NOW Toronto questions, in the aftermath of the post-NAFTA negotiations, the point of free trade. (I favour it on the condition that it be effective regulated, as effectively regulated as intra-national trade and probably in the same ways.)


• This Bloomberg View article makes the point that the United Kingdom needs to make provisions for the 3.5 million people, including workers, from the EU-27 in its borders, doing necessary work.


• Open Democracy notes a popular movement in Russia aiming to reestablish the Soviet Union, a movement that in its details reminds me a lot of the "sovereign citizens" and Reichsburger movements.


• What place was there for justice, this Open Democracy article asks, in post-genocide Cambodia?


• Ozy notes a new plan to rewrite the history taught in Malaysian schools to be more open to representing non-Malay and non-Islamic influences.