SOUTH+ASIA

__South Asian Geography: Water, Food and Population (It's the simple things that matter!)__

 * World Bank: on the effects of global climate change on South Asia**

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 * Water, Environmental Change and Food Production:**

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 * Indian Farmers' Suicides: Debt, Drought and GM Foods**

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 * Poor in India Starve as Surplus Wheat Rots!**

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 * Population in India and Bangladesh:**

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 * Great Website of Global Population Trends: (Univ. Michigan)**

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 * UN Human Development Report:**

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 * Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):**

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 * BBC Country Profile: India (and all others)**

**__Understanding US - AFPAK Policy: Some Serious Food for Thought__**
Ahmed Rashid on AFPAK: []

President Obama on Afghanistan and Pakistan: Speech at West Point http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-address-nation-way-forward-afghanistan-and-pakistan

Max Boot: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/special-preview--how-we-can-win-in-afghanistan-15257?page=all

Polk: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091019/polk

Seymour Hersh: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/11/16/091116fa_fact_hersh

Andrew Bacevich: http://www.newsweek.com/id/171254

Kathy Kelly: http://vcnv.org/the-rotten-fruits-of-war

Fareed Zakaria on Obama's Troop Increase (Afghanstan): [|http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/12/03/zakaria.obama.scaled.back.war/index.html]

Senator Arlen Specter: "Why I oppose the Afghan surge" http://specter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsRoom.Articles&ContentRecord_id=74014b58-ae36-4ec0-8013-4ae2fb279e33

Human Rights Watch: Pakistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/pakistan/page.do?id=1011216

Global Security Page on Afghanistan: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/enduring-freedom.htm

Ahmed Rashid: http://www.ahmedrashid.com/

Barnett Rubin: http://www.cfr.org/bios/115/barnett_r_rubin.html

Rashid and Rubin on Afghanistan (Foreign Affairs): must be purchased http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/64604/barnett-r-rubin-and-ahmed-rashid/from-great-game-to-grand-bargain#