Three for today

Paddy Ashdown says the priorities for Nato in Afghanistan should be to support security, governance and the rule of law (A strategy to save Afghanistan). A UN report says CO2 emissions from shipping are about 1.12bn tonnes, nearly 4.5% of all global total, and three times higher than previously thought (True scale of C02 emissions from shipping revealed). Robert Reich says raising wages of the bottom two thirds of U.S. earners, allowing them to organise, and improving schooling is the way to keep America in one piece (Totally Spent).