Quick notes: Amazon model, Russian moves...

• Former Walmart CEO wants Amazon split up:  "They're not making money in retail, and they're putting retailers out of business. Amazon has operated its retail segment at a loss for decades, subsidizing the retail portion of its business with profits from other areas, such as web services. It's anti-competitive, it's predatory, and it's not right.".... Lesson for India!



• Putin tightens Turkey alliance with nuclear project... Russia is arming the Afghan Taliban.... Yazidis remain in fear on Iraq's Mount Sinjar after attempted genocide



• Breakfast cereal: Why cereal is NOT your best breakfast bet



• Abhinav Seetharaman: The beauty that is Sanskrit




• Who sponsors these studies? A questionable new study "explains" the origins of ancient Indians



• Dumping pesticides: Ducks are the future for pesticide-free rice farms



• Breakfast cereal: Why cereal is NOT your best breakfast bet