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Happy International Women’s Day.

• Remembering events in Bosnia twenty years ago and how the world was changed.
  
• The Guardian’s profile of a few voices from around the world.
• Urvashi Sahni and Xanthe Ackerman offer strategies for action.

In my weekend reading, I’ll be trying to make sense of some of this week’s bizarre events.

• North Korea ends peace pact and ratchets up the threat.
• Jeffrey Lewis worries about the next moves
• Senator Robert Menedez says Congress and the United States must “ensure that North Korea pays a price for its continued reckless behavior.”
• BBC has video of North Korean State TV footage of a visit by Kim Jong-un to troops.
• Marcus Noland discounts the effect of the new sanctions.
• The debate over Dennis Rodman.  Robert is annoyed, Joel Wit and Jenny Town think maybe it’s not all bad.
• The Arab League will allow its members to arm the rebels in Syria.
• The US wants the the diplomatic negotiation areas at to the UN to “be an inebriation-free zone.”

• And you thought American politics were messed up. Marco Zerbino unpacks the current Italian scene: “Coupled with Grillo’s rise, Berlusconi’s resurgence signals a stable right-wing hegemony in Italian politics and society.”