(Photo Credit: mr_smee44’s Photostream) The International Crisis Group (ICG) published a report earlier this week on “Turkey And The Middle East: Ambitions and Constraints.” The paper is an excellent primer on Turkey’s growing and complicated role in the region.
Above is a short clip of video from the first session of the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference launch where I am now in Cambridge, England.
On Tuesday, the Washington Note conveyed the news that Af/Pak Envoy Richard Holbrooke’s doctor had grounded him pending angiogram tests and was not permitting him to travel to the Afghanistan on a well publicized trip with General David Petraeus this week.
(Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force Director and Middle East Channel Editor Daniel Levy provides an excellent “breaking analysis” of David Igantius’ and Helene Cooper’s reports yesterday that the Obama administration is considering proposing a comprehensive peace plan for Israel and Palestine.
I just ran into Kenneth Rogoff, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, in the run down but historic commons pub of Kings College at Cambridge University Rogoff is over-the-top accomplished, but just one essay of his made me a fan — written in 2004, Rogoff authored an oped titled “A Debtor’s Empire” that…
(Photo Credit: Peter Soutza/White House Photostream) The American Prospect Senior Correspondent and The Washington Independent Senior Reporter Spencer Ackerman has a thoughtful piece on the Obama administration’s foreign policy in the current issue of The American Prospect.
(Graffiti in Israel: “Where are you, Anat Kam?”) Max Blumenthal is helping to break a huge story in Israel that involves journalists, leaks, accusations of alleged treason, illegal assassinations, house arrests, a Haaretz editor in hiding, and personal conscience.
Tonight I’ll be joining MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann near the top of the hour, around 8:05 pm EST, for a discussion of President Obama’s Nuclear Posture Review. There is a lot of news today.