LIVE STREAM TODAY AT 9AM: THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN — PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

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Live TV by Ustream The Washington Note is live streaming a half day event this morning, May 17th, focusing on the war in Afghanistan in the wake of President Karzai’s visit to DC. The schedule follows below but some of the headliners include James K.

Beinart Opens Back Door on US Jewish Establishment

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My colleague Peter Beinart has just published in the New York Review of Books what will be for his career a “defining piece” that challenges key Israel-focused institutions to change up their game or face a bleak future.

Insurgency Reporting and the Indispensable Nir Rosen

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(photo credit: Maxwell Snow) Ali Gharib has just published “Behind Enemy Lines,” a penetrating profile of Nir Rosen, whose supporters and critics alike recognize that he more than any other reporter has an unmatched ability to burrow into the meetings, mosques, networks, and thinking of insurgents who are fighting America and its allies.

Shutting Down Spammers — Every Message, Every Day

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(photo credit: PC Sightings) Dear Readers and Spammers of The Washington Note: Behind the scenes of the mostly pleasant, civil, constructive discussions that simmer in the comments section of the blog is a hard fought war against spammers.

What Hyperinflation Looks Like

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My friend Warren Coats, author of One Currency for Bosnia: Creating the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina, hosted a spring party yesterday, and I was reminded of his expertise in advising governments in war torn or besieged states how to create “hard currencies”.

Debating the “False Religion of Middle East Peace”

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Yesterday, the New America Foundation and Foreign Policy hosted a great program focusing on the state of play in Middle East peace restart efforts and launching the new “Middle East Channel” at FP (which is a joint project of the Project on Middle East Political Science at George Washington University and the New America Foundation’s…