(Photo Credit: Clfhcks’ PhotoStream) Congratulations to Patrick Cockburn, whose award-winning articles for the London Review of Books and The Independent provide an excellent primer on the political situation in Baghdad. Cockburn manages to explain the trajectory of events in Iraq without getting lost in the weeds of the complex and fluid situation there.
Jonathan Guyer is a Program Associate at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force. Although some pundits see the green collar revolution as too good to be true, there are plenty of concrete ways to plant the seeds of a green economy… and Obama isn’t doing that shabby so far.
Of all the evaluations of President Obama’s first one hundred days, I found this analysis by Stratfor CEO George Friedman to be the most compelling.
Patrick Doherty directs the New America Foundation/U.S.-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative. I encourage everyone to read Julia Sweig’s latest article that is coming out this weekend in the Outlook section of the Washington Post.
Patrick Doherty directs the New America Foundation/U.S.-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative. Speaking before the US House of Representatives’ Comittee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, General Barry McCaffrey, former commander, US Southern Command, called on the US to do three things: 1.
Note: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William J. Burns will deliver remarks at approximately 12:45 pm. His remarks will be on the record. I will then moderate an off the record Q&A session with Secretary Burns, during which time this LIVE STREAM will cut out.
(Credit: Jonathan Guyer) Jonathan Guyer is a Research Associate at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force.
To discuss tomorrow’s elections in South Africa, the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program is hosting Financial Times World News Editor Alec Russell, who will discuss his new book, Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Battle For The Soul of South Africa, From Mandela to Zuma.
Roger Morris has an entertaining post about President Nixon’s Inaugural trip to Europe.over at the New York Times‘ 100 Days blog. Plenty of fun historical nuggets for those who like that sort of thing.
Tom Kutsch is a Research Associate at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force.