An exceptionally cool BBC reporter dug into the YouTube video clip I posted yesterday of Saudis seemingly dancing along to a Michael Jackson song. This reporter said, hmmm…the sound seems odd — and found the underlying video (posted above) which I think is even more interesting.
I am here in London where I’m participating in an interesting forum sponsored by the Princeton Project on National Security and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Transatlantic Program, I’ve received not just one email — but three — from prominent insider journalists and policy hands that Jim Jones’ tenure as National Security Adviser is…
Campaigning has stopped in the presidential election in Iran — and voting begins in a few minutes. I have no idea who will win, but if Ahmadenijad falls to former Prime Minister and reformist challenger Moussavi, then this is huge in a domestic context.
Finally, after five years, I was able to purchase the website, WashingtonNote.com, from a site squatter. It wasn’t cheap — but those who have donated to the site through PayPal really helped make this happen. THANK YOU. So, now you can go to either TheWashingtonNote.com or WashingtonNote.com — and both will work.
A Facebook buddy of mine sent this to me, and I have to say that I didn’t quite know what to do with it. I’ve watched it four times and really like it. I have a lot of friends in Saudi Arabia who read this blog, and I’m grateful to them for doing so.
My colleague Patrick Doherty decided to push back on the comments made by Cuba’s Ambassador in Geneva today that Human Rights Watch was somehow a tool of the U.S. government.
This is a brief clip of a discussion I had day before yesterday with Ken Ballen, President of Terror Free Tomorrow, and Flynt Leverett, Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Initiative at the New America Foundation.
I really love going to London. David Miliband, the UK foreign minister, has been a long time, excellent, committed blogger — and this is one of many things that draws me to London.
Politico‘s Carol Lee wrote an interesting profile of Obama foreign policy speech writer Ben Rhodes on May 18th, 2009. But then in the German publication, Stern, an article written by Von Niels Kruse which references Rhodes and makes strikingly similar comments as Carol Lee’s piece was published on June 3rd, 2009.
This post is a “professional courtesy salute” to Helene Cooper who we now see so frequently in White House press conferences with Barack Obama. She often gets the first question in at some of the high sizzle press moments with the President.
