Obama Needs to be Nuanced in North Korea Response
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The pin-pricks, as Brent Scowcroft calls them, have started. North Korea is testing Obama’s resolve and strategic skills.
By Steve Clemons
The Sad Truth in a Story about an India without Women
This is a guest post by Joshua Meah. Meah is a former research intern with the New America Foundation’s “American Strategy Program.” He is writing from Mumbai, India. Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women, an Indian film by Manish Jha, is one of the most intense, thought-provoking, heart-wrenching and brutally honest cinematic experiences of my lifetime….
US Border Authorities Detain German Political Leader and Undermine American Brand
I will be arriving in Berlin on Monday, the 11th of May — and I am appealing to German border authorities to detain me for an hour or so — to make amends for the treatment that a German political leader (and probably many other unnamed victims of passport screening) received at Dulles Airport.
Jon Ward Tosses “The Global Imbalance Question” at Obama and Merkel at Same Time
My friend Jon Ward who blogs at Potus Notes for the Washington Times is traveling in the press pool with President Obama in Europe now. He just showed how good a journalist he is.
Rachel Maddow’s Colin Powell Interview
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Rachel Maddow opens her interesting interview with General Colin Powell who served as Secretary of State during the George W.
Interview with Martin Wolf on What We Should Expect from G-20 but Won’t Get
Barack Obama and G-20 leaders will probably emerge from the sessions that start today with (1) commitments on international financial regulatory reform, (2) non-binding commitments to various (mostly modest) stimulus strategies within their own economies, (3) a commitment to significantly enhance the resources of the International Monetary Fund and (4) a joint commitment to “resist…
Lurking Defense Secretary Provides Adult Supervision and Stabilizes Obama National Security Team
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, much less visible than any other personalities on the Obama national security team roster, is playing the role of “steady hand” on the President’s team.
C-Span Washington Journal Wednesday
Greetings to TWN readers. I apologize for being a bit AWOL in last few days as I’ve been absorbing a flood of information on President Obama’s Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy and very involved in some of the back end efforts trying to affect the agenda of the G-20 Summit in London.
Obama Needs to Show the World that America Can Re-Invent to be the “Google of Nations”
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy I spoke with MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Countdown yesterday evening about Obama’s popularity as he goes into a set of meetings in Europe with world leaders. I’ll be writing more on this later today.
US-Cuba Policy Change is Coming. . .
Vice President Joe Biden said this week that President Obama had no intention of ending the embargo of Cuba when he attends the Summit of the Americas in mid-April, but as Senator Richard Lugar and his senior staff member, Carl Meacham, outlined in a Senate Foreign Relations Commitee Print on US-Cuba relations, there is a…