Ilan Goldenberg has posted links to a huge dump of FOIA-obtained documents that the Department of Defense has made available to the New York Times and to the public. Goldenberg makes an appeal: We need help from our readers. Let me know if you find anything interesting.
Note from Steve Clemons: This is a guest post by G. John Ikenberry who is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
That’s the latest death toll — now expected to grow higher as more than 30,000 are still missing — from the cyclone that hit Burma.
That’s William Ayers above standing on an American flag. Ayers is acquainted with Barack Obama — and I don’t feel that Obama should be responsible for the civil protest behavior of his acquaintances.
I have heard from Clinton campaign insiders that Hillary Clinton’s gas tax rollback proposal is resonating with voters — particularly the economically besieged in Indiana and North Carolina.
Today, at 12:15 pm until about 1:30 pm, I will be live streaming an event I will be chairing with Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) who will be speaking about “Ending the Nonsense in American Foreign Policy.
I’ve been bumping into Huffington Post political editor Thomas Edsall in a number of places lately – including in long AMTRAK Acela train lines when traveling from New York to DC and then today at Harvard Square.
As if the mysteries surrounding Israel’s raid on an alleged Syrian nuclear facility and subsequent revelations about North Korean complicity in a reported cash-for-reactor deal were not cloak-and-dagger enough, Chris Nelson – the uber insider political newsletter scribe behind The Nelson Report and whose contacts in the national security establishment are stellar – reports the…
I’m visiting your great city and have just walked out in the chilly rain tonight along the Charles River.
Kishore Mahbubani and G. John Ikenberry may not know it — but they are squaring off to be the new top tier rival powerhouse intellectual combatants.
