Johanna Mendelson Forman is a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and was previously Senior Program Officer for Peace, Security and Human Rights at the UN Foundation.
Michael Moore is making quite a splash in Washington with his new film, Sicko. I have yet to see the film, but I think that one of the key takeaways from the documentary on the sorry state of American health care is that in Cuba, comprehensive quality health care is considered a human right.
Representative Jane Harman (D-CA-36) blogs in her spare time and reads The Washington Note frequently. She also occasionally guest blogs at Huffington Post.
It is rumored that tomorrow during a “Principals Meeting”, the administration will decide to shut down the Guantanamo military detention facility and transfer prisoners there into the American legal system.
CSIS Strategic Analyst Anthony Cordesman didn’t use that metaphor exactly.
Seymour Hersh has just published in The New Yorker a major interview with Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba, who led the Pentagon’s investigation into the abuses at Abu Ghraib. The piece is titled “The General’s Report.
I’ve received a mountain of email lately — some of it has asked for some more pics of Oakley the Amazing Weimaraner and his kid-sister Annie. Well, here’s one above of the pups sleeping which they do a lot of after some wild romps, runs, and walks that they get into on a daily basis….
As many readers of this blog know, I hosted former State Department Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson’s October 2005 cannon blast against the “Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal” and the degradation of the national security decision making process in the White House.
A TWN reader just sent me this interesting article titled “Arab Journalist Knocks U.S. Credibility in the Mideast,” that ran in yesterday’s Daily Oregonian. The title of the article aside, it’s a very interesting inventory of views of America’s Middle East mess as seen from an Arab perspective.
(John Edwards’ Senior Economic Adviser Leo Hindery and CNN Washington Bureau Chief David Bohrman at New America Foundation Dinner) This is interesting news. John Edwards has appointed cables sports industry giant Leo Hindery to serve as Senior Economic Advisor on his campaign.
