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.
(Ahlam Ahmed Mahmoud al Al-Jabouri; photo credit: Marc Perelman) The Forward correspondent Marc Perelman has a moving and important profile in Salon of Ahlam Ahmed Mahmoud al Al-Jabouri who is now an Iraqi refugee in Syria.
I’ve just spent a morning meeting the dynamic and extremely impressive Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom — followed by a talk I gave (but can’t report on) in the most famous lion’s den of movement conservatives about the positives and negatives of President Bush’s foreign policy efforts.
And the word is 30 months in prison and a fine of $250,000. Obstruction of federal investigations is serious. I do feel somewhat badly for Libby in this — as he’s clearly taking much of the heat for this to protect Cheney, who many think should be paying the fine and doing the time.
Applied Materials, the largest semiconductor equipment manufacturer in the world is getting into the business of clean technology and clean energy.
One of the things that few people know about James Wolfensohn is that when he served as Special Emissary of the Quartet in Palestine/Israel matters, Wolfensohn put his own private money on the table to help fund infrastructure and to help Palestinian businesses ship strawberries to Europe.
I received a note last night that another of the people who was responsible for opening many doors for me in Washington when I first moved here in 1994 died yesterday.
