Pat Lang & Lawrence Wilkerson Share Nightmare Encounters with Feith, Wolfowitz, and Tenet
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(Lawrence Wilkerson and his regular Thursday students. These are not the ones in the audience referred to below.
By Steve Clemons
More on Bush-Cheney White House Intrigue on US-Iran Policy
(Joe Klein; photo credit: Online News Hour with Jim Lehrer) Joe Klein adds some important contextual material to the question of what Cheney may be cooking up on Iran on Time‘s Swampland blog.
Cheney Attempting to Constrain Bush’s Choices on Iran Conflict: Staff Engaged in Insubordination Against President Bush
There is a race currently underway between different flanks of the administration to determine the future course of US-Iran policy. On one flank are the diplomats, and on the other is Vice President Cheney’s team and acolytes — who populate quite a wide swath throughout the American national security bureaucracy.
Paulson Plays the Rude Card Against Chinese: No Windfall Expected
(Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson and China Vice Premier Wu Yi perform the US-China hit, Strained Smiles.) Wow. Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson just about did everything wrong but spit on Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi today at the premature wrap-up of the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) meeting in Washington.
A Neocon War-Planning Vacation to the Bahamas!
Jim Lobe, one of the best international affairs correspondents who has resisted the trend towards homogenization in his sector’s coverage, has launched a blog, and he has a cool expose on a neocon retreat being planned for the Bahamas on May 30. The conference is titled “Confronting The Iranian Threat: The Way Forward.
Michael Baroody Withdraws
For days, I have been intending to write a longer note about the objections to Michael Baroody that some have had about his appointment by President Bush to serve as head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
What Happened to Wolfowitz the Strategist?
Paul Wolfowitz has all but conceded that he is leaving his perch as CEO of the World Bank.
Wolfowitz Appears to be Heading Towards Face-Saving Exit Deal
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz pleaded for a second chance and offered to dump his gaggle of advisers who followed him to the Bank from the Bush administration.
Tipping the Hat to John Ashcroft
John Ashcroft has been a governor, a minister, a senator, and Attorney General of the United States. His colleagues at his private consulting firm, call him “General” now — as a nickname and honorific.
Jerry Falwell Dead
I just want to acknowledge he is gone. The 2008 political race will be easier for me to stomach without Falwell’s meddling.