Here is some material to help those following the Wolfowitz scandal. First, here is a great article by Emad Mekay and Jim Lobe, “Top Wolfowitz Postings Went to Iraq War Backers.” Here is a fascinating piece on Paul Wolfowitz’s family roots and early days at Cornell.
A TWN reader has done a nice job of assembling key email addresses for World Bank officials who may have some influence on whether the corrupt actions of Bank President Paul Wolfowitz on behalf of his girlfriend and others justifies his resignation/firing.
Paul Wolfowitz‘s tenure at the World Bank may end in the next day or two. Rumors are spreading like wild fire at the Bank that he plans to resign tomorrow.
Joe Biden has an important oped today, “The Real Surge Story,” that really goes after Senator John McCain’s continued embrace of military deployments in Iraq.
John Bolton has another zinger oped today in the Financial Times offering withering criticism of Tony Blair and the British government for actions in the recent soldier detention case that Bolton argues only embolden Iran’s hard-liners. Ambassador Bolton is brimming lately with hard criticism of the Brits, the Europeans, and even the American government.
This is just a personal note that one of the people who helped launch me professionally passed away in late March, and his obituary appeared recently in the Los Angeles Times. G.
To a certain degree, the realities in Iran today were shaped by America’s misguided, interventionist regime change success there in helping to overthrow Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 and installing Shah Reza Pahlavi.
Today, the United States is the greatest contributor of carbon to the atmosphere. China is neck and neck with America. The U.S.
My significant other is brilliant, and so is Air America superstar political commentator Sam Seder‘s. His is Nicole Cattell, an important documentary filmmaker whose REVOLUC!ON airs this next Tuesday night at 10 pm EST on New York’s Thirteen-WNET.
I have come by a letter from former Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) General Jim Jones and frustrated conceptualizer of the military’s “shock and awe” strategy Harlan Ullman to the editor of the Washington Post that has not yet been published — but which probably will be in several days.
