Had a great time in Hakone, Japan where I took this amazing shot of Mt. Fuji. Years ago, I climbed all night to get the top of this volcano and saw the sun rise. High on the memorable list.
A bit of a historical reminder above, and thanks to Andrew Sullivan for surfacing this. Israeli political leaders too often want to brag that they control the US President — and that what they demand, they get.
This Thanksgiving essay was originally written for the Huffington Post.
In Tokyo for a couple of days, and this was a pretty nice way to get acclimated when I arrived. Beautiful gardens here outside my window. North Korea’s leaders need to spend some time in gardens like these — and cool out a bit.
It’s good to go back every once in a while and get a refresher course on high octane Chalmers Johnson.
Next week, Foreign Policy magazine and its editor-in-chief Susan Glasser will be releasing its 2nd annual roster of the world’s greatest thinkers and doers in foreign policy. I have seen the list — and it’s impressively creative and eclectic.
This is a guest note by Leo Hindery, Jr. Hindery is Chairman of the US Economy/Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Currently an investor in media companies, he is the former CEO of Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), Liberty Media and their successor AT&T Broadband.
I have been chatting up Pete Dominick on his Sirius/XM program Stand up with Pete Dominick for a long time, but I never had any idea what the guy looked like. Same with Rachel Maddow for years until we finally met at the Democratic National Convention.
A handful of newly elected Republican US Senators have written to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid trying to undo the Constitutional authority of other elected incumbent US Senators. That’s right.
