This is a guest note by Barbara Slavin, freqent TWN contributor and author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S. and the Twisted Path to Confrontation. Slavin has visited Iran seven times.
An excellent “committee report” has just been released by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee majority staff that condemns the operations and management of Radio and TV Marti.
From May 10-14, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai will be visiting Washington — and much of his trip has been structured by the team working for Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke in coordination with Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes.
Be all that you can be. I love this video. These soldiers are in Afghanistan — blowing off steam. Creative. They would be awesome entertainment at next year’s White House Correspondents Dinner. Drop the comic stuff. President Obama has that covered.
It really is true. Barack Obama can staff himself better on nearly all fronts than those who staff him — even comedians.
Academy Award winning director Alex Gibney — who is in town and will be attending the White House Correspondents Dinner tonight as a guest of the Washington Post — is in release mode for his next big documentary achievement, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, that doesn’t just focus on the shenanigans of…
(photo credit: V-Man on Flickr) Failed Suicide Attack against UK Ambassador in Yemen. I just received a press statement from the Washington, DC Embassy Spokesman of the Republic of Yemen (note that it contains disturbing, graphic photo image — here is pdf). The statement starts: Earlier this morning the British Ambassador to Yemen, H.E. Mr….
Just arrived in Maui after a long trip back from Brasilia through Sao Paulo, Washington Dulles, and Los Angeles. My reward was this magnificent sunset while walking along the main drag in Lahaina. Will be blogging a bit later on global finance, global governance, and the latest in US-Japan relations.
The other day I wrote a piece about Senator Schumer‘s bashing of Rahm Emanuel, Jim Jones and President Obama for their US-Israel policy that questioned whether the Senator realized just how, well, over the line he had gone.
This is an interesting story — not one of Israel being attacked. I pretty frequently see meteors streak across the night sky and have always been interested in what they look like when they hit. The one above hit a beach in Bat Yam.
