Category: General

Who Needs a “G-2”? Here Comes the S&ED

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Tomorrow, senior government officials from the U.S. and China will meet in Washington for the inaugural Strategic and Economic Dialogue, a.k.a. the S&ED, which is the successor to the Bush Administration’s Strategic Economic Dialogue – or SED.
The meeting, at which top level delegations from the world’s two most powerful nations get down to business and discuss some of the world’s most pressing issues side by side – or at least across the same table, represents far more than a shift in punctuation. It is a test of whether the Obama Administration can present a unified front and demonstrate that it is serious about working together to improve and expand the U.S.’s relationship with China.

“ Amerika has allowed the freaks in the fascists evangelical christianright to demonize science, and brute and teach the laughable joke… ” Soma on August 8, 2009

Leo Hindery Responds to Rep. Alan Grayson Request on Exec Compensation

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Leo Hindery and CNN Washington DC Bureau Chief David Bohrman at New America Foundation Dinner; photo credit; Sam Sherraden Matt Stoller from Representative Alan Grayson‘s (D-FL-08) office put out a public request for comments about executive compensation related legislation that Congress will soon be considering.

“ The latter has always seemed inefficient and needlessly bureaucratic to me. Why not go right to the root of the… ” Megan on August 8, 2009

Wadah Khanfar: Pushing Reset on America’s Relationship with Al Jazeera and the Arab World

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After Al Jazeera’s Baghdad headquarters was bombed in April 2003, reports surfaced that George W. Bush had joked about making Al Jazeera a deliberate target of U.S. attacks. Wadah Khanfar was the bureau chief of Al Jazeera’s operations in Baghdad at that time.

“ I understand that Abbas may have now reversed himself and will allow Al Jazeera to stay; but he has put… ” Sopia on August 8, 2009

Important Investment: Support Judd Legum in Annapolis

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This is a political pitch video with Center for American Progress President and former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta introducing Judd Legum at a fundraiser at a cool restaurant-bar, Local 16, just around the corner from my house. Unfortunately, I was in Berlin and couldn’t be there.

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Note to White House: Netanyahu is Obama’s Khrushchev

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I am off to Athens, Greece this evening to meet with some folks and to ponder what Socrates, Plato and Thucydides would say about Barack Obama’s coming showdown with Bibi Netanyahu over East Jerusalem. Netanyahu is very clearly Obama’s Khrushchev.

“ Folks -- too many violations of my basic principles regarding posting comments. I like to write about Middle East issues… ” Steve Clemons on July 26, 2009

Guest Post by Jon Weinberg: Short Shelf-Life — Why Innovation Will Undermine the New Iranian Internet Laws

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Jon Weinberg is an intern at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force. At first glance, Iran’s new internet law – which stipulates that Iranian internet service providers (ISPs) are required to retain the entirety of their clients’ data for at least three months – appears exceedingly intimidating.

“ JohnH, It's because Saudis are not out in the streets protesting this authoritarianism, and chances are if you ever see… ” Cookies_and_Milk on July 24, 2009

David Frum vs. Daniel Levy on Whether Barack Obama’s America Is An Honest Broker Between Israel and the Arabs

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Check out this debate over at The Economist between Daniel Levy and David Frum on whether “Barack Obama’s America is now an honest broker between Israel and the Arabs.” Given the United States’ long-time alliance with Israel it is a bit ironic that this debate pits Levy on one side suggesting that the U.S.

“ I possibly see it in even more dire terms than you, but that is another discussion for another topic –… ” Soma on August 8, 2009