Doha is dead. The “bicycle of global trade” as C. Fred Bergsten often called it has stopped. We have yet to see whether the bike falls over — but Joseph Stiglitz is already writing the epitaph.
In response to queries as to what Senator Lieberman was doing when agreeing to carry a pardon request to President Bush for an indicted terrorist sent to prison by the FBI, Lieberman spokesman Scott Overland said: Senator Lieberman does not intervene in criminal proceedings including requests for pardons. . .
Count me among those that think that this piece by Joe Klein is gutsy and right on target. I’m in New York tonight — met Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the opening benefit for “Mostly Mozart” at the Lincoln Center and sat next to one of the really intriguing co-founders of C-Span.
Mindy Kotler is director of Asia Policy Point, a Washington research center that provides objective information on East Asia to the policy community. Among the many obstacles hindering success at the Six-Party Talks to denuclearlize the Korean peninsula are the ingrained animosities between Japan and South Korea.
From 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm EST today, The Washington Note will be streaming live a New America Foundation discussion cosponsored with the Nixon Center on what a Nixonian re-do of US-Cuba relations might look like.
Oakley the Amazing Weimaraner checks in from the lake.
Julia Sweig in one of DC’s finest Latin America policy divas — and she appeared recently on The Colbert Show. It’s a great segment.
Mustafa Barghouti is one of Palestine’s real gems — a former doctor turned political leader who previously ran for the presidency of Palestine. He now heads the Palestinian National Initiative and is an advocate of non-violent resistance against Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Karen Hughes finally got a successor in her previous role as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, and it is entrepreneur, writer, and thinker James Glassman who was until recently Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
I think it’s terrific that Barack Obama went abroad to connect with leaders and some people in Europe and the Middle East. I think he should have gone to Brussels — but I can certainly embrace that he emphasized ‘engagement’ with this trip.
