Category: General

I’m hoping Sameer will be able to confirm or deny this, but my guess is that President Bush’s speech to the UN General Assembly this morning was met by a chorus of yawns.

Every time I think Columbia University could not possibly be the subject of more controversy relating to Middle Eastern politics, another controversy emerges.

. . .in ten minutes at 10:30 pm on Mike Malloy’s show. Sam Seder is standing in and hosting tonight for Mike Malloy — and we are going to discuss my recent Salon.com article on Iran.

I’m so worried about this country and the world in general. I know many of you are as well, and I’m sure than many have felt like I do now in the past. I’ve always been fascinated by the authors of the “lost generation” like Thomas Wolfe.

Today NRG energy announced its intention to file permit requests with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build two nuclear reactors in Texas — a phenomenon that apparently hasn’t happened in roughly 30 years.

Of course it was! But it’s nice to hear an honest assessment from Greenspan.

(Photo of people at the UN watching Ahmadinejad’s speech) When UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon kicked off the special session on climate change in the hopes of capturing the news cycle to build political momentum toward the December UNFCCC meeting in Bali.

For those TWN readers in the area — and I just met two — I will be at the Starbucks in Westwood, California for the next few hours. It’s a great, sunny day here. Jodie Foster’s The Brave One is playing at one of Westwood’s posh old line movie houses next door.

The recent Pew Global Attitudes Project survey, which revealed both a deficit in US leadership as well as a growing international concern over the global environment, afforded the US a unique opportunity to address both for the price of one.

Today in New York UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has convened a historic special session with more than 70 heads of state in attendance to solely discuss and focus on the issue of perhaps the largest global challenge and collective action problem we face today — the issue of climate change.