US Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder just gave an on-the-record State Department conference call readout of NATO meetings on Libya and what capacity NATO might have on hand for various contingencies there. I tried but failed to get a question in, and the subject I would have raised was not covered in the call.
Fareed Zakaria has a piece in this morning’s Washington Post titled “America’s Grim Budget Outlook.” But his argument is less about budget cutting than the investment deficit America’s future faces compared with other periods of its history.
Al Jazeera Director General Wadah Khanfar gave a stirring tour de force of authoritarian control, conflict and change in the Middle East at the TED 2011 meeting in Long Beach which I attended this past week.
Maryland is wrestling with marriage equality legislation right now, and Maryland Delegate Sam Arora of Montgomery County — someone I thought was on track to be one of the new, great, young progressive leaders of the nation has just screwed over his constituents, including many in the gay community from whom he raised a lot…
This is a guest note by Lawrence Wilkerson, Visiting Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William and Mary, and Arturo Lopez-Levy, Lecturer in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Dawn Gable contributed to this article.
China has grown rapidly over the past few decades, but the engine of its remarkable growth may be reaching its limit.
This is so much fun on its own. I don’t want to further comment — just smile. Charles Rangel invites you to “like” his government Facebook page.
This quote by Georgetown’s Paul Pillar — a leading member of the Afghanistan Study Group — ran as the “quote of the day” in Monday’s New York Times. QUOTATION OF THE DAY “Democracy is bad news for terrorists.
As Moammar Gadhafi’s forces fail to retake key cities surrounding Tripoli and more and more countries explicitly denounce him and his government, there seems to be growing pressure on the Obama administration to do something.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Greetings all. Have been on the run this morning and during the day. I think that this exchange I had with Savannah Guthrie and Chuck Todd on their MSNBC show, The Daily Rundown, was good and covered a lot of foreign policy ground….