(Photo Credit: White House Photostream) While at home in Boston this past weekend, I found myself google-news-ing (is that a word yet?) Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett to get their take on the Obama administration’s recent moves with regard to Iran and last week’s revelations concerning the uranium enrichment facility near the holy city…
Sam Sherraden just returned from Berlin where he was on a study tour with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, a think tank associated with Germany’s Free Democratic Party (FDP). The Free Democrats (FDP) and the Christian Democrats (CDU) put together enough votes in Sunday’s national election to form Germany’s next coalition government.
Oliver Lough is a research intern at the New America Foundation. Perhaps unsurprisingly, months of faintly superior-sounding European criticism of American intransigence on climate change has started to ruffle a few feathers. “It may be,” retorts an exasperated U.S.
Jackie Northam of National Public Radio put this clip together in which I comment about the multiple views in the administration on America’s Afghanistan strategy.
I just had a fascinating discussion with economist David Hale who thinks that the US economy may get a “dead cat bounce” in jobs created in 2010. Hale thinks this relatively optimistic scenario depends on the American consumer coming back to life.
Lawrence B. Wilkerson was chief of staff of the Department of State from 2001-2005 and served for 16 years as an aide to General Colin Powell. Many people today are focused on former Vice President Dick Cheney’s complicity in torture.
German exit poll results are in. Looks like Germany may have its first out gay German Foreign Minister in Guido Westerwelle, who I think will do an excellent job in the role. Can’t wait until he meets Iran’s President Ahmadinejad in his official duties.
(photo courtesy of the Battle for the Bundestag 2009 Blog of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies) Voting started this morning in Germany, and polls will close at noon EST and 6:00 pm in Berlin.
I very much hope that the Clinton Global Initiative posts a video link to the outstanding gala dinner celebrating its Global Citizen Awards. It was a stunning event and made even a cynical realist like me feel good about the value of high octane humanitarian gestures made by others.
Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is a favorite of mine among the nation’s governors. He is serious about policy and curious about both domestic and international matters.