Media Alert: Montel Williams Show on Afghanistan

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Today at 10:50 am, I will be chatting with Montel Williams on Air America Radio about Afghanistan and the McChrystal Report. One of the things I may remind Montel of is that during the Republican National Convention when he was off sitting with luminaries like Norman Ornstein, Ron Brownstein, Howard Fineman, and E.J.

Anthony Zinni on Sorting out America’s Credibility Problem

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Yesterday, I hosted General Anthony Zinni for a discussion on his views on national security decision making, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, the broader Middle East, and President Obama’s approach to foreign policy. Zinni has been on tour discussing his new book, Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom.

Guest Post by Daniel Mandel: Japan’s Electoral and Economic Sea Change

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Daniel Mandel is a Program Associate at the New America Foundation/Economic Growth Program. The Democratic Party of Japan’s (DPJ) historic landslide victory over the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Sunday’s election will have important consequences for that country’s domestic politics, as well as its strategic relationship with the United States.

Alert: Democracy Now, KPFA, and General Anthony Zinni

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Tomorrow at 8 am EST, I will be chatting with Democracy Now‘s Amy Goodman about the impact of Sunday’s Japanese national elections on US-Japan relations. At about 10 am EST, I will be talking yet again about Hatoyama, Aso, Ozawa, Okada and the other rising and falling Japanese political players on Berkeley’s listener-supported KPFA radio….