Guest Post by George Lakoff: The Obama Code

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This is a guest post for The Washington Note by UC Berkeley cognitive linguistics professor George Lakoff, author of The Political Mind: Why You Can’t Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain and Don’t Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate–The Essential Guide for Progressives.

Text of NPR Story on Lugar’s Cuba Moves

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Jackie Northam, national security correspondent for NPR, has a great piece up on Senator Richard Lugar’s moves on US-Cuba relations that will air this evening. But here is the beginning of the “text” that can be read in full as well. But the opener: The senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says U.S….

Playing Ukrainian Dominoes

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Douglas Rediker is Director of the New America Foundation/Global Strategic Finance Initiative. Rediker is a capital markets expert who has been focused on the emergence of “state capitalism” as a key feature of the new international economic order. He has now become a regular contributor to The Washington Note.

MEDIA ALERT: NPR’s All Things Considered on ‘A New Pivot in US-Cuba Relations’

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This evening at about 5:30 pm EST, I will be discussing Senator Richard Lugar‘s important new Senate Foreign Relations Committee report titled “Changing Cuba Relations: In the United States National Interest” (pdf here) with Jackie Northam on All Things Considered. From Lugar’s opening letter with the new US-Cuba “committee print”: “The debate [over U.S.

Lugar Calls for a “Return to Realism” on Cuba

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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Richard Lugar, a long time realist and serious strategic thinker about America’s national security challenges, has just popped the bubble of those who have used Cuba for decades in their ineffective ideological crusades.