Dimitri Simes, President of the Nixon Center, was one of the leading foreign policy experts in Washington to predict some kind of hot clash between the former Soviet state of Georgia and Russia involving the autonomous provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia at the time Kosovo declared its independence. My colleague Anatol Lieven was another….
The Washington Note published several pieces about the details and significance of a potential sexual affair in the middle of the John Edwards presidential primary campaign three times — twice on October 11, 2007 (here and here) and once on October 12, 2007. I wrote about this after reading Sam Stein’s work at Huffington Post….
When I first saw this video put out by the McCain camp, I thought it was an attempt to create a viral Moses spoof of Obama’s uplifting oratory skills. I hadn’t thought it might be an effort to tag Obama as a guy “with two horns and a tail” as Time‘s Amy Sullivan writes.
Barack Obama’s campaign just sent me the following clip from Marc Ambinder’s blog: Just Asking… If there were a group of questionable donations all with the name Steve that were funneled through a guy in Jordan who is a Jordanian national who is under investigation for war profiteering and it were Barack Obama instead of…
Jonathan Wallace is a member of the staff of the New America Foundation. One week ago, Steve Clemons wrote a post on this blog involving Zbigniew Brzezinski and Mustafa Bhargouti that discussed Palestinian human rights, and specifically the freedom of movement within the occupied territories.
Charles J. Brown (aka Charlie Brown), former chief at Citizens for Global Solutions, has a new foreign policy blog titled Undiplomatic. It’s cool, and I like this post, “Five to Watch,” which highlights five international stories of significance getting no play in the American press.
(Senator Birch Bayh and Washington College student Andrew Mehdizadeh) Over the last year, I helped moderate four “Senate Colloquies” along with former Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN) at Washington College, a wonderful liberal arts school founded in 1782 in part by George Washington who sat on the school’s Board of Governors.
(photo credit: Matthew Winters) This beautiful pic was taken at sunset from a moving car through the front window in Centreville, Maryland – on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.
Will anyone notice? Barack Obama’s team just threw its key Muslim advisor under the bus. Barack Obama needs to make a statement loudly, clearly, and with passion that he embraces Muslims as much as any other Americans of Christian, Buddhist, Jewish or other religious persuasions.
(Steve Clemons listening to Gen. Wesley Clark at Yearly Kos 2007 in Chicago) Wow. I was speaking to some students of Shelly Williams of the Osgood Center at Johns Hopkins/SAIS this morning and just recalled that it was the fourth birthday of this blog.
