John Bolton has preempted a Security Council briefing on Darfur. It was over Bolton’s ambivalence about coordinated international action in the case of genocide that Senator Russell Feingold — a staunch believer that the President should nearly always have the team he or she wants — decided to oppose Bolton’s nomination to the United Nations….
I was reading about Condoleeza Rice’s trip to Kyrgyzstan and her efforts to secure ongoing U.S. access to bases there. She succeeded, but in the various reports, it was noted that she skipped Uzbekistan — where Americans have had a base which will soon be abandoned.
Economist Peter Morici, with whom I used to work many years ago at the Economic Strategy Institute, has sent out a superb note outlining the “self-dealing” among top executives at Delphi, which has just declared bankruptcy. He writes: Delphi CEO Robert S.
Today’s session with Yosri Fouda was fascinating. C-Span is re-playing the 2 hour segment tonight at 9:56 p.m. and then again at 1:52 a.m. (for those recently back from Asia). Fouda outlined, despite his characteristic modesty, some startling and important new observations about al Qaeda’s leadership.
Today, from 12 noon to 2 p.m. eastern, Al Jazeera’s star investigative journalist Yosri Fouda will be speaking about his views about the current struggle against terrorism, a potential split inside Al Qaeda leadership, and his view of American foreign policy. I will be moderating the program.
It’s clear that the world is absorbing a set of incredibly devastating natural disasters — the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the massive earthquake in December 2004 and December 2003 in Iran, the recent mudslides in Guatemala, the hurricanes in the Gulf (which pale in terms of lives lost but are on scale with general infrastructure…
I have no idea how this Valerie Plame leak investigation is going to come out. No one has inside information that is credible — because Fitzgerald does not leak. But he’s the sort who inspires all of us to understand that independent investigations mean independent. It’s fascinating to watch him operate.
Mohamed ElBaradei has just won the Nobel Peace Prize for his and his agency’s efforts trying to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. John Bolton must have a headache over this as ElBaradei was one of his targets when Bolton was Under Secretary of State.
Michael Moore has nothing to do with the following bit of news. Bush has been telling foreign leaders that God is talking to him and told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. Apparently, God also told Bush to get the Palestinians their state. Seriously. More later.
As one of the follow-on meetings from the recent mega-forum on America’s “Next Phase” response to terrorism, I will be moderating an event with Yosri Fouda on Monday at the New America Foundation. We will be posting a link to a digital recording of the session shortly after the meeting.
