This is a guest note by Barbara Slavin, freqent TWN contributor and author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S. and the Twisted Path to Confrontation. Slavin has visited Iran seven times.
An excellent “committee report” has just been released by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee majority staff that condemns the operations and management of Radio and TV Marti.
From May 10-14, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai will be visiting Washington — and much of his trip has been structured by the team working for Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke in coordination with Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes.
Be all that you can be. I love this video. These soldiers are in Afghanistan — blowing off steam. Creative. They would be awesome entertainment at next year’s White House Correspondents Dinner. Drop the comic stuff. President Obama has that covered.
It really is true. Barack Obama can staff himself better on nearly all fronts than those who staff him — even comedians.
Academy Award winning director Alex Gibney — who is in town and will be attending the White House Correspondents Dinner tonight as a guest of the Washington Post — is in release mode for his next big documentary achievement, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, that doesn’t just focus on the shenanigans of…
(Photo Credit: Cedricd’s Photostream) International Crisis Group/Turkey/Cyprus Project Research Assistant Didem Akyel has a candid appraisal over at World Politics Review of the Turkish Cypriot elections earlier this month, which resulted in a victory for the hard-line candidate Dervis Eroglu.
This is a guest note by John McAuliff. McAuliff is Executive Director of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development and a regular blogger at The Havana Note, where this post originally appeared.
(Photo Credit: Robert Scoble’s Photostream) New America Foundation/Economic Growth Program Policy Analyst Samuel Sherraden has written a compelling, concise analysis of the decline in China’s trade surplus during the first quarter of this year.
Jonathan Guyer is a program associate at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force and the official cartoonist of The Washington Note. He blogs at Mideast by Midwest.
