Posted in daily notes on July 31, 2007 | No Comments »
The day’s catch
NOT SO FAST… - The Boston Globe
www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/07/2…
They’ve got the money, the momentum, and what looks like history on their side. But a Democratic victory in 2008 is no sure thing.
By David Greenberg
Such a strategy may help win the party’s nomination. But in the fall of 2008, with war, [...]
Posted in politics on July 28, 2007 | No Comments »
The dems need to propose what a full diplomacy and security strategy would look like, and who could do it. Do we have the skilled and knowledgeable staff?
The upside of this latest tiff between Senators Clinton and Obama is that it is starting to force candidates, and hopefully the broader public, to start thinking about [...]
Posted in Iran on July 27, 2007 | No Comments »
The LA Times reports that Baghdadis are down to one or two hours of electricity a day, but that the Bush administration will no longer be measuring or reporting on that sort of local data. It will give Congress only the general statistic for the entire country. But obviously whether the capital has electricity would [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Gates expresses regret for aide’s attack on Clinton.
In a new letter to Sen. Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates apologizes for Under Secretary of Defense Eric Edelman’s recent attacks on her. He writes, “I emphatically assure you that [the Defense Department does] not claim, suggest, or otherwise believe that congressional oversight emboldens our enemies, nor [...]
Posted in US now on July 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Corrupt and undemocratic practices by the CIA have prevailed since it was created in 1947. However, US citizens have now, for the first time, been given a striking range of critical information necessary to understand how this situation came about and why it has been impossible to remedy. We have a long, richly documented history [...]
Posted in Iran, Major posts, US now, islam on July 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Jon Cohen and Dan Balz write in The Washington Post: “Most Americans see President Bush as intransigent on Iraq and prefer that the Democratic-controlled Congress make decisions about a possible withdrawal of U.S. forces, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. . . .
“[B]y a large margin, Americans trust Democrats rather than the [...]
Posted in Iran, US now on July 24, 2007 | No Comments »
A change of US plan for PakistanThe Pakistani Supreme Court standing up to President General Pervez Musharraf was not a part of the US-envisaged plan, and Washington has quickly had to rewrite the script. Ideas of a united “moderate center” with a former premier at the core are in the bin. Expect a US military [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Contrary to popular presumption, US real money mangers are the biggest dollar diversifiers, not the Asian central banks. My calculations show that cumulative outflows may have totaled US$1.16 trillion in the past four years. This may help explain the downward drift in the dollar in recent years, and why the dollar is so weak now.
Morgan [...]
Posted in Iran, US now, daily notes on July 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I do believe that there is a need in this country, both psychically and politically, to create enemies for the domestic population to focus on, and it’s better if these enemies are of - how might I put this? - a darker hue. For a while, with incidents like the case of Wen Ho Lee [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Will we ever get the Cheney story? Is it him who puls his off, and gets us to attack Iran? This is one of the most bizarre episodes in american histoy. Only Burr’s attempt to take over the US from the south rivals it.
KBR, formerly a division of Halliburton, has received $20 bn. in mostly [...]
