Mikhail Gorbachev Supports US Withdrawal From Afghanistan (Video)
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 9th, 2009 5:47 am by HL
Mikhail Gorbachev Supports US Withdrawal From Afghanistan (Video)
Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN’s John King Sunday on State Of The…
Marcia Angell, M.D.: Is the House Health Care Bill Better than Nothing?
The House Health bill just throws good money after the bad. And because costs will keep rising, there is now a danger that people will conclude reform is impossible, when in reality, we still haven’t really tried.
Robert Kuttner: The Audacity to Change
If you look at what most historians regard as Kennedy’s finest hour, his leadership of the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, you appreciate that Kennedy above all had to face down most of his own advisers. Obama, like Kennedy, needs to overcome the dubious counsel of his own advisers, this time both economic and military. The president needs to listen to other voices, including his own. He had the audacity to run and to win. Now, will he have the audacity to learn and to lead?
Reese Schonfeld: “Informed Sources”: What Really Happened When Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin Got Into Upstate New York Politics
The latest tempest involved New York’s 23rd Congressional district, where the Republican candidate was forced out of the race because of her positions on gay and abortion rights.
Wall Street’s Record Bonuses Return: Analysts Predict $30 Billion In Bonuses At Big 3
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, are set…