Iraq has Oil & Afghanistan has America: Obama Must Change Up the Game
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 14th, 2011 4:34 am by HL
Iraq has Oil & Afghanistan has America: Obama Must Change Up the Game
One of the lines working around the Middle East and South Asia is that “Iraq has oil, and Afghanistan has the U.S.” The budget showdown looming in Washington now, threatening to shut down the government on Friday seems to hardly…
New Economic Thinking Conference to Shatter Illusion of Control
(Steve Clemons and Joseph Stiglitz sitting in the private apartments of John Maynard Keynes, Kings College, Cambridge University; April 2010) Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and I attended last year one of those conferences that decades from now historical societies…
Goldstone Flinched For Reason So Many Progressive Jews Do: Social Pressure
A terrific article in the Jewish Forward today explains what was behind Judge Richard Goldstone’s decision to amend his original findings on the Gaza war: social pressure. The article describes how Goldstone’s community in Johannesburg summoned Goldstone to a meeting…
