“Two weeks after a senior Pentagon official suggested that corporations should pressure their law firms to stop assisting detainees at Guantanamo Bay, major companies have turned the tables on the Pentagon and issued statements supporting the law firms’ work on behalf of terrorism suspects.”
No comment necessary except “deeeelicious.”
This was my favorite photo from the exuberant antiwar demonstration in DC on Saturday. Where is the Secret Service when you need them? (Probably out chasing down other 81 year olds who wrote vague letters to the editor).
I have another 10 photos (including a full size version of the above shot) from the demo here. Comments & caterwauling welcome at my blog here.
Barry Lando, author of Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush explains some of the history of that unfortunate land.
Barry Lando’s journalistic experience includes 25 years as a producer with CBS “60 Minutesâ€, which he left in 1997. Prior to that he was a correspondent for Time-Life in South America. He has also freelanced articles over the years for a large range of North American and European publications.
Lando received a B.A. magna in History at Harvard and an M.A. in political science from Columbia University. A Canadian citizen (born in Vancouver), he currently lives in Paris with his wife and 14 year old son. Two older children live and work in the U.S. and Canada.
The New America Foundation’s Steve Clemons discusses Lawrence Wilkerson, Flynt Leverett, Iran’s offer to do whatever they were told and how Cheney destroyed the opportunity to negotiate and whether the secret war against Iran and Syria has already begun.
Steven Clemons directs the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, which aims to promote a new American internationalism that combines a tough-minded realism about America’s interests in the world with a pragmatic idealism about the kind of world order best suited to America’s democratic way of life. He is also a Senior Fellow at New America, and previously served as Executive Vice President.
Publisher of the popular political blog The Washington Note, Mr. Clemons is a long-term policy practitioner and entrepreneur in Washington, D.C. He has served as Executive Vice President of the Economic Strategy Institute, Senior Policy Advisor on Economic and International Affairs to Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and was the first Executive Director of the Nixon Center.
Prior to moving to Washington, Mr. Clemons served for seven years as Executive Director of the Japan America Society of Southern California, and co-founded with Chalmers Johnson the Japan Policy Research Institute, of which he is still Director. He is a Member of the Board of the Clarke Center at Dickinson College, a liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pa., as well as an Advisory Board Member of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College in Chestertown, Md. He is also a Board Member of the Global Policy Innovations Program at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and a member of the board of the Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund.
Mr. Clemons writes frequently on matters of foreign policy, defense, and international economic policy. His work has appeared in many of the major leading op-ed pages, journal, and magazines around the world.
Frida Berrigan from the World Policy Institute about her article “Raptors, Robots and Rods from God” about the future of military weapons technology.
Frida Berrigan is a Senior Research Associate with the Arms Trade Resource Center of the World Policy Institute. A graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, Frida worked with a Central America solidarity organization for two years before coming to the World Policy Institute. Maintaining an interest in U.S. foreign policy towards Latin America, she also focuses on nuclear weapons policy, weapons sales to areas of conflict particularly in SE Asia, and military training programs. Most recently she has published articles in the Providence Journal, the Nonviolent Activist and the Hartford Courant.
Mesa City, Arizona Councilman, Tom Rawles explains that he is refusing to say the pledge of allegiance at council meetings to protest Bush’s troop surge. He’s been the recipient of death threats and police protection since taking this stance.
