Journal: One Good Idea, One Bad National Policy Process
With a tip of the hat to Jock Gill, former Communications specialist for President Bill Clinton, we point to a short ably illustrated post entitled A Path Towards Carbon Negative Heating
Journal: A Marine’s Eye-View of Afghanistan
11 August [sic] Tip of the hat to MILINET I received this from a friend who didn’t know that Mitch “Taco” Bell is the son of very good friends from my church. He is an airline pilot who was in the USMC reserves and several years ago volunteered to return to active duty and requested service …
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Journal: Hybrid Hybrid Hybrid–Learn this Word
A Lucky Hawk So Far Robert Gates, a success under George Bush, seeks to do even better under Barack Obama Napoleon, it is said, preferred a lucky general to a good one. Sitting in the E-ring of the cavernous Pentagon is a man who has shown himself to be both fortunate and skilful. These days …
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Journal: Coup in Qatar? Middle East Convergences…
U.S. Military Downplays Qatar Coup Rumors By Jeff Stein | August 5, 2009 Senior American military officials Wednesday threw cold water on reports of an attempted coup d’etat in Qatar, nerve center for the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. +++++++ Arab Websites Report On Failed Coup Attempt In Qatar Various Arab websites are …
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Journal: Chuck Spinney Flags Israel’s Use of Economic Strangulation (A Form of Genocide or Other Atrocity)
SANCTIMONEOUS HERESY: Right-wing Israelis demonstrate in Jabal Mukabber after hundreds ransacked the village in occupied East Jerusalem, destroying Palestinian property, March 2008. (Meged Gozani/Activestills) A third uprising? Gary M. Burge,The Electronic Intifada,3 August 2009 Gary M. Burge is professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in Chicago. He is author of Whose Land? Whose Promise? …
Journal: USA Has No China Strategy….
Tip of the hat to Sol Sanders for a pointed review of the USA’s lack of a China Strategy or the details that go with it. Below are just three short excerpts, followed by a Comment. . . . . . . . Given that the history of U.S.-China relations have always been rocky however …
Journal: Military says linguists can’t keep up in Afghanistan
PHOTO:David Guttenfelder/The Associated Press Josh Habib, far left, a 53-year-old translator for the U.S. Marines, speaks with Afghan villagers and two Marines in the Nawa district of Helmand province. By JASON STRAZIUSO Associated Press writer July 26, 2009 6:00 AM NAWA, Afghanistan — Josh Habib lay in a dirt field, gasping for air. Two days …
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