The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008 | Politics
Thomas P.M. Barnett worries about the drift toward conflict after the Iran missile test: On the Israeli side, better to get it done before Obama takes the oath. Ditto for Ahmadinejad, strangely enough. No point in having your best enemy...
Atlantic Review (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Thomas P.M. Barnett has a column in the Knoxville News Sentinel in which he reports on the mood of government officials in the Netherlands. There are a lot of interesting angles in the article -- for instance on McCain's 'League of Democracies' , which the Dutch do not appreciate, and on European worries about trade rhetoric by Obama, which would be overblown as Obama is pivoting to the centre faster...
Chicago Boyz (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
In a recent post on the Thomas PM Barnett Weblog, Tom laments the Irish people voting against the Lisbon Treaty: It is weird how the EU can let one country decide to run a plebiscite and then kill a treaty. Better is majority like we did with the Constitution. (I might add that the Constitution wasn’t adopted [...]
Outside the Beltway (Free subscription) | yesterday
Commenting on a recentish NYT report on foreign fighters flooding into Pakistan to support al Qaeda and Taliban militants, Thomas Barnett observes, Spray one apartment and the bugs move over to the next. Wherever there’s the least resistance or the most opportunity, you find them clustered. The Anbar awakening ruins al Qaeda’s long-term chances in Iraq, and so the clustering refocuses on...
Outside the Beltway (Free subscription) | yesterday
Commenting on a recentish NYT report on foreign fighters flooding into Pakistan to support al Qaeda and Taliban militants, Thomas Barnett observes, Spray one apartment and the bugs move over to the next. Wherever there’s the least resistance or the most opportunity, you find them clustered. The Anbar awakening ruins al Qaeda’s long-term chances in Iraq, and so the clustering refocuses on...
Global Dashboard (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Thomas Schweich, previously the Bush administration’s Afghan drugs “czar” has made a big splash in the New York Times by claiming that President Hamid Karzai supports the drugs trade and that aerial eradication of the crop is the only way ahead: An odd cabal of timorous Europeans, myopic media outlets, corrupt Afghans, blinkered Pentagon officers, politically [...]
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Thomas Barnett of Strike Anywhere sat down for a lengthy interview with French website, Bang Bang . (Though the site is French, the interview itself is in English.) Thomas discusses everything from the recent American Hardcore film to the future of recorded music, at least for Strike Anywhere: Seems like labels and bands are scrambling to find the gravity in their lives, to figure out what can make...
Journal (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
(h/t Thomas Barnett ) It's fascinating how almost every negative economic or environmental development is followed by some reporter or commenter predicting doom. We're doomed because of global warming, doomed because of "overpopulation," doomed because of rising oil prices, etc. Isn't this paranoia? Anyway, people are predicting "doom" for China because the cost of transportation of manufactured goods...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Celebrating the Successful Launch of the Journal of the Global Stability Industry WASHINGTON, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- EEI Communications will host a launch party to celebrate the successful launch of its new publication, Serviam Magazine, on Thursday, July 24 in Washington, DC. The magazine's Editor-in-Chief is Michael Waller, PhD, who has worked as a contract instructor for U.S.-backed insurgents...
I, Hans. (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The most vigorous glass-half-full reading by two key architects of the surge (Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog): The mission to deny Iranian influence in Iraq was lost the minute we toppled Saddam.
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
ARTICLE: Iran: The Threat, By Thomas Powers, New York Review of Books, Volume 55, Number 12, July 17, 2008 Here's the part about Tom: Until his resignation in March, Fallon often contradicted and undermined the tough talk of the administration,...
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
In a lengthy interview which saw Thomas Barnett talking about human rights festivals, fans' ideals, political agendas, the boring life of selfishness, the beauty of Peggy's Cove and more, Barnett noted the band's upcoming recording plans: Since none of us live in the same cities anymore, it would be [nearly] impossible to get together and rehearse and write for too long. So I think it works. We're...
Global Guerrillas (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
"Hopefully, this event (the Iranian test firing of intermediate rang missiles), it will serve as a catalyst that will finally gel all of the different factors that have been out there that will allow us then to act with our...
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
ARTICLE: The counterterrorism paradox, BY BRIAN BURTON, Armed Forces Journal, June 2008 Here's the main part that references Tom: The strategic objective of these campaigns has been akin to Thomas P.M. Barnett’s recommendation in “The Pentagon’s New Map” that the...
Phil Windley's Technometria (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
David Eaves posted a piece overlaying the Firefox 3 Pledge Map and Thomas Barnett's map that divides the world into the "the functioning core" and the "non-integrated gap." As you might expect, there's a high correlation. People in the...
