1 Raindrop (Free subscription) | yesterday
A couple of years ago, I saw Tom Friedman talk in Minneapolis. It was around the 3rd edition of World is Flat, so he did a brief talk on that and then launched into what became his focus on green which he has been writing on for the last few years. It was a great talk and afterwards I remember asking the people who put it on if they did another series they should consider bringing in Tom Barnett.Well...
Real Clear Politics (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
Tom Friedman says he is waiting for Pakistanis to take to the streets to protest the heinous acts of their countrymen in Mumbai. Friedman writes that if the Pakistanis can gin up mass outrage over a few Danish cartoons, surely they can do something similar to send a signal to the radicals within their country [...]
Free Market Politics (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
The Respected Thomas Friedman has tipped Big Media's hand. From his piece in last Sunday's New York Times : " [...] If he can pull this off, and help that decent Iraq take root, Obama and the Democrats could not only end the Iraq war but salvage something positive from it. Nothing would do more to enhance the Democratic Party’s national security credentials than that ..." Got that? Barack Obama,...
Free Frank Warner (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The wonderful thing about columnist Tom Friedman is that he regularly reveals what his Democratic friends really believe about the liberation of Iraq (it was necessary and noble, and is a success), but he always throws in a line that...
TODAY ON VOT3R - Politics STORIES (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
With a new administration ascending to power in a matter of weeks, witnessing Beltway denizens desperately scampering to re-write their role in the last eight years is nothing short of dizzying: Tom Friedman, New York Times, today : I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect Iraq to have relations...
Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The live feed will be here or here. You must tune in on time if you want to hear me because I am giving the opening remarks. Former EPA administrator Carol Browner will also be participating in the event. Details here. Possibly more to come Monday morning.
Simplistic Art (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tom Friedman considers the reverse scenario (which I pray must not take place). After all, if 10 young Indians from a splinter wing of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party traveled by boat to Pakistan, shot up two hotels in Karachi and the central train station, killed at least 173 people, and then, for good measure, murdered the imam and his wife at a Saudi-financed mosque while they...
News to Cromley (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tom Friedman: On Feb. 6, 2006, three Pakistanis died in Peshawar and Lahore during violent street protests against Danish cartoons that had satirized the Prophet Muhammad. More such mass protests followed weeks later. When Pakistanis and other Muslims are willing to take to the streets, even suffer death, to protest an insulting cartoon published in Denmark, is it fair to ask: Who in the Muslim...
Right Voices (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
Tom Friedman asks in his New York Times column today On Feb. 6, 2006, three Pakistanis died in Peshawar and Lahore during violent street protests against Danish cartoons that had satirized the Prophet Muhammad. More such mass protests followed weeks later. When Pakistanis and other Muslims are willing to take to the streets, even suffer death, [...]
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
Tom Friedman: On Feb. 6, 2006, three Pakistanis died in Peshawar and Lahore during violent street protests against Danish cartoons that had satirized the Prophet Muhammad. More such mass protests followed weeks later. When Pakistanis and other Muslims are willing to take to the streets, even suffer death, to protest an insulting cartoon published in Denmark, is it fair to ask: Who in the Muslim...
ShrinkWrapped (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
... them that they were Malaysian students eager to learn about Judaism. The jury is still out on Tom Friedman, but all the elements are in place: Calling All Pakistanis On Feb. 6, 2006, three Pakistanis died in Peshawar and Lahore during violent street protests against Danish cartoons that had satirized the Prophet Muhammad. More such mass protests followed weeks later. When Pakistanis and...
Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
Click here. I thought it was a very good event. If you haven’t heard Tom Friedman, Governor Ed Rendell, or Carol Browner speak before, I highly recommend it. Here is the Center for American Progress’s “A Strategy for Green Recovery.” The jobs analysis is here.
Don Surber (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
In his column today, Tom Friedman of the New York Times pointed out that Iraq’s self-governance is looking like self-governance elsewhere.
Marc Gunther (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
After a long day on the conference circuit, I can report that the mood among business people is simultaneously grim (because of the economy) and hopeful (about the Obama administration and his economic team.) Today, I heard from, among others, Hank Paulson, Tom Friedman, Madeline Albright, management guru Jim Collins, Fred Smith (founder and CEO [...]
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
By Kate Sheppard Grist caught up with Tom Friedman, New York Times columnist and author of the recent book Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America , after his appearance on the " Green Recovery " panel at the Center for American Progress on Monday to chat about exactly that. His latest book calls for green economic stimulus, but for Friedman,...
