Women's Lens (Free subscription) | yesterday
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: November 7, 2009 The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become a bad play. It is obvious that all the parties are just acting out the same old scenes, with the same old tired clichés — and that no one believes any of it anymore. There is no romance, no sex, no excitement, no urgency — not even a sense of
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | yesterday
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN NYT The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become a bad play. It is obvious that all the parties are just acting out the same old scenes, with the same old tired clichés — and that no one believes any of it anymore. There is no romance, no sex, no excitement, no urgency — not even a sense of importance anymore. The only thing driving the peace process...
The American Conservative (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
At Hit & Run, Matt Welch points out a classic piece of so-bad-it’s-actually-quite-weird journalism, from that mustachioed hippopotamus of globo-lib twaddle, Thomas L Friedman: How is it that a president who has taken on so many big issues, with very specific policies — and has even been awarded a Nobel Prize for all the hopes he [...]
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
As we debate how many more troops to dispatch to Afghanistan, it might be a good time to also debate just how far we've already gone in hiring private contractors to do jobs that the State Department, Pentagon and CIA once did on their own, writes columnist Thomas L. Friedman.
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
From Thomas L. Friedman/The New York Times: In 2003, I was on a trip to Iraq and had arranged an appointment in the Green Zone with a member of the then-Iraqi Governing Council. Security was tight. I was with my Iraqi translator, a middle-aged man who had once been a teacher. When we arrived at the council, after a long walk, I showed my ID to two young uniformed U.S. soldiers. They told...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Jacob Sullum's great column this morning on President Obama's broken tax pledge, and his brazen way of abusing the English language in order to falsely insist that he hasn't and won't continue to break it, reminds me of a laughable but unfortunately typical op-ed this weekend from the New York Times ' Thomas L. Friedman. Excerpt: How is it that a president who has taken on so many big...
Moving at the Speed of Creativity (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... Landscape by Harm De Blij The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman Creativity and Innovation in Chinese Society and Schools (my post 3 Nov 2009) The dilemma presented by China’s content filtering of my current handouts website (my post 1 Nov 2009) Center for Digital Storytelling My notes for Joe Lambert’s 21st Century Learning @ West...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN NYT In 2003, I was on a trip to Iraq and had arranged an appointment in the Green Zone with a member of the then-Iraqi Governing Council. Security was tight. I was with my Iraqi translator, a middle-aged man who had once been a teacher. When we arrived at the council, after a long walk, I showed my ID to two young uniformed U.S. soldiers. They told me to wait, went...
