We needed his expertise, grit and experience. RIP . A man who served honorably and productively. His family should be proud. A life well lived God speed, Richard Holbrooke
It is somewhat difficult to avoid the increasingly strident levels of “debate” here in the US as we hurtle toward the mid-term elections. The extreme right seems ascendant and is certainly dominating the headlines. We are seeing some apparently bizarre candidates look as though they might
This says it all. The disparity of the world picture form the left to the right, the secular to the religious, the liberal to the Tea Party, the xenophobe to the internationalist is all here in this humorous little drawing. There is sometimes great insight in humor! Don't know who made it, but
This may well be one of those articles that ends up with me in hot water. The thought process arose from listening to a recent BBC interview with Australian author, Peter Carey. Carey is a long time resident and a big fan of New York, but the interviewer pushed him to give an opinion on America
Firstly, the apologies for being so quiet for a few months. I decided I had other things to focus on, but now that summer is drawing toward an end it is time to recommence the observations and analysis. Regular readers will know that we are skeptics about the talking points on the immigration de
It is hard to know whether to laugh or cry when you read the rhetoric about immigration in the US media. It is of course natural for a country to exhibit some symptoms of xenophobia at a time of economic stress; that's the normal blame game. The populist mantra of ‘they are taking our jobs and
It fascinates me that some cling to securing the borders as a panacea to return the US to peace and prosperity. It is actually an inversion of the reality. The US becomes richer due to internationalization, and globalization is not a trend that can be reversed by a state or Federal legislature.
Today in my “real job” I was working with a colleague on our Twitter strategy. I have an account for the Daily Clarity of course, but haven’t really figured out the value in it. Twitter is just one of those things I just don’t get. I have email. I have SMS text messaging. I have Facebook
I am not too surprised but still saddened by the news that CNN correspondent Michael Ware - famous for his gritty and blunt reporting of the Iraq War- is on either a leave of absence or gone from CNN depending on who is reporting. I was lucky enough to meet Michael (Mick) last year at a small,
The recent Arizona immigration clamp down has divided the nation. There are those who favor labor mobility, globalization, racial sensitivity and employment supply-demand equilibriums. Of course, as in any argument, there are those who oppose - some rationally, some not. On both sides, there are
I am a big fan of Lal Meri – another example of hybrid-vigor that international fusion produces. Lal Meri is a band that at a simplistic level fuses Indian and Western music through an eclectic blend of shifting artists, electronic equipment and ethnic instruments. It is more impactful than th
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. Martin Luther King, Jr
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