Old Lobbies Prevent New Energy Policies
WASHINGTON – A while ago, a former high ranking Republican technocrat, senior staff member in many administrations, almost casually indicated...
Category: Security
The US Senate Ratified START
WASHINGTON – And so president Obama managed to have the US Senate ratify by a reasonable margin the new...
The War in Afghanistan Goes On
WASHINGTON – The much waited for progress report on the US war in Afghanistan came and went without sparking any...
Time to Get Real in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama just made a surprise visit to the US troops in Afghanistan and thanked them...
The “Debt Commission” Has Gone Home
WASHINGTON – I recently expressed unconditional praise for Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the two gutsy co-chairs of the...
Bowles-Simpson to America: Cut Spending Now
WASHINGTON – The American debt crisis is deep and real, requiring urgent measures. What is at stake here is...
America Has Got Natural Gas!
WASHINGTON – A Recent, (November 14, 2010), segment of the popular CBS TV program 60 Minutes was devoted to...
How To Fix America: A Massive R&D Effort
WASHINGTON – Fareed Zakaria wrote a thought provoking cover story essay in TIME magazine, (“How to Restore the American...
Needed: A US National Consensus on Debt Reduction
WASHINGTON – America is facing death by garrote-like, slow fiscal strangulation. Overtime, Washington piled up debt levels that beat...
Fast Trains for America?
WASHINGTON – The US is terribly late in grasping the advantages of high speed rail as a more efficient...