GlobalTalk 21

I have been “mistaken,” “misled,” “misrepresented,” and been “unaccountably in error,”
and am sorry if you have been offended

Showing posts with label Middle East. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Middle East. Show all posts

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Fareed Zakaria Plays to the Crowd

In his Newsweek essay entitled “Change We Can’t Believe in” , Fareed Zakaria casts a skeptical eye at Pakistan’s newfound seriousness in fi...

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Italian Cruise Ship Repels Pirates with Gunfire

That’s what the NYT headline to this Reuters wire says. Now it quotes Andrew Mwangura of the Mombasa-based East African Sea Farers Assist...

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Woulda, Coulda, Shouldn’a? No.1 Foreign Policy Priority in a Gore Administration

From Reuters : Lieberman praises pastor repudiated by McCain : … Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent who frequently campaigns wit...

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Asahi Reports on NYT Reports on Iranian Missile Launch: Shouldn’t Meta-Reporting Be Done More Cheaply?

This morning’s Asahi reports on a July 10 New York Times online report on the two near-identical photos of the Iranian missile launch; on...

Sunday, April 27, 2008

More on Latest Revelations over North Korea-Syria Nuclear Ties

Siegfried Knittel sends me this post on the blog China Matters and wants to know what I make of the speculation “that Kim Jung Il revealed...

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Japan Consistently Bucks US on the Palestinian Question. Will It Distance Itself Elsewhere in the Middle East and Beyond?

The Jewish Virtual Library provides a list of US vetoes of UN Security Council resolutions critical of Israel between 1972-2006. According ...

Friday, January 11, 2008

Look What the President of the United States Can Do If He Puts His Mind to It

Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity: before , after . Let’s hope he can work the same magic on the Jews and the Moslems.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

When Is History History? (The U.S.H.R. Resolutions)

And here a terrible spectacle displayed itself: the women first cast their infants down the cliff, and then they cast themselves after their...

Saturday, September 22, 2007

North Korea's Impeccable Sense of Timing

Talks Held between WPK and Syrian Political Party Pyongyang, September 21 (KCNA) -- Talks were held between Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the ...

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About Me

Jun Okumura: After graduation, Jun Okumura promptly entered what is now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and stayed in in its ecosystem most of his “adult” life. Along the way, he had pleasant stops in an assortment of Japanese quangos (Japangos?), overseas assignments and government agencies. After thirty years, though, it dawned on him that he had no aptitude whatsoever for administration and/or management. Armed with this epiphany, he went to the authorities and arranged an amicable separation; to come out, as it were. He is completely on his own IYKWIAS, but he and the METI folks remain “good friends.” He currently holds the titles of “visiting researcher” at the Meiji Institute for Global Affairs (no, that MIGA) and counselor at a risk analysis firm that dares not speak its name. This gives him plenty of time to blog or make money on his own. His bank account says that he does too much of the first, and insists that he do more of what he calls “intellectual odd jobs”. He wants to be paid to write fulltime, or better, talk—where the easy money is—but that distinction has largely escaped him. He really should not be referring to himself in the third person; he is not that famous.

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