Rob Kall, 11.23.2009
Host, Bottom-up Radio Show WNJC 1360, publisher, OpEdNews.com and Futurehealth.org
We have to wonder if the US had taken Hummer, especially with its dependence on the military version, and turned it into a government-owned operation, would the US benefit?
Eric C. Anderson, 11.23.2009
Eric C. Anderson is a national security consultant
We have much to learn from Beijing. The Chinese Communist Party wisely crafted a stimulus plan that called for up to 75% of spending be financed by banks and state-owned enterprises -- not the central government.
Leon T. Hadar, 11.23.2009
Journalist and foreign affairs analyst
As Obama contemplates a new strategy for Afghanistan, he should consider integrating the conservative values of fiscal discipline and limited government into his foreign policy decision-making.
Patrick Takahashi, 11.23.2009
On to the Blue Revolution
The American debt as a percentage of GDP is at around 100%, which is expected to edge up to 101% in 2011, then begin to drop. However, Japan's debt as a percentage of GDP will go to 230%!
John Feffer, 11.20.2009
Co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus
Critics of the Obama administration were delighted at the images from the president's recent trip to Asia. There was the deep bow before the emperor A...
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 11.20.2009
Editors of Simple Intelligence
The Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs:
Increased Tension Over Iran's Program
SI Analysis: After an IAEA report suggests that Iran's rece...
Inez Moore Tenenbaum, 11.20.2009
Chairman, Consumer Product Safety Commission
Fortunately, this year, you can holiday shop for your child or grandchild with more confidence than ever before. That's because there are new rules on your side and the side of America's children.
The Media Consortium, 11.20.2009
Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations
By Raquel Brown, Media Consortium Blogger
Last weekend in Singapore, President Barack Obama acknowledged that a comprehensive international climate d...
Dan Persons, 11.20.2009
Film Journalist
The short form would be that John Woo rediscovered himself in returning to China, but that really doesn't capture what's going on. Woo made his name w...
Shawn Amos, 11.20.2009
Pop Culture Pundit and Host of 'Retro Minute'
I was watching Obama speak to those Shanghai students during his big Asia trip, and suddenly I remembered my '80s high school Spanish class. My teache...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen, 11.19.2009
Co-Hosts, Green News Report
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Scientists warn while Americans yawn; Climate Thunder Down Under: it's fire season again in Australia, while their debate ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 11.19.2009
America will not win the arms race of the 21st century with rockets, but with robust investment in and support of U.S.-based green technology. While Congress dawdles, China is clobbering us.
Peter Bosshard, 11.19.2009
International Rivers, Policy Director
Scientists agree that dams can trigger earthquakes. A new paper presents evidence that the devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan Province in 2008, was triggered by the Zipingpu Dam.
Eric Lotke, 11.19.2009
Research Director at the Campaign for America's Future and author of 2044
While Obama posed for photos on the Great Wall and talked about a relationship "at an all-time high," China continues to take our lunch money.
Leo W. Gerard, 11.19.2009
President, United Steelworkers International
Washington has doled out hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to foreign renewable energy firms, which compete with and run all over fledgling U.S. firms that were supposed to get the money.
Leon T. Hadar, 11.19.2009
Journalist and foreign affairs analyst
The aftermath of 9/11 led to a US foreign policy fixation on terrorist roots in the Mideast. Meanwhile, the Pacific Rim got the cold shoulder, alienating friends in the region and damaging strategic interests.
Jesse Jenkins, 11.20.2009
Director of Energy and Climate Policy, Breakthrough Institute
A major new report released today is the first to comprehensively benchmark the competitiveness positions of the United States and key Asian challengers in the global clean energy race.
Matt Browner Hamlin, 11.18.2009
Writer, activist, organizer.
President Obama, with all due respect... and I recognize that there is indeed a lot of respect due, I write to tell you that you can do better.
David A. Love, 11.21.2009
Writer and human rights advocate based in Philadelphia
President Obama's visit to Asia showed how long a journey it's been since the 1955 Bandung Conference, the historic meeting of African and Asian states striving for self-determination.
Michael Wolff, 11.18.2009
Author of Newser.com's Off the Grid column
For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot like the Chin...
Alison van Diggelen, 11.18.2009
Host, FreshDialogues.com
"Climate change is the mother of all externalities ... left without any government intervention, we're going to par-boil the planet," says Krugman.