... more media attention. Arguing in favor of the motion is CNN personality and Newsweek columnist FareedZakaria, joined by scholars Andres Martin and Jeffrey A. Miron. Their opposition will be former Mexican foreign minister and political scientist Jorge Castañeda, NRA director Chris W. Cox, and former DEA director Asa Hutchinson. Like all the Intelligence Squared Debates this year,...
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came away from talks at the White House reassured about U.S. policy in Asia, according to foreign affairs analyst FareedZakaria.
FareedZakaria notes the same irritating passage in the leaked Gen. McChrystal Afghanistan report, ‘countermeasures’ being a euphemism for blowing up embassies and massacring Mumbaikars in the streets (via @a_blank_slate):In South Asia, the U.S. is the #1 patsy … Gen. Stanley McChrystal warned that “increasing Indian influence in Afghanistan is likely to exacerbate...
A couple weeks ago Newsweek published FareedZakaria's piece: Is America Losing Its Mojo? Innovation is as American as baseball and apple pie. But some traditions can't be trademarked. *photo from Newsweek (from left: Bettmann-Corbis: LOC-Corbis; Alfred Eisenstaedt / Getty Images; Jennifer Corbett / AP; Michael Grecco / Getty Images) This was an interesting and insightful article that...
Foreign Policy comes out with its list of Top 100 Global Thinkers. 11 Muslims make the list (I was liberal with my definition of Muslim but did not include those who have publicly stated they are not Muslims so I did include FareedZakaria but not Ayaan Hirsi Ali). To avoid people having to page through the [...] a
One of the smartest shows on television as far as Sara and I are concerned is FareedZakaria’s GPS. This past Sunday he had the chief poobah from Google, Eric Schmidt, in the studio for an interview. Their conversation began around internet security and the info that Google as a company collects from its users. Then they veered into finding information on the intertubes of all things...
Hu's head is the biggest Foreign Policy magazine has compiled a list of ' top 100 global thinkers '. They got 63 of them to participate in a survey, blurbed thusly: Want to know what former President Bill Clinton, Gen. David Petraeus, three Nobel Prize-winners, best-selling authors such as Thomas Friedman and FareedZakaria, and thought leaders from China and Canada to India and Indonesia...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [ ] hopes that the United States will help India [ ] get the official status of a nuclear weapons state, given its impeccable record in the field of non-proliferation. "Well, I hope it will happen," he told FareedZakaria [ ] of the CNN when asked if he thinks that the US should try to press the issue and have India brought into the system as a nuclear weapons...
I just finished Vali Nasr’s Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World. Very much in the mold of FareedZakaria’s The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. Nasr is the author of The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will [...]
... on the official White House invitation list were Robin Roberts of ABC, as well as Sanjay Gupta and FareedZakaria of CNN. (Although it was implied on air, ABC's Claire Shipman was not on the list.) General Electric (and thus NBC) CEO Jeff Immelt was also on the list. There were also print journalists who made the White House list: Thomas Friedman of the New York Times and Raju Narisetti...
... for Middle East peace. And Rep. David Obey (D-WI) gets the “Last Word” on the health care debate. FareedZakaria – GPS: More with Maziar Bahari , the Newsweek reporter who spent four months in a prison in Tehran. Plus, Eric Schmidt , the CEO of Google. Fox News Sunday: Afghanistan: Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ)., and Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN). Health care, Afghanistan party politics: Howard Dean...
We told you earlier that President Obama would address the nation from West Point next Tuesday at 8pmET on his Afghanistan plans. We're beginning to hear how the networks and cable will cover the primetime address. • CBS: Katie Couric will anchor CBS' live broadcast at 8pmET. • CNN: Wolf Blitzer , joined by CNN's Campbell Brown , Anderson Cooper , John King , Christiane Amanpour , Fareed...
This is a guest post by David Adler. “My children were crying on top of my wife’s body.” That’s one of many quotes from survivors featured in “Terror in Mumbai,” a new HBO documentary narrated by FareedZakaria. It’s solidly in the running for the most profoundly disturbing hour of television I’ve ever seen. Now, a year [...]
WASHINGTON – An American journalist of Indian origin Monday denounced the report of US top commander in Afghanistan voicing concerns over expanding India's involvement in the war-torn country, saying New Delhi's intelligence operations there were limited. “This is a bizarre criticism,” wrote FareedZakaria, editor of Newsweek International, in The...
