/ BARAK / 144 was off the agenda. The diplomatic process with the Palestinians was stalemated. I could see no point in remaining in the government. Like my last period in Olmert’s government, my final few months were dominated by finding a way to end Hamas attacks from Gaza. Du...
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/ BARAK / 105 Yet the turnout was the lowest in Israeli history. Arik received fewer votes than I had in 1999. Around half of the 1.8 million people who had supported me stayed at home. I conceded defeat after the first exit polls and said I would be stepping down as head of th...
CNN Robert Lawrence Kuhn / RLK: Everybody is pleased that there is the pause; 90 days is very short, of course. We have to look at the short-term, mid-term, and long- term. Let’s look at the background to understand where China is today. This is the 40% year, the anniversary, of...
…onymous bloggers, tweeters, website operators and whistleblowers to disclose classified information, state secrets and other material the government would prefer to keep under wraps. I have represented people I love, people I hate and people I don’t give a damn about—good guys,...
military/security companies in state courts "because the comprehensive regulatory scheme enacted by Congress and the President grant military contractors like Blackwater immunity from state-court litigation." (pp. 234-235, Blackwater). (Author Ken Davis writes) "The four men had...
BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians up’ the agreement between British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler that resulted in Germany's seizure of parts and eventually all of Czecho- slovakia. This clearly falsified the h...
…t Research. Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg. Italy: Concerns about Italy have risen to peak levels since the election of a populist government in May and credit default swaps have increased to reflect these higher risks. The government’s expansive fiscal plan, with...
in the pages of The Atlantic Monthly that he would not “publish any future work of mine which may do damage in the hands of irresponsible militarists.”°° He remained ambivalent about the transformative power of new technologies, indulging in neither the boundless hype nor the dig...
…e trip to China arranged by Jimmy Wong. 8 Mattis, Peter. “Contrasting China and Russia’s Influence Operations.” War on the Rocks. January 2018. https://warontherocks.com/2018/01/contrasting-chinas-russias-influence-operations. 9 See Foreign Travel Paid for by a Foreign Governme...
4.2.12 WC: 191694 We then discussed “The Front” and I told him that my father knew Zero Mosel—the star of the film—whose relative had a store on the lower east side near my father’s. We discussed “blacklisting,” “McCarthyism” and other subjects in which we shared a common intere...
32 But the idea of liberal democracy — the U.S. is not the only exemplar of liberal democracy — [remains]. It’s a powerful idea that would exist independently of whether the U.S. is hegemonic or not. I’m not as scared of a world without American hegemony as some people are. We...
…sought my help, which I was pleased to give. Eventually, he was cleared of all charges and continued to practice law in the newly united Germany. Human rights in Israel A human rights case that surely tested my commitment to universal rights involved an Arab-Israeli who was acc...
encouraging investment over consumption and plowback over dividends, particularly in the last half century, have led to dangerous overinvestment in the private sector. The empty eyesores and bulldozer bills of 2008 are symptoms of pro- investment policies founded in many countrie...
…Lawrence Kuhn, December 3, 2018 1 Host Richard Quest: Robert Lawrence Kuhn is a longtime advisor to Chinese leaders and the author of How China’s Leaders Think. How will they be interpreting the deal that was done on Friday? 2 Robert Lawrence Kuhn / RLK: Everybody is pleased that...
202 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS he was too deeply compromised to quit. He continued his espionage work for another eight years. (Whitworth, who was arrested by the FBI in 1985, was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 365 years in prison. ) The Internet provided an almost...