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Tuesday, Sep 9 2008 A conversation with Thomas L. Friedman about his book Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America.
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Continuing the past two Wednesday Nights' focus on Climate/Environmental Change Wed1309page2/a> and Wed1310page2 , we warmly (no pun intended) recommend Tom Friedman's long piece The power of green in the New York Times magazine For those who cannot access it, we have a copy in Word that we can forward on request. We would also point you in the direction of the ENN story Global Warming May Put U.S. in Hot Water that reconfirms the overwhelming importance of water to the survival of life on earth. For further discussion on the topic, we hope to have with us Désirée McGraw, just returned from Al Gore's "climate change boot camp".
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"I have the same reaction to this year’s energy proposals in the State of the Union that I had to last year’s. President Bush had the opportunity to launch America on a transformative new path for clean, efficient power. He had a chance for a “Nixon to China” moment — as the Texas oilman who leads us into a greener future. Instead, he gave us “Nixon to New Mexico” — right direction, but not nearly far enough."
(Friedman Jan 26)
December 20, 2006 Mideast Rules to Live
For a long time, I let my hopes for a decent outcome in Iraq triumph over what I had learned reporting from Lebanon during its civil war. Those hopes vanished last summer. So, I’d like to offer President Bush my updated rules of Middle East reporting, which also apply to diplomacy, in hopes they’ll help him figure out what to do next in Iraq.
Monday Nov 6, 2006 Insulting Our Troops, and Our Intelligence
NYT: Thomas L. Friedman's Column Audios
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Readers Respond to Thomas L. Friedman
The Op-Ed columnist wrote that the Bush administration is trying to distract voters from its real and deadly insults to the U.S. military.
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The World Is Flat
A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
The World Is Flat
A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
History of the world twenty years from now, and they
come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will
they say was the most crucial development? The attacks
on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war?
Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed
India, China, and so many other countries to become
part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing,
creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes
of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a
huge new stake in the success of globalization? And
with this "flattening" of the globe, which requires
us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the
world gotten too small and too fast for human beings
and their political systems to adjust in a stable
manner?
In this brilliant new book, the award-winning New
York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the
brave new world for readers, allowing them to make
sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding
before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to
translate complex foreign policy and economic issues,
Friedman explains how the flattening of the world
happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century;
what it means to countries, companies, communities,
and individuals; and how governments and societies
can, and must, adapt. The World Is Flat is the timely
and essential update on globalization, its successes
and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of
our most respected journalists.
10/30/06 Norman Solomon: Channeling Thomas Friedman,
Get ready for a special tour of a renowned outlook, conjured from the writings of syndicated New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. As the leading media advocate of “free trade” and “globalization,” he is expertly proficient at explaining the world to the world. If we could synthesize Friedman’s brain waves, the essential messages would go something like this:
see 57 min - May 22, 2006 Charlie Rose - An hour with New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman. He talks with guest host John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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