Wednesday-Night

If you didn’t see the following from American Diplomacy on 6 November, it may be of interest.
DTJ

The author, who has been published frequently by American Diplomacy, returned recently from a visit to Easter Island and discusses below some of the theories about that mysterious South Pacific isle. He seeks to […]

31 October 2007
Hobgoblins, bats, black cats and jack o’ lanterns may not be present, (depending on your views of the other habitués of Wednesday Night) but there will be a steaming brew of stimulating thought in the company of David Kilgour, Kimon Valaskakis, Hans Black, and Beryl […]

FREE TRADE IN WASHINGTON:
ALL POLITICS, ALL THE TIME
David T. Jones

If all politics are local, then in Washington, all trade is politics. Twenty years after the FTA and 15 years after the NAFTA, former US diplomat David Jones looks at the results and prospects for free trade from Washington, where lobbyists and […]

This is perhaps interesting, but is only one perspective on many topics in the book.
David Kilgour
Symbiosis: We have energy, the U.S. can defend us
Barbara Yaffe, Vancouver Sun
September 22, 2007
A compelling dynamic increasingly is at play in Canada-U.S. relations: Symbiosis.
The United States is going to find itself more and more […]

What Nobody Cares to Hear and Rarely Bothers to
Report Is the Thoroughly Mundane Nature of the SPP
by DAVID JONES
The Aug. 20 to 21 Montebello summit was most important for being held. Although there are real problems confronting the North American continent, from drug wars to border security […]

15 August 2007
This Wednesday we will have David Kilgour, long-serving (May 1979 until January 2006) Member of Parliament for the southeastern area of Edmonton, and his wife Laura as very special guests. In addition to serving as an MP (and in the Chrétien government as Secretary of State for Latin America & Africa, later for […]

The following appeared in the 1 August edition of Embassy
Will the Next Presidential Candidates Please Stand Up
By David Jones

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 2008 U.S. presidential election is the Democrats’ to lose. Not that parties haven’t managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the past, but a variety of historical, political, and […]

Monday, July 9, 2007

A VIEW FROM WASHINGTON, D.C

The Media and the Prime Minister:
How Poisonous Are Relations?
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Harper believes inter alia that the scrums previously held after
Cabinet closed-doors sessions were hare and hounds exercises
with the media operating under ‘survival of the rudest’ rules.
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By David Jones
[…]

Terry and David Jones OWNs will be with us this week from Washington, as they are on their annual pilgrimage to Canada (or at least Ottawa and Montreal) to take our pulse, find out whether we are still alive and if so, have we mended our ways and stopped criticizing the Great Neighbor to the […]

May 23, 2008
America needs to lean much harder on Afghanistan’s President Karzai
IN CONVENTIONAL wisdom it is the “good war” that was neglected to wage the bad one in Iraq. Afghanistan’s Taliban regime had provided al-Qaeda with a haven and refused after the attacks of September 11th to give its leaders up. When America invaded there […]