Nina Hachigian writes a very <a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8dd2ecfe-88d0-405d-af94-6b17bd723ed7">thoughtful essay</a> in <em>The New Republic</em>
Via Michael Tomasky, an interview with veteran UN negotiator Lakhdar Brahimi, on how the latter would advise President-elect Obama to deal with the crisis in Gaza.He said that he will pay attention to
I want the next president to turn his/her back on corporate America and serve for the good of the American people. I feel so strongly that for anyone to attain the highest office,they must now sell their soul to the devil(corporations) so many times over that by the time they are in office their focus is on the needs of big business and the individual becomes absent through out the process.