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	Washington Week . Thomas Friedman \| PBS
		Thomas Friedman was born in Minneapolis on July 20, 1953.
		Friedman was transferred from Beirut to Jerusalem, where he served as the Times' Israel bureau chief until February 1988, when he was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship to write a book about his reflections on the Middle East.
		Friedman shifted to domestic politics and was appointed chief White House correspondent.
	www.pbs.org /weta/washingtonweek/aroundthetable/friedman.html (526 words)

	Thomas Friedman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Loren Friedman, OBE (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist, columnist, author and three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, currently working as an op-ed contributor for The New York Times.
		Friedman is known for supporting a compromise peace between Israel and the Palestinians, modernization of the Arab world, environmental issues and globalization, while sometimes remarking on their potential pitfalls to the United States economy and society.
		In November 1978, Friedman married economist Ann Bucksbaum, a native of Des Moines and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Friedman (2412 words)

	Columnist Biography: Thomas L. Friedman - New York Times
		Friedman was transferred from Beirut to Jerusalem, where he served as Israel bureau chief until 1988.
		Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel).
		Friedman's latest book, "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century," was released in April 2005 and won the inaugural Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book of the Year award.
	www.nytimes.com /ref/opinion/FRIEDMAN-BIO.html (284 words)

	Anti-Friedman
		Friedman has been among the most outspoken critics of the new social movements which have arisen to challenge neoliberal globalization, and which had their coming out party in
		Friedman's flights of fantasy notwithstanding, the ownership of wealth in the USA is more unequal than at any time since the late 1920s.
		Friedman is doubly mistaken here: he is wrong when he says that there is no alternative and he is wrong when he claims that the agenda of critics and protestors is xenophobic and protectionist.
	faculty.maxwell.syr.edu /merupert/Anti-Friedman.htm (1764 words)

	The NYT's Thomas Friedman, by Edward S. Herman
		For Friedman, Israel only retaliates whereas the Palestinians engage in terror, which is the causal force in the conflict—not Israel’s “redeeming the land” and ethnic cleansing, nor its occupation policies in general, which have been in gross violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (which he never discusses).
		Friedman is also a racist, regularly denigrating Arabs for their qualities of emotionalism, unreason, and hostility to democracy and modernization.
		But Friedman never confronts the facts on the growing inequality, the disproportionate gains of Western corporate elites, the slackened growth of the poor countries, the admissions of surprised “disappointment” by IMF and WB officials that their pro-corporate policies have done so little to help poor people.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /Nov2003/herman1103.html (2110 words)

	FAIR ACTION ALERT: Is Thomas Friedman Even Listening?
		In Thomas Friedman's November 30 New York Times column, he chides anti-war activists participating in a protest against George W. Bush's visit to London for not acknowledging the bombing of British targets in Istanbul that had occurred on the same day (11/20/03) just hours before.
		Friedman appeared to base his analysis of the protest's message on a survey of signs carried by activists in the march; he complained that none that he saw made any reference to the killings in Istanbul.
		If Friedman had actually listened to what the speakers at the rally had to say, however, he would have heard plenty of discussion of the day's violence.
	www.fair.org /activism/friedman-protest.html (578 words)

	Amazon.com: From Beirut to Jerusalem (Updated with a New Chapter): Books: Thomas L. Friedman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Friedman always thought that painful compromise by Israel would engender a Palestinian willingness to make similar compromises, like letting Israel annex the 4% of the West Bank which were majority Israeli, share Jerusalem, and accept demilitarization as well as a shared Jerusalem as long as the deal came with buckets of foreign aid.
		Although Thomas Friedman's From Beirut to Jerusalem is currently enjoying a new wave of popularity, the potential reader should know that this is very distinctly a story about the Middle East in the 1980s, and offers but the merest foreshadowing of current developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
		Friedman's writing style, however, goes a long way towards making the text quite accessible for just about anyone, and his unique perspective on the events that he witnessed and covered in his role as a journalist keeps it interesting and always relevant.
	www.amazon.com /Beirut-Jerusalem-Updated-New-Chapter/dp/0385413726 (2538 words)

	An interview with New York Times columnist and "geo-green" advocate Thomas Friedman \| By Amanda Griscom Little \| Grist ...
		By aggressively curbing America's energy consumption, Friedman argues, the Bush administration could reduce the global price of oil to the point where it would force regimes in the Middle East to diversify their economies, thereby priming them for democratic reform.
		"We are, quite simply, witnessing one of the greatest examples of misplaced priorities in the history of the U.S. presidency," Friedman proclaimed in a March 27 column.
		Friedman has been writing on matters of energy and diplomacy for nearly three decades.
	www.grist.org /news/maindish/2005/04/05/friedman/index.html (2453 words)

	:: ::Thomas L. Friedman at IIJNM :: :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Bangalore to work on a documentary on the controversial issue of outsourcing, funded by New York Times in collaboration with the Discovery channel, Friedman said, "India and China are like the tortoise and the hare", a reference to the Aesop's fable with the moral that slow and steady beats fast but unreliable.
		Friedman, standing at a lectern, opened his laptop and read the audience parts of his column "What Goes Around Comes Around" in answer to a question about outsourcing.
		On being asked why many in the United States are resisting outsourcing if it is a win-win situation, Friedman said, "People who are hurt by trade know who they are and people who are benefiting don't." Those who lose jobs to outsourcing mobilize politically, he said.
	www.iijnm.org /thomas_friedman.html (611 words)

	The Blog \| Frances Moore Lappe: Thomas Friedman, Are You Listening? \| The Huffington Post
		Friedman addresses the explosive changes that occurred AFTER the dot com bubble burst in 2000 or so, and all the cheap technology allowed the rest of the world to start working with us.
		Friedman may be listening, but I wonder if he hears much from inside his curiously gullible view of the way the world works.
		Friedman has been thrilled with, or advocated, the notion that the impoverished in China, India and other countries are reaping big rewards from a changing technological marketplace.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /frances-moore-lappe/thomas-friedman-are-you-_b_14552.html (1947 words)

	2002 Pulitzer Prizes - COMMENTARY, Biography
		Thomas L. Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner for The New York Times, became the newspaper's foreign affairs columnist on the Op-Ed page in January 1995.
		Friedman joined The Times in May 1981 as a general assignment business reporter, specializing in OPEC and oil-related news.
		Friedman was transferred from Beirut to Jerusalem, where he became the Israel bureau chief, serving until February 1988.
	www.pulitzer.org /year/2002/commentary/bio (423 words)

	USNews.com: The journalist as globalist: Thomas L. Friedman
		That was not the case for Thomas L. Friedman, bestselling author and foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times.
		Last April, Friedman published the widely acclaimed The World Is Flat, which explores outsourcing and trade policy, two of the hottest topics on the national agenda, and explains how the convergence of technology and events made China, India, and other previously "have not" countries part of a global supply chain.
		Friedman relies on a wide network of experts, his "tutors," ranging from CEO s to rabbis to childhood pals, to inform his thinking.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/051031/31friedman.htm (592 words)

	The Peculiar Genius of Thomas L. Friedman
		Thomas Friedman in possession of 500 pages of ruminations on the metaphorical theme of flatness would be a very dangerous thing indeed.
		Nilekani causally mutters to Friedman: "Tom, the playing field is being leveled." To you and me, an innocent throwaway phrase—the level playing field being, after all, one of the most oft-repeated stock ideas in the history of human interaction.
		Friedman is the oracle of the half-hearted left because he is the Hans Blix of commentators.
	www.hamrablues.com /archive/sidebars/june_30_05_friedman.html (2779 words)

	Amazon.fr : The World Is Flat: Livres en anglais: Thomas Friedman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		What Friedman means by "flat" is "connected": the lowering of trade and political barriers and the exponential technical advances of the digital revolution that have made it possible to do business, or almost anything else, instantaneously with billions of other people across the planet.
		Friedman has embraced this flat world in his own work, continuing to report on his story after his book's release and releasing an unprecedented hardcover update of the book a year later with 100 pages of revised and expanded material.
		According to Friedman, the fall of the Wall of Berlin in 89 was the begining of the flattening of the world.
	www.amazon.fr /World-Flat-Thomas-Friedman/dp/0141022728 (1362 words)

	An Interview with Thomas L. Friedman
		Friedman: Well, you know, one of the things I've enjoyed most, Nayan, is that first of all, just thinking about, why did this book catch on, you know.
		Friedman: And it's one of the kind of reasons that I walked into a vacuum on this book, an intellectual vacuum, is that the people who are doing it, and boy they're doing it, they are doing it at the cutting edge, and thank goodness because they're really driving American competitiveness and companies forward.
		Friedman: I think that Hamas is a terrorist organization, but I also think that it won a free and fair election and if it’s going to be ousted or it’s going to be de-legitimized, then I think that’s for the Palestinians to decide.
	yaleglobal.yale.edu /display.article?id=7022 (3555 words)

	New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Friedman is such a genius of literary incompetence that even his most innocent passages invite feature-length essays.
		In the intellectual world, Friedman is now probing the outer limits of this trick's potential, and it's absolutely perfect, a stroke of genius, that he's choosing to argue that the world is flat.
		Moreover, Friedman's book is the first I have encountered, anywhere, in which the reader needs a calculator to figure the value of the author's metaphors.
	www.nypress.com /18/16/news&columns/taibbi.cfm (2026 words)

	David Korten Book Review of Thomas Friedman's "The Lexus and the Olive Tree"
		Friedman tells us that when visiting Hanoi he paid a dollar each morning to be weighed by a tiny Vietnamese woman who crouched on the sidewalk with her scale.
		Friedman himself marvels that "the cornucopia of stocks and bonds, commodities and futures contracts, options and derivatives being offered from scores of different countries and markets around the world mean that you can make a bet on almost anything today." The stakes are winner-take-all: this Electronic Herd "doesn't play chess.
		There are a few brief passages in which Friedman laments the loss of cultural diversity, destruction of the natural environment, and the disempowering of the poor that have been the hallmarks of globalization.
	www.ratical.org /co-globalize/capitalists.html (4260 words)

	Illuminating Thomas Friedman
		A webpage on Thomas Friedman, maintained by Farrar, Straux and Giroux, declares that as the foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times (NYT), he is in a “unique position to interpret the world for American readers.
		Friedman asserts that on the Israeli side, it is only the “extremist Jewish settlers” who oppose the two-state solution.
		Friedman is suggesting—of course, he is only suggesting—that “if necessary” the United States should take its war on “terrorism” to Gaza and the West Bank.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles5/Alam_Friedman.htm (993 words)

	Discovery Times :: Terror's Next Wave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, spent several months traveling through the Muslim world last year, interviewing leaders and people of the street as he tried to uncover some of the causes of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
		In 1984 Friedman was transferred from Beirut to Jerusalem, where he served as Israel bureau chief until 1988.
		Born in Minneapolis on July 20, 1953, Friedman received a B.A. degree in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University in 1975.
	times.discovery.com /convergence/terrorism/bio/bio_friedman.html (297 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Thomas Friedman on "Petropolitics", Iraq, Israel-Palestine and the "Excuse Makers"
		THOMAS FRIEDMAN: Thanks for having me. The basic thrust of the film is that this is not your parents' energy crisis.
		THOMAS FRIEDMAN: Understanding why people are angry and understanding why people tell you that 9/11 happened, and no Jews were in the twin towers at that time because they were all warned ahead of time.
		THOMAS FRIEDMAN: Amy, if you read my column, one of the biggest critics of the war is the woman I live with, and I’ve probably mentioned -- I don't know how many times, in my column -- my wife's criticism of the war.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=06/06/07/1420208 (2485 words)

	Thomas L. Friedman Deconstructed
		If Thomas Friedman were to extend his great concern for the safety of Jews, Israel, and America to the victims of Israeli and U.S. power, perhaps the conflict could then truly be ended, the injustices ended, and the pictures turned off.
		But what became clear upon closer reading is the fact that Friedman, although finally showing some wisdom in accepting the relevance of this perception to the terrorist threat, nonetheless still believes the perception is unfair and biased, still believes the fact of the perception is the Arabs’ fault.
		Thomas Friedman doesn’t know and clearly doesn’t care about these statistics, so long as none of the dead children appear on Arab television.
	www.wrmea.com /archives/December_2004/0412024.html (1372 words)

	Thomas Friedman
		Thomas L. Friedman is a three-time Pulitzer Prize recipient for The New York Times.
		As a reporter, Friedman won Pulitzers for international reporting from Lebanon and Israel.
		Friedman has always loved globalization, and once described anti-globalization protesters as "a Noah's ark of flat-earth advocates, protectionist trade unions and yuppies looking for their 1960's fix." He also, tongue-in-cheek, proposed globalization as a world peace plan, suggesting that two nations with McDonald's could never go to war.
	www.nndb.com /people/525/000022459 (412 words)

	Online NewsHour: Tom Friedman's Journal
		New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, just back from a tour of the Bangalore region of India, discusses the impact of more and more outsourcing on the subcontinent and its ripple effect here in the United States.
		New York Times columnist Tom Friedman discusses the state of Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein and efforts by locals and coalition forces to rebuild the country's infrastructure.
		New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman discusses his recent trip to the Middle East, focusing on the divisions he found in Israel and the continuing fallout of the Sept.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/friedman (388 words)

	A New Blacklist for "Excuse Makers"
		New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has urged the U.S. government to create fllists of condemned political speech--not only by those who advocate violence, but also by those who believe that U.S. government actions may encourage violent reprisals.
		Friedman's column urged the government to create quarterly lists of "hatemongers" and "excuse makers"--as well as "truth tellers," Muslims who agree with Friedman's critique of Islam.
		Friedman's suggestion that those who seek to understand or explain political violence are not part of "legitimate dissent" comes at a time when calls for censorship are becoming more and more blatant.
	www.fair.org /index.php?page=2598 (860 words)

	Thomas Friedman \| NewsBusters.org
		In the subscription-required The Bus Is Waiting, Friedman propounds the theory that a nuclearized N. North Korea and Iran will inevitably induce a string of countries across Asia and the Middle East developing atomic weapons of their own.
		Among the claims Friedman made were claiming that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay was the "anti-Statue of Liberty." That America is alone in Iraq, discounting the contributions by the British and other coalition partners.
		Now, one day later, Friedman wrote an op-ed wherein he, for the second day in a row, appeared to be supporting the Bush administration on the recent controversy surrounding DP World:
	newsbusters.org /taxonomy/term/229 (2398 words)

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