Thursday, April 12

The blackmailer always has the upper hand

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Citing reports that two dozen financial institutions in Asia had voluntarily cut back or terminated their business with North Korea, Treasur...
Wednesday, April 11

France teaches the world a lesson on cutting carbon emissions

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Interestingly, a discussion of nuclear power will not be on the agenda at this year's G8 summit -- or at least, as of several months ago...
Tuesday, April 10

Plausible deniability and The Hell and Damnation Summit

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"Pundita, dear, dare I ask for your thoughts on the latest UN climate change report? I see it places much of the blame for global warm...

Why Saudi King Abdullah felt he could snub a recent dinner invitation from the White House and say nasty things about the US in Iraq

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I will be publishing another post by 10:00 AM, but for those who didn't see yesterday's Washington Post, I want to share Afshin Mola...
Monday, April 9

Dave Schuler connects the dots between China, US defense, and contaminated pet food

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Dear Pundita: I've been following your recent ruminations on China with interest. You make a critical point: US (and European) companies...
Saturday, April 7

Nancy Pelosi, the next Pussycat Doll? And a new view of multipolarity.

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Only Dan Riehl would think to caption a pix of a scarfed Nancy Pelosi with the words, "I went to Syria and all I got was this lousy sca...
Friday, April 6

The Bridge on the River Tigris

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I have been thinking of The Bridge on the River Kwai since taking in the US debates about a timetable for US withdrawal from Iraq. I remembe...

Machinations of US corporate interests in China and the collapse of economic determinism

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James Mann's The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression lays out three viewpoints on the future of China: "...
Wednesday, April 4

On news fatigue, dottiness, Lyndon LaRouche, John Batchelor, and the Real Housewives of Orange County.

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April 3 Pundita: You know, I'm still reeling from the shock of the terror bombing in Tal Afar. The town had been a showcase for peaceful...
Tuesday, April 3

Fuzzy Wuzzy school of globalization

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Sometimes Sebastian Mallaby writes as if he's been hit on the head by a soccer ball one too many times. But when he's on his game he...
Monday, April 2

News flash! China heading for civilization!

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In a March 2005 essay titled Pharaoh I made an issue out of the obvious fact that individual workers in democracies are not in competition ...
Thursday, March 29

America's Whatever Works school of foreign policy officially launches

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Well, it's now official: the United States of America has embarked on the empirical era of foreign relations. On Tuesday, in his first ...
Wednesday, March 28

Democracy between the devil and the deep blue sea.

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I'll preface this essay with the observation that if the problem I discuss were easy to solve, humanity could expect to be living in a g...
Tuesday, March 27

Ominous sign on Iran

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Yesterday The Washington Post carried another of their rosy reports on the US Treasury-State Department financial strategy to soften up Iran...

Shanghaied!

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Nobody's clowning around anymore with language; the "independence" word is now openly used by UN negotiators with regard to Ko...
Monday, March 26

First, know yourself

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There is a similar ring to the stories of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Hassan Butt. Hirsi Ali, a Muslim Somali, escaped to Holland in order to avoid ...