Thursday, June 28

The Battle of Iraq, and what is Senator Lugar thinking?

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Bill Roggio at The Fourth Rail has the latest update on Operation Phantom Thunder: Iraqi and Coalition forces maintain the pressure against ...
Wednesday, June 27

Thank you, Prime Minister Blair and good luck, Prime Minister Brown

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Thank you, Mr Blair, for your help in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack on the United States. Thank you for your unshakable support of the US...
Monday, June 25

Middle East: a change in the weather

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Last week saw stunning events in the Middle East: Moqtada al Sadr accused Iran of being in collaboration with al Qaeda. And Tawfiq al Tira...
Wednesday, June 20

Inside the Box: More on the US in Iraq

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Dave Schuler at The Glittering Eye has rounded up some recent mainstream opinion on the Iraq situation, and below is his take on my Three K...
Monday, June 18

US in Iraq: Three Kings All

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James Cogan, writing for the World Socialist Web Site , has a revealing analysis of where things stand regarding the Iraq government's e...
Friday, June 15

Well, so much for the Saudi plan.

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King Abdullah knew better than Washington so he brokered a Hamas-Fatah "unity" Palestinian government. Now what, your magnificence...
Wednesday, May 16

High intrigue

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For readers who are still not convinced that the issue of the World Bank presidency isn't terribly important, read on. Keep in mind that...

More on State-Pentagon battles, and there's no such thing as diplomatic war

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Two interesting takes on Monday's post about the conflict between the Pentagon and State Department regarding the Pentagon's invol...

Weakening US defense of Wolfowitz?

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Alex Wilks at World Bank President reports this morning on telling language that may signal the White House is withdrawing support for Wolf...
Tuesday, May 15

Ah, Mr Wolfowitz, you overlooked World Bank Staff Rule number 500,051.2, Paragraph 613

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"Pundita, dear, it seems you got your wish. Paul Wolfowitz hasn't yet chained himself to his desk but he has been fighting to stay ...
Monday, May 14

Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Newt Gingrich have amnesia about State's record.

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Overview: State needs to move over and make more room for Pentagon-led foreign assistance programs. " The U.S. Department of State is c...
Friday, May 11

Samuelson's wrong assessment of China's predatory trade practice

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Readers who have been with this blog for years know that Pundita wouldn't hesitate to blame the Chinese for anything. Yet I find myself...
Thursday, May 10

Bolivarian, Chavista, or Venezuela's version of 1950s USA?

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"Pundita: Have you lost your marbles? I thought you were anti-communist and a big supporter of free market policies. I can understand y...
Wednesday, May 9

Revenge of the Banana Republics: Hugo Chavez's Southern Strategy gathers steam

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It's becoming clear that it is misleading to apply the term "leftist" to the movement led by Hugo Chavez. The multinational st...
Tuesday, May 8

The crumbling Core

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Overview: the more inclusionary the United States tries to be in multilateral approaches, the more unclear our values and aims. I asked ZenP...
Monday, May 7

Congratulations, President Sarkozy

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If the United States wasn't at war, I would have stayed up all night partying over the news that a strongly pro-American Frenchman was n...
Sunday, May 6

China's toxic medicine counterfeiting causes mass deaths

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China's counterfeiters have been using a poisonous industrial solvent in counterfeit cough syrup and other liquid cold medications, whic...
Friday, May 4

De-escalating the Syria-Israel confrontation

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Visit Riehl World View for a roundup of news and interesting opinion on Condoleezza Rice's meeting at Sharm el-Sheikh with her Syrian c...