Pundita

The anticorruption drive led by Paul D. Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank, which shook the institution and contributed to his downfal...

[...] Taiwan officials said China's successful bid in May to keep Taiwan out of the World Health Organization prevents Taiwan medical te...

This morning I read a piece by Andrew Sullivan in which he excoriates the US war effort in Iraq for its mistakes. I don't follow Sulli...

The assassination of Sunni Sheikh Abdul Sittar Bezea al-Rishawi, also known as Abu Risha, is a whodunit and might remain so. But those who a...

I was concerned that my interest in development issues relating to the poorest countries might have caused me to read too much into the idea...

Pundita missed 2-1/2 hours of the Petraeus-Crocker testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee but I watched the rest of proceed...

That was the message to emerge from testimony by the ambassador and the general at yesterday's joint session of the Armed Services/Forei...

A pox on military commanders who do not understand the meaning of war. Hello, Admiral, we're fighting a war in Iraq right now, not the p...

Amer Moshen reports for Iraq Slogger that according to today's London-based Al-Hayat newspaper, the Sadrist MP Baha al-Araji denied tha...

CNN's Wolf Blitzer reported on today's 5:00 PM EDT segment that sources in touch with General David Petraeus say he will not call fo...

Michael Wright: How are you feeling? Pundita: Exhausted. The Battle of the Beltway is the political equivalent of the Battle of Bunker Hill...

"TEHRAN, Sept. 2 -- Iran's president said Sunday that his country is now running 3,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium for its nuclea...

Pundita considers the following analysis at Ya Libnan to be so important that I'm republishing it in its entirety. Note the military imp...

"Pundita: [Regarding Pundita post CBS, not US military, decided what Katie Couric would see in Iraq ]: I know how it works [in Iraq] b...

If you need a laugh along with your PM coffee break, read Dan Riehl's short take: You kidnap 23 South Koreans, then you die. :::sniffle:...

Much has been made of a statement by CBS news anchor Katie Couric on this Sunday's Face the Nation : "... you do see signs of life ...

The (London) Times Online delivers an appropriately hard-headed analysis of North Korea's agreement to make a full declaration of its n...

John Batchelor has a genius for transporting his personality back in time and taking the listener along with him. Many commentators have tri...

If you missed John's show last night, you can download the podcast of him filling in for Matt Drudge .

Sept 3 Update If you missed Batchelor's stint last night, you can download the MP3 of him filling in for Matt Drudge at: http://drudgepo...