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H1 Boston Review Exit Strategy How to disengage from Iraq in 18 months Barry R. Posen
Los Angeles Times U.S. Paying Iraqi Papersto Run Favorable Stories
Washington Post Rice's Rising Star
On Iraq and Iran, A Deft Balancing Act By David Ignatius

Prospect When will the oil run out? And what happens then?Jeremy Leggett vs David Jenkins If there are 3 trillion barrels left, we should have the time to find alternatives to oil. If there are only 1 trillion, then we are in trouble.

Brookings Institution - Energy Security: Responding to the Challenge John Browne, British Petroleum Group Chief Executive Remarks as prepared for delivery (PDF)

CIA chief defends agency over bin Laden hunt; Goss: 'We know more than we can say'...

Guardian The two grand bargains being offered by the 21st-century tsar Jonathan Freedland: Many Russians accept a loss of democracy as long as they prosper. Should we give Putin respect in exchange for gas and oil?

Nowhere to run Brian Whitaker asks if there is any way out of Iraq for President Bush.

Can "Freedom Only" Secure Our Future? Susan E. Rice and Corinne Graff; McGill International Review 6(Fall 2005): 44-51

Slate The Perils of Withdrawal: We're sticking with Afghanistan. Why would we ditch Iraq? Christopher Hitchens
H2 Boston Globe The trouble with Turkey (By John Tirman) IN THE ONGOING debate about ''democratization," Turkey is a vivid example of how difficult it can be. Its inability to end old habits of repression and embrace democratic values presents an agonizing dilemma for Europe and a reminder of failed policies of the United States.

"Armenian Genocide. What it means to the US and the EU" (English) Mehmet Kalyoncu

"The Stakes of the Opening of Turkish-Armenian Border - The cross-border contacts between Armenia and Turkey" (English) Dr. Burcu GültekinFrench Institute of Anatolian Studies

"Azerbaijan's Parliamentary Elections: A Step Forward" (English) Svante Cornell

"Black Soil. Oil and Ethnicity in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict" (English)Morten Anstorp Rosenkvist, MA

"Improving the OECD's Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan" (English)Bryane Michael


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Kirkuk Combats Corrupt Police, Wayward Force

UPI Interview: First 100 days of Iranian President Ahmadinejad

RFE/RL Armenia Armenia's Opposition Calls On President To Resign

EurasiaNet Azerbaijan: Foreign Energy Company Strike Raises Social Tensions

New York Times Bush to Outline Broad Iraq Plan; Push on Training

Christian Science Monitor When will Iraqis be ready? Dedication among soldiers is up, officials say, but many hurdles remain.



H3 Turkey and Europe

Turkey and the U.S.

Greek press on Cyprus and Turkey

Turkey and the Middle East

Turkey, Russia, Caucasus, C. Asia

FT Turkey cuts tax rates to attract foreign investors

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The ongoing corruption will negate every attempt toward democracy - By Rauf Naqishbendi

Kurdish Parties Unhappy at Split

Norwegian company starts oil drilling in Iraq BBC Monitoring Service - A Norwegian oil company, DNO [Det norske oljeselskap], began drilling for oil in the Kurdish part of Iraq today

CSIS Shaping the Future of Counterinsurgency Warfare: A Strategic Approach

International Crisis Group EU Visas and the Western Balkans

Iran's Influence in Iraq Congressional Research Service

GAO report examines U.S efforts to counter international terrorism Report full text [PDF]
H4 New York Times Bush to Outline Broad Iraq Plan; Push on Training American military officials in Iraq said they have requested $3.9 billion for next year to help train and equip Iraqi troops.

Upbeat Signs Hold Cautions for the Future By most measures, the economy appears to be booming, but as always with the United States economy, it is not quite that simple.

Editorial Trying Saddam, and His System Patience is what is needed now from the judges in the trial of Saddam Hussein, from Iraqi political leaders and from ordinary Iraqi citizens.

Senator Clinton Calls for Withdrawal From Iraq to Begin in 2006

Letter From Ukraine: Modest River, Wide Chasm, With Europe 'Over There'
U.S. to Respond to Inquiries Over Detentions in Europe
Investigation Says Russians Acted Ineptly in School Raid
British Review of Energy to Include Atomic Power
Official Says American Delay of U.N. Budget Would Cause Crisis
Old Leftist Friend Is to Join Sharon's New Party
Dowd The Autumn of the Patriarchy
Inside the vice president's bunker mentality.

The Flu's Second Front
By MICHAEL ALDERMAN
A pneumonia vaccine can save lives in an influenza epidemic.

Cull of the Wild
By SCOTT WEIDENSAUL
Migratory birds are the victims, not villains, of avian flu.

H5 Washington Post Rice's Rising Star
On Iraq and Iran, A Deft Balancing Act
By David Ignatius, Condoleezza Rice had an interesting office visitor on Monday -- none other than her old mentor and the nation's realist in chief, former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft. It was the first serious chat they've had after many months of strained relations, and it may be a symbol for a subtle...

In Ramadi Town Meeting, Sunnis Echo Push in U.S. for Withdrawal

Peres May Bolt Labor for Party Formed by Sharon Speculation Grows as New Movement Draws More High-Profile Israelis

Rumsfeld's War On 'Insurgents' By Dana Milbank, Last weekend, while other Americans were watching football and eating leftover turkey, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ended the Iraqi insurgency.

Bush Cites Need to Secure Victory in Iraq

U.S. Plans to Build Stockpile of Flu Vaccine
By Justin Gillis, U.S. expects to have nearly 8 million doses of experimental vaccine against pandemic influenza by February, and the supply could stretch to cover more than a third of the population, experts say.

France Weighs Immigration Controls After Riots

U.S. Will Address E.U. Questions on CIA Prisons
Body May Sanction Countries Involved

The Value of Anonymity By Anne Applebaum, It's time someone stood up and said something in favor of government officials who speak off the record with journalists, and of the journalists who bother to listen.

Editorial A Slick of Lies ON NOV. 13, A HUGE explosion rocked a petrochemical plant in Jilin, China, northeast of Beijing, killing five workers and releasing about 100 tons of highly toxic chemicals into the nearby Songhua River.

H6 Guardian The two grand bargains being offered by the 21st-century tsar Jonathan Freedland: Many Russians accept a loss of democracy as long as they prosper. Should we give Putin respect in exchange for gas and oil?

Nowhere to run Brian Whitaker asks if there is any way out of Iraq for President Bush.

Putin's hidden war Nick Paton Walsh on the trail of Russia's new enemy within.

Syria claims witness in Hariri inquiry was under duress Syria has begun trying to discredit a UN investigation into the murder of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
In the showdown of David and Gordon, there's only one GoliathIrwin Stelzer: Cameron will make the next election a real contest - but he's got a lot of catching up to do in key areas of policy.
Atomic hypocrisy Tony Benn: Neither Bush nor Blair is in a position to take a high moral line on Iran's nuclear programme.

Blair opens debate on the nuclear option Review will examine ways to plug generating gap. Comment: Tom Burke

Nuclear Energy - Wanted: a debate not a fix This is an unusual week in politics. Two national debates are being launched - both about the extent to which the present generation should make provision for the next.

Peres prepares to join Sharon Role in talks with Arabs may tempt him to switch from Labour party.

Cheney 'may be guilty of war crime'· Vice-president accused of backing torture · Claims on BBC by former insider add to Bush's woes
In the showdown of David and Gordon, there's only one GoliathIrwin Stelzer: Cameron will make the next election a real contest - but he's got a lot of catching up to do in key areas of policy.

H7 Iraq: Richard Clarke Ralph Peters Thomas Oliphant

Seymour Hersh on Where the Iraq War Is Headed Next

Asia Times DOUBLE DEALING: THE US AND IRAN Let's talk about Iraq Amid growing calls for the Bush administration to enlist the cooperation of Baghdad's neighbors in stabilizing Iraq sufficiently to permit a substantial drawdown of US troops, Washington has authorized direct talks between its Iraq ambassador and Tehran. The quest for the unilateral imposition of a Pax Americana in the Middle East is wavering. - Jim Lobe

Let's talk about regime changeThe case for regime change in Iran has been most enthusiastically taken up in the US by a neo-con backed think tank, the Iran Policy Committee, which not coincidentally is also tasked by the Iranian opposition group and proscribed terrorist outfit, Mujahideen-e Khalq, to provide lobbying and public relations services. - Massoud Khodabandeh
H8 UPI Interview: First 100 days of Iranian President Ahmadinejad "The phrase 'Ahmadinejad is a typical extremist' does not express a complete understanding of Iranian characteristics, or of Shiite beliefs. Ahmadinejad's character, as well as Iran's ruling system, need to be understood."

US Seeing Fewer Foreign Fighters, More Iraqis

Iraq's Armed Forces Sinking Into Sectarian Chaos

BBC US 'to reduce its forces in Iraq' The US says it expects conditions in Iraq will allow a reduction in American troops numbers there next year.

Rumsfeld: Enemies aren't 'insurgents'

AEI How to Deal with Kidnappings in Iraq

Daily Star In Qatar, a frank look at the dilemmas of Gulf securityBy Rami G. Khouri
H9 Ha’aretz –Shalom: Likud in crisis, I can rehabilitate party Says Netanyahu would destroy party; PM allies vow to block Netanyahu win; Peres expected to quit Labor

Yedioth Ahronoth Poll: Shas overtakes Likud Likud down to 10 Knesset seats in new Dahaf Institute survey conducted 118 days before elections, while Shas gains 11 seats; Sharon wins with 34 seats, Labor up to 27; former Jerusalem police chief joins Labor

European Israel Israel should re-think its aggressive policy towards Europe

BBC Fatah primaries thrown into chaos Primary elections for the Palestinian ruling party, Fatah, are called off amid suspicions of fraud.

Washington Institute Fatah Primary Results: Lessons from the First Round
H10 Christian Science Monitor When will Iraqis be ready?
Dedication among soldiers is up, officials say, but many hurdles remain.

Spy case patterns the Chinese style of espionage China has spent more than two decades creating a large infrastructure, according to US counterintelligence.

In minor election, a major step for Saudi women
Few women voted, and none is expected to win a seat, but the Saudi first is seen as a victory.

It's too early to assess a legacy, but not presidential candidates

Afghanistan: despite progress, more attacks Signs of foreign support and new tactics signal a Taliban reemergence.

H11 IHT A major face-lift for OECD?

Strangling freedom in its cradle CATHY YOUNG If Russia had a Thanksgiving Day, those Russians who care about freedom would not have much to be thankful for this year.

Saddam in the dock RONALD SOKOL Sadly, that the proclaimed trial of Saddam Hussein will be a formalistic ritual seems a foregone conclusion.

Globalist: Are U.S. deaths in Iraq saving lives in the U.S.?
UPI Germany's Schaeuble vows terror crackdown Germany's newly appointed Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has vowed to crack down on terrorism and improve integration of immigrants living in the ...
Analysis: The dilemma of U.N. reform
American Conservative The Battle for France Mass immigration and cultural balkanization are an explosive combination.BBC Impossible aim? Can WTO boss Pascal Lamy get nations to agree a trade deal?

French MPs back anti-terror bill The French parliament's lower house approves a tough anti-terror bill that would boost video surveillance.

US probes secret CIA jail claim The US says it will investigate reports that the CIA is running secret prisons in eastern Europe.

H12 RFE/RL Armenia Armenia's Opposition Calls On President To Resign
The Gas Impasse Talks about Russian gas transit across Ukraine and Russian gas supplies to Ukraine for 2006 came to a standstill

EurasiaNet Azerbaijan: Foreign Energy Company Strike Raises Social Tensions

Turnout Controversy Clouds Armenian Constitutional Referendum

EDM RECENT VIOLENCE THREATENS REOPENING OF GEORGIA-ABKHAZIA RAILWAY

UPI Interview: Chechnya's parliamentary election


BBC Dangerous mix China's repression in Xinjiang could prompt radical reaction

Bosnia: Overview of Issues Ten Years After DaytonCongressional Research Service
H13 The TimesKurdish tailor has Saddam taped

The naked truth about army life Wellington knew the skill it takes to mould recruits

The generation game is rigged Who will pay for all the pensioners? Should today’s 25-year-old be prepared to fund the retirement of today’s 50-year-old? The clash of generations

Kidnapped aid worker is branded a spy by his captors


Prospect When will the oil run out? And what happens then?Jeremy Leggett vs David Jenkins If there are 3 trillion barrels left, we should have the time to find alternatives to oil. If there are only 1 trillion, then we are in trouble.
H14 Financial Times Bush says troops will stay in Iraq until victory

UN risks severe finance crisis over threat to block budget

US pledges to give EU response on 'secret jails'

Sunni group regrets Tehran jobs 'bias'

Gloom casts a shadow on Chirac’s presidency

OECD warns global economy is fragile It encouraged the US Federal Reserve to continue raising interest rates but urged restraint from the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank

ECB warned over rate riseEurope’s finance ministers delivered a last-ditch plea to the European Central Bank not to raise interest rates, amid fresh international criticism of the bank’s hawkish stance.

COMMENT: An exaggerated caution would endanger Europe's recovery By Martin Wolf The right answer is the combination of rapid reform with monetary accommodation. In its absence, the ECB must not let a worry over what appear to be non-existent inflationary dangers kill off a fragile recovery

Recoveries at risk Barring a miracle or a disaster, the European Central Bank will raise interest rates at its council meeting tomorrow. The Bank of Japan is itching to begin normalising...

COMMENT: Corporate Europe ignores diversityat its peril Research suggests that many organisations are failing to make the most of the pool of talent available to them, write Marta Dassu, director of Aspen Institute Italia, and Daniel Franklin, editorial director of the Economist Intelligence Unit


H15 Los Angeles Times U.S. Paying Iraqi Papers to Run Favorable Stories Secret effort to disseminate propaganda in the Iraqi media comes as U.S. officials are vowing to promote democratic principles.

Terror's stealth weapon: women
By Mia Bloom
An increasing number of female suicide bombers are a disturbing, confusing new element in the battle against extremists.


EditorialJose Padilla's America WHATEVER ELSE HE IS, Jose Padilla is an American citizen. That inescapable fact explains both the Bush administration's decision last week to charge him with a crime — and the importance of the Supreme Court's upcoming decision on whether to hear his case.

FT COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Back to the future: India is gaining belated credibility as an emergent export titan After establishing a big role in services, the country is seeing signs of an industrial renewal - where local carmakers seek to sell abroad and telecoms world leaders start domestic production of handsets.

Chinese greet milder US rhetoric on currency

Please say something on energy this time If at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again. This seems to be the government's approach to energy policy, and with reason. For its first two attempts

Lavagna’s departureThe unexpected departure this week of Roberto Lavagna, Argentina’s economy minister, has highlighted tensions within the government of President Néstor Kirchner, and raises questions over the sustainability of its conservative fiscal policy

COMMENT: A solution to climate change in the world's rainforests
H16 Washington Times How's the dollar holding up? Normally sober-minded economists are warning about severe financial consequences for both the United States and the global economy if the structurally unbalanced U.S. economy continues to rely on foreigners to lend it nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars per year.

Bush Ignoring Economic Storm Clouds - James Pinkerton

AEI Why the Dollar Is Rising . . . Again

Heritage Bush at the Border by James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., and Matthew Spalding, Ph.D. The President outlines a promising vision for immigration reform.

Gold strikes above 500 dollars for first time since 1987...

Gallup: Americans Against Torture, but Believe We Do It
H17 Daily Telegraph Will Bush's war push Republicans over the edge?Day after day more nuggets are unearthed or charges made that appear to undermine the Bush Administration's case for going to and record in waging the war in Iraq

Nuclear must be part of Britain's energy mix For too long, Labour has been paralysed by an irrational fear of civil nuclear power. In the meantime, the dates for the decommissioning of our coal and nuclear plants draw ever nearer.

Selecting Wisely: Making Managed Migration Work for BritainInstitute for Public Policy Research
H18 Independent How Europe is choking itself - and the world
Europe's claim to the moral high ground over the environment has been comprehensively challenged in a devastating report on its failings in the battle against global warming and pollution
No one is immune from the effects of global warming

Cheney 'created climate for US war crimes'

Peres on verge of joining Sharon as centrist party gathers momentum
H19 CIA chief defends agency over bin Laden hunt; Goss: 'We know more than we can say'...

Weekly Standard Leaking At All Costs What the CIA is willing to do to hurt the Bush administration. by John Hinderaker

UPI Inteligence Watch

Ballistic Missile Defense Watch: THAAD radar

Asia Times America's unsung war dead Private contractors had little notice or strategic planning when they began filling Iraq's security vacuum in 2003. The Pentagon has only now released a directive on their roles and functions - after some 280 deaths. But issuing directives and implementing them are very different things. - David Isenberg

Planning for the Next Pandemic Threat: Defining the Federal Role in Public Health EmergenciesInstitute for Research on Public Policy
H20 Slate The Perils of Withdrawal: We're sticking with Afghanistan. Why would we ditch Iraq? Christopher Hitchens

The Bush Hugger: How McCain gains by embracing Bush. John Dickerson

Who Controls the Internet?: Why it doesn't matter if the United States is in charge.

Waiting for That $100 Laptop?: Don't hold your breath.

The Coming $100 Laptop Tragedy

H21 Will Pay Web Sites Succeed Like HBO?: Why TimesSelect is not like cable TV. Mickey Kaus

Guardian And now, the newsNews blog: Bobbie Johnson on our new NewsPoint newsreader, a handy little piece of software that lets you keep track of what's new on the web.

Life force Oliver MortonA new book challenges the gene-centric view of life by placing energy back at the centre of the story. It has some of the freshness and originality of "The Selfish Gene," but don't expect an easy read.

Are Jews born smart? Saying that Ashkenazi genes are different calls into question the motivation behind the research.

A century after his birth, the gulf between C.P. Snow’s two cultures seems as vast as ever. A few brave souls are trying to build bridges. Not that it’ll help their careers... more»

“I have no literary interests; I am made of literature. I am nothing else and cannot be anything else.” Franz Kafka meant it... more»


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H1 Financial Times Decadent America must give up imperial ambitions The US empire cannot raise enough taxes or soldiers, it is increasingly indebted and key vassal states are no longer reliable, writes Anatol Lieven, senior research fellow at the New America Foundation.

COMMENT: Freedom and reason offer the solution to cultural confusion The world is increasingly seen as a federation of religions or of civilisations, ignoring all the other ways in which people understand themselves, writes Amartya Sen

Boston Globe What Iraq will look like after the elections By Roger Owen (repeat)

Carnegie Endowment Back From the Brink: A Strategy for Iraq Marina Ottaway Report full text [PDF 8pp]

BBC Hariri witness says he was bribed A man appears on Syrian TV saying he was bribed to give evidence against Syria to the UN Hariri inquiry.

Asia Times The Ties That Tangle Iraq and Iran The US has gained a few months to put pressure on Iran over its nuclear program. What stands out, though, is that Washington has resorted to grandstanding to cover up the accelerating collapse of its regional policy in Iraq, which in turn casts a shadow on the US capacity to force its will on the Iran nuclear issue
Los Angeles Times Shiite Militants Said to Operate Within Iraqi Police Shiite Muslim militia members have infiltrated Iraq's police force and are carrying out sectarian killings under the color of law, documents show.
New York Times Sunnis Accuse Iraqi Military of Kidnappings and Slayings

CRS Muslims in Europe: Integration Policies in Selected Countries

NY Review of Books How corporate media has dumbed down America

Heritage Foundation How to Win in Iraq Watch Streaming MP3 Details

H2 Leader's Islamic leanings seen as threat to EU bid Washington Times By Andrew Borowiec

FT Economy: Stability at last as inflation brought under control

The Kurds: Suspicions raised about the state

A country more comfortable with itself For the past few weeks the European Union flag has been flying above the Grand Bazaar

View from Brussels: Formidable checklist needs to be ticked

Abdullah Gul, foreign minister: Having to learn on the job

Human rights: Pamuk case tests freedom of thought

Religion: Headscarf ruling prompts big debate

Istanbul: The energy of San Francisco in the Bosphorus

Banking: Foreigners turn kindly eye on the Turkish market Problems remain in the sector but they are mostly minor ones which foreign banks believe will be taken care of soon, says...

The media: Doing well but with plenty of room for growth Dogan Media Group continues to be the leader in the sector, commanding a 38 per cent market share of all advertising...

Real estate: Property markets in a virtuous cycle

Housing: Strategy to get people out of shanty towns

Turkey and the future of the European Union Canada Free Press By William John Hagan

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H3 Turkey and Europe

Turkey and the U.S.

Greek press on Cyprus and Turkey

Turkey and the Middle East

Turkey, Russia, Caucasus, C. Asia

Iran, Iraq, Turkey et al. Washington Times

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FT OBSERVER: Talking Turkey World football governing body Fifa is not too popular in Turkey just now. First, it promised severe punishment after...

TeliaSonera plans action against Alfa

Merkel: Berlin won't stand in way of Turkey's EU bid

Turkey concerned about CIA flights

TURKEY PLANS AIRCRAFT PROJECT WITH MUSLIMS Middle East Newsline

Turkey Retreats On Syria StanceDefenseNews.com

Turkish Premier' s Remarks Stir Debate

1.7 Million petitions of independence have been offered to the UN ...Roj TV

Barzani: May the neighbour countries do not account our right to ...Roj TV

RFE/RL Georgia NATO Says 'The Door Is Open' Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says the "door is open" for Georgia's eventual membership, but the country has "a long way to go" before its military can meet NATO standards.

EurasiaNet Azerbaijan: Election Results Finalized, But Tensions Simmer On
Georgia: Moving from Revolution to Democratic Institutions

EDM KERIMLI BATTLE-CRY SPARKS MELEE IN BAKU
REVISITING THE ORANGE REVOLUTION: STILL FAR TO GO

Jerusalem Post Barry Rubin The Region: What to do about Iraq



H4 New York Times Sunnis Accuse Iraqi Military of Kidnappings and Slayings Evidence has begun to mount suggesting that Iraqi forces are carrying out executions in predominantly Sunni neighborhoods.

Editorial Shake and Bake
American demands for counterproliferation efforts and international arms control ring hollow when the U.S. refuses to give up white phosphorus.
At Hussein Trial, First Testimony and New Bluster
Sunnis Accuse Iraqi Military of Kidnappings and Slayings
Syrian Witness in U.N. Inquiry on Beirut Killing Reports Bribes



H5 Washington Post Editorial Bosnia's Slow Progress BEFORE THE war in Iraq, Bush administration policymakers used to deride the elaborate nation-building regime the Clinton administration and the European allies created in Bosnia. Now, perhaps, they might learn something from it. Ten years after the United States brokered the end of a bloody civil...

AIDS: The Strategy Is Wrong By Richard Holbrooke, We are not winning the war on AIDS, and our current strategies are not working. The very best that can be said is that we are losing at a slightly slower rate.

More Than a 'Mistake' on Iraq By Richard Cohen,
A line is forming outside the Iraq confessional. It consists of Democratic presidential aspirants -- where's Hillary? -- who voted for the war in Iraq and now concede that they made a "mistake."

Money Scandals May Bring Voter Backlash
After years of big-dollar dealings, lobbyists and lawmakers are now facing a possible wave of prosecutions and an uprising at the ballot box.

Time Reporter Called Key to Rove's Defense

Hussein Is Unruly as Trial Resumes
Charged With Ordering Executions, Former Dictator Complains About Guards, Supplies

H6 Guardian Caught between Iraq and a hard place Simon Tisdall: Jordan's 9/11 - the al-Qaida suicide bomb attacks on three Amman hotels on November 9 that killed 63 people - is still sending shockwaves across the kingdom.

Euro-Med Dialogue Southern discomfort It seemed like a good idea, 10 years ago, when the European Union launched an ambitious attempt to strengthen links with the countries on its southern flank.

EU threat to countries with secret CIA prisons · Poland and Romania under investigation · Germany fears it was hub for 'rendition' flights

Polls apart Voters are revealing Egypt's growing divide between religion and politics

Saddam trial starts and stops again after 3 hours Shia politicians express anger as trial of Saddam Hussein is adjourned for another week. Analysis: Matthew Happold

Bush takes harder line on immigration· More patrols and rigorous deportations promised · Guest worker scheme unlikely to be abandoned

Chirac: Blair-Brown feud delays EU budget · Mixed messages from PM and chancellor on rebate· French rule out deal during British presidency

US resists climate change pressure at UN conferenceUS government signals that it will resist attempts to be drawn into a new international process to cut emissions.

We must cut demand to have any hope of solving the energy crisisGeorge Monbiot: Neither the nuclear evangelists nor the renewables enthusiasts can take comfort from my calculations.
H7 NY Review of Books How corporate media has dumbed down America

Weekly Standard Schumpeter Gone Wild The economic landscape is littered with examples of creative destruction. by Irwin M. Stelzer

Gvosdev - Biden, New Found Realist?

Jim Lobe Realists Tighten Grip as Talks Open with Iran

Heritage Foundation Challenges Facing Europe in a World of Globalization by Helle C. Dale Without the willingness to tackle rigidity and stagnation in its major economies, any grand EU ambition to become a superpower, to create a new international ...

Our Troops Must Stay - Sen. Joe Lieberman, Wall Street Journal
Planning to Win - Peter Brookes, Heritage Foundation
More Than a 'Mistake' on Iraq - Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Interview: Charles Krauthammer on the McCain Torture Amendment – RadioBlogger
We're Past Politics With Iraq - William Raspberry, Washington Post
The Islamist Assault on Free Speech - Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Daily Standard
H8 Asia Times The Ties That Tangle Iraq and Iran

BBC Hariri witness says he was bribed A man appears on Syrian TV saying he was bribed to give evidence against Syria to the UN Hariri inquiry.

Saudi women take part in election Women in Saudi Arabia are taking part in an election, both as voters and as candidates, for the first time.

Saddam team looks for new lawyers

U.S. casualties in Iraq climbing again

US Reaching Out to Some Iraq Insurgents

Pentagon: Consensus Grows on Iraq Force Cuts

UPI The Iraq insurgency: Questions and answers-Part 2

US Envoy, Iran & Iraqi Issues VOA 28 Nov 2005 --U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Khalilzad has been authorized to hold talks with Iranian officials

Daily Star By God, another awful Bush appointmentBy William Fisher

Europe and the Gulf must move beyond generalities By Christian Koch

Peretz could be revolutionary, but Sharon might be better now By Yossi Alpher

H9 Ha’aretz – Beware of quick-fix solutions Had we introduced an American-style system, we would have been condemned to four years of Benjamin Netanyahu, followed by four years of Ehud Barak

Abbas delays Fatah vote over widespread fraud

Freeing Barghouti Under what circumstances should Israel release Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti?

Jerusalem Post Speak up on IranCan Israel continue to sit silently, pretending the int'l community is successfully blocking the bomb?

PM associates: Peres made up his mind to join Kadima

International commentary on Secretary Rice Loosened Gaza ‘Log-Jam’


Albright: US Should Not Back 'Reforms' That Isolate Islamist Parties

UPI Analysis: Israel-Pakistan ties on the horizon?

China, Russian oil, and Kazazh pipelines
H10 Christian Science Monitor Iraq 'trophy video' under investigation The video appears to show private security contractors shooting at Iraqi citizens.

Young guard rises in Palestinian politics Fatah has tapped militants as candidates, seeking to draw support from Hamas ahead of a legislative vote.

Corruption's grip eases in Ukraine Tax receipts are rising, and the country improved its standing in Transparency International's ratings.

H11 IHT Philip Bowring: The war on third-world remittances The increased regulations of the war on terror has mostly victimized poor migrant workers whose remittances help their families at home to survive.

Der Spiegel Foreign Policy First Testing Ground for Germany's Grand CoalitionDon't be fooled by the facade of harmony in Germany's new grand coalition of conservatives and Social Democrats. Angela Merkel has only been chancellor for one week but she is already heading into a struggle with her foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, for control over foreign policy.

CIA FLIGHTS IN EUROPE The Hunt for Hercules N8183J A bitter debate over torture has erupted in Europe. Washington is believed to have used EU countries as transit points for moving terrorism suspects to clandestine locations where they may have been tortured. The Council of Europe and other organizations are now demanding answers -- from the US and European countries who looked the other way

The New Republic Don't blame Le Corbusier for the French riotsby Clay Risen
H12 RFE/RL Georgia NATO Says 'The Door Is Open' Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says the "door is open" for Georgia's eventual membership, but the country has "a long way to go" before its military can meet NATO standards.
UPI Analysis: Russia bans nationalist party

BBC Explore the 'stans' Central Asia explained in maps, facts and figures

UPI Policy Watch: Russia's Role in the World

The EU Needs a Policy on BelarusCentre for European Reform

Police Squash Election Sit-Down Protest
H13 The Times Trial of the century becomes a trial of patience, with Saddam in charge

Why Kyoto will vanish into hot air Kyoto has been an extraordinary piece of work. A treaty that its most important signatories have found impossible to meet

Mixed reaction to Chechen vote

WSJ The U.N.'s Bolton Moment
John Bolton has confounded his detractors by being more horse trader than pit bull in his early days at the U.N. The question remains whether the U.S. envoy will be more hindrance or help to the institution's reform.

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: Decadent America must give up imperial ambitions The US empire cannot raise enough taxes or soldiers, it is increasingly indebted and key vassal states are no longer reliable, writes Anatol Lieven, senior research fellow at the New America Foundation.

COMMENT: Freedom and reason offer the solution to cultural confusion The world is increasingly seen as a federation of religions or of civilisations, ignoring all the other ways in which people understand themselves, writes Amartya Sen, Lamont university professor at Harvard University

EU states warned over CIA prisons The European Union’s top justice official warned that any member state that housed secret US Central Intelligence Agency prisons faced losing its EU voting rights.

Iran president 'sensed a light' during UN speech

Middle East tension foils final Euromed declaration

Palestinians grow frustrated waitingfor the expected economic recovery

Bush calls on Congress to back immigration reforms

China and India put rivalry aside in Syria bid

Opposition hit by crackdown in Egypt's election

Leader Widening Kyoto It may seem a bit odd for countries to begin discussing in Montreal this week the future of the Kyoto treaty seven years before its current provisions run out in 2012...

COMMENT: The severe flaws in Japan's industrial model Lasting success in mass markets is about much more than just making better products and then selling them more cheaply than your rivals. The spread of efficient mass-production methods has now levelled the playing field


H15 Los Angeles Times Shiite Militants Said to Operate Within Iraqi Police Shiite Muslim militia members have infiltrated Iraq's police force and are carrying out sectarian killings under the color of law, documents show.

Feeling the chill of a real energy squeeze By Niall Ferguson 'OUT OF GAS" is an expression seldom heard on the other side of the Atlantic, where automobiles don't run on gasoline — cars run on petrol. But could Britain run out of natural gas this winter? The answer is yes, and the implications go beyond whether it will be a chilly winter in England.
Cunningham Admits Guilt, Resigns Congressman pleads guilty to fraud, conspiracy to commit bribery and tax evasion.

Financial Times COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Trichet's test: in raising rates he must weigh the risk to a tentative eurozone recovery

COMMENT: Luminaries divided in their opinion but united in their genius Peter Drucker, who died this month, was introduced to Alfred Sloan in 1943.

COMMENT: The peculiar politics of pensions By Philip Stephens

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Bank chief uses his wiles to preserve a fragile unity The ECB is poised to tighten monetary policy this week but the assumptions that underlie its prognosis are open to question and it may be in danger of reacting to false alarms.

US says China did not manipulate currency

Asian opportunities The experience of Star TV, part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, is an exception to the rule that multi-national corporations discover more tangible business...
H16 Ex-Powell aide criticizes officialsSays if Cheney not sincere in Iraq claims, must be 'an idiot or a nefarious bastard.'

A dubious NSC choice Meghan O'Sullivan Washington Times

Bush unveils plan to crack down on illegal immigration

Bush Anti-Terror Plans Irk Big Business

The War vs. the Deficitby Robert B. Reich

Testimony From Rove's Former Assistant May Solidify Case That He Misled Leak Inquiry, Lawyers Say

Immigration Reform Fact Sheet
H17 Daily Telegraph 'Blair too weak for deal' Chirac has cast doubt on Britain's plan to resolve the crisis over the European Union budget, saying Tony Blair is "isolated" in Europe.


Heritage Foundation The E-Bomb: How America's New Directed-Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will be FoughtWatch Details

From 9/11 to Katrina: Opportunities for Civil-Military Collaboration Watch Streaming MP3 Details

H18 Independent Blair hopes for new nuclear programme Blair will today announce the terms of an energy review that he hopes will lead to the building of a new generation of nuclear power stations.
Yes please? No thanks? For and against nuclear power

EU members face sanctions over secret CIA prisons

Charles Glass: Free speech is for everyone - even David Irving
H19 CRS - Combating Terrorism: The Challenge of Measuring Effectiveness

China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities

The Quest for Cryptologic Centralization and the Establishment of NSA: 1940-1952

CHINA SAYS BIRD FLU VIRUS IN HUMANS MUTATING...

How Goldman Sachs is carving up its $11 billion money pie


H20 Slate Bush's Can't-Lose Reversal: Wednesday's speech will set the agenda for withdrawal from Iraq.
Fred Kaplan

The Formerly Great Writ: Goodbye habeas corpus; hello executive detention.

Napoleon the inspiration for Hitler, says historian 'Napoleon should be remembered as a genocidal dictator rather than founder of modern France.'
H21 Killing the written word by snippets Los Angeles Times, Students are trading in books for search-and-seizure learning on the Internet, and real literacy is getting lost along the way. See also Kevin Drum

1 Million Digitized Images Now Available Online from The Library of Congress

James Lawton: Bobby Charlton was the better footballer

OBSERVER: Scoop's new fans

Soccer: It's official (and no surprise): Ronaldinho is best
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H1 New Yorker Staying the Course Where is the Iraq war headed next? Why the Bush Administration is worried about leaving Iraq. by Seymour M. Hersh

Red State – Seymour Hersh on CNN “… that the Bush Administration is changing tactics in Iraq ... that Iyad Allawi was the favorite in Washington and London, ... that the elections do not have much meaning in an Iraq involved in a fierce civil war ... that the Iraq units were incompetent and that we would use air power to make the Iraqis look good. ... that the Iraqis would direct American air power, which frightened everyone that our tremendous air power would be used for the wrong purposes, to settle old tribal disputes, etc. ... that the President is kept in a religious fervor, with Cheney and Rumsfeld handling day-to-day issues. ... that the President is living in a dream-world "utopia," impervious to facts. He asks: "Is this President going to be capable of dealing with reality?"
New York Times Saving Face and How to Say Farewell While most of the recent parallels to Iraq do not offer much encouragement, there are a few stories of inconclusive wars that left the U.S. in a more dignified position.
As Calls for an Iraq Pullout Rise, 2 Political Calendars Loom Large
Editorial An Army for the Day After
Washington Post Washington Post Our Dangerous, Growing Divide By Michael O'Hanlon, In recent months a civil-military divide has emerged in the United States over the war in Iraq. Unlike much of the Iraq debate between Democrats and Republicans, it is over the present and the future rather than the past. Increasingly, civilians worry that the war is being lost, or at least not...

Shiite Asks U.S. for Leeway in Rebel Fight

Middle East Surprises By Jim Hoagland

Independent Saddam on trial: Ten reasons justice may not be served

So what have they got to hide? Official secrets, lies, and the truth about the assault on Fallujah

H2 Weekly Standard Cyprus Betrayed by Christopher Hitchens

NY Review of Books English PEN, THE CASE OF ORHAN PAMUK (letter)

What's Your Plan B? - Part IIArutz Sheva If Iraq goes sour, then -- at long last -- Kurdistan must enter into the realm of nations as well. Iraq

Guardian US may use planes as substitute for troops in Iraq (see also Juan Cole)

The Economist Why America must stay America should keep its troops in Iraq until Iraqis ask them to go

In Iraq, Panic is Not the Solution - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek

Iraq: The Americans Look for an Exit

Withdrawal from Iraq ? Here Is the Timetable : Amir Taheri

Boston Globe What Iraq will look like after the elections Iraq's politics could end up being dominated by the same type of sectarian democracy to be found in Lebanon (By Roger Owen)
We Are Winning, and Winning Decisively, in Iraq - James Wilson, Wall St. Journal
Will Iraq War Change U.S.'s World Role? - Richard Halloran

Azerbaijan condemned for crackdown Protesters baton-charged by riot police in Baku · Use of force 'unjust and unprovoked', says US

WSJ NATO vs. Islamist Terror NATO is imperative to defend us against the threat of Islamist terror. By JOSE MARIA AZNAR

Daily Telegraph God isn't big enough for some people We in Europe have faced a fading of organised religion in recent years, writes Umberto Eco. Faith in the Christian churches has been declining. The ideologies such as communism that promised to supplant religion have failed in spectacular and very public fashion.

The Observer Iraq 'worse than under Saddam' Human rights abuses are in danger of eclipsing Saddam Hussein's record, according to ex-PM Allawi.

H3 Turkey and Europe

Turkey and the U.S.

Greek press on Cyprus and Turkey

Turkey and the Middle East

Turkey, Russia, Caucasus, C. Asia

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Al Hayat Greek Minister of Defence propses the establishment Of An International Bank for reconstruction In Palestine The Greek Minister of Defence Mr. Spilios Spiliotopoulos proposed in an interview with Alhayat via e mail the establishment of an international bank for Palestinian reconstruction and development and said his country will support an international conference on Iraq.
RFE/RL Early Results Show Massive Support For Armenian Referendum Almost complete preliminary results show Armenian voters giving sweeping support for constitutional changes.

MEMRI Nov 28 IA# 255 - Debate in the Arab and Muslim World Over Normalization With Israel

UPI Eye on Eurasia: Fascist fires in Caucasus By Paul Goble

Daily Star Liberalism means more than just elections By Ralf Dahrendorf

FT Leader Financial Times Advancing Barcelona

In Picasso, Istanbul Gets a Special Taste of Europe
H4 New York Times Saving Face and How to Say Farewell While most of the recent parallels to Iraq do not offer much encouragement, there are a few stories of inconclusive wars that left the U.S. in a more dignified position.
As Calls for an Iraq Pullout Rise, 2 Political Calendars Loom Large
Shiite Cleric Increases His Power in Iraq
Editorial An Army for the Day After A differently trained and configured American military force is absolutely essential for reconstruction to proceed in Iraq.

The New Rwanda It's the same old Rwanda story with the genocide in Darfur, with the same indifference from the world's governments.
How Reality Cut Likud's Vision Down to Size Sharon threw a grenade into Likud, quitting the party to form his own and to pursue his own approach to what he sees as Israel's new realities.
Police Break Up Peaceful Demonstration in Azerbaijan
Saudi Women Vote, and Run, in Business Chamber Election
Muslim Nations Skip Meeting With Europe
Defending Nuclear Ambitions, Iranian President Attacks U.S.
The Trial, Part 2: Hussein and the U.S. Strategy Will Be in the Dock Iraqis seem to be dividing over the trial of Saddam Hussein much as they have divided over the war, with Shiites and Kurds approving the process, and Sunni Arabs condemning it.

Pension Officers Putting Billions Into Hedge Funds Faced with growing numbers of retirees, pension plans are pouring billions into the lightly regulated investment partnerships that once managed money only for the wealthy.

Under Duress, Egypt's Islamist Party Still Surges at Polls

Tribunal Leader in Hussein's Case Is Target of Plot

Rich - Dishonest, Reprehensible, Corrupt ... An angry country has learned the hard way that it can no longer afford to be without the truth about the Iraq war.

Brooks - Heroes Abroad, Unknown at Home This is a culture that knows how to honor the casualties and the dead, but not the strength and prowess of its warriors.

Kristof A Tolerable Genocide After two years of heartbreaking slaughter, rape and mayhem, the situation in Darfur is now spiraling downward.

H5 Washington Post Our Dangerous, Growing Divide By Michael O'Hanlon, In recent months a civil-military divide has emerged in the United States over the war in Iraq. Unlike much of the Iraq debate between Democrats and Republicans, it is over the present and the future rather than the past. Increasingly, civilians worry that the war is being lost, or at least not...

Shiite Asks U.S. for Leeway in Rebel Fight The head of Iraq's most powerful political party says his country will only be able to defeat insurgents when the U.S. lets Iraqis get tough.

Afghanistan Confronts Recent Surge in Attacks Officials fear Taliban guerrillas are obtaining support from abroad to carry out strikes that increasingly mimic insurgent tactics in Iraq.

Middle East Surprises By Jim Hoagland, Call it history's revenge or the Nixon-goes-to-China syndrome run amok: Events in the Middle East now force political leaders to eat vows never to do certain things and then pronounce the dish tasty. Their reversals carry seeds of hope for a desperate region.

Bush to Asia: Freedom Is More Than Markets”By Dan Blumenthal and Tom Donnelly, Obscured by the unblinking spotlight on Iraq, the most significant strategic development of President Bush's second term is occurring in the shadows. If it can overcome the well-entrenched yet outdated policies of the past, the Bush Doctrine may be coming to East Asia, and the mere possibility is...

Torture, American-Style This Debate Comes Down to Words vs. Deeds By David Luban, There are two torture debates going on in America today: One is about fantasy, and the other is about reality.

Signs of an Iraq Policy By David S. Broder,
It has taken a long time, but the Democrats finally have come close to defining a sensible common ground on the issue of Iraq.

More Questions for Bob Woodward

World Leaders to Discuss Climate Control: Bush Administration Shuns Conference On Strategies to Build on Kyoto Pact

Editorial Facing Up to Darfur THE BUSH administration's approach to the genocide in the Sudanese territory of Darfur combines reasonable long-term diplomacy with a lack of strategy to deal with the immediate killing. The danger of this formula has been especially clear recently.

Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance

A Dream of Cairo Reborn An Egyptian architect reflects on what his nation might have been without stifling authoritarianism, bureaucracy and malaise.



H6 Guardian US may use planes as substitute for troops in Iraq

Azerbaijan condemned for crackdown Protesters baton-charged by riot police in Baku · Use of force 'unjust and unprovoked', says US

Saddam trial to go ahead Despite arrests of eight people for plotting to kill investigative judge the trial is 'to go ahead'.

Separatists denounce 'farcical' Chechen poll

Behind bars, but liberals defend Irving Ian Traynor: David Irving will be confined to a Josefstadt cell over Christmas and the New Year, pending trial on criminal charges deriving from his discredited views on the history of the second world war.

Marines under fire for ritual beatings film Naked fighting a bit of fun that got out of hand – MoD · Cuts in military blamed for unchecked bullying

The Observer The leak that revealed Bush's deep obsession with al-Jazeera

Iraq 'worse than under Saddam'Human rights abuses are in danger of eclipsing Saddam Hussein's record, according to ex-PM Allawi.

Nuclear power? Don't dismiss itHenry Porter: We cannot afford to dither any longer about the impending energy crisis. All governments must act now.
H7 The Economist Why America must stay America should keep its troops in Iraq until Iraqis ask them to go

In Iraq, Panic is Not the Solution - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek

Recharging the CIA - Timothy Burger, Time
We Are Winning, and Winning Decisively, in Iraq - James Wilson, Wall St. Journal
Will Iraq War Change U.S.'s World Role? - Richard Halloran, Honolulu Advertiser

Finishing the Job in Iraq - Chicago Tribune

Is Defeat Now an Option?by Patrick Buchanan

Winds of Change Monday's Winds of War: 28 Nov 2005

Iraq Report, 28 November/05

H8 White House claims pullout plan as own

Debka Putin Pulls Assad’s Chestnuts out of the Fire

TCS No Peace Without Syria Once again Lebanon's hot southern border is a frontline in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Saudis Say They Brokered UN-Syria Deal

Boston Globe What Iraq will look like after the elections (By Roger Owen)

US should scrap plane deal with Pakistan (By Selig S. Harrison)

US to Ask for Iran's Help to Secure Iraq

Talabani Delays Crackdown to Negotiate With Insurgents

BBC Saddam trial to resume in Baghdad

PINR "Forum for the Future Ends in Discord" Full text of report

UPI The Iraq insurgency: Questions and answers-Part 1

Outside view: Let Iraqis decide US pullout

Iraq Questions and Answers (Part 2)

Video of Contractors Shooting Iraqi Civilians
H9 Ha’aretz - Mubarak: Only Sharon can make peace with the Palestinians

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: We won't seek to fight Israel Buoyed by electoral success, Muslim Brotherhood leader says group will respect peace accords with Israel

PM said offering to name Peres as envoy for peace

MEMRI Nov 28 IA# 255 - Debate in the Arab and Muslim World Over Normalization With Israel

Yedioth Ahronoth 'North may flare up' IDF Intelligence Chief says, ‘should U.N. report on Hariri murder investigation implicate Assad’s regime, Israel can expect escalation along its northern border’; Sharon: Hizbullah is serious when it threatens to kidnap soldiers

TCS Sharon's Calculation By Austin Bay Thanks in part to Iraq, the opportunity for fundamental, positive political change in the Middle East is without...

UPI Walker's World; The shifting Mideast map

H10 Christian Science Monitor In war games, Indian Air Force tests US Foreign-made fighter jets performed well against US F-16s in recent exercises.

Set a deadline that lets Iraqis prove what they want By Philip Gold

On Iraqi's streets, the picture is less grim By Max Boot

In Montreal, a look at a post-Kyoto world Delegates will focus on keeping the environmental protocol moving after 2012.

How troops see Iraq Members of one of the hardest-hit units insist they saw the spark of progress.

Can Fallujah be rebuilt? The Iraqi town faces challenges creating jobs and attracting investment.

H11 IHT Bosnia: Haven for Islamic radicals?

BBC Beyond Kyoto What chance of progress at the Montreal climate talks?

Battle for Europe Panorama's Allan Little reports on the conflict over the EU's future


H12 RFE/RL Russia - Federation Council Speaker Talks About Political Reform
BBC Friends and foes US, Russia and China wrestle for influence in Central Asia
UPI Outside view: Russian energy and Asia

Newsweek The Balkans: Troubles 10 Years After Dayton


H13 The Times Help, we've been Googled! A small, independent publisher may fall victim to a monster of the internet By William Rees-Mogg

Spot the turkey — join our seasonal contest for White House watchers President Bush's popularity has slumped and events have escaped him, but it is still too soon to write him off and install Hillary Clinton as his replacement

Sunday Times SIMON JENKINS: Blair’s slow, embarrassing death by a thousand leaks

Giant mosque planned A massive mosque that will hold 40,000 worshippers is being proposed beside London's Olympic complex

WSJ NATO vs. Islamist Terror NATO is imperative to defend us against the threat of Islamist terror. By JOSE MARIA AZNAR

In Russia We Trust? What Oil for Food says about Kremlin promises on Iran.
H14 Financial Times Advancing Barcelona When President George W. Bush launched his "greater Middle East initiative" for Arab democracy a couple of years ago, many Europeans complained he was ignoring what...

EU agrees to renewed dialogue with Iran on nuclear programme

Islamists prosper in Egyptian elections

COMMENT: A digital library that all nations can learn from Americans have a unique opportunity to celebrate the multiplicity of cultures abroad and minimise the risk of clashes of civilisation, writes James Billington, Librarian of Congress in Washington DC

Saddam trial due to restart today amid calls for hearing to quit Iraq

Leader American paranoiaFor a country so reliant for its national wealth - and its national mythology - on the open arms it extends to foreign immigrants, the US is oddly prone to sudden fits...

Chinese mission seen as missed opportunity for US

COMMENT: Why Europe's bank needs urgent reform By Wolfgang Munchau It is still not too late to propose ECB reform as part of the next treaty revision. For as long as EU leaders maintain the status quo, they have the central bank they deserve.

Close to neutral It is not the end, but it is the beginning of the end. The latest minutes show that the Federal Reserve has entered what it expects to be the final phase of the...

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Pension tension: a longer life expectancy is bringing uncomfortable decisions As Britain this week awaits recommendations on how to fund future retirement, the experience of other countries offers pointers but some are in a worse position and nearly all will struggle

COMMENT: Four ways to make war on Brussels' red tape We seem to have seen a lot of smoke but little fire after the European Commission’s promise to build a “bonfire of regulations”, writes John Egan, non-executive chairman of Inchcape and Severn Trent

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Too much choice can hinder By Sundeep Tucker, Paivi Munter and Nicholas Timmins Using current taxes to pay pensions has long been the bedrock of most developed countries' pension systems.

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: The Chilean model runs out of road By Richard Lapper and Adam Thomson Not long ago, economic policymakers hailed Chile's privatised pension system as the model to follow.

COMMENT: Look no further for a homefor global bodies Donald Johnston, the departing secretary-general of the OECD, has been encouraged by the expressions of strong support for the quality and relevance of the work of the body, and for an enhanced role for it in the future.

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial The way forward in Iraq IRAQ'S SUNNI, SHIITE AND KURDISH leaders have finally found an issue on which they agree: a timetable for the U.S. to leave Iraq. That's fine. They have also agreed it's permissible for insurgents to kill U.S. soldiers. That's dreadful. But it's also the realization of prewar fears that if the aftermath of the invasion went poorly, American troops would be viewed not as liberators but as occupiers.
Use of Phosphorus Ignites Debate Critics say the U.S. killed Iraqi civilians with the incendiary weapon. The Pentagon denies it.

Tyrants on trial By Mary Bridges
This week, the trials of two overthrown dictators resume, one at The Hague, where former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic faces charges including genocide, the other in Baghdad, where Saddam Hussein is accused of massacring nearly 150 Shiites.

America's dance with a devil
By Susan Zakin IN THE RECENT film "Lord of War," Nicolas Cage plays a Russian emigre and a gunrunner. Cage's Yuri Orlov isn't exactly immoral, even when he is giving a West African dictator boatloads of AK-47s to wax many people in his country, not to mention many more in diamond-rich Sierra Leone . Yuri just happens to have a single talent: providing weaponry to speed along the disintegration of the world order.

The leftist Bush should appreciate By Jo-Ann Mort Sharon's decision to break from the conservative Likud Party he created to form a new party is the latest in a series of electoral tremors that began when Amir Peretz beat Shimon Peres for chairman of Israel's Labor Party and redefined the nation's peace camp.

Border Security a Divisive Issue for Republicans

Koizumi Has Japan Moving in the Right Direction - Bill Emmott, The Economist
H16 The Second Most Powerful Position in the World -Washington Times

DeFrank - Embattled White House aides have begun to believe President Bush must take the reins personally if his evaporating agenda and credibility are to be salvaged.

Americans More Skeptical of Involvement Abroad - David Shribman, Pittsburgh PG
What About President Bush's Second Term? - Caspar Weinberger, Forbes
The Fall of the One-Party Empire - Jonathan Schell, The Nation

Toward Europe? - Michael Barone, RealClearPolitics Will the United States become more or less like continental Europe?

Second TIME Reporter Asked to Testify on Leak...

Krugman Age of Anxiety
Peter Drucker's prophetic work, "The Age of Discontinuity," speaks directly to today's business headlines and economic anxieties.

Weekly Standard The Freedoms We Fight For The unheralded Islamist assault on free speech.by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
H17 Daily Telegraph God isn't big enough for some people We in Europe have faced a fading of organised religion in recent years, writes Umberto Eco. Faith in the Christian churches has been declining. The ideologies such as communism that promised to supplant religion have failed in spectacular and very public fashion.

'The final shape of Israel' Sixty years after the state of Israel was created, Ariel Sharon is effectively drawing its final borders, say his advisers, diplomats, friends … and the cartographers.

'Bomb plot is a conspiracy theory'Tony Blair has branded as a "conspiracy theory" claims that a leaked memo has revealed plans by President George W Bush last year to bomb the television station al-Jazeera.

Britain opposes Bolton tactic on UN reform Britain has rejected a proposal by John Bolton, America's combative ambassador to the United Nations, to block the upcoming UN budget as a tactic to push throughdisputed reforms.

Call for Blair's swift exitTony Blair is under growing pressure to speed up his departure from No 10 after a Cabinet colleague urged him to give Gordon Brown time to "settle in".

Iran's war on weblogsIran is fighting a constant battle against dissenters who are using the internet to voice criticism of the Islamic Republic and push for freedom and democracy

Chirac sinks to new lowJacques Chirac's presidency has hit a new low after a poll revealed that most voters think he now has little or no influence over events either at home or overseas.

VIDEO: UK'S ROYAL MARINES BULLYING ALLEGATIONS... **WARNING: GRAPHIC**
H18 Independent Saddam on trial: Ten reasons justice may not be served

So what have they got to hide? Official secrets, lies, and the truth about the assault on Fallujah

Joseph E Stiglitz: This is a bold initiative that could unite the whole world

Chechen polls expected to hand clear victory to Moscow

Teen Britain: The shocking truth Teenagers are facing what medical experts warn is "a mental health time bomb" caused by the abuse of drugs and alcohol

Holocaust denier Irving turns to friends in US

Pay up to save the rainforests A bloc of developing countries plans to make a radical proposal this week at the United Nations summit on climate change in Montreal: pay us, and we will preserve our rainforests.

Musharraf told by summit to embrace democracy

H19 'IMPERIAL GRUNTS: THE AMERICAN MILITARY ON THE GROUND,' BY ROBERT D. KAPLANAppropriating the Globe In his tour of the outposts of America's empire, Robert D. Kaplan acts as both policy analyst and travel writer. First Chapter

Wartime Training Changes AFPS 27 Nov 2005 -- The Army is instituting significant changes in how it trains and recruits soldiers

Books Understanding Kissinger

Letters from the edge Malcolm Brown reveals the emotional side of a hero renowned for his coldness in his biography and his selection of Lawrence of Arabia's correspondence The Observer
H20 Slate Fight or Flight?: Cheney's weak argument in the war debate. Michael Kinsley

Economists Dispute 'Freakonomics' Abortion ResearchTwo economists questioned the assertion in the book "Freakonomics" that the legalization of abortion was linked to a drop in crime.


Globalization’s Dark Side: World Unbalanced

The New Rich-Rich Gap: National vs. Global




H21 CustomizeGoogle Now Has a Blog, New Feature Allows Easy Printing ... Search Engine Watch

NetLibrary: Over 100,000 Digitized and Searchable Books Available Online

100 Notable Books of the Year The Book Review has selected this list from books reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of Dec. 5, 2004. More Notable Books Lists: 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

'Without education there's no hope. Without books there's no education'

Editorial Observer: What Google Should Roll Out Next: A Privacy Upgrade By ADAM COHEN Google should do a better job of including users in decisions about how their personal information is collected, stored, and shared.

The Never Ending 'Beta' Technology companies have turned "beta" into a long-term label, with some products and Web services remaining in test mode for months, or even years.
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