H1 Washington Post What Are We Holding Together? By Peter W. Galbraith, Although it was certainly not his intention, George W. Bush broke up Iraq when he ordered the invasion in 2003. The United States not only removed Saddam Hussein, but it also smashed, and later dissolved, the institutions that enabled Iraq's Sunni Arab minority to rule the country: the army, the...
Reselling the Wars Are Troop Withdrawals the Price for Further Commitment in Afghanistan and Iraq? By Jackson Diehl, The Bush administration's effort to win quickly and cheaply in Afghanistan and Iraq has boomeranged. We need to fight the battles it tried to dodge.
Carnegie Endowment Is Political Consensus Possible in Iraq? By Nathan Brown The Economist On the cover Despite globalisation's success in raising living standards, people are again queuing up to denounce it: Tired of globalisation New Yorker BREAKING RANKS by JEFFREY GOLDBERG What turned Brent Scowcroft against the Bush Administration?
H4 New York Times Editorial Signing Up Saddam's Soldiers It is late in the day, but Iraq's ruling coalition of Shiite and Kurdish parties, and their American patrons, are finally showing some realism.
When the C.I.A. Played by the Rules By MILT BEARDENReciprocity provides an effective argument for the U.S. to obey the Geneva Conventions: ...
NYT Magazine FREAKONOMICSWhy Vote? By STEPHEN J. DUBNER and STEVEN D. LEVITT There's no good economic rationale for going to the polls. So what is it that drives the democratic instinct?
Migrant Worry By DAVID RIEFF Who deserves to be a citizen? As the politics of immigration roil Europe and the U.S., the real debate hasn't even begun.
Reserved By ROGER LOWENSTEIN Globalization and Alan Greenspan's own influential stewardship have steered the Fed back to something like its original state: an institution with limited power.
America's Learning Deficit By HENRY LEVIN and NIGEL HOLMES The costs of a poor education and the savings of a good education.
Herbert And the War Goes On For all the talk, neither the Bush administration nor the public has taken the reality of the Iraq war seriously enough to do something about it.
Evolution Is in the Air By OLIVIA JUDSON If we're unlucky, the virus causing avian flu will give us a nasty demonstration of Darwin's theory.
Rich - The Mysterious Death of Pat Tillman The propagandistic fable exposed by the leak case - the apocalyptic imminence of Saddam's mushroom clouds - was only the first of its genre.
H5 Washington Post What Are We Holding Together? By Peter W. Galbraith, Although it was certainly not his intention, George W. Bush broke up Iraq when he ordered the invasion in 2003. The United States not only removed Saddam Hussein, but it also smashed, and later dissolved, the institutions that enabled Iraq's Sunni Arab minority to rule the country: the army, the...
Reselling the Wars Are Troop Withdrawals the Price for Further Commitment in Afghanistan and Iraq? By Jackson Diehl, The Bush administration's effort to win quickly and cheaply in Afghanistan and Iraq has boomeranged. We need to fight the battles it tried to dodge.
Editorial Mr. Blair's Changing Climate The president has a chance to break the vicious cycle of European whining and American stonewalling on climate change. He should take it.
Deep Background, Deep Controversy By Deborah Howell, Anonymous sources, always controversial, have become even more so since the CIA leak case …
A Gender Jihad For Islam's Future By Asra Q. Nomani, Muslim feminists are engaged in a struggle to reclaim rights granted to women by Islam at its birth but erased by manmade rules and tribal traditions masquerading as divine law.
Happy where his heart is Roy Hattersley: Blair is not and never has been Labour. Now his devotion to the market is turning a gap into a gulf.
A battle between liberty and authoritarianism Charles Kennedy: Basic freedoms are under attack in the name of the fight against terror. We should heed Churchill's wartime warnings.
AsiaTimes Beijing blusters over India's nuclear deal Months after India and the US agreed on a landmark nuclear pact, the Chinese media have for the first time responded, and not very kindly. India has taken umbrage, but it will take bigger issues to derail the accord. - Siddharth Srivastava
CFR Lawrence Scheinman, an arms control expert, tells CFR's Bernard Gwertzman a new U.S.-India nuclear agreement undercuts U.S. allegiance to the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. Interview
UPI Analysis: U.S. casualties persist in Iraq after referendum Prior to the successful referendum poll Oct. 15, U.S. officials had predicted that the vote would be a milestone, and that the growing credibility of the democratic process would likely undermine the insurgency.
BBC US and Iraqis continue offensive US and Iraqi troops battle insurgents on the second day of an anti-militant operation near Iraq's Syrian border.
ITNI The Great Mirage By James G. Poulos The trail of Iraq’s federalist vapors cuts clear through the fatalistic postcolonial illusion of the whole Middle East.
H13 The Times Opposition claims poll rigging Azerbaijan’s Opposition has accused the Government of rigging parliamentary elections and pledged to campaign to overturn the results
Colour-blind policy has fed Muslim radicalismThe riots in France have highlighted the country's failure to include its seven million residents of Arab and African origin in the national mainstream
Treatment of foreign prisoners is fuelling disputes in administration John McCain, the Arizona Republican, has signalled that he will not cave in to White House pressure to carve out an exception for the CIA in legislation that would bar the US from torturing prisoners overseas.
COMMENT & ANALYSIS: The new oligarchs? Winners and losers in the Kremlin's grab for oil wealth By Arkady Ostrovsky In the past two years Russia’s oil and gas sector has undergone the most fundamental changes since the mid-1990s. As privatised assets return to state control, some believe the drive is just a percursor to a new round of privatisations with a different set of beneficiaries.
The error of Germany's budget plan By Wolfgang MunchauGermany’s incoming “grand coalition” of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is about to commit the biggest economic policy error since unification
OECD race in last lapThe race to be the next secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is reaching its last lap. "So what?" will be the reaction of... H15 Los Angeles Times Rove's Clearance Is Questioned Some wonder if he should continue as White House deputy chief of staff while under investigation.
The Price of Asia's Growth The U.S. is no longer the sole power that many nations look to for trade and protection.
PBS Former Aide's Criticisms Ignite Iraq War Debate The former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell has accused the administration of allowing a small group of senior officials to control the pre- Iraq war intelligence and post-war planning.
H17 Daily Telegraph Broken contract What is required in France is the creation of conditions for enterprise that will allow those stuck in the cité 'ghettos' to break out of drear desperation through work.
France divided as the flames creep closer After nine nights of rioting on the drab sink estates of suburban Paris, the spread of trouble to the fringes of the elegant city centre was perhaps the development France most dreaded, writes Colin Randall.
Sunday Telegraph When Churchill went to war - with AmericaChurchill was convinced of close Anglo-American relations, if democratic values were to be sustained, and world peace preserved, writes Sir Martin Gilbert.
Iran requests nuclear talks Iran has written to European ambassadors calling for fresh nuclear talks and allowed UN inspectors into one of its military research complexes.
Suicide bombers on TVIranian state television has broadcast a cartoon that glorifies suicide bombings against Israelis, depicting a young boy blowing himself up after being told: "Go and show the Zionists how brave and heroic are the children of Palestine."
Iraq DID raise terror danger, says MeyerReeling from a week of revolts and resignation, Tony Blair is under attack over the invasion of Iraq from Sir Christopher Meyer, a former adviser.
A big hand Chris Taylor: Only last year, Diego Maradona seemed all but finished. His weight ballooned and he grappled with cocaine addiction. How, then, did he reinvent himself as a trim TV star and political hero?
Who has the bigger brain? As one respected journal claims that men are smarter than women, another leaps in to rubbish the research. Robin McKie reports on science's gloves-off squabble. H21 Want 'War and Peace' Online? How About 20 Pages at a Time? Amazon.com and Google are developing systems to allow consumers to purchase online access to parts of books. New York Times
The Economist Online books Big technology companies have pledged to make many thousands of books available online. The commercial prospects look shaky, but this new front in the battle between the world’s leading internet portals will yield a valuable resource for all
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