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H1 Financial Times COMMENT & ANALYSIS: How oil and guns trumped democracy in the Caucasus This is a place where the west could have made a difference. Instead, it has chosen the easy option of speaking in a whisper. By Philip Stephens

Pew and CFR publish report on public attitudes to U.S foreign policy Report full text [PDF 378kb]

Washington Post CIA Builds Network of Anti-Terror Centers
Intelligence agency has established dozens of secret international facilities to fight terrorism.

Careful With Syria By David Ignatius In the United Nations' looming confrontation with Syria, it's hard to define the best strategy but easy to identify the worst one: the imposition of general economic sanctions that would hurt the Syrian people while allowing the ruling clique to grow even richer.

An Iraq Deadline for Bush By E. J. Dionne Jr., This will be remembered as the week when President Bush lost control over the Iraq war debate. His administration has perhaps six months to get things right. If the situation in Iraq fails to improve significantly, public pressure for withdrawal will become irresistible.

New York Times Rapid Pullout From Iraq Urged by Key Democrat

Guardian Iran's president purges opponents Iran faces political paralysis as its new president purges government institutions, bringing accusations that he is undertaking a coup d'état.

More than 80,000 held by US since 9/11 attacks
The Economist The dragon and the eagle try to get along When George Bush visits China this weekend, he and his counterpart, Hu Jintao, will stress their common ground. But the two countries continue nervously to appraise each other’s intentions
The Post-Conflict Reconstruction Essential Tasks Matrix is an important tool describing the full spectrum of tasks that might need to be performed by the international community in a post-conflict environment
H2 Statement before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Ross Wilson Ambassador-Designate to the Republic of Turkey

Financial Times LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: I am not predicting another Turkish financial crisis By Steve H Hanke

EDM INTERNATIONAL MONITORS SPLIT OVER AZERBAIJAN ELECTIONS
- NATO PEACEKEEPING TROOPS IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS?

SlateToday's Papers / Blogometer realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird thru GovExec - antiwar.com / Wikipedia / technorati

Jerusalem Post Why is this man smiling?With all the cards stacked against him, Bashar Assad is lucky to still be in office.

CSIS Iraq and Foreign Volunteers Anthony H. Cordesman

EurasiaNet Russia Backs Azerbaijani Leadership in Poll Controversy Russia is aiming to improve its geopolitical position in the Caucasus through its unstinting support for Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s administration amid Azerbaijan’s parliamentary election controversy.

The geopolitics of 2026by Mark Leonard, The Economist - The World in 2006, November 2005
Asia Times Friendly fire and the US in Iran Some in Washington are courting the Iranian opposition group, Mujahideen-e Khalq, despite the fact that it's on the US's terrorist list. Seduced by the group's fantasies of regime change in Tehran - just as they were by those of Iraq's Ahmad Chalabi - these Americans fail to realize just how dangerous the group could be to the US. - Neda Bolourchi
Moqtada Sadr: Iraq's New Power Broker - Spencer Ackerman, The New Republic
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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Kurds see democracy as means to gain independent state: In Iraq ...KurdishMedia

Incompatible Turkey Kathimerini

BBC Turkish publisher goes on trial Turkey prosecutes a publisher for a translated work critical of the Turkish military during the Kurdish insurgency.

Black Sea partners toast gas deal

FT OBSERVER: Snubbing a member of the club That is what Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, did on Tuesday to Anders Fogh Rasmussen

FAES NATO: AN ALLIANCE FOR FREEDOM How to transform the Atlantic Alliance to effectively defend our Freedom and democracies

What Good Is NATO? Town Hall

Putin Visits Turkey for Pipeline Ceremony

Geopolitics, Grand Strategy and the Bush Doctrine Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies - SingaporeA 31-page working paper criticising the Bush doctrine and its formulation of a "Global War on Terror"
EU-ISS International terrorism: the changing threat and the EU’s response by Paul Wilkinson
The Limits of Sovereignty; The Legitimacy of Collective Action Tech Central Station, Syria has accidentally placed itself at the center of the debate about the limits of sovereignty and the legitimacy of collective action.

H4 New York Times Rapid Pullout From Iraq Urged by Key Democrat

Building a Better Boom By JOHN BATTELLE We are witnessing the Web's second coming, not a new bubble.

Friedman Guess Who's Coming to Dinner The surprise election of Amir Peretz to head Israel's Labor Party is a sign of the cautious optimism in Israel.

Iraqi Rift Grows After Discovery of Prison
U.S. Plans to Widen Inquiry Into Iraqi Prisoner Abuse
Survey Shows a Revival of Isolationism Among Americans
Israel Moving Toward Early Parliamentary Elections
From Tapes, a Chilling Voice of Islamic Radicalism in Europe A police report dramatically depicts the radicalization of an Egyptian in Milan who may have ties to the Madrid attack.

Issuing Contracts, Ex-Convict Took Bribes in Iraq, U.S. Says Robert J. Stein was alleged to have steered lucrative construction contracts to companies run by another American.
H5 Washington Post CIA Builds Network of Anti-Terror Centers
Intelligence agency has established dozens of secret international facilities to fight terrorism.

Careful With Syria By David Ignatius
DAMASCUS -- In the United Nations' looming confrontation with Syria, it's hard to define the best strategy but easy to identify the worst one: the imposition of general economic sanctions that would hurt the Syrian people while allowing the ruling clique to grow even richer.

An Iraq Deadline for Bush By E. J. Dionne Jr., This will be remembered as the week when President Bush lost control over the Iraq war debate. His administration has perhaps six months to get things right. If the situation in Iraq fails to improve significantly, public pressure for withdrawal will become irresistible.

Early Warning: Al Qaeda Transforms

Pro-Defense Democrat Calls for Immediate Troop Withdrawal: Republicans Call Proposal Defeatist

U.S. to Investigate Iraqi-Run Prisons
Discovery of Secret Detention Site, Allegations of Torture Prompt Crackdown

Editorial Winter in Kashmir IT TAKES advanced seismographs to anticipate earthquakes and computerized weather models to predict hurricanes. It doesn't take sophisticated technology to predict that leaving thousands without shelter in the freezing Himalayas will be disastrous.

Sharon Agrees to Early Elections

Phony Theory, False Conflict 'Intelligent Design' Foolishly Pits Evolution Against Faith By Charles Krauthammer, What could be more elegant, creative and divine than a world derived from variations in a single, double stranded molecule? Even if the world includes the Kansas Board of Education.

Revival of Cossacks Casts Muslim Group Out of Russia to U.S. Thousands of Muslims from a small ethnic group known as the Meskhetian Turks are fleeing this Black Sea region for the United......
H6 Guardian Iran's president purges opponents Iran faces political paralysis as its new president purges government institutions, bringing accusations that he is undertaking a coup d'état. Troubles piles up for Iran's leader

More than 80,000 held by US since 9/11 attacks · Growing worries over treatment of prisoners · Fury in Europe over secret CIA terror suspect flights

Refusing to cross the ethnic divideScars of division remain decade after agreement to end the Bosnian war.

Sharon agrees to call snap poll after threat from Labour Ariel Sharon agrees to call general election in three months after meeting new leader of his coalition partner, Amir Peretz.

We must never concede the politics of aspiration for all Tony Blair: The greatest myth is that our education reforms are designed to benefit the middle class at the expense of poorer families.
H7 The Economist France The aftermath
Peter Drucker Trusting the teacher in the grey-flannel suit

Rand Corporation Analyzing Terrorism Risk

Jim Lobe Americans Reject Globo-Cop Role
Asia Times Friendly fire and the US in Iran Some in Washington are courting the Iranian opposition group, Mujahideen-e Khalq, despite the fact that it's on the US's terrorist list. Seduced by the group's fantasies of regime change in Tehran - just as they were by those of Iraq's Ahmad Chalabi - these Americans fail to realize just how dangerous the group could be to the US. - Neda Bolourchi
India oils its Saudi Arabia tiesThey have kept each other at a distance for a long time, but now Saudi Arabia's king is to be guest of honor at India's Republic Day celebrations. Not only are the two countries' takes on Islamist terrorism converging, but the kingdom has the oil India craves after its traditional suppliers - Iran and Iraq - became problematical. - Siddharth Srivastava

H8 Slaughter of Sunnis in Iraq is Inevitable - James Pinkerton, Newsday

Daily Star The Middle East's real bane: corruption Michael Rubin

BBC Top Democrat urges Iraq pullout A senior Democrat who backed the Iraq war calls for the immediate pullout of US forces.

War of words The political battle over President Bush's Iraq policy intensifies
Iraq plays down claims of abuse Iraq's interior minister says claims of prisoner abuse are exaggerated, and the problem is not widespread.

New study details Iraq insurgency Some 3,000 foreigners may be fighting in Iraq, a new report says, three times more than previous Pentagon estimates.

Egypt banned party support surges Egypt's ruling NDP wins most seats in first-round voting amid surging support for the barred Muslim Brotherhood.

McCain, Chalabi, and Iraq - Danielle Hale, American Enterprise Magazine

MEMRI Nov 18 SD# 1026 - Saudi Iqra TV Series on Jews in the Time of Muhammad: Jews Plan to Eliminate and Destroy Islam

PINR "Insurgents, Warlords and Opium Roil Afghanistan" Full text of report


H9 Ha’aretz – PM to decide in next few days if he will quit Likud

Katsav makes landmark visit to Vatican for talks with Pope

Jerusalem Post Why is this man smiling?With all the cards stacked against him, Bashar Assad is lucky to still be in office.

Yedioth Ahronoth Poll: 28 seats to Sharon party Will PM leave Likud? Yedioth Ahronoth survey shows strong showing for independent Sharon party, Likud collapse; earlier, some prime minister aides say Sharon set to leave ruling party, final decision expected soon

BBC Israel's next PM? New Labour Party leader faces a struggle to make his name
Austria holds 'Holocaust denier'
British revisionist historian David Irving is detained in Austria on charges of denying the Nazi Holocaust.

New Republic To make peace, swap land How to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. by Uzi Arad

Washington Institute Suicide Terrorism in the Middle East: Origins and Response By Martin Kramer and Robert Pape

Countries of Particular Concern: Religious Freedom and the Middle East Simon Henderson examines the State Department’s 2005 report on religious liberty worldwide, which fingers Iran, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia among the world’s worst abusers.
H10 Christian Science Monitor US cautious as China's reach grows
China's military, though growing, would have to significantly increase its budget to become the dominant force in Asia.

Arms controversy in Iraq
Civilian fatalities in Fallujah raise concerns about the US military's use of white phosphorous munitions there.

Secretary Rice's night of negotiation
Arab opinions of US: good news, bad news Favorable opinions are up, if still low; but other nations fare far better.

Stung over Iraq, White House takes offensive
President Bush aims to seal his legacy with long-term stability there.

The next CIA leak case

Drucker's philosophy works

Cherish the newsprint on your thumbs

H11 IHT A spark for Mideast peace WILLIAM S. COHEN I applaud Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for meeting earlier this week with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Her mediation led to a deal that will allow Palestinians to travel in and out of the Gaza Strip with relative freedom.

Boston Globe A breeding ground in Iraq (By Daniel Benjamin)

UPI Walker's World: France's next step

New Republic France's very long history of violence by Keelin McDonell

Why the French forgot how to assimilate France has been absorbing immigrants forever--with tremendous success. So why is it failing now?by David A. Bell

Can EU diplomacy stop Iran's nuclear programme?by Mark Leonard, November 2005

Daily Star France is not alone in living above a volcanoMichel Rocard
H12 RFE/RL Iran - Testing The International Community's Patience? A source with ties to the International Atomic Energy Agency says that Iran has started a new round of uranium conversion.
Opposition Struggles To Keep Momentum
Romania Says U.S. Military Base Deal Finalized

Georgian President Backs Decision To Skip CIS Meeting
Russia's Anger at Iran Over Nukes Growing
EDM INTERNATIONAL MONITORS SPLIT OVER AZERBAIJAN ELECTIONS
- NATO PEACEKEEPING TROOPS IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS?
- UZBEKISTAN: ENTER RUSSIA
- UZBEKISTAN: EXIT AMERICA

UPI Analysis: China, Japan vie for African oil

The Coming East Asia Summit: A Thirty-Point Agenda Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies

World Bank's Global Economic Prospects report Publication/Download details
H13 The Times Suffering from amnesia Democrats have forgotten they too once thought Saddam was a monstrous threat to US security By Gerard Baker

Hawkish Cheney renews attack but attracts only flak

Bin Laden’s ruthless rival spreads tentacles of jihad across region

WSJ European 'Union Solidarity' The social model of hypocrisy, xenophobia and protectionism. By GRAHAM WATSON

FT India hesitates Foreign investors are queuing at India's door to take a stake in what is widely seen as one of the world's last great growth markets.

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: There is a chance to correct the defects of Basel II Basel II gives banks considerable leeway in how they measure risk.

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: A not so foreign exchange: China shuns the west as a location for its big corporate share offers

EUROPE: Domestic demand set to propel EU growth Europe's economy is accelerating out of its recent trough, according to new forecasts
H14 Financial Times COMMENT & ANALYSIS: How oil and guns trumped democracy in the Caucasus By Philip Stephens

COMMENT: It is time to take Palestinian opinion seriously The Israeli prime minister continues to enjoy popular support for policies that are closing the window of opportunity opened by his withdrawal from Gaza, writes Henry Siegman, former executive head of the American Jewish Congress, in a personal view

Leader Bush in Asia still dogged by Iraq Bush's trip to Asia is turning into a metaphor for his second term as US president. Wherever Mr Bush goes he cannot escape the increasingly partisan debate...

Iraq war backlash fuels American isolationism By Edward Alden in WashingtonThe war in Iraq is generating an isolationist backlash among Americans, according to a broad survey of public opinion...

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Talk of a pensions crisis is overblown By Martin Wolf The argument for voluntarism over compulsion is reinforced: saving should be made easier, but it should not be compelled



H15 Los Angeles Times The torture rule book By Ori Nir and Amos Guiora
Israel banned physical methods of interrogation for terrorist suspects in 1999. Is this a model for the U.S.?

Top CIA Official Met With Kadafi in Libya

Rapid Personnel Shifts Hinder U.S. Efforts to Rebuild Iraq

Resist China's Hold - Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News
H16 Hawkish Democrat Murtha Calls for Iraq Pullout... Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., ranking Democrat on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and a former supporter of the Iraq war, said Thursday that U.S. troops should leave within six months.

Rep. John Murtha & War in Iraq
Attacking Critics, White House Tinkers With Truth
Pentagon Agrees to Probe Feith's Role in Iraq Intel


EX-CIA BOSS SAYS CHENEY IS 'VICE PRESIDENT FOR TORTURE'...

Arianna: 15 questions for Bob Woodward
H17 Daily Telegraph French envoy took Saddam's cash One of France's most distinguished diplomats has confessed to an investigating judge that he accepted oil allocations from Saddam Hussein.

Le Monde Miracle chinois et colère sociale, par Bruno Philip
H18 Independent Clinton: The big mistake of the Iraq war The dam has burst. Former president Bill Clinton's verdict that the war in Iraq was "a big mistake" is echoing around the world

Risen from the ashes of war: Winning the peace in the Balkans
Watergate hero shame over White House leak

H19 CRS U.S. Military Overseas Basing: New Developments and Oversight Issues for Congress

Sea-based missile defense test called a success...
H20 Slate
H21 Scientists find fear gene...

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