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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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