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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

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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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