Foreign Press Review - December 19 2005 1219-2005f
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H1 Newsweek Zakaria: Big Enough To Know Better China has grown for three decades at a pace no other country has ever sustained. But 2006 may be the year when we begin to see problems. Beijing has somehow found a way to do centrally planned capitalism. But now it seems to be attempting something far more complex: centrally planned pluralism.

Washington Post Henry A. Kissinger: How to Exit Iraq At First, Iraqi Soldiers Should Augment U.S. Forces, Not Replace Them

U.S. Role in Iraq Remains Vital Robin Wright

In the Mideast, Democratic Momentum Jackson Diehl

New York Times Will It Be Different Now? By DEXTER FILKINS Iraqis live in a society that is free but anarchic, in the first stages of constructing a democratic polity that every week seems to flower and collapse.

Sunday Telegraph Iraq could be facing a democratic war In some ways the first shots in the Iraqi civil war have already been fired, and Niall Ferguson fears that much worse may lie ahead: Iraq could easily go the way of Lebanon in the late 1970s, only bigger and bloodier.
UPI Outside View: The art of leaving Iraq By William S. Lind
BBC - Colin Powell Interview
Sun SADDAM INTERVIEW...
Christian Science Monitor IRAQ IN TRANSITION Next on the docket: coalition-building
The new government must finalize the constitution and manage reconstruction.
Time The Good Samaritans For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are TIME's Persons of the Year.
IMF, Mohsin S. Khan, Nov 27, 2005What is Happening to the Petrodollars?
H2 The Observer Why a great writer's trial affects us all Denis MacShane

Independent Maureen Freely: The faceless, nameless defenders of 'Turkishness'

Weekly Standard A Sultan with Swat Remembering Abdul Hamid II, a pro-American caliph. by Mustafa Akyol
NYT Obituary Tahsin Ozguc, 89, Is Dead; Archaeologist Who Worked Sites in Turkey
SlateToday's Papers / Blogometer realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird thru GovExec - antiwar.com / Wikipedia / technorati

AP International spat upends lives of Turkish translators in Iraq

Turkey's EU bid under strain By Andrew Borowiec - The Washington Times

Reporters on the Job: In Uncle Jalal's Kurdistan Jerusalem Post

Financial Times Editorial Doha trade round is left on life support

COMMENT: Merkel finds hope in Europe's gloom By Wolfgang Munchau - Perhaps the most significant aspect of the European summit that ended on Saturday morning is the re-emergence of Germany as a central power in the European Union

COMMENT: A helping hand for Middle East bilateralism Upcoming Palestinian and Israeli elections represent a thrashing out of the internal political debate in both societies, says David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Guardian Leader – EU Budget - A bigger achievement than it seems
The nadir of occupation Salim Lone: Last week's election does little to heal the wounds that are splitting Iraq up into violent fiefdoms.

Yedioth Ahronoth Iran disinformation can boomerang Defense establishment playing with fire by leaking Iran ‘attack plans’

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

Milliyet - Yasemin Çongar - Oyun ve Büyükanıt

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Days after the election, petrol prices shot up in Kurdistan The shortage of fuel, water and electricity are the main problems facing Kurdistan today.

Rizgari Kürt Ulusal Demokratik Birlik Toplantısı Sonuç Bildirgesi

The fragmentation of Iraq would save us from a civil war Ahmad Zakhoi

Ex-FBI translator's case may reveal Plame's crucial CIA role

The Times Cherie case provokes diplomatic row

Guardian Cherie Booth's role in Cyprus land dispute angers president

Will Iraqi Kurdistan teach Turkey about freedom of speech? KurdishMedia

Iran accused of aiding Islamist violence in Turkey: report

Talabani hails Iran's role in Iraq's parliamentary election

In Kurdistan, Election Becomes Endorsement

Turkey’s Trial of Orhan Pamuk: Some Ignored ComplexitiesBalkanalysis.com
RFE/RL Tbilisi, Kyiv Seek Energy Alliance With West
Sunday Times Spies warned of attack Intelligence services warned the prime minister of a potential terrorist attack well before July 7

H4 New York Times Bush, Saying U.S. Is Winning, Asks Patience on Iraq --- Transcript Video Excerpts Checking the Facts

Will It Be Different Now? By DEXTER FILKINS Iraqis live in a society that is free but anarchic, in the first stages of constructing a democratic polity that every week seems to flower and collapse.

Editorial Letting Down Lebanon Syria is getting away with murder in Lebanon, and with its watered-down resolution the United Nations Security Council is letting it happen.

Paul Krugman Tankers on the Take How many others are being paid for punditry? Or has the culture of corruption spread so far that the question is, Who isn't?
Rights Group Reports Afghanistan Torture
Trade Officials Agree to End Subsidies for Agricultural Exports
France Will Bolster NATO Troops in Afghanistan

In Address, Bush Says He Ordered Domestic Spying President Bush said he would continue the highly classified program because it was "a vital tool in our war against terrorists."
Transcript: President Bush's SpeechEavesdropping Began Soon After 9/11

Editorial This Call May Be Monitored ... Illegal government spying on Americans is a violation of individual liberties, whether conditions are troubled or not.

Blogging the Vote in Iraq
The Op-Ed page asked several young Iraqi bloggers to write about their experiences during the parliamentary voting on Thursday.

David Brooks - Taking a Long View of the Iraq Conflict If the United States has the perseverance to finish the job, Iraq's civil conflict doesn't have to be a cataclysmic one. -- Brooks discusses the Journal of Peace Research, in which specialists write about civil wars, and uses that perspective to analyze the situation in Iraq. He outlines the reasons for civil war, how they begin, their duration, and their objectives. He says it is essential that the US remain in Iraq until it is certain the central government is strong.

While Iraq Counts Votes, Politicians Vie for Leverage
New Mission for U.S. Division: To Put Iraqi Forces to the Test
Thousands of Scholarships Lift Saudi Enrollments in U.S.
In Era After Arafat, Islamic Militants Are Edging Into Power
Elite French Schools Block the Poor's Path to Power
The World: Who Killed Rafik Hariri? Searching for the Truth in the Middle East

Herbert Dangerous Territory
The Bush administration has shown no qualms about trampling the fundamental tenets of a free, open and democratic society.

H5 Washington Post Henry A. Kissinger: How to Exit Iraq At First, Iraqi Soldiers Should Augment U.S. Forces, Not Replace Them - The U.S. exit from Iraq should driven by a strategy that seeks to consolidate the national government, not a timetable that could be perceived as a forced retreat.

U.S. Role in Iraq Remains Vital
The Iraqi election may be over, but the challenges most critical to a timetable for U.S. withdrawal still lie ahead, experts say. –Robin Wright

In the Mideast, Democratic Momentum
Jackson Diehl Amid all the noise of suicide bombings, of talk of a quagmire for U.S. troops and a sectarian conflict that could lead to Iraq's disintegration, most people haven't noticed that in the rest of the Arab Middle East, the political momentum of the past year has been... distinctly democratic.

Editorial - Justice for Syria

Iraqi Parties Complain Of Vote Irregularities Political parties complained of violations ranging from dead men voting to murder in the streets.

Bush Lauds Iraqi Vote But Cites Challenges
In televised speech from Oval Office, president also warns of more violence as the country vies to establish a democracy amid a raging insurgency.

President Sounds Subdued Note
Bush seeks to bring Iraq back into the fold with a more realistic assessment of mistakes, hurdles.

Editorial Spying on Americans

President Pushes Limits Of Wartime Powers In last four years, White House has collected information on U.S. citizens on a scale unmatched since the intelligence reforms of the 1970s.

Torture's Long Shadow By Vladimir Bukovsky

Pentagon's Intelligence Authority Widens
Fact Sheet Details Secretive Agency's Growth From Focus on Policy to Counterterrorism

Bush Defends Domestic Spying
The president says he secretly authorized eavesdropping because it was legal and critical to saving American lives. –Peter Baker Spying Issue Inflames Patriot Act Debate

Exporting Democracy: A Call From the Sheiks Ideals Meet Reality in Yemen An obscure program in this troubled Arab nation typifies how the U.S. is trying to use democracy as a tool to reform the world. • MAP: Democracy Programs

Afghanistan's Chance to Heal Diverse New Parliament Will Bring Together Former Adversaries - After a generation of violent score-settling, many doubt whether members of the new parliament will be able to resolve their differences.

Dethrone the Kings of K Street (By Ruth Marcus

Israel's Sharon Suffers A Mild Stroke
Israeli Leader Is Said to Be in Stable Condition

H6 Guardian Leader – EU Budget - A bigger achievement than it seemsThe Brussels EU budget summit may not have been anyone's triumph - but that does not mean that it was a disaster - and there is a good argument for seeing it as a solid success for the 25-nation Europe as a whole.
A score draw in Europe Peter Preston

The nadir of occupation Salim Lone: Last week's election does little to heal the wounds that are splitting Iraq up into violent fiefdoms.

Iraq poll violations exceed Jan. election

Gulf states show concern at Iran's nuclear plans Gulf Arab leaders discuss turning Middle East into nuclear-free zone amid growing unease over Iran's nuclear intentions.

Bush to give live address President plans PR blitz as ratings further hit by spying revelations and criticism over Afghan secret prison.

Sharon in hospital after strokeIsraeli leader conscious in hospital but health now a major issue in looming elections.

Calls for Blair to broker trade dealCampaign groups say poor have been betrayed by talks stalemate.

A score draw in Europe Peter Preston: Britain didn't get its own way on the EU budget this time, but Gordon Brown need not despair.

Stormontgate's hall of mirrorsOne of the differences between today's jihadist terrorism and yesterday's IRA version, senior police officers have said, is that police have no advance warning about the former, but were often kept well-primed by secret agents about the latter.
H7 Newsweek Iraq: How Much Longer for U.S. Troops? Iraqis are counting their ballots, but U.S. ground commanders still can't give a timetable for coming home. Here's why.

America’s Top General in Iraq on What’s Next

Zakaria: Big Enough To Know Better China has grown for three decades at a pace no other country has ever sustained. But 2006 may be the year when we begin to see problems

Robert Kaplan on the Military, Iraq, Islam and Journalistic Objectivity - TAE Online

U.S. Must Forge Coalition to Strengthen Muslim Moderates - Lee Kuan Yew, Forbes

Brzezinski on the Dollar

NYT Magazine New World Economy By MATT BAI The age of steady high-wage jobs is over — and Wal-Mart isn’t to blame.

The Price of Oil By PETER MAASS Around the world, the extraction of oil wreaks havoc on the environment. By keeping our own shorelines and wilderness pristine, we only blind ourselves to this ugly reality.
U.S. began taps before Bush asked Condi unable to cite statute; Former intel committee chair: 'Not informed.'
Wiretaps could have averted 9/11: CheneyVice President says U.S. 'might have been able to stop' 9/11 with wiretaps.


H8 SADDAM NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW...

US, Europe step up planning on Iran...

UPI Policy Watch: Iran's Atomic Offer

KR Bush warns against early exit from Iraq Bush declared: "Not only can we win the war in Iraq - we are winning the war in Iraq."

ABCNews Claim: U.S. Afghan 'torture' prison Human Rights Watch claims secret Kabul prison abused detainees up to last year.

Time Iraqis Vote, But Backroom Deals May Decide Who Wins Post-election bargaining will be the key to choosing Iraq's next government

The Iranian President’s caravan of vehicles came under fire The Iranian president’s caravan came under fire on Thursday, according to the Iranian newspaper Jamhuri Islami.

Washington Times The U.N. moment on Syria

Iraqi Democracy 3, Terrorists 0 - Senator Jon Kyl, RealClearPolitics

Mission in Iraq Needs To End Soon - Rep. John Murtha, Arizona Republic
Iraq Vote Leaves Dems Looking Like The Losers - Mark Steyn, Chicago Sun-Times
H9 Ha’aretz – As Likud sets to vote, will Sharon's health affect race?

Kadima to a new Middle East Hamas's sweeping victory proved that Sharon was right: There is no one to talk to.

Mehlis `convinced' Syria behind Hariri murder

PINR "Understanding the Sharon Phenomenon" Full text of report

Yedioth Ahronoth Iran disinformation can boomerang Defense establishment playing with fire by leaking Iran ‘attack plans’


Newsweek Tankers on the Take
How many others are being paid for punditry? Or has the culture of corruption spread so far that the question is, Who isn't?

UPI Walker's World: Terror's challenge to democraciesThe message of Steven Spielberg's new film "Munich" is both very simple and penetratingly apt for our times.
Torture By Abdel-Bari AtwanAl Quds Al Arabi, The paper's editor-in-chief says the US seems intent on outstripping the Roman empire when it comes to the brutality it employs in suppressing its enemies. Noting that Roman legislators decreed that 400 subjects be killed for every Roman death, the editor says 1,000 Muslims have now paid a mortal price for each individual killed by the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US. The editor asks how regimes like Egypt and Syria can be asked, on the one hand, to reform their human rights records, while America still sends them its prisoners for torture, off the books. Link to full text in primary source.

H10 Christian Science Monitor IRAQ IN TRANSITION Next on the docket: coalition-building
The new government must finalize the constitution and manage reconstruction.

A big wave of mini-hydro projects Hydropower interest revives on a small scale, sparked by the new energy bill and high fuel costs.

What torture does to torturers By Rushworth M. Kidder

Corruption's quiet erosion of
democracy By Jean-Marc Gorelick

Congress pushes back, hard, against Bush Blindsided by last week's news of domestic spying, it is delaying renewal of the Patriot Act.

Vote strengthens hand of militant Hamas Just as Fatah faces a leadership crisis, so too does Israel's ruling Likud party, which is voting to replace Sharon.




H11 Time Better Luck Next YearThe E.U. has had a really tough year: the constitution failed and political leaders are dogged by domestic concerns. Will next year be any better?

IHT Powell calls Europeans insincere on detainees

News Analysis: Less aid to rich farmers holds risk to poor ones

BBC End of year report Britain's EU presidency has not been a failure - nor a big success
Merkel's 'triumph' Strong debut for Germany's new chancellor at EU talks

'Modest' deal struck in Hong Kong
A deal is reached to end farm export subsidies by 2013 but the goal of a global free trade treaty remains some way off.

Boston Globe Emission control
(By Drake Bennett) Once skeptical, environmentalists now love the idea of 'emissions trading' as a strategy to curb greenhouse gases. These days it's economists who have reservations about a purely market-based approach. Does Mitt Romney have a point?

Tortured logic The 'ticking-bomb' scenario, as an argument for torture, is potent. It is also silly, says one philosopher, and corrupt.

Vietnam and victory Some claim that the US strategy of 'clear and hold' had largely defeated the Viet Cong by 1971, and that the same tactics can work in Iraq. But that gets Vietnam wrong, say the war's historians.


H12 RFE/RL Survey Says World Generally More Free In 2005 A report by Freedom House calls 2005 one of the most successful years since it began measuring world freedom more than 30 years ago. But it adds that a third of the world still lives in countries that are "not free."
Tbilisi, Kyiv Seek Energy Alliance With West
Azerbaijani Opposition Stages Unsactioned March In Baku
Meeting Ends With Breakthrough Trade Deal
Iraq - Fewer Complaints Of Fraud Surface After Latest Vote

Rice: Iran Can't Be Trusted With Nuclear Technology

H13 The Times Aftermath of EU deal turns ugly

Sharon 'stable and joking' in hospital after minor stroke

Upsurge in violence as Cheney pays surprise visit to the troops

Spying row takes gloss off Bush's optimistic message

Sunday Times Spies warned of attack Intelligence services warned the prime minister of a potential terrorist attack well before July 7

HALA JABER TERROR REBORN IN FALLUJA RUINS The truth is that the actions of US and Iraqi forces have reignited the insurgency

SIMON JENKINS: Blair set out for Waterloo and found Dunkirk

Brown fury at climbdown The Treasury is said to be "quietly fuming" about the deal agreed by Tony Blair, which will see Britain paying 60% more to the European budget French overjoyed at taming of Tony

Spy at the heart of the IRA Liam Clarke tells the story of Denis Donaldson's double life as a British agent in a dirty war

PROFILE: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

WSJ For a Few Rubles More Gerhard Schröder joins the Putin administration. By GARRY KASPAROV

Our Friends the Pakistanis Support for the U.S. is surging in some parts of the Muslim world. By HUSAIN HAQQANI AND KENNETH BALLEN

Trading Blows France wins, the world's poor lose.

Iranian 'Opinion' Some of Iran's "opinions" may be dangerous for Europeans to "tolerate."

FT COMMENT: Housing binge will have an inflation hangover The US housing market seems finally to be cooling down. But the morning after the bubble will almost surely bring an ugly hangover, one with higher inflation and lower growth

COMMENT: Wikipedia's struggle to govern a knowledge democracy The news that Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is tightening its rules has lessons for the digital age

Say no, Mr Evans Russian president Vladimir Putin is certainly reaching for the top in hiring international talent for his flagship state-controlled companies. Having secured Gerhard...
H14 Financial Times Editorial Doha trade round is left on life support At the end of the week-long ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Hong Kong, the Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations is still breathing, but...

COMMENT: Merkel finds hope in Europe's gloom By Wolfgang Munchau - Perhaps the most significant aspect of the European summit that ended on Saturday morning is the re-emergence of Germany as a central power in the European Union

COMMENT: A helping hand for Middle East bilateralism Upcoming Palestinian and Israeli elections represent a thrashing out of the internal political debate in both societies, says David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

WORLD NEWS: Sharon taken into hospital for tests after sudden illness

EUROPE: EU gives Ahmadi-Nejad toughest warning yet over anti-Israel remarks

WORLD NEWS: Iraq election count 'a lengthy process

WORLD NEWS: Iraqi battalion takes charge of building confidence

Bush stands by right to order spying inside US

Cheney takes Iraq by surprise with unplanned stop

Austrian tactician will need all his savvy to push through EU agenda The epithet most usually added to the name of Wolfgang Schüssel is "wily", reflecting the Austrian chancellor's skills as a tactician and negotiator after 37 years...

Editorial Blair's budget gambleAfter months of wrangling over the future financing of the European Union, leaders of the 25 member states finally agreed on a seven-year budget in the early hours of...

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Interesting times: why Bernanke's first year at the Fed could prove his toughest When Ben Bernanke takes over from Alan Greenspan as chairman of the US Federal Reserve in just over a month he will barely have got his feet under the desk before he faces the central banker’s most difficult decision: when to call the end of an interest rate cycle. The timing of the changeover could not be worse, say Fed-watchers.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Tentative steps forward seenas better than none at all By Guy de Jonquieres


H15 Los Angeles Times Bush Acknowledges and Defends Eavesdropping He vows to continue the newly recognized domestic program despite mounting criticism, even from within his own party. Legality Debated Breaking Ranks With Bush
Bush Asks Americans to Have Patience on Iraq President acknowledges setbacks but says the U.S. is winning the war, citing the election as an example of Iraq's progress.
Islamists Ride Wave of Freedom

Training Iraqis isn't just guns and butter By Nathaniel Fick FIGHTING insurgents is messy and slow. Turning Iraqi soldiers into effective combatants is nearly as difficult. But last week's promising parliamentary elections in Iraq cannot be consolidated and built on unless the Iraqis can secure their country themselves.
U.S. Will Be in Iraq for Years, Powell Says
State Dept. Considers Mandatory Iraq Tours

Planted Stories Not News to Military U.S. officials in Iraq knew that a contractor was paying local papers. Discretion was the key.

America Kidnapped Me - Khaled El-Masri THE U.S. POLICY of "extraordinary rendition" has a human face, and it is mine.

Editorial Bigger brother BUSH WAS CAVALIER on Friday night when he told Jim Lehrer on PBS that a report about the National Security Agency eavesdropping on U.S. citizens was "not the main story of the day." He is entitled to his own news judgment, but it reveals a lot about his willingness to disregard constitutional safeguards and civil liberties while pursuing the war on terrorism. To the rest of us, the revelation in the New York Times that the National Security Agency has been eavesdropping on people within the United States without judicial warrants was stunning. In one of the more egregious cases of governmental overreach in the aftermath of 9/11, Bush secretly authorized the monitoring, without any judicial oversight, of international phone calls and e-mail messages from the United States.

H16 Rumsfeld to Stay for Full Term?

BBC Bush hails Iraqi anti-terror role The US president tells America Iraq is now a strong ally against terror and a force for democracy in the Middle East

Cheney Fields Tough Questions From Troops...

Rice Defends Domestic Eavesdropping...

Senator on wiretap admission: Bush 'not a king'

WaPo: Bush fumbles spur Congress to mull more oversight

Rove, Hadley E-Mail 'At Crux' of CIA Leak Investigation

H17 Daily Telegraph Blair will pay for his betrayal in BrusselsMr Blair has betrayed his word and his electorate. His EU budget surrender will be hung, albatross-like, around his neck and invoked every time he raises taxes.A time for unity in IraqIraq's general election was the most tangible expression of national unity since that forged by Saddam Hussein's terror collapsed in 2003.

Sunday Telegraph Iraq could be facing a democratic war In some ways the first shots in the Iraqi civil war have already been fired, and Niall Ferguson fears that much worse may lie ahead: Iraq could easily go the way of Lebanon in the late 1970s, only bigger and bloodier.

Betrayed by BlairThe Prime Minister claimed that refusing to surrender a chunk of the EU rebate - ie, holding to his own stated position - would have "wrecked our relationship" with the rest of Europe. But there is no evidence that EU subventions benefit the citizens of the recipient states.
H18 Independent Will it be over by (next) Christmas? UK troops keeping low profile in Basra. But they can't leave yet

EU was aware of rendition, says Powell

Trade deal ends EU farm export subsidies Global trade talks have ended in Hong Kong with a limited deal centred on the ending of European farm export subsidies by 2013.

H19 Rand Corporation – Congressional Testimony - Analyzing Terrorism Risk

NBER, Martin Feldstein, December 2005Monetary Policy in a Changing International Environment: The Role of Global Capital Flows

CBS FLASHBACK: Echelon Eavesdrops On Citizens...
H20 Becker-Posner Blog - The Economics of Capital Punishment--Posner
More on the Economics of Capital Punishment-BECKER

A 'Googlezon' future? A video circulating on the Web highlights the news industry's fundamental challenge: how the Internet will alter mass media.

The Wiki effect Wikipedia relies on 'community,' a notion that's beginning to carry the weight and promise of 'expertise.'

Woody Allen is mediocre and makes miserable films: Woody Allen...

TIME’s 2005 Persons of the Year: Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates...

By trashing the media, liberal bloggers only hurt themselves by Franklin Foer
H21 Newsweek Movies: The 'Code' Breakers The most popular—and controversial—novel of our time hits the screen in May. An exclusive report on the second coming of 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Democracy at War What Tocqueville can contribute to the discussion of the Iraq war. By JOSEPH EPSTEIN

The Times Oxford: the fatal choiceThe best undergraduate teaching in the world is in peril if colleges cannot select students

Wikipedia plans site shake-up Move to ensure its accuracy

World is at its hottest since prehistory, say scientists

Cycling legend Armstrong may be jailed


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