Foreign Press Review - February 21 2006 0221-2006f
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Washington Post Contain Iran: Admit Israel to NATO By Ronald D. Asmus Leading Europeans have called for NATO to embrace Israel. The U.S., Israel's main ally, needs to put its weight behind the idea.

New York Times Send In the State Department By ROBERT D. KAPLAN The struggle against Al Qaeda will go on for many years, and in this struggle the State Department will be a vital, unconventional asset.

UPI Policies & Politics: Iraq after three years Faced with an increase in global and local terrorism, high body counts and spiralling war costs can we, three years on, say that the Iraq War was worth it?

Daily Star The wrong way to think about oil By Joseph S. Nye

Council of Foreign Relations, Financial Statecraft: The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy (excerpts from the book) Benn Steil and Robert E. Litan, February, 2006
Dems consider Iraq withdrawal plan 'Strategic redeployment' will still keep troops in region; Experts debate exit plans.
WSJ Rumsfeld Aims to Remake Special Forces Rumsfeld wants better use of new media to sway Muslim opinion and a shift away from conquer-and-occupy in a "long war" on terror.
COMMENT: Time for Britain to look at the world afresh By Philip Stephens Relationships with Beijing, Delhi and, in due course, with Brazilia and Pretoria will move from the margins to the centre of foreign policy

Washington Realist There is No Third Way
Kevin Drum on Fukuyama, neocons
H2 Juan Cole The Ambassador Versus the Ayatollah The stage was set for an epic struggle between the two forces behind the scenes in Iraqi politics, Khalilzad and Sistani. In every previous such contest, Sistani has handily won against his American opponent.

Financial Times COMMENT: Modern America's Roman predicament By Harold JamesThere exists an alternative to the ‘challenge and response’ model that has as its outcome the clash of civilisations, writes Harold James of the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

The Times Love thy neighbour Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it By David Aaranovitch

Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati

Weekly Standard Republic of Caution In Syria, public discontent with the Baath regime is empowering the Islamist movement. by Soner Cagaptay

EurasiaNet Azerbaijan: Protesting for the Prophet, Not for Political Change Recent mass protests in Baku against Danish newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed reflect the changing role of Islam in Azerbaijani public life, local analysts say.

CSM US policy dilemma: dealing with Hamas Ramifications of how the US handles the militant group's rise are huge.

Israel's Hamas policy could boost Iran, deepen Palestinian woes

Ha’aretz – Hamas and the 'Irish Model'

NRO - A Mullah's-Eye View of the World Iran Is Acting on its Assessment of the West's Strength and Resolve By Michael A. Ledeen

Weekly Standard The Evil of Two Lessers Egyptian politics boils down to Mubarak and the Islamists. by Paul Marshall
H3 Washington Times U.S. ready to trade with Turkish Cypriots The United States is preparing to begin direct trade with northern Cyprus for the first time since it was occupied by Turkey three decades ago, including steps opposed as "creeping recognition" by the Greek-Cypriot government in Nicosia.

Interesting developments on the Kurdish issue New Anatolian

Morgan Stanley Turkey: Curing Hysteresis
Eurasianet Turkey Stands to Benefit From Caspian Basin Energy Competition BY IGOR TORBAKOV Turkey is emerging as the key player in the scramble over Caspian Basin energy reserves. Russia views energy cooperation Turkey as a major component of its geopolitical strategy to expand Moscow’s diplomatic reach. The European Union, meanwhile, finds Turkey increasingly attractive as an alternative source of energy.
Undermining the Republic of Cyprus Greek News
Washington Times Democracy in the Middle East (Tulin Daloglu)

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RFE/RL South Caucasus: Frozen Conflicts Show Little Sign Of Thaw


RFE/RL Kosovo - Heading Toward A New Nation?
H4 New York Times Send In the State Department By ROBERT D. KAPLAN The struggle against Al Qaeda will go on for many years, and in this struggle the State Department will be a vital, unconventional asset.

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Time for an Extreme Makeover at the White House President Bush can still rehabilitate himself if he acts quickly and decisively to reshuffle his administration and approach to governing.

U.S. Warns Iraq It Won't Support Sectarian Goals
Hamas Tries in Gaza Talks to Broaden Its Cabinet
Talks on Enriching Nuclear Fuel for Iran in Russia Seem to Stall
Orthodox Ties to Catholics Seen as Vital
News Analysis: The Blair-Brown Dance: Can Britain Follow Their Steps?
U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review At the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical documents.

Germany Weighs if It Played Role in Seizure by U.S. German prosecutors are investigating whether the German government worked secretly with the U.S. in a rendition case.

Editorial Playing Chicken With Bird Flu Rich countries should be sending platoons of veterinary experts to help Nigeria and its neighbors fight avian flu.

H5 Washington Post Contain Iran: Admit Israel to NATO By Ronald D. Asmus Leading Europeans have called for NATO to embrace Israel. The U.S., Israel's main ally, needs to put its weight behind the idea.

Editorial Mr. Mubarak's Rollback EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak tried twice last year to stage a democratic election that would impress the Bush administration as credible without risking his hold on power. He failed both times and on both counts. His crude harassment of his secular opposition and sometimes violent suppression...

Russia, Iran Still Talking On Enrichment Plan

U.S. Envoy in Iraq Accuses Iran Of Assisting Militias, Insurgents

U.S. Counterinsurgency Academy Giving Officers a New Mind-Set Course in Iraq Stresses the Cultural, Challenges the Conventional

Army Teaches Officers to Think Globally

Iranian Leader Praises Hamas Call for Aid Issued To Muslim Nations

Administration Critics Chafe At State Dept. Shuffle

Remember, You Didn't Hear This From Me . . . The Use of Anonymous Sources Has as Many Defenders as Critics


Why We Need Leakers By Richard Cohen,
Who is he? Does he rue the day when he picked up the phone, dialed the number, waited a ring or two -- and then quickly hung up. He called later that same day, this time getting a voice, and in panic hung up again. He had stuff to tell a reporter about how the Bush administration was distorting...

H6 Guardian Cartoon row draws from well of discontent By Simon Tisdall

Moqtada al-Sadr throws Iraqi unity talks into disarray

Iran's media battleground

The creeping extension of implantation technology will eventually break down all the barriers between us and the state George Monbiot

Irving jailed for Holocaust denialThree years for British historian who described Auschwitz as a fairytale. The historian's resistible rise'It sends out a message'


H7 The New Yorker When Danish Cartoons Meet the Muslim World - Jane Kramer

New Yorker How an Internal Effort to Ban the Torture of Detainees Was Thwarted

Weekly Standard The Evil of Two Lessers Egyptian politics boils down to Mubarak and the Islamists. by Paul Marshall

Der Spiegel Torture in the Name of Freedom The new pictures from Abu Ghraib provide the most recent evidence: America's moral bank account is empty -- and it has lost the image wars. The entire Muslim world no longer trusts the world's most powerful nation.

NRO - A Mullah's-Eye View of the World Iran Is Acting on its Assessment of the West's Strength and Resolve By Michael A. Ledeen
H8 Washington Times Policy Clash Blocks Iraq Unity Government

Military Sees '12 Million Muslims' as Supporters of Terror

US Experts Explore Iraq Exit Strategies

Iran would become top oil supplier to China under deal...

KR U.S. ambassador warns Iraq about sectarianism, Iran's influence

Washington Times U.S. warns Iraq to create nonsectarian government

UPI Policies & Politics: Iraq after three years Faced with an increase in global and local terrorism, high body counts and spiralling war costs can we, three years on, say that the Iraq War was worth it?

Outside View: Iraq war outcome remains uncertain

Iraqi Province Cuts Off US Forces

US Accuses Iran of Arming Iraqi Militia

Daily Star Israel's tactics show it's more afraid of dialogue than terror

To deal with Hamas, Israel might consider NGOs By Yossi Ben Ari
H9 Ha’aretz – Hamas and the 'Irish Model'

Waiting for Al-Qaida Israel's refusal to talk with Hamas will only strengthen Palestinian radicals.

U.S. envoy to review Israeli steps against PA

Mubarak refused to meet with visiting Hamas officials

Amir Oren Egypt, between Islam and the West Once an exponent of pan-Arabism, Egypt is trying to isolate itself from much of what is happening in the Arab world.

Jerusalem Post Hamas, Fatah consider forming a unity government

NATO seeks closer ties with IsraelDelegation of military officers accompany early warning surveillance plane.

Debka The Bush Plan Vs the Algerian Formula to Contest Hamas

BBC Hamas presents PM choice to Abbas

Washington Times A Palestinian state ahead By Louis Beres World likely to dismiss Israel's concerns

U.S. government's January 30 response (pdf) to a motion to dismiss (pdf) filed by the AIPAC defendants.
H10 Christian Science Monitor Report: Pentagon ignored repeated warnings on torture
Navy's former general counsel warned Defense Dept. that ignoring int'l treaties would invite abuse.

US policy dilemma: dealing with Hamas Ramifications of how the US handles the militant group's rise are huge.

Israel's Hamas policy could boost Iran, deepen Palestinian woes Though Israel is isolating Hamas politically and economically, it's being careful to avoid a humanitarian crisis.

Russia's Hamas gambit Its offer to host talks with the group may reflect a desire to boost its global status

War costs irk Congress The latest funding request comes at the start of a make-or-break year for the US in Iraq.

The good in Muslim hearts offers a better self-portrait than violence

H11 IHT Bird flu fears grip Europe

France and India forge accord on civilian nuclear development

UPI Walker's World: Europe fears Italian meltdown

Le Monde Duo transatlantique

The Visegrad Group: Alliance Versus the Ambitions of Russia and German Revanchism

BBC Global village Do people have equal chances in life in a globalised world?

H12 RFE/RL Kosovo - Heading Toward A New Nation?

South Caucasus: Frozen Conflicts Show Little Sign Of Thaw

First Day Of Kosovo Status Talks 'Constructive'


Washington Times Russia's Role in the Middle East - Claude Salhani

EDM IS YUSHCHENKO BACKTRACKING ON THE NOTORIOUS GAS DEAL?
- MOSCOW SAYS GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT'S VOTE ON PEACEKEEPERS INCONSEQUENTIAL
H13 The Times Love thy neighbour Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it By David Aaranovitch

Straw on mission to encourage unity

A bomb goes off. Iraqi troops flee. And the US has a problem


The grudging penitent who tried to turn his trial into another show

WSJ Rumsfeld Aims to Remake Special Forces Rumsfeld wants better use of new media to sway Muslim opinion and a shift away from conquer-and-occupy in a "long war" on terror.




H14 Financial Times COMMENT: Modern America's Roman predicament By Harold JamesThere exists an alternative to the ‘challenge and response’ model that has as its outcome the clash of civilisations, writes Harold James of the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: A bargain that could end Japan-China bickering By Gerald Curtis Defusing the Yasukuni shrine issue will not necessarily improve relations with China but it is the precondition for doing so

Russia agrees to continue talks with Iran over nuclear dispute

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Lecturer or listener? Why Merkel may need to work on her assertive side The charm of the chancellor is winning fans well beyond Germany and her consultative style marks a return to a tradition of consensus politics – but some are starting to question her ability to be decisive.

COMMENT: Time for Britain to look at the world afresh By Philip Stephens Relationships with Beijing, Delhi and, in due course, with Brazilia and Pretoria will move from the margins to the centre of foreign policy

Egypt's Islamists call for donations to assist Hamas


H15 Los Angeles Times Iraqi Police Tied to Death Squads U.S. officials suspect Iraq's highway patrol, staffed largely by Shiites, is involved in torture and killings.


FT - Leader Virtue and necessityThe debate about the future of the International Monetary Fund is gaining substance and momentum.

Deteriorating ties between the US and Venezuela

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: The menace of Maoism is making a comeback By Victor Mallet

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: US multinationals in China - and elsewhere - are helping to break down discriminatory barriers
H16 Weekly Standard Up, Up, and Away Chairman Bernanke takes on interest rates and inflationary pressure. by Irwin M. Stelzer

NSC, Cheney Aides Conspired to Out CIA Operative

KR Bush touts technologies aimed at curbing U.S. oil imports

Blogometer realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird thru GovExec -

Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour, January 2006 - The Lisbon Agenda: Studies on Productivity, Services and Technologies

University of California at Santa Cruz, Carl Walsh, December, 2005Central Bank Independence

Research: DIW Berlin, Franziska Holz, Christian von Hirschhausen, Claudia Kemfert, February 2006 A Strategic Model of European Gas Supply (GASMOD) Download

Commerzbank, Mélanie Fischinger, Barbara Lambrecht, February 2006Special Report: Do We Face an Oil Shortage?

H17 Daily Telegraph A flu pandemic is long overdue Spanish flu is thought to have killed about 50 million people in 1918. Such an influenza pandemic is what scientists call a low-probability, high-impact risk. When a pandemic eventually strikes, the consequences could be devastating, warns Roger Highfield.

'We'll beat bird flu' Vets and poultry farmers have joined the Government in insisting that the spread of avian flu to British shores is "not inevitable" and contingency plans are sufficiently robust.

Three years for Irving after Holocaust denial

End protests, says IranIran's foreign minister has called for an end to the violent protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that have left dozens dead in several countries.

Bin Laden: I'll die free Osama Bin Laden has vowed never to be captured alive, telling Americans he is ready to fight a long war "until your minds are exhausted and your lives become miserable".

Majority of births will soon be out of wedlock Half of all babies will be born to unmarried mothers by 2012 if present trends continue, says new research which suggests the rapid erosion of moral and religious taboos.
H18 Independent US threatens to cut aid to Iraq if new government is sectarian

Kosovo pushes for independence as talks begin
David Irving: Anti-Semitic racist who has suffered financial ruin
Leading article: Free speech and the right to dissent

H19 UPI Commentary: Rumsfeld's failure to connect the dots

CDI More Critical Reviews of 2007 Defense Budget and QDR (Briefing)
H20 Slate
H21 Emmott signs off as editor of the Economist Media: The editor of the Economist steps down after a 13-year tenure during which he doubled global circulation.

Wireless network to cover CityTechnology: City of London to offer ubiquitous wireless internet access, with hardware installed in lampposts.

WSJ The Limits of Exit PollsAs polls closed in last month's landmark Palestinian elections, pollsters who interviewed voters announced -- incorrectly, it would turn out -- that the Fatah ruling party scored a narrow victory over Hamas. How did they get it wrong?



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