Foreign Press Review - March 10 2006 0310-2006f
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H1 Guardian Iran is only months from bomb technology, says BritainConfrontation with Iran intensifies as Britain claims Tehran could acquire capability to build a bomb by 2007.

The Economist Nuclear proliferation Dr Strangedeal Congress should veto George Bush's nuclear agreement with India

PINR "China Becomes Increasingly Involved in the Middle East" Full text of report

Washington Post U.S. Sets Plan for Iraq Civil War Defense secretary says military will rely on Iraqi forces to put down a civil war if one breaks out

Asia Times Why Iran's oil boursecan't break the buck Many pundits have pointed to the impending Tehran oil bourse, which could come on line as early as this month and deal in euros rather than US dollars, as the hidden reason behind the evident march to war on Iran by the Anglo-American powers. The thesis is simply wrong, for many reasons. - F William Engdahl

Iran's turn to face 'coalition of the willing' The US has implemented a three-tier approach to having Iran's nuclear dossier referred to the UN Security Council. First there was the European diplomatic smokescreen, then the rhetoric against Tehran, and finally dealing with reluctant China and Russia. All this has been accomplished. Now, as happened with Iraq, comes the fateful "alliance-building". - Ehsan Ahrari

Der Spiegel ASSESSING IRAQ"The Country Has Already Collapsed" With sectarian violence on the rise and a stable government nowhere in sight, things are not going well for Iraq at the moment. Marina Ottaway about chances for government legitimacy, how to establish stability in Iraq and why the police force in Iraq is a fiction.

Bush Welcomes India Into the Anglosphere - Richard Brookhiser, NY Observer
H2 Washington Post The Kurd Card By Charles Krauthammer The Iraq security situation is grim and the neighboring powers malign. But the Kurds' new alliance with the Sunnis may yield an effective, broad-based national unity government.

Burning Allies -- and Ourselves By David Ignatius Expect America to pay a steep price for Congress's rejection of the Dubai ports deal in an election-year frenzy of Muslim-bashing disguised as concern about terrorism.

Financial Times COMMENT: Why a fall in the price of oil would bedangerous By Samuel Brittan

Islamic Movements and the Democratic Process in the Arab World: Exploring the Gray Zones By Nathan Brown - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Globalization will collapse only if it stops delivering growth. So far that hasn’t happened, and maybe it won’t... more»

International Crisis Group France and its Muslims: Riots, Jihadism and Depoliticisation

Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati

The Times The brutal truth: it's civil war Ben Macintyre America may be terrified of admitting it, but the Shia-Sunni violence has reached a new pitch

UN 'has less than a year' to stop Iran going nuclear

Forbes Billionaires, in Alphabetical Order

The Economist War crimes
Bringing the wicked to the dock

CSIS Is a united approach toward Iran enough?

Independent Revealed: Maxwell was under investigation for war crimes Robert Maxwell was being investigated for war crimes and was to be interviewed by police just before he drowned 15 years ago
The mystery of Maxwell's death
Christian Science Monitor Giant US trade gap: no end in sight January's deficit is the largest monthly imbalance yet for the US. One reason for it: a surging China

H3 NYT Accusations About General May Expand Rift in Turkey

Der Spiegel TURKISH MILITARY PROBE Violence in Van Overshadows Turkey EU Bid

Morgan Stanley Turkey: Less Mis?rables

Turkey and the lost rights of Kurds
LA Times Big Bird stabs Armenians in the back By Aris Janigian Why is PBS covering up the deaths of 1.5 million people?

We may have forgotten about the Ottoman Empire, but in the grand march of history it has not forgotten about us... more»

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Three die in bomb blast linked to Kurdish rebels A bomb set off by suspected Kurdish rebels kills three people and wounds 14 in Kurdish-dominated south-east Turkey.

Turkey to build ‘huge industrial city’ in Kirkuk

EurasiaNet Azerbaijan’s Emergencies Ministry Becomes Power Base

Dissident Watch Kamal Sayid Qadir By Michael Rubin What will happen at this latest Iraqi Kurdistan turning point?

Eighteen Years On, Halabjans Still Suffering3/9/2006 - Article – IWPR

Flying Iraqi Airways: Chaos and danger
H4 New York Times Iraqi Forces Would Handle Any Civil War, Rumsfeld Says

Israel's Tragedy Foretold By GERSHOM GORENBERG
A memo written in 1967 warned that Israel's settlements in the West Bank were illegal.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Mr. Nasty, Brutish and Short-Tempered It is not time for the U.S. to leave Iraq, but it is time for the U.S. to start threatening to leave Iraq.

U.S. to Abandon Abu Ghraib and Move Prisoners to a New Center

DP World and U.S. Trade: A Zero-Sum Game Some analysts warn that political hostility against foreign companies buying American assets could boomerang against the U.S. Dubai Company Drops Port Deal
In Response, China Attacks U.S. Record on Rights
Olmert Outlines Plans for Israel's Borders
As Trade Deficit Grows, So Do Tensions With China
Post-Soviet Enclave Losing Lifeblood Trade
PAUL KRUGMAN The Conservative Epiphany Everything the new wave of conservative Bush critics has to say was obvious long ago to any commentator who was willing to look at the facts.


Editorial
H5 Washington Post U.S. Sets Plan for Iraq Civil War Defense secretary says military will rely on Iraqi forces to put down a civil war if one breaks out

Port Company to Drop American Holdings Move to End Three-Week Dispute Comes After GOP Lawmakers, Defying Bush, Vowed to Kill Deal

Burning Allies -- and Ourselves By David Ignatius Expect America to pay a steep price for Congress's rejection of the Dubai ports deal in an election-year frenzy of Muslim-bashing disguised as concern about terrorism.

A Losing Latin Policy Are We About to Punish Democratic Allies? By Jackson Diehl, Condoleezza Rice has quietly corrected several of the Bush administration's most self-defeating first-term foreign policies. But a couple of shoot-yourself-in-the-foot practices linger.

Clearing the Path For Scion of Egypt: Hosni Mubarak's Son Climbs Party Ranks As Country's Leaders Undercut His Rivals

Flight Instructor Recalls Unease With Moussaoui: Warnings About Suspect to School's Supervisor Were Ignored, Pilot Testifies

Midnight Train to a Debacle By Eugene Robinson, For years now, the Republican leaders in Congress have been the Pips to George W. Bush's Gladys Knight.

China's Leaders Laud the Little Village That Could: Poor Farming Community Grew Rich by Embracing, Not Resisting, Urbanization and Enterprise

Editorial
H6 Guardian Iran is only months from bomb technology, says BritainConfrontation with Iran intensifies as Britain claims Tehran could acquire capability to build a bomb by 2007.

Europe and the US decide the winner before the voteJonathan Steele: Belarus's government will be targeted if the west doesn't get the result it wants in this month's elections

Abu Ghraib prison to close Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison, which will be forever linked with images of detainees stripped naked and humiliated, is to be shut down.

Israel sets four year deadline to draw final borders Acting prime minister says borders will be drawn without consultation if Hamas does not recognise Jewish state.

Profile: Zalmay Khalilzad - 'He combines the commitment of an American neocon with the cultural sensitivity of his Islamic background'

Arab-owned firm forced to sell US port operations Firm agrees to sell off US operations after proposed takeover to run six American ports led to a Republican revolt.

Islamophobia worse in America now than after 9/11
H7 Bush Welcomes India Into the Anglosphere - Richard Brookhiser, NY Observer

News of the Nation-State's Demise May Be Very Premature - Austin Bay, RCP
UPI China's looming shadow Chinese influence is increasing in Latin America and Africa, a phenomenon that could have substantial bearing on America's foreign policy attitudes.
Walker's World: At last Japan grows again

Britain's Dirty Secret - Meirion Jones, New Statesman

Disintegrating Iraqi Sovereignty by Michael Schwartz &Tom Engelhardt

OpenDemocracy The Pakistan risk With the United States now embracing India as a key partner, an uneasy President Musharraf may look to China and Russia for friendship, warns Paul Rogers

What is fundamentalism? Whether based on faith or ideology, fundamentalisms are global in ambition, yet their effect is to divide us. Accommodating them will demand new kinds of territories and borders. By Grahame Thompson

Foreign Policy The Green Bullet There’s a straightforward way for Washington to end America’s addiction to foreign oil, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and resolving the impasse on international trade: Turn farm subsides into fuel subsides
H8 US General: Iraq Shifting From Insurgency Toward 'Sectarian Violence'

BBC Iraq hangs 13 for insurgency role Iraq hangs 13 people accused of taking part in the insurgency for the first time since the US-led invasion.

Nuclear move UN Security Council meeting will ratchet up Iran confrontation
KR Rumsfeld: U.S. will let Iraqi forces deal with any civil war

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Says Significant Troop Pullout This Year Still Possible...

UPI Analysis: IAEA report to U.N. council
Sunnis Targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq
SyriaComment What is at Stake in Lebanon's National Conference?

Weekly Standard Top Gun Where was the outrage when the United States sold its most advanced fighter to the UAE? by Reuben F. Johnson

The Economist Libya Change is in the air but happens slowly on the ground

H9 Ha’aretz – Achievement in the shadow of threat The international pressure on Iran to stop its nuclear program is mounting, but can it really stop Teheran from achieving its goal?

Western sources: Iran has covert nuclear channel

Ya'alon: Israeli military option against Iran exists

Schiff - Surprises and flaws Intelligence agencies need to learn an important new lesson from Hamas' election victory: Arab public opinion is finally reflecting the opinion of the public.

Abu Mazen is relevant - to all sides Abu Mazen might be exactly the person to create the common ground that will ensure a vote of confidence by the Hamas-dominated legislative council for a specific Palestinian government, and at the same time retain the necessary international support for such a government to survive.

UPI - Interview: The Hezbollah and Lebanon's future

Israel: Our Missiles Can Blast Iran's Missiles

H10 Christian Science Monitor Giant US trade gap: no end in sight January's deficit is the largest monthly imbalance yet for the US. One reason for it: a surging China.

Why the Dubai deal collapsed Dubai Ports World withdrew its ports deal Thursday in the face of opposition from lawmakers and the US public.

Census report: for more seniors, a rising affluence and well-being Increasingly active seniors are chipping away at the traditional image of ageism.

BBC Doctors attack US over Guantanamo

Report: No Qaeda ties in Madrid bombings

BBC Balkan trauma Mark Mardell on a year of hard choices for Serbia-Montenegro




H11 IHT Detainee deaths: The failure of a society GREGORY D. FOSTER The U.S. military isn't alone in being blameworthy for detainee deaths.

The doors in France: Open, ajar or closed? By JAMES KANTER France has built up the most investment from outside its borders of all comparable countries in the EU.

Europa: Iraq issue strikes heart of Germany's identity

Philip Bowring: China keeps them down on the farm PHILIP BOWRING China sticks to 'socialist principles' but only when it comes to farmers

Le Monde Réconciliation transatlantique de circonstance, par Thomas Ferenczi

UPI Europe, America push for U.N. Darfur force

Merkel wants to make Germany top IT power

UPI Interview: Threats to global security, part two

US Military Expects Violent Afghan Spring

H12 RFE/RL Russia New 'National Identity' Bill Has Muslims, And Others, Upset

Iran/U.S - The Pros And Cons Of Nuclear Compromise

Minsk Group Fails To Progress On Nagorno-Karabakh

South Caucasus: Slow Progress On Plans For Closer EU Ties


UPI Outside View: US problems with Putin By DIMITRI SIDOROV AND BILL THOMAS

Outside View: U.S.-Russia ties now fragile By SERGEI ROGOV

Matthew Bryza: positive role of Russia in conflict settlement will become real

Asia Times Kazakhstan and the 'new great game' Once virtually unknown in Europe, Kazakhstan has progressively expanded its influence as a key player on the regional chessboard. With international terrorism and energy security at the top of everyone's agenda, Brussels, Washington, Beijing and Moscow all want to be its ally. How long can Astana keep them all happy? - Federico Bordonaro

EurasiaNet Murder Puts Spotlight on Georgia’s Interior Ministry

EDM MOSCOW AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ORDER IN TRANSNISTRIA
- GEORGIAN POLICE CLAIM TO SOLVE HIGH-PROFILE MURDER

Ukrainian Foreign Policy: A Discussion with Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk
H13 The Times The brutal truth: it's civil war Ben Macintyre America may be terrified of admitting it, but the Shia-Sunni violence has reached a new pitch

UN 'has less than a year' to stop Iran going nuclear

The conservative crack-up Republicans are falling out among themselves like the starving Israelites in the desert By Gerard Baker

US to abandon Abu Ghraib and switch inmates to Saddam's jail

Rush for intelligence 'catastrophe' in the making

WSJ The New Protectionists How to create a real security crisis.

Not For Sale to Foreigners The Dubai Ports issue will come to harm America. By LAWRENCE B. LINDSEY
H14 Financial Times COMMENT: Why a fall in the price of oil would bedangerous By Samuel Brittan If anything about the world economy could keep me awake at night, it would be the dangerous possibility of a temporary fall in the price of oil

COMMENT: A dinner date with Putin is no excuse to keep your mouth shut By Philip Stephens No one has said out loud what all – or maybe most – of them think: Mr Putin’s conspicuous disdain for democracy mocks the values the G8 is pledged to uphold.

UN involvement unlikely to make Iranian deal any easier

Beijing sends troubleshooter in wake of India's US nuclear deal

Rumsfeld says Iraq ‘will handle any civil war’

US trade deficit widens to record $68.5bn

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Tricky issues loom over EU's quest for energy security

COMMENT: America should look more often in its own backyard Latin America has been, and still is, responsible for its own failures. But US strategy exacerbates them severely, writes Juan Tokatlian, director of political science and international relations at Universidad de San Andrés

Arab ally senses that Bush no longer has control in Washington

US said to be close to shutting Abu Ghraib


H15 Los Angeles Times Quelling Civil War Is Up to Iraqis Defense Secretary Rumsfeld tells Congress he intends to keep Americans out of the fray.
Free-trade liberals are selling out By Jonah Goldberg The econ wonks are right: Economic nationalism is bad for us. So why are Democrats going down that road?

Why are we so mean to Venezuela? By Mark Weisbrot Hugo Chavez is winning popularity contests across Latin America.


FT Leader Bank of Japan starts the return to normal

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: One fear is an impact on global imbalances

Leader Nay-saying at the UNKofi Annan is putting the last year of his rather chequered term as United Nations secretary-general to good use by pushing reforms to the UN's internal management and...

Ukrainian gas deal with Russia curbed

Dubai cedes control of US portsThe United Arab Emirates bowed to insurmountable political hostility in the US Congress and ordered state-controlled Dubai Ports World to divest five US port terminal facilities it had acquired as part of its takeover of P&O.
H16

BBC Deaf to politics? How the row over UAE ports deal damaged President Bush

Blogometer realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird thru GovExec -
H17 Daily Telegraph Leader Israel goes its own way With two and a half weeks to polling day, the consensus from the centre rightwards is that Israel should decide on its future without reference to the Palestinians.

Israel's borders to be finalised 'by 2010' The final borders of Israel will be settled within four years, Ehud Olmert, the country's acting prime minister, has said.
H18 Independent Revealed: Maxwell was under investigation for war crimes Robert Maxwell was being investigated for war crimes and was to be interviewed by police just before he drowned 15 years ago
The mystery of Maxwell's death
Olmert to redraw Israel's borders 'within four years'
H19 House Panel Approves $91 Billion War Bill
Japan-China Relations: Four Fallacies Masquerading as Common Sense


H20 Slate Rumsfeld's Free Pass on Iraq: Senators didn't ask, weren't told.
Fred Kaplan

Bill Keller in Chains: Commentary's case for prosecuting the Times under the Espionage Act. Jack Shafer




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H21 Thrill to the steam engine, the most radical machine ever builtSimon Jenkins: The train was once a revolutionary force, bringing romance and power to the world through its steel wheels.

How I survived rock'n'roll Bill Wyman tells Simon Hattenstone why he left the Stones

Billionaires are dime a dozen on Forbes rich list The annual listing of the world's billionaires shows there are more of them than ever.

Bada Bing! The wait was long, but the Sopranos are back. Fans won't be disappointed. by Duncan Currie

Redesigning the internet
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winds of change - political theory/
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