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H1 Foreign Affairs - The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy by Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press - With the U.S. arsenal growing rapidly while Russia's decays and China's stays small, the era of MAD is ending -- and the era of U.S. nuclear primacy has begun.

KR Security Council calls on Iran to halt uranium enrichment The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday called on Iran to stop enriching uranium and resolve concerns that it's developing nuclear weapons, but the statement wasn't legally binding, and it was watered down in response to demands from Russia and China.

UN Statement: Draft Statement on Iran's Nuclear Program

Guardian How will the ventriloquist's dummy of History judge Blair's foreign policy? Timothy Garton Ash: In the Foreign Office's strategic plan I see a face of Britain that I can be proud of - were it not for Iraq.

Slate What Clash of Civilizations?: Why religious identity isn't destiny. Amartya Sen

The Erring Republican Authority: Kevin Phillips is wrong about everything. Why is he taken so seriously? Jacob Weisberg

Karl Rove Supreme - Robert Novak

CSIS - Open Source Information: The Missing Dimension of Intelligence. --- Audio (mp3, 1:40:15)

Independent The New Israel: Plans to redraw border on West Bank

The future of the European economy Report on the CER conference
H2 IHT The key lies in Iran's history CHARLES A. KUPCHAN AND RAY TAKEYH Tapping into Iran's national pride rather than confronting it head-on holds out the best hope for containing its nuclear ambitions

Washington Post Could Sanctions Stop Iran? Recent History Suggests That the Prospects Aren't Good By Carne Ross - Recent history suggests that economic sanctions won't deter Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons, even in the unlikely event that the international community imposes them.

Report: Saudi nuke program underway

Der Spiegel Israeli Election Analysis: Choosing Divorce over Peace

Asia Times Different beat to Iran war drums In comparison to the rush to war with Iraq, the crisis over Iran's nuclear program is unfolding at a snail's pace. This does not mean, though, that the end result will not be the same. - Ehsan Ahrari
NYT Beleaguered Premier Warns U.S. to Stop Interfering in Iraq's Politics
IHT William Pfaff: Capitalism under fire WILLIAM PFAFF The student riots over labor laws in France, which seem reactionary or even Luddite, may prove prophetic.
The Moscow Times, Will the Authoritarians of the World Unite? By Andrew C. Kuchins
Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati

Los Angeles Times Israel's impossible dream By Yossi Klein Halevi The victory of the centrist sensibility marks the end of three decades' worth of utopian politics, right and left


H3 To Vima - Ten Lies Historic confession of Greeks

Kurdish riots in southeastern Turkey leave three dead, 250 injured

FT Turkey clarifies industry tax cuts

Turkey's GDP Probably Grew 6.6% in Fourth Quarter, Survey Shows

Southern Kurdistan: a political dilemma By Peter Stitt This is your best chance ever at independence and, Barzani and Talabani, as the American reporter put it: "You are blowing it."

Iran is at war with US and Kurdistan By Vladimir van Wilgenburg

Kurdistan: Meet the New Bosses

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Brookings Institution The Role of Independent Research in Partisan Times In a speech delivered at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, Brookings President Strobe Talbott discussed the importance of defending basic values in public policy research—quality, independence, and impact

RFE/RL U.S. Relations With Main Shi'ite Alliance Fraying
H4 New York Times Editorial West Bank Withdrawal
Tuesday's election in Israel was a minor breakthrough.

You Say You Want a Constitution By STEVEN V. MAZIE Their greatest challenge to drafting a new constitution for Israel will be to lend coherence to Israel's dual identity as a state that is both Jewish and democratic.
Beleaguered Premier Warns U.S. to Stop Interfering in Iraq's Politics
Democrats Offer National Security Strategy
Poll: Americans Question Foreign Policy
U.N. Council Urges Iran to Halt Atom Activity
Bush Rejects Idea of Boycotting Meeting in Russia
Hamas Cabinet Is Sworn In, Widening Break With the Israelis
China Is Told of U.S. Impatience on Trade
Economic Scene: The Cost of Invading Iraq: Imponderables Meet Uncertainties
9/11 Tapes Revive Lost Voices, and Families' Pain 911 calls, made from inside the World Trade Center. Audio & Transcript: Christopher Hanley's Call

DAVID BROOKS Immigrants to Be Proud Of Do the real threats come from immigrants, or are some people merely blaming them for sins that are already here?

American Dreams, Foreign Flags By LINDA CHAVEZ Like every generation of immigrants before them, Latinos start out on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder, but they don't stay there.

G.O.P. Risking Hispanic Votes on Immigration
H5 Washington Post Could Sanctions Stop Iran? Recent History Suggests That the Prospects Aren't Good By Carne Ross - Recent history suggests that economic sanctions won't deter Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons, even in the unlikely event that the international community imposes them.

Security Council Pressures Iran In non-binding statement, U.N. panel urges Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment within 30 days.

Democrats Detail Security Policy: Bin Laden, Iraq and Domestic Safety Identified as Midterm Issues

Editorial Editorial A Decisive Election
Israelis overwhelmingly vote to withdraw from the occupied West Bank.

Speak Up, Mr. Bush For immigration reform to have a chance, the president must take a stand.


H6 Guardian How will the ventriloquist's dummy of History judge Blair's foreign policy?Timothy Garton Ash: In the Foreign Office's strategic plan I see a face of Britain that I can be proud of - were it not for Iraq.

Olmert seeks coalition partnersNewly elected leader of Israel looks for support on defining borders.

Leader Small earthquake in Jerusalem Israeli politicians and pundits will be busy in the coming days working out what Ehud Olmert's coalition government will look like.

This can be a vote for peaceAmos Oz:The rise of Hamas is in fact an opportunity for Israel's new government to work with Arab states.

This takeover free-for-all just isn't delivering the goodsLarry Elliott: There is scant evidence that selling off British companies has given our economy the edge over its European competitors.
H7 BBC Family friendly Why the French have one of the highest fertility rates in Europe

The future of the European economy Report on the CER conference
H8 KR Security Council calls on Iran to halt uranium enrichment The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday called on Iran to stop enriching uranium and resolve concerns that it's developing nuclear weapons, but the statement wasn't legally binding, and it was watered down in response to demands from Russia and China.

BBC Crunch talks on Iran nuclear plan Condoleezza Rice will join five other key foreign ministers in Berlin to discuss a strategy on Iran's nuclear plans. Iran confrontation moves on
Key nations' stances on Iran
Q&A: Iran nuclear stand-off

UPI Analysis: Sadr clash ominous for U.S.

SyriaComment - Asad Interview with Charlie Rose (Aired March 27, 2006)

Boston Globe Editorial Arab League futility

Daily Star Both the Arab League and the Lebanese president lack vision

From Sudan, a chronicle of Arab death foretold By Michael Young

Iran to hold large-scale naval war games

H9 Ha’aretz – Olmert, a manager who likes his positions clear Olmert is described as a resolute manager who likes to finish every meeting with a decision.

Editorial Kadima's historic role Should Kadima begin to actively compromise its raison d'etre - pulling out of the West Bank - it is likely Israel will see another election very soon.

Benn- Olmert's troubles ahead Olmert's campaign vow to find a pullout plan acceptable to both the Americans and to the settlers will inevitably force him to retract some of his pre-election promises.

Slate Israel's Big Bang: Tuesday's election changed everything.

Olmert Macher: The international media sort through the Israeli election results.
Zuzanna Kobrzynski and Amanda Watson-Boles

Der Spiegel Israeli Election Analysis: Choosing Divorce over Peace

BBC From bad to worse Palestinians despair over Kadima's victory in Israeli polls

Palestinian cabinet is sworn in War of Words Over Paper on Israel

Washington Times Editorial The post-Sharon era

UPI Analysis: Olmert's monumental task

Analysis: Israel's new pragmatic center

Daily Star Israel is united in avoiding real peace By Jonathan Cook

Yedioth Ahronoth Yes to Palestine, no to Palestinians

Elections 2006: Israeli earthquake
H10 Christian Science Monitor Israeli voters turn to new issues, parties The Palestinian conflict was not the only concern in Tuesday's election.

Editorial Bush must now focus on the West Bank

GAO investigators get 'dirty bomb' materials across US border Enough material to 'make two bombs' gets through customs in Texas and Washington State.

H11 IHT The key lies in Iran's history CHARLES A. KUPCHAN AND RAY TAKEYH Tapping into Iran's national pride rather than confronting it head-on holds out the best hope for containing its nuclear ambitions

William Pfaff: Capitalism under fire WILLIAM PFAFF The student riots over labor laws in France, which seem reactionary or even Luddite, may prove prophetic.

Merkel lays out foreign policy, emphasizing 'values' By JUDY DEMPSEY With a confidence strikingly different from her often-rote campaign appearances las September, Merkel proposed a foreign policy strategy based on Germany's defending human rights and freedom.

Marlise Simons: The hoped-for legacy of the Milosevic trial

Beijing speaks softly to Taiwan CHONG-PIN LIN If not attentive to the current trends in Beijing's approach to cross-Strait relations, both Washington and Taipei could find themselves preparing for a contingency no longer on the horizon.


H12 RFE/RL U.S. Relations With Main Shi'ite Alliance Fraying

Prison Riot Fuels Destabilization Theory After Georgian police used force to suppress a prison riot purportedly aimed at aiding the escape of thousands of inmates, officials claimed it was part of plans to destabilize the country.

EurasiaNet Azerbaijani President Lashes Out at "Armenian Nationalists"

BBC Chernobyl diary BBC News website visits Ukraine 20 years after nuclear disaster
UPI Eye on Eurasia: Russia's militia dilemma

EDM ELECTION DEFEAT A COLD SHOWER FOR YUSHCHENKO
- UN SECURITY COUNCIL SHUTS EYES AND EARS TO GEORGIA
- KAZAKHSTAN SET TO SUPPLY MORE ARMAMENTS TO ITS ARMED FORCES

“Armenian and Azeri presidents will do what the West tells them to”: Nagorno Karabakh press digest
H13 The Times Iran told to abandon nuclear arms plan The UN Security Council has taken decisive action by giving Iran 30 days to halt uranium enrichment before it takes 'the next step'

US severs all ties with Hamas

Mick Smith on why the US is losing the battle of ideas

The striking idiocy of youth Theodore Dalrymple French students should go back to the classroom to learn some basic economics

Blair seals alliance to fight terrorism The Prime Minister has turned to Asia, and an intelligence-sharing alliance, to understand the roots of Islamic terrorism

WSJ Israel's Muddled Election Ehud Olmert can still learn from Sharon.

'The Last Helicopter' The enemies of democracy doubt America's resolve. By AMIR TAHERI

Ukraine's Victors The real comeback kid is Yulia Tymoshenko. By MICHAEL MCFAUL
H14 Financial Times UN deadlock on Iran set to end After an impasse of almost a month, diplomats at the UN yesterday appeared on the brink of agreeing a compromise text for...

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Israel's election is only another beginning Competing identities among Jews played less of a role, but these elections were still about identity: the Jewish identity of Israel, writes Avishai Margalit of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Putin accuses US of delaying Russia's WTO membership

Rice asks Moscow to probe spy claim

General Pace voices doubt on Iraq files

Olmert weighs options after slim win

Arabs ponder reaction to Kadima victory

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Attack on Brookings without substance By Strobe Talbott

Editorial A missed opportunity to make a break By all accounts Mr Card was a competent administrator. So too is Josh Bolten, Mr Bush's new chief of staff who was previously director of the Office of Management and Budget. But replacing one dedicated administrator with another is unlikely to restore Mr Bush's tattered fortunes.

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: A missed chance to revive a presidency may cost Bush dear By Edward Luce

COMMENT: Democrats should ditch the doomsayer By Jacob Weisberg

Editorial A small earthquakein a fractious Israel In the event, it was more of an earth tremor than the predicted earthquake, a mere 4.5 on the political Richter scale in the view of Haaretz

Editorial Ben's opening gambitWhen Ben Bernanke took over from Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve, he promised continuity. That was what he delivered yesterday.

Democrats seek gaps in Bush armour

H15 Los Angeles Times Israel's impossible dream By Yossi Klein Halevi The victory of the centrist sensibility marks the end of three decades' worth of utopian politics, right and left

'Israel lobby' paranoia By Max Boot
The Mearsheimer/Walt paper is just as scholarly — and nutty — as Joseph McCarthy's rants.

U.N. Warns Iran to End Nuclear Work In the Security Council's first formal step on the issue, Tehran is told to cooperate with IAEA.

U.S. Tells Shiite Bloc It Opposes Jafari as Premier


FT New Brussels warning to Microsoft The European Union’s top antitrust regulator has warned Microsoft that the next version of its flagship Windows operating system, Vista, due out next year, may run foul of competition rules

Central Europe feels chill wind from global investment climate Rising global interest rates are pushing down currencies in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: How London can close the gap on Wall Street By Peter Weinberg No other European centre can hope to compete with London, but its global leadership should not be a source of complacency, say Paul Myners, chairman of Marks and Spencer, who writes in a personal capacity.

Editorial Enough tax alreadyGordon Brown is nothing if not predictable. It has been obvious for some time that the 2007 comprehensive spending review will face tough choices on the public...
H16 Karl Rove Supreme - Robert Novak

The White House is Circling the Wagons - Howard Fineman, Newsweek

Bush Wanted War - Richard Cohen

GALLUP: MORE AMERICANS CALL SELVES DEMOCRATS THAN REPUBLICANS NOW...

Weekly Standard Polls and PresidentsWhat Truman and Bush have in common.by Alan Dowd

BBC Jury considers Moussaoui's fate The trial jury retires to decide if al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui qualifies for the death penalty.
Moussaoui 'hid 9/11 plot details'
Q&A: Moussaoui trial
Moussaoui: Killer or scapegoat?

Bring it on Mr Bush! Matt Frei on immigration and the battle over the US soul

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

New Yorker Richer and Poorer
Measuring poverty in the United States. by John Cassidy


H17 Daily Telegraph Israelis vote for peace at their price Con Coughlin asserts that the Israeli people are desperate for peace. And that is the inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the final declaration of the results from Israel's strangely subdued general election.

Leader Poor Israelis leave their mark in the Knesset Foreign interest in Israel's election has centred on the prospect for reviving peace talks with the Palestinians. Yet the extraordinary result suggests that for much of the electorate this was not the most pressing issue.
H18 Independent The New Israel: Plans to redraw border on West Bank Ehud Olmert began the task of building a workable coalition yesterday after Israelis voted, for the first time, to return a majority of MPs committed to dismantling settlements in the West Bank

H19 Drone aircraft may prowl U.S. skies Unmanned aerial vehicles sought for border security, domestic surveillance.
U.S. firm offers 'private armies' for low-intensity conflicts...
Strategic Studies Institute - Planning For and Applying Military Force: An Examination of TermsJoint doctrine is currently undergoing some potentially major revisions. The author asks the doctrine community to take a step back from the process of change and take a hard look at the differences between the original concepts and the proposed revisions. Lieutenant General (USMC Ret) Paul K Van Riper
United States, Allies Building Layered Defense Against WMDWashington File
H20 Slate What Clash of Civilizations?: Why religious identity isn't destiny. Amartya Sen

The Erring Republican Authority: Kevin Phillips is wrong about everything. Why is he taken so seriously? Jacob Weisberg


H21 Most new inventions never reach a market. Of those that do, most lose money. It is a mystery that we still have entrepreneurs... more»

Study Links Brain Growth, Intelligence The brains of very intelligent children appear to develop in a distinctive way that distinguishes them from those of less intelligent children, a federal study finds.

New Yorker Read All Over The surprising resilience of newspapers. by James Surowiecki

The Times Germans are brainiest (but at least we're smarter than the French)

Turkey is the perfect spot for a total eclipse thrills




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