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31 March 2006
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H1 Guardian US encouraged by Tehran's enemy within Simon Tisdall: Increased repression and unrest affecting Iran's numerous ethnic and religious minorities are providing new opportunities for the US
A just peace or no peace Ismail Haniyeh: Israeli unilateralism is a recipe for conflict - as is the west's racist refusal to treat Palestinians as equals.
BBC Base-building Big spending on Iraq bases prompts doubts on when US will leave
Military debate What lies ahead if diplomacy founders on Iran's nuclear issue?
Financial Times COMMENT: The promotion of democracy requires patience to succeed By Philip Stephens What makes the schism among US neo-cons interesting is that it parallels a serious political debate about whether the US can align a foreign policy constructed around values with the more pressing daily concerns of geopolitics.
COMMENT: How America can be safe and open for business By Jeffrey Garten
OpenDemocracy Rivalry in the Caspian Interests, not values, have long shaped Russia's links with Iran. Now, writes James Owen, oil and gas issues are starting to strain their relationship
Democrat Party - "Real Security: Protecting America & Restoring Our Leadership in the World"
CFR Public Agenda Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index Overall confidence in U.S. foreign policy has declined, with casualties in Iraq remaining the public’s top concern. But the consequences of U.S. energy dependency is now a close second -- In the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, Public Agenda Chairman Dan Yankelovich analyzes the Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index. Read the essay
H2 US Institute of Peace Who Are Iraq's New Leaders? What Do They Want? Download Full Report in PDF Printer-friendly Version
Ha’aretz – Ex-Mossad chief: Hamas offered 30-year cease-fire in 1997 Ephraim Halevy reveals in new book how he helped placate Arab leaders after botched assassinations
LRB Diary Patrick Cockburn: The End of Iraq
Los Angeles Times U.N. Atomic Chief Says Iran Not Imminent Threat
NYT Rice Floats the Idea of U.N. Sanctions on Iran, but China and Russia Reject It
Spain Moves on Law to Give Broad Powers to Catalonia
The Economist Valedictory - A long goodbye Bill Emmott, who stands down as editor on March 31st, offers his parting thoughts
Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati
IHT Whose Ukraine? By VIKTOR EROFEYEV The election results are a call to political realism: Ukraine turns out to be insufficiently Western, perhaps because of the West's failure to commit to a future for Ukraine in the EU.
RFE/RL Scholar Warns Europe Of 'Clash Within Civilization'
Ext links- Dis Basinda Turkiye - Google News Turkey –Turquie- Türkei - İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası - Kurdish Media - FPR Archive - Quickread - Google News - Iraq -Iran - Syria – Kurdish - Greece - Cyprus – Azerbaijan - Israel - BBC Turkish 0700 -TurcoPundit - Mideastwire.com -
Iraqi&Regional MediaMonitoring
How did Europe become home to 20 million Muslims in a mere three decades? Oriana Fallaci looks at this question, and a few others too... more»
H3 The Economist Turkey's wobble A crescent that could also wane Even admirers of Turkey's mildly Islamist prime minister are beginning to worry about his increasingly reckless political tactics
Zaman ‘PKK tangosu’nda ABD bir kez daha mühlet istedi
ABD, Türkiye’nin İran için aracılık etmesini istemiyor
TNA What is Erdogan doing at the Arab summit? Cengiz Candar
FT Pope seeks to bring back Christian values to core EU The Pope joined forces with leading European Union conservatives to call for a restoration of Christian values at the heart of the EU, on a day that further clouded Turkey’s hopes of one day joining the club
Banking investors aiming at Turkish targets Four banking deals in which foreign banks acquired Turkish targets were announced in 2005, and there are at least another...
BBC Kurd unrest escalates in Turkey
Morgan Stanley Turkey: Productivity Revival
Remarks at the Armenian Assembly of America National Conference Daniel Fried
US Not Intent To Violate Montreux Convention
Supporting an independent Kurdistan:IsraPundit
Have your say: How do Kurds prepare for changes in Iranian regime KurdishMedia.com
Regnum - Baku-Ceyhan Project demands new unplanned spendings
Independent Overseas: Turkey - is the coast clear now? A place by the sea for £20,000? It's still possible in this emerging market, discovers Graham Norwood
Event: The Kurds demand justice in Northern Kurdistan - Kurdish Federation in UK Join Kurdistani protest to demand justice and for a political and peaceful solution to the Kurdish Question in Turkey!
H4 New York Times At Sept. 11 Trial, Tale of Missteps and Management Documents released in the sentencing of Zacarias Moussaoui have offered an eerie parallel view of Al Qaeda and the F.B.I.
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Iraq at the 11th Hour If a national unity government is not formed soon, any hope for building a decent Iraq will vanish.
Rice Floats the Idea of U.N. Sanctions on Iran, but China and Russia Reject It
Spain Moves on Law to Give Broad Powers to Catalonia
French Twist By CORINNE MAIER In Paris, now it's the middle class's turn to express its discontent
PAUL KRUGMAN The Road to Dubai
Creating a permanent nonvoting working class would be bad for America's democracy
Immigrants to Be Proud Of
By DAVID BROOKS Brooks urges social conservatives to join the immigration debate in support of naturalizing undocumented Latino immigrants. He writes that this wave of immigration is not destroying but restoring the social fabric. Recent immigrants provide a booster shot of traditional morality into American society, with a decline in violent crime, divorce, teen pregnancy and abortion. Such good values produce successful future citizens, and government should be equally virtuous, supporting legislation sponsored by Sen. Sam Brownback that rewards productive immigrants with citizenship.
Strong Earthquake in Iran Kills at Least 38
Russia Raises Price of Gas for an Ally, Belarus
U.S. and Europe Say Tariff by China Is Discriminatory
H5 Washington Post Iran Warned, but Russia, China Dissent on Action: Rice Says 'Strong Signal' Sent on Halting Nuclear Activity
Israel's Surprise Issue By E. J. Dionne Jr., The world expected Israel to have an election on national security, but the voters decided that it was about the economy, stupid.
Courage in Coverage The Risks in Reporting Real Stories in Baghdad - By David Ignatius, Reporters are risking their lives in Iraq to tell Americans what we need to know, not what we want to hear.
Eight Oil Workers Killed in N. Iraq: 'Agents of Occupation' Are Shot On Day of Roadside Explosions
Top French Tribunal Upholds Jobs Law Constitutional court backs controversial law that has provoked the largest street protests in decades, putting new pressure on President Jacques Chirac to resolve the crisis that threatens to destabilize his government.
Pentagon to Test a Huge Conventional Bomb A huge mushroom cloud of dust is expected to rise over Nevada's desert in June when the Pentagon plans to detonate a gigantic 700-ton explosive -- the biggest open-air chemical blast ever at the Nevada Test Site -- as part of the research into developing weapons that can destroy deeply buried...
The Twilight Of Objectivity By Michael Kinsley, Cable news and the Internet are becoming more opinionated. That's not necessarily an improvement.
A Meltdown We Can't Even Enjoy By Eugene Robinson, Right-wing America is fighting itself over issues from immigration to Iraq. It's time for Democrats to make us see a better future.
H6 Guardian US encouraged by Tehran's enemy within Simon Tisdall: Increased repression and unrest affecting Iran's numerous ethnic and religious minorities are providing new opportunities for the US as it steps up efforts to destabilise and if possible bring down the hardline Islamic government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Iran rejects UN deadline for halting nuclear programme · We won't halt enrichment programme, says Tehran · Security council split over punitive action
A just peace or no peace Ismail Haniyeh: Israeli unilateralism is a recipe for conflict - as is the west's racist refusal to treat Palestinians as equals.
Iraqis face a more brutal life with each passing month Jonathan Steele: Terror and chaos reign, and the titanic challenge of ensuring political stability has barely begun to be addressed.
US professors in row over Israel lobbyArticle arguing the pro-Israel lobby is a damaging influence on US foreign policy triggers allegations of anti-semitism.
Brown 'tried to damage PM' Members of Blair's inner circle claim chancellor axed benefit to reduce Labour's chances in May elections.
Orange is not the only colour Russian speakers in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula have helped vote out Viktor Yushchenko, writes Tom Parfitt.
We need to know the truth about the Chernobyl fallout Twenty years on and the casualty figures from the nuclear disaster still don't add up, says Linda Walker.
H7 The Economist France faces the future France is, as so often, riven by strikes and protests. Its politicians need to level with the French people about the need to embrace change
The Security Council and Iran
Diplomacy drags
Valedictory - A long goodbye Bill Emmott, who stands down as editor on March 31st, offers his parting thoughts
China The white peril China is starting to worry about the size and impact of the foreign investment it has so assiduously courted
China's exchange rate Yuan step from the edge
Obituary Caspar Weinberger
What Would Civil War in Iraq Look Like? - Ian Bremmer, RealClearPolitics
Foreign Policy Fool Me Twice By Joseph Cirincione I used to think that the Bush administration wasn’t seriously considering a military strike on Iran, because it would only accelerate Iran’s nuclear program. But what we're seeing and hearing on Iran today seems awfully familiar. That may be because some U.S. officials have already decided they want to hit Iran hard.
Vanity Fair - America's Forgotten War By SEBASTIAN JUNGER More than four years after the invasion of Afghanistan, 20,000 U.S. soldiers are still there, pitting their diplomatic skills—and massive airpower—against the Taliban's terror tactics
H8 BBC Base-building Big spending on Iraq bases prompts doubts on when US will leave
Military debate What lies ahead if diplomacy founders on Iran's nuclear issue?
Asia Times Talking with the 'terrorists' Apart from Israel, there are five political movements and governments in the Middle East of undeniable importance: Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke
Democracy: Iraq votes, Bush vetoesCall it desperation or preemptive regime change, but the US has started to take measures in Iraq that would wreck its most cherished goal there: democracy. Ehsan Ahrari
Iran: The ultimate martyr. It might be time for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to step in. - Pepe Escobar
Bush Calls Iraqi Ethnic, Sectarian Strife Legacy of Saddam Hussein
KR Geopolitics, declining production raise fears about sources for oil Oil prices inched Thursday toward last summer's record high amid concerns of supply disruptions, and energy forecasters think that volatile geopolitics and declining oil production will keep prices up for years. Global oil production is straining to keep pace with demand, which makes oil traders fear supply disruptions and bid up prices for assured future delivery. The balance between supply and demand will remain tight for several years, which is expected to keep fuel prices high.
Daily Star Hypocritical Arab generosity on Darfur By Julie Flint
Lebanon's Confessionalism: Problems and Prospects USIPeace Briefing
H9 Ha’aretz – Ex-Mossad chief: Hamas offered 30-year cease-fire in 1997 Ephraim Halevy reveals in new book how he helped placate Arab leaders after botched assassinations
Schiff - The wrong war Are the Americans winning the war in Iraq, or losing? From the Six-Day War we learned that even a sweeping military victory does not always end the military confrontation, when the victorious forces remain as occupation forces.
The elections are behind usThe election results, which created a map of many small and medium-sized parties, is spurring negotiators to cobble together strange combinations
Jerusalem Post Analysis: A referendum that endorsed withdrawal By URI SAVIRThe 2006 election results are nothing less than an ideological revolution.
Daily Star After the confusion of Oslo's demise, Israel's new realism By Barry Rubin
The Economist Mossad A spymaster's story TOP spymasters usually take a while to emerge from the shadows. Efraim Halevy has waited only four years.
UPI Analysis: Israel's new 'soft' center The Israeli public said goodbye to the dream of a greater Israel in their election Tuesday.
Le Monde Fin du Grand Israël
The New Republic Oil and Vinegar by Martin Peretz Why The New Republic doesn't determine America's Middle East policy
BBC Money worries A mountain of problems awaits Hamas finance chief
UPI Politics & Policies: Hamas gov't in crunch Governing the Palestinian territories has never been a simple task, even at the best of times.
Forward Spy's Handler May Get a Post The surprise showing of the upstart Pensioners' Party could mean a Cabinet post for Jonathan Pollard's spymaster — and the reopening of painful wounds from a case that deeply damaged American-Israeli relations two decades ago.
Evangelicals Reconsider Bush's Drive In Mideast By Ori Nir
H10 Christian Science Monitor
Security Council turns up pressure on Iran Tehran given 30 days to prove that it's not building nuclear arms, but it shows no sign of bending.
The immigration debate: reform vs. enforcement
Blair praises moderate Islam in Indonesia During visit, British PM lauds 'liberal attitudes,' but avoids country's poor human rights record.
OpenDemocracy Rivalry in the Caspian Interests, not values, have long shaped Russia's links with Iran. Now, writes James Owen, oil and gas issues are starting to strain their relationship
H11 IHT Whose Ukraine? By VIKTOR EROFEYEV The election results are a call to political realism: Ukraine turns out to be insufficiently Western, perhaps because of the West's failure to commit to a future for Ukraine in the EU.
Autonomy passes for Catalonia By RENWICK MCLEAN Supporters said the law would keep the restive region content within Spanish borders for a generation but critics said it threatened to fracture the country.
German labor overhaul: Working yet? By CARTER DOUGHERTY Slightly over a year since Germany embarked on an ambitious program to cut benefits for the unemployed, hoping to spur them into jobs, little seems to have changed beyond the creation of a massive - and expensive - new bureaucracy.
Marketing humanitarian crises By CLIFFORD BOB / YaleGlobal OnlineWhy do some humanitarian crises attract global attention while so many others do not?
BBC French job law 'constitutional'
A youth employment law that has sparked protests across France is legal, says the top constitutional body.
PINR "Economic Brief: Italy's Weak Economy" Full text of report
H12 RFE/RL Scholar Warns Europe Of 'Clash Within Civilization' Tariq Ramadan, a leading scholar of Islam in Europe warned on March 29 that the European Union must come to terms with its Muslim citizens or face what he called a "clash within civilization."
Russia is conducting an assertive energy policy: interview of Ariel Cohen to REGNUM
Asia Times Revolutions gone astray in Eurasia The bloom has gone off the "color revolutions" in the ex-Soviet republics of Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. Maybe that's why the recent election in Belarus didn't get a color code. This time President George W Bush stayed more or less aloof
EurasiaNet Language Rights Issue Fuel Discord in Georgia Discontent is rising within Georgia’s Armenian community, the country’s largest ethnic minority, driven by complaints concerning the central government’s language policy, as well as perceptions of discrimination. The building tension between ethnic Armenians and Georgian government officials has been linked to recent rioting and violence.
Iran/Iraq: US Talks Unlikely To End Tehran’s ’Soft Power’ In IraqBY BILL SAMII
Le Monde L'UE gagne à Kiev et perd à Minsk, par Thomas Ferenczi
H13 The Times Sorry. Condimania stops here Gerard Baker The US Secretary of State is charming and accomplished but consistency wouldn't go amiss
Iran - Tough talk, but the threats are empty
Defiant sabre-rattling
WSJ Protect Our Heritage America's openness to foreign investment is under threat. By STUART E. EIZENSTAT and MICHAEL C. MAIBACH
Abominable Gasman? Russia needs its gas customers as much as they need Russia. By VIJAY V. VAITHEESWARAN
H14 Financial Times COMMENT: The promotion of democracy requires patience to succeed By Philip Stephens What makes the schism among US neo-cons interesting is that it parallels a serious political debate about whether the US can align a foreign policy constructed around values with the more pressing daily concerns of geopolitics.
COMMENT: How America can be safe and open for business By Jeffrey Garten If America’s Lucent Technologies and France’s Alcatel agree to merge, the deal will surely raise national security concerns in Washington, writes Jeffrey Garten, former US undersecretary of commerce for international trade.
Big powers fail to agree next move on Iran nuclear issue
US may support unilateral Israel line
Indecisive victory forces Olmert to wrangle over numbers
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: US academics add to a rich heritage of vibrant debate Their essay "The Rise of US Nuclear Primacy" provides us with a sophisticated appreciation of the divergent fortunes of...
COMMENT: Europe is winning the war for economic freedoms By Dan O'Brien The "four freedoms" underpinning the European integration project - the free movement of goods, services, labour and... Concerns that the half-century of (unsteady) progress towards European market integration is going into reverse are not supported by the evidence, writes Dan O’Brien of the Economist Intelligence Unit
Home-grown police force takes on Iraq insurgents
Bush enters Iran 'freedom' debate
H15 Los Angeles Times U.N. Atomic Chief Says Iran Not Imminent Threat As the country insists its nuclear program is peaceful, ElBaradei believes that threatening sanctions could cause the situation to unravel
Democratic Plan to Beef Up U.S. Security Lacks Specifics By Ronald Brownstein
Iraq bases are indefensible
FT EU and US in WTO challenge to China The US and the European Union joined forces for the first time to challenge China before the World Trade Organisation, sweeping aside diplomatic niceties weeks before a visit of the Chinese president to Washington.
COMMENT: Inheritance tax should be killed off By Martin Wolf The absurdities of taxation often reveal themselves most completely in those taxes that raise relatively small sums. Inheritance tax is an excellent example.
Editorial Commercial break-out The BBC, justly famous for its classic dramas, sometimes resembles Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll. To the outside world, it is a public service broadcaster notable...
Editorial Chilling effect on bidsWhen they seemed just aimed at keeping US assets out of Chinese or Arab hands, Congress' moves to tinker with the legislative framework for the vetting of foreign...
COMMENT: How people power can undermine democratic institutions By Anthony Spaeth The political turmoil in Thailand is an aptly timed snapshot of the state of Asian democracies, writes Anthony Spaeth, former executive editor of Time Asia
H16 KR Question: What is an American? Both sides in the emotional debate over immigration agree on at least one thing: This is a fight over what it means to be an American. The passions that are being unleashed in street protests, on talk radio and in Congress are as old as the American dream. We may be a nation of immigrants, but we sometimes recoil from foreigners with different languages, religions, cultures and complexions.
NRO Mark Krikorian: Do we want to be like Europe?
The Economist Lexington
The rebirth of outrage There's an epidemic of it
UPI Commentary: Rebuilding Iraq while the U.S. decays As we "rebuild" Iraq, what is happening here to our own society and its infrastructure?
Blogometer realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird thru GovExec -
H17 Daily Telegraph -Blair All over by Christmas The Prime Minister's closest aides feel that, following a series of damaging rows over education and sleaze, he will quit within nine months.
Superpowers in disarray over Iran sanctions Attempts by the world's leading powers to join forces and stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons have fallen into disarray as they disagreed in public over whether Teheran could face sanctions.
Israel's plans rejectedHamas has dismissed Israel's plan to withdraw from part of the West Bank and given warning that it is likely to stir yet more violent resistance from Palestinians.
Out of the shadows As the head of Mossad, Efraim Halevy presided over some of the most ruthless and controversial decisions in Israeli history.
H18 Independent US split by need for cheap labour and a fear of outsiders
Mosul slips out of control as the bombers move in
H19 HIV/AIDS Country Profiles
H20 Slate Into Thin Air: What happened to a Pakistani journalist who exposed a U.S. missile strike? Eliza Griswold
New Yorker Is poverty absolute? Or is it a relative value, affected by a poor family’s exclusion from DVDs, computers, cellphones, or vacation homes?... more»
An article on the dangers of monotheism in the Age of Globalization
H21 Google planning TV service?
The 'Da Vinci' genre
For the paperback release of Dan Brown's novel, the Monitor reviews four recent conspiracy novels.
Is organic worth it? Amid conflicting news stories, Leo Hickman goes in search of the truth.
Zizek on why nobody has to be vile.
Ext links Blogs - memeorandum - Slate's Today's Blogs - Blogometer - Juan Cole - Kevin Drum - Belgravia Dispatch - Thomas P.M. Barnett
Joshua Marshall - Daniel Drezner - Laura Rozen - the washington note - Syria Comment - David Corn - William Arkin - Phil Carter - Helena Cobban - Matt Yglesias - Oxblog - Brad DeLong
winds of change - political theory/
CounterterrorismBlog OutSide the Beltway - InstaPundit - Kausfiles - andrewsullivan.com - Becker Posner-- armscontrolwonk - Registan Arts & Letters Daily/
FOREIGN PRESS REVIEW (FPR) - ‘Relevant news, views, comments and analysis from all around the world’ Compiled by Şanlı Bahadır Koç Subscribe to FPR
Ext. links Britain/ Turkey/ Magazines/ US / Think-tanks / Blogs / Misc /Books / Quickread / Numbers / Reports
H1 Guardian US encouraged by Tehran's enemy within Simon Tisdall: Increased repression and unrest affecting Iran's numerous ethnic and religious minorities are providing new opportunities for the US
A just peace or no peace Ismail Haniyeh: Israeli unilateralism is a recipe for conflict - as is the west's racist refusal to treat Palestinians as equals.
BBC Base-building Big spending on Iraq bases prompts doubts on when US will leave
Military debate What lies ahead if diplomacy founders on Iran's nuclear issue?
Financial Times COMMENT: The promotion of democracy requires patience to succeed By Philip Stephens What makes the schism among US neo-cons interesting is that it parallels a serious political debate about whether the US can align a foreign policy constructed around values with the more pressing daily concerns of geopolitics.
COMMENT: How America can be safe and open for business By Jeffrey Garten
OpenDemocracy Rivalry in the Caspian Interests, not values, have long shaped Russia's links with Iran. Now, writes James Owen, oil and gas issues are starting to strain their relationship
Democrat Party - "Real Security: Protecting America & Restoring Our Leadership in the World"
CFR Public Agenda Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index Overall confidence in U.S. foreign policy has declined, with casualties in Iraq remaining the public’s top concern. But the consequences of U.S. energy dependency is now a close second -- In the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, Public Agenda Chairman Dan Yankelovich analyzes the Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index. Read the essay
H2 US Institute of Peace Who Are Iraq's New Leaders? What Do They Want? Download Full Report in PDF Printer-friendly Version
Ha’aretz – Ex-Mossad chief: Hamas offered 30-year cease-fire in 1997 Ephraim Halevy reveals in new book how he helped placate Arab leaders after botched assassinations
LRB Diary Patrick Cockburn: The End of Iraq
Los Angeles Times U.N. Atomic Chief Says Iran Not Imminent Threat
NYT Rice Floats the Idea of U.N. Sanctions on Iran, but China and Russia Reject It
Spain Moves on Law to Give Broad Powers to Catalonia
The Economist Valedictory - A long goodbye Bill Emmott, who stands down as editor on March 31st, offers his parting thoughts
Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati
IHT Whose Ukraine? By VIKTOR EROFEYEV The election results are a call to political realism: Ukraine turns out to be insufficiently Western, perhaps because of the West's failure to commit to a future for Ukraine in the EU.
RFE/RL Scholar Warns Europe Of 'Clash Within Civilization'
Ext links- Dis Basinda Turkiye - Google News Turkey –Turquie- Türkei - İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası - Kurdish Media - FPR Archive - Quickread - Google News - Iraq -Iran - Syria – Kurdish - Greece - Cyprus – Azerbaijan - Israel - BBC Turkish 0700 -TurcoPundit - Mideastwire.com -
Iraqi&Regional MediaMonitoring
How did Europe become home to 20 million Muslims in a mere three decades? Oriana Fallaci looks at this question, and a few others too... more»
H3 The Economist Turkey's wobble A crescent that could also wane Even admirers of Turkey's mildly Islamist prime minister are beginning to worry about his increasingly reckless political tactics
Zaman ‘PKK tangosu’nda ABD bir kez daha mühlet istedi
ABD, Türkiye’nin İran için aracılık etmesini istemiyor
TNA What is Erdogan doing at the Arab summit? Cengiz Candar
FT Pope seeks to bring back Christian values to core EU The Pope joined forces with leading European Union conservatives to call for a restoration of Christian values at the heart of the EU, on a day that further clouded Turkey’s hopes of one day joining the club
Banking investors aiming at Turkish targets Four banking deals in which foreign banks acquired Turkish targets were announced in 2005, and there are at least another...
BBC Kurd unrest escalates in Turkey
Morgan Stanley Turkey: Productivity Revival
Remarks at the Armenian Assembly of America National Conference Daniel Fried
US Not Intent To Violate Montreux Convention
Supporting an independent Kurdistan:IsraPundit
Have your say: How do Kurds prepare for changes in Iranian regime KurdishMedia.com
Regnum - Baku-Ceyhan Project demands new unplanned spendings
Independent Overseas: Turkey - is the coast clear now? A place by the sea for £20,000? It's still possible in this emerging market, discovers Graham Norwood
Event: The Kurds demand justice in Northern Kurdistan - Kurdish Federation in UK Join Kurdistani protest to demand justice and for a political and peaceful solution to the Kurdish Question in Turkey!
H4 New York Times At Sept. 11 Trial, Tale of Missteps and Management Documents released in the sentencing of Zacarias Moussaoui have offered an eerie parallel view of Al Qaeda and the F.B.I.
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Iraq at the 11th Hour If a national unity government is not formed soon, any hope for building a decent Iraq will vanish.
Rice Floats the Idea of U.N. Sanctions on Iran, but China and Russia Reject It
Spain Moves on Law to Give Broad Powers to Catalonia
French Twist By CORINNE MAIER In Paris, now it's the middle class's turn to express its discontent
PAUL KRUGMAN The Road to Dubai
Creating a permanent nonvoting working class would be bad for America's democracy
Immigrants to Be Proud Of
By DAVID BROOKS Brooks urges social conservatives to join the immigration debate in support of naturalizing undocumented Latino immigrants. He writes that this wave of immigration is not destroying but restoring the social fabric. Recent immigrants provide a booster shot of traditional morality into American society, with a decline in violent crime, divorce, teen pregnancy and abortion. Such good values produce successful future citizens, and government should be equally virtuous, supporting legislation sponsored by Sen. Sam Brownback that rewards productive immigrants with citizenship.
Strong Earthquake in Iran Kills at Least 38
Russia Raises Price of Gas for an Ally, Belarus
U.S. and Europe Say Tariff by China Is Discriminatory
H5 Washington Post Iran Warned, but Russia, China Dissent on Action: Rice Says 'Strong Signal' Sent on Halting Nuclear Activity
Israel's Surprise Issue By E. J. Dionne Jr., The world expected Israel to have an election on national security, but the voters decided that it was about the economy, stupid.
Courage in Coverage The Risks in Reporting Real Stories in Baghdad - By David Ignatius, Reporters are risking their lives in Iraq to tell Americans what we need to know, not what we want to hear.
Eight Oil Workers Killed in N. Iraq: 'Agents of Occupation' Are Shot On Day of Roadside Explosions
Top French Tribunal Upholds Jobs Law Constitutional court backs controversial law that has provoked the largest street protests in decades, putting new pressure on President Jacques Chirac to resolve the crisis that threatens to destabilize his government.
Pentagon to Test a Huge Conventional Bomb A huge mushroom cloud of dust is expected to rise over Nevada's desert in June when the Pentagon plans to detonate a gigantic 700-ton explosive -- the biggest open-air chemical blast ever at the Nevada Test Site -- as part of the research into developing weapons that can destroy deeply buried...
The Twilight Of Objectivity By Michael Kinsley, Cable news and the Internet are becoming more opinionated. That's not necessarily an improvement.
A Meltdown We Can't Even Enjoy By Eugene Robinson, Right-wing America is fighting itself over issues from immigration to Iraq. It's time for Democrats to make us see a better future.
H6 Guardian US encouraged by Tehran's enemy within Simon Tisdall: Increased repression and unrest affecting Iran's numerous ethnic and religious minorities are providing new opportunities for the US as it steps up efforts to destabilise and if possible bring down the hardline Islamic government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Iran rejects UN deadline for halting nuclear programme · We won't halt enrichment programme, says Tehran · Security council split over punitive action
A just peace or no peace Ismail Haniyeh: Israeli unilateralism is a recipe for conflict - as is the west's racist refusal to treat Palestinians as equals.
Iraqis face a more brutal life with each passing month Jonathan Steele: Terror and chaos reign, and the titanic challenge of ensuring political stability has barely begun to be addressed.
US professors in row over Israel lobbyArticle arguing the pro-Israel lobby is a damaging influence on US foreign policy triggers allegations of anti-semitism.
Brown 'tried to damage PM' Members of Blair's inner circle claim chancellor axed benefit to reduce Labour's chances in May elections.
Orange is not the only colour Russian speakers in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula have helped vote out Viktor Yushchenko, writes Tom Parfitt.
We need to know the truth about the Chernobyl fallout Twenty years on and the casualty figures from the nuclear disaster still don't add up, says Linda Walker.
H7 The Economist France faces the future France is, as so often, riven by strikes and protests. Its politicians need to level with the French people about the need to embrace change
The Security Council and Iran
Diplomacy drags
Valedictory - A long goodbye Bill Emmott, who stands down as editor on March 31st, offers his parting thoughts
China The white peril China is starting to worry about the size and impact of the foreign investment it has so assiduously courted
China's exchange rate Yuan step from the edge
Obituary Caspar Weinberger
What Would Civil War in Iraq Look Like? - Ian Bremmer, RealClearPolitics
Foreign Policy Fool Me Twice By Joseph Cirincione I used to think that the Bush administration wasn’t seriously considering a military strike on Iran, because it would only accelerate Iran’s nuclear program. But what we're seeing and hearing on Iran today seems awfully familiar. That may be because some U.S. officials have already decided they want to hit Iran hard.
Vanity Fair - America's Forgotten War By SEBASTIAN JUNGER More than four years after the invasion of Afghanistan, 20,000 U.S. soldiers are still there, pitting their diplomatic skills—and massive airpower—against the Taliban's terror tactics
H8 BBC Base-building Big spending on Iraq bases prompts doubts on when US will leave
Military debate What lies ahead if diplomacy founders on Iran's nuclear issue?
Asia Times Talking with the 'terrorists' Apart from Israel, there are five political movements and governments in the Middle East of undeniable importance: Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke
Democracy: Iraq votes, Bush vetoesCall it desperation or preemptive regime change, but the US has started to take measures in Iraq that would wreck its most cherished goal there: democracy. Ehsan Ahrari
Iran: The ultimate martyr. It might be time for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to step in. - Pepe Escobar
Bush Calls Iraqi Ethnic, Sectarian Strife Legacy of Saddam Hussein
KR Geopolitics, declining production raise fears about sources for oil Oil prices inched Thursday toward last summer's record high amid concerns of supply disruptions, and energy forecasters think that volatile geopolitics and declining oil production will keep prices up for years. Global oil production is straining to keep pace with demand, which makes oil traders fear supply disruptions and bid up prices for assured future delivery. The balance between supply and demand will remain tight for several years, which is expected to keep fuel prices high.
Daily Star Hypocritical Arab generosity on Darfur By Julie Flint
Lebanon's Confessionalism: Problems and Prospects USIPeace Briefing
H9 Ha’aretz – Ex-Mossad chief: Hamas offered 30-year cease-fire in 1997 Ephraim Halevy reveals in new book how he helped placate Arab leaders after botched assassinations
Schiff - The wrong war Are the Americans winning the war in Iraq, or losing? From the Six-Day War we learned that even a sweeping military victory does not always end the military confrontation, when the victorious forces remain as occupation forces.
The elections are behind usThe election results, which created a map of many small and medium-sized parties, is spurring negotiators to cobble together strange combinations
Jerusalem Post Analysis: A referendum that endorsed withdrawal By URI SAVIRThe 2006 election results are nothing less than an ideological revolution.
Daily Star After the confusion of Oslo's demise, Israel's new realism By Barry Rubin
The Economist Mossad A spymaster's story TOP spymasters usually take a while to emerge from the shadows. Efraim Halevy has waited only four years.
UPI Analysis: Israel's new 'soft' center The Israeli public said goodbye to the dream of a greater Israel in their election Tuesday.
Le Monde Fin du Grand Israël
The New Republic Oil and Vinegar by Martin Peretz Why The New Republic doesn't determine America's Middle East policy
BBC Money worries A mountain of problems awaits Hamas finance chief
UPI Politics & Policies: Hamas gov't in crunch Governing the Palestinian territories has never been a simple task, even at the best of times.
Forward Spy's Handler May Get a Post The surprise showing of the upstart Pensioners' Party could mean a Cabinet post for Jonathan Pollard's spymaster — and the reopening of painful wounds from a case that deeply damaged American-Israeli relations two decades ago.
Evangelicals Reconsider Bush's Drive In Mideast By Ori Nir
H10 Christian Science Monitor
Security Council turns up pressure on Iran Tehran given 30 days to prove that it's not building nuclear arms, but it shows no sign of bending.
The immigration debate: reform vs. enforcement
Blair praises moderate Islam in Indonesia During visit, British PM lauds 'liberal attitudes,' but avoids country's poor human rights record.
OpenDemocracy Rivalry in the Caspian Interests, not values, have long shaped Russia's links with Iran. Now, writes James Owen, oil and gas issues are starting to strain their relationship
H11 IHT Whose Ukraine? By VIKTOR EROFEYEV The election results are a call to political realism: Ukraine turns out to be insufficiently Western, perhaps because of the West's failure to commit to a future for Ukraine in the EU.
Autonomy passes for Catalonia By RENWICK MCLEAN Supporters said the law would keep the restive region content within Spanish borders for a generation but critics said it threatened to fracture the country.
German labor overhaul: Working yet? By CARTER DOUGHERTY Slightly over a year since Germany embarked on an ambitious program to cut benefits for the unemployed, hoping to spur them into jobs, little seems to have changed beyond the creation of a massive - and expensive - new bureaucracy.
Marketing humanitarian crises By CLIFFORD BOB / YaleGlobal OnlineWhy do some humanitarian crises attract global attention while so many others do not?
BBC French job law 'constitutional'
A youth employment law that has sparked protests across France is legal, says the top constitutional body.
PINR "Economic Brief: Italy's Weak Economy" Full text of report
H12 RFE/RL Scholar Warns Europe Of 'Clash Within Civilization' Tariq Ramadan, a leading scholar of Islam in Europe warned on March 29 that the European Union must come to terms with its Muslim citizens or face what he called a "clash within civilization."
Russia is conducting an assertive energy policy: interview of Ariel Cohen to REGNUM
Asia Times Revolutions gone astray in Eurasia The bloom has gone off the "color revolutions" in the ex-Soviet republics of Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. Maybe that's why the recent election in Belarus didn't get a color code. This time President George W Bush stayed more or less aloof
EurasiaNet Language Rights Issue Fuel Discord in Georgia Discontent is rising within Georgia’s Armenian community, the country’s largest ethnic minority, driven by complaints concerning the central government’s language policy, as well as perceptions of discrimination. The building tension between ethnic Armenians and Georgian government officials has been linked to recent rioting and violence.
Iran/Iraq: US Talks Unlikely To End Tehran’s ’Soft Power’ In IraqBY BILL SAMII
Le Monde L'UE gagne à Kiev et perd à Minsk, par Thomas Ferenczi
H13 The Times Sorry. Condimania stops here Gerard Baker The US Secretary of State is charming and accomplished but consistency wouldn't go amiss
Iran - Tough talk, but the threats are empty
Defiant sabre-rattling
WSJ Protect Our Heritage America's openness to foreign investment is under threat. By STUART E. EIZENSTAT and MICHAEL C. MAIBACH
Abominable Gasman? Russia needs its gas customers as much as they need Russia. By VIJAY V. VAITHEESWARAN
H14 Financial Times COMMENT: The promotion of democracy requires patience to succeed By Philip Stephens What makes the schism among US neo-cons interesting is that it parallels a serious political debate about whether the US can align a foreign policy constructed around values with the more pressing daily concerns of geopolitics.
COMMENT: How America can be safe and open for business By Jeffrey Garten If America’s Lucent Technologies and France’s Alcatel agree to merge, the deal will surely raise national security concerns in Washington, writes Jeffrey Garten, former US undersecretary of commerce for international trade.
Big powers fail to agree next move on Iran nuclear issue
US may support unilateral Israel line
Indecisive victory forces Olmert to wrangle over numbers
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: US academics add to a rich heritage of vibrant debate Their essay "The Rise of US Nuclear Primacy" provides us with a sophisticated appreciation of the divergent fortunes of...
COMMENT: Europe is winning the war for economic freedoms By Dan O'Brien The "four freedoms" underpinning the European integration project - the free movement of goods, services, labour and... Concerns that the half-century of (unsteady) progress towards European market integration is going into reverse are not supported by the evidence, writes Dan O’Brien of the Economist Intelligence Unit
Home-grown police force takes on Iraq insurgents
Bush enters Iran 'freedom' debate
H15 Los Angeles Times U.N. Atomic Chief Says Iran Not Imminent Threat As the country insists its nuclear program is peaceful, ElBaradei believes that threatening sanctions could cause the situation to unravel
Democratic Plan to Beef Up U.S. Security Lacks Specifics By Ronald Brownstein
Iraq bases are indefensible
FT EU and US in WTO challenge to China The US and the European Union joined forces for the first time to challenge China before the World Trade Organisation, sweeping aside diplomatic niceties weeks before a visit of the Chinese president to Washington.
COMMENT: Inheritance tax should be killed off By Martin Wolf The absurdities of taxation often reveal themselves most completely in those taxes that raise relatively small sums. Inheritance tax is an excellent example.
Editorial Commercial break-out The BBC, justly famous for its classic dramas, sometimes resembles Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll. To the outside world, it is a public service broadcaster notable...
Editorial Chilling effect on bidsWhen they seemed just aimed at keeping US assets out of Chinese or Arab hands, Congress' moves to tinker with the legislative framework for the vetting of foreign...
COMMENT: How people power can undermine democratic institutions By Anthony Spaeth The political turmoil in Thailand is an aptly timed snapshot of the state of Asian democracies, writes Anthony Spaeth, former executive editor of Time Asia
H16 KR Question: What is an American? Both sides in the emotional debate over immigration agree on at least one thing: This is a fight over what it means to be an American. The passions that are being unleashed in street protests, on talk radio and in Congress are as old as the American dream. We may be a nation of immigrants, but we sometimes recoil from foreigners with different languages, religions, cultures and complexions.
NRO Mark Krikorian: Do we want to be like Europe?
The Economist Lexington
The rebirth of outrage There's an epidemic of it
UPI Commentary: Rebuilding Iraq while the U.S. decays As we "rebuild" Iraq, what is happening here to our own society and its infrastructure?
Blogometer realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird thru GovExec -
H17 Daily Telegraph -Blair All over by Christmas The Prime Minister's closest aides feel that, following a series of damaging rows over education and sleaze, he will quit within nine months.
Superpowers in disarray over Iran sanctions Attempts by the world's leading powers to join forces and stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons have fallen into disarray as they disagreed in public over whether Teheran could face sanctions.
Israel's plans rejectedHamas has dismissed Israel's plan to withdraw from part of the West Bank and given warning that it is likely to stir yet more violent resistance from Palestinians.
Out of the shadows As the head of Mossad, Efraim Halevy presided over some of the most ruthless and controversial decisions in Israeli history.
H18 Independent US split by need for cheap labour and a fear of outsiders
Mosul slips out of control as the bombers move in
H19 HIV/AIDS Country Profiles
H20 Slate Into Thin Air: What happened to a Pakistani journalist who exposed a U.S. missile strike? Eliza Griswold
New Yorker Is poverty absolute? Or is it a relative value, affected by a poor family’s exclusion from DVDs, computers, cellphones, or vacation homes?... more»
An article on the dangers of monotheism in the Age of Globalization
H21 Google planning TV service?
The 'Da Vinci' genre
For the paperback release of Dan Brown's novel, the Monitor reviews four recent conspiracy novels.
Is organic worth it? Amid conflicting news stories, Leo Hickman goes in search of the truth.
Zizek on why nobody has to be vile.
Ext links Blogs - memeorandum - Slate's Today's Blogs - Blogometer - Juan Cole - Kevin Drum - Belgravia Dispatch - Thomas P.M. Barnett
Joshua Marshall - Daniel Drezner - Laura Rozen - the washington note - Syria Comment - David Corn - William Arkin - Phil Carter - Helena Cobban - Matt Yglesias - Oxblog - Brad DeLong
winds of change - political theory/
CounterterrorismBlog OutSide the Beltway - InstaPundit - Kausfiles - andrewsullivan.com - Becker Posner-- armscontrolwonk - Registan Arts & Letters Daily/
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