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H1 Weekly Standard "Iran Is Not Iraq" Much of the U.S. government no longer believes in, and is no longer acting to enforce, the Bush Doctrine.by William Kristol

Los Angeles Times War clouds Russia's dangerous double game with Israel and Iran could easily spark a Middle East conflict, with dire consequences for the U.S.
The New Republic. THE IGNORANCE AT THE HEART OF AN INNUENDO. And Now For Some Facts by Benny Morris
WSJ Father of the Bush Doctrine George Shultz on pre-emption and the Revolt of the Generals. By DANIEL HENNINGER
TPMCafe - America's Security Trap, Part II By G. John Ikenberry
"Intelligence for a New Era in American Foreign Policy" (1.3 MB pdf) is the report of a conference convened by the Center for the Study of Intelligence, published in January 2004.
Der Spiegel How We Can Work Together By John McCain The United States and Europe may have their differences but we still have common political interests. Working together, we can help keep Iran from building a nuclear bomb, we can foster true democracy in Russia, Belarus and China and we can stop mass killings in Africa. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
"The Russian Option Is the Only One" The United Nations Security Council ultimatum demanding that Iran terminate its efforts to enrich uranium expires on Friday. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, Ulrich Ladurner, author of the book "The Iranian Bomb," discusses Tehran's path toward becoming a nuclear power and possible scenarios and possibilities for solving the crisis.
Jerusalem Post 'It'll get worse before it gets better' Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy on the future of global terrorism.
OpenDemocracy Man in the shadows: an interview with Efraim Halevy
UPI Interview: U.S: Relations with Syria worse U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs David Welsh said Washington's relations with Syria are not only bad but getting worse.
FT Editorial US Fed hints at pause Managing interest rate expectations is one of the most difficult tasks for any central bank governor.

NSA - Israel Crossesthe Threshold Senior Nixon Administration Officials Considered Confronting Israel over Nuclear Weapons in 1969

The IAEA report on Iran and an analysis





H2 The IAEA report on the Iranian nuclear program--- The full text of Rice's statement --- the transcript of Bolton's comments --- The full text of the presidential statement is available on the United Nations Web site.

Financial Times IAEA confirms Iran’s uranium claim

US seeks to limit Gazprom hold on Europe The Bush administration is seeking to curb Moscow’s influence in the Caucasus and central Asia and weaken Gazprom’s growing hold over gas supplies to Europe with an effort to promote new oil and gas corridors that would bypass Russia and exclude Iran.

New Activities at the Esfahan and Natanz Nuclear Sites in IranInstitute for Science and International Security

State Department’s Country Reports on Terrorism 2005. Table of Contents Full report pdf file. -- Special Briefing releasing the reports.

LA Times U.S. Reports a Surge in Global Terrorism

Washington Post Efforts to Train Iraqi Forces Pose Perils U.S. soldiers harbor deep distrust of volunteer troops in northern town of Hawijah amid signs they may be working in cahoots with insurgents

U.N. Body Set to Act on Iran
Nuclear agency report paves way for Security Council debate on possible punitive measures.

Terrorist Attacks Spike in 2005
Strikes in Iraq make up 30 percent of four-fold increase worldwide, State Dept. statistics show

Center for European Reform Enlargement two years on: Economic success or political failure? by Katinka Barysch

The Amnesty report (Beyond Abu Ghraib: detention and torture in Iraq)

CSIS Transatlantic Security: Notes & Comment Experts from two CSIS programs have launched a newsletter that provides a forum for dialogue, analysis, and exchange concerning transatlantic security.READ MORE

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Asia Times Cool in Ankara: A partnership under strainThe US wants to talk Iran and "terrorism" with Iraq's neighbors. But other issues keep intruding. During a recent visit to Ankara, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice got an earful about the Kurdish problem and a disintegrating Iraq. America's allies are Turkey's sworn enemy. - M K Bhadrakumar

LA Times Bush Praises Muslim Ally (Aliyev)

Washington Times Progress in Azerbaijan (S. Rob Sobhani)

Stratfor: “Azerbaijan’s attempts to liberate its occupied ...

IAEA Daily Press Review

BBC Balkan launchpad Bulgaria offers military sites as tactical bases for US troops

H3 LA Times Turks, Kurds Keep Ties Businesslike in New Iraq

Radikal Murat Yetkin Rice ile gelen mesaj Parris: Rice'ın ziyaretindeki mesaj, ziyaretin kendisiydi. Bunun önemi iyi anlaşılsın

TMY tasarısı skandal Hukuki 'silahlı örgüt' ile 'terör örgütü' ayrımını karıştıran tasarı, sistemi altüst edecek nitelikte

CNNTürk 'Stratejik ortaklık' tanımı belli oldu

Türkiye ABD'den akıllı füze alacak

"MGK'da askerlerin itirazı olmadı"

Ertuğrul Özkök Filistin davası bizim davamız mıdır

Şahin Alpay AB sürecinin neresindeyiz?

Fikret BİLA Sınırdaki yığınak

Semih İDİZ Irak protesto notası vermedi, bilgi istedi

Why don't we try to understand Barzani? Ilnur Cevik

Alternative energy route for Europe or Turkey's new strategic paradigm Cengiz Candar

Knot of strategic vision and Erdogan's responsibility Faruk Demir

Tempo Güneydoğu'ya istihbaratçı yığınağı ve demokratik güvenlik konseptinin sonu

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu 1 MART TEZKERESİNİN ARTÇI SARSINTILARI SÜRÜYOR...

TSK, PKK'nin planlarını vuruyor MEHMET FARAÇ ŞIRNAK

Türkiye, ABD'den akıllı füze alıyor

BBC haberleri Hürriyet’te

Turkish Muslims in Germany: At the centre or at the periphery? The Muslim News, UK - By Talip Küçükcan

Kurds, safety valve of new Iraq By Barham Salih

Tigris dam project stirs hopes, fears in Turkey By Gareth Jones

Barzani: Leyla Zana is the "symbolic hyacinth of the Kurds"

Iranian Kurds and Kurds By Sirvan Kaveh Persian identity based upon Persian culture, values and the Persian language. The “Iranian” has therefore left no room for the Kurd.

Kurdistan buzzes as other parts of Iraq burn

Secret Interior Ministry report: 'Barzani will be worse trouble ... New Anatolian

Prime Minister to present Cabinet and Address the People of ... Kurdistan Regional Government

FT Court intervenes in Turkcell dispute

CSIS Azerbaijan and U.S. Foreign Policy READ MORE
EurasiaNet Aliyev in Washington: No Change on Iran Position
Washington Seeks to Steer Central Asian States Toward South Asian Allies The United States is pushing to open up trade and relations between Central and South Asia
RFE/RL Nato - Clear Signal On Afghanistan, Hope For Ukraine An informal gathering of NATO foreign ministers kept the alliance's Afghanistan plans on track and did not douse Ukrainian hopes for fast-track enlargement. But one topic that was much on ministers' minds is off the alliance's official agenda -- Iran.

Central Asia: Uyghurs Hit By Autocratic States' Cooperation With Beijing

H4 New York Times U.N. Agency Says Iran Falls Short on Nuclear Data Iran has drastically curtailed cooperation with inspectors as it has sped forward with its nuclear enrichment, the I.A.E.A. said.

Trading Frenzy Adding to Rise in Price of Oil Hedge funds and other investors have helped propel crude oil prices from around $50 a barrel to a record of $75.17.

Editorial Where America Leads ... It is incumbent on China and the Arab world to join the Bush administration in pressuring the Sudanese government to sign onto a peace deal and allow in U.N. troops.

Net Gains By JEFFREY D. SACHS By helping to save millions of children who are at risk of death from disease we have the best chance to defeat the ideologies of hate.

Gas Pump Geopolitics By Thomas L. Friedman - Friedman blames the Bush Administration for doing nothing to halt America's dependence on petroleum, which he calls the primary strategic issue of our time. He writes that US dependence on oil funds Islamic radicals, speeds global warming, supports authoritarian states, thus hindering the spread of democracy. He backs legislation to promote alternative fuels and the use of hybrid vehicles. Link to full text in primary source.

MAUREEN DOWD Say Uncle, Rummy Rummy was ordered to go to Iraq by the president, but he clearly has no stomach for nation-building, or letting Condi run the show.

JOHN TIERNEY Fiddling While Fuel Burns A gas tax is a far better way to encourage conservation and combat global warming than more fuel-efficient cars.
Bush, Aliyev Talk About Iran, Democracy, Iraq

Putin-Merkel Summit Produces Deal but No Breakthrough on Markets

The Saturday Profile: Hostage-Taker, Reformer, Pessimist: An Iranian Life

Third World Bloc Thwarts U.N. Reform Plan

Qaeda No. 2 Says U.S. Fails in Iraq

Insurgent Attacks on Iraqis Soared, Report Says

Death Toll for Americans in Iraq Is Highest in 5 Months
H5 Washington Post Efforts to Train Iraqi Forces Pose Perils U.S. soldiers harbor deep distrust of volunteer troops in northern town of Hawijah amid signs they may be working in cahoots with insurgents

U.N. Body Set to Act on Iran
Nuclear agency report paves way for Security Council debate on possible punitive measures.

Terrorist Attacks Spike in 2005
Strikes in Iraq make up 30 percent of four-fold increase worldwide, State Dept. statistics show

Dedication and Danger in Iraq By Joseph E. Robert Jr., Across Iraq, military personnel are managing local reconstruction and development projects for which they lack the proper training or tools

German Leader Rides a Wave Of Popularity Into Washington: Avoiding a Major Misstep Is Key to Merkel's Support

Developing Nations Thwart Annan's Plan for Reform at U.N.

A Chilling FBI Fishing Expedition




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CFR Ill Trade Winds Blowing

Levi: More Pessimistic About Negotiated Settlement With Iran on Nuclear Issues

Iran Continues Its Defiance

Terrorism’s Dubious ‘A’ List

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics: A Conversation with Allan Hubbard [Transcript; Federal News Service, Inc.]

World Trade Talks in Peril

Country Reports on Terrorism, 2005

Shrinking US Clout in Central Asia

The Taliban Resurgence in Afghanistan

H6 Guardian Leader The IAEA and Iran There can be a nuclear bargainMohamed ElBaradei had no choice but to find Iran in breach of its obligations to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Cool heads required Martin Woollacott: My own starting point on the big question, of how dangerous a nuclear armed Iran would be, is that weapons don't make wars.

Scathing nuclear report as US brands Iran enemy No 1Tehran says it 'doesn't give a damn' about nuclear inspectors.

Iraq 'could become haven for terror' US state department acknowledges risk of Iraq becoming safe haven for terrorists.

Does Zarqawi read the Washington Post ? Sami Ramadani If he's still alive, he'll read that the US military has been trying to magnify his role in Iraq in order to justify their assault on Iraqi cities.

In Zarqawi's home town, family talk with pride about their heroic cousin

The best help Jonathan Steele: An American pull out is more likely to get Iraq's new government to work together than anything Rice and Rumsfeld said in Baghdad.

Gulag outcast turns Kremlin apologist

The art of war Colm Tóibín: Next year marks the 70th anniversary of the destruction of Guernica. It's about time Madrid heeded the Basque demands for that painting.

A radical, short-lived and violent experiment: the origins of democracy Mary Beard: The glorious myth of ancient Athens is a poor model for re-creating the virtues of government in the 21st century

Votes cast cloud over ProdiTwo crucial votes in parliament highlight difficulties for Italy's new government.
H7 TPMCafe - America's Security Trap, Part II By G. John Ikenberry

European Opinion and Iran's 'New' Missile Stratfor

My TV Comments on Nukes Were Wrong - Joe Klein, Time

U.N.: World bears collective responsibility to prevent genocide The United Nations Security Council on Friday passed a landmark resolution making world leaders responsible to protect civilians from genocide and war crimes.

Der Spiegel IAEA Report May Open Path to Sanctions Iran is in defiance of the UN Security Council, a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday. Sanctions may be next. But Iran says "no one" can make the country give up its nuclear activity.

Spies and Lies - Ralph Peters, New York Post

The Shadow of the Bomb, 2006 - Sidney D. Drell

China: Banking on Shifting Growth to the Interior Stratfor

Europe: a surging, alienated Muslim population with strong beliefs set against older groups unable to change or defend their ways... more»
H8 New Activities at the Esfahan and Natanz Nuclear Sites in IranInstitute for Science and International Security

BBC West urges tougher line on Iran Western powers say they will push for a legally binding UN resolution to force Iran to cease uranium enrichment.

Al-Qaeda number two in new video Ayman al-Zawahiri says in a new video that Iraqi insurgents have "broken the back" of the US military.

Iran in maps Find out more about the people, land and infrastructure

US charges ex-Abu Ghraib officer
The US army charges the head of the interrogation centre at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison over detainee abuse.
Q&A: Iraq prison abuse scandal

UPI Analysis: U.N. readies Iran nuke resolution

Jawad: Iraq's New LeaderAsharq Alawsat

Iraqi paper reveals details about Saddam spy network...

Iraq Oil Outpust Lowest Since Invasion

NPR Is Iran's Nuclear Status Inevitable?

MEMRI Apr 28 SD# 1151 - Iranian Nuclear Energy Organization Head Reveals Details About Iran's Nuclear Project

US SpecOps Unit Nearly Nabs Zarqawi
H9 Ha’aretz – PFLP-GC leader warns Israel, U.S. against attacking Iran

U.S. State Department: Al-Qaida core leaders losing control

Yedioth Ahronoth Pakistan test-fires long-range missile

NSA - Israel Crossesthe Threshold Senior Nixon Administration Officials Considered Confronting Israel over Nuclear Weapons in 1969

Washington Times Terrorist axis targets Jordan In the wake of Jordanian security forces' discovery of a plot by Hamas to smuggle weapons into the country from Syria, Amman has received yet another grim reminder that it is a terrorist target

Touching the third rail By Arnaud de Borchgrave AIPAC has maneuvered to make Israel the third rail of American foreign policy.

UPI ? Analysis: U.N. resolution seeks to assure Lebanon's independence

CFR Israel in NATO? Some Say It Should Happen
H10 SyriaComment Syria Eagerly Seeking to Improve Relations with Iraqi Leaders

Spreading Democracy? Why the US must tell the truth, By EHSANI2

H11 IHT Why Europe should reject U.S. market capitalism WILLIAM PFAFF The specter of Anglo-American market capitalism dominated France's student unrest in March and April, and motivated popular rejection in France a year ago of the proposed new European Union constitution.

Once again, for Muslims, it's 'us versus us' MONA ELTAHAWY If anyone is on a crusade against Muslims it is Al Qaeda itself.

Globalist: Bold but peaceful step is needed on Iran crisis ROGER COHEN "Europe and the United States must work together, with unity and resolve." In other words, they must avoid the Iraq trap.

A plot to sully Sarkozy?

EU Enlargement: Bulgaria and Rumania - Migration Implications for the UKInstitute for Public Policy Research A 38-page factfile analyzing the likely impact of Bulgarian and Romanian accession to the EU on immigration to the UK
H12 RFE/RL Nato - Clear Signal On Afghanistan, Hope For Ukraine An informal gathering of NATO foreign ministers kept the alliance's Afghanistan plans on track and did not douse Ukrainian hopes for fast-track enlargement. But one topic that was much on ministers' minds is off the alliance's official agenda -- Iran.

Press Freedom In Former Soviet Union Under Assault Independent media in the countries of the former Soviet Union, already operating under extreme duress, came under further assault over the course of the last year.
Former Premier Warns Of Possible 'Catastrophe


EDM KREMLIN TRIES TO CONVINCE WARY WEST THAT STRONG GAZPROM IS GOOD FOR IT

Human Trafficking in the Russian Federation - Institute of Urban Economics This 137-page report provides a comprehensive analysis of information and responses to the trafficking of human beings in the Russian Federation
H13 The Times West to seek UN action on Iranian bomb threat Britain and its allies will ask the 15-nation Security Council to order Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment programme

Watchdog says Iran still enriching uranium

An invisible army of workers strikes for the right to be seen America's reliance on illegal immigrant labour — to keep the economy buzzing — is the worst-kept secret in the US economy

Inside Guantanamo: the world hears defendants speak for the first time

WSJ How Much Oil Is Really Down There? The SEC's "proved reserves" won't tell us. By DANIEL YERGIN The current system for reporting proved oil reserves is antiquated, the information it provides investors diverges from the actual resource position of many companies, and it does not further energy security. Yergin says the current rules for reporting reserves require 1970s technology and methodologies, which have not kept up with globalization. He urges reforming the system for disclosing proved reserves to benefit investors, consumers, and future energy security.

The Dollar at Home--and Abroad By Martin Feldstein - America needs a strong dollar at home and a competitive dollar abroad, including an exchange rate that will make American goods more attractive to foreign buyers and compel Americans to choose American-made goods and services. Feldstein says this is important if we want to correct the trade imbalance and limit the rise in our deficit. He says these two goals are compatible in practice and details how that would work. This goal will also help achieve price stability and a more balanced path of economic growth. Link to full text in primary source.
H14 Financial Times US seeks to limit Gazprom hold on Europe The Bush administration is seeking to curb Moscow’s influence in the Caucasus and central Asia and weaken Gazprom’s growing hold over gas supplies to Europe with an effort to promote new oil and gas corridors that would bypass Russia and exclude Iran.

Editorial US Fed hints at pause Managing interest rate expectations is one of the most difficult tasks for any central bank governor.

Job creation tops US diplomat's Iraq agenda

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Slow-motion collision course remains for China and the US

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Deft diplomacy and economic contacts alone not enough to keep US-China links on track

Chirac embroiled in smear allegations French president Jacques Chirac denied any involvement in an alleged smear campaign against Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister and his potential successor, in a scandal that risks undermining the government.

Leader The sirens learn a seductive new melody Many of us, it seems, yearn for a firm hand from government. If a recent international survey of 21,000 people in 20 countries is to be believed, we would rather be...


H15 Los Angeles Times War clouds Russia's dangerous double game with Israel and Iran could easily spark a Middle East conflict, with dire consequences for the U.S.

Iraqis' Optimism Low, Poll Shows

Contractor's Plans Lie Among Ruins of Iraq

Shiite Bloc Ready to Forgo Interior Post

FT COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Russia's shy man of energy The man running Gazprom does not fit the image of the swashbuckling energy executive, still less the head of a company with the bullying reputation Gazprom has acquired. Mr Miller is shy, slightly nervy and softly spoken. His appointment to the post five years ago caught almost everyone unawares.

Leader Soft in wood and head North America is often thought of as the home of free market ideology, and the US and Canada are also supposed to be part of the North American Free Trade Area...

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: The razing of half-baked ideas By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL It is rare that a single work can turn the tables on a widespread form of intellectual corruption. But Jane Jacobs, the American social theorist who died last week at 89, did just that.

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Old media confront a new world that puts users in charge Online communities are just one part of the phenomenon dubbed Web 2.0, a second internet wave that is proving immensely attractive to younger people.It involves innovative technology that puts users in control of the material in cyberspace, rather than passively accepting content distributed by traditional media groups
H16 FBI Sought Info on thousands -- without Court OK...

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

Bush To Allow Dubai Company's Purchase of US Defense Supplier

White House press corps demands to watch CNN instead of FoxNews on Air Force One...

Questions still linger on United Flight 93 As film launches, paper questions official account
H17 Daily TelegraphPressuring TeheranDespite the high oil price, Iran's economy is its Achilles' heel. According to World Bank figures, per capita income has more than halved since the 1979 revolution. Unemployment, especially among the young, and inflation are high, and the government remains wedded to an outdated model of import substitution.
H18 Independent The real cost of a bag of salad: You pay 99p. Africa pays 50 litres of fresh water The world is running out of water and British supermarket shoppers are contributing to global drought, according to environmental groups.

Iran 'stepping up its nuclear programme' Iran has been accused by the world's nuclear agency of stepping up its controversial programme in defiance of UN demands.
'Professor Crocodile' eyes the leadership Qom, the spiritual capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, feels like the centre of some vast, international conglomerate, administered entirely by clerics in the corporate uniform of turban and long robe.
Robert Fisk: Beating about the Bush? Not with Hersh
H19 Commercial Security in Humanitarian and Post-Conflict Settings: An Exploratory StudyInternational Peace AcademyThis 82-page study describes the decentralized, ad hoc use of commercial security organizations in humanitarian and post-conflict settings

UPI Outside View: Rumsfeld's responsibility By WILLIAM S. LIND

H20 Slate Barnes & Noble Goes to Baghdad: A brilliant plan to send American books to the Middle East.
Fred Kaplan


Congressional Research Service "The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11" (pdf), April 24, 2006.
"Arab League Boycott of Israel" (pdf), April 19, 2006. "U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress" (pdf), updated April 17, 2006.
"Sudan: Humanitarian Crisis, Peace Talks, Terrorism, and U.S. Policy" (pdf), updated April 12, 2006.
"Nonproliferation and Threat Reduction Assistance: U.S. Programs in the Former Soviet Union" (pdf), updated April 6, 2006.
"Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy" (pdf), updated April 6, 2006.
"China-Southeast Asia Relations: Trends, Issues, and Implications for the United States" (pdf), updated April 4, 2006.
H21 The BBC has laid out its vision of a brave new media world Emily Bell: If you work outside the media, my prediction is that the launch of the BBC's "Creative Futures" review last week will not have dented your world much. But in online media, people can talk of little else.

Preliminary Report on Foreign Holdings of US Securities as of 6/30/2005

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winds of change - political theory/
CounterterrorismBlog OutSide the Beltway - InstaPundit - Kausfiles - andrewsullivan.com - Becker Posner-- armscontrolwonk - Registan Arts & Letters Daily/
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H1 The Times Read my lips – no attacks on Iran Gerard Baker Three months ago world leaders were heading for agreement on action. Not any more

BBC Sistani calls for disarmament

Independent - Robert Fisk The United States of Israel?

Washington Post Misreading the Enemy What We Don't Grasp About Militant Islam By David Ignatius - It's a truism that all conflicts end eventually. But how do you resolve a confrontation with an adversary that appears unable or unwilling to negotiate a settlement? That's a common problem that runs through the West's battles with militant Islam.

Top Iraqi Ayatollah Urges Action to Rein In Militias

From The Nation, an article on the ferment over The Israel Lobby

John Judis - Determining Factor: Oil And U.S. Diplomacy The New Republic Online

Financial Times COMMENT: The risk of a transatlantic rift over Iran By Guillaume Parmentier ‘Selective strikes’ against nuclear installations would only ensure development of nuclear weapons

Russia and China warn UN not to antagonise Iran

Fed hint on rate pause pushes dollar down
UPI BMD Focus: The allies America needs America's ballistic missile defense alliances with other industrialized democracies around the world are far from being a one-way street.
Ha’aretz - MI: Syria poised to spend petrodollars on arms IDF intelligence believes Damascus will aim to refit its air force; Iran, Saudi Arabia also eye arms deals
Knight-Ridder Are speculators driving up the price of oil?
Christian Science Monitor Israel raises profile in Iran nuclear fray
Why White House woos Azerbaijan
EurasiaNet The Azerbaijani President in Washington: An Important Test for Democracy
EDM AZERBAIJAN FEARS STANDOFF BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND TEHRAN
OpenDemocracy A wager on war The United States military is preparing for the "long war" by shifting tactics and expanding ambitions. Paul Rogers sees trouble ahead

Weekly Standard McCain for SecDef? For a host of political reasons, it would make a lot of sense.by Ari Richter
H2 From the Archive Dört Tarz-ı Siyaset: Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri

Morgan Stanley Turkey: More Turm(oil) Oil prices are the main culprit, but it would be a mistake to overlook other factors.

RFE/RL Iraq: Kurdish Official Discusses Relations With Turkey Saffin Dizay

Washington Realist Failing Basic Diplomacy--Rice, Greece, Turkey and GAZPROM

EurasiaNet Concern Rising About Kurdish Discontent in Southeastern Turkey

UPI U.S. investors cautious on Kurdistan Despite advertising that promotes Iraq's Kurdish provinces as "The Other Iraq" - safe, progressive and ideal for business - American investors remain ...
Analysis: Syria faces new U.N. resolution
NATO-EU security poses challenge Faced with reform, restructuring and a lost mandate, the last decade has been tough for NATO. Will its EU security relationship cause further pressures?
Guardian Beware the hypocrisy of international allegiances Jonathan Steele: Bush's messy choice of friends and enemies is not a moral failing. It's a ruthless show of strength and should be feared.

Basque politician jailed for glorifying terrorism A prominent Basque separatist politician has been jailed for 15 months by a Spanish court for praising terrorism.

'Russia has left the western orbit' Missile deals with the 'axis of evil' are the latest sign that Moscow is sick of kowtowing to the US, writes Tom Parfitt.

New York Times Iraq's New Premier Gains Support in Talks With Shiite Leaders

The Economist Israel's new government Farewell to the generals

Jerusalem Post Analysis: Olmert must avoid 10 plagues

Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati

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Daily Star Both weapons and attraction are the essence of smart power By Joseph S. Nye

The way to beat Iran's confrontationists By Karim Sadjadpour
RFE/RL New Images Raise Questions About Nuclear Program New satellite images of an Iranian nuclear site show a previously-unseen tunnel entrance near a uranium-conversion facility, raising suspicions that activities within are being kept from the world's eyes.
H3 Fikret BİLA Stratejik vizyon belgesi yazıldı bile

Fikret BİLA Erdoğan'dan Kerkük uyarısı

Hasan CEMAL Kürt devleti!

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Sıcak takip ötesi...

Cengiz Çandar STRATEJİK FAY HATLARI ÜZERİNDE TÜRK DANSI

PKK'ye 8 noktada sıcak takip ve gece harekatı

Gül: Teröre karşı tedbirler sürecek

Wilson: PKK sokulmamalı

Muharrem Sarıkaya "SOVB, evlilikte ilişki tazeleme gibi"

Rice'ın ardından Erdal Güven

PKK, niye AB sürecini baltalıyor? MUSTAFA AKYOL

Ankara ve Tahran kontrolü ele almak istiyor MUHAMMED HURUB

Yalım Eralp Mrs. Rice Bize Gaz Bulsun

Zaman Gül: Irak rahatsız değil, memnun olmalı

PKK’ya karşı nokta operasyonları devam ediyor

‘2 bin 500 PKK'lı militan Barzani’ye sığındı’

Almanya, İran krizinde Rusya-Çin eksenine yaklaşıyor

Sabah MGK'ya üç başlıklı rapor

İran: "PKK kamplarına büyük zarar ...

Ambassador Ross Wilson Speaking to Journalists at Ankara Chamber of Industry Organized Industrial Zone (April 27, 2006)

RFE/RL Turkey Urged To Seek Baghdad's Help In Dealing With Kurds

Murat Yetkin - Enerji arenası

Birand AB Kürtçe ısrarını bıraktı
Fransa başlattı, İngiltere direndi ve AB, dolaylı şekilde ve ilerde Kürtçe eğitim baskısı yaratabilecek bir kriteri müzakere koşulu yapmaktan vazgeçti.

Turkey uses PKK to kill Kurdish dream By Zardasht Diaz

Turkey urged to seek Iraq's help in dealing with Kurdish militants

Baydemir: Belediye bütçemiz yetersiz

Ibn Khaldun’s theory of history: A reconstruction By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli

CoE: Turkey, Armenia can normalize relations only after Nagorno settlement

Armenian history hotly disputedSun-Sentinel.com


H4 New York Times Iraq's new Premier Gains Support in Talks With Shiite Leaders

U.S. Economy Still Expanding at Rapid Pace Forecasters expect the Commerce Department to report that the economy grew about 5 percent, the biggest increase since 2003

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Gas Pump Geopolitics If we want to make wind, solar and biomass more competitive, gasoline has to cost more.

Editorial Pander at the Pump The pain of high gas prices will only get worse unless Congress changes its priorities, now

Premier-Elect in Israel Closer to a Coalition

Iran Vows to Defy U.N. on Nuclear Program

PAUL KRUGMAN The Crony Fairy The United States will regain effective government if and when it gets a president who cares more about serving the nation than about rewarding his friends.

Blowback in Africa By RAFFI KHATCHADOURIAN The United States will regret aiding Chad’s dictator.

H5 Washington Post Misreading the Enemy What We Don't Grasp About Militant Islam By David Ignatius It's a truism that all conflicts end eventually. But how do you resolve a confrontation with an adversary that appears unable or unwilling to negotiate a settlement? That's a common problem that runs through the West's battles with militant Islam.

Soaring Oil Prices and Profits Fuel an Outrage Exxon Mobil reports $8.4 billion in first-quarter profit. Members of Congress offer proposals but little chance is seen for tighter oil controls.

Say It With Me: Supply and Demand By Charles Krauthammer, If you thought the Dubai port deal marked a record high in Washington cynicism, think again. Nothing can match the spectacle of politicians scrambling for cover during a spike in gasoline prices.
Gunmen Kill Sister of Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi lost another sibling when a pack of gunmen killed his brother on April 13.
Rice, Rumsfeld in Separate Orbits

Sistani Urges Action on Militias

Mubarak vs. a Dissenting Judiciary: Egyptians Rally Behind Magistrates Targeted After Alleging Election Fraud

Rice: U.S. Committed to Diplomacy With Iran

Tax the Windfall By Michael Kinsley

H6 Guardian Beware the hypocrisy of international allegiances Jonathan Steele: Bush's messy choice of friends and enemies is not a moral failing. It's a ruthless show of strength and should be feared.

Basque politician jailed for glorifying terrorism A prominent Basque separatist politician has been jailed for 15 months by a Spanish court for praising terrorism.

'Russia has left the western orbit' Missile deals with the 'axis of evil' are the latest sign that Moscow is sick of kowtowing to the US, writes Tom Parfitt.

Iran hangs tough as it fails to meet nuclear deadline Confrontation between Iran and the west intensifies as a negative verdict is given on Tehran's nuclear programme.

Musharraf insists: I'm not George Bush's poodle General says US air strikes infringe sovereignty · President denies running military dictatorship

Q&A: Bird flu

Eta ceasefire suffers setback Two arson attacks have seen Eta accused of abandoning its 'permanent ceasefire' after only a month, writes Giles Tremlett.

First Hitler in Germany, then Mussolini in Italy, and now the BNP in the UK: will this left-wing conspiracy never end?

'A blend of journalism and acupuncture' - the 85-year-old who terrifies presidents
H7 Knight-Ridder Are speculators driving up the price of oil?

Washington Times Grand Bargain or Grand Delusion?

Atlantic Monthly "The 'Vietnam syndrome' meant that every time the possibility of military intervention came up, the question was, 'Is this another Vietnam?' Now an 'Iraq syndrome' may be emerging. And with it comes the question, 'Is this another Iraq?'" —William Schneider , "The Vietnam Syndrome Mutates"

CFR U.S.-Russia Relations Headed in Wrong Direction, Concludes Council Task Force Chaired by Edwards and Kemp

Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (Iranian rebels)

Terrorism’s Dubious ‘A’ List

Time Time Runs Out for Iran at the U.N. Now What?

Boston Globe Bush's misbegotten Iran plan
(By Sarah Chayes and Amir Soltani Sheikholeslami)

RCP As U.N. Debates, Iran's Nuke Program Moves Ahead - Ian Bremmer

Of Imperial Presidents and Congressional Cowards - Patrick Buchanan

Japan Focus, a look at how the US-India nuclear deal is fueling an Asian arms race.


H8 BBC Iraq cleric calls for disarmament Iraq's most influential Shia cleric calls for the next government to disband militias operating in the country.

UN nuclear body to report on Iran The UN nuclear watchdog will report on whether Iran has met demands to suspend uranium enrichment.

Diaspora life Iranians abroad on their ties to Iran and pride in their heritage

The first chapter from Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class.

UPI Analysis: Sudan sanctions a first step

PBS News Media Flourishes in the Middle East

Boston Globe Editorial Iraq's new chapter

Getting past oil's ideology
EVER SINCE America began using oil from foreign sources, US companies have had to deal with undemocratic regimes

The New Republic The Iran question hawks won't answer by Peter Beinart
H9 Ha’aretz - MI: Syria poised to spend petrodollars on arms IDF intelligence believes Damascus will aim to refit its air force; Iran, Saudi Arabia also eye arms deals

Hezbollah publicly admits to support of militant groups in PA

The Economist Israel's new government Farewell to the generals

The New Republic And now for some facts A close examination of what Mearsheimer and Walt failed to tell us about the "Israel Lobby." by Benny Morris

Yedioth Ahronoth New 'spy satellite' a PR ploy

Jerusalem Post Analysis: Olmert must avoid 10 plagues

Analysis: Drawing the borders of Israel


Study: Orthodox ascendant among US Jews

Top Bedouin military officer convicted of spying against Israel

Daily Star Both weapons and attraction are the essence of smart power By Joseph S. Nye

The way to beat Iran's confrontationists By Karim Sadjadpour

Editorial U.S. and Iranian officials have led the world into stalemate
H10 Christian Science Monitor Why White House woos Azerbaijan Aliyev's visit comes as the country's oil and geography make it increasingly important.

Editorial Watering Lebanon's cedar revolution

Zarqawi: the man, the image, the video star

Why the CIA's secret flights irk Europeans Government response has been minor, but public is very suspicious of the US.

To Bernanke, inflation threat looms largest The Fed chairman raised hopes Thursday for a pause after next rate hike.

Israel raises profile in Iran nuclear fray An Israeli satellite will monitor Iran's program, which faces a Friday deadline.

Corruption eroding Afghan security Violence is spreading beyond the restive south, fueled in large part by poor governance, say analysts.

Congress takes hard look at 9/11 reforms Some members want changes at Homeland Security. Critics also eye national intelligence office.

H11 IHT H.D.S. Greenway: U.S. history in black and white Do Americans glorify their Founding Fathers too uncritically? Does a nation of immigrants, need founding legends to unite them?

Sarkozy turns France to talk of immigration Not the protests; immigration. It took one comment by Nicolas Sarkozy to shift the national focus from the hazardous terrain of labor market reform to turf that lies at the heart of his own popularity.

Madrid suspects tied to e-mail ruse The leading figures indicted in the March 11, 2004, train bombings in Madrid used a simple e-mail trick to outwit investigators while planning their attack.

For Bulgarian villagers, US bases mean jobs

In Indonesia, the Chinese go to church In Indonesia, home of the world's biggest Muslim population, rich, urban ethnic Chinese are flocking to Christianity.

Yale Global China Seeks "Strategic Partnership" With Africa
H12 RFE/RL

EDM RUSSIAN FORCES DRILL FOR POSSIBLE REBEL OFFENSIVE IN NORTH CAUCASUS
- AZERBAIJAN FEARS STANDOFF BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND TEHRAN

BBC Putin criticises West over energy Putin accuses European countries of stoking up fears about the reliability of Russian energy supplies.

Washington Times A burgeoning friendship By Kanat Saudabayev - U.S.-Kazakhstan relationship strengthens

Regnum Azerbaijani NGOs excluded cooperation with nearly all Armenian colleagues

Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review

Bosnia intelligence agency scrambles over Mujahideen


H13 The Times Read my lips – no attacks on Iran Gerard Baker Three months ago world leaders were heading for agreement on action. Not any more

UN braces itself for a nuclear showdown Iran will be reported to the UN security council for its decision to enrich uranium but its President has denounced the international community as divided

Leader Strike camp It is time to set a date for Guantanamo’s closure

MI6: Squiffy need not apply Ben Macintyre In today's open climate, spies have come in from the gentlemen's clubs and on to the job market

Insurgents kill sister and brother of new Iraqi leader



WSJ How Much Oil Is Really Down There? The SEC's "proved reserves" won't tell us. By DANIEL YERGIN


The Economist Goldman Sachs On top of the world In its taste for risk, Goldman Sachs, the world's leading investment bank epitomises the modern financial system

China and the internet The party, the people and the power of cyber-talk


H14 Financial Times COMMENT: The risk of a transatlantic rift over Iran By Guillaume Parmentier ‘Selective strikes’ against nuclear installations would only ensure development of nuclear weapons, writes Guillaume Parmentier of the Institut Français des Relations Internationales

Russia and China warn UN not to antagonise Iran

Man of the people ready to take on ayatollahs

Is openness key to the Iran problem?

Kosovo prime minister plays down border disputeAgim Ceku, prime minister of Kosovo, played down a border dispute with neighbouring Macedonia, saying that the current border would not change after the breakaway Serbian province gains formal independence.

Fed hint on rate pause pushes dollar downThe dollar fell to seven-month lows against the euro after Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, prepared the markets for a halt in the US rate-tightening cycle that began in June 2004

COMMENT: Crisis prevention in the new global economy By Gordon Brown Starting with the agreement reached at Saturday’s international monetary and financial committee meeting, we should push ahead with IMF reform, writes Gordon Brown, UK chancellor of the exchequer

Editorial China's weakest link

China's monetary policy change of tack surprises economists


H15 Los Angeles Times Bin Laden's loser crusade By Jonah Goldberg The truth about radical Islam's desperate appeal to globalization nobodies.


FT Editorial Russia ‘forced’ to seek new energy markets Vladimir Putin said warnings by Russian energy companies that they will expand supplies to non-European markets were caused by European “attempts to spread anxiety” about dependency on Russian energy.

Carbon trade on trial Every market, especially one as young as the European carbon emissions trading system that started last year, is prone to sharp swings.
COMMENT: A future for Europe shaped by museums and modernity A favourite jibe of my American friends is that Europe is becoming a museum. I rather like museums. As long as the admission charges are set high enough, there is something to be said for growing old gracefully in the role of a curator. But Europe’s politicians insist otherwise: power and prestige lie in modernity.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Cold war thinking will not get us anywhere - no matter how imperfect, Rosneft IPO must go forward
H16 Knight-Ridder Republicans may face first election losses of the Bush era For five years, President Bush has defied political history. Now, six months before another Election Day, history appears to be catching up to Bush and his party.

Blog: Is Rove implicating Cheney?

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

Exclusive: Senate Intelligence Committee Chair blocks Rice, Tenet, Powell interviews on Iraq...

H17 Daily Telegraph 'Blair must name his day' Ministers loyal to Tony Blair have said he will have to announce the date of his departure soon after Thursday's local elections if Labour suffers heavy losses.

Bleeding Iraq dry A new class of grand mafiosi sucking billions of pounds out of Iraq's vital oil sector is crippling efforts to rebuild the devastated nation.
H18 Independent Iraq war set to be more expensive than Vietnam The Iraq war has already cost the US £180bn, according to an authoritative new report, and even if a troop withdrawal begins this year, the conflict is set to be more expensive than the Vietnam War

Robert Fisk: Through a Syrian lens, 'unknown Americans' are provoking civil war in Iraq

Robert Fisk United States of Israel?
New government in Israel ready to clear dozens of settlements

Basque leader is jailed for praising former head of Eta
H19"Record of President's Meeting with the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board," July 18, 1970.
UPI Outside View: Mightier than the sword Rumsfeld has approved plans that designate the elite Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, as the Department of Defense's lead ...
Excessive secrecy hurting CIA studies

The technology behind the Pentagon's controversial data-mining project has been acquired by NSA, and is probably in use.

Counterterrorism in African Failed States: Challenges and Potential Solutions

Washington Note Porter Goss: Director of the Central Harrassment Agency
H20 Slate Fat Liars: Americans are even more obese than we thought. William Saletan human nature,

NRO Michael Ledeen: James Jesus Angleton reveals the intel.

Mackubin Thomas Owens: Rumsfeld’s critics in uniform have overstepped their bounds.
H21 MI6 ad seeks recruits with an 'outstanding ability to persuade'
FT COMMENT: Cheer up, football has no room for false patriotism By Simon Kuper Appointing a foreigner as coach of the national football team is a sign of English strength as well as weakness, writes Simon Kuper, prize-winning author of Football Against the Enemy

The BBC's risky game of space invaders The BBC is invading commercial broadcasters' cyberspace. The public broadcaster said this week that it was going to relaunch its website with more blogs, podcasts and...

Puzzle Embedded in 'Da Vinci Code' Ruling

Film Critics on 'United 93' A roundup of film critics' reviews of "United 93."

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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H1 CSIS Iraq's Evolving Insurgency and the Risk of Civil War -Anthony H. Cordesman, with the assistance of Eric M. Brewer and Sara Bjerg Moller

Ha’aretz – Iran procures missiles capable of hitting Europe IDF Intelligence chief: Tehran bought
th Korea with 2,500-km. range.

And thank you to Hamas By Aluf Benn - Finally, there is a disciplined, hierarchical body on the Palestinian side that can observe a cease-fire - even if it is a fragile and imperfect one - and gradually enforce "one law and one weapon," rather than Fatah's institutionalized anarchy

Harvard Magazine The$2-Trillion War by Craig Lambert

Nelson Report on Iran via Laura Rozen 10:06 AM

Christian Science Monitor A defiant Iran banks on divisions at UN UN's split means sanctions will likely be imposed by the US and its allies.

The New Republic Determining Factor by John B. Judis Why does America fight? Oil. It's not fashionable to say this, but the Iraq war was about oil. Not entirely, but certainly more than it was about weapons of mass destruction or a link to Al Qaeda. The 1991 war with Iraq was also about oil, and if the United States goes to war in the future with Iran or with China, it will likely be about oil.

Study: 'Land of opportunity' a myth US has one of the lowest rates of intergenerational mobility in the world.

Financial Times Editorial Bush runs on empty Pity the leader of a nation that regards cheap petrol as a basic human right.

Brussels urges Russia to break Gazprom grip on pipelines

EU urges Bulgaria to step up fight against organised crime

Working government 'key to calming Iraq'

COMMENT: The high price of feeding the hungry dragon By Mark Thirlwell One consequence of its immense appetite for commodities is that China is also pulling economies from further afield into its economic and political orbit, writes Mark Thirlwell, director at the Lowy Institute for International Policy

Guardian With Europe and America, the feeling is always mutual Linda Colley: Our enduring prejudices about each other contain awkward truths, but both sides need to broaden their horizons.

Leader – Oil Prices - Fuelling the uncertainty If there is any overall rationale for the current slow-motion oil-shock, there may be no alternative but to rely on that old standby, market uncertainty. Market jitters are currently centred on Iran.

Are there British intellectuals? Yes, and they've never had it so good Timothy Garton Ash: Britain has the richest culture of debate in Europe - not even Paris, the former capital of ideas, can compete

Moving Beyond the Stalemate: Addressing the Nuclear Challenge by Supranational Means Netherlands Institute of International Relations
Russia's Military Strategy: Preparing for the Wrong War?Netherlands Institute of nternational Relations

Is More Better? Evaluating External-Led State Building After 1989 Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies


H2 Preventative War and its Alternatives: The Lessons of History Strategic Studies Institute

Harmony and Disharmony: Exploiting al-Qua'ida's Organizational VulnerabilitiesFreeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati

CFR Syria: Has Assad Dodged a Bullet?

CFR Landis: Syria Eagerly Seeking to Improve Relations with Iraqi Leaders

CFR Assad Bruised but Resilient

CFR Azerbaijani President Stresses Military Cooperation with US in Afghanistan, Iraq—but not Iran

IHT A dictator comes a-calling EVGENY MOROZOV Bush sees nothing wrong with pontificating about human rights violations in Azerbaijan and wining and dining their perpetrator at the same time.
RFE/RL Aliyev Defends Rights Record, Blames Armenia For Stalled Karabakh Talks

NATO - Ministers To Discuss Alliance's Future At a summit in Sofia, NATO foreign ministers are expected to discuss Iran's nuclear program and the planned deployment in southern Afghanistan, but also begin talks about how to respond to the aspirations of prospective new members.

Russia/Germany Energy Security, Iran Top Summit Agenda

EurasiaNet Azerbaijani President Visits Washington
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
Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia: A Triangular Interaction?* -- Part IIYuksel Soylemez

Turks and Armenians Suat Kiniklioglu

Aliyev: İran’a operasyonda yokuz

Fikret Ertan Romanya ve Bulgaristan üsleri

Mithat Bereket Mahmud Abbas ziyaretinin perde arkası

Turkey and US remain friends and good allies Ilnur Cevik

Türkmenler Kürt Liderleri Uyardı

’Çift el’ diplomasisi

Kurdish Intifada ZNet

Halabjans Resent Lack of InvestmentInstitute for War and Peace Reporting

Have your say: Shiia militants occupy Kirkuk whilst Turkish-Iranian troops coming from other sides of Kurdistan’

KDP: "Randevu talebi Zana'dan geldi"

Iraq: Kurds seize equipment destined for South Oil Company Tactical Report

Civil Servants Short-Changed Institute for War and Peace Reporting ... In Kurdistan, Iraqi coins are used to make jewellery and play games, and even children know they have no monetary value.

Rizgari Türk Ordusu KKK´yi bahane ederek Özgür Kürdistan´a fiili olarak yerleşmek istiyor

Türk Özel Savaş Kuvvetleri Özgür Kürdistan topraklarına girdi



H3 Hürriyet PKK’ya sıcak takibe ’göz yumarız’ iması Erdoğan ile ABD Dışişleri Bakanı Rice arasında geçen ve 1 saat 10 dakika süren görüşmenin perde arkasını açıklıyoruz.

Irak’tan nota Irak, Türk özel harekátçıların sınırı aştığını ileri sürüp Türkiye’ye iki ayrı nota verdi.

Cüneyt Ülsever Nasıl stratejik işbirliği yapacağız?

Ertuğrul Özkök Irak Kürtlerine akraba mesajı

Ruşen Çakır Rice AKP'ye can simidi uzattı

Çandar RİCE GELDİ-GİTTİ. NE OLDU? NE OLMADI?

How should we read Rice's Ankara visit? Cengiz Candar

Sami KOHEN Belgeyle biter mi?

Birand Ayar yapıldı, sıra uygulamada...

Soli Özel Yeni dönem

Cumhuriyet 'Ortak vizyonda' çerçeve tartışması

Zaman Irak’a nota cevabı: Toprağınızı PKK’ya kullandırmayın

Ankara, Rice ziyaretinden memnun Atina, Kıbrıs uyarısının şokunu yaşıyor

Türkiye ile ABD arasında ‘stratejik vizyon’ dönemi

Radikal Otomobilde söylenenler
Rice Gül’e 'Avrupa'da, sizdeki Müslümanlık'tan çok daha katı Hıristiyanlık var' demiş

Irak'ın gözü sınırda Irak Dışişleri bilgi istedi: Sınırda son durum ne? Yanıt: Rutin bir harekât

Kıyaslama Gündüz Aktan 24 Nisan günü Başkan Bush, Ermeni olayları konusunda mutat bildirisini yayımladı. Bunun bir yıl önceki bildiriyle mukayesesi Ermeni meselesinin gidişatı hakkında bazı ipuçları verebilir.

Türkler AB'den giderek soğuyor

Rumlar Annan Planı'nı reddetmenin cezasını çekiyor

Kürt liderler tarihe baksın

Milliyet Taha AKYOL Ermeni diasporası ve Amerika

Semih İDİZ 'Rice'ın ziyareti beklenenden başarılı'

'ABD kırbacı!' ABD Dışişleri Bakanı Condoleezza Rice'ın Atina'da "Rum Kesimi'nin Türkiye'nin AB üyeliği için çaba göstermesi gerektiği"ni ifade etmesi, Yunan ve Rum basınında tepkiyle karşılandı

Hava sahasına kalkanHazine, "yüksek irtifa-uzun menzilli hava savunma sistemi" projesi için gereken 1 milyar dolarlık ön onayı verdi

Cumhuriyet PKK'ye sıcak takip

Akşam Vur-kaç operasyonu

Güler Kömürcü Joker kimin olacak?

Hüsnü Mahalli Zana arabulucu mu?

KDP: "Randevu talebi Zana'dan geldi"

Vatan- Laricani - 'Bakü-Ceyhan'ı vururuz'

EurasiaNet Turkey and the United States to Develop "Common Strategic Vision" BY MEVLUT KATIK

Senior Kurdish official proposes mass resignations

The Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland Los Angles Times - By Alissa J. Rubin

Turkey Masses Troops on Iraqi Border

Turkey Denies Sending Troops Into Iraq
Remarks With Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul After Their Meeting

Rice Seeks Greek, Turkish Help to Pressure Iran

H4 New York Times Editorial The Iraqi Oil Pipeline Fiasco American taxpayers got a particularly raw deal on the project to repair a crucial oil pipeline in Iraq.

Grand Jury Gets Rove Testimony Over C.I.A. Leak Karl Rove's testimony was a sign of renewed attention by the special prosecutor in a matter that has lingered unresolved for months.

Bush Takes Steps to Ease Increase in Energy Prices

Qaeda Video Vows Iraq Defeat for 'Crusader' U.S.

DAVID BROOKS The Death of Multiculturalism
Democrats are purging the last vestiges of the New Left and returning to the older civic liberalism of the 1950's and early 1960's.



H5 Washington Post Projected Iraq War Costs Soar Total Spending Is Likely to More Than Double, Analysis Finds

Six-Nation Bloc Plans Anti-Terror Maneuvers China, Russia and four Central Asian nations announced Wednesday that they will hold joint anti-terrorism exercises next year, emphasizing a desire to balance U.S. military influence in Asia with stepped-up preparations of their own.

Probe of Detainee Transfers Finds Many CIA Flights

Iranian Leader Warns U.S. of Reprisal
Khamenei Is Defiant Ahead of U.N. Report

In Iraq, a Joint Show of Support Rice, Rumsfeld Meet With Incoming Premier; Unity Is Theme

Editorial A Dagger to al-Qaeda Good news in Iraq triggers a bleat from a terrorist -- and a hasty cheer by the Bush administration.

Sudan's Bashir Rebuffs U.N. on Peacekeepers

Tension Over Press Leaks Government Has a Right to Keep Secrets -- but Also a Duty to Be More Open By David S. Broder,

Some Archives Files Wrongly Kept Secret

Wilting Dreams At Gitmo A Detainee Is Denied A Garden, and Hope By P. Sabin Willett,

H6 Guardian 1,000 secret CIA flights revealed · MEPs' report says member states knew of abductions · Documents show 'strange routes' and stopovers

Gorbachev in row on 20th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster Russian newspaper publishes transcripts of a politburo meeting during which the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev suggested covering up the real circumstances of the accident

With Europe and America, the feeling is always mutual Linda Colley: Our enduring prejudices about each other contain awkward truths, but both sides need to broaden their horizons.

Leader – Oil Prices - Fuelling the uncertainty If there is any overall rationale for the current slow-motion oil-shock, there may be no alternative but to rely on that old standby, market uncertainty. Market jitters are currently centred on Iran.

Are there British intellectuals? Yes, and they've never had it so good Timothy Garton Ash: Britain has the richest culture of debate in Europe - not even Paris, the former capital of ideas, can compete.

Olmert strikes first deal in bid to form coalition Israel's interim prime minister closer to parliamentary majority needed for his plan to draw Israel's final borders by 2010.

Security for show Brian Whitaker: The clapped-out Egyptian regime must be held to account after three bombings in Sinai in 18 months.

Rice and Rumsfeld bury the hatchet for Iraq visit · Show of unity aimed at bolstering PM-designate · Fox radio host is Bush's new press secretary

Briton accused in bomb plan Man named in court over role in Libyan plans to build a nuclear bomb
H7 Washington Realist Robert McFarlane and breathing room for energy

Provocations by Michael Scheuer

UPI Analysis: Kofi Annan speaks out U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan spoke out forcefully, yet diplomatically, against "very unfair and unjustifiable criticism" of the world organization in recent years.

UPI ? Analysis: How to deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions

? Walker's World: EU highs and lows

? Analysis: Transformation of the Atlantic Alliance Analysis: NATO talks transformation, again

? Outside View: The rising power of Shiites By Barry Rubin

The New Republic Determining Factor by John B. Judis Why does America fight? Oil. It's not fashionable to say this, but the Iraq war was about oil. Not entirely, but certainly more than it was about weapons of mass destruction or a link to Al Qaeda. The 1991 war with Iraq was also about oil, and if the United States goes to war in the future with Iran or with China, it will likely be about oil.

NRO Jonah Goldberg: Iraqis should vote on whether we should stay

Senate FRC Hearing U.S.-India Atomic Energy Cooperation:Strategic and Nonproliferation Implications

New Republic Is Al Jazeera the next PBS? by Spencer Ackerman
H8 Larijani says US seeks nuclear OPEC in 20 years

BBC Complex Iran Iranian views on the growing nuclear crisis are far from monolithic

Iraq war costs soar to $300 billion Pentagon may reduce US troops by 30,000 in Iraq

House Backs Tighter Iran Sanctions

Khamenei: Iran Won't Attack, but Will Retaliate
Iraqi PM Reaches Out to Sunnis, Kurds


Knight-Ridder Hundreds of detainees abused, report finds Three human rights groups said Wednesday that they had found credible evidence that U.S. troops and government civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had abused, tortured or killed at least 460 detainees.

Iraqis faking their IDs to hide religious affiliations

Iraq: Maliki's first days

Bush Administration Expresses Concern on Iranian Intention to Share Nuclear Technology

Why we fear Iran By Abdul Rahman Al Rashed Asharq Al Awsat, The columnist says, "Most of the Arabs outside of the Gulf region believe that Iran's possession of a nuclear weapon is a positive development that achieves a balance of power with Israel. The Gulf Arabs, however, believe that the power of Iranian nuclear deterrence represents the biggest danger of a military threat." He says that, given Israel's capacity to strike Iran and the possible devastation that a nuclear launch by Iran would reign on Palestinians, "This means that the only possible target... would be the Arab Gulf." He concludes by saying that this "fear is justified, particularly after Iran's new escalation through the development of its forces, weapons, and purchases, as well as the enrichment of uranium."Link to full text in primary source.
H9 Ha’aretz – Iran procures missiles capable of hitting Europe IDF Intelligence chief: Tehran bought ground-to-ground missiles from North Korea with 2,500-km. range.

And thank you to Hamas By Aluf Benn - Finally, there is a disciplined, hierarchical body on the Palestinian side that can observe a cease-fire - even if it is a fragile and imperfect one - and gradually enforce "one law and one weapon," rather than Fatah's institutionalized anarchy.

Facing the Kremlin The U.S., exhausted in Iraq and preoccupied with its problems, is in no hurry to enter a futile face-off with the Kremlin, and will agree to pay a high price to avoid one

Debka One up for Tehran in Its Secret Bout with Washington

Yedioth Ahronoth 'We won't train with Israel' Swedish defense minister says country pulled out of air force exercise because a state 'that does not participate in international peacekeeping missions' is scheduled to take part, but does not mention Israel by name

BBC Israel drops militant trial plan
Israel will not try Palestinian militant Ahmed Saadat over the 2001 assassination of an Israeli minister. Profile: Ahmed Saadat

Rocket attacks Mixed feelings among Palestinians about militant rocket fire

Examining 'The Israel Lobby' - Molly Ivins, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Mossad behind Dahab attacks?
H10 Christian Science Monitor A defiant Iran banks on divisions at UN UN's split means sanctions will likely be imposed by the US and its allies.

US should call for direct talks with Iran Communication could help alleviate tension from historical grievances. By John K. Cooley
EU hears hum of cheap labor
By Monday, Western Europe must decide whether to lift restrictions on low-wage Eastern European immigrants.

With oil at $70 a barrel, firms try coal, shale, even turkeys
Alternative energy got a boost from President Bush this week, but projects are typically small - or secret.

Hamas, Sudan say 'no thanks' to bin Laden Al Qaeda leader's recent statement is attempt to deflect criticism, rewrite Sudan history, critics say

Zarqawi's message: 'I'm still here' Iraqis reacted negatively to video of the terror leader, who was until now seen by many as fictional.

H11 IHT A dictator comes a-calling EVGENY MOROZOV Bush sees nothing wrong with pontificating about human rights violations in Azerbaijan and wining and dining their perpetrator at the same time.

EU inquiry links 1,000 flights to CIA A European Parliament investigation report, written by Italian Socialist Giovanni Fava, left, stated that the CIA had flown 1,000 undeclared flights over Europe since 2001, sometimes stopping on the Continent to transport terrorism suspects kidnapped inside the European Union to countries using torture.

Der Spiegel Russian Power Plays: Merkel in Siberia for a Summit with Putin

Yale Global New Globalization Battle Threatens Asia

EU Accused of Ignoring Human Rights Abuses in Rush for Gas Deal

H12 RFE/RL Aliyev Defends Rights Record, Blames Armenia For Stalled Karabakh Talks
NATO - Ministers To Discuss Alliance's Future At a summit in Sofia, NATO foreign ministers are expected to discuss Iran's nuclear program and the planned deployment in southern Afghanistan, but also begin talks about how to respond to the aspirations of prospective new members.

Russia/Germany Energy Security, Iran Top Summit Agenda

EurasiaNet Azerbaijani President Visits Washington
EDM CRITICS PRESS FOR IMPROVED JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE IN GEORGIA
Russian Security Council secretary about situation in Caucasus and Central Asia: Threats in the region are of external character are bound to situation in Middle East

Armenia: Minister Speaks To RFE/RL About Education Reform
H13 The Times

WSJ Measuring Chernobyl's Fallout

Washington Times Intelligence failures (Frank J. Gaffney Jr.)
H14 Financial Times Editorial Bush runs on empty Pity the leader of a nation that regards cheap petrol as a basic human right.

Brussels urges Russia to break Gazprom grip on pipelines

EU urges Bulgaria to step up fight against organised crime

Working government 'key to calming Iraq'

COMMENT: The high price of feeding the hungry dragon By Mark Thirlwell One consequence of its immense appetite for commodities is that China is also pulling economies from further afield into its economic and political orbit, writes Mark Thirlwell, director at the Lowy Institute for International Policy

US and Brussels vie to prove commitment to a successful Doha round

CIA warns ex-agents against talking to the media

US reviews shortlist for IMF job

China in move to gain foothold in Nigerian oilfields

H15 Los Angeles Times Rice, Rumsfeld Stop By Iraq in Show of Support

Iraqi Leader, Rebel Chief Vie for Support of Sunnis
Why Gas Prices Refuse to Go Down The factors driving today's record prices are varied, complex and beyond the reach of presidential dictate
The Pulitzers for aiding terrorists go to...By Max Boot Newspapers reward Bush-hating and worse.

FT Leader Saying no to Rosneft The planned stock market flotation of Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil group, presents investors with an unprecedented opportunity to buy into Russia's oil riches

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Russian energy treaty ratification would be right signal

COMMENT: How secret political donations can end the secret deals By Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres So long as donations are purged of self-interest the remaining gifts should be a mark of civic pride, not a source of scandal, write Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres, professors of law at Yale Universit

COMMENT: Finance's relentless rise threatens economic stability By Andrew Glyn In spite of its talent involved in devising ever more sophisticated trades, the financial sector is a potential source of disastrous instability
H16 Study: 'Land of opportunity' a myth US has one of the lowest rates of intergenerational mobility in the world.

Clinton is Democrats' favorite for White House but...

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

Salon The passion of George W. Bush The president doesn't care that he is reviled. He is a martyr, and someday all will see his glory. Meanwhile, he's got Karl doing his dirty work
H17 Daily Telegraph
H18 Independent The big question: Should we fear Kremlin control of Europe's energy supply?

Hamish McRae: Why the world's markets shrug off fears over global trade imbalances

Iran's leader warns US against strike
H19 US House Begins Debate on Intelligence Budget
H20 Slate Inflation Everywhere: Globalization used to drive down prices. Not anymore. Daniel Gross


Sustained high oil prices in the US could prompt positive behavioural and political changes: energy conservation, public transport and, eventually, the economic viability of alternative fuel sources that may one day undermine the power of the oil oligarchs

Could Rumsfeld Court-Martial the Retired Generals?: Surprisingly, yes.
Fred Kaplan

H21 Does France really need its own search engine? When Jacques Chirac announced that he was putting €450m into a Franco-German challenger to Google, many observers thought he had been sniffing a little too much camembert.


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