Foreign Press Review - April 07 2006 0407-2006f
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H1 New York Times Cheney's Aide Says President Approved Leak

WaPo Experts: Tactic Would Be Legal but Unusual
Los Angeles Times Iraq's Ruling Shiite Bloc Could Rupture
U.S. Wants 'Coalition of the Willing' to Pressure Iran Officials use the familiar catchphrase to describe possible new approach to halting Iran's nuclear program. France may join

Forward U.S. Officials Are Mulling Iran Strikes, Experts Say By MARC PERELMAN - Key players in the Bush administration think a military confrontation with Iran is an unavoidable, leading to stepped up military planning for such a prospect, according to several experts and recently departed senior government officials.

Ha’aretz – Hamas government offers Israel 'quiet for quiet'

The Times Hamas hints it may be ready to talk about a two-state solution The Islamic militant group has never accepted Israel’s right to exist but now that it is in government it faces huge pressure from the West to relent Transcript in full here

Jerusalem Post Exclusive: EU ready for ties with Hamas-led PA

BBC US 'in talks with Iraq militants'

CFR UGLY OPTIONS ON IRAN

CFR Interview with Bernard Gwertzman Bronson: Saudis ‘Deeply Concerned’ Over Iran’s Nuclear Program

Asia Times A new world with Chinese characteristics China is once again at the center of Asia, and in a position to challenge US unilateral domination over a world system in search of equilibrium. Yet for the majority of Westerners, China is either a museum or a classroom: one has to lecture Chinese people on adopting "more advanced" standards. The West has to reflect on these prejudices and to look at China as a living matrix of a civilization which is already shaping our time. - David Gosset

H2 US Senate Hearing Islamist Extremism in Europe

A US official says Europe's inability to integrate its Muslim minority represents a risk to American security

RFE/RL Muslims In Europe, Or European Muslims?

CSIS Currents and Crosscurrents of Radical Islamism

Multilateral Constraints on the Use of Force: A ReassessmentStrategic Studies Institute

Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati

Daily Star Iran is divided over talking to the U.S. By Abbas William Samii

Iran's New Weapons: More Flash Than Force? Stratfor

CSIS Meeting the Challenge of a Fragmented Iraq: A Saudi Perspective -Nawaf Obaid

Washington Post A Vital Task for The IMF By David Ignatius, Unless we quickly reform the International Monetary Fund, large American deficits and Chinese surpluses could lead to a worldwide economic catastrophe.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Time for a US/Iran Patch Up James E. Doyle and Sara Kutchesfahani1


Islamist Movements and the Democratic Process in the Arab World : Exploring Gray Zones... Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

New Statesman Religion: who needs it? Bryan Appleyard [read article]

From Harper's, an excerpt from A Study of Assassination, a training manual written by the CIA at the time of the agency's 1954 coup in Guatemala


RFE/RL Nagorno-Karabakh - Russia Calls For 'Mutually-Acceptable Solution'

Newsweek- Clash of Ideas The Iraq war was a test of the neocon vision of America. How a civil war there could shape the future of the GOP—and the nation

H3 National Review Jonathan Eric Lewis: Can we count on Turkey?

Radikal - Ne yapmalı? Hasan Celal Güzel

Vatan - Ruşen Çakır - Stratejik derinlik ve stratejik sığlık

M.Ali Kışlalı - ABD-DTP el ele, nereye?

Prospects of Kurdish Statehood Regnum

FT OBSERVER: Unhealthy choice? After the recent Kurdish-related violence in Turkey, it was likely that the EU would issue a call for calm.

EU executive urges more rights for Kurds in Turkey

MEPs debate recent violence in Southeastern Turkey

Open letter on the situation in South-East Turkey - Joost Lagendijk and Cem Özdemir

The Times EU asks Turks for violence inquiry

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's toolbox should include energy security Suat Kınıklıoğlu Turkish Daily News

Turkey: Fighting Internal and External Battles Stratfor.com

KurdishMedia Kurdish terrorists of Turkey! By Dr Rebwar Fatah

Propagandistan: Iraqi Kurdistan Is Free - but Its Media Sure Isn't By David Axe

Fuel Shortages Frustrate Kurds

US offers stronger support to Turkey against PKK

INTERVIEW-Kurdish TV says into journalism not propoganda

An analysis of the violent demonstrations in Diyarbakir and other ... New Anatolian

Dialogue with Barzani Hürriyet

Turkey Faces Battle to Stamp Out " Honor Killings"

CSM Economic woes sap Kurds' quest for justice Saddam Hussein was charged this week for attacks on Kurds in 80s.

UPI Balkan states discusss free trade accord
H4 New York Times Cheney's Aide Says President Approved Leak I. Lewis Libby Jr.'s testimony indicates that President Bush may have played a direct role in the disclosure of the intelligence report on Iraq. Text: Government Filing

Editorial Playing Hardball With Secrets It is vital that the Senate keep its word and publish a thorough accounting of how the intelligence on Iraq was presented to the world.

Editorial The Indian Nuclear Deal
In trying to give India a special exemption to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, President Bush is threatening a carrot-and-stick approach that has been effective for more than 35 years.

10 Are Killed in Bombing Near Shrine Holy to Shiites

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Condi and Rummy The Bush team tried to make history on the cheap in Iraq. But you can't will the ends without willing the means.

Alone and Broke, Hamas Struggles to Rule Ismail Haniya faces not only diplomatic isolation and a bankrupt treasury but an intense rivalry with Fatah.

At a Secret Meeting, Chinese Analysts Clashed Over Reforms

Resolving a Supply Dispute, Armenia to Buy Russian Gas

U.S. Won't Seek a Seat on the U.N. Rights Council

Decided or Not, Giuliani Charts a Path to 2008

Senate Deal on Immigration Falters
H5 Washington Post Libby Testifies Bush Authorized Iraq Leaks Prosecutor Says Disclosures on Iraq Were Aimed at War Critic

Experts: Tactic Would Be Legal but Unusual Legal experts say that President Bush had the unquestionable authority to approve the disclosure of secret CIA information to reporters, but they add that the leak was highly unusual and amounted to using sensitive intelligence data for political gain.

Testimony Adds New Element to Probe of CIA Leak

A Vital Task for The IMF By David Ignatius, Unless we quickly reform the International Monetary Fund, large American deficits and Chinese surpluses could lead to a worldwide economic catastrophe.

Blast Outside Shrine in Najaf Kills at Least 13, Ruins Tombs

Editorial Saddam Hussein's Confession Yes, he says, he ordered the killings he's charged with. But he's not sorry.

U.S. Plans to Redirect Aid for Palestinians

First a Wall -- Then Amnesty By Charles Krauthammer, The immigration problem requires two acts of will: the ugly act of putting up a fence and the generous act of absorbing illegals as citizens.

Run-Down Republicans Where Is the GOP's Agenda? By E. J. Dionne Jr., The Republicans must come up with a new approach to governing that solves problems instead of arguing over them or evading them completely.

Warrantless Wiretaps Possible in U.S.
By Dan Eggen, Page A03
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales left open the possibility yesterday that President Bush could order warrantless wiretaps on telephone calls occurring solely within the United States -- a move that would dramatically expand the reach of a controversial National Security Agency surveillance...
H6 Guardian Bush implicated in leak on Iraq intelligence Scooter Libby told to brief journalist on Saddam · Court documents point to White House role

Europe is tired and confused Simon Tisdall: Bomb explosion outside reporter's flat in Sofia highlights difficulties bedevilling Bulgaria's EU bid.

Leader Zacarias Moussaoui Deny him the martyrdom he cravesZacarias Moussaoui should be nobody's hero and no one's martyr.

Leader A wing and a prayer Bird flu has arrived in Britain. It might be the first paragraph of a thriller, with a synopsis proposing hundreds of thousands of deaths, mass graves, a worldwide human and economic catastrophe. But, with luck there is still time to write our own ending.

Bought with western cash Tariq Ali Karachi: Independent voices can be heard in Pakistan but NGOs are stifling genuine social movements


Asia Times A new world with Chinese characteristics China is once again at the center of Asia, and in a position to challenge US unilateral domination over a world system in search of equilibrium. Yet for the majority of Westerners, China is either a museum or a classroom: one has to lecture Chinese people on adopting "more advanced" standards. The West has to reflect on these prejudices and to look at China as a living matrix of a civilization which is already shaping our time. - David Gosset
H7 American Interest Spring 2006

The Economist Soft paternalism The state is looking after you A smarter, softer paternalism is coming into style, but people should still distrust it

The new paternalism The avuncular state

New Statesman Religion: who needs it? Bryan Appleyard [read article]

Religion: What’s God got to do with it? Karen Armstrong [read article]

Washington Realist The Dance Begins ... India, Iran and the United States

Heritage Foundation The Right Decision on the UN Human Rights Council by Brett Schaefer and Nile Gardiner

Carnegie - Has China Fallen into a Trapped Transition?

From NPQ, Nathan Gardels on globalization's new left.

Newsweek- Clash of Ideas The Iraq war was a test of the neocon vision of America. How a civil war there could shape the future of the GOP—and the nation

Online interviews Joshua Muravchik. From Reason,

An interview with Kanan Makiya.

The Good Guy's Guide to Overthrowing Governments: Just because Bush made a mess of Iraq doesn't mean we should abandon the use of regime change for humanitarian purposes.
H8 BBC US 'in talks with Iraq militants' The US ambassador to Iraq tells the BBC that US officials have held talks with insurgency-linked groups.
UPI Analysis: Iraq's last chance for peace The Iraqi Islamic Reconciliation Summit is expected to draw a large number of senior Iraqi religious and tribal leaders from all sects and walks of life.
Understanding the ‘Political Impasse’ in Iraq By Helena Cobban

Outside View: Arab Dictators: U.S. fault?By BARRY RUBIN

Washington Times In support of Iraqi Shi'ites One would hardly know it from listening to the politicians and media elites who caricature them as Iranian agents who loathe the United States, but many Iraqi Shi'ites have positive feelings about the role that American troops are playing in their country.

Ahmadinejad: Invisible power (Imam Mahdi) assisting my government

Amir Taheri, The New York Post NUKE PLANTS IN A QUAKE ZONE
A Sense of Patience - Thomas P.M. Barnett

Nuclear standoff in Saudi Arabia?

The Answer to Anti-Americanism?New York Sun – Daniel Johnson

US: Imagining a Pakistan Without MusharrafStratfor
H9 Ha’aretz – Hamas government offers Israel 'quiet for quiet'

ADL: 2005 saw slight drop in anti-Semitic incidents in U.S.

From practical cooperation to political dialogue By Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

Middle East Forum - Dan Diker and Pinchas Inbari, Re-energizing a West Bank-Jordan AllianceAre plans for a new Jordanian-Palestinian federation being dusted off?

From TNR, an article on the anti-Americanism of Walt and Mearsheimer--or is the essay a patriotic sentiment that animates their critique of the Israel lobby? Eliot Cohen says "The Israeli Lobby" is anti-Semitic (and more). Harvard posts a rebuttal from Alan Dershowitz
H10 Christian Science Monitor More debate over report on Israel's influence in US
Supporters cite freedom of speech, need to discuss topic. Detractors say it promotes 'crass bigotry.'

Cash has run out, but Hamas chief optimistic The PA cannot pay salaries for its 140,000 employees, and needs about $170 million a month to stay in business.

Misreading China: It's time to move beyond old stereotypes

The prospect of civil war in Iraq A low-grade war between Sunnis and Shiites may already be in progress. By Daniel Schorr



H11 IHT Moscow issues West a warning Russia's foreign minister warned the West against isolating his country from helping to broker disputes with Iran and other conflicts in the Middle East.

Il dolce Berlusconi DAVIDE BERRETTA With elections coming up this Sunday, Berlusconi is campaigning on his ability to stay at the center of attention, no matter what it takes.

In Thailand, a silk revolution MICHAEL VATIKIOTIS Unruffled, stable, its economy continuing to grow, Thailand underwent a turbulent process of political change without losing a shopping day.

The Economist France A tale of two prime ministers Dominique de Villepin, loses authority to rivals, such as Nicolas Sarkozy

Der Spiegel - In Germany multiculturalism has failed, or so everyone says.
H12 RFE/RL Muslims In Europe, Or European Muslims?

Russia's Gazprom Signs 25-Year Deal With Armenia

Iran: Naval Doctrine Stresses 'Area Denial'
Interview: Islam's Image In Europe And Imams As Bridge Builders

EDM KREMLIN PLAN TO MERGE ADYGEYA MEETS UNEXPECTED OBSTACLE

BLESSING ARMENIA'S DEBT SERVITUDE
NAZARBAYEV'S GROWING CONFIDENCE ON VIEW IN VISIT TO MOSCOW

UPI Outside View: Russia watches U.S. in Asia

Vaclav Havel on Ukraine and Western integration.
H13 The Times Hamas hints it may be ready to talk about a two-state solution The Islamic militant group has never accepted Israel’s right to exist but now that it is in government it faces huge pressure from the West to relent Transcript in full here

Times interview with Palestinian Foreign Minister in full

Spend, spend, spend . . . the bountiful economics of a president in denial Gerard Baker When asked to pay for his programmes, Mr Bush shrugs and repeats the lower-tax mantra

WSJ Yuan Compromise? The Bush-Hu currency conversation. By LAWRENCE B. LINDSEY

Theocon Moment In: Sam Brownback. Out: Pat Robertson. By ROSS DOUTHAT



ICFTU reports examine the cost to China's workers of WTO entry Press release
H14 Financial Times COMMENT: With no road map, the peace process is lost in new territory By Philip Stephens Even as they dismiss the peace process as beyond revival, Israelis and Palestinians alike fumble for any credible alternative

Bush gave green light to leaking of Iraq arms report, say Libby papers

LEADER: China trade frictions Some of America's trading partners are familiar with Washington's good cop/bad cop routine.

Criticism of Russia 'hits German business'

Enlargement anxiety: EU mulls Bulgaria and Romania By Andrew Duff MEP

Brussels set to allow Romania into the EURomania was shown an open door to join the European Union in January 2007 after Olli Rehn, the EU’s enlargement commissioner, praised the country’s judicial reforms and its crackdown on corruption.

Tehran 'lobbies' for US talks Iran ready for high-level talks, US resists Iran has prepared a high-level delegation to hold wide-ranging talks with the US, but the Bush administration is resisting the agenda suggested by Tehran despite pressure from European allies to engage the Islamic republic

COMMENT: On Liberty and the question of choice By Samuel Brittan The 200th anniversary falls soon of the birth of John Stuart Mill, the philosopher whose classic book On Liberty is still a first class treatment.

COMMENT: Do not get impaled on the spikes of China's success By Richard Florida To interact effectively with this rising economic star the west will have to recognise that China is the most extreme example of the “spiky” nature of globalization

Professor fuels war of words onIsraeli alliance

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Rancorous Mideast debate puts US standing at risk

Why not open US-Israel relations to intellectual debate?

COMMENT: Politicians need to take power back from Europe Britain must give itself greater powers to increase transparency and accountability and promote democracy in the EU, writes Michael Gove, Conservative MP and member of the European Scrutiny Committee
H15 Los Angeles Times Iraq's Ruling Shiite Bloc Could Rupture

U.S. Wants 'Coalition of the Willing' to Pressure Iran Officials use the familiar catchphrase to describe possible new approach to halting Iran's nuclear program. France may join

Libby Traces Leak Back to Bush Ex-Cheney aide says vice president told him Bush signed off on Iraq disclosure.


Editorial

FT IMF warns high prices risk global crisisHigh energy prices are “exacerbating” global economic imbalances, increasing the risks of a crisis, the International Monetary Fund will warn in its World Economic Outlook report next week.

US and Japan cannot agree on troop transfer planUS and Japanese officials wrapped up talks over the realignment of 50,000 US troops in Japan, including the transfer of 8,000 marines from Okinawa to Guam, with practically no progress towards resolving contentious issues

COMMENT: A fixed retirement age rejects a young spirit and old skill By John Browne

Chávez has power to spend $20bn fund on favourite causes
H16 President Bush specifically authorized Vice Presidential aide Scooter Libby to disclose information from a classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) to then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller in July 2003, effectively declassifying the information, according to a government filing (pdf) in the Libby prosecution yesterday.
BBC Bush 'ordered intelligence leak' A former top White House aide claims George Bush approved the leak of classified information on the Iraq war.
Indictment rocks White House
Libby case dominates US media
Profile: Lewis 'Scooter' Libby
First a Wall -- Then Amnesty - Charles Krauthammer
UPI Walker's World: Bush deficits and voters

Kerry introduces Iraq resolution: Begin pullout in 2006

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

The Economist Economics focus Myths and migration

H17 Daily Telegraph Iran has missiles to carry nuclear warheads Iran has successfully developed ballistic missiles with the capability to carry nuclear warheads. Analysis of test firings of the Shahab-3 missile by military experts has concluded that Iran has been able to modify it to carry a basic nuclear bomb.

Leader - Iran's lethal ambitionsRecent revelations confirm that Teheran is working both to produce a nuclear device and to ensure its delivery. The resulting confrontation over Iran's nuclear ambitions is thus set to run for years.
H18 Independent Rupert Cornwell: At last, a debate on America's support for Israel

Scientists confirm worst fears - this was H5N1 Government vets have resisted calls for a nationwide ban on keeping free-range poultry outdoors, as scientists confirmed that a swan in Scotland had died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu
Bird flu: What it really means

From PS: Political Science and Politics, a symposium on the European Union, including an introduction, and Kees Aarts and Henk van der Kolk (Twente): Understanding the Dutch "No": The Euro, the East, and the Elite; Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks (UNC): Europe's Blues: Theoretical Soul-Searching after the Rejection of the European Constitution;

CER Let justice be done: Punishing crime in the EUby Hugo Brady and Mónica Roma, 6 April 2006

H19 BMD Focus: U.S. allies embrace BMD

Weinberger Knew; Rumsfeld Doesn't - James Pinkerton, Newsday

UK Commons Defence Committee publish report on UK forces deployment to Afghanistan Report full text Press release

China's Emergence: Implications for Australia Parliament of Australia A 249-page report examining China's foreign policy, military modernization programme, its effect on other countries in the Asia Pacific region and the implications for Australia

The foreword to Torture: Does It Make Us Safer? Is it Ever O.K.?: A Human Rights Perspective.

From The Atlantic Monthly, the NSA has the ability to eavesdrop on your communications with ease. What happens when the technology of espionage outstrips the law's ability to protect ordinary citizens from it?;
H20 Slate We've Found the Leaker in the White House!: It's the president.
John Dickerson



New Yorker Another Girl Krzysztof Kie?lowski’s “The Double Life of Véronique,” reconsidered.

The Reasons for Reasons “Why?,” a new book by Charles Tilly, investigates reason giving. by Malcolm Gladwell

From Canada, an interview with Liberal leadership contender Michael Ignatieff.

Hannah Arendt wasn’t having any of Leo Strauss’s amorous advances (what a nightmare), and also saw in his careful attitude toward the Nazis signs of a sniveling opportunist... more»

From NBER, an analysis of the effects of Communism on popular preferences.

H21 Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris: Just the two of them

China Restricts Foreign Magazines
China has banned new foreign magazines on topics other than science and technology.

9/11 Hits the Multiplex
As a slew of terrorism-inspired movies hit the big screen, the delicacy of marketing dramatic films that play off 9/11 stands in stark contrast with other media that have already tackled the topic successfully.

Judas: what really happened Reviled for 2,000 years, Judas Iscariot's story has finally been published.

History of Christianity: The Gospel according to Judas

Judas did as Jesus asked – 'gospel' reveals the other face of a traitor For 2,000 years, his name has been synonymous with treachery and deceit, but Judas may finally have received some divine justice
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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