Foreign Press Review - April 08 2006 0408-2006f
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H1 CSIS - Iranian Nuclear Weapons? The Options if Diplomacy Fails -Anthony H. Cordesman and Khalid R. Al-Rodhan

TIME Iran's Nukes: Are the US and Europe Out of Sync? Analysis: To resolve the nuclear standoff with Iran, Europe wants to offer incentives as well as sanctions. But that will require the U.S. to give up, for now, its pursuit of regime change By Tony Karon

Washington Post Shiite Militias Now Seen As Critical Challenge Shiite militias pose the greatest threat to security in many parts of Iraq, having killed more people in recent months than the Sunni Arab-led insurgency, officials say.

BBC Rare dialogue What Iran hopes to gain from talks with US officials on Iraq

Knight-Ridder - Libby testimony shows a White House pattern of intelligence leaks

Guardian Abbas: our sons will fight Israelis for a just deal

The truth about a special relationship: warmth can be riskier than distance Mark Lawson: Records of 1960s contacts between the US and Britain show how much history depends on whether two men get on.

Independent Iraq: Don't look away Three years after the toppling of Saddam, Iraq is a bloody mess, with a further 70 people killed yesterday in an attack on a Baghdad mosque.

The White House Losing Moral Ground - Eleanor Clift, Newsweek

IHT Stifling competition in Europe ERIC GROISE - For Europe to emerge as a leader of the information age, itsgovernments must focus on creating an environment that values and promotes incentives for investment in innovation.

H2 Daily Star State-building has failed, and Kurds are on a knife's edge By Khaled Salih
The Glass Ceiling For Europe's Minorities This week's move by Spain to give more powers to its regions is part of a Europe-wide trend. RFE/RL looks at the political ambitions of Europe's minorities and their odds of success.

UPI Analysis: The many faces of Iraq's war There is no longer one war raging in Iraq. There are now at least three different, though overlapping ones, and very soon their number could rise to four

Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati

Slate A Global Game of Chicken: Can Washington and Tehran avoid war?
Fred Kaplan

Daily Star Eastward shift of Saudi perspective only makes sense

Morgan Stanley Global: China and the Global Labor Arbitrage By Stephen Roach

The Times World 'cannot meet oil demand'

Heritage Foundation Event Foreign Policy Challenges of AzerbaijanWatch Streaming MP3 Details

World Health Organization publish World Health Report 2006 Press release

Heritage Foundation Reducing U.S. Dependence on Middle Eastern Oil by Ariel Cohen

Nixon Center Petro-Confidence: Russia’s Growing Foreign Policy Assertiveness and America’s Response A summary of the event can be found here.

Financial Times Leader Icy Sino-Japanese ties To judge by the statistics for trade and investment, relations between the two economic giants of east Asia have never been better. China is Japan's biggest trading...

Mandarin dynasty Who is Blair listening to - his appointed political aides, or his senior civil servants? Slowly, and thanks to a few crises, Whitehall may be clawing back its influence Sir Gus O'Donnell is helping the civil service to fight back against the political advisers, consultants and think-tanks who seek to challenge its influence.

H3 From a series of foreign policy errors to a spiral of violence Cengiz Candar

VOA – Ömer Taşpınar 'Karadeniz'de Demokrasinin Gelişmesi İsteniyor'

AKP'den ABD'ye 'bizimle iyi geçinin' mesajı

Guardian Capturing the conqueror Orhan Pamuk

An undignified spectacle Alexander Chancellor When I visited Turkey last week on an inaugural London-to-Ankara flight, I decided the country was clearly ripe for membership of the European Union.
Al Jazeera television staff view PKK camp in northern Iraq
Crimes of the Turkish Government Kurdish American Committee for Democracy in Syria
Southern Kurdistan Budget $2.826 Billion, Hawlati Paper On Trial
Asia Times 'Searching for attackers lurking in the night' As US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw strutted their stuff in Baghdad, two powers traditionally active in the region were watching closely - Russia and Turkey. Maybe Rice was getting a first-hand briefing on how the British once did it - and still want to - in the deserts of Arabia, a la T E Lawrence. Whatever, Moscow and Ankara are working to protect their interests. - M K Bhadrakumar
Wexler Travels to Turkey to Meet with Prime Minister Erdogan...

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The Times - Kirkuk Petrol pumps run dry in a city that stinks of oil

Kurdish Writer Learns Words Are Risky in New Iraq

Turkey orders JSOW missiles for its F-16s
H4 New York Times Suicide Bombers Kill at Least 71 at Shiite Mosque The attack came as the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said that if a unified government was not formed soon, a sectarian war could engulf the entire Mideast.

Give Rebuilding Lower Priority in Future Wars The U.S. should not immediately begin a major rebuilding program, as was tried in Iraq, the State Department says.

U.S. and Europe Halt Aid to Palestinian Government
However, the U.S. and the European Union said that aid would flow to Palestinians through the United Nations and other independent organizations.

Chief of U.N. Monitoring Agency to Conduct Nuclear Talks in Iran

For President, First a Leak; Now, a Jam The accusation that President Bush authorized a leak comes at an awkward time for the administration.

MAUREEN DOWD Divine Right of Bushes If W. wants the information out, it's good for the country to make it public. If W. doesn't want the information out, it's bad for the country to make it public.

Editorial Trading Up in China The better off China is, the better off the rest of the world is.

H5 Washington Post Shiite Militias Now Seen As Critical Challenge Shiite militias pose the greatest threat to security in many parts of Iraq, having killed more people in recent months than the Sunni Arab-led insurgency, officials say.

Three Blasts Kill 79 in Main Baghdad Mosque Shiites Are Attacked at End of Prayers

Hamas May Soften Stance on Israel Abbas said in an interview that the radical Islamic group Hamas is likely to accept the Jewish state's right to exist.

Immigration Deal Falls Apart in Senate
Conservatives' Amendments Cost Democratic Support; Leaders Vow to Try Again

Disclosures, Plame Case Called Unrelated Libby's Lawyer Rebuts Special Prosecutor's Filing Q&A: Broder Key Players Timeline Court Filing
H6 Guardian The truth about a special relationship: warmth can be riskier than distance Mark Lawson: Records of 1960s contacts between the US and Britain show how much history depends on whether two men get on.

Abbas: our sons will fight Israelis for a just deal

Suicide bombs kill 74 at mosque· Attackers in women's clothes strike after prayers · Shia clerics call for calm amid fears of reprisals Rumsfeld and Rice fall out

We don't do assassinations. But we need an ethical code Martin Kettle: The fight against jihadist terrorism carries real costs - so it needs public legitimacy and support.

Leader – Afghanistan - Defining success The intention of ensuring that Afghanistan becomes a working democracy after its terrible years as a failed state is a laudable if ambitious one.

Family affair Italian politics is notorious for being corrupt and ineffective - and yet turnout in tomorrow's election will almost certainly put British voters to shame. Why? Essay by Tobias Jones.
H7 TIME Iran's Nukes: Are the US and Europe Out of Sync? Analysis: To resolve the nuclear standoff with Iran, Europe wants to offer incentives as well as sanctions. But that will require the U.S. to give up, for now, its pursuit of regime change By Tony Karon

Iran In Our Future - William F. Buckley

UPI Analysis: Fragmented Iraq: Saudi challenge

Outside Vew: India's nuclear sell out

ArmsControlWonk Iran-US Talks

Cooling the Iran Crisis by Dilip Hiro

Iran Has No Inter-Continental Missiles: Russia

Helena Cobban Bush's project in Iraq: Is the end nigh?

CFR SHIFTING TACTICS IN IRAQ

Preventing a Nuclear-Armed Iran: Will China and Russia Help? by The Honorable Sam Brownback (Heritage Lecture #934)
H8 BBC Rare dialogue What Iran hopes to gain from talks with US officials on Iraq
IRAQ: FIRST MEETING OF IRAN AND US OFFICIALS IN BAGHDAD

Jim Lobe US Efforts to Oust Jaafari May Backfire

Al Hayat Ayoon Wa Azan (Either It Unravels or It Blows Up)

Baghdad and the Democracy of the US and Iran Abdel Wahab Badrakhan

BBC Risks and rewards The challenges of training Iraq's fledgling police force

Daily Star Eastward shift of Saudi perspective only makes sense
If someone asks, my identity is the Bourj By Rami G. Khouri

'Oil stains' - or how to spread the U.S. mess in Iraq By Stuart Reigeluth

Washington Institute High Rises and Low Wages: Expatriate Labor in Gulf Arab States

SyriaComment "Illegal but Working: Civil society in Syria," by Glada Lahn
H9 Ha’aretz – Abbas: Olmert's plan will trigger war within decade

Israel, Algeria, Morocco to join NATO counter-terrorism patrols

BBC EU suspends aid to Palestinians The European Commission temporarily halts its aid payments to the Hamas-led Palestinian government.

Palestinian heads attack aid cut Palestinian leaders strongly criticise US and EU plans to cut off financial aid to the Hamas-led government

Washington Institute Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad Read exclusive excerpts from former Institute senior fellow Matthew Levitt’s comprehensive new study of the real Hamas: an organization that threatens peace and security far beyond the borders of the West Bank and Gaza


Does Israel Conduct Covert Action in America? by Michael Scheuer
H10 Christian Science Monitor Did Bush misuse presidential powers? Experts: Leaks probably legal but 'amount to using sensitive intelligence data for political gain.'

Angela Merkel's Germany - Jim Geraghty, Washington Times

Weekly Standard Another U.N. "Reform" The new Human Rights Council is no improvement.by Anne Bayefsky
H11 IHT Stifling competition in Europe ERIC GROISE - For Europe to emerge as a leader of the information age, itsgovernments must focus on creating an environment that values and promotes incentives for investment in innovation.

new gas war looms, with Belarus the loser EVGENY MOROZOV - A new gas war is in the offing, posing more risks than any of the previous conflicts between Russia and Belarus since the early 1990s.

Economics, French-style By KATRIN BENNHOLD Attitudes toward economics in France help to explain the two-month revolt against a new labor law on the country's streets.

Philip Bowring: Labor need haunts China Does China really have a labor shortage? And if so, what does it mean?


H12 RFE/RL Is Bush Abandoning Democracy Building? One of the President Bush's main rationale for "regime change" was to transform Iraq into a beacon of democracy and model for the region. But NGOs say their funds to do just that are being slashed.

Georgia: Crisis Between Opposition And Government Deepens


Iran: Drug Control Gets New Emphasis As Crack Gains Popularity BY BILL SAMII
Turkmenistan President Ends China Visit With Agreement Against Uyghurs Turkmenistan's president concluded a visit to China with an agreement to jointly battle "terrorists" seeking greater autonomy or independence for the Uyghur Muslim minority in Western China.
EDM GAZPROM SQUEEZING BELARUS
- RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CHALLENGES "WESTERN" CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
- WESTERN-TRAINED PROFESSIONALS DOMINATE NEW AFGHAN CABINET

Regnum Karabakh analyst: Ilham Aliyev justifies militarization and hyper-centralization by Karabakh factor

Armenian Energy Minister: Iran-Armenia gas-pipeline may not be sold

Azerbaijan may prefer to buy Iranian gas instead of Russian

Washington Realist Georgia: Instability Prediction
H13 The Times World 'cannot meet oil demand'

Tit-for-tat reprisals fear after bombers kill 80 at mosque Baghdad is braced for a fresh wave of sectarian violence after three suicide bombers dressed as women attacked Shia worshippers

Churchill, Eden, Blair, Brown - what's new? Can it be that the relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown has reached 'a new low'?



WSJ White House Holds Fire in Leak Debate The White House didn't challenge Libby's assertion Bush cleared intelligence leaks to bolster its war case, but said it was in the "public interest." The administration seemed to go all-out to confront critics.

H14 Financial Times Leader Icy Sino-Japanese ties To judge by the statistics for trade and investment, relations between the two economic giants of east Asia have never been better. China is Japan's biggest trading...

Mandarin dynasty Who is Blair listening to - his appointed political aides, or his senior civil servants? Slowly, and thanks to a few crises, Whitehall may be clawing back its influence Sir Gus O'Donnell is helping the civil service to fight back against the political advisers, consultants and think-tanks who seek to challenge its influence.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Why have main media avoided asking if Islam has inherent propensity for violence?

Merkel ready to test links with Moscow Merkel showed that she was ready to test the strength of Germany’s strategic partnership with Russia, by offering support to opposition leaders battling against the Moscow-backed regime in Belarus

Palestinian Authority cohabitation continues

Hamas 'waking up' to reality: Abbas

Book Reviews Real politics Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the man who transformed Brazil’s currency and economy keeps up the pragmatic approach in his memoir, The Accidental President of Brazil.

H15 Los Angeles Times White House Does Not Deny Leak Bush spokesman draws distinction between releases in 'public interest' and those that threaten security.

We can win in Iraq. But do we want to? By Frank Newport Polls show Americans agree Iraq is better off today, but don't believe that justifies the war.

Those ungrateful Iraqis! By Rosa Brooks The U.S. is blaming Iraq for lagging on democracy, but we have done embarrassingly little to help.

Public Opinion of Bush Reaches New Nadir

Financial Times Employers in Europe vow to combat protectionism

Italian election campaign reaches climax

COMMENT: An insider on the way out By Tony Barber On September 4 last year, Silvio Berlusconi let slip that he would "sail off to Tahiti" if he lost the Italian election...

German secret service inquiry

COMMENT: A cure for what ails America? By Christopher Caldwell The Republican governor of Massachusetts has cut a deal with the overwhelmingly Democratic state legislature to provide the first really universal health plan in the US. The plan is syncretic and attractive.
H16 The White House Losing Moral Ground - Eleanor Clift, Newsweek

Boston Globe Bush's leak
PRESIDENT BUSH was emphatic in July 2003: ''If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action." According to a federal prosecutor this week, the president himself authorized the leaking of classified CIA material. This whole affair cries out for a congressional investigation into the leak, and also into the broader question of ...

Bush poll: 'These numbers are scary' Bush hits new lows; GOP consultant sees dire straits; Novak: GOP in chaos.

National Security Archive What the President Leaked Authorized Leak or Declassification?

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

H17 Daily Telegraph Hint from Hamas that it may recognise IsraelThe first indications that Hamas might recognise the right of Israel to exist emerged following intense diplomatic and economic pressure from the international community.



BBC Supermax solution The challenges facing US jails - the world's biggest prison system

New diplomacy? Two views on the changing US-Latin America relationship
KR Despite high prices, gas consumption still rising

John Kerry, The Anti-War Candidate? - Patrick Buchanan

Weekly Standard Show Your Teeth It's awfully hard to win a political struggle without fighting.by William Kristol

H18 Independent Iraq: Don't look away Three years after the toppling of Saddam, Iraq is a bloody mess, with a further 70 people killed yesterday in an attack on a Baghdad mosque.

Fighters cross the divide for peace in Middle East
H19 CSIS The Paths Ahead: Missile Defense in Asia A new study from CSIS Senior Vice President Kurt Campbell and Senior Fellow Jeremiah Gertler analyzes the ballistic missile defense situation in Asia and possible U.S. policy options. Read More

The UK Defence Industrial Strategy and Alternative Approaches British American Security Information Council

The House Intelligence Committee report on the FY 2007 Intelligence Authorization Act.

William G. Weaver and Robert M. Pallitto in a study of the privilege in Political Science Quarterly last year ("State Secrets and Executive Power," PSQ, volume 120, no. 1, Spring 2005).

US Steps Toward F - 35 Fighter Production
H20 Slate A Global Game of Chicken: Can Washington and Tehran avoid war? Fred Kaplan

Throw Scooter From the Train: Should the White House try to ditch Libby?
John Dickerson

Is America Saving Enough to be Competitive in the Global Marketplace? Testimony by Lael Brainard; Senate Committee on Finance
H21 Anyone for tennis, at the age of 150? Scientific progress promises us far longer, happier lives. Yet the 'bioconservatives' want to stop it

The Gospel truth?The exact contents of the Gospel of Judas, one of the most exciting archaeological discoveries for decades, have finally been revealed at a press conference in Washington.

TV enters a new world
In a major shift, the Web is surpassing TV as the stop for original programming.

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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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