H1 The National Interest| Summmer 2006 Universal Values, Specific Policies A Conversation with Henry Kissinger: The more things seem to change, the more relevant are the lessons of the past.

New York Times U.S. Is Offering Deals on Trade to Entice Iran The incentives include a proposal to allow Iran to upgrade its aging civilian air fleet by purchasing parts from Boeing.

Washington Post A Legal Case Against Iran By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey

Stratfor Geopolitical Diary: Awaiting Next Moves by Iraq and Iran

Debka Gulf sources suspect US_Iran sparring masks quite dialogue - Khamenei Spoke of Jeopardizing Oil Shipments - Not a Blockade Full article

National Interest Unrealists by Dimitri K. Simes: The Israel lobby controversy shows how some substitute character assasination for serious debate. American national interests suffer.

Principles and Interests A conversation with Chuck Hagel: In a volatile region of the world like South Asia, principled realism, not sloganeering, should guide U.S. policy.

The New Energy Realists by Richard G. Lugar: With petro-powers controlling oil, only the naive advocate reliance on the market.

Pander-nomics by Stephen S. Roach: Protectionist measures endanger America's financial well-being

Guardian Irresistible rise of the dictators' club Simon Tisdall:Tony Blair's promotion of shared global values and inclusive institutions in his Georgetown speech last month took little account of the rise and rise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

Asia Times – Spengler - Military destiny and madness in Iran
Both US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki sincerely believe that a compromise is in their mutual interest. Nonetheless, they will fail - for Iran is driven by strategic mysticism, and when there is no retreat, nothing to which to return, the army leaves its trenches and flies forward into the cannons.

Le Monde Irak : un gouvernement, pas d'Etat, par Patrice Claude

Putin and Russia's Middle East Policy Middle East Review of International Affairs

Guardian False prophets The US loves listening to its Arab/Muslim 'reformers'. And they love telling the US just what it wants to hear. By Brian Whitaker

RCP Are There Limits to Iranian Leadership's Resolve? - Ian Bremmer

New Yorker Disaster in Darfur

What America can’t do. by Philip Gourevitch

Independent Ukraine accuses Russia of inciting new 'Crimean war'

Iraq: The face of the enemy Robert Fisk penetrates the world of the Palestinian 'martyrs' flooding into Iraq to fuel the insurgency

Christian Science Monitor Flouting Syria's martial law, bold students advocate democracy Unofficial political actions land some activists in jail, but many are undeterred.

Washington Times Backward reels the news By Arnaud de Borchgrave Israel's unspoken ulterior motive is to make Jordan the Palestinian state.

Al Hayat Ayoon wa Azan (The Israeli Apartheid Policy) Jihad el-Khazen - Israel was once stronger than the Arab countries, separately and combined. However, I believe that we have entered the countdown phase to its end as an apartheid state.

H2 Lecture Video - Graham E. Fuller on Turkey and the Middle East Real player.

FT Critical report knocks Ankara's EU hopes Turkey’s quest to join the European Union could come to a halt this year because of concerns over Ankara’s human rights record and tensions with Cyprus, an internal EU document makes clear.

COMMENT: European Union hopefuls should join the euro first By Bjorn Wahlroos By permitting Turkey to join the euro, the EU would create a halfway house on the road to membership, writes Björn Wahlroos, chief executive of Sampo.

Turkey set to increase rates amid slide in lira Turkey’s central bank is expected to raise interest rates for the first time in five years in a bid to arrest a heavy slide in the lira, deepening the woes of a government battling accusations that its reform programme is faltering

Morgan Stanley Turkey: Courage Under Fire

Guardian Young Turkish Kurds grow more militant

BBC Monitoring Service Kurdish, Christian families reportedly flee Mosul in Iraq

Iraqi Kurdish PUK introduces organizational reforms

KurdishMedia Turkey shelling shepherds instead of “terrorists” By Vladimir van Wilgenburg

What is that scares of KDP and PUK? By Dr Kamal Miarwdeli

Stop undermining the Kurdish struggle in Iran! By Sirvan Kaveh

Another sad story - Red Kurdistan By Nizameddin Rzayev

Rizgari Barzanî: Hiç Kimse Kürtlerin Bağımsızlık Hakkını Elinden Alamaz

Joost Lagendijk Türkiye ile ilgili kaygılı

İHD'den Genelkurmay'a Sorular

Ambassador Ross Wilson, Remarks at Harran University (May 29, 2006)

FT Ex-minister says Cyprus aided money laundering

'Marathon' talks on Nagorno-Karabakh

Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati

Los Angeles Times As Iraq Violence Worsens, Security Remains Elusive Though much of the bloodshed is carried out for sectarian reasons, many criminals are simply angling for cash in a lawless land

US Official Warns Iran from Ankara

RFE/RL Black Sea Region Searches For A New Vision

İnsan kaçakçılığında Türkiye kusurlu

Russian Military Denies Seeking Mediterranean Naval Base in Syria

Kiarostami’s portrayal of Kurds in ‘A taste of cherry’ and ‘The wind will carry us’ Devrim Kilic

Harper’s Ken Silverstein: Creating the InevitableThe CIA visits Iraq in April 2002

Financial Times Exiled Syrian opposition pledges to protect Alawite minority

Al Hayat Jordan's 'Preemptive Security Strategy' to Allay Fears Rana Al-Sabbagh - Decision makers in Jordan believe that the Iranian regional role, the coalition forged between Tehran and Damascus, the 'dissident' Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plan for unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank, and the looming Palestinian civil war require a cross-border security role to uncover plots and set up the necessary political and security strategies to face them.

H3 Cengiz Çandar The New Anatolian-Turkey's constructive role in the US-Iran situation and its domestic impact

Türkiye’nin üç yıllık Irak bilançosu: 100 ölü, 24 kayıp

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Yanıtını arayan sorular Murat Yetkin

'Şemdinli'ye taktım' 'Atabeyler' zanlısı yüzbaşı Eren: Şemdinli'de kuvvet komutanlığımıza yapılan hakareti hazmedemedim. Bir şey yapmak için harekete geçtik

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Guardian Books will disappear. Print is where words go to die Jeff Jarvis: The book is an outdated means of communicating information. Thanks to the searchable, connected internet, books could be so much more.

Global Development Finance Report 2006 World Bank

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H4 New York Times U.S. Is Offering Deals on Trade to Entice Iran The incentives include a proposal to allow Iran to upgrade its aging civilian air fleet by purchasing parts from Boeing.

Abbas Will Call for Palestinian Vote on Two-State Plan

BATUMI JOURNAL; So Tourists Can Come to Spend, Refugees Are Paid to Go

Somali Islamists Declare Victory; Warlords on Run

Editorial Degrading America's Image It defies belief that this administration is still clinging to its benighted policies on prisoners of war.

H5 Washington Post A Legal Case Against Iran By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey,

Iraqis Believe Violence Will Abate, New Report Says Pentagon Finds Hope Is Tied to New Government

Base Assumptions Why Should the Faithful Believe Bush Now? By E. J. Dionne Jr.,

Fed Chairman Raises Concern
Stocks plunge after Bernanke says that economic slowdown "seems now to be underway."

56 Iraqis Vanish in Brazen Attack Scale and audacity of roundup displays all signs of an unrelenting kidnapping epidemic in Baghdad.

Editorial Death and Taxes Arguments for abolishing the estate tax are plentiful, and unconvincing.

CFR Should Dictators Be Put to Death?

The Haditha Factor

America's Other Border

NATO’s Afghan Expansion

Ferguson: Iran Likely to Accept US Offer for Negotiations

Don’t Hold Your Breath

Timorous Nation-building

Hamas' Tight Spot

Should Dictators be put to Death?

The Digital Spy: How Technology is Changing the Intelligence Community (audio)

H6 Guardian Irresistible rise of the dictators' club Simon Tisdall:Tony Blair's promotion of shared global values and inclusive institutions in his Georgetown speech last month took little account of the rise and rise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

The reality of Iraq's brain-drain

Anas Altikriti Over the past two years, hundreds of the country's finest minds have fled. With them goes hope for the future.

Profits and the ProphetAnn Pettifor The excesses of global finance pose a profound threat to Islam.

Hooray for Harper's Eric Alterman A major US magazine has published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed. Good for them.

50 Iraqis abducted by Baghdad gunmen
Fears are growing for the lives of 50 Iraqis plucked off the streets of Baghdad by 'rogue elements' in the security forces.

Resist this US backlash Ian Gibson: Cuba is in danger of being punished by Europe for Washington's loss of clout in Latin America.

Militia ends Somali warlords' rule
An Islamic militia has seized control of Mogadishu after routing a coalition of warlords.

Pentagon's interrogation manual dodges Geneva ban
US drafts new rules for interrogators omiting the Geneva convention ban on 'humiliating and degrading treatment'.

Bush tries to mollify right US president backs gay marriage ban and outlaws flag burning.

H7 The National Interest The Two Fukuyamas by Anatol Lieven: How a thoughtful intellectual misses the mark on policy.

In Praise of Warlords by John C. Hulsman & Alexis Y. Debat: Nation-building requires working with effective local leaders-some of whom aren't ready for primetime.

Asia Times US 'allies' keep Iran options open
Bush administration officials claim that Russia and China have "agreed privately" to turn the screws on Iran over its nuclear program and the US offer for direct talks. But the position of Moscow and Beijing on the legal grounds for sanctions and military enforcement measures against Tehran will continue to frustrate the US. - M K Bhadrakumar

Democracy Arsenal Foreign Policy Frameworks are Bustin' Out All Over?

When Democracy and Liberalism Collide

Commentary Refighting the War Victor David Hanson

RCP Are There Limits to Iranian Leadership's Resolve? - Ian Bremmer

Condi's Moment - Gregory Djerejian, Belgravia Dispatch

New Yorker Disaster in Darfur

What America can’t do. by Philip Gourevitch

Morgan Stanley Global: Stagflation Scare? By Stephen Roach

Newsweek Nation Building: Not for the Fainthearted Michael E. O'Hanlon

Ehsan Ahrari The China Conundrum: A Japanese Perspective

The Rising Tide of Troubles for the US-India Nuclear Deal

Afghanistan: A Steady Backward Slide?

New Republic Term Limits by John B. Judis Five years after September 11, what does "waging the war on terror" really mean?

H8 Knight-Ridder For U.S. troops, it's hard to know who is friend and who is foe

BBC Haditha effect
How the shootings undermine a new US military doctrine

EU set to push Iran nuclear deal

The EU foreign policy chief is in Tehran to deliver proposals aimed at resolving divisions over Iran's nuclear issue.

Bombed at Osirak
Scientist says Israeli raid was catalyst for weapons programme

Iraqi Insurgency Continues to Grow

6,000 Corpses Found in Iraq in Five Months

Growing Shi'ite Presence a Dilemma for Syrians

Al Hayat Jordan's 'Preemptive Security Strategy' to Allay Fears Rana Al-Sabbagh - Decision makers in Jordan believe that the Iranian regional role, the coalition forged between Tehran and Damascus, the 'dissident' Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plan for unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank, and the looming Palestinian civil war require a cross-border security role to uncover plots and set up the necessary political and security strategies to face them.

Helena Cobban The Khamenei text

Abu Aardvak Public diplomacy: a status report

Dalrymple’s review of Efraim Karsh’s Islamic Imperialism: A History:

Apparent victory by Islamists in Somalia poses questions for US

Washington Times Afghanistan under siege (Tulin Dalogl)

Evidence suggests Iraq cover-ups
ABC undermines US story on Iraqi deaths; Iraq sees 6,000 dead in 5 months.

H9 Ha’aretz – Top Hamas leaders vow to boycott referendum

Analysis: Fatah and Hamas still have 40 days to reach a deal Even though Abbas' deadline on the prisoner plan has passed, there is still time before the referendum

Jerusalem Post Analysis: Hamas down but not out By YAAKOV KATZ Senior officer: Hamas made almost every possible mistake trying to solidify its power base.

Washington Times Backward reels the news By Arnaud de Borchgrave Israel's unspoken ulterior motive is to make Jordan the Palestinian state.

Al Hayat Ayoon wa Azan (The Israeli Apartheid Policy) Jihad el-Khazen - Israel was once stronger than the Arab countries, separately and combined. However, I believe that we have entered the countdown phase to its end as an apartheid state.

BBC Abbas pushes for statehood poll Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is to call a referendum on a two-state plan after Hamas talks fail.

Dailky Star Hamas leaders are proving to be no better than their predecessors

Israeli unilateralism is healthy, not a 'land grab'
By Yossi Alpher

Only jihadists can benefit from Haditha
By Husain Haqqani

H10 Christian Science Monitor Flouting Syria's martial law, bold students advocate democracy Unofficial political actions land some activists in jail, but many are undeterred.

Is political Islam on the march?

Moderate Western Muslims, speak up!

Iraqis say US marines killed, framed civilian US military probe finds enough evidence to result in eight troops being held pending charges.

Canada faces a young 'jihad generation' All 17 people arrested lived in Canada, and all but two were under age 26.

H11 IHT Identity: France shows its true colors By MICHÈLE LAMONT AND ÉLOI LAURENT The frustration expressed by French minorities is largely caused by the contradiction between a fantasized equality and real-life discrimination

Rocking the boat of French socialism
By KATRIN BENNHOLD Ségolène Royal's popularity has prompted some to suggest that French politics could be undergoing a major shift.

BBC Kosovo Serbs to cut ties with UN Kosovo Serbs vow to sever ties with the UN and provincial bodies over attacks they blame on ethnic Albanians.

PINR "Intelligence Brief: Internal Divisions Continue to Afflict Ukraine"
June 06 2006
Full text of report

H12 RFE/RL Black Sea Region Searches For A New Vision At the heart of a new attempt to foster cooperation in the Black Sea is the desire to secure alternative supplies of energy, reduce international crime, and end post-Soviet conflicts.

Armenia/Azerbaijan: Presidents Meet In Bucharest To Discuss Karabakh

Central Asia: Germany Seeks To Unify EU Policy On Region

Russia Plays Hard Ball With EU Russia has taken an increasingly tough stance in its dealings with the European Union of late, turning the tables on Brussels by criticizing the bloc's own policies on foreign policy, energy, privatization, and human rights

Azerbaijani Papers Publish Offensive Collages

Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review

EurasiaNet Recent Attack Has Independent Journalists, Civil Society Activists on Guard in Azerbaijan

Negotiations on US Military Base in Kyrgyzstan Raise Transparency Concerns

EDM KYRGYZSTAN RELENTING ON U.S. AIR BASE

- USTINOV’S FIRING REVEALS CLAN MANEUVERING INSIDE KREMLIN

- KYIV’S POLITICAL STALEMATE COMPLICATES RELATIONS WITH NATO

H13 The Times Leader Come to Londonistan, our refuge for poor misunderstood Islamist victims
Melanie Phillips Does Britain fully understand the nature of the threat it is facing, let alone have the will to deal with it?

China's secret row bursts into the open Communist Party leaders have thrown their weight behind the rush to embrace capitalism

The wrong target Terrorism, not America, is a real and present threat to our freedoms

Editorial London lessons The triumph of the individual and the frailty of the system

Abbas to go ahead with poll on two-state deal with Israel

WSJ Fitzgerald, Scooter and Us
The special prosecutor wants to use our editorial as evidence. Sorry.

'A Pacific Nation'
The historic shifts in Asia-Pacific security cooperation.
By DONALD H. RUMSFELD

H14 Financial Times Exiled Syrian opposition pledges to protect Alawite minority Syria’s largely Sunni-based exile opposition sought to reassure the Alawite minority that it would be protected in any struggle to oust a regime dominated by members of the community

Palestinian stand-off over Abbas ultimatum

Iran's defiant stance behind oil price spike

COMMENT: Road rage is the least of Afghanistan's problems By Victor Mallet

In Kabul and Kandahar, the US is paying the price for its fatal obsession with Iraq - and the west’s lukewarm commitment to Afghanistan

COMMENT: When reality no longer matches rhetoric By Michael Fullilove A declaratory presidency poses dangers. To reinforce his seriousness Bush has delivered speeches that were strangers to nuance, writes Michael Fullilove of the Lowy Institute for International Policy.

Editorial Ségolène's iconoclasm Presidental candidates in France need to reach out beyond their own party. So it is no great surprise that Ségolène Royal, the socialist frontrunnner for next...

COMMENT: Brown and Cameron straddle north-south divide By Philip Stephens Both the main political parties are struggling for a narrative to address the conflicting impulses of an electorate that has shed the old tribal loyalties

Islamic militia claim seizure of Mogadishu

COMMENT: Do not judge a tortoise's progress by its speed By John Kay The tortoise kept losing races because it could not run as fast as hares. The consultants’ PowerPoint slides showed this conclusively

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: The Mittelstand is making money in the Middle Kingdom

H15 Los Angeles Times As Iraq Violence Worsens, Security Remains Elusive Though much of the bloodshed is carried out for sectarian reasons, many criminals are simply angling for cash in a lawless land.

Maliki Fails to Name Key Cabinet Picks

Canadians Face Specter of Terror A thwarted plot has challenged the nation's perception that it is a safer, more likeable country.

Editorial States join forces against electoral college

A piecemeal approach may be the only way to kill the anachronistic institution.

H16 RCP If He Runs, Don't Bet Against Rudy

NYT House at Stake, Midterm Election Gets Early Start

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

H17 Daily Telegraph Hamas defies soft stance The Hamas-led Palestinian government looks certain to defy the moderate leader Mahmoud Abbas and reject his demand to soften its stance towards Israel.

Leader The limits of Chávism
Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan president, is experiencing the limitations of his "Bolivarian Revolution". Given its autocratic, statist nature, that is to be welcomed.

H18 Independent Ukraine accuses Russia of inciting new 'Crimean war'

Denis Macshane: Britain can help to shape a new Europe

July 7 bombings: a story of individual heroism and official incompetence The courage shown by ordinary people who helped victims of the London bombings was matched by "unacceptable" failures by the emergency authorities, an official inquiry has reported.

Iraq: The face of the enemy Robert Fisk penetrates the world of the Palestinian 'martyrs' flooding into Iraq to fuel the insurgency

The Big Question: Who was Che Guevara, and does he deserve his iconic status?

H19 "Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures," U.S. Army Field Manual FM 3-11.22, June 2003 (233 pages, 6 MB PDF).

Brookings The State of U.S. Homeland Security Read Secretary Chertoff's remarks (PDF—62kb) Read the panel discussion (PDF-102kb)

H20 Slate

Boston Globe My country, win or lose

(By Geoffrey Wheatcroft)

Noble victories. Heroic defeats. The World Cup always has a role to play in the political-cultural dramas of the day.

New Yorker Crude Solutions The truth about America’s oil refineries.by James Surowiecki

Baghdad Is Burning As part of the summer fiction issue, The New Yorker presents a number of accounts of life during wartime, including this piece about Iraq in 2004. by Wendell Steavenson

PLUS: Neil Sheehan, Robert Stone, Roger Angell, Aleksandar Hemon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Tony D’Souza.

H21 Mehmet Demirkol Yeni milli takım

New Republic Philip Roth and Leo Tolstoy Everyman, Roth's new novel about death and dying, is haunted by Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich. by James Wood

A new biography dismantles the legend of Flaubertby Christopher Benfey

Wi-Fi and the Cities Wide dissemination of Wi-Fi is not the future. It is now.

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