H1 Iraq War Bill Deletes US Military Base Prohibition

Washington Post Zarqawi's Existence Aided U.S. Arguments

New York Times Hamas Declares It Will Resume Attacking Israel

LA Times Camp David Talks Will Focus on Iraq's Future

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Atlantic Monthly - The short, violent life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a video store clerk and petty crook who remade himself as America’s nemesis in Iraq... more»

Weekly Standard No Posthumous Victory for Zarqawi Don't let him achieve in death what he failed to do in life. by William Kristol

Guardian The western view of the rise of India and China is a self-affirming fiction Pankaj Mishra: Both made their most impressive gains when they rejected the free market. They need a new way of becoming modern.

The clash of abstractions Pankaj Mishra: The idea of a reformist-fanatic struggle within Islam is a cliche. The real collision is between Muslim intellectuals in the west.

New Republic revolt of the natives by Niall Ferguson & Samuel J. Abrams

A century of slaughter. Why is the hundred years just past the bloodiest in history? Niall Ferguson has an answer or two... more»

Who is Behind Minorities Uprising(Iran)?

Nir Rosen: The Civil War Continues

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H2 Guardian Cyprus vetoes Turkey's talks to gain EU entry World: Foreign ministers fail to agree common approach · Muslim country's reforms and economy in difficulty

BBC Accession doubts
Turks fear a loss of momentum on the road to EU entry

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EDM MOSCOW, ANKARA RELUCTANT TO WELCOME NEW BLACK SEA FORUM

- RUSSIA AND WEST APPEAR SET TO CLASH OVER UKRAINE

- ISRAEL SHOWS INTEREST IN AZERBAIJANI ENERGY AND TRADE PROJECTS

Financial Times LEADER: The rise and rise of US corporate profits

Bolton rejects 'grand bargain' with Iran

WSJ Jordan Emerges as a Vital U.S. Ally

“Reidar Visser has two good new entries on his website: this on the federalism issue in Iraq, and this on the latest cabinet appointments there.”

Salon - Helena Cobban The incredible shrinking US Despite the death of Zarqawi, Bush's huge gamble in Iraq has failed. As a result, the US is weaker everywhere in the world -- and that's not all bad.

Yeni cumhurbaşkanı bence bir kadın olsun

Talat, Almanya'ya doğrudan mesaj verdi

Üniversiteli kart çetesi

Enis Berberoğlu MHP takviminde 3 tarih

Serdar Turgut Çoğunluğun adı ne?

Ali Bulaç İran’a laik-milliyetçi model

Ve Koru, Bilderberg'de

H3 ABHaber İşte AB'nin Türkiye uzlaşısı: 'Ortak Tutum Belgesi' (Orjinal metin)

Ross Wilson:İstikrar sorununu aştınız

Dismissing recognition of N. Cyprus, US urges a united nation

Rumlardan kriz, Türkiye beklemede

Ege Cansen Merkez, faizi yükseltti dolar düştü

Demokrasi fantezileri Gündüz Aktan

Şahin Alpay Türkiye'nin Çerkes realitesi

Cengiz Çandar Making a drama out of a crisis

Rum yönetimine bir ‘Talatlı’ mesaj da Almanya’dan geldi

ABD’den mesafeli çıkış: KKTC’yi tanımayı değil, Kıbrıs’ı birleştirmeyi hedefliyoruz

Gül ile Bakoyanni, Ege’deki it dalaşı sorunlarına karşı ‘kırmızı hat’tı açıyor

Rumlar 3 Ekim’i örnek aldı, karar son dakikaya kaldı

Türkiye kaynıyor M.Ali Kışlalı

Birand Piyasaların sopası yok ki…

Şimdi petrol. Ya sonra? Murat Yetkin

Ertuğrul Özkök Hani nerede o manşetler

Bir piyasa komplosu mu? İsmet Berkan

Türkmen İdaresinde Gizli Kürt eli

BUGÜN Yazarlar Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu BUSH'UN, HAMAS BAĞLANTILI ERDOĞAN SIKINTISI

Okumuş çocuklar 'Vatan ve AB' diyor

Gerekçeli karar açıklandı: Gülen’in anayasal düzeni değiştirme amacı yok

Gülen için ilginç karar

H4 New York Times Hamas Declares It Will Resume Attacking Israel The declaration came after the deaths of at least seven Palestinian civilians on a Gaza beach from an apparently errant Israeli artillery shell.

Editorial Palestinian Peace Politics We hope the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, can succeed in forcing Hamas to endorse a two-state solution that would acknowledge Israel's pre-1967 borders.

Iran Gets Deadline to Respond to Deal on Ending Enrichment

World Cup Tests Iranians' Ability to Have Fun in Public

The Political Loner: New Interior Minister Faces Unenviable Task: Purging His Forces of Militia Members

U.S. Says Zarqawi Survived Briefly After Airstrike

The Person Behind the Muslim By ANAR ALI Don’t ask me to explain Toronto’s terror suspects.

JOHN TIERNEY Mourning in America How do you conduct a political argument with grieving relatives?

MAUREEN DOWD Bloggers Double Down Even as Old Media is cowed by New Media, New Media is trying to become, rather than upend, Old Media.

H5 Washington Post Death 'Great Loss' for Guerrilla Networks
Loss of terrorist leader could lead to widening of existing factional splits among jihadist groups extending beyond Iraq, some analysts say.

Zarqawi's Existence Aided U.S. Arguments

Iraqi Leader Charts Nation's Priorities

Rebuilding, Reconciliation Top List, but Analysts Warn of Political Deadlock

Israeli Fire Kills Seven Palestinian Beachgoers Military Suspends Anti-Rocket Assault To Conduct Probe

Iraq's Attorneys Practicing in a State of Fear

Those Who Haven't Fled Prefer the Dictator's Law to None at All

Tribal Leaders Reject U.N. Force in Darfur, Threaten 'Holy War'

Editorial WHO Knows Better Neither the world, nor the World Health Organization, is prepared for a real pandemic.

Zarqawi Lived After Airstrike Military Clarifies Some Details Of Blast That Killed Guerrilla

Soccer With a Side of Slavery By Katherine Chon and Derek Ellerman, An estimated 40,000 women and children will be imported into Germany to provide commercial sex during the World Cup -- helping to make sex trafficking the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world.

Gingrich May Run if No Front-Runner Emerges

Afghan Corps Faces A Resurgent Taliban Unit Struggles at a Time of Transition

William Arkin The Non-American Angle of the Hunt for Zarqawi

H6 Guardian The western view of the rise of India and China is a self-affirming fiction Pankaj Mishra: Both made their most impressive gains when they rejected the free market. They need a new way of becoming modern.

The clash of abstractions Pankaj Mishra: The idea of a reformist-fanatic struggle within Islam is a cliche. The real collision is between Muslim intellectuals in the west.

Death of a salesman Zeyad A Don't expect much to change with the slaying of Zarqawi. He amounted to a PR tool - for both sides.

A sentence for suicide John Gittings

How to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction should be a high priority. But Hans Blix's new report will be shrugged aside.

CFR More Brinksmanship from Tehran

Iraq's Insurgency After Zarqawi

The Legacy of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Weaver: Zarqawi’s Death 'Significant' But Not 'Decisive' in Ending Iraqi Insurgency

China's Soft Power

H7 The Economist Nuclear disarmament The long, long half-life

Afghanistan The Taliban resurgent

Somalia Guess who's running it now

Morgan Stanley Global: Tough LoveAfter years of excess accommodation, the US central bank may be trying to reclaim the "tough-guy" image that a credible monetary authority needs.

National Journal Murray Waas CIA LEAK INVESTIGATION
What Ashcroft Was Told

New Republic Why Clintonism worked Bill Clinton's liberal detractors have developed a case of historical amnesia. by Peter Beinart

Zarqawi's Death Good. Iraq War Bad - Eleanor Clift, Newsweek

Weekly Standard Zarqawi and His Role Model The lessons of two parallel jihadist lives. by Richard Miniter & Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Death of a Monster The end of Abu Musab Zarqawi. by Dan Darling

Zarqawi: A Bogeyman
Made by the US by Brendan O'Neill

NRO VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The only similarity between Iraq and Vietnam is the sound of the critics. “Vietnam, After All?”

MICHAEL LEDEEN: We have probably just lived through the greatest global counterterrorist operation in history. “Iran Connects the Dots”

Data on nuclear agency workers hacked...

H8 HARD REALITIES FORCE A SHIFT IN US POLICY TOWARD IRAN EurasiaNet

Analysis: Impasse helps Iranian oil

Iraq War Bill Deletes US Military Base Prohibition

Military Matters: Iraq base skedaddle

BBC Pakistan strikes 'militant camp'

Pakistani forces attack a militant hideout near the Afghan border, killing at least 15 guerrillas, the military says

Saudi dilemma
Journalists caught between reformists and conservatives

Bush: US Out Only After 'Victory' in Iraq

Bush Says Iran Has 'Weeks Not Months' to Respond

Many in Terrorists' ' Next Generation' Dead

UPI New ops planned in wake of Zarqawi hunt

Analysis: Haditha and all its victims

Dying Al-Zarqawi Tried to Get Away

Captured Zarqawi Aide Spilled the Beans

Blog: Zarqawi snitch was tortured

Al-Ahram, opponents to Washington's foreign policy, from Beijing to Moscow and Caracas, are not operating in a vacuum

Daily Star The birth and death of the Zarqawi phenomenon
By Rami G. Khouri

Iraq will need to ensure Zarqawi's vision of sectarian strife dies with him

H9 Ha’aretz – Diplomats say Hariri probe will ask for another year to do its work

BBC Hamas claims Israel rocket attack Hamas says it has fired rockets into Israel for the first time since a truce last year after a blast kills Gaza civilians.

Al-Qaeda opposes Palestinian vote

Al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri urges Palestinians to reject a vote on a future state.

Under the Veil of Ideology: The Israeli-Iranian Strategic Rivalry
Middle East Report Online

Jerusalem Post Why do we insult our friends? By DAVID KIMCHE A leading Jordanian asked me: "Why do you Israelis take us Jordanians for granted?"

An article on why Americans subsidized the Israeli settlers, and why we should pay to relocate them.

Daily Star The dreaded blowback from a Palestinian civil war
By Abdel Monem Said Aly

H10 Christian Science Monitor US, UN: can this 'unhappy marriage' be saved? A new war of words as reform deadline looms.

Der Spiegel Germany Says No to Rumsfeld Request for Help

US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is reportedly looking for Germany to provide more assistance in Iraq. The German government, however, has declined the invitation.

BBC Energy prices dominate G8 agenda

G8 finance ministers are discussing high energy prices and the security of global supplies at talks in Russia.

President Putin shares G8 plans

G8 ministers voice oil price fear

French-UK nuclear ties boosted

The Economist France The irresistible rise of Ségolène Royal

H11 IHT William Pfaff: Au revoir, political correctness The unexpected presidential candidacy of Ségolène Royal in France is upsetting many calculations and preconceptions.

Nation rebuilding JEFF KINGSTON With political support for nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq eroding as fast as one can spell elections, there are important lessons to be learned from East Timor's rapid descent.

A subtler China policy?
RALPH A. COSSA It was a kinder, gentler Donald Rumsfeld who emerged at this year's annual gathering of senior Asia-Pacific defense officials in Singapore

Meanwhile: At the UN, how we envy the World Cup KOFI A. ANNAN The World Cup makes us in the United Nations green with envy.

H12 RFE/RL Kremlin Hopes To Speak The West's Language The Kremlin has always prided itself on being a self-sufficient operation. But now Moscow has hired a Western firm to manage its image as it prepares to host the annual G8 summit.

South Caucasus: EU Special Representative 'Hopeful' On Nagorno-Karabakh

Central Asian Religious Leaders Meet Behind Closed Doors

EurasiaNet Georgia Seeks Energy Independence From Russia

UPI Policy Watch: Moscow's western challenge

H13 The Times Matters of interest Fears of inflation hit stock markets, while commodities could crash

Al-Zarqawi spoke, then died Iraqi police discovered Zarqawi alive in the rubble of his bombed safe house, then watched him try to roll off a stretcher before dying

Is France in decline? Then send for les blairistes, Ségo and Sarko Since French voters have thrown out the ruling power in every election since 1978, it would seem to be the Socialists’ turn next spring

Political power of poor keeps country stuck with one foot in the past By David Aaronovitch Great tension lies between economic progress and populism however India holds great hope for the future Pictures | Part 1 | Part 2

WSJ Jordan Emerges as a Vital U.S. Ally

Jordanian intelligence agents are being given credit for big breaks in tracking the recent movements of Zarqawi, symbolizing the increasing cooperation between Washington and Amman.

A Laudable Death By Eliot A. Cohen Abu Musab al-Zarqawi?s death is an occasion for pride in US forces, satisfaction at retribution for the death and torture he dealt, and a crushing blow to al Qaeda in Iraq. Cohen looks at whether this will make a strategic difference to success in Iraq, his role in insurgency and sectarianism there, and how things will change. He says Zarqawi's death constitutes good--but not transformative--news. He outlines what key actions need to happen there to ensure progress. Link to full text in primary source.

The General in His Labyrinth
Is Poland's last communist leader an opportunist, cynic, or "evolutionary revolutionary"?
By MATTHEW KAMINSKI

H14 Financial Times LEADER: The rise and rise of US corporate profits

Bolton rejects 'grand bargain' with Iran Time is running out for the diplomatic effort to resolve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme and Washington has no intention of striking a comprehensive “grand bargain” with Tehran, the US’s ambassador to the United Nations has warn

Splits in society 'permeate Iraq government'

Sciri official defends Shia record on Iraq security Mohsen Hakim, son and advisor to Abd al-Aziz Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq has urged the US to hand over security quickly to Iraqis with the necessary experience

Focus on energy security as G8 looms Energy security and thedangers posed by the rising price of oil will be top of the agenda today when finance ministers...

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Economists are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus By John Thornhill A Martian economist visits earth. Not only does its arrival prove – as many suspected – that some economists really do live on other planets, it also provides fresh perspectives on our world

Olmert dismisses PA referendum as 'internal game'

Full transcript of interview with Ehud Olmert

Growth fears inflict pain on world equities World equities suffered further sharp falls this week amid growing fears that global economic growth could be stifled by...

Greenback benefits from rush to 'safe haven' assets

FT GLOBAL 500: New kids on the block The FT Global 500 provides an annual snapshot of the world’s largest companies. The tables show how corporate fortunes have changed in the past year, highlighting relative performance of countries and sectors

FT GLOBAL 500: Material differences

FT GLOBAL 500: The profit paradox

Kabul may arm militia to fight terrorists
Diplomats say move would destabilise country

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Why Canada is a terrorist target By Christopher CaldwellCanada’s approach to terror reveals a split personality. On security, it has been tough, but in other areas easygoing

Icon of US left enters the history books as longest-serving senator
By Holly Yeager in Washington
Financial Times, Jun 10, 2006
Robert Byrd spent this week the same way he has spent much of his 48 years in the Senate, fighting to get his way on a...

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial The Muslim cartoon backlash that wasn't Four months after the controversy, Denmark is stronger than ever.

Something's happy in the state of Denmark Why are boring Danes such contented people?

The downside of U.N.-bashing

By James Traub Right-wing abuse and U.S. political maneuvering are undermining real reform.

Iraq, Terror Votes Come at a Good Time for GOP

U.S. Launches Raids to Disrupt Zarqawi's Network Forces have conducted dozens of raids against targets connected with Al Qaeda in Iraq in the two days since the militant leader's death.

Camp David Talks Will Focus on Iraq's Future

Zarqawi May Have Spawned an Army of Admirers

Why good people kill By Rosa Brooks

ARE AMERICANS good people?

We didn't kill Al Qaeda

By David W. Brannan

H16 Democracy Arsenal Iraq: Worse than Vietnam?

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

H17 Daily Telegraph Hamas ends truce The Middle East is on the brink of renewed conflict after Hamas said it was ending its ceasefire after seven Palestinian civilians, including three children, were killed by Israeli artillery while enjoying a picnic.

Iran 'has only weeks' A senior Bush administration official said Iran has just a few weeks to freeze its controversial uranium enrichment programme or face international sanctions.

Crackdown in Iraq Baghdad is under a daytime curfew as the Iraqi government brings forward a security crackdown to exploit disarray in rebel ranks after the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

UN must apologise Mark Malloch Brown's injudicious remarks about "unchecked UN-bashing" have caused the worst crisis in relations between America and the United Nations since the invasion of Iraq. He should now make amends.

On balance, God probably is English Football is only one of the many innovations England has given to the world. We are a bold, spirited, adventurous people. Let's not confine our patriotism to the sports field, as po-faced Eurocrats urge.

H18 Independent Olmert rejects Abbas plan to boost negotiations The Israeli Prime Minister has dismissed as "meaningless" the referendum that the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, plans to call today and rejects the document that Palestinians will vote on as a basis for negotiations.

Ehud Olmert: 'I can't afford to make mistakes'

Zarqawi still alive when Iraqi police got to him, US says

H19 CEPS The Effects of Trade Liberalisation on Agriculture in Smaller Developing Countries: Implications for the Doha Round Download the document (PDF) for FREE

H20 Slate The "Lion" Sleeps Tonight: The world's press bids farewell to Zarqawi.

H21 Holland in need of Van Basten alchemy By Simon Kuper

The Economist Sport and politics Let the games begin

The soccer Nazis' losing battle

By Tony Karon 'TWO WORLD WARS and one World Cup!" goes a favorite chant of English soccer fans whenever their team faces Germany.

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