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| H1 Atlantic Monthly September 2006 Declaring Victory By James Fallows - The United States is succeeding in its struggle against terrorism. The time has come to declare the war on terror over, so that an even more effective military and diplomatic campaign can begin.
Brookings Mike Tyson and the Hornet's Nest: Military Lessons of the Lebanon Crisis
Guardian A little democracy is a dangerous thing - so let's have more of it Timothy Garton Ash: The next US president may give up on Middle East democratisation, but we shouldn't. It's still our best hope.
BBC Leak predicts civil war in Iraq Civil war is the most likely outcome in Iraq, Britain's outgoing ambassador warns in a confidential memo.
New York Times Ground to a Halt By ROBERT PAPE Israelis have misunderstood the nature of Hezbollah.
IHT Germany to offer incentives to Syria to woo it away from Iran and ease crisis
Yedioth Ahronoth Time to talk to Iran/ Ephraim Halevy
On proportionality Moshe Elad
Washington Post The Rules of War By Moshe Yaalon, The conflict in the Middle East is about much more than Israel and Hezbollah, or even Hezbollah's Syrian and Iranian sponsors. What is at stake are the very rules of war that underpin the entire international order.
Doubling A Bad Bet? By David S. Broder, The argument for carrying on our destructive current policies in Iraq and Lebanon comes down to a claim that "we can't afford to let the other guy win." History suggests that this is not always the right answer.
USIP Prospects for Mediation of the Lebanon Crisis
PINR "Intelligence Brief: The Struggle within Hamas" Full text of report
The New Republic Israel's last chance - Why Israel should re-occupy southern Lebanon In choosing to fight Hezbollah mainly from the air, Israel made a major mistake. Its only hope now is to re-occupy southern Lebanon.
Daily Star Worry about Iran, but also engage it By Michael Young
Yet more proof of the limits of Israeli unilateralism By Christoph Bertram
IHT In this war, too, victory is unlikely If history is any guide, Israel will not be able to win a complete victory by wiping out Hezbollah; peace is achieved by negotiation, not by force of arms.
WSJ The Iranian Calculus The war distracts international attention from the nuclear issue. By PHILIP H. GORDON and KENNETH M. POLLACK
Energy Security in the 21st Century: A New National Strategy Center for American Progress A 12-page US report proposing the development of a comprehensive approach to ensuring energy security for the US
Washington Times We can end oil addiction Thanks to technology and the new economics of energy, the time is ripe to launch an energy revolution and shift toward ethanol as a major transportation fuel.
American Conservative Borrowed Empire By Paul Craig Roberts CFR Defining Victory: The Differing Goals of Israel and Hezbollah
CSIS The Importance of Building Local Capabilities Anthony Cordesman Read more
Cordesman THE BAGHDAD PROBLEM | ROUND TWO
OpenDemocracy Abkhazia and Kosovo: lands in limbo In the Caucasus and the Balkans, two breakaway territories are seeking an independent future. Should they get it? Thomas de Waal opens a debate
FT Editorial Blair needs to rethink more on Middle East
COMMENT: Sanctions help to sustain rogue states The infliction of indiscriminate suffering tends to turn a populace against the proximate cause of its devastation, writes Jacob Weisberg.COMMENT: Mr Blair, it is time to recognise your errors and just go lair’s identification with the White House has destroyed his influence abroad, writes Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former UK ambassador to Moscow. COMMENT: The disturbing deterioration of developed economies
Drezner Calling all IR scholars!!! We've got a coding problem in the Middle East!!
| H2 Washington Post An Appeal for Leadership Why Hasn't the World's Lone Superpower Stopped This Tragedy? By Abdullah Gul - The grave tragedy that has been unfolding before our eyes in Lebanon unfortunately raises questions about the United States and its proud legacy of leadership for freedom and justice.
Ehsan Ahrari Contradictions of Turkish Foreign Policy TCS Divided We Stand Will an independent Kurdistan poison relations with Turkey? Pejman Yousefzadeh Ruşen Çakır Irak Kürtleri'nin Türk sorununu çözme planı
Can this war end in a stalemate and what is to be done? Cengiz Candar
Irak, PKK ile mücadele planını Ankara’ya iletti
BBC Türkçe Kuzey Irak-PKK Koray Düzgören ve Şerafettin Elçi'nin görüşleri
Weekly Standard Germans Are Talking Turkey The European Union is in no rush to expand into Anatolia.
NYT Letter Iraqi Kurds’ Key Role Qubad Talabany
Turkey sends reconnaissance units into Kurdistan
Anticorruption in Transition 3: Who is Succeeding ... and Why? World Bank This 130-page report examines patterns and trends in corruption in the former socialist economies of Europe and Central Asia
Iraq President to Move Against Kurdish Rebels
AFP Turkey expects Iraqi, US action against Kurd rebels ‘very soon’; Talabani moves to defuse tension
Iraqi Kurds Go Their Own Way, Wooing Investors To Safe North Investors business daily
Oil Projects: the Kurds' Winning Card amid Fears of Separation ... Dar Al-Hayat
No surrender for PKK KurdishMedia
Talabani'den 'PKK' söz
'Irak Türkiye'yle yakın çalışmak istiyor'
Iraklı Kürtler PKK'ya karşı harekete geçti
Barzani, Murat Karayılan'ı uyardı
PKK'nın hedefinde Kenan Evren mi vardı?
Ankara: PKK'ya karşı somut adım yakın
Report: KDP, PUK officials in Turkish capital
Meşruiyet, barış gücü ve Türkiye
SOLİ ÖZEL Ticaret savaşları
Wall Street: 'Lübnan’da yaşananlar Türkiye’yi daha da muhafazakârlaştırır!'
Fehmi KORU Şerhe lüzum var mı?
Muslim World Weighs Peace Role in Lebanon Conflict
Olmert: Türk askeri gelsin ...Devamı>>>
Mustafa KARAALİOĞLU Lübnan, olmayan stratejinin kurbanıdır
Fikret BİLA Çocukları küçük kurşunla öldürürler değil mi anne?
Yeni Ortadoğu haritasını çizen Amerikalı Yarbay Referans'a konuştu
Başbakan Erdoğan, Ahmedinejad ile Lübnan ve nükleer krizi görüşebilir
İbrahim KARAGÜL En sıcak iki ay!
Israel's war of existentialism
Akif EMRE AB'nin İsrail oyunu
Hüseyin Gülerce Türkiye’nin gerçek lobisi doğuyor
ABD'den Kerkük'e 8 bin konutluk proje
Davut DURSUN İslam Konferansı Örgütü yol ayrımında...
RFE/RL Interview: Islamic Conference Holds Emergency Meeting To Call For Cease-Fire
Daily Telegraph Unlike Hizbollah, Israel is not trying to kill civilians Boris Johnson has a message for Mel Gibson: at least when Israeli rockets kill civilians, they have missed their targets. When Hizbollah rockets do the same, they have scored a direct hit.
Heritage Foundation Israel Should Confront the Forces Behind Hezbollah by Ariel Cohen
Independent Malcolm Rifkind: Blair is presiding over a foreign policy disaster, worse even than Vietnam or Suez
The Times Getting a grip in Lebanon The Security Council must roll up its sleeves and mastermind a step-by-step confidence-building plan
| H3 Hürriyet Karayılan bombası
Hasan CEMAL PKK'yı dağdan indirmek!
Güler Kömürcü Meclis’te Barzanici vekil var mı?
Cengiz Çandar Türkiye duygusallığı; Ortadoğu gerçekçiliği...
Bülent Keneş İsrail'e öneri: Hizbullah'a bomba yerine mektup yolla!
İbrahim Tanıl Kürt sorununu yeniden düşünmek
Talabani: Bazı PKK bürolarını kapattım
Semih İDİZ Yaşar Paşa'nın 'siyasi' görevleri
Olive branch from the AK Party to the army? Ilnur Cevik
Nasıl bir Genelkurmay Başkanı?
FATİH ALTAYLI İşte o kritik soru: İtirazı olan varsa söylesin
Şükrü Küçükşahin Büyükanıt ilk vizyonunu açıkladı
Güneri CIVAOĞLU Büyükanıt ve umut
So, we have a new commander
Avrupa daha 'şahin' bir paşa bekliyor ... >>>
Dünya basınında Büyükanıt yankısı
Geleceğin komutanları Cuma'yı bekliyor
Mehmet Y Yılmaz Telefon numaralarını kim buldu?
Mesajı göndereni GSM operatörleri biliyor
Erdoğan neden bu kadar asabi?
İsmail Küçükkaya Köşk yolu...
Darbe baskısından ülser olan Özkök Paşa'nın çektiklerini bir Allah bilir bir de kendisi
Mümtazer Türköne Osmanlı barışı
Engin Ardıç Osmanlı düşmanlığı yapmayın
Kıbrıs'ta liderler bir araya gelecek
07:00 - Papadopulos, Talat'tan mektupla görüşme talep etti
ERDAL ŞAFAK Limanlar, üsler...
Fransa'nın Kıbrıs'ta üs isteği Ankara'yı harekete geçirdi
Fransızlar, Güney Kıbrıs’ta üs istiyor
Mesut Yılmaz Yarın sahaya iniyor
İsrail Dostluk Grubu ’fesih’e gidiyor
CHP, İsrail dostluk grubunu terk etti
İsyanın ahlakı Nuray Mert
EMRE AKÖZ Soy sop araştırmaları
Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati
Niyet mektubu ne diyor? Mahfi Eğilmez
Asaf Savaş Akat Temmuz enflasyonunu beklerken
Ercan Kumcu Enflasyon beklentileri
Yaman TÖRÜNER IMF gözden geçirdi
Turkish fisheries to fight asbestos ship
IRAQ: D'ALEMA, ITALY IS A FRIEND OF THE KURDISH PEOPLE
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It's Not Just About Land - Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics | |||||
| H4 New York Times Ground to a Halt By ROBERT PAPE Israelis have misunderstood the nature of Hezbollah.
News Analysis: Perceptions: The Long-Term Battle: Defining ‘Victory’ Before the World
200 Missiles Hit Israel as Battle Rages in Lebanon At the U.N., France, Britain and the U.S. said they were nearing agreement on an international force that would take over control of the buffer zone.
In Iraq, It’s Hard to Trust Anyone in Uniform Iraqis have become suspicious and fearful of men dressed as those who are supposed to protect and serve.
U.S. Disputes Report on New Pakistan Reactor
Ukraine Leader Forced to Name Ex-Rival as Prime Minister
Editorial | H5 Washington Post The Rules of War By Moshe Yaalon, The conflict in the Middle East is about much more than Israel and Hezbollah, or even Hezbollah's Syrian and Iranian sponsors. What is at stake are the very rules of war that underpin the entire international order.
Doubling A Bad Bet? By David S. Broder, The argument for carrying on our destructive current policies in Iraq and Lebanon comes down to a claim that "we can't afford to let the other guy win." History suggests that this is not always the right answer.
In Southern Lebanon Among Militia's Patient Loyalists, Confidence and Belief in Victory By Anthony Shadid
U.N. Talks Focus on Terms of Cease-Fire Lebanon Sees No Solution to the Conflict Without a Role for Syria and Iran
Hezbollah Unleashes Fiery Barrage 230 Rockets Strike Northern Israel, Shattering Brief Lull
In Ramadi, Task Requires Steel Nerves Soldiers say finding roadside bombs is never a problem -- the trick is to make sure they don't blow up first.
Jewish Charities Seek $300 Million for Israel Activist Rabbi Criticizes Fund Drive, Says U.S. Jews Should Help Lebanon, Too
Guardian 9/11 tapes expose flaws in military chiefs' testimony Top brass misled attack inquiry, transcripts show
Haditha report 'will back up US execution allegations' A criminal investigation into the deaths of 24 Iraqis in the town of Haditha last year is close to completion.
638 ways to kill Castro The CIA's plots put 007 to shame: poison pills, toxic cigars, exploding molluscs. By Duncan Campbell.
Politics trumps pot-boilers with Sarkozy bestseller French interior minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy's book, Témoignage, is on its fifth print run.
| H6 Guardian A little democracy is a dangerous thing - so let's have more of it Timothy Garton Ash: The next US president may give up on Middle East democratisation, but we shouldn't. It's still our best hope. How Israel's gung-ho leaders turned victory into calamity Nehemia Shtrasler: Our government, in its desperation to outgun its predecessor, spurned a glorious chance to come out of this with honour. Israeli troops pour into Lebanon Imprisoned by the 'special relationship' David Clark: There is not much to fault in Tony Blair's analysis of where the 'war on terror' is going wrong. His tragedy is that he has become an obstacle to the very cause he espouses.
It's like watching two different wars Julian Borger: The US and British media's wildly divergent takes on the Middle East's latest crisis serve to further deepen entrenched points of view.
At last they want out Gary Younge After five years of party infighting over Iraq, the Democratic leadership's call for withdrawal is a step in the right direction. Zionism is not apartheid David Hirsh Conflating an unwillingness to denounce Israel with racism is a dangerous mistake.
MPs attack government forbreaking its own guidelines on arms sales to Israel
Leader Defiance and isolation Like a man who sets fire to his house and then discusses the flames, Tony Blair has a habit of drawing attention to his policy failures by analysing them.
Blair: you've misunderstood me
The end of the Blair era is a springboard for renewal Michael Meacher: Parliament must reassert its rights as part of a new constitutional settlement if the current malaise in politics is to be tackled.
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| H7 On the Plane With Condi Rice
Who Is Winning the Peace in Lebanon? Analysis: The question being fought out on the battlefield and in the diplomatic chambers boils down to this: Can Hizballah be allowed to emerge with its head held high?
BBC A Blair rethink?
Energy Security in the 21st Century: A New National Strategy Center for American Progress A 12-page US report proposing the development of a comprehensive approach to ensuring energy security for the US
Washington Times We can end oil addictionThanks to technology and the new economics of energy, the time is ripe to launch an energy revolution and shift toward ethanol as a major transportation fuel.
Surmounting manipulation International law defines using civilians as human shields as a war crime. Israel is within its rights to pursue Hezbollah in populated areas.
Strategy from a 'realist'One of America's wisest and most knowledgeable minds in geopolitics says "now, perhaps more than ever" is an opportunity to find a comprehensive resolution to the 58-year-old tragedy in the Middle East.
Winning the War of Ideas
Forward U.S. Ripped For Inaction On Israeli, Syrian Front As Jerusalem mobilizes reserves and Damascus puts its troops on the highest state of alert, the Bush administration is not taking overt steps to prevent Israel's war with Hezbollah from spilling over into Syria.
Fog of War Is No Cover for Causing Civilian Deaths
Weekly Standard Why They Fight
Is There a Role for Reality in US Foreign Policy? by Michael Scheuer
NRO - MICHAEL RUBIN: We shouldn’t forget Nour. “The Translator” Congressional Research Service "India-U.S. Relations" (pdf), updated July 31, 2006. "Pakistan-U.S. Relations" (pdf), updated July 27, 2006.
| H8 BBC Leak predicts civil war in Iraq Civil war is the most likely outcome in Iraq, Britain's outgoing ambassador warns in a confidential memo.
Israel resumes Beirut air strikes Israeli planes target Beirut's southern suburbs, a day after Hezbollah launched repeated cross-border rocket attacks. Israel mounts new Gaza incursion Gaza 'crisis as bad as Lebanon'
Helping hands Different views
PINR "Intelligence Brief: The Struggle within Hamas" Full text of report
Asia Times A new face to Hezbollah's resistance Despite warnings from its intelligence community of a lack of information on Hezbollah's war preparedness, Israel went ahead with its campaign to wipe out the movement. Israel is fighting hard (literally) to make up for this miscalculation. And as with the US in Iraq, other unforeseen forces have been unleashed in south Lebanon.
Lebanon's Christians, Shi'ites and Sunnis agree on only three things: the cedar tree, the Lebanese flag and the music of diva Fayruz. They are highly divided on Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. This division, as much as the Israelis, will dictate the course of the war. - Sami Moubayed
Nasrallah and the three Lebanons Lebanon's Christians, Shi'ites and Sunnis agree on only three things: the cedar tree, the Lebanese flag and the music of diva Fayruz. They are highly divided on Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. This division, as much as the Israelis, will dictate the course of the war. - Sami Moubayed
Daily Star Worry about Iran, but also engage it By Michael Young
Yet more proof of the limits of Israeli unilateralism By Christoph Bertram
Israel has nothing to gain by prolonging the war
Al Hayat Iran, Lebanon and France Randa Takieddin
CFR Vali Nasr's new book offers an in-depth analysis of the forces that have contributed to the historic Shia-Sunni divide and its growing importance in shaping Middle East politics today. German Paper: Iran Frees bin Laden Son to Fight With Hezbollah
| H9 Ha’aretz – Editorial What about the missiles? This gap between the prime minister's statements and yesterday's events raises questions. Even if Olmert wanted to raise the nation's spirit by speaking of achievements, this cannot be done without a factual basis. Olmert cannot ignore the reality of the blood on the ground.
IDF carving out south Lebanon buffer zone to extend 6-8 kilometers north of border
Schiff ANALYSIS: Time is of the essence for IDF operation
Benn What remains of the Sharon legacy?
Harel A brief history of the failure
Deterrence put to the test Since the hasty withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000, viewed by enemies as the flight of a mighty military force from several hundred guerrilla fighters, Israel's image as a nation capable of withstanding pressure has eroded. Everything that has happened on the northern border since the withdrawal appears to confirm Hassan Nasrallah's claim that Israel will collapse like a 'spider web.'
IDF troops carving out south Lebanon buffer zone Paratrooper killed in fighting in Ayta a-Shab
ANALYSIS: Time is of the essence for IDF operation
Yedioth Ahronoth Time to talk to Iran/ Ephraim Halevy
On proportionality Moshe Elad
Ex-commando: We need bargaining chips
Jerusalem Post 10,000 IDF troops operating in s. Lebanon
The best of the best An overview of some of the IDF's most elite special forces units and their specialties. To err is human, especially in war In war, mistakes are not merely possible, they are inevitable. DEBKAfile Exclusive: Israel’s Surprise Raid of Baalbek Is No Panacea for Tactical Ills - Senior Israeli officers say the tactical and intelligence deficiencies hampering Israel’s 22-day Lebanon campaign cannot be cured by a single successful commando raid Full article
Justin Raimondo 8/02/2006 Israel and 'Moral Equivalence'
Washington Institute Laying Out the Qana Calculation: Disarming Hezbollah Prevents More Crises
Israel's Lose-Lose Proposition - Jonah Goldberg, National Review
Iraqi Perspectives Project Asharq Alawsat By Amir Taheri.
Ceasefire cannot be a substitute for policies ,Gulf News By Amir Taheri | |||||
| H10 Christian Science Monitor Why effort to rebuild Iraq came up short Reconstruction funds from the US have been diverted to security operations.
Israel carving out buffer zone It aims to push Hizbullah beyond the Litani, because the river creates a natural geographical boundary.
Joint effort is necessary to broker a cease-fire
Shinzo Abe, a conservative politician who is hawkish on foreign policy, will most likely be tapped in late September.
Where the next Castro may take Fidel's Cuba Some analysts say Raúl could open up the country's economy and start to ease hostilities with the US.
| H11 IHT Germany to offer incentives to Syria to woo it away from Iran and ease crisis
In this war, too, victory is unlikely If history is any guide, Israel will not be able to win a complete victory by wiping out Hezbollah; peace is achieved by negotiation, not by force of arms.
Key nations hope for truce resolution within week
Der Spiegel Eastern Europe Shuns Missile Shield As the Pentagon scouts Poland and the Czech Republic for possible locations for its planned missile defense shield, locals are proving to be less than enthusiastic about the idea.
| H12 RFE/RL Iraq Premier Faces Shi'ite Pressure On Security Nuri al-Maliki has come under increasing pressure from Shi'ite leaders who claim he isn't moving fast enough to address the deteriorating security situation.
EDM YUSHCHENKO’S INITIATIVE REVEALS HURDLES TO UKRAINIAN UNITY
BBC Ukraine head accepts rival as PM Ukrainian President Yushchenko says he will back his arch-rival for PM, ending political deadlock.
EurasiaNet Party Maneuvering Transforms Kazakhstan’s Political Scene
Der Spiegel ABSOLUTISM IN UZBEKISTAN Germany's Favorite Despot While many Westerners have been forced out of Uzbekistan, the German army continues to operate a base in the border city of Termez. Oppenents of President Karimov's despotic regime are now accusing the Germans of looking the other way.
Weekly Standard When Hugo Met Vladimir Venezuela and Russia are up to no good. | |||||
| H13 The Times Getting a grip in Lebanon The Security Council must roll up its sleeves and mastermind a step-by-step confidence-building plan
Israel talks peace as the battle ragesIn an interview with The Times, Ehud Olmert says the conflict could be over as soon as the UN Security Council authorises an international force
The Times interview with Ehud Olmert: full transcript
France moves in to fill the US vacuumThe US has taken a long step towards the position of France by drawing up a United Nations resolution on the Lebanon crisis
Leader Blair's world Less a valedictory address than advice to the next US president
WSJ The Iranian Calculus The war distracts international attention from the nuclear issue. By PHILIP H. GORDON and KENNETH M. POLLACK
Why Is Everything Such a Surprise? Was there even a contingency plan for the Lebanon crisis?
Britain Remains Closest Ally to U.S. Americans consider Great Britain the closest ally to the U.S., according to an annual Harris Interactive poll that has been tracking attitudes to a list of countries since 1982.
Securing Afghanistan
US Would Never Accept Limits on Israel - Frank Gaffney, OpinionJournal
| H14 Financial Times France and US inch closer to deal at the UN
Editorial Blair needs to rethink more on Middle East
COMMENT: Sanctions help to sustain rogue states The infliction of indiscriminate suffering tends to turn a populace against the proximate cause of its devastation, writes Jacob Weisberg.COMMENT: Mr Blair, it is time to recognise your errors and just go lair’s identification with the White House has destroyed his influence abroad, writes Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former UK ambassador to Moscow. COMMENT: The disturbing deterioration of developed economies Poor fundamentals in developed markets mean that the distinction between large emerging market economies and developed ones is becoming more blurred, writes Desmond Lachman, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Asia's former tigers are flirting with irrelevance
FT Leaked UK document sees ‘civil war’ in Iraq
Israel making same mistake as US in Iraq, say strategists
Olmert 'Our response to Hizbollah has been restrained'
Iraq rebuilding hit by lack of planning, Congress told
Blair to tackle dissent over Lebanon stance
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: We Americans have become party to massacre of Lebanese
| H15 Los Angeles Times U.S. Commanders Accused of Endorsing 'Kill Counts' At a hearing on the slaying of 3 Iraqi detainees by GIs, witnesses describe a brigade governed by loose rules that allowed wanton killing. Poll: Most Americans Back Israel Nearly 3 in 5 believe the campaign in Lebanon is justified, but they're split over the U.S. role.
Editorial
FT New Europe' warns of tensions over SchengenCOMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Cold shoulder: how Merkel's coalition is spurning lobbyists in its reform push German governments have traditionally taken a round-table approach to drafting laws, relying heavily on input from special-interest groups. No longer, writes Bertrand Benoit.
Editorial Distant US horizons Hank Paulson's first public remarks as US Treasury secretary on Tuesday denounced protectionism, gestured towards reform of Sarbanes-Oxley, argued for energy...
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Furnaces burn on as Beijing tries to cool the economy
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| H16 Vanity Fair SEPTEMBER SNEAK PEEK: THE NORAD TAPES How did the U.S. Air Force respond on 9/11? Could it have shot down United 93, as conspiracy theorists claim? Obtaining 30 hours of never-before-released tapes from the control room of NORAD's Northeast headquarters, Michael Bronner reconstructs the chaotic military history of that day—and the Pentagon's apparent attempt to cover it up. Read the article, hear tape excerpts.
American Conservat ive What’s Wrong With the Democrats? By Steve Sailer
NYT DAVID BROOKS Bye-Bye, Bootstraps We are apparently seeing the emergence of a Wal-Mart leisure class.
BOB HERBERT Hot Enough Yet? It may be time to get serious about trying to slow the catastrophic trend of global warming.
A Reform That Worked Lessons From Welfare By Robert J. Samuelson,
Washington Times Government shrinkage goal The modern conservative movement's goal is to cut the cost of government as a percentage of the economy in half over the next 25 years -- one generation.
Future of Orthodox Jewish Vote Has Implications for GOP Small but Growing Group Receptive to Republican Ideas
realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec - Blogometer | H17 Daily Telegraph Unlike Hizbollah, Israel is not trying to kill civilians Boris Johnson has a message for Mel Gibson: at least when Israeli rockets kill civilians, they have missed their targets. When Hizbollah rockets do the same, they have scored a direct hit.
Radical Islam is a threat to Muslims
Leader Blair has spoken: now it is time for him to act It is imperative that the Prime Minister knocks ministerial heads together and ends the confusing babble from the Cabinet with regards to British policy on the crisis in the Middle East.
Hizbollah 'crippled' but missiles still fall
| H18 Independent Malcolm Rifkind: Blair is presiding over a foreign policy disaster, worse even than Vietnam or Suez
Robert Fisk: Entire Lebanese family killed in attack on hospital
Adrian Hamilton: The cost of this war is the hope for a wider peace
Yushchenko agonises over appointing rival
The Big Question: Has Cuba benefited or suffered under Fidel Castro's 47-year rule? | |||||
| H19 First Two Weeks of Israeli Strikes on Lebanon (map) Missile Defense Deployments "Secret for Political Purposes" Permalink
"Intelligence Oversight Act" (H.R. 5954) here.
"The Terrorist Threat from Shoulder-Fired Missiles" (pdf), House Committee on International Relations, March 30, 2006. "Report on Activities and Programs for Countering Proliferation and NBC Terrorism, Counterproliferation Program Review Committee" (pdf), Volume I, Executive Summary, May 2006. See also the related "Department of Defense Chemical and Biological Defense Program, Annual Report to Congress" (8.5 MB pdf), March 2006. Published sources on stealthy satellites were compiled in "A Stealth Satellite Sourcebook" by independent researcher Allen Thomson, available here (pdf). An earlier compilation on the French GRAVES (Grande Réseau Adapté à la Veille Spatial) space surveillance system, also by Mr. Thomson, may be found here (pdf).
| H20 Slate
· Thanks for the Sanctions: Why do we keep using a policy that helps dictators?· The Prince of the Marshes:
Surrounded by half-forgotten history.
Terror survey has frightening outlook
Atlantic Monthly COMMENT Some Convenient Truths Runaway global warming looks all but unstoppable. Maybe that’s because we haven’t really tried to stop it by Gregg Easterbrook
FIRST PRINCIPLES The Height of Inequality America’s productivity gains have gone to giant salaries for just a few by Clive Crook
POLL Nuclear Iran The Atlantic recently asked a group of foreign-policy authorities about Iran’s nuclear quest. Special extended Web version
New Yorker Blueprints for Disaster This week in the magazine, Steve Coll writes about the Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan and the international trade in nuclear-weapons technology and equipment. Here, with Blake Eskin, he talks about Iran’s nuclear program, the dangers of proliferation, and the intersection of politics and the profit motive.
Castro’s Last Battle Can the revolution outlive its leader? by Jon Lee Anderson
| H21 BBC Treasure hunt
IHT Black anchor fills top spot on French TVIn a country with more blacks on its national soccer team than in the 577-member National Assembly, the sudden celebrity of Harry Roselmack, left, has highlighted how rare it still is in France to see minorities in prominent posts.
Self-discipline and will power are keys to academic success. But they should be used with care. Cordelia Fine explains... more»
In science, confusion is essential to progress. An unwillingness to feel lost, in fact, can stop creativity dead. Now if you’re a science reporter, try telling that to your editor... more»
From PUP, the introduction to Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder
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