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CSM The uneven calculus of Mideast victory Hizbullah may 'win' this war, now in its fourth week, by merely surviving.
Salon The Neocons' Next War By secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it.
From New Left Review, Immanuel Wallerstein on The Curve of American Power
Can an ideal-type for empire be deduced from a historical sociology of Han, Persian, Roman, Ottoman and US models?: A review of Imperien. Time How Hezbollah Factor Will Determine an Iraq Civil War Analysis: As it grapples with the problem of Hizballah in Lebanon, the Bush Administration's hopes of stabilizing Iraq may depend on its ability to entice or force Iraq's own equivalent — the Mehdi Army — to disarm by Tony Karon The New Republic Blind Date Ha’aretz – Schiff Stay out of the Lebanese quagmire
The Israeli-Hezbollah War and the Threat to US Interests Stratfor
Financial Times Risks rise for Iran as conflict continues
Shia Islamist groups jostle to carry flag for Arab nationalismCOMMENT: The neglected roots of conflict are buried in combustible land America, the only power with the influence to end the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate, has regressively declined to do so, writes David Gardner.
US policy in the Middle East unravels
Foreign Policy The List: Who Will Send Troops to Lebanon?
IHT The case for a global currency What we need is a global currency.
Guardian Arab despots, not Israel, are now under a greater threat Jonathan Steele: Hizbullah's resistance to the region's military superpower will cause tremors in Egypt and Jordan - and even Syria
FT Rights group accuses Israel of war crimes
Human Rights Watch’s 50-page report
NPQ Martin van Creveld: QUO VADIS, ISRAEL?
OpenDemocracy Lebanon: war takes root The combination of US ideology, Israeli strategy and Hizbollah resilience means one thing: a long war, says Paul Rogers
WSJ U.N. Peacekeepers in Lebanon? Be careful what you wish for. By JONATHAN D. TEPPERMAN
The Iranian Calculus by Pollack and Gordon
Lebanon: Nasrallah's Tape and Shifting Strategy Stratfor
Daily Telegraph Israel would be safer in a nuclear-free Middle East Alistair Horne.
EDM CONSTANTA-TRIESTE PIPELINE PROPOSAL FOR KAZAKHSTAN’S OIL
CSM Taliban hinder NATO 'ink-spot' strategy Insurgent attacks are already taxing the force designed to form the first 'secure zones.'
| H2 NYT U.S. General Says Iraq Could Slide Into a Civil War Senator Clinton harshly criticized Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld over the conflict at a Senate hearing.
The Muslim World: Hezbollah’s Prominence Has Many Sunnis Worried
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Time for Plan B Whether for Bush reasons or Arab reasons, democracy is not emerging in Iraq, and we can’t throw more good lives after good lives. (see full text How to Restore American Credibility)
Washington Post Israel's Lost Moment By Charles Krauthammer Israel's leaders do not seem to understand how ruinous a military failure in Lebanon would be to their country's relationship with America, their most vital lifeline.
Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati
Sabah Türk Binbaşı'ya İncirlik'te kelepçe
Yeni Çağ Medyayı Parris örgütlüyor!..
İsrafil K. Kumbasar Mark Parris’in medya içinde kurduğu PKK’yı dağdan indirme timi
Savaş SÜZAL "PKK'yı Dağdan indiren kahraman"
PKK’nın etkin ismi ’Sarı İbrahim’e infaz
PKK: Öcalan serbest kalsın, dağdan ineriz
Cemil Bayık: Türkiye Kürtleri kaybedebilir
Murat KARAYILAN; “KÜRT ÖZGÜRLÜK HAREKETİ TÜRKİYE’DE DEMOKRASİNİN
Mehmet Tezkan Soruyorum diye kimse hain diyemez
Güler Kömürcü ‘DTP Meclis’e 50 milletvekiliyle girecek’
Hasan ÜNAL Sabır dağımız fare doğurdu galiba
Fattah: The PKK isn't free to move in our region, no plans to finish it off
KRG has no plan to handover PKK members to Turkey
Iraklı Kürtler PKK'ya karşı harekete geçti
Waves of Kurds are leaving southern Kurdistan Turkey Seeks Extradition of Top Kurdish Rebel From Iraq Hawlati: Detainees are tortured in prisons of Kurdistan
Kongre'de Ermeni soykırımı kavgası
Gül Liderlik göster
Gül, Amerika’nın Lübnan sessizliğini sorguladı: Bölgeyi demokratikleştirme umutları paramparça
İsrail'in eski dışişleri bakanı Ben Ami, BBC Türkçe'ye konuştu: Hizbullah'ı bitiremeyiz
Olmert, barış gücüne Türkiye’yi de istiyor
Mustafa Ünal 6 saatlik toplantıya 24 saat yol
David Barchard Britain's poodle debate
CSIS Simon Serfaty Moment of Reflection, Commitment to Action
The Gulf Military Forces in an Era of Asymmetric War -Anthony H. Cordesman and Khalid R. Al-Rodhan
| H Cengiz Çandar Hayal kurmadan Ortadoğu'daki savaşı değerlendirmek...
Mustafa KARAALİOĞLU Büyükanıt dersleri
Koray DÜZGÖREN Büyükanıt'tan beklenen siyasi görevler
Mehmet OCAKTAN Sınır ötesinde, İsrail'in düştüğü duruma düşmeyiz
Turkkish military option out, Iraqis expected to act on PKK
Lübnan'a barış gücü gitsin mi?
Ortadoğu'da zor olanı yapmak
Should Turkey send peacekeeping forces to Lebanon? Cem Oguz
Fehmi KORU 'Yeni bir Ortadoğu' ihtiyacı
Ruşen Çakır| İran’dan korkan Arap devletleri İsrail’e yanaşıyor
Türkiye’den Ortadoğu krizi için çifte uyarı
Ali Bulaç Türkiye ne yapabilir?
Türkiye istikrar yanlısı değil FARUK HACI MUSTAFA
MUHARREM SARIKAYA Yaşar Paşa "öcü" mü?
Ertuğrul Özkök O ihanet sorusunu kim sordu
Erdoğan’ın sürprizi Koşaner Paşa çıktı
Jandarma'nın yeni komutanı Org. Koşaner
Askeri Şura'da Jandarma Sürprizi
Mehmet Y Yılmaz Bakılması gereken bir yer daha var
Mesajın izi cepte değil internette
ERGUN BABAHAN Erdoğan: Büyükanıt mesajı benim özel telefonuma da geldi
Suudilerin Türkiye çıkarması . Haberin Devamı>>>
FATİH ALTAYLI Petro dolar ziyareti
Talat-Papadopulos yeniden görüşecek
Selçuk Gültaşlı İsrail lobisinin ABD’ye etkisi daha çok tartışılmalı
İbrahim KARAGÜL İşte İsrail'in o korkunç planı!
Ferai Tınç Lübnan ikinci Irak olabilir
A strategy that is hard to understand Semih İDİZ
Nuh Gönültaş Büyük İran Projesi...
Etyen Mahçupyan Kurtarılmış alan olarak devlet
Ahmet Hakan Mazi kalbimde yaradır
Şakir Süter AKP içine bakarken
Şemdinli davasında hakim çekildi
FT Turkish central bank keen to stay in Ankara
Merkez Bankası İstanbul’a taşınıyor
İbrahim Öztürk [Aklı karışıklar için klavuz] Ekonomide neler oluyor
'Gölgeli' enflasyon hedeflemesi!
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| H4 New York Times U.S. General Says Iraq Could Slide Into a Civil War Senator Clinton harshly criticized Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld over the conflict at a Senate hearing.
The Muslim World: Hezbollah’s Prominence Has Many Sunnis Worried
NYT THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Time for Plan B Whether for Bush reasons or Arab reasons, democracy is not emerging in Iraq, and we can’t throw more good lives after good lives.
Editorial The Sound of One Domino Falling It’s been obvious for years that Donald Rumsfeld is in denial of reality, but the defense secretary now also seems stuck in a time warp.
12 Israelis Die; Sheik Threatens to Bomb Tel Aviv Also, the Israeli defense minister told the army to begin preparing to push to the Litani River , a move that could mean a further call-up of reservists.
War Aims: Freeing Prisoners Key Goal in Fight Against Israel
Ukraine Leader Forms Alliance With Rivals
Intelligence: Senator Faults Bid to Classify Report on Iraq
The Fighting: U.S. Says Soldiers in Baghdad Fired on Shiites Who Had Shot at U.S. Base | H5 Washington Post Israel's Lost Moment By Charles Krauthammer Israel's leaders do not seem to understand how ruinous a military failure in Lebanon would be to their country's relationship with America, their most vital lifeline.
Israel Suffers Highest Toll Yet 8 Civilians, 4 Troops Killed; Planes Blast Beirut Sites Again
Generals Cite Risk Of Iraqi Civil War Senators Told Fate Is in Nation's Hands
In Iraqi Town, U.S. Feels Push Toward an Exit Residents Blame Attacks on Troop Presence
Insurgents Set Sights On Fallujah Al-Qaeda in Iraq Vows to Retake City
Chief's Statement Clarifies Strategy
More Frequent Heat Waves Linked to Global Warming U.S. and European Researchers Call Long Hot Spells Likely
A Better Way on Detainees By Jack Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner
Editorial Mr. Paulson's Debut . . . Blunt talk that needs to get blunter
CFR Nasr: Iran Sees Lebanon Strife as Way to Pressure Washington
Vying for Victory in the Middle East
| H6 Guardian Arab despots, not Israel, are now under a greater threat Jonathan Steele: Hizbullah's resistance to the region's military superpower will cause tremors in Egypt and Jordan - and even Syria.
Hizbullah and Israel trade threats
Tony Blair means only one thing when he talks about his values
'Iraq could slide into civil war' Top US generals and British diplomat warn of civil war and partition
Realist, Baghdad Ewen MacAskill The leaked memo of the British ambassador to Iraq shows that George Bush's vision of it becoming a beacon of democracy in the Middle East is dead. Our meddling is accelerating this descent into civil war Mark Lattimer: The US occupation did not create the sectarian tensions that disfigure Iraq - but its policies entrenched the divisions. New European movements Far from steeling the EU into one united institution, the Middle East conflict is splitting Europe along new fault lines, says Nicholas Watt. We must not fail Lebanon John Williams: The international community must prove it can resolve the conflict, not by just passing a resolution, but by deploying a serious military force.
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| H7 The New Republic Blind Date
Evaluating the morality of Israel's war
Push and Pull by Joshua Kurlantzick Indians don't want a nuclear deal with the U.S.
The Neocons' Next War By secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it.
New Left Review Malcolm Bull on States of Failure
Washington Institute ‘Trust Allah, Not Nasrallah’: The Hizballah Crisis Reshapes Lebanese Politics Many in the West are mistaking expressions of wartime national solidarity in Lebanon with active support for Hizballah across the country’s many sectarian, ethnic, and political fissures, which in some cases have been deepened by the conflict.
US News - Analysis: Deterrence and the burden of Israeli moderatesby David Makovsky
NRO DAVID PRYCE-JONES: Why did Hezbollah choose this moment to attack Israel? “Some Questions in Search of an Answer”
NPQ Martin van Creveld: QUO VADIS, ISRAEL?
OpenDemocracy Lebanon: war takes root The combination of US ideology, Israeli strategy and Hizbollah resilience means one thing: a long war, says Paul Rogers
Weekly Standard Against the Wall
Israel's Bid to Reestablish Deterrence Is Failing by Ehsan Ahrari CRS "Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses" (pdf), updated July 31, 2006. "Lebanon" (pdf), updated July 24, 2006. Washington Times No Pakistan nukes buildup, envoy says
| H8 BBC US echoes Iraq civil war warning Iraq could move toward civil war, says top US General John Abizaid hours after a similar UK warning.
Private pessimism Russia warns Iran over deadline Russia tells Iran it should pay heed to a UN resolution demanding it suspend nuclear activities.
Israel renews barrage of Beirut Israeli jets renew strikes on Beirut despite a Hezbollah threat to bomb Tel Aviv in retaliation.
KR Iraqis already believe they're living through a civil war
PBS Top U.S. Military Commanders Warn of Civil War in Iraq
Rumsfeld Warns Against 'Early' Iraq Troop Pullout
US to Train, Equip Lebanon Army, GIs Likely Headed to Beirut
Engaging Syria helps prevent wider conflict Gulf News
Washington Times Headaches for Hezbollah Rice Signals Possible Lebanon Compromise Patrick Seale Israel and US are losing the war Lebanon: How Can a Ceasefire be Shaped? : Amir Taheri
Asia Times A strike into Hezbollah's heart Just hours after the Israeli commando raid in Baalbek, Asia Times Online was the first media outlet in the nearby town of Asaira, a scene of relentless attacks. Hezbollah leaders explained how earlier failures in the area had forced the Israelis into the daring move. And they warned that an escalation in fighting in the Hezbollah strategic heartland would cast a menacing shadow over Syria and Iran.
Intelligence Summit Re-thinking an Iran-Hizballah-al-Qa’ida Axis
OpenDemocracy “The Sixth War”: 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, and, apparently, 2006
A review of Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership With Saudi Arabia.
SyriaComment Lebanese Sovereignty: Will it be Restored? | H9 Ha’aretz – Schiff Stay out of the Lebanese quagmire The IDF must do everything possible to avoid the modus operandi it used during its protracted stay in Lebanon after the 1982 Lebanon War.
Hezbollah: If air strikes end, we'll stop rocket fire
PM, Peretz at odds over expanding ground assault
PM, Peretz at odds over expanding ground assault
Daniel Levy Ending the neoconservative nightmare
Marcus In fits and starts
Melman A smart, successful war
Islamic group: 200 militants sent to bomb 'Israel's vital interests'
KR Israel admits air war has failed to end the Hezbollah rocket threat
Jerusalem Post Analysis: Why the Katyushas are so hard to prevent Israel Readies Deeper Push Into Lebanon UPI Report: Hezbollah's Christian 'shields'
Asia Times A force to be reckoned with The problem with an international force in Lebanon, now mooted by Israel, is in the details, from who will make it up to how much "robustness" they should have. To resolve these issues, the UN is at the core. And for that to succeed, the US must be behind the solution, rather than behind Israel. - Ian Williams
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| H10 Christian Science Monitor Leaked memo: Civil war in Iraq most likely British ambassador also predicts country will break up along sectarian lines.
The uneven calculus of Mideast victory Hizbullah may 'win' this war, now in its fourth week, by merely surviving.
Why Europe, US differ on Mideast They disagree on using force and have different considerations at home.
Game point: Hizbullah wins sympathy
Israeli Defense Forces - all they can be?
Taliban hinder NATO 'ink-spot' strategy Insurgent attacks are already taxing the force designed to form the first 'secure zones.'
Ukraine's Orange Revolution undone? Its president made a deal to share power with the pro-Russian leader ousted in 2004's popular revolt.
| H11 IHT The case for a global currency What we need is a global currency.
For Israel, innocent civilians are fair game
Don't give up on Ukraine Politics in Ukraine can be bare-knuckled, ugly and corrupt, but it also involves real debate over how to advance Ukraine's development.
ECB lifts rates and warns it's not done
Axis News Balkans under the Threat of a Fragmentation Bomb Called Kosovo Kosovo Compromise Still Possible
| H12 RFE/RL Report Assesses Democratic Progress A Freedom House report cites signs of improvement in some countries, but warns that progress is ominously slow.
BBC Ukraine head accepts rival as PM Ukrainian President Yushchenko backs his arch-rival for PM, in a deal to end months of deadlock. Ukraine comeback kid's new deal
Over a barrel
UPI Outside View: Ukraine, revenge of the East
EurasiaNet Afghanistan's Energy Future and Its Potential Implications BY STEPHEN BLANK
EDM CONSTANTA-TRIESTE PIPELINE PROPOSAL FOR KAZAKHSTAN’S OIL |
| H13 The Times Iraq civil war 'is getting closer'Two of the most senior Pentagon officers and the outgoing British Ambassador to Baghdad painted a bleak picture of a country falling into sectarian strife
Running the gauntlet in a land of militias, insurgents, soldiers, gangs - and death at every turn
Bombing is backed by most American voters
Americans reveal their Puritan roots whether it's in business, sex or war Never have the conflicts of America’s warring soul been more evident than today
How the Orange revolution lost its juiceUkranians might well wonder why they bothered. The 2004 Orange Revolution has turned a muddy, burnt orange shade
WSJ U.N. Peacekeepers in Lebanon? Be careful what you wish for. By JONATHAN D. TEPPERMAN | H14 Financial Times COMMENT: The neglected roots of conflict are buried in combustible land America, the only power with the influence to end the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate, has regressively declined to do so, writes David Gardner.
US policy in the Middle East unravels
US generals echo diplomat's warning of civil war in Iraq
Senate threat to revisit authority for war in Iraq
COMMENT: Why voters are holding Congress in deep contempt Instead of pronouncing on key issues facing America, this Congress has agreed to disagree on the vital issues confronting the US and has achieved virtually nothing, writes Edward Luce.
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Brussels outfoxed as Europe's tax havens stay one step ahead
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: A simple escape route from the gridlock of Basel IICongressional worries and uncertainty as to the agreement’s effects have confounded efforts to apply the new rules to US banks, writes Daniel Tarullo, Professor of Law at Georgetown University.
Yanukovich returns to power in Ukraine
Editorial Old enemies team up in Ukraine
| H15 Los Angeles Times Generals: Civil War Looms in Iraq Top two U.S. military officials in Mideast tell Senate sectarian violence is rising
Max Boot: Messed Up Are the Peacemakers Nowhere is the dismal record of peace processes clearer than in Israel's case.
Majority Disapproves of Bush's Green Policies 56 percent say the White House is doing too little for the environment, but most agree that alternative energy is needed.
Editorial Fiddling While Iran Arms Russia and China delay meaningful U.N. pressure on Tehran.
Most Back Israel, Split on U.S. Role
Both Sides in Battle for Hearts and Minds
Talabani Predicts Transfer of Security Duties by Year's End
Jonah Goldberg: Welfare Queens on Tractors When big farm owners get paid to sit, the world's impoverished suffer.
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| H16 WP The End Of the Right? By E. J. Dionne Jr., Page A17 Is conservatism finished? What might have seemed an absurd question less than two years ago is now one of the most important issues in American politics.
NYT PAUL KRUGMAN Centrism Is for Suckers We’re living in an age of one-letter politics, in which a politician’s partisan affiliation is almost always far more important than his or her personal beliefs.
New Republic The fine art of Bush-bashing In the salad days of post-September 11 GOP dominance, Republican congressmen were happy to stand with the president. Now, they're hiding from him.
UPI Analysis: Hezbollah threat at the border?
'American Century'Lives On
A Doha Failure and the US Farm Bill Stratfor
Foreign Policy Seven Questions: After Fidel
realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec - Blogometer | H17 Daily Telegraph Israel would be safer in a nuclear-free Middle East
Tony Blair admits split over Lebanon The PM is increasingly isolated over handling of the Middle East crisis.
| H18 Independent Blair admits to cabinet splits over his support for Bush on Israel
British ambassador says civil war in Iraq 'likely' New Stetasman Blood on his hands Blair knew the attack on Lebanon was coming but he didn't try to stop it, because he didn't want to. He has made this country an accomplice, destroying what remained of our influence abroad while putting us all at greater risk of attack. By John Kampfner [read article - free to view] The Spectator Hezbollah cells await Iran’s orders Hezbollah sleeper cells in Western Europe are awaiting instructions from Tehran, says Melanie Phillips. Sunni and Shia are uniting in their hatred of the West, and Britain may soon be another front in a war that extends far beyond Lebanon ...
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| H19 Analysis: DOD in cash crunch Congressional Research Service "Military Tribunals: Historical Patterns and Lessons" (pdf), July 9, 2004. "European Approaches to Homeland Security and Counterterrorism" (pdf), July 24, 2006. "China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues" (pdf), updated July 17, 2006.
| H20 Slate the undercover economist Hezbollah and the Prisoner's Dilemma: Can game theory solve the Israel-Lebanon war?
Heritage Foundation The Death of Neutrality: U.S. and European Convergence in Fighting the War on Terrorism by James Jay Carafano
"Banning Fissile Material Production for Nuclear Weapons: Prospects for a Treaty (FMCT)" (pdf), July 14, 2006. "North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States" (pdf), updated July 6, 2006. | H21 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, one of the greatest singers of the 20th century, has died at her home in Austria, age 90... Guardian ... BBC ... London Times ... NYT ... Bloomberg
Comedy's martyr
Browse Inside HarperCollins Books
Google/AP Deal Will Spawn New Product Weekly Standard World Trade Center Oliver Stone's 9/11 movie is filled with . . . religious symbolism. |
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