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H1 Former Sec'y of State Kissinger on Dangers of Premature U.S. Withdrawal From Iraq

Chas Freeman: Why Not Let Them Hate Us, as long as They Fear Us?

CSIS U.S. PolIcy Optıons ın Iraq: A PrIMer A number of options for U.S. policy in Iraq have been articulated publicly by prominent politicians or analysts. To help inform the debate surrounding those options, CSIS has compiled brief descriptions of several of the most prominent ones. READ MORE

Los Angeles Times Resistance to deadlines for Iraq is weakening More U.S. military officers are questioning the idea that a firm date for troop reductions would undermine efforts to create a stable state.

Time to cut and run By William E. OdomThe U.S. can win only if it does what it refuses to, says a retired lieutenant general.

Salon Would dividing Iraq decrease ethnic infighting or lead to more fighting and inflame the Middle East? Juan Cole wants to know.

LA Times Globalization anxiety By Lawrence H. SummersThe world is richer than ever before, but the vast middle class isn't getting many of the benefits.

Niall Ferguson: 1958 and today's GOP Niall Ferguson

Voters booted Republicans from Congress during Eisenhower's second term. Could we see a repeat this year?

Education at a Glance OECD
The 61-page executive summary of the indicators of the performance of educational systems of OECD countries

DEBKAfile reports: Unusually heavy Western naval activity spans the Arabian Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. Iran forces on high alert

James Petras: Texas versus Tel Aviv Palestine Chronicle

Christian Science Monitor A radical idea: How Muslims can be European, too Activist Tariq Ramadan encourages loyalty both to their faith and to the secular societies in which they live.

What would Dems do about Iraq? Even if Democrats take both Houses of Congress, big change is unlikely.

Sunday Times One divided by three is the only Iraq solution by Peter Galbraith

Washington Post Supporting Democracy -- Or Not By Anne Applebaum, America has long been in favor of democratic change yet wedded to status quo stability -- much to the confusion of everyone else.

U.S. Fears Iraqi Police Infiltration In Baghdad, a Force Under the Militias' Sway Seventy percent of Iraqi police are militia members, according to military police trainers, who say they can't trust the men they train - Infiltration of Iraqi Police Could Delay Handover of Control for Years, U.S. Trainers Suggest

The Indecent Haste to Exit Iraq - Christopher Hitchens, Slate

Iraq: The Long-Term View - Ian Bremmer, RealClearPolitics

Why We Should Welcome a Democrat Win - Anatole Kaletsky, The Times

The New Republic John Lewis Gaddis: The Gardener

Al Hayat A Shiite Question?! Hazem Saghieh - History and historical unevenness played, and are playing, their role in the formation of the Shiites. But the political and economic regimes in the region could not deny what they had done when they reinforced historical unevenness instead of trying to overcome it, and when they invested in fragmentation more than they did in unity and convergence on the basis of citizenship. The alleged common characteristics, with the love of martyrdom at the top, are closer to pure myth.

Analysis: International Economic Trends: Freedom, Trade, and Growth

Remaking Alliances for the War on Terrorism Brookings Institution A 45-page US essay addressing US alliance dilemmas and the war on terrorism

Financial Times COMMENT: No more excuses on climate change

The cost of acting early to mitigate climate change will be significantly lower than that of trying to cope with the consequences of inaction, writes Philip Stephens.

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: How conflict in Iraq has put a special relationship under strainSuez shifted British foreign policy. Iraq is likely to cause a similar reassessment, writes Gideon Rachman

Editorial Stern review offers counsel of hope The science on global warming is now incontrovertible: the climate is changing, man is helping to make that happen, and the damage could be irreversible

H2 FT Report puts Turkey’s EU hopes in jeopardy Turkey’s bid for European Union membership will be dealt a fresh blow when an official report will slate Ankara for failing to make enough progress on freedom of expression and curbing the use of torture.

EUROPE: Risky decision over accession talks could turn sour

Islam challenges secularism in Turkey's east

IHT Rumsfeld hosts Turkish defense secretary for wide-ranging talks

PKK fight to dominate Gonul's Washington talks

Ethnic-Conflicts Expert Argues For Self-Rule Among Iraq Regions
Wall Street Journal

Another Declaration of Independence?
FrontPage

Washington Times Geopolitical realities in Ankara By Tulin Daloglu Don't push Turks past secularism toward radicalism

New Republic Historical Crimes
by Philip H. Gordon & Omer Taspinar
Why France shouldn't legislate Turkey's history

Asia Times – Spengler - The fallen bridge over the Bosporus

Daily Star Talking turkey about Armenian history
By Christopher Atamian

French genocide bill complicates Turkey's EU bid By Scott Peterson

Armenian Law Designed to Keep Turkey Out of the EU Arab News

Guardian This was genocide, but Armenians were not its only victims

Der Spiegel Iraq Worried about Turkish Dam

EurasiaNet Moscow Summit Could Highlight Competition Over Black Sea

Gazprom to Cross Turkey
Kommersant

Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati

Chirac to meet Iraqi President Talabani

Kirkuk and its dependencies: Historically part of Kurdistan - I By Mufid Abdulla

PUK Reformist: Must not cringe from this local election

Nedir Türkmeneli`nin nüfus hikayesi?

KDP opposes third Turkmen member on Kirkuk council

Iraq''s Kurdistan Regional Government drafts its own oil policy ...
Iraq Development Program

The Other Iraq: Kurds Use Tourism as Public Diplomacy Tool

Kurdistan 2006 Kurdistan new coins:

Arapların örneği Türkiye

Türkiye, ABD'den 100 tane F-35 alıyor

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Morgan Stanley Global: The Fallacy of Global Decoupling

UPI Outside View: Iraq partition -- how bad? John M. Owen

Washington Times Iraq's fifth column (Arnaud de Borchgrave)

In becoming democratised, political Islam is changing from within – and posing a new challenge to the west, argues Olivier Roy

Independent The day that changed the climate Climate change has been made the world's biggest priority, with the publication of a stark report showing that the planet faces catastrophe unless urgent measures are taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Hurşit GÜNEŞ 2007 bütçesi talebi frenler mi?

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Ne kadar seçim ekonomisi o kadar risk ve faiz artışı mı?

Borsanın ne kadarı yabancı?
Yiğit Bulut

Metin MÜNİR Neden satıyorlar da almıyorlar?

Bu akılları AB'ye kim veriyor?
Mahfi Eğilmez

Asaf Savaş Akat Kamu borcu

H3 ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ Evladına söyle dağdan insin 'Durup dururken de operasyon yaparız'

Hasan Celal Güzel - İrtica, konuşkan paşa ve AB raporu

M. Ali BİRAND Son iki haftanın perde arkası...

Cengiz Aktar AB’ye katılım yılı artık şart

Avrupa Birliği nereye doğru? ÖZDEM SANBERK

Cüneyt Ülsever Cumhurbaşkanlığı seçimi ve Ortadoğu

[Yorum - Mümtaz'er Türköne] Ya PKK siyasallaşırsa!

100 tane F-35 alınıyor

Dağdakilerin aileleriyle görüşüyoruz C

Ahmet Taşgetiren Ağar - Baykal - asker - devlet

Hüsnü Mahalli 31.10.2006 Bayram çocukları!

Komutan şubatta ABD yolcusu

Ankara, Kıbrıs için AB'ye 'mekik diplomasisi' önerdi

• Rumsfeld: O harita bizi de üzdü Yeni

Rumsfeld harita krizi için gönül aldı

Ankara'da yeni tartışma: Ağar Türk'e parti kurma teklifi yaptı mı?

Ali Bayramoğlu Ağar’ın çıkışı, siyaset ve sessizlik

Şahin Alpay AB treninde aklın yolu

Cengiz Çandar Tüm yazıları Cumhuriyet’in 83. doğum günü ve çocuk gibi uyarılan toplumumuz...

MGK bugün toplanıyor

Kıbrıs için hareketli günler

PKK şimdi inerse problem olur, Haşim Söylemez

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL
Çok mu kötü niyetliyim!

Kretschmer'e göre reformları asker engelliyor

Mehmet Tezkan
Büyükanıt konuşmayarak çok şey anlattı

Finlandiya Kıbrıs sürecini hızlandırıyor

Büyükanıt Ben varken bedelli yok

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU
Haki renkli siyaset ve temsilcileri

Serdar Turgut Alışmış kudurmuştan beterdir

[Haber İzlenim] Avrupa, Kıbrıs'ı bizden çok tartışıyor; ama ortak görüş yok

DTP, ateşkes için MHP'den randevu istiyor

Ertuğrul Özkök Ne zamandan beri Kürt oldun

Mehmet Yılmaz Bazen konuşmaktan korkmak gerekir

ERDAL ŞAFAK 5 kavun 4 okka

Özdemir İnce Bu yazımı bütün politikacılar ve medya sorumluları çok dikkatli okusun!

Fikret BİLA Çankaya'dan siyaset dışı notlar

The Republic of Melancholy Cengiz Candar

Enis Berberoğlu Amerika’nın sesi yeniden yayında

Gündüz Aktan - Aklın sınırları

Terör tanımı geniş . Haberin Devamı>>>

TAHA KIVANÇ Hoş bir gece

İsmet Berkan - Avrupa telaşı başlıyor

Nuray Mert - Bir kıyafet balosu olarak Cumhuriyet

Murat Yetkin - Erdoğan'ın smokini ve diğer Çankaya izlenimleri

Turgut Tarhanlı - İfade özgürlüğü, eleştiri hakkı mıdır?

TC. Devletinde mi derinlik, derinliklerde mi TC. Devleti?

Ömer Lütfi Mete 'Ulus Devlet' ülküsüne yarı-resmi ihanet

Sami KOHEN Kala kala Kosova kaldı...

İlter Türkmen Afganistan ve Pakistan

Erdoğan resti çekti 'Kıbrıs için üstümüze düşeni yaptık. İzolasyonlar kalkmadan kimse bizden herhangi bir şey isteyemez'

Cyprus remains thorn in Turkey's EU quest Ilnur Cevik

Romania on the road to EU membership Cem Oguz

H4 New York Times Bombs Sweep Baghdad; Cleric Faults U.S. As the U.S. toll for October rose to 101, Shiites said that American security cordons are limiting their ability to defend themselves.

U.S. Envoy Arrives in Iraq as Tough Options Loom

Editorial The Untracked Guns of Iraq About the last thing the United States ought to be doing in Iraq is funneling weapons into black-market weapons bazaars.

Pakistan Says It Killed 80 Militants in Attack on Islamic School

Britain Warns of High Costs of Global Warming

Olmert Says Israel May Widen Military Role in Gaza

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Scandal Below the Surface The vandalism we’re committing to our planet because of our refusal to curb greenhouse gases should be one of the great political issues for this century.

JOHN TIERNEY The Immoral Majority Republicans are hoping that righteous voters will come through for them on Election Day. But this year looks like the revenge of the sinners.

H5 Washington Post Supporting Democracy -- Or Not By Anne Applebaum, America has long been in favor of democratic change yet wedded to status quo stability -- much to the confusion of everyone else.

U.S. Fears Iraqi Police Infiltration In Baghdad, a Force Under the Militias' Sway Seventy percent of Iraqi police are militia members, according to military police trainers, who say they can't trust the men they train - Infiltration of Iraqi Police Could Delay Handover of Control for Years, U.S. Trainers Suggest

Global Warming Will Devastate World Economy, Report Says

In Britain, All Parties Want to Color the Flag Green Response to Global Warming Report Reveals Consensus for Urgent Action Across Political Spectrum

A Setback in Anthrax Case

Officials stymied in five-year quest to bring charges against scientist with ties to al-Qaeda

Editorial Victory for Lula Brazil's president earns a second term, but will he make good use of it?

White House Toughens Rhetoric as Vote Nears Faced with potential GOP defeat in both chambers, Bush and Cheney try convincing voters that they cannot risk giving Democratic party any power.

Pakistan Strike Called Response To U.S. Reports

Attack on School That Killed 80 Aimed at Al-Qaeda, Officials Say

H6 Guardian Drastic action on climate change is needed now - and here's the plan George Monbiot: The government must go further, and much faster, in its response to the moral question of the 21st century.

Fears over Iraq's private armies
Mercenaries outnumber UK soldiers three to one, charity says.
US tries to mend fences

Serbia snubs UN with vote to keep Kosovo
Belgrade to declare Kosovo for ever part of Serbia, only a few months before the country is expected to lose the province

Leader Illusions in Belgrade It was always going to be hard to work out what to do with Kosovo. The latest news from Belgrade may make it harder.

What seemed a death rattle spawned a new form of protest and politics David Edgar: The events of 1956 are at last being reinterpreted. Hungary and Suez gave birth to the new left and a model of mass action.

Leader Stern warning
The overwhelming message of yesterday's much-leaked Stern review on the economics of climate change is that it is now time to move on from arguing about statistics to taking drastic action at an international level.

Mission distorted Douglas Murray: Wilful misinterpretation of neocon beliefs and actions will only bring more suffering to Iraq.

Emperor's new clothes The dilemmas closing in on Pakistan's unelected leader, General Pervez Musharraf, writes Simon Tisdall

Clinton looks beyond the Senate
Former first lady has rivals asking 'Can she be stopped in 2008?'.

H7 BBC Global warning
What climate change means for different parts of the world

Morgan Stanley Global: The Fallacy of Global Decoupling

UPI Outside View: Iraq partition -- how bad? John M. Owen

Washington Times Iraq's fifth column (Arnaud de Borchgrave)

In becoming democratised, political Islam is changing from within – and posing a new challenge to the west, argues Olivier Roy

A liberal manifesto for America

A statement of core liberal values opens a decade-long effort to renew US democracy, says its co-author Bruce Ackerman

Daily Star US military might is no substitute for coherent foreign policy

Becker-Posner Blog Microfinance and Third World Poverty and Development--Posner

Comment on Microfinance-BECKER

IRAQ & AMERICA'S '06 VOTE Amir Taheri, New York Post

New Republic The one part of Iraq where Americansfeel welcome
by Lawrence F. Kaplan

H8 Maliki: US Envoy Acts Like a Viceroy, Not an Ambassador

Bush national security adviser in Baghdad for talks

Dems on Iraq: Do This... or Do That?

BBC Inside Sadr City
The Baghdad slum is Mehdi Army militia's stronghold

US, ISRAEL OPERATE IN IRAN COVERT FORCES IN IRAN. TRAINING KURDISH REBELS

Saudi warns of mass ethnic cleansing if Iraq splits

Winds of change Iraq Report, 30 Oct/06

Sunni Moderate Leader: US Tactics Swelling al-Qaeda in Iraq

US: Iran Will 'Notice' Persian Gulf Naval Exercise Next Week

Congressional Research Service "Pakistan-U.S. Relations," updated October 26, 2006.

Pakistan school raid sparks anger
Protests erupt at a funeral for those killed in an air strike on a religious school the army says was used by militants

Asia Times Another deadly blow for Pakistan

Sanctions against Iran will be “ineffective�: Rowhani
Tehran Times

Claim: Saddam 'accepted' US ultimatum before invasion

LEAKED MEMO: Karen Hughes Thinks Small In Combating Iraq Insurgency --- Think Progress has obtained this internal memorandum sent from Hughes to National Security Council Principals earlier this month entitled “Thinking ‘bigger.’”

Iran: The Bushehr Exception

H9 Ha’aretz - Print Edition

U.S. arming and training PA guard against Hamas

U.S. fears Syria, Iran purposely violating Lebanon arms embargo

Arens Outwitting Ahmedinejad

Diplomatic arena's reaction to broadened coalition muted

Daily Alert.org

EJC Israeli Press Review

PM has final word on Iran
Jerusalem Post

Yedioth Ahronoth An avoidable war/ Eitan Haber

James Petras: Texas versus Tel Aviv
Palestine Chronicle

Daily Star Just how weak is Hamas after months of pressure? By Jarrett Blanc

BBC Far-right joins Israel coalition
The Israeli parliament approves the addition of an ultra-nationalist party to the governing coalition.

Conflict aftermath
Lebanon's new political battle lines following the war with Israel

Saudi envoy slams US role in Mideast Al-Faisal urges US to save standing by pressing Israel to give up land.

Der Spiegel ISRAEL VERSUS GERMANY Confrontation off Lebanon Leads to Questions

Washington Institute Countering Holocaust Denial in Arab and Muslim Societies: A New Approach

H10 Christian Science Monitor A radical idea: How Muslims can be European, too Activist Tariq Ramadan encourages loyalty both to their faith and to the secular societies in which they live.

What would Dems do about Iraq? Even if Democrats take both Houses of Congress, big change is unlikely.

German military 'normalcy'

British to evacuate Basra consulate staff

Move reportedly infuriates military who says it sends the wrong message to insurgents in Iraq.

H11 IHT Germans planning a Bosnia pullout

New constitution for Serbia

Pole wants Germans to drop claims

Inching Westward in the Maghreb STANLEY A. WEISS In a region where change comes slowly, the tentative reforms in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria may not be the most dramatic, but they may prove to be the most lasting.

CFR Cato Institute: Rise of Populist Parties in Central Europe

BBC Urban warfare
Why police are losing the battle for France's immigrant suburbs

Rare show of unity
Constitution vote marks an historic moment for Serbia

Analysis: German UNIFIL mission under fire

Der Spiegel The Bundeswehr's Excesses in Afghanistan

H12 RFE/RL Iran Would Respond 'Firmly' To Sanctions

Central, South Asian States Sign Energy Agreement

Eurasianet Azerbaijan: International Scrutiny of Farhad Aliyev Case Grows

Foreign Policy Georgia’s Dangerous Game

EDM PUTIN TAKES “LIFE-IS-GOOD” APPROACH WITH RUSSIAN PUBLIC

- HOW PUTIN MIGHT WIELD “INFLUENCE” AFTER 2008

- PUTIN OFFERS UKRAINE “PROTECTION” FOR EXTENDING RUSSIAN BLACK SEA FLEET’S PRESENCE

Outside View: Russia first to Mars?-1

Asia Times Russia rules the world's arms bazaar

H13 The Times Leader Stern warning The review on climate change marks a turning point

David Aaronovitch The Stern Review sounds so appropriately admonitory, given the energy habits of the Western world

No options, just rocks and hard places The attack by Pakistani army helicopters on a school shows that President Musharraf is running out of options to control his lawless western border

WSJ The Six-Year Itch
Democrats may take Congress, but will it matter in the long run?
By MICHAEL BARONE

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: No more excuses on climate change

The cost of acting early to mitigate climate change will be significantly lower than that of trying to cope with the consequences of inaction, writes Philip Stephens.

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: How conflict in Iraq has put a special relationship under strainSuez shifted British foreign policy. Iraq is likely to cause a similar reassessment, writes Gideon Rachman

Editorial Stern review offers counsel of hope The science on global warming is now incontrovertible: the climate is changing, man is helping to make that happen, and the damage could be irreversible

COMMENT: Baroque fantasiesof a most peculiar scienceThere is no other “science” in such a peculiar state as economics. A demonstrably false conceptual core is sustained by inertia alone, writes Philip Ball, consultant editor of Nature.

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: From shock therapy to consumer cure: Russia's middle class starts spending

Strong economic growth and rising wages have generated a retail boom that is attracting interest from oligarchs and foreign chains alike. But greater prosperity has so far brought little assertiveness in politics.

EUROPE: Parvanov win painted as pro-EU triumph

THE AMERICAS: Iraq death toll adds to poll pressure on Bush

Editorial No easy routes to faster innovation

US and Russia miss deadline on trade

Al-Jazeera backs new pan-Arab daily paper

H15 Los Angeles Times Resistance to deadlines for Iraq is weakening More U.S. military officers are questioning the idea that a firm date for troop reductions would undermine efforts to create a stable state.

Time to cut and run By William E. OdomThe U.S. can win only if it does what it refuses to, says a retired lieutenant general.

Globalization anxiety By Lawrence H. SummersThe world is richer than ever before, but the vast middle class isn't getting many of the benefits.

Niall Ferguson: 1958 and today's GOP Niall Ferguson

Voters booted Republicans from Congress during Eisenhower's second term. Could we see a repeat this year?

Editorial Backsliding in Afghanistan

Bit by bit, the U.S. is losing control in the country because of a resurgent Taliban, drought and inadequate aid.

FT COMMENT: Too many inquisitors and not enough GalileosInnovation is the engine of growth. But it is also much more than the product of measured spending on research and development.

Whatever happened to Ahmed Chalabi?

Germany aims for Bosnia troop pull-out next year

Intention to see only what one expects to see – is pervasive in politics, business and finance, writes John Kay

UK pushes for new climate change treaty Government report calls for rapid action

Berlin talks fail to ease Poland tensions

H16 NY Post backs Clinton’s Senate re-election

Billionaires for Bush are increasingly outnumbered by billionaires who hate Bush.

New Republic What's really wrong with the economy? Productivity is high, unemployment is low, but the gap between rich and poor is rising. Why? by Jonathan Chait

Weekly Standard In for a Scare?
The White House's economic good news may not be enough to mollify voters. by Irwin M. Stelzer

The List: Where They Stand in the Races That Matter

New Republic The God That Never Failed by Alan Wolfe
According to David Kuo, the president seduced, then betrayed, his evangelical supporters. So why do they still defend him?

Foreign Policy Issues Drive Candidates in 2006 Midterm Elections Washington File

CSM As election nears,
a flood of nastiness

Harsh attack ads flourish in tight US races as the Republicans' control of Congress hangs in the balance.

Scientists, American public disagree strongly on global warming

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

New Yorker Testing the Waters

Last week, David Remnick interviewed Senator Barack Obama at the American Magazine Conference, in Phoenix, Arizona. Read a transcript of their conversation, or listen to an audio recording.

Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann's "When Congress Checks Out" in Foreign Affairs:

H17 Daily Telegraph Leader

How Jesus endorsed Bush's invasion of Iraq: An excerpt from The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege by Damon Linker.

From the Carnegie Council, Vali Nasr on The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future

Niall Ferguson on The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West.

H18 Independent The day that changed the climate Climate change has been made the world's biggest priority, with the publication of a stark report showing that the planet faces catastrophe unless urgent measures are taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Brown seizes day to become minister for global warming

A global catastrophe of our own making

Michael McCarthy: Stern rips up the last excuse for doing nothing

Grim milestone for US troops

Blair risks humiliating defeat over Iraq inquiry Tony Blair faces the risk of a humiliating Commons defeat over his refusal to allow a wide-ranging inquiry into the crisis in Iraq.

Russia becomes largest arms seller to Third World Russia has overtaken the United States to become the developing world's arms dealer of choice.

H19 BBC Pentagon boosts 'media war' unit The Pentagon sets up a unit to counter "inaccurate" stories, with the focus on the internet and blogs.

US 'losing media war to al-Qaeda'

Brookings With the Grain or Against the Grain? Energy Security and Chinese Foreign Policy in the Hu Jintao Era

Why are America's counterterrorism officials channeling Tom Clancy?
by Marisa Katz

· H20 Slate

Rushing for the Exit:

If we leave Iraq, what happens to the supporters of democracy?

Christopher Hitchens

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The Midterm Elections:

Karl Rove: myth and man.

· How the Web Prevents Rape:

All that Internet porn reduces sex crimes. Really.

H21The works of art that matter most

Newspaper circulation plunges -- again... List...

Civic Emotions

Adam Gopnik talks about writing, parenthood, and his visit to Google.

France runs out of gourmet garlic

French publishers join Google booksearch lawsuit

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