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| H1 The EconomistStrategy in Iraq Coming to the end of options
Asia Times 'Stability First': Newspeak for rape of Iraq It's not the first time Baghdad has been sacked. Genghis Khan's grandson did it, and so did Tamerlan. In the good old days, they built pyramids of skulls. This time around, they coin nice names, like "Stability First" and "Redeploy and Contain". "Staying the Course" is out of favor, but no matter, they all amount to the same thing: rape. - Pepe Escobar
Prospect The world after Bush Michael Lind The long 1990s are finally over, their utopian hopes beyond realisation. The neoconservative fantasy of US global hegemony is discredited, and the neoliberal dream of a UN-led world is also doomed
Weekly Standard Conclusion First, Debate Afterwards
Foreign Affairs, November /December 2006
OpenDemocracy After failure in Iraq by Paul Rogers The United States is considering two military options in Iraq: keep going, or fortify around key military bases. What will happen if neither works?
Plan to partition Iraq may rise after midterms Scripps News
New York Times Democrats Are Divided on a Solution for Iraq
NYT Editorial Real Timetables for Iraq We hope it’s clear to President Bush that Americans have already lost patience with his bumbling conduct of the war, and the remaining grace period can be measured in months, not years
CSIS Book Launch: Annihilation from Within Francis Fukuyama, David Ignatius, and Richard Perle participated in a panel discussion to launch Annihilation from Within, a new book from Fred Ikle, a distinguished scholar at CSIS. More
Financial Times COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Bored by 'results', Europe regains its taste for grand plans
WORLD NEWS: Russia rejects proposed sanctions on Iran
Der Spiegel I, GERHARD A Cheat Sheet to Schröder's Memoirs
Wilson Center Joschka Fischer, "The Future of The Transatlantic Community - Is The "West" Still a Viable Concept?" RealVideo: 56K 300K WM Video: 56K 300K
Prospect Breeding for God Eric Kaufmann In Europe, the fertility advantage of the religious over non-believers has historically been counterbalanced by the march of secularisation. Not any more. Secularisation in Europe is now in decline, and Islam continues to grow. Europe will start to adopt a more American model of modernity.
McClatchy Plan to divide Iraq into autonomous regions loses appeal
CRS "Iran's Influence in Iraq," updated September 29, 2006.
· Slate Baby-Sitting Baghdad:Bush pleads and pressures the Iraqi government.
The Times Big ambitions may shrink to Operation Cross Fingers Once they were bringing democracy to the Middle East, now the US is scrabbling to find a way to get its troops out of a bloody quagmire
Gerard Baker The remarkable creative strength of America will ensure that its present travails are soon left far behind
| H2 MEMRI Oct 25 IA# 298 - Kurdistan – The Quest for Statehood By Nimrod Raphaeli
The Kurdish Quest for Autonomy and Iraq’s Statehood Journal of Asian and African Studies (pdf)
Guardian Kirkuk: a city at boiling point Michael Howard on rising violence in the oil-rich, multi-ethnic city.
Der Spiegel Tayyip Erdogan wants to run for president in a changing, secular country caught between eastern and western traditions -- and his headscarved wife may be an image problem.
Washington Institute Iraqi Foreign Minister Asks for Turkish ‘Understanding’ on PKK Camp Local authorities will not take action against a PKK-controlled refugee camp in northern Iraq, that country’s foreign minister told the press, ruling out opening a front against the terrorist group for the foreseeable future.
Ha’aretz Istanbul on the Hudson By Almog Behar
Turkish Tiger By Matthew Kaminski Wall Street Journal, 10/21/2006 Turkey's democracy stands out in the Islamic world as a thriving Muslim market economy with a large, independent private sector and a shrinking state. Kaminski says if we are to change the Middle East, market reform should not take a backseat to party building or free elections, and Turkey should be used as an example. Economic pluralism has entrenched political pluralism and freedoms in Turkey in ways that will be hard to displace, he says, and its economy remains strong despite its problems.
Turkey's post-modern identity crisis
PostGlobal Pamuk Wins, Turkey Loses by Soli Özel
Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati
ToVima ''Kürtlerin 'Far West'i''
PBS – Peter Galbraith Plan Floated to Divide Iraq Along Ethnic Lines Kurdish Aspect
Dividing Iraq and Creating a Kurdish State By Ardalan Hardi
The accepted genocide of Kurds in Turkey Kurdish Aspect
Kurdistan prepares oil policy
Partitioning Iraq into three countries is the most viable plan
Iraq''s Kurdistan Regional Government drafts its own oil policy
Kurdistan Oil Troubles Surface: Mohammed Salih
Barzani Bans Photos of Headscarf
From Le Figaro, the world enters the dangerous era of American impotence. The dollar is still the world's reserve currency, even though it hasn't deserved this status for a long time. The devaluation of the dollar can't be stopped -- it can only be deferred. The result could be a world economic crisis.
An interview with Vali Nasr on the conflict between Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq and Tehran's rise as a regional power
| H3 • 'PKK'ya karşı garantili adım atılmalı' ABD Dışişleri Bakanı Condoleezza Rice'ın danışmanı ve Irak Koordinatörü Büyükelçisi David Satterfield, ''PKK konusundaki ilerlemeden tatmin olmuş değiliz. PKK'nın şiddet eylemlerine dönmemesini garanti edecek daha fazla adım atılması gerekiyor'' dedi.
Edelman: K.Irak'a ABD askeri gitmeyecek Son
Edelman ABD Irak'ın üçe bölünmesinden yana değil
Civilian-military fight costs $3 bln
ABD’li komutan Başbuğ’la görüşecek
Cengiz Çandar Tüm yazıları Amerikan askerleri Kuzey Irak'ta konuşlanırsa...
The TSK and the new era - I -
Are the Turks reading the Kurds and Iraq correctly? Cengiz Candar
OYA BAYDAR: 'Derin Devlet' ikiye ayrıldı
Mehmet Metiner Başer Paşa ile bu iş olmaz!
Yalçın Doğan Kürtler kendilerini sorguluyor
Turkey's 'Iraq headache' grows
Erkan Mumcu: Hükümet kurulacak bir Kürd devleti için ABD’yle anlaştı
Faik Bulut Towards a civil war in Iraq
'Bölünme'nin biçimleri
The EU and the three phony arguments on civil-military relations in Turkey (I)
Are the Turks reading the Kurds and Iraq correctly? - New Anatolian
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NATO Urges Nations to Lift Caveats on Forces in Afghanistan |
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| H4 New York Times Democrats Are Divided on a Solution for Iraq
NYT Editorial Real Timetables for Iraq We hope it’s clear to President Bush that Americans have already lost patience with his bumbling conduct of the war, and the remaining grace period can be measured in months, not years
Dissent Grows Over Silent Treatment for ‘Axis of Evil’ Nations
42 Iraqis Die as Insurgents Attack Police Near Baquba
PAUL KRUGMAN The Arithmetic of Failure It’s hard to believe that the world’s only superpower is on the verge of losing not just one but two wars.
Read NYT columnists free from The Unknown Candidate
China’s Corruption Inquiry Targets Beijing
In ’97, U.S. Panel Predicted a North Korea Collapse in 5 Years
| H5 Washington Post U.S. Deaths in Iraq Near Peak Unrelenting attacks in Baghdad and Anbar have made October one of the war's deadliest months.
Editorial Lebanon's AftermathThe border with Israel is quiet, but tension everywhere else is growing
The Paradox Behind the Paralysis on Security By David Ignatius, Although everyone benefits from the collective good, it's irrational for any individual to make voluntary sacrifices to achieve it; it's necessary to compel behavior that is in everyone's interest.
By Graham Allison, Page A23 America must credibly convince Kim that he will be held accountable for every nuclear weapon that originates in North Korea.
By Charles Krauthammer, Page A23 Barack Obama should run in '08. He will lose in '08. And the loss will put him irrevocably on a path to the presidency.
Intelligence Chairman Urges Leak Inquiry
Rumsfeld Tells Iraq Critics to 'Back Off'
William Arkin America Spends To Keep the Military Away | H6 Guardian Yes, no, maybe ... David Corn Bush says the US is succeeding in Iraq, but that conditions there have gotten worse. This is what an election can do to a politician: make him talk nonsense.
Poland needs a third way Anthony Giddens: Poland is a nation with a crisis of identity and direction, where a stable democratic system is proving more difficult to establish than seemed the case a few years ago.
Livni steps into the spotlight Nick Johnstone Oct 26 06, 04:00pm: Israel's neighbours are increasingly viewing the country's foreign minister as the real power source in the Israeli government.
Jeremy Seabrook We can now see how global capitalism is the terrible by-product of a competitive struggle which ceased to matter some 15 years ago.
Monica Macovei In post-communist Romania, the government is making real progress towards transparency and openness.
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| H7 The EconomistStrategy in Iraq Coming to the end of options
Iraq Cut and run? America's voters are entitled to punish George Bush. They should not punish the people of Iraq
Weekly Standard Conclusion First, Debate Afterwards
OpenDemocracy Saving Iraq from partition Peter W Galbraith leads a chorus of US voices calling for Iraq’s break-up. He’s wrong, says Zaid Al-Ali
PINR "China's Policy in the Gulf Region: From Neglect to Necessity"
Amir Taheri Saving Ahmadinejad
AEI Event Video The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: Is Iran Next?
From Foreign Affairs, Stephen Schlesinger reviews The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American Power by James Traub
The Realists Rally Inter Press Service
BBC UN initiates arms trade agreement A UN committee votes to begin work on a new treaty to regulate the international arms trade.
OPEC set to defend $60 global minimum...
OIL COMPANIES' BONANZA GOES ON...
The Economist Africa and China Wrong model, right continent
Weekly Standard Japan's Quiet Revolution The North Korean nuclear test is sparking fundamental changes in Japanese defense policy.
PINR "The Risks Involved in Egypt's Quest for Nuclear Power" Full text of report
The Enduring Allure of China
Brad De Long Oil is Rather Expensive
Ehsan Ahrari Nuclear Security Umbrella Option Redux
| H8 McClatchy Plan to divide Iraq into autonomous regions loses appeal
Maliki distances himself from American strategies in Iraq
An interview with Vali Nasr on the conflict between Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq and Tehran's rise as a regional power
CRS "Iran's Influence in Iraq," updated September 29, 2006.
Iraq's defiant but doomed democracy
US Adjusts Tactics, Maintains Basic Goal in Iraq, Rice Says
BBC Russia queries EU draft on Iran Moscow says a draft UN Security Council resolution on Iran seems not to match positions agreed earlier.
Reporting Iran Next in line Hans Blix: Iraq 'pure failure'; country better off under Saddam...
Don't Withdraw, It's Time to Take Out Sadr - Dennis Byrne
Iraqi leader slams United States
Heritage Foundation Denying Terrorists Safe Haven in Pakistan by Lisa Curtis
Daily Star Saudi local councils struggle to produce results By Jafar Al-Shayeb
Weighing the options for exiting Iraq
Egypt: a leap toward reform - or preparation for succession? By Joshua A. Stacher
Juan Cole Wednesday's dramatic events in Iraq began with a US military raid into Sadr City, the vast Shiite slum full of followers of nationalist young cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
| H9 Ha’aretz - Print Edition
Benn and Rosner What's next on the agenda?
Sarid In praise of the Lebanon war
The vital role of Italy in Lebanon
A lethal combination Democracy is capable of overcoming all hardships: wars, economic crises, unemployment and distress. But there is one obstacle that it will not overcome for long: the loss of its citizens' confidence
Syria concerned by IDF military exercises in Golan Heights
Sources: Peretz doesn't intend to uproot W. Bank outposts
Jerusalem Post – Solana 'Hamas doesn't want to destroy Israel'
Global Agenda: Go with the grain
BBC In profile
The Economist Israel A lion joins the lambs
Daily Star A deadly scandal continues in Gaza
Hamas is being punished for moderate behavior By khalid Hroub
HOT HOT BREAKING NEWS: AIPAC INQUIRY WIDENS
What does John McCain really think about Israel? John Judis investigates.
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| H10 Christian Science Monitor Cheney confirms US
For now, modest sanctions eyed for Iran UN resolution not expected to proceed as decisively as it did for North Korea.
Trouble sealing
Serbia's constitution draft less democratic Serbians may vote to give even more power to the central government in a referendum this weekend.
The language of war gets a makeover By Daniel Schorr The Bush administration has developed a special lexicon to cloak a dire situation
AEI Japan's Quiet Revolution
From Open Democracy, what is this newfound relationship between economics and peace? And why has Muhammad Yunus, along with the Grameen Bank he founded, been awarded this prize?
| H11 IHT Danish Muslims lose lawsuit against newspaper
Prospect Breeding for God Eric Kaufmann In Europe, the fertility advantage of the religious over non-believers has historically been counterbalanced by the march of secularisation. Not any more. Secularisation in Europe is now in decline, and Islam continues to grow. Europe will start to adopt a more American model of modernity.
Asia Times Chirac's strategic visit to Beijing
The Economist Charlemagne Europe, Russia and in-between A survey of FranceThe art of the impossible Germany: land of emigration Auf wiedersehen, Fatherland
New Republic On Darfur, the United States is bad; but Europe is worse
PINR "Intelligence Brief: Bulgaria's Elections and its E.U. Accession"
UPI Analysis: Germany's new security strategy
Will France ever integrate its Muslim immigrants? A review of Integrating Islam.
Heritage Foundation The North European Gas Pipeline Threatens Europe’s Energy Security by Ariel Cohen
EU Core Groups: Specialisation and Division of Labour in EU Foreign Policy - Stephan Keukeleire - CEPS Working Documents
OpenDemocracy ETA splits Europe too Europe's vote for talks with the Basque terror group is bad news for Spain's government, says Ivan Briscoe on Madrid11 | H12 RFE/RL Energy Forum: Expert Says Current US Approach To Iran 'Not Fruitful. Country Divided On EU Membership Kyiv has reignited the controversy over its potential membership aspirations of the bloc ahead of an EU-Ukraine summit. Kosovo: A Precedent For Frozen Conflicts?
Azerbaijani Activists Condemn Ruling On Foreign Broadcasters
Interview with Russian FM Sergey Lavrov Asharq Alawsat
The Economist Russian politics Wishing on a tsar
A Tough Act to Follow In the Moscow Times, Nixon Center Executive Director Paul J. Saunders examines Russia's use of its energy policy in the international arena and suggests that it take a closer look at how China has used its economic strength and foreign policy to increase its stature.
Central Asia - The Shiite extremists in action By eurasiarc
EDM RUSSIAN GENERALS LOSING HOPE FOR MILITARY VICTORY IN CHECHNYA
UPI Outside View: Russia's space challenge-2
Analysis: Russia powerful with energy
An interview with former Putin advisor Andrei Illarionov on how basic human rights are denied in Russia. | |||
| H13 The Times Big ambitions may shrink to Operation Cross Fingers Once they were bringing democracy to the Middle East, now the US is scrabbling to find a way to get its troops out of a bloody quagmire
From behind his fence, Bush builds a 700-mile one
Gerard Baker The remarkable creative strength of America will ensure that its present travails are soon left far behind
Leader Prodi's prevarications Italy is once again being held hostage by the hard men of the Left
WSJ Maliki and the GI
Bush Talks About 'The Next Attack on America' When the race gets tight, the leaders call in the Scribes.
Remember Kosovo | H14 Financial Times COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Bored by 'results', Europe regains its taste for grand plans
WORLD NEWS: Russia rejects proposed sanctions on Iran
Editorial Putin's continuing role It is scarcely surprising that a president as popular at home as Vladimir Putin should want to remain politically active after his second term in the Kremlin ends in...
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA: US trade pact with Jordan under a cloud
WORLD NEWS: Far-right party leader joins Israel's coalition
Global push to cut greenhouse emissions The drive to tackle climate change gathered pace as Morgan Stanley, the investment bank, announced a $3bn plan to invest in the carbon trading market amid mounting evidence that some US states are growing more sympathetic to international action.
A scheme is being mooted for a two-year burst of political activity intended to revitalise the European Union, writes George Parker.
Cheney endorses simulated drowning
Brown in new push for world trade deal
Nato denies Afghanistan push in disarray Alliance accused of killing dozens of civilians
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Why redefining the budget deficit will not work
ASIA-PACIFIC: China defends its stance on Africa as summit nears COMMENT: New global realities demand a new kindof unionism Unionists can do better, too. While we proclaim our commitment to changing the world, we sometimes have trouble changing ourselves, writes Guy Ryder of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, and Willy Thys of the World Confederation of Labour. A labour market famed for its rigidity is being transformed as workers on fixed-term contracts play an ever greater role. But flexibility may carry a cost. COMMENT: Britain is moving towards higher tax with no debate by Martin Wolf COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: The audacity of the Democratic hopefulSenator Barack Obama has overthrown conventional wisdom about the outcome of the 2008 campaign, writes Jacob Weisberg. | H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial | |||
| H16 The Economist The American economy Slow road ahead
Guardian Keeping it in the family Quin Hillyer The US political system may be a meritocracy, but a surprising number of candidates win public office solely because of their ancestry. A look at how America's middle class has become globalization's loser.
Is liberalism synonymous with secularism? A TNR debate, Day 4
realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec - Blogometer
Obama Can Win by Losing - Charles Krauthammer
McClatchyPoll shows Democrats leading competitive House races
| H17 Daily Telegraph Leader Afghan setback Isaf's [International Security Assistance Force] front line against a resurgent Taliban is being held by too few troops from too few countries. That paucity makes tragedies such as this week's civilian deaths more likely. Thus, previous advances are annulled in a trice.
| H18 Independent Martyrs of the webAmnesty launches a campaign to free the bloggers jailed for telling the truth about repressive regimes
Climate change: Economist's warning to Blair's CabinetThe stark findings of Nicholas Stern's report yesterday increased the pressure on the PM to act
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| H19 U.S. Army Field Manual FM 6-22, "Army Leadership: Competent, Confident, and Agile," October 12, 2006 (4.4 MB PDF).
CFR Pentagon: Stalled Transformation
Modern Ground Combat Force Structure
Cato October 19, 2006: The U.S. Isn't Good at Winning or Supporting Irregular Warfare, by Jeffrey Record
"Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Iraq and Afghanistan: Effects and Countermeasures," updated September 25, 2006.
"Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Basic Doctrine," Publication 1-0, September 2006 (6.2 MB PDF).
The U.S. Air Force watches the skies by means of the Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) system. An introduction to GEODSS, its structure, history and contributions, was prepared by Allen Thomson in A GEODSS Sourcebook (4.2 MB PDF).
Earlier this month, China issued a white paper on "China's Space Activities in 2006" (pdf). | · H20 Slate Baby-Sitting Baghdad:Bush pleads and pressures the Iraqi government.
· Obama's New Rules:
In the past 10 days, he has turned American politics upside down.
National Security Archive North Korea's Collapse?
The Economist America and China Grand vision and petty deceit when Nixon met Mao
BBC Top gear From Foreign Policy, an interview with Theresa Hitchens on the Bush administration’s new space policy. | H21 TOME RAIDER: Micromotives and Macrobehavior
Amazon to Google: Competitors Don't Share Trade Secrets. Duh.
Friends and politics Friendship is an investment, we are reticent about acknowledging an investment gone sour.
From the latest issue of International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Jean Baudrillard on Utopia Achieved: "How Can Anyone Be European?"; and a review of Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity.
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