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H1 IHT On negotiating with Tehran HENRY A. KISSINGER A purposeful and creative diplomacy toward Iran is crucial for building a more promising region.

Newsday Internal Dissention, External Events Create Woes for Baker Group

Washington Post The Politics of Murder By David Ignatius, A disease is eating away at the Middle East. It afflicts the Syrians, the Iraqis, the Lebanese, even the Israelis. It is the idea that the only political determinant in the Arab world is raw force -- the power of physical intimidation. It is politics as assassination.

McClatchy A bloody day in Baghdad raises fears of all-out civil war

Stratfor Iraq: The Timing of the War's Deadliest Attack

Comment: Jonathan Steele Only Iraqis can overcome this national catastrophe Iran and Syria want to be seen as a stabilising force in Iraq, in contrast to the failure of the US, but there is little they can do

OpenDemocracy Iraq: divide or die | Liam Anderson | Gareth Stansfield An ethno-sectarian solution is the only way to preserve Iraq as a coherent entity (repeat)

Iraq lives | Reidar Visser Partitionists ignore the voices of Iraqi patriotism

Al Awsat A Positive Political Climate in Washington is Met by a Negative Middle East Reality : Adel Darwish

Ha’aretz - Print Edition --- Will Israel join the nuclear club? The precedent that the United States has set in the matter of India could well bring about a change of direction in Israel's nuclear policy.

Analysis: How Lebanon can avoid a political crisis

Rosner The Israel Factor: Who's running now?

Jerusalem Post Let's say 'yes' to a cease-fire[ DAVID KIMCHE,

The Economist NATO's future Predictions of its death were premature

Guardian Raising the standard Tim Footman If Asia is to challenge US economic hegemony, it will have to succeed in a cultural marketplace where the idea of 'America' still rules.

Independent Robert Fisk: Dragons of Lebanon's past emerge for Gemayel funeral

Robert Skidelsky: A peace deal for the whole of the Middle East

Noam Chomsky The Current Crisis in the Middle East video)

Der Spiegel Atta's Army

What motivated the suicide attackers of September 11? How did their group function? Who pulled the strings? Police records, accounts from onetime associates and numerous documents shed light on the inner workings of the Hamburg-based al-Qaida cell.

American Interest Adam Garfinkle:The Madness of Jewcentricity Are Jews special, or do too many people just think they are? (repeat)

RFE/RL Russia Summit Tests Bloc's Unity Renewing its partnership accord with Russia is proving to be a severe test of unity for the European Union

American Interest Paul Dibb:

The Bear Is Back

Is Russia finished as a major power? Far from it.

The Economist World Trade Organisation The Georgian knot

Financial Times COMMENT: Democracy falls victim to the lure of foreign policy realism In murdering another of Lebanon’s politicians, the perpetrators, widely assumed to have Syria’s backing, were also attacking an idea. America’s idea, writes Philip Stephens.

COMMENT: The United Nations must find the freedom to actWe do not know much about Ban Ki-moon, the new secretary-general of the Un­ited Nations, but we know that the organisation is weak, divided, bureaucratic – and indispensable, writes Douglas Hurd, former UK foreign secretary.

Nato goals reduced as Afghan woes grow Nato’s difficulties in Afghanistan have forced the alliance to scale down its ambitions for a showpiece summit next week and raised questions about its ability to get to grips with the insurgency in the country.

Editorial Mending fences in Delhi and Beijing

Los Angeles Times Iraq strategy takes page from Vietnam playbook New tactics favored by U.S. commanders employ the lessons learned from another war: Maintain public support, and be patient.

Lebanon crisis reflects fading U.S. clout

WSJ The Bush Doctrine is Worth Saving Stomping Bush May Impose Steep Price Anti-Bush waves may back the U.S. into the parking lot of isolationism. By DANIEL HENNINGER

From NYRB, Mark Danner reviews State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III; The One Percent Doctrine; and State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration

Feeding the Crocodile We’re told it’s the Realists versus the Neo-Cons, and the Realists are winning

H2 İlnur Çevik Delaying referendum for Kirkuk is useless

Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati

Turkey Warns Kirkuk Referendum May Fuel More Turmoil in Iraq

Cengiz Çandar Increasingly self-confident Turkey of Istanbul versus Ankara-Brussels

Evren Değer Ceyhan's Mediterranean Shield

'Müzakerelerin askıya alınması tehlikeli olur'

Cyprus and Turkey dig in heels over EU offer

Kurdish Islamists in northern Iraq Onder Aytac & Emre Uslu

Ankara, PJAK/PKK ile mücadele konusunda Tahran'la işbirliği yapmaya karar verdi

Yusuf KANLI Difficult December

M.Ali BIRAND 'We'll get used to the headscarf in Çankaya'

Taha AKYOL Yaşadığımız dünyada Türkiye

Fin planında değişikliğe Atina'dan tepki

Fatih Birol Petrol Fiyatları Türkiye İçin Sorun Yaratır

Ümit ÖZDAĞ MHP ve Avrupa Birliği

Rum-Ermeni zirvesi

Avrupa'ya mesajlar

Erdoğan: Türkiye'nin AB üyeliği medeniyetler ittifakı için çok önemli. Doğan: Türk halkı AB'ye olan inancını yitiriyor. Sabancı: Avrupa Türkiye'siz yapamaz...

5 yıldız ülke var biri Türkiye

Mini Davos Türk ekonomisine T-BRIC'le başladı

Pamuk • Nobel konuşmasını Türkçe yapacağım

Turkey to the EU: Intimidation will not work Semih İdiz

ZEYNEL LÜLE AP'deki "KKTC alerji" grubu

Greek Bank to Buy Stake in Turkish Bank

Baykal’ın AKP’ye karşı seçim stratejisi

Gila Benmayor İstanbul’da genç Türkiye yaşlı Avrupa’ya karşı

MİT’ten milletvekillerine terör brifingi

MİT: Fehriye’nin yerini buluyoruz

Kıbrıs, AB'deki Türkiye karşıtlarının bahanesi
Martin Stricker

'Belirsizlik'

Haluk Bakır'a göre hükümeti kurmak hiç olmadığı kadar zor

npr Cyprus Complicates Turkey's Efforts to Join EU

Terör paranoyası Berlin'i de etkisi altına aldı; 32 bin Müslüman takip ediliyor

Güler Kömürcü Şifreli mesajlara bakalım

Kerkük'e dikkat

Güneydoğu için Kürtçe bilen hemşire aldık

ERDAL ŞAFAK Fırat'ın gözyaşları

Lagendijk: Tren kazası olmaz

AP: Başörtüsü yasağı ayrımcılığa yol açıyor

Beyrut'u zor günler bekliyor CEMAL SULTAN

Din dersine 'Dur' Alevi Bektaşi Federasyonu Genel Başkan Yardımcısı Kenanoğlu, oğlunun zorunlu din dersinden muaf olması için açtığı davayı kazandığını açıkladı

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Solda birlik talebi

Mehmet Metiner MHP nereye?

Serdar Turgut Siyasetin fotoğrafı
Milletvekili, ülkesi için çözümler üreten, düşünen ve çalışan insan değildir artık. O, işini kaybetmemek için çalışan ve liderle ilişkisini iyi tutmaya çalışan maaşlıdır.

Sabah Kurtlar Vadisi'nde öğretmen olmak Nusaybin'deki idealist "Kardelen" öğretmen pes etti: "Şiddet dolu kuşak yetişiyor. Öğrenciler, mafya babası, katil, Polat olmak istiyor.

AKP dini sildi..

Yüksel Paşa'dan DTP'li Başkan'a sıcak ziyaret

PKK'nın bölge sorumlusu ölü ele geçirildi

Ferai Tınç Ahmedinejad’ın yardımcısından ilginç açıklamalar

US, Turkish forces team up in Anatolian Eagle

US says 'sorry, but standard procedure' on attempted search of ...

1922 | Greece Wants Istanbul

KurdishMedia Have your say: Have Kurdish leadership given up implementation of de-Arabisation?

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Djerejian The Iraq Conundrum on this Thanksgiving

H3 Ankara'dan ABD'li Ralston'a: "Eli boş gelmeyin"

US in Contact With Anti-Iran Kurds: PKK

PKK'lı Bayık: ABD, PEJAK ile temasta

MİT - 'Erdal ve Karataş'ın yerlerini biliyoruz'

Koordinatör ABD'nin oyalama taktiği

PKK, K. Irak`ta radyosunu aktif..

Genel Enerji and Addax Petroleum announce Taq Taq test results
CNW Telbec

· Tariq Ali Diary on Diyarbakır and More

Özcan YENİÇERİ Kuzey Irak’taki Amerikan baharının sonu

TAMER KORKMAZ - Çankaya Köşkü için 'Yol Durumu'

Cengiz Çandar Tüm yazıları Lübnan'dan Türkiye'ye "imdat çığlığı"...

M. Ali BİRAND Papa aslında Fener'e geliyor

Papa'dan ne bekleniyor? Murat Yetkin

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Papa'nın ziyareti ve medeniyetler çatışması

Hasan ÜNAL Tam bir rezalet, tam bir teslimiyet

Papa için zirve iptal edilemez! ... Haberin Devamı>>>

Papa gelmeden mesajı gelecek

Gül'ün daveti Papa'nın ayağına gitmemek için

Fikret BİLA Demirel'den "Koca Papaz" öyküsü

MUSTAFA ÜNAL - Papa'dan jest bekliyoruz

Derya SAZAK Papa'yı beklerken

Haluk Şahin - Papa'yı protesto ederken

Istanbul Police to Ensure Pope's Safety

Sami KOHEN Bölge dengeleri değişirken...

İran dengeyi bozuyor M.Ali Kışlalı

Nasuhi Güngör Türkiye’den Lübnan atağı

Kimin çıkarına?

Cemayel'in ölümü Suriye'ye yarıyor mu? Economist uzmanıyla tartıştık

Durmuş HOCAOĞLU
Ermeni Mes’elesinde Riskli Adımlar: II

BBC 24 Kasım 2006 Basın Özeti

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Tak sepeti koluna herkes kendi yoluna! KIBRIS Rum yönetiminin çıkardığı yeni bir yasa, Türk tarafında kalan eski Rum mallarını kullanan yabancılara (büyük çoğunluğu Türkiye’den Kuzey Kıbrıs’a göç eden kişiler bunlar) ve Kıbrıslı Türklere 7 yıla kadar hapis cezası verilmesini öngörüyor.

Taha Kıvanç Bilgilerinize arzolunur

ERGUN BABAHAN General motor

Ahmet Hakan Dinle Paşa

Gülay Göktürk Türkiye dindarlaşmıyor

Hasan CEMAL Aydınlık, karanlık!

Yalçın Doğan Erdoğan Çankaya’ya diyenler sadece yüzde 14.6

Fehmi Koru İbret-i âlem için...
Atsan atılmaz, satsan satılmaz, ne yapacağız bu Atilla Yayla'yı?

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU
Atilla Yayla ve aydın meselesi

Arınç Yayla'ya sahip çıktı

Atatürkçülük bu mudur?
İsmet Berkan

KORAY DÜZGÖREN 301'inci madde Atila Yayla'ya da uygulanmalı!

NAZLI ILICAK İmam hatipler ve laiklik

Ömer Lütfi Mete Küresel hortumcuya fırsatlar ülkesi

BÜLENT KORUCU - Sosyologlar ve laik kararlılık

ETYEN MAHÇUPYAN - Tarih değil kimlik tartışıyoruz

Ertuğrul Özkök Keşanlı Galileo destanı

FATİH ALTAYLI Pek seversiniz rekabeti

Habertürk DOĞAN GRUBUNUN ALMANYA’DA YATIRIM YAPMASININ GÖZDEN KAÇAN YÖNÜ…

Emin Çölaşan Uğural Paşa buluşu anlatıyor

Güven Sak Erdoğan, Özal'ın rekorunu ikinci kez kıracak mı

Eser Karakaş İstihdam verilerini doğru okumak

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU Çok çocuklu aileye vergi dopingi

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Başbakan'ın sözleri güzel keşke uygulamayı da görseydik

Kümes ekonomisi! Uğur Gürses

Deniz Gökçe Irak'ta petrol üretiyoruz!

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Akaryakıtta aralık depremi...

Saruhan Özel 2007'de risk ve getiri

Ercan Kumcu Uzun dönemde ekonomik büyüme

H4 New York Times Bombings Kill 144 in Baghdad Slum; Siege at Ministry The bombings followed a siege by Sunni Arab insurgents against the Shiite-run Health Ministry in the capital’s deadliest sectarian attack since the American-led invasion.

Beirut Throngs Mourn Slain Minister and Revile Syria

Mystery Grows as Former Russian Spy Dies

Some Fighters in Iraq Adopt New Tactics to Battle U.S.

In Video, Hussein Uses Slingshots and Bows to Rally Iraqis for War

Iran Says It Will Build Heavy-Water Reactor Without Agency’s Help

Editorial The Spoils of Defeat

The departing Republican majority in Congress is about to leave the nation a memorial to its own shameful history as the grand enabler of record debt and deficits.

PAUL KRUGMAN When Votes Disappear Do we have to wait for a constitutional crisis to realize that we’re in danger of becoming a digital-age banana republic?

H5 Washington Post The Politics of Murder By David Ignatius, A disease is eating away at the Middle East. It afflicts the Syrians, the Iraqis, the Lebanese, even the Israelis. It is the idea that the only political determinant in the Arab world is raw force -- the power of physical intimidation. It is politics as assassination.

Assault on Iraqi Civilians Is Deadliest Since 2003 Attack designed to stoke sectarian rage threatens to plunge Iraq into another cycle of reprisal killings and push the country closer to civil war.

1,000 Iraqis a Day Flee Violence, U.N. Group Finds Refugees Cite Lack of Security Along With the Growth of Armed Militias and Criminal Gangs

At Lebanese Funeral, a Show of Force Against Syria Gemayel's Assassination Highlights Escalating Conflict Over Country's Direction

Q& A With Former Senator Howard H. Baker Jr.

'It Was Certainly an Overwhelming Message'

China Filling Void Left by West in U.N. Peacekeeping Despite Its Misgivings, Nation Is Now 13th-Largest Contributor to Missions as Major Powers Withdraw

Just an Anti-Semitic Laugh? Hardly. By Charles Krauthammer, "Borat" is many things: a sidesplitting triumph of slapstick and scatology, a runaway moneymaker and budding franchise, the worst thing to happen to Kazakhstan since the Mongol hordes, and, as columnist David Brooks astutely points out, a supreme display of elite snobbery reveling in the humiliation of the hoaxed hillbilly....

Editorial Long March A quarter-century after the discovery of AIDS, the struggle against it continues.

Russian Ex-Spy, A Putin Critic, Dies in London After Poisoning

H6 Guardian Baghdad car bombs kill 160 Airport closed and curfew imposed after day of violence.
Iraq's leaders appeal for unity

Comment: Jonathan Steele Only Iraqis can overcome this national catastrophe Iran and Syria want to be seen as a stabilising force in Iraq, in contrast to the failure of the US, but there is little they can do

Blair plans new social contract Politics: Agreements between individuals and state on health, schools and police emerge from midterm policy review.

Thousands bid farewell to Gemayel
World: Hundreds of thousands gather in Beirut for the funeral of Lebanese industry minister Pierre Gemayel.

Raising the standard Tim Footman If Asia is to challenge US economic hegemony, it will have to succeed in a cultural marketplace where the idea of 'America' still rules.

A gesture of contempt John Williams: The murder of Pierre Gemayel it is an act of defiance against the international effort to help Lebanon establish democracy

Calling their bluff Eric Reeves While Tony Blair and the Bush administration have yet again resumed their tough talk on Darfur, action to intervene looks unlikely.

Why I'm backing Israel Lorna Fitzsimons

Politically illiterate Britain

Anthony Giddens When you look at the sort of books we are reading, it's no wonder our public life is so intellectually impoverished.

A shattered self-image Denis MacShane: The Dutch election results show the Netherlands to be buckling under the new politics of identity that is growing within Europe.

H7 In washingtonpost.com’s “Think Tank Town,” Vali Nasr writes that the main problem facing Iraq today is still the same one that the United States confronted from the very beginning: the insurgency.

Boston Globe Who is US kidding? (By Gordon Adams) US LEADERS continue to kid Americans about Iraq, and Americans kid themselves.

UPI Outside View: Vietnam and Iraq

Analysis: NATO's Afghan caveats harmful

Former U.S. Diplomats Outline Options for Ameliorating Darfur Crisis

H8 McClatchy A bloody day in Baghdad raises fears of all-out civil war

Al Awsat A Positive Political Climate in Washington is Met by a Negative Middle East Reality : Adel Darwish

Milestone: US in Iraq Longer Than WWII

Sunni Face New Conflict in Iraq War

BBC Baghdad curfew after bombing wave The Iraqi capital is put under indefinite curfew after bombs kill 144 in the city's worst day of violence since 2003.

In pictures: Sadr City blasts

Fear and unity
Lebanese come together to mourn slain lawmaker

The Economist Lebanon Who's the assassin?

Time Lebanon Buries a Dream

Syria: Convenient but Unlikely Fallguy for Gemayel's Death by Jonathan Cook

Der Spiegel Paying Homage to Gemayel in Lebanon: Mourners United in their Hatred for Syria

OpenDemocracy Mahfouz's grave, Arab liberalism's deathbed | Tarek Osman

Al-Qaeda in Iraq picked a new leader: Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi

H9 Ha’aretz - Print Edition

Will Israel join the nuclear club? The precedent that the United States has set in the matter of India could well bring about a change of direction in Israel's nuclear policy.

Analysis: How Lebanon can avoid a political crisis

Laborites: Peretz will be forced to quit Defense

Former MI officer: Israel must sit down for talks with Syria

Bar’el Iraq serves as grim reminder

Bar’el on Aoun Love your enemy

Political Animal / Double troubleAnother war, which will restore their lost honor to them, is inconceivable. Who will go to war in the knowledge that two infantile individuals played with matches and burned the house down around us?

Rosner The Israel Factor: Who's running now?

Jerusalem Post Let's say 'yes' to a cease-fire[ DAVID KIMCHE,

Louise Arbour: Israel may be more to blame than Hizbullah
Exclusive: In interview with Post, UN human rights head slams Israel for killing civilians "virtually each time" in Lebanon war.

Daily Alert.org

EJC Israeli Press Review

Israeli Experts: Hezbollah 'to Rule Within Five Years'

American Interest Adam Garfinkle:The Madness of Jewcentricity Are Jews special, or do too many people just think they are?

H10 Christian Science Monitor

The Economist Japan's security Hawks in a dovecote

Nuclear power The ghostly flickers of a new dawn

Climate change How to make them feel the heat

Nuclear fuel The more there is, the bigger the risk

Nuclear fusion A white-hot elephant

The Economist France Royal coronation

Russian poisonings Abandon hope

Italy's spies Musical chairs

The Netherlands election Going Dutch

Germany's Christian Democrats Back to the roots

Charlemagne The bear necessities of life

A Fistful Of Euros Dutch elections: preliminary round-up/impressions

H11 IHT On negotiating with Tehran HENRY A. KISSINGER
A purposeful and creative diplomacy toward Iran is crucial for building a more promising region.

EU fails to adopt common front before talks with Putin

NATO official says alliance will keep its doors open to former Soviet bloc countries

Magic in the classroom
JONATHAN POWER The astonishing intellectual success of Finland can be laid at the feet of the its educational system, considered to be one of the best in the world.

A loud message from Asia PHILIP BOWRING The India-China summit meeting in Delhi this week was less about the promised increases in mutual cooperation than making a statement to the world: We are the future.

A candidate out of the ordinary WILLIAM PFAFF / TMS
Ségolène Royal's triumph in the French Socialist Party primary could be an event of major political importance.

BBC Polish veto mars EU-Russia summit EU-Russia summit to begin in Helsinki but a Polish veto means talks on a strategic partnership will not happen.

Europe divided
Energy talks on hold as Vladimir Putin finds the EU in disarray

Dutch jigsaw
Netherlands faces tough coalition talks after tight polls

H12 RFE/RL Russia Summit Tests Bloc's Unity Renewing its partnership accord with Russia is proving to be a severe test of unity for the European Union

American Interest Paul Dibb:

The Bear Is Back

Is Russia finished as a major power? Far from it.

The Economist World Trade Organisation The Georgian knot

Georgia looks to Shahdeniz gas to overcome Russian blockade

Russia may slash electricity exports to Azerbaijan

H13 The Times Talking Trident The uncomfortable truth about nuclear weapons

Spies with history as poison experts Russian intelligence services retain an unhealthy interest in developing obscure drugs and chemicals that can kill without trace

Al-Qaeda foments civil war in Iraq with triple bomb attack on market

Iran defiant as watchdog refuses aid to build reactor Regime vows to press on with nuclear reactor after the United Nations atomic watchdog refused to offer any technical aid in its construction

Mourners join call for anti-Syria revolution

WSJ The Bush Doctrine is Worth Saving Stomping Bush May Impose Steep Price Anti-Bush waves may back the U.S. into the parking lot of isolationism. By DANIEL HENNINGER

H14 Financial Times Suicide attacks on Baghdad Shia kill 160

COMMENT: Democracy falls victim to the lure of foreign policy realism In murdering another of Lebanon’s politicians, the perpetrators, widely assumed to have Syria’s backing, were also attacking an idea. America’s idea, writes Philip Stephens.

COMMENT: The United Nations must find the freedom to actWe do not know much about Ban Ki-moon, the new secretary-general of the Un­ited Nations, but we know that the organisation is weak, divided, bureaucratic – and indispensable, writes Douglas Hurd, former UK foreign secretary.

WORLD NEWS: Nato set to expand role to tackle WMD and terrorism

Nato goals reduced as Afghan woes grow Nato’s difficulties in Afghanistan have forced the alliance to scale down its ambitions for a showpiece summit next week and raised questions about its ability to get to grips with the insurgency in the country.

MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA: Gemayel funeral sees show of defiance against Damascus

Kosovo independence would be ‘nightmare’ for Serbia

THE AMERICAS: US hawk hits out at 'war on terror'

Editorial Mending fences in Delhi and Beijing This week's visit to India by Hu Jintao, China's president, was long on promises by both governments of closer co-operation but short on substantive outcomes.

Former Russian spy dies

H15 Los Angeles Times Iraq strategy takes page from Vietnam playbook New tactics favored by U.S. commanders employ the lessons learned from another war: Maintain public support, and be patient.

Lebanon crisis reflects fading U.S. clout

FT EUROPE DUTCH ELECTION: Netherlands gets dose of European grand coalition disease

EUROPE DUTCH ELECTION: Balkenende left in power but in search of partners

Editorial Dutch disgruntlement The Netherlands faces a period of protracted negotiations to form a government after elections on Wednesday that pulled votes away from the centre to the fringes...

COMMENT: Reasons to be cheerful about EuropeThe recent strengthening of European gross domestic product growth has given cause for optimism about the Continent’s economy, write Dan O’Brien of the Economist Intelligence Unit and Aurora Wanlin of the Centre for European Reform.

CAPITAL MARKETS AND COMMODITIES: Islamic finance gets ready to spread

H16 The Economist America's capital markets Down on the street

Milton Friedman A heavyweight champ, at five foot two

Rebranding liberalism

Rep. Charles Rangel on why he wants the draft

Giuliani moves nearer to White House run

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

H17 Daily Telegraph'Serious obstacles' in talks of unity

The Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury admitted yesterday that there were "serious obstacles" to unity between their Churches.

Iranians to press ahead with reactor

Hizbollah plans to bring Lebanese government down 'within a month'

H18 Independent Baghdad bombs kill 160 in war's worst sectarian attack In the deadliest outbreak of sectarian violence since the American-led invasion of Iraq, at least 160 people were killed and 257 injured in Baghdad yesterday.

Robert Fisk: Dragons of Lebanon's past emerge for Gemayel funeral

Robert Skidelsky: A peace deal for the whole of the Middle East

The Big Question: Should Trident be replaced, and does Britain really need nuclear weapons?

H19 From Writ, here are four good reasons why Guantanamo should be closed

Japan NSC plan has hurdles to clear The Daily Yomiuri

Jihad in Denmark DIIS
An 83-page working paper providing an overview and analysis of Jihadi activity in Denmark

Will the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative Light India? NPEC, Dalberg
This 57-page report studies the extent to which the US-India nuclear agreement will contribute towards India's energy needs

H20 Slate

From NYRB, Mark Danner reviews State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III; The One Percent Doctrine; and State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration; William H. McNeill reviews War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today by Max Boot; and a review of Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker by David Remnick.

Analysis: American Made: The Impact of Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Professionals on US Competitiveness

LRB Getting Rich
Pankaj Mishra reports from Shanghai

The Positions He Takes
John Barrell on Hitchens on Paine

H21 Wireless technology made me sick

Women say personality, and not physical height, is what counts in a man. Darwinian psycholgy says the ladies are kidding themselves... more»

Alexis de Tocqueville felt that despotism has no dates: it can be ancient or modern, it can be monarchy or democracy... more»

Harvard says its students should be taught about “faith and reason.” So two roads to reality? A semester’s worth of An Inconvenient Truth? Steven Pinker wonders... more»

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