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H1 Financial Times Markets rocked by sharp slide in dollar A fall in the US dollar unnerved global markets as investors sought to protect themselves from the possibility of sustained dollar weakness, with economists predicting further falls to come.
Editorial Ignore a volatile world at your peril
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Do not let ghosts of the cold war impede history's lessons This is not a return of the cold war; but it may prove to be an increasingly hot peace.
Backdoor Diplomacy in Iraq Katrina vanden Heuvel
BBC Lebanon death 'may herald coup' The killing of a Lebanon minister could be the first step in a coup, a top US diplomat tells the BBC.
Conspiracy theories
Steve Clemons: Misdiagnosing an Evolved Realism in US Foreign Policy?
Washington Post U.S. Says Violence Is Meant To Topple Iraqi Government By Robin Wright,
Editorial Intolerance in Europe Prostitutes and drug dealers are welcome in the Netherlands. Just don't wear a veil.
In Iraq, Reprisals Embolden Militias Shiites Attack Sunni Mosques to Avenge Mass Killings; Lawmakers Threaten Boycott
PostGlobal: An Iranian Dissects U.S.-Iran Talks Iraninan journalist Maziar Bahari says what the U.S. will need to do to make talks with Iran succeed.
New Republic Crush the Sunnis
Dividing Iraq might multiply problems Chicago Sun-Times BY JAROSLAV TIR AND PAUL F. DIEHL
NYT Army Expands Training for Advisers Who Will Try to Improve Iraq’s Security Forces
Palestinians and Israel Say They Are Open to Truce
Roger Cohen China vs. US: Democracy Confronts Harmony. Stay Tuned. While the U.S. is still more powerful, China has become enough of a superpower that countries have a diplomatic choice: the American road or the Chinese.
The Times Poisoned spy was the victim of state terror
Time Iran and Syria Helping Hizballah Rearm
Al-Sadr allies threaten to resign from Iraqi government
Russian rocket deliveries to Iran started: reports
IHT If not the EU, then who?
Inside the mind of Henry the K
Global Mission For The EU By: George Soros | The Japan Times
Independent Who killed Litvinenko?
NSA Archive The Iran-Contra Affair 20 Years On
The 586 volumes of KGB files on Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner were destroyed in 1989. But memos based on them survived... more»
European ideas of war in the Gunpowder Age featured dynamism, intellectual curiosity, rationalism, and a will toward efficiency... more»
Is India emerging as France of Asia? A warming Sino-Indian relationship tells the US that India is not an unconditional ally.
Prospect Debate Michael Lind Vs. Michael Gove on US foreign policy and global order. here mp3file, 54 minutes).
Democracy takes back seat as Bush's Arab Spring unravels
| H2 FT Spotlight: Pope Benedict XVI – Turkey trip will test faiths Few would seriously compare it to Daniel’s experience in the lions’ den, but the visit to Turkey on which Pope Benedict XVI embarks tomorrow is undoubtedly the most sensitive foreign trip of his 21-month reign.
The Globalist – Is independence for Northern Cyprus in the cards? Given EU recalcitrance, it is time then for the international community to accept that a divided but peacefully coexisting Cyprus is a win-win solution for all. By Uwe Bott
LA Times A tense time for a papal visit
Guardian Pope on a tightrope for trickiest visit yet World: Protests likely as Benedict XVI heads to Istanbul.
The Times Novel 'warns' pontiff of danger in trip to TurkeyA fictional attack on the Pontiff's motorcade has a disturbing ring of possibility, following Benedict XVI’s controversial comments on Islam
Der Spiegel Reconstruction of a Global Crisis: How the Pope Angered the Muslim World
The Pope in Turkey: "An Attack on the Pillars of Islam"
Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati
Radikal Mahkeme zorunlu din dersini seçmeli yaptı Din dersine girmek istemeyen öğrencilerin 'dinlerine bakılmaksızın' bu dersten muaf tutulmalarına hükmeden mahkeme kararı, herkes için emsal teşkil edecek
Korkut Özal Başbakan’ın hayatından endişeleniyorum
Ağar: ABD ile ilişkiler hep önemlidir
Finlandiya, Maraş'la olmayacağını anladı
AB'den Maraş rötuşu ... Haberin Devamı>>>
Vize demokrasisi ve çözüm BAHADIR KALEAĞASI
Fikret BİLA Kıbrıs AB'nin bahanesi mi?
Gila Benmayor AB yolunda kaza olmaması dünya barışı için şart
Meral TAMER Ali Koç: Ne Arap, ne Avrupalı, ne de Asyalıyız
Talat’tan KKTC’lilere ‘güney’ uyarısı
Prodi: AB dengeli bir çözüm bulmalı
ERDAL ŞAFAKSağolasın Polonya
Belçika: Yerini söyleyin alalım
Sami KOHEN Irak'ta iç savaşın kurbanları...
İngilizlere göre hain Ali Kemal nasıl öldü
Hadi Uluengin Pamuksal gaileler
AKP Araplara en iyi model İBRAHİM GARAYBE
Çiçek’ten yargıya Düşüp kalktıklarına dikkat etsinler
TAHA KIVANÇ Ciddiyete dâvet ediyorum
Bir Genelkurmay kaldı M.Ali Kışlalı
Hasan CEMAL Kışla kültürü, demokrasi kültürü!
Mustafa Akyol Ordu, 'ulusal çıkar'ı nerden bilir
İsmet Berkan - Atatürk'ün öğüdüne ihanet
Taha AKYOL Atatürk ve eleştirel düşünce
UZMANLAR, HIZLA YAKLAŞMAKTA OLAN FELAKET KARŞISINDAKİ DURUMUMUZU DEĞERLENDİRDİ: Türkiye hazır değil
Dinner with a statesman where 'quality' was the menu
Son linç girişimi Murat Belge
Nato Afganistan’da B planımız yok
Dikkatler Suriye'yi suçlayanlara çevrilmeli
[Yorum - Prof. Dr. Samir Salha] Lübnan'da Cemayel suikastı: İç savaş kapıda mı?
Talabani İran ziyaretini erteledi
BÎR Dergisi'nin Ümit Fırat ile DDKO üzerine yaptığı söyleşi
New oil reserve in northern Iraq
Ermenilerden Deustche Bank'a suçlama
| H3 Wilson'dan 'köşk' soruları Türk siyaseti ABD'nin merceğinde... Büyükelçi Wilson, DYP lideri Ağar ve ANAP lideri Mumcu'yla görüştü, Erdoğan'ın adaylığını sordu
ABD elçisi Ağar'a 'düz ovada siyaset'i sordu
Wilson'la koordinatörlüğü konuştu
'Türkiye Erdoğan'a hazır değil'
Cengiz Çandar Tüm yazıları Ortadoğu'ya istikrar ya da “Arap saçında bit ayıklamak”...
Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Savaş uçağı alımını Parlamento niye tartışmıyor?
Savaş SÜZAL Alman Marshall vakfı ne ister Türkiye’den
ŞAHİN ALPAY - "Amerikan İmparatorluğu"nun sonu
İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası - Dış Basında Güncel Türkiye Bülteni - Dış Basında Türkiye - Google News Turkey - Turquie- Türkei - Kurdish Media - FPR Archive - Quickread - Google News - Iraq -Iran - Syria – Kurdish - Greece - Azerbaijan Cyprus – - Israel - BBC Turkish 0700 -TurcoPundit - Stratfor Mideastwire.com
Semih İDİZ İran ve Suriye ile yakın ilişkimiz varsa, neden çağırmadılar?
Nuh Gönültaş ABD Irak'tan çekilecek, Türkiye sistemini değiştirip büyüyecek!
Papa, diyalog, ittifak Gündüz Aktan
Erdoğan, Papa'yla Esenboğa'da görüşebilir Murat Yetkin
Sabah Suikast timi alarmı Emniyet, Papa'nın Türkiye ziyareti öncesinde Hizbut Tahrir, Tebliğ ve Kaide bağlantılı gruplara temizlik operasyonu düzenledi.
Yusuf KANLI
İlter Türkmen Papa’nın ziyareti sancılı olmasın
M Ali Birand Anlaşıldı, biz bağcıyı döveceğiz
Yalçın Doğan Papa gölgesinde Dışişleri perişan
NAZLI ILICAK İstanbul Patrikhanesi'nin Papa ile işbirliği
FATİH ALTAYLIPapa'yı vursa vursa yabancı servisler vurur
Fehmi Koru Papa'ya ne yapmalı? - 25.11.2006
Papa'nın Türkiye gündemi
Sadi SOMUNCUOĞLU
TheWhitePath.com: How Turks See the Pope – Part I
Mensur Akgün Türkiye Papa'yı mahcup etmeliydi
Enis Berberoğlu Öcalan’ın korktuğu an
Baykal cumhuriyet koalisyonu önerdi "Ana sorun, cumhuriyete sahip çıkma koalisyonudur. Elbette solda olanlar öncelikli yer alır. Ancak, ideolojik olarak bölersek yanlış olur" Haberin Devamı>>>
MAHMUT ÖVÜR Sol değil 'ulusal ittifak'
MELİHA OKUR Geniş Katılımlı Cumhuriyet Koalisyonu
Şakir Süter Baykal ve üç konu
Vahap Munyar ’İt dalaşı’nı 3.2 milyar dolar bitirmiş olmasın
Ömer Lütfi Mete En hain manifesto
Tayfun Devecioğlu Türkiye gerçeği senden mi ibaret kardeşim?
Tufan Türenç Baykal’ın iktidar stratejisi...
Derya SAZAK Baykal, MHP, ittifak
Ertuğrul Özkök Medya dedektifliği
Mehmet y Yılmaz Altaylı’nın hayalleri ile gerçekler birbirini tutmuyor
Erdal Sağlam Ekonominin önünde eğitim engeli
'Kayıt dışı' bir itiraf!
Büyük oyun devam ediyor Taner Berksoy
Güngör URAS 100 yolcunun 83'ünü otobüs 17'sini uçak taşıyor
Vatan Acarlar’ı koruyan Çuvalcı Paşa mı? Orman Bakanı Pepe’nin “Devlet görevlilerine silah çektiler” dediği Acarlar’ın güvenlik şirketinde ilginç bir isim var: K.Irak’taki çuval skandalıyla gündeme gelen emekli Korgeneral Köksal Karabay
M Ali Ilıcak Cüneyt Zapsu!
21 ilimiz Hindistan ve Afrika düzeyinde Metin MÜNİR İran'ın nükleer programını ODTÜ'lüler mi yapıyor?
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H4 New York Times Shiite Militia in Iraq Strike at Sunni Mosques Shiite militiamen stormed Sunni mosques, shot guards and burned down buildings in apparent retaliation for a series of devastating car bombs that killed hundreds. Army Expands Training for Advisers Who Will Try to Improve Iraq’s Security Forces
Palestinians and Israel Say They Are Open to Truce
Roger Cohen China vs. US: Democracy Confronts Harmony. Stay Tuned. While the U.S. is still more powerful, China has become enough of a superpower that countries have a diplomatic choice: the American road or the Chinese. MAUREEN DOWD No One to Lose To In Iraq, the only question is, who can we turn the country over to?
London Riddle: A Russian Spy, a Lethal Dose Scientists were astounded to learn that radiation poisoning killed Alexander V. Litvinenko, and alarm spread across London.
Editorial Foreign Aid, Revised If the administration will not restore a sensible balance to foreign aid, the new Congress should.
Editorial Taming King Coal Energy companies in China and America are locking themselves (and the environment) into at least 50 more years of the most carbon-intensive technology around.
| H5 Washington Post U.S. Says Violence Is Meant To Topple Iraqi Government By Robin Wright,
Editorial Intolerance in Europe Prostitutes and drug dealers are welcome in the Netherlands. Just don't wear a veil.
In Iraq, Reprisals Embolden Militias Shiites Attack Sunni Mosques to Avenge Mass Killings; Lawmakers Threaten Boycott
PostGlobal: An Iranian Dissects U.S.-Iran Talks Iraninan journalist Maziar Bahari says what the U.S. will need to do to make talks with Iran succeed.
Discord Frames Bahrain Election Run-up to vote marred by alleged plot to rig the elections in favor of the ruling Sunni minority.
The Reality of Our All-Volunteer Military By Russell Beland and Curtis Gilroy, Page A21 Regardless of one's opinion of the management and progress of the war on terrorism, the concept of an all-volunteer force has been an amazing success by virtually any measure.
Energy Firms Come to Terms With Climate Change
Radioactive Poison Killed Ex-Spy British Say Case of Putin Critic Is Unprecedented
| H6 Guardian Iraq descends towards civil war Precarious government teeters as sectarian killings reach new peak.
Dead spy poisoned by radiation
A smoking gun Brian Whitaker Pierre Gemayel's murder has been added to a list of 15 other attacks being investigated by the UN - but this case has one vital difference
Julie Flint Gemayel's murder will be fully investigated - but there is no sign of justice for the 1,183 Lebanese civilians killed in this summer's war.
Antonio Maria Costa Afghanistan is in danger of falling back into the hands of terrorists and criminals, and the drug trade is at the heart of the country's malaise.
We need leaders who better understand the rule of law
Israel Should Consider a Hamas Truce - and Deal With Syria By: Yossi Alpher |
H7 Steve Clemons: Misdiagnosing an Evolved Realism in US Foreign Policy?
NRO CLIFFORD D. MAY: We’re so vain, we probably think this sectarian strife is about us. “Iraq Options”
Prospect hosted a public debate between US political commentator Michael Lind and British shadow minister Michael Gove on US foreign policy and global order. The debate was chaired by Lawrence Freedman, professor of war studies and vice-principal of King's College London. Click here to listen to the debate (MP3 file, 54 minutes).
Democracy takes back seat as Bush's Arab Spring unravels
New Republic Crush the Sunnis
Dividing Iraq might multiply problems Chicago Sun-Times BY JAROSLAV TIR AND PAUL F. DIEHL
The US Empire –Beginning of the End Game
The fearsome specter of a nonviolent democratic Islam is haunting suicide bombers and Muslim religious zealots of every stripe. Consider the case of Iran... more»
Before . . . and after . . . Iraq | H8 BBC Lebanon death 'may herald coup' The killing of a Lebanon minister could be the first step in a coup, a top US diplomat tells the BBC.
Conspiracy theories Time Iran and Syria Helping Hizballah Rearm
Iraq's Violence Spins Beyond Anyone's Control
Al-Sadr allies threaten to resign from Iraqi government
US helicopter fires on Iraqi funeral party-ministry
Russian rocket deliveries to Iran started: reports
Russia sends air defense system to Iran
Russian nuclear chief to visit Tehran...
EDITORIAL: Will America attack Iran? Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
Engaging Syria Over Gemayel's Dead Body - Michael Glackin, Daily Star
Djerejian Probable US-Syrian Discussion Points
Syria's Bloody Fingerprint - New York Sun
| H9 Ha’aretz - Print Edition Editorial Needed: a defense minister
Israel rejects Palestinian peace offer
Security and Defense: In need of repair?
Column One: The Gemayel warning
UPI Analysis: Gaza fighting hunts Israel
Analysis: Israel ponders Gaza escalation
From Forward, an essay on redefining what makes a Jewish story, an article on James Bond's Semitic Villains, and a look at the Jews' answer to Bond.
What does it mean to be a Jew in the 21st century? An interview with Julie Sandorf of Nextbook.
A review of The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World.
A review of Being Jewish in the New Germany and Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry.
A review of Germany and Israel in the 1990s and Beyond: Still a "Special Relationship".
George Soros on Europe's global mission (and more on Israel).
In discussing the Middle East, Jimmy Carter’s generous spirit extends to the Palestinians, but not so easily to the Israelis... more» |
H10 Christian Science Monitor Under fire, US marines hand off battered Fallujah
Northern Ireland foes edge toward sharing power
Global Mission For The EU By: George Soros | The Japan Times
Time Behind China and India's awkward courtship: Border disputes and Chinese ties with Pakistan have long divided them, but business could bring them together. | H11 IHT If not the EU, then who?
Russia may risk WTO entry with EU meat ban
Old nightmare, new danger
Weekly Standard Europe's Future
From Breslau to Morningside Heights: A review of Five Germanys I Have Known by Fritz Stern
An interview with Romano Prodi
Which way the Netherlands? A powerful nation? Or a powerful voice in a community of nations?
From The New Federalist, here's a critical view of federalism in Europe
an article on Europe and its languages: Babylonian chaos or expression of cultural diversity?
In Europe, it’s East vs. West on the death penalty: Millions of the Continent’s citizens resent its ban on capital punishment. | H12 RFE/RL Azerbaijan Silences Independent Broadcaster 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 Lukashenka Eyes Union With UkrainebConfronted with the prospect of a higher price for Russian gas in 2007, the Belarusian president appears to be seeking to pressure Moscow Georgia: Walking A Tightrope Toward The West
BBC EU-Russia summit delays new pact The EU and Russia fail to launch talks on a new partnership because of a row over meat from Poland. Putin performs BBC Haunted by hunger
Georgia: Private Companies Carry Burden for Gazprom Gas Price Talks |
H13 The Times They had been praying. Then they were doused in petrol and set alightSix Sunnis were burnt alive as vengeance-seeking Shia militia men tore through Baghdad, setting four mosques ablaze and killing at least 31
'In Saddam's time I never saw a friend killed in front of my eyes'
Leader A British Citizen Putin must prove by deeds he is not linked to Litvinenko’s murder
WSJ Inspect Baluchistan | H14 Financial Times Markets rocked by sharp slide in dollar A fall in the US dollar unnerved global markets as investors sought to protect themselves from the possibility of sustained dollar weakness, with economists predicting further falls to come.
Editorial Ignore a volatile world at your peril
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Do not let ghosts of the cold war impede history's lessons This is not a return of the cold war; but it may prove to be an increasingly hot peace.
Shia leadership battles to curb reprisals Gunmen attacked a Sunni enclave in a mostly Shia district of Baghdad, burning mosques and homes, in spite of a curfew imposed on the Iraqi capital for most of the day.
MIDDLE EAST: Shia rage over Syria's critics
EUROPE: Uncomfortable time for all The face of Vladimir Putin said it all.
Putin denies role in death of ex-spyLitvinenko ‘poisoned’ with polonium 210
Spotlight on renaissance in Moscow’s spying Alexander Litvinenko’s gaunt and sallow face, splashed across newspapers this week, threatens to become a defining image of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. His deathbed charge that the Russian president was responsible for his demise may dog Mr Putin for the rest of his presidency.
| H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial Iraq Is Broke Beyond Repair By: Rosa Brooks
Wave of retaliation sweeps Iraq
Lebanon's ominous sense of deja vu
Gates pushed for bombing of Sandinistas
Ft Palestinian deals go on despite boycott The Palestine Investment Fund, the main investment vehicle controlled by the Palestinian Authority president, is forging ahead with international deals in spite of a western boycott of the Hamas-run government.
Taliban minelaying tactic worries Nato The Taliban are returning to the tactics of the war against the Soviet Union and the UK ministry of defence is investing in fresh training and equipment to deal with the problem
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H16 McCain-Lieberman ticket in 2008?
Foreign policy skills in question for Rudy
Bush nominee Gates advocated Nicaragua air strikes
THOMAS B. EDSALL The Struggle Within The Democratic Party can secure its 2006 gains, but to do so will require abandoning a decades-long willingness to indulge pressure groups on the left.
realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec - Blogometer
| H17 Daily Telegraph Former KGB spy poisoned by radiation
The West is losing patience with Putin Until now, the West has tended to overlook Mr Putin's authoritarianism, largely for the sake of a quiet life. But there must come a point when our patience runs out. It is one thing to tyrannise your people; quite another to presume to do so on British territory. | H18 Independent Who killed Litvinenko? Even Alexander Litvinenko, a KGB agent for 18 years, would have been surprised at the low chicanery, high drama and cold-blooded cunning of his own passing.
Key questions surrounding spy's death
Sunni Iraqis targeted in revenge killings The sectarian war in Iraq reached new depths yesterday with worshippers being dragged out of mosques and burnt alive as a wave of killings swept across the country.
Robert Fisk: A French colonial legacy of despair
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H19 Study: Perceived Treatment of Foreign Travelers Driving Away Visitors, Damaging America’s Image Abroad Discover America Partnership
China confirms PLA sub with 'silencing technology' stalked US aircraft carrier
Wind Power in Britain and Germany: Explaining Contrasting Development Patterns | H20 Slate
Milton Friedman on Limited Government (video)
UK top destination for foreign R&D investment
The profile of the successful entrepreneur
EIU Protectionism on the rise, warn global executives — Annual global growth rates could drop by one percentage point Direct to Full Text of Report | H21 Internet Library of Early Journals
FT COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Marriages of inconvenience
FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE - BOOK REVIEWS: In brief - The Dead Beat: The Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries |
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