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H1 Independent Robert Fisk: A dictator created then destroyed by America

Iraq: A Nation Soaked in Blood Tears Itself Apart by Patrick Cockburn

Stratfor Iraq: What to Expect After Saddam Hussein's Execution

Financial Times COMMENT: America stays out of Iran, Scotland stays in the UK and investors endure a bumpy ride Our pundits and specialists had a better than fair result in predicting the shape and outcome of the events of 2006. As for 2007, therefore, we invited them to play what is still a game of roulette a shade more ambitiously, or even recklessly.

Editorial A good year ahead for the global economy

End of Another Year in Iraq Riverbend

McClatchy Analysts doubt Bush will benefit from Saddam's pending execution

UPI Analysis: Saddam's execution badly timed

NYT Justice, but No Reckoning By NAJMALDIN KARIM It is a great shame that Saddam Hussein will not be held accountable for all of his crimes, and a far greater tragedy that he was allowed, sometimes with American complicity, to commit them in the first place.

Poll: 90% of Iraqis Say Worse Off Than Before Invasion

Pentagon Maps Plans for Iraq Surge

Few New Ideas in Army's Surge Options for Iraq

Military Poll: More Troops Unhappy With Bush’s Course in Iraq

Juan Cole on the top ten Iraq myths for 2006.

Juan Cole Saddam: The death of a dictator

NYT Obituary The Defiant Despot Oppressed Iraq for More Than 30 Years

Analysts Doubt Bush Will Benefit From Saddam's Execution

National Interest The Sanctions, According to Iran

WP China Offers Glimpse of Rationale Behind Its Military Policies

Daily Star Israel's dominance may be going into slow reversal By Rami G. Khouri

Strategic Studies Institute Learning from Iraq: Counterinsurgency in American Strategy Dr. Steven Metz

Guardian 2007: there may be trouble ahead Robert B Reich With the dollar declining and Iraq in chaos, the next 12 months will bring bad news for nearly everyone. Here are my predictions.

Is this digital democracy, or a new tyranny of cyberspace? Slavoj Zizek: The hype of freedom on the web masks both disparities of power and the dangers of blurring real and virtual identities.

Ha’aretz – The Livni Plan FM Tzipi Livni believes she is qualified to serve as the future prime minister of Israel.

Forward Book: Israel, Lobby Pushing Iran War A review of Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change by Scott Ritter.

Escalation In Iraq Is Not The Answer - Senator Barack Obama

It Was a Very Bad Year - John Podhoretz, New York Post

IHT News Analysis: New Year ushering in Germany's star turn Instead of creating a long and unrealistic list of diplomatic action, Chancellor Angela Merkel has tried to lower expectations by focusing on a few issues.

News Analysis: Moscow bites the hand of an ally For the Russian energy monopoly Gazprom, 2006 ended as it began — in a dispute over prices and control of a pipeline in a neighboring country that is threatening the smooth flow of natural gas to Europe. In a new twist, the increase was levied this time on a Russian ally, Belarus.

H2 NYT Editorial Obstacles in Turkey’s Path It’s up to the European Union to mend the Cyprus divide and clear the way for a dispassionate recognition of Turkey’s vital role in Europe.

IHT Spotlight: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey As debate swirls about admitting Turkey to the European Union, the prime minister is focusing on getting the economy ready for the big day, when, and if, it comes.

Ankara’nın diplomasi trafiği yoğun

Armenian genocide issue may top US-Turkish troubles in 2007

AB günü: 10 Ocak İktidar, 10 Ocak'ta toplanarak AB yolunda 2013'e kadarki yol haritasını ve reform paketini belirleyecek. Babacan, 'Reformlar hızlanacak' dedi

10 Ocak'ta AB seferberliği başlatıyoruz

FİKRİ AKYÜZ Taha Akyol'un konuğu Ahmet Davutoğlu idi..

Zeynep Göğüş AB’ye tepki yılı

2007'de Enerji
Uluslararası Enerji Ajansı Başekonomisti Fatih Birol yorumladı

Erdoğan'ın Lübnan ziyareti gerilimi aşmak için fırsat

When the customers of a Gaziantep store are from Aleppo
GILA Benmayor

Şahin Alpay Saddam ve ölüm cezası

Turkish Nur students give away free beef to Mindanao poor on Eid ...
American Chronicle

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN Türkiye, Avrupa'nın en yakın, en ucuz enerji koridoru

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

ŞAHİN ALPAY - Saddam ve ölüm cezası

Mesrur Barzanî: Kürd halkına yönelik soykırımı finanse etmek için Kürdlerin zenginliği bir daha asla çalınmamalı

Kerkük bölgesi fiilen bağımsız, ancak bir Kürd devleti hala bir düş

Turkish FM Sees Less Risk of Iraq Breaking Up

[Yorum - Dr.Davut Şahiner] Ölüsü ABD'ye daha da pahalıya patlayabilir!

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Açlık sınırında yaşamak!

Sadi SOMUNCUOĞLU Apo’nun “Aydıncıkları”

A report from Turkey: A history lesson KurdishMedia

Sami KOHEN Gözler Bağdat'ta...

PKK'ya bomba taşıyanlara 40 yıl hapis

Kirkuk hopes in dialogue yet

Gül: Türkiye İran değildir

Gül: Iraq meetings in Turkey should not be provocative

'Türkiye 2007' projesi Parris'e emanet

Establishment of a Centre for Kurdish Studies at the University of Exeter

Teröristbaşı Öcalan için yeni suç duyurusu

Elekdağ'ın yorumları Murat Belge

Sinemanın gücünü keşfeden TSK

Google News Greece - Cyprus

Berlin, KKTC ile ticareti kolaylaştırmak istiyor

Rehn welcomes Turkish Cypriot move in dispute with Greek Cypriots

Rumlar'dan KKTC'ye elektrik şantajı

Kıbrıs'ta yeni kapı

Türk uçaklarına Yunan tacizi

KKTC'den bir adım daha

Rumları ters köşeye yatırdı

The Times After Saddam Iraq, and especially its Sunni community, has a chance to move on

LA Times So long to 'our' tyrant By Andrew Cockburn

H3 Gül Teröre karşı her şey! 'Biz terörü durdurmakla ilgili her şeyi yaparız' diyen Dışişleri Bakanı Abdullah Gül, 'Buna Kandil operasyonu dahil mi?' sorusuna, 'Her şey dahil' karşılığını verdi

‘US will receive most blame if Iraq breaks up’

ERDAL ŞAFAK Kandil'de randevu

Cengiz Çandar İyi bir “tahminci”den 2007 Tahmini...

Enis Berberoğlu PKK, Çankaya Savaşı’nı fırsat bilecek tahmini

2008 yılbaşı için erken yazı BAHADIR KALEAĞASI

Abdülhamit Bilici Iraklı Kürtler neden Amerika'ya kızdı?

Semih İDİZ Türkiye'nin geleceği hiçbir zaman tümüyle Avrupa'ya bağlı olmadı

İlter Türkmen 2007’den korkmalı mı?

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Kıbrıs, nehrin doğal akışı ve 'taksim'

Genelkurmay: Kıbrıs olmazsa olmazımız Genelkurmay’ın gelecek ayki Silahlı Kuvvetler dergisinde Kıbrıs’ın jeostratejik ve jeopolitik önemiyle ilgili 20 sayfalık bir yazıda Türkiye’nin hem ulusal güvenlik, hem de enerji yollarının ve ticaretin kontrolü açısından Kıbrıs adasından vazgeçemeyeceği detaylı bir şekilde anlatılıyor

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası

Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri - Dış Basında Güncel Türkiye Bülteni

Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700

Dış Basında Türkiye Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey Turquie Türkei TurcoPundit

Kendi anketinde AKP'nin oyu yüzde 30

Kim yapacak? (3) Gündüz Aktan

Fikret BİLA Ağar, Baykal gibi düşünmüyor

Taha AKYOL Çankaya uğruna hukuk krizi

İsmail Küçükkaya Başbakan’a karşı çıkmanın dayanılmaz hafifliği

Gül: Çankaya'ya çıkanın siyasi deneyimi olmalı

Bu iddia tutarsa ölene kadar Sezer!

'Meclis cumhurbaşkanı seçiminin ilk turunda 367 kişiyle toplanmalı' tezini Anayasa Mahkemesi de benimserse Köşk'e yeni birinin çıkması imkânsızlaşır!

Zırva tevil götürmez İsmet Berkan

'Komplocu akıl' boş durmuyor
Murat Yetkin

2007'de demokrasimiz Haluk Şahin

Cengiz Çandar Bugün yazıları

Taha Kıvanç

Fehmi Koru

NAZLI ILICAK Anayasa Mahkemesi bu yükü taşıyabilir mi?

Ömer Lütfi Mete İngiliz kaşığıyla basın rüşveti

Amaca yönelik nabız yoklama
M.Ali Kışlalı

Deniz Gökçe Dünya 2007 sonu özeti!

Ege Cansen Yılın karnesi: Ekonomi 2.6’yla sınıfı geçti

Kerem Alkin Türkiye ekonomisinin 2007 senaryoları

Altaylı POAŞ panikle meydan okuyor

H4 New York Times Dictator Who Ruled Iraq With Violence Is Hanged for Crimes Against Humanity

nytcolumns

H5 Washington Post Saddam Hussein Is Put to Death Former Iraqi President Hanged Before Dawn in Baghdad to Divided Reaction

U.S. Toll in Dec. Is Highest of '06

Saddam's Arc Ends In Ignominy Over more than two decades of authoritarian rule, Hussein led his nation from modernity to ruin

Iraq Expels 2 Iranians Detained by U.S. American Defense Official Calls Release 'Obviously Troubling'

China Offers Glimpse of Rationale Behind Its Military Policies

We Can't Ignore Iraq's Refugees By Edward M. Kennedy

Fate of Saddam's Body Remains Unclear

PostGlobal: Is China Colonizing Africa?

H6 Guardian Saddam Hussein executed Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging in Iraq.
Obituary: Saddam Hussein
End of a tyrannical era
'It will be taken as a US decision'
Saddam's fate divides Baghdad
A thug who used terror and war

Is this digital democracy, or a new tyranny of cyberspace? Slavoj Zizek: The hype of freedom on the web masks both disparities of power and the dangers of blurring real and virtual identities.

International lawlessness Salim Lone: The US-backed invasion of Somalia to topple its Islamists is a dangerous, illegal act of aggression.

Defying the critics The IMF, in its annual health-check, has just described Gordon Brown's management of the economy as 'impressive' - not a word it bandies around

The country bleeds on Iraq again dominated the global news agenda in 2006, but the crisis in Darfur has raged on unabated and under-covered.

Lustrous China looking fragile Shanghai's stock market, flooded with new money, shot to the top of the world league this year, posting a gain of 72.7% in 2006.

H7 Forward Book: Israel, Lobby Pushing Iran War A review of Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change by Scott Ritter.

CFR Rose: Global Affairs in 2006

Bush Iraq Choices Get Tougher

Escalation In Iraq Is Not The Answer - Senator Barack Obama

It Was a Very Bad Year - John Podhoretz, New York Post

Daily Star Israel's dominance may be going into slow reversal
By Rami G. Khouri

UPI Outside View: Iraq's many wars

BBC Mixed report
The turbulent times of the UN's departing chief Kofi Annan

Michael J Totten Hezbollah's Christian Allies

Justin Raimondo 12/29/2006
Somalia: US Foreign Policy and Gangsterism

Helena Cobban Saddam's execution and the tragedy of Iraq

H8 Google News Iraq Iran Syria Mideastwire.com - NPR Iraq

BBC What next for Iraq?
After Saddam, the US military faces far graver challenges

UPI Analysis: Saddam's execution badly timed

Deadliest month for US troops in Iraq: Count nears 3,000

RFE/RL Iraq: What Impact Will Hussein's Death Have?

Juan Cole on the top ten Iraq myths for 2006.

Somali PM: Ethiopian Troops Will Remain

McClatchy Reporter returns to Baghdad to find it far different - and worse off

Daily Star Lebanese need to understand that democracy is not a free ride

Revered Saudi Cleric Denounces Shi'ites as Infidels

H9 Ha’aretz – The Livni Plan FM Tzipi Livni believes she is qualified to serve as the future prime minister of Israel.

Daily Alert.org - EJC Israeli Press Review – Google News Israel –

Jerusalem Post Politics: 10 to watch in 2007 [ GIL HOFFMAN

Yedioth Ahronoth Money Israel's new God Money quietly replaces security as country's most prominent concern Aviad Kleinberg says

From Counterpunch, Norman Finkelstein on the ludicrous attacks on Jimmy Carter's book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. From Forward, the old antisemitic stereotype of Jews obsessing about money has been re-energized of late in several pop-culture venues. But is this image really all that antisemitic? And Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun, has indicated that he is looking to redirect his magazine’s energies away from Israel and toward a greater focus on interfaith matters

H10 Christian Science Monitor

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H11 IHT News Analysis: New Year ushering in Germany's star turn Instead of creating a long and unrealistic list of diplomatic action, Chancellor Angela Merkel has tried to lower expectations by focusing on a few issues.

News Analysis: Moscow bites the hand of an ally For the Russian energy monopoly Gazprom, 2006 ended as it began — in a dispute over prices and control of a pipeline in a neighboring country that is threatening the smooth flow of natural gas to Europe. In a new twist, the increase was levied this time on a Russian ally, Belarus.

EUROPE

BBC Can Merkel fix it?
Germany to lead an EU divided on energy and the constitution

Washington Times Dissolution in Europe's future? By Arnold Beichman

Trading Up: Reforming the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme IPPR

H12 RFE/RL Going Head To Head With Gazprom As the New Year approaches, Minsk finds itself exactly where Kyiv was last year -- in Gazprom's sights

Google News Azerbaijan

BBC Tensions rise in Belarus gas row Belarus and Russia trade accusations of blackmail as a New Year deadline for a gas shutdown looms.

H13 The Times After Saddam Iraq, and especially its Sunni community, has a chance to move on

Tim Hames Saddam spent decades seeking to divide Europeans from Americans. His death will continue that policy

Goodbye 2006 A year that showed why a shrinking globe is not always a safer one

EU welcomes members (but not their mafias)

Wall Street Journal Gentlemen, Start Your Plug-Ins How does 500 mpg sound to you?
By R. JAMES WOOLSEY

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: America stays out of Iran, Scotland stays in the UK and investors endure a bumpy ride Our pundits and specialists had a better than fair result in predicting the shape and outcome of the events of 2006. As for 2007, therefore, we invited them to play what is still a game of roulette a shade more ambitiously, or even recklessly.

Editorial A good year ahead for the global economy

Execution unlikely to have lasting impact

Obituary: Saddam Hussein Dictator brought untold suffering to Iraq as he pursued ambition to lead Arab world

Lawyers doubt trial was fair

MIDDLE EAST: Doubts shroud the fairness of dictator's trial

MIDDLE EAST: Shia cast shadow over man who escaped ambush

Bucharest, Sofia party as opinions harden in west

Gazprom raises the stakes over Belarus

Cheney faces troubled new year

FT MONEY: A few clouds over sunshine properties

H15 Los Angeles Times The case for Iran M. JAVAD ZARIF is the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations.

No big deal Editorial: Years ago, Saddam Hussein's execution would have been a big deal. Now he's dead, and we're still at war in Iraq.

So long to 'our' tyrant By Andrew Cockburn AMONG THE MANY ironies of Saddam Hussein's execution is that, although his death seems certain to boost sectarian bloodletting between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq, he always posed as an Iraqi and Arab nationalist who could unite the rivalrous sects in his country — an attribute that initially recommended him to Washington.

Iraq executes Saddam Hussein

Former leader takes trove of secrets to grave

- Analysis: Seeking a historical turning point

Statement by the President

H16 American Politics

McClatchy Democratic majority to focus on 3-pronged plan

Ready For President Who Isn't a White Male? - E. Goodman, Boston Globe

Lame Duck Bush Entering Rougher Waters - USA Today

A Kickoff for John Edwards 2.0 - Perry Bacon, Jr., Time

Edwards, Now Seasoned, Elbows His Way Into the Field

From Commentary, an essay on Jews, Muslims, and the Democrats; and is conservatism finished?

realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec

H17 Daily Telegraph Hanging Saddam won't bring peace to his troubled country The best that can be hoped for from Saddam's demise is that it gives the Iraqi government the confidence to tackle and defeat the insurgency in a manner that has hitherto been lacking, argues Con Coughlin.

LEADER Justice takes its course

In the agonising aftermath of totalitarian rule in Iraq, two processes have given ground for hope. The first has been the advance of democracy in place of clan-based gangsterism, the second has been the pursuit and prosecution of Saddam Hussein.

H18 Independent Robert Fisk: A dictator created then destroyed by America

Leading article: An execution that will do nothing to quell the violence on Iraq's streets

Robert Fisk: Football and violence go together

2007's next big things

Backlash against euro could mean Slovenia is last entrant

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Strategic Studies Institute Learning from Iraq: Counterinsurgency in American Strategy Dr. Steven Metz

Congressional Research Service China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues

Covert Action: Legislative Background and Possible Policy Questions

Google and Microsoft are racing to provide computer users with a virtual world tour. Who will be the first to offer its readers a 3-D map of the globe?

H21 The Englishman: a silent mass of contradictions, mysteries, and enigmas. Unless he is silent because he has nothing interesting to say... more»

The proliferation of languages is an accident: a single original tongue morphed into 6,000 when different groups of people emerged. Now they are becoming one again... more»

Readers digest What were your best literary discoveries of the year? Here is a selection of your recommendations

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