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H1 Washington Post Iraq Strategy Focusing On Three Main Options Options considered include, securing Baghdad with surge of troops, utilizing military to hunt al-Qaeda, and strengthening support of majority Shiites.

PostGlobal If the American era in the Middle East is ending, as argued by some analysts, what is likely to replace it? Chaos? Self-determination? Iranian hegemony? A new caliphate?

New York Times nytcolumns

Iraqis Near Deal on Distribution of Oil Revenues The oil law would give the central government the power to distribute oil revenues to the provinces based on their population

CSIS Commentary on the Iraq Study Group Report BRZEZINSKI | CORDESMAN | FLOURNOY

Weekly Standard It's Up To Bush
The Baker group and many of Bush's advisors have failed the president. It's up to the commander in chief now.
by Robert Kagan & William Kristol

Back to Your Studies The unbearable shallowness of the Iraq Study Group. by Reuel Marc Gerecht

Baker à la Carte
How Bush will pick and choose from the 79 varieties of recommendation.
by Fred Barnes

Financial Times Fresh drive for sanctions on Iran France, Germany and the UK launched a new UN drive to impose sanctions on Iran, calling all countries to prevent the supply of goods that could help its nuclear enrichment and reprocessing programmes.

WSJ How Syria May Hold Key to Iraq The Baker panel sparked calls for the U.S. to engage Syria, raising the possibility of a policy shift that could put Washington on a collision course with Israel.

Brookings An Analysis of the Iraq Study Group Report Listen to this event (mp3)

NYT China, Shy Giant, Shows Signs of Shedding Its False Modesty China is discussing what it means to be a major world power and has stopped denying that it intends to become one soon.

Washington Post Dangers in a Dollar on the Edge By Robert J. Samuelson (repeat)

Asia Times A door opens for US-Iran cooperation Opponents of Iran have dubbed as "surrealism" rather than "realism" the call by the Iraq Study Group for the US to solicit Tehran's cooperation over Iraq. Yet Iran is sending sufficient signals to back this approach, and there is a window of opportunity as long as the two sides delink Iran's nuclear program from the Iraq issue. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Guardian A revolt against broken forms of government Martin Kettle: A crucial lesson from the Iraq war reveals hubris in the White House and the failure of centralisation in Downing Street.

Jerusalem Post Consensus to surrender? Will inviting Iran and Syria to join an "Iraq Support Group" reduce Iranian influence in the region?

Juan Cole article today at Salon.com, "Will Bush choose his new friends over his old?

U.S. Still Trying to Micromanage Mideast - Robert Robb, Arizona Republic

A Mess Team W Can't Fix - Lawrence Wilkerson, New York Daily News

Asia Times How To 'Congage With China' By: John Feffer Ever since Richard Nixon's Big Opening, Washington has never made up its collective mind about China. It vacillates between the "Blue Team" worried about the China Threat and the "Red Team" that supports engagement. The result is a strange hybrid of containment and engagement that might be called "congagement".

H2 FT Spotlight: Recep Tayyip Erdogan – A shadow across EU table One of the iconic images of European diplomacy in recent years shows Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey, glad-handing his way through a meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels.

Guardian Why a huge earthquake near Istanbul seems inevitable
Nervous residents of one of Europe's largest cities face devastation within 30 years.

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Mahmur kampı ve Türkiye'nin dışladığı Kürtler'in kilit rolü

Translation of KRG president statement about Baker-Hamilton Report

BBC Kurds brand report 'unrealistic' Iraq's Kurdish leader criticises a report by the US Iraq Survey Group, branding it "unrealistic and inappropriate".

İlnur Çevik Baker, Hamilton display Iraq's realities in report

Barzani, Irak raporuna öfkeli

Baker raporundaki Kerkük tavsiyesi Barzani'yi kızdırdı

Kayhan İran'la işbirliğine sebep çok -

Independent Turkish offer to trade with Cyprus 'not enough', says EU

EU Tells Turkey 'No Shortcuts' To Membership

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

Iraq-Kurds talks on budget and oil fail

HPG: Skorsky'i biz düşürdük

Baydemir: Ilısu'yu durduracağız

The Baker-Hamilton Report: Analysing state of occupation and . invasions rather than realistic solutions
KurdishMedia

Sadi SOMUNCUOĞLU
Kıbrıs’tan Irak’a oyun içinde oyun

PKK'nin misilleme saldırısında ölenler oldu

Bir örgütün varoluşunun nedeni belli bir mücadelede ona duyulan gereksinimdir

ITC İngiltere Temsilcisi Haber’e konuştu Türkmenler’in umudu BM’de

AP: Alevilere ayrımcılık yapılıyor

Ruslar, Erdoğan gibi lider istiyor

Zsa Zsa Gabor Türkiye’de casusluk yapmış

Google News Greece - Cyprus

[Yorum - Şahin Alpay] Edebiyat olimpiyadının altın madalyası Orhan Pamuk'un

Serdar Turgut
Kendimi Orhan Pamuk’un babasıyla özdeşleştirdim

Cengiz Çandar Orhan'ın Nobel'ini gözyaşlarıyla ıslattık...

Taha Kıvanç Tarih yazıldı ve ben oradaydım

İsmet Berkan - Taşrada olmak taşrada kalmak

[Yorum - Prof. Dr. M. Mustafa El-Azami] Oryantalistler neden reddedilmeli (II)

Mehmet Kamış Ordu ne zaman siyasete karışmaya başladı?

Abdülhamit Bilici 'Molla', 'Büyük Şeytan'a yardım eder mi?

Faik Bulut A new US policy towards Iran and Syria

'Tarihçi' Murat Belge

Los Angeles Times Editorial

It's Still About Oil In Iraq By: Antonia Juhasz

Bush calls for new tactics in Iraq White House spokesman Tony Snow acknowledges that changes president is considering will be limited

Current History--the annual Middle East issue, January 2007

H3 Dışişleri Genelkurmay ve Köşk'e bilgi vermiş

İki müsteşar gidip anlattı

Tepki neye? Murat Yetkin Genelkurmay Başkanı'nın tepkisi karara katılması yerine son anda 'haber verilmesine' mi?

Artık çok geç Gündüz Aktan

A, B, C planları ve dünyanın ABC'si
BAHADIR KALEAĞASI -

Fikret BİLA Baykal'a göre Erdoğan 'taksitle ödeme' öneriyor

Ankara, Brüksel'in belge ısrarına rağmen süreci sözlü sürdürecek

Irak güvencesi Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, spekülasyonlara noktayı koyarak, İttifak'ın Irak'ta eğitim ve planlama dışında rol almasının söz konusu olmayacağını söyledi ... Haberin Devamı>>>

PKK ile mücadele gündemimizde değil

Yaşar Paşa bilmez mi? M.Ali Kışlalı

Barçın Yinanç Çıkmayan candan ümit kesilmez

Sami KOHEN Türkiye'nin atağı AB gündemini değiştirdi

Sürpriz hamle AB'yi böldü

FEHMİ KORU Şimdi ne olacak?

FATİH ALTAYLI Asker bilgilendirilmişti ama...

MEHMET BARLAS Kimin neden sinirlendiğini anlamak mümkün...

Yusuf KANLI
Is there hope of salvaging the EU bid?

Büyükanıt'ın yersiz çıkışı Hakkı Devrim

İlter Türkmen Çırpınan Türk diplomasisi

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Zor karar

Metin MÜNİR Gözünüz aydın, bir çıkmazınız oldu!

İsmail Küçükkaya
Değişen seçmen eğilimi üzerine

AB belge istiyor

'Açılım sapmadır'

AB: Öneri yetersiz

Atina: Gafil avlandık

Gül, Rice'tan destek istedi

Cami diplomasisi
. Haberin Devamı>>>

Bush AB sürecini destekliyoruz

Plassnik'in yeni önerisi: Türk-Avrupa Topluluğu

Semih İDİZ Papa'daki büyük değişimi görmek işlerine gelmiyor

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

NAZLI ILICAK 'Altın Gol' (!)

ÖMER LÜTFİ METE
Köre boncuk sağıra düdük

Ertuğrul Özkök İlginç bir medya kulisi

Yalçın Doğan Liman ve havaalanları baştan sona çürük iddia

Enis Berberoğlu Rumlar doğru anladı bizim kafa karıştı

Mahir Kaynak Kim değişecek?

One in four people unemployed in Çukurova and Central Anadolu ...

Ege Cansen Mış gibi yapıp rant yaratmak

Gazi Erçel Finansal istikrarın koordinasyonu

Seyfettin Gürsel En iyi yanıt, yapısal reformlar

Deniz Gökçe
Dolar-Euro paritesi nereye?

Taha AKYOL Asya'da yeni bir 'kaplan'

H4 New York Times nytcolumns

Iraqis Near Deal on Distribution of Oil Revenues The oil law would give the central government the power to distribute oil revenues to the provinces based on their population

MAUREEN DOWD The Oval Intervention The Council of Elders tries to deprogram the defiant decider.

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Reagan’s Forceful Envoy, Dies

In the Polonium Poison Mystery, an Odd Italian Footnote

Iraqis Line Up to Put Hussein in the Noose Hundreds of people have already started lobbying to become the executioner for Saddam Hussein.

H5 Washington Post Iraq Talks Focus on Viable New Strategy Options considered include, securing Baghdad with surge of troops, utilizing military to hunt al-Qaeda, and strengthening support of majority Shiites.

PostGlobal If the American era in the Middle East is ending, as argued by some analysts, what is likely to replace it? Chaos? Self-determination? Iranian hegemony? A new caliphate?

House Backs Nuclear Sales to India Measure Is Intended to Cement U.S. Ties With the Asian Power

GOP Senator Calls Iraq Policy 'Absurd,' Urges Pullout

Rumsfeld Discusses Successes, Failures Defense Secretary Says Abu Ghraib Was a Low Point

U.S. Denies Liability in Torture Case

Attorney Urges Dismissal of Detainee Suit Against Officials

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, 1926-2006

U.N. Ambassador Upheld Reagan Doctrine

H6 Guardian A revolt against broken forms of government Martin Kettle: A crucial lesson from the Iraq war reveals hubris in the White House and the failure of centralisation in Downing Street.

Radical Muslims must integrate, says Blair PM backs attempts to limit wearing of veil in public.

Rumsfeld's final message: we'll succeed in Iraq Outgoing defence secretary rejects study group's proposals

Troops investigated over shooting
Military authorities investigate allegations that UK soldiers shot indiscriminately on Afghan civilians following suicide bombing.

Palestinian PM vows never to recognise Israel
Tony Blair plans final peace push but few believe he will succeed.

H7 CFR Multiple Iraq Reports to Compete for President’s Attention

Asia Times Iraq heading the Lebanon way Saudi Arabia and Iran, Iraq's two most powerful neighbors with a direct stake in its future, could become a source of permanent instability for that country. It all sounds worryingly like a return to the travails experienced by civil-war-struck Lebanon. - Iason Athanasiadis

Juan Cole article today at Salon.com, "Will Bush choose his new friends over his old?

U.S. Still Trying to Micromanage Mideast - Robert Robb, Arizona Republic

A Mess Team W Can't Fix - Lawrence Wilkerson, New York Daily News

Asia Times How To 'Congage With China' By: John Feffer Ever since Richard Nixon's Big Opening, Washington has never made up its collective mind about China. It vacillates between the "Blue Team" worried about the China Threat and the "Red Team" that supports engagement. The result is a strange hybrid of containment and engagement that might be called "congagement".

Boston Globe Presidential ingratitude

Viewpoint: Take the Iraq Study Group's advice By Mark N. Katz

Washington realist A new US policy towards Iran and Syria

Washington Note Should We Worry About The Force Left Behind in Iraq?

Morgan Stanley Global Global Lessons By Stephen S. Roach

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

Arab Reaction to the ISG Report MoreM

Latin American republics, Japan and Germany, former Soviet bloc lands, and tigers of Asia: many have chosen democracy. Why not the Arabs? The question still stands... more»

US Commander & 2008 Iraq Withdrawal VOA 08 Dec 2006 -- Gen. Chiarelli says it might be possible for most U.S. combat forces to withdraw from Iraq by early 2008

BBC Hezbollah chief 'plotting coup'

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora accuses the leader of the Hezbollah militant movement of plotting a coup.

SyriaComment Encouraging Sectarian War as a Means to Bring Down Asad

Paying for Iraq’s Reconstruction: An Update 30 pages; PDF Congressional Budget Office

Report of UN Security Council Mission to Afghanistan From a UN Pulse post: Direct to Full Text (S/2006/935).

Iraqi insurgent group now 'blogging about bombings'

Bill Clinton Supports Dialogue With Iran...

H9 Ha’aretz -

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

Jerusalem Post Consensus to surrender? Will inviting Iran and Syria to join an "Iraq Support Group" reduce Iranian influence in the region?

US Affairs: Terms of engagement
By MATTHEW E. BERGER The stick of American pressure on Israel may be the key carrot for Iranian agreement to talk to US.

Editor's Notes: Iran the vulnerable?
[ DAVID HOROVITZ

Column One: Jews Wake Up!
[ CAROLINE GLICK,

Analysis: Israeli slams ISG ideas

World's Jews are horrified/ Goldstein

Who decides who's a Jew?

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Bush living LBJ's lesson
By RON HUTCHESON, McClatchy Newspapers "I don't think it's worth fighting for and I don't think we can get out," President Lyndon Johnson said in 1964. Now President George W. Bush is living that lesson in Iraq, stuck in a box with no clear path to victory and no easy exit from an unpopular war.

BBC US House backs India nuclear bill The House of Representative in the US approve legislation allowing the export of civilian nuclear fuel to India.

Mid-terms fallout on nuclear deal

South Asia arms race - paranoia?

Two standards question for Bush

Asia Times The Dragon's metamorphosis Many people might gag at the juxtaposition of the words "China" and "democracy". But the vast sweep of modern Chinese history - minus some stumbles such as the Cultural Revolution - has been toward greater personal freedom. The West's focus on China's imperfections reflects its own bias and feelings of superiority. - David Gosset

H11 IHT We must do better
KOFI ANNAN One of my priorities as secretary general has been to try and restore hope by making human rights central to all the UN's work

Giving credit where it's due MUHAMMAD YUNUS Little did I know that walks into Jobra village would lead me to walk across a stage in Oslo this Sunday to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

The United States and the European Security and Defense Policy: Old Fears and New Approaches Source: RAND Corporation + Full Report (PDF; 1 MB)

CRS "The United States and Europe: Current Issues," updated November 21, 2006

Subsidiarity in Regional Policy Newgov
A 16-page draft paper examining European regional policy

OpenDemocracy Lebanon on the brink - but of what? | Zaid Al-Ali

A liberal logic: reply to Fred Halliday | Jacqueline Kaye | Fouzi Slisli

The Iraq Study Group report: an assessment | Tareq Y Ismael

USIP Event: Experts Discuss the Iraq Study Group

H12 RFE/RL Kazakhstan Democracy, Energy, And Ambiguity

Doubts about democracy and increasing hydrocarbon clout are poised to determine the country's position on the international arena. How comfortably can they coexist?

CIS: The Generation That Never Knew The Soviet Union

Google News Azerbaijan

EDM WILL ECONOMIC SANCTIONS BECOME A LEGITIMATE TOOL OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY?

- AZERBAIJAN KEEPS SOLIDARITY WITH GEORGIA DESPITE RUSSIAN ENERGY SUPPLY CUTS

- OSCE’S YEAR-END CONFERENCE: A FAILURE THAT HELPS CLARITY

BBC Born after the USSR
Young Russians struggle for identity in post-Communist era

Rosneft Moves to Ease Dependence on West Europe

Bulgaria, Russia: Surplus Weapons and Old Grudges Stratfor

Russian tycoon in crime investigation
Accused money launderer; Friend of dead spy; Seen in public with Neil Bush.

Time Keeping Russia's Deadly Politics at Home

H13 The Times Religious Split Could Set Region on Fire The conflict between Sunni and Shia is spilling out of Iraq and bodes ill for future of country’s neighbours.

Blair Tries to Bridge Gap Between Bush and 'Realists' on Iraq Strategy

Matthew Parris
Tony Blair will like the Baker report. It is dishonest and shows how to weasel a way out of trouble

Leader Something to Hide? Moscow is breaking a promise to co-operate in the Litvinenko affair

Spies sent 'to seize cash from Yukos exiles' Just before he was murdered Litvinenko claimed to have uncovered a Russian plan to claw back millions from wealthy Russians who fled to the West

Disturbing echo of youth group that lauds Putin New Russian youth movement Nashi says they will put an end to the unnatural union of oligarchs and anti-Semites, liberals and Nazis

WSJ How Syria May Hold Key to Iraq

The Baker panel sparked calls for the U.S. to engage Syria, raising the possibility of a policy shift that could put Washington on a collision course with Israel.

Baker-Hamilton Won't Stop Beltway Bloodshed - Daniel Henninger

Jeane Kirkpatrick
Her blunt style and strong defense of liberty will be missed.

The Accidental Inflation Hawk
The Bernanke Fed hasn't always been graceful or elegant, but it has been mostly right. By MARC SUMERLIN

H14 Financial Times Fresh drive for sanctions on Iran France, Germany and the UK launched a new UN drive to impose sanctions on Iran, calling all countries to prevent the supply of goods that could help its nuclear enrichment and reprocessing programmes.

James Baker A family’s candid friend

Bush to outline Iraq policy by Christmas

Oil groups dream of day they can enter Iraq While the stability of Iraq under the former regime had been buttressed by oil revenues, today the struggle for control over these resources is threatening to tear the country apart.

Moscow, London, old enmities and new moneyThe saga of the fatal poisoning in London of Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB officer, becomes ever more convoluted, writes Quentin Peel.

Peacekeeping blues UN forces are working to control the world’s most intractable conflicts. But are they doing any good?

Tea with the FT: Muhammad Yunus Give the man credit for helping millions of people

Subjection of women ‘harms Arab world’ Arab governments should adopt affirmative action to tackle discrimination against women which is hindering economic and social development, a group of Arab reformers and intellectuals has urged in a new UN report

Arab states seize on call for peace drive

Annan attacks US anti-terror strategy

Former UN ambassador Kirkpatrick dies at 80

Editorial The sick man recovers after a lengthy illness As the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development noted in its latest Economic Outlook, the eurozone's "gross domestic product grew at a 3½ per cent...

Radical EU energy reform blocked France and Germany have joined forces to block a radical shake-up of Europe’s energy market – a move that will prevent some of the region’s biggest power companies being broken up.

No half measures for hooliganism A number of serious incidents recently indicate that the criminal and constitutional challenge of football hooliganism has returned with a vengeance, writes Christopher Caldwell.

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial

It's Still About Oil In Iraq By: Antonia Juhasz

Bush calls for new tactics in Iraq White House spokesman Tony Snow acknowledges that changes president is considering will be limited

Speaking Frankly About Israel And Palestine By: Jimmy Carter

Editorial At least he read it

Bush acknowledges that the Iraq Study Group's report is 'important.' But will he take its advice?

Hawks strike back Opinion L.A.: Conservative bloggers unleash their fire on Baker's Iraq Study Group.

Afghan war nears 'tipping point'

U.S. Anti-Drug Efforts in Afghanistan to be Bolstered

Deport civic idiots! Rosa Brooks: Why not give native citizens the new naturalization test for immigrants?

H16 American Politics President slips to all-time low in the Zogby Poll as key demographic groups jump ship

Bush Reaction to Report Worries Father's Aides ,,

Democrats frustrated by Bush's reaction to Iraq report

Leave Iraq now; don't wait until 2008 election day By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY,

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

THOMAS B. EDSALL The Rascals on the Right While religious leaders and social conservatives have claimed veto power over Republican presidential candidates for 2008, there are at least three reasons to doubt this will take place.

Uploading American Politics By Raul Fernandez, Fueled by innovative applications that let citizens create and publish their own content, the Internet changed the balance of power in the House and Senate.

H17 Daily Telegraph Leader Has Blair seen the multi-culturalism light?
Multi-culturalism portrays itself as a means of celebration: in fact, it is an invitation to all minorities to complain about their victimhood. And, when this self-pitying worldview comes into contact with religious fanaticism, the results can be – literally – explosive.

Islamist Fury over UN Force for Somalia

H18 Independent Your carbon footprint revealed: 11 tons a year The first research to calculate a carbon footprint for the average British citizen shows the environmental damage we cause.

Rupert Cornwell: Realism finally returns to Washington

Kremlin hits back by smearing dead Russian spy The Kremlin has launched an aggressive public relations war designed to undo the damage caused by its claimed involvement in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.

Was entrepreneur used as a cover by Litvinenko assassins?

Leading article: Diplomatic interests must not stop justice

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

House Armed Services Committee Defense Review Report (PDF; 1.61 MB) Source: U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee

Defense secretary laments Abu Ghraib in farewell

CRS "Sea-Based Missile Defense -- Background and Issues for Congress," December 4, 2006.

"9/11 Commission Recommendations: Implementation Status," December 4, 2006.

"U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues," updated October 17, 2006

FEDS ARREST MAN THEY SAY PLANNED TO DETONATE GRENADES IN ILLINOIS SHOPPING MALL

Abu Ghraib whistleblower living in fear...

H20 Slate the undercover economist How economists measure whether you're ...

Government Publishes 'Skeptics Guide' To Global Warming...

H21 Occam's razor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chain stores and restaurants make towns in America all look alike. Yes, to some extent. But how different were those towns in the 1950s?... more»

Darwin left Cambridge at age 23 with good manners, enough money, and a habit of intense concentration, but no specific ambition. That came later... more»

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The International Migration of Knowledge Workers: When Is Brain Drain Beneficial? Source: Institute for the Study of Labor + Full Paper (PDF; 295 KB)

American Hero — Jeane Kirkpatrick, 1926-2006. Norman Podhoretz / Weekly Standard:

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Sporting losers In so many ways, Britain is on a winning streak. British culture and society is widely admired. London's theatres, museums and galleries are among the most visited in...

Unseen Marilyn Monroe photographs released...

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