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H1 Charles Krauthammer Past the apogee: America under pressure Historically, whenever one country has arisen above all the others in power, anti-hegemonic alliances immediately formed against them

McClatchy Officials: Bush weighing deeper commitment in Iraq

New York Times Sectarian and Ethnic Lines in Sand Stall Provision of Iraqi Oil Law

Military Considers Sending as Many as 35,000 More U.S. Troops to Iraq, McCain Says

Washington Post In Baker's Blunder, A Chance For Bush By Charles Krauthammer,

The Iraq Study Group's instant irrelevance has given us one last chance for success in Iraq.

What Syria Would Say By David Ignatius Is Syria ready to talk with America about stability for Iraq, peace with Israel and compromise in Lebanon? The country's foreign minister says yes.

Rice Says U.S. Won't Engage Iran, Syria

WP The War Bush Wouldn't Pay For By E.J. Dionne Jr., The administration's decision to keep its tax cuts and put the war on a credit card has put the country in a corner.

Top U.S. General Says Army Will Need to Grow Iraq and Afghanistan Are Straining the Force, Chief of Staff Warns

From Der Spiegel, an interview with Gilles Kepel on 9/11, democracy in the Muslim world and the way Europe treats its Muslims

Three neglected factors – Israel, oil, and American exceptionalism – underpin the United States's foreign-policy disaster in Iraq.

Asia Times Soured Sunni deal ends one US option US talks with Iraq's Sunni resistance organizations to explore possible American support for a Sunni military force directed primarily against Shi'ites broke down over Sunni demands for a US withdrawal timetable. Now it's back to the battlefield. - Gareth Porter

The Search for an Iraqi Kingmaker By: Iason Athanasiadis | Asia Times
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's days appear numbered, especially as the Bush administration is courting rival Shi'ite leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, who is close to Iran.

The Life and Death of an Iraq Plan
New York Observer

Boston Globe Let the Iraqis decide (By Ellen Goodman) May I suggest an exit strategy? Why not hold an election? Why not ask people to vote on whether American troops should stay or go?

Washington Times Editorial A case for additional troops

Christian Science Monitor Could Iran help US in Iraq? Though Bush has so far resisted, pressure is mounting for direct US talks with Tehran.

In Lebanon, the rise of Hizbullah provokes dissent from some Shiites They worry that its quest to topple the Western-
backed government will hurt their interests.

Financial Times COMMENT: America and Europe must learn about alliances In many cases the very allies who bitterly complained about the US president’s unilateralism a short time ago have been reluctant to do their part in helping multilateralism succeed, write Ivo Daalder and James Goldgeier.

Rice lying low at the Mideast crossroads

EU to start closing doors to the east

Saudi Aramco revealed as biggest group

Castro near death: Negroponte...

UPI Outside View: A list of Iraq do's and don't's

Guardian Iraqis can't be blamed for the chaos unleashed by invasion Jonathan Steele: Only those who live there can solve Iraq's problems, but Bush and Blair must bear prime responsibility for igniting them.

Tougher entry rules stall EU enlargement

Independent Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's WMD

LA Times Iraq Needs a Pinochet By: Jonah Goldberg An Iraqi Pinochet would provide order and put the country on the path toward liberalism, democracy and the rule of law. You might say: "This is unfair. This is a choice between two bad options." OK, true enough. But that's all we face in Iraq: bad options.

In Iraq, The Fix is in By: Tom Engelhardt The Baker-Hamilton report, like the war-game exercises before the Iraq invasion, makes too many assumptions.

Robert Fisk: Who's running Lebanon?

Prospect Imminent collapse is not on the cards for China. On the other hand, how bright is China’s future? Will Hutton and Meghnad Desai debate... more»

H2 The Economist Kurdistan America between the Turks and Kurds

Turkish Kurds in Iraq Lonesome rebels

Turkey and Europe The blackballers' club

Charlemagne Enlargement troubles

FT COMMENT: Turkey's loss will be another strategic defeat for the westThe US’s mistake was to believe it could remake the Middle East with its military might. Europe’s strategic error is to imagine it can shut out chaos beyond its borders, writes Philip Stephens.

EUROPE: Setback for Merkel over Turkey highlights divisions in Berlin

IHT Merkel signals support for Turkey's EU membership Just weeks before Germany takes over the European Union presidency, the Chancellor hints at a subtle shift in her policy on accession.

Private equity firms buy ProSiebenSat.1 for €5.8 billion

PINR "Current Geostrategy in the South Caucasus" Full text of report

FT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Anatolian tectonic plate moves Turkey in direction of Europe

EUROPE: Sacrificial camel leads to some soul-searching among Turks

Economist: Türk askeri baharda Kuzey Irak'a girebilir

4 makaleyle Türkiye

EU Slows Turkey's Membership Talks

McClatchy Christmas a major event in mostly Muslim Turkey

Iraq oil law stuck on contracts

Baker-Hamilton is anti-Kurd

Radikal Yüzyılın projesi

Türkiye ile İsrail'in ortak projesi hayata geçtiğinde enerji dengeleri değişecek. Boru hattından sadece petrol değil doğalgaz, su ve elektrik de taşınabilecek

BBC Kurdish champions
Football is prospering in Iraqi Kurdistan

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Türkiye-Ermenistan Havadan serbest karadan yasak!

Founder of Atlantic Records dies
Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, who made stars of Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, dies, aged 83.

Ertegun's Death May Jepordise The Sale Of Tgrt To Murdoch

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

İlnur Çevik Baker-Hamilton report has angered the Kurds

ABD, Irak'ta 'çıkmazın boynuzları'nda NEJAT ESLEN -

Faik Bulut Battle of recommendations!

Zorunlu Göçe Dair Tüm Politikalar Değişmeli

All Policies on Internal Displacement Void

Baker-Hamilton report has angered the Kurds New Anatolian

Iraq: Kurds Warn Against Delaying Kirkuk Referendum

Online Petition for Kurdish Choices
Kurdish Aspect

Kurdish guerrillas debate democracy in northern Iraq

Tiare's Notebook Without Power

Turkey Sentences Woman for Pro-Kurdish Party Comments

The ISG’s Missed Trip to the Kurdistan region By Denise Natali

Google News Greece - Cyprus

Telekulak krizinde Vodafone’a ceza

14 Aralık 2006

Konuğumuz Orhan Pamuk'un çevirmeni Maureen Freely

NATO: Comprehensive Political Guidance North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Decrepit Russia vs. Dynamic China - Doug Bandow, The American Spectator

French Foreign Policy: The Glory Days Are Passing - The Economist

America and Iraq

The war over the war

H3 Liderler zirvesinde onaylandı, AB treni yavaşladı

Taha Kıvanç 'Darbe' yazısının peşinde…

Güler Kömürcü Asker baharda K. Irak'a girerse ne olur?

Bizim Irak maceracıları M.Ali Kışlalı

TDN Down but not out, generals warily eye polls

Cengiz Çandar Next step for Turkey on the EU path: Staying the course ...

Birand AB geride kaldı, sırada Çankaya var…

Ruşen Çakır Mezheplerle oynayan kaybeder

Bilal Çetin Erken seçim tartışması mı Çankaya kavgası mı?

Erken seçim Haziran 2007'de (mi?)

Ersin Özince AB'ye muhtaç değiliz

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Çankaya taktikleri...

The petition for independent of Kurdistan

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

Ferai Tınç Kıbrıs tuzakları

Türkiye-ABD Savunma Grubu Toplantısı

Yusuf KANLI Where is Turkey's interest?

Making a mockery of Havel's 'moral minimum' Semih İdiz

Cengiz Çandar Tüm yazıları AB karşıtları haklı mı çıktı?

Kulislerin gündemi Türkiye

İfade özgürlüğü kurumlarımıza da lazım İsmet Berkan

[Yorum - Hugh Pope] Türkiye'ye bir şeyler oluyor!

15 Aralık 2006 Basın Özeti

The Independent: AB, Türkiye'ye karşı iyi niyetini ortaya koymalı

[Yorum - Didier Billion] AB derin kriz içinde, Türkiye günah keçisi

'Askı' örnek oldu
Türkiye'yle müzakerelerin askıya alınması, AB adaylarına "örnek" oldu. AB zirvesinde, "Kurallara uyulmamasının karşılıksız kalmayacağı" mesajı verildi ... Haberin Devamı>>>

Rumlardan ilginç teklif: KKTC ticaret için bizim limanlarımızı kullansın

Bakın, bunları bir Avrupalı yazmış!
Haluk Şahin

Ermeni Patriği'nden AB üyelerine, 'Türkiye'yi sıkıntıya sokmayın' mektubu

Blair’den Ankara'ya destek ziyareti

İngiliz Bakan'dan Le Monde'da Türkiye savunması

Sami KOHEN / Talat kızgın, ama karamsar değil...

Abdülhamit Bilici Talat da umudunu kaybederse!

Taha AKYOL / Tony Blair hoş geldi

Fikret BİLA / Sezer sordu, Erdoğan cevapladı: 'Sizi kastetmedim'

Hasan CEMAL / Menfaat denklemi!

Avrupa'nın Türkiye'ye yaklaşımı son derece ikiyüzlü

AB sürecini zora sokan tarih
AHMED HALİL

Taha Kıvanç

Fehmi Koru

NAZLI ILICAK Büyükanıt'tan demokrat tavır

Ömer Lütfi Mete Devletsizlikte devamlılık

Mustafa Ünal Erken seçim olsun mu?

Tamer korkmaz Yirmi Sekiz

MHP, CHP'ye sine-i millet çağrısı yaptı

Vahap Munyar Cari açığı düşürecek yatırımlar istiyoruz

Ercan Kumcu Hizmetler dengesi dış açığı kurtaramıyor

Güven Sak Ne oluyor, yavaşlıyor muyuz?

Yangına körükle gitmek...
Uğur Civelek

Güngör URAS / Enflasyon yüzde 4, faiz yüzde 21 (...bu ne iştir?)

Faik ÖZTRAK / Büyüme neden yavaşladı? (1)

Hurşit GÜNEŞ / Büyüme düşüşünün etkileri

ERDAL ŞAFAK2007'yi bırak 2030'a bak!

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Döviz hesabı rekor kırıyor namus elden gidiyor mu?

Saruhan Özel Cari açık şaşkınlığı

Tayfun Devecioğlu ProSiebenSat’ın satışı ve Avrupa TV pazarı üzerine bir analiz...

Deniz Gökçe Gidiyor!

Vestel Erke'yi küçümsemeyin bizim de projemiz var

H4 New York Times nytcolumns

White House Upset by Senator’s Trip to Syria

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Whichever Way the Wind Blows The only way for you, Mr. President, to salvage any legacy is to get back in touch with your green Texas roots.

H5 Washington Post In Baker's Blunder, A Chance For Bush By Charles Krauthammer,

The Iraq Study Group's instant irrelevance has given us one last chance for success in Iraq.

What Syria Would Say By David Ignatius Is Syria ready to talk with America about stability for Iraq, peace with Israel and compromise in Lebanon? The country's foreign minister says yes.

Rice Says U.S. Won't Engage Iran, Syria She says neither country should need incentives to foster stability in Iraq.

The War Bush Wouldn't Pay For By E.J. Dionne Jr., The administration's decision to keep its tax cuts and put the war on a credit card has put the country in a corner.

Top U.S. General Says Army Will Need to Grow

Iraq and Afghanistan Are Straining the Force, Chief of Staff Warns

Pakistan Will Have to Reckon With Tribal Leaders, Negroponte Says

Intelligence Chief Pessimistic on Afghanistan and Neighbor

Truman's Trials Resonate for Bush President Battling Terrorism Has Shown Interest In Democrat's Strategies at Dawn of Cold War

Blair Queried In Probe of Party Backers Buying Favor

TV Report of Belgian Breakup Is Fake, but Anger Proves Real Suddenly and shockingly, Belgium came to an end.

Israel Backs Military on 'Targeted Killings' Rule

Court upholds military's right to kill members of terrorist groups, but cautions on innocent targets.

Editorial Pentagon Papers Revisited The Bush administration's ever-expanding war on the First Amendment

Who Cares What You Think By: Dan Froomkin Despite polls consistently showing that a majority of Americans want American troops pulled out of Iraq in short order, President Bush is refusing to even consider that option.

Democratic Sen. Johnson in Stable Condition After Brain Surgery

U.S., China Clash on Currency as Talks Begin

H6 Guardian Iraqis can't be blamed for the chaos unleashed by invasion
Jonathan Steele: Only those who live there can solve Iraq's problems, but Bush and Blair must bear prime responsibility for igniting them.

Tougher entry rules stall EU enlargement

Annan's angry swan song

The arms deal they called the dove: how Britain grasped the biggest prize

West could be sucked into new battleground Watching Somalia right now is like standing on a beach, waiting for a category five hurricane to hit, writes Simon Tisdall.

MI5 chief to resign after only four years in charge

Incentives for peace Faisal al Yafai: Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights is the main sticking point between Syria and Israel, but it is also their key to reconciliation.

Telling it like it is Soumaya Ghannoushi: Jimmy Carter has criticised Israel, but to accuse him of anti-semitism is so outrageous as to be laughable.

The break-up of the Soviet Union was not unplanned Response: While the world focused on Russia, other republics were preparing their own futures, says Ihor Kharchenko

Arms corruption inquiry dropped
'National interest' halts criminal investigation into BAE deals.
UK wooed Saudi politicians
Comment: Ewen MacAskill

Leader Arms and the man
Enough has been exposed, on party funding and on the Saudi deals, to make Mr Blair's decade-old promise of an excess of purity ring awfully hollow.

Police question Blair on peerages
Blair first serving PM to be quizzed as part of a criminal investigation.

Fayed rejects conclusion that deaths were accidental
All conspiracy theories ruled out by Lord Stevens.
Mark Lawson: The end of the story

H7 From Der Spiegel, an interview with Gilles Kepel on 9/11, democracy in the Muslim world and the way Europe treats its Muslims

Three neglected factors – Israel, oil, and American exceptionalism – underpin the United States's foreign-policy disaster in Iraq.

The Search for an Iraqi Kingmaker By: Iason Athanasiadis | Asia Times
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's days appear numbered, especially as the Bush administration is courting rival Shi'ite leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, who is close to Iran.

The Life and Death of an Iraq Plan
New York Observer

Boston Globe Let the Iraqis decide (By Ellen Goodman) May I suggest an exit strategy? Why not hold an election? Why not ask people to vote on whether American troops should stay or go?

Washington Times Editorial A case for additional troops

Let the Muslims fight it out By Diana West Sunni-Shi'ite warfare could provide breathing room.

UPI Outside View: A list of Iraq do's and don't's

It's Time to Take Sides, Call Riyadh's Bluff - Ralph Peters, New York Post

Talking to Iran is a Mistake - Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics

Bush vs. the Two Majorities by Robert Dreyfuss

Mugged by Reality by Sidney Blumenthal

The elusive winning strategy for Iraq
Asia Times Ehsan Ahrari

Wanted, a Churchillian Effort in Iraq - Michael Costello, The Australian

Moment of Indecision: Send More Troops? - Michael Hirsh, Newsweek

Looking to Iran and Syria for Help is a Joke - Jed Babbin, RealClearPolitics

The Neocons' Agenda Must Be Abandoned - Joe Conason, NY Observer

Asia Times Full speed ahead, with menace The Bush administration's six-year neo-conservative line is likely to be pursued with even greater vigor and speed. This will start with Iran, where the nuclear issue is being cynically used by the US and Europe to "sex up" the issue of Tehran's regional ambitions and conveniently to justify early and collective action - even massive military action. - W Joseph Stroupe (Dec 14, '06)
This is the first part of a three-part article.

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

The Economist Iraq How dare you

Iran Denying the Holocaust

Der Spiegel What Is Lebanon? Saniora is still clinging to power. But the opposition, led by Hezbollah, vows to continue its two-week old protests until the government falls. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with members of a number of the parties involved in the dispute

Chalabi Emerges In Damascus On Peace Quest New York Sun

What The ISG Report Forgot To Say About Palestine By: Khader Khader | The Daily Star

BBC Iranian polls to test Ahmadinejad

Specter of Saudi-Iranian Proxy War in Iraq Spooks US

90% of Iraqis Say 'Worse Off Than Under Saddam'

Washington Note Saudi prince 'advocates Iran hit'

Al Awsat Syrian Miscalculations : Tariq Alhomayed

The Baker Report: Impressive but Ineffective, Part 1 of 2 : Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed

KERRY IN CAIRO: Urges Dialogue with Iran, Syria...

The Grand Old Man of Iranian Press Passes Away in America
Asharq Alawsat By Amir Taheri.

McCain Asks Iraq PM to Break With Cleric

Bush's 'new way forward' is into quicksand
BY JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY

US General Puts Onus on Iraqis to End Slide Into Chaos

Survey: US Losing Arab Allies' Hearts and Minds

Saudis Planning to 'Clean Up' al-Qaeda in Anbar

New Commander in Iraq Has a Reputation for Aggressive Action

NPQ Reza Aslan: AMERICA AND IRAN HAVE COMMON INTERESTS IN MIDEAST

PBS Iraqi Vice President Discusses Political Crisis in Baghdad

MEMRI Dec 14 SD# 1393 - Renowned Syrian Poet 'Adonis': 'We, In Arab Society, Do Not Understand The Meaning Of Freedom'

H9 Ha’aretz – Haniyeh threatens to 'deal with' firing on convoy Hamas says Fatah attempted to assassinate Haniyeh; Israel prevents him from bringing $35m into Gaza.

Did someone say nuclear bomb?

Iran: Olmert's nuclear comments are sign of Israel's weakness

Amos Harel IDF the unready

Almost a civil war

Analysis: Building up force is PA Chairman Abbas' top priority

Rosner Missing Truman

Bradley Burston Is Jesus still a Palestinian?

BBC Gaza border shots 'targeted PM' Hamas says shooting at a Gaza border post was an "an assassination attempt" on the Palestinian prime minister.

Profile: Hamas PM Ismail Haniya

Yedioth Ahronoth Attempt on Haniyeh's life
Palestinian PM’s bodyguard killed, his son, another bodyguard and political advisor wounded when gunmen open fire at their convoy as it leaves Rafah crossing; PA official: Abbas' presidential guard responsible

Israel lets Haniyeh cross, but not the $35 million

Bush slams Syria visit

Jerusalem Post Think tank advises pan-Jewish planning
Policy group aims for strategy to deal with threats that endanger all Jews.

83% of Israeli Jews: Ties with Israeli Arabs bad[p. 6]

Solana says EU seeking WMD-free Middle East

Analysis: Stopping the Hamas money flow By detaining Haniyeh, Israel sent a message that Palestinian cash smuggling is coming to an end.

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

The Economist Ariel Sharon Lights and shades

Jimmy Carter: Jew-Hater, Genocide-Enabler, Liar FrontPage

an interview with Mordechai Vanunu, atomic mole

Former Mossad Chief: Israel Does Not Have Nuclear Weapons

Everybody wants to know, but nobody wants to ask: Why are Jews funny?

Uproar over 'stunt': CNN's Blitzer gives airtime to David Duke

Rattling the Cage: Holocaust denial and Jewish liberals
Larry Derfner, THE JERUSALEM POST,

Dec 15 SD# 1397 - Iran Holocaust Denial Conference Announces Plan to Establish World Foundation for Holocaust Studies – To Be Eventually Based in Berlin and Headed by Iranian Presidential Advisor Mohammad-Ali Ramin Who Has Said: 'The Resolution of the Holocaust Issue Will End in the Destruction of Israel'

Daily Star Blair's last Arabian expedition needs a new moral compass

H10 Christian Science Monitor Could Iran help US in Iraq? Though Bush has so far resisted, pressure is mounting for direct US talks with Tehran.

In Lebanon, the rise of Hizbullah provokes dissent from some Shiites They worry that its quest to topple the Western-
backed government will hurt their interests.

Shiite? Sunni? Learning who's who.

While some in Congress make gaffes, other US institutions bone up on Muslim culture.

Liberté, egalité, fraternité - but less so for women

Most French women still find themselves less than equal in politics and the corporate world.

Morgan Stanley Stephen Roach From Globalization to Localization

China and the uses of uncertainty Asia Times

The Economist India's nuclear plans The home front

Japan-India Partnership Key To Bolstering Stability In Asia By: Brahma Chellaney | The Japan Times

Washington Times Editorial U.S.-China trade talks

India to seek Japan's support on nuclear energy

India: Asia’s rising elephant--Part 5

India - an Emerging Giant A conference organized by Jadgish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, professors of Indian Economy, Columbia University

Prospect Imminent collapse is not on the cards for China. On the other hand, how bright is China’s future? Will Hutton and Meghnad Desai debate... more»

H11 IHT NATO inducted Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia into its pre-membership program

The global clash of emotions DOMINIQUE MOÏSI In a clash of emotions, the Western world displays a culture of fear, the Arab and Muslim worlds are trapped in a culture of humiliation, and much of Asia displays a culture of hope

Meanwhile: Giving Muslims the tools to take on Shariah MONA ELTAHAWY
Where is the emphasis in Shariah on kindness, mercy and social justice that lies at the heart of Islam?

The Economist French foreign policy The glory days are passing

Charlemagne Enlargement troubles

A Post-Gaullist, Pro-American France?
American Enterprise Institute

Urban rioting in France has highlighted that assimilation policy is outdated. A "French multiculturalism" needs to be introduced along with a rethinking of the system of political representation.

BBC EU backs strict expansion rules

Analysis: The CIA's German victim

Heritage Foundation The EU Constitution: Will Europe Force a Way Forward?

H12 RFE/RL

PINR "Current Geostrategy in the South Caucasus" Full text of report

Google News Azerbaijan

The Economist Russian energy After Sakhalin

Vladimir Putin's Russia Don't mess with Russia Russia's habitual abuse of its energy muscle is bad for its citizens, its neighbourhood and the world

The Litvinenko affair Murder most opaque

Radioactive toxins Choose your poison

EurasiaNet Armenia: Arrest of Government Critic on Coup Charges Prompts Concerns

On the Nagorno-Karabakh Frontlines

The NATO-Russia Partnership: A Marriage of Convenience or a Troubled Relationship? SSI

Ukraine's leaders in bitter fight (Natalia A. Feduschak)

H13 The Times Gerard Baker There is nothing left for lonely Bush except one more push for success

Cash for Dishonour The background to the Saudi case is complex — the conclusion is unfortunate

No engagement, no pregnancy, no assassination - one by one, all the conspiracy theories are killed off

Wall Street Journal Panned in Baghdad Iraqis reject the Baker-Hamilton report.

Call to Add U.S. Forces Is Resisted

Bush is considering a temporary "surge" of 20,000 U.S. troops to help stabilize Baghdad and speed training efforts. But Iraqi officials and even U.S. generals aren't keen on the idea.

Hair-Raising New World Use the market to help keep the peace.
By HENRY SOKOLSKI

Pascal Lamy Multilaterals and Bilaterals - Friends or Foes?

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: America and Europe must learn about alliances In many cases the very allies who bitterly complained about the US president’s unilateralism a short time ago have been reluctant to do their part in helping multilateralism succeed, write Ivo Daalder and James Goldgeier.

THE AMERICAS & MIDDLE EAST: Rice lying low at the Mideast crossroads

EU to start closing doors to the east

Saudi Aramco revealed as biggest group The world's biggest company is controlled by Saudi Arabia and is not listed on a stock exchange, according to new research by the Financial Times and the management...

New chief vows to restore trust in UN

Key US senator in critical condition US Democratic Senator Tim Johnson was critically ill but stable after brain surgery for a potentially deadly bleeding that could deprive his fellow Democrats of their razor-thin hold on the new Senate.

Editorial A damaging cave-in to Saudi Arabia

Blair bows to pressure on jobs

THE AMERICAS & MIDDLE EAST: Siniora bides his time in the Grand Serail

WORLD NEWS: Israel prevents return of Palestinian PM

FT REPORT - CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: Russia tests the limits of realism

FT REPORT - CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: Resisting eastern expansion

FT REPORT - CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: Living in the long shadow of a resurgent Russia

FT REPORT - CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: Skilled workers fuel investment

FT REPORT - CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: The rise of populism

THE AMERICAS: White House hits out at senators' Damascus visit

COMMENT: Happiness is a fortunate by-product With the demise of full-blooded socialism, the opponents of market capitalism have fallen back on three remaining policy pillars, writes

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial Chatting with China The focus should be on property rights, not on currency, in talks with China.

Iraq Needs a Pinochet By: Jonah Goldberg
An Iraqi Pinochet would provide order and put the country on the path toward liberalism, democracy and the rule of law. You might say: "This is unfair. This is a choice between two bad options." OK, true enough. But that's all we face in Iraq: bad options.

In Iraq, The Fix is in By: Tom Engelhardt |
The Baker-Hamilton report, like the war-game exercises before the Iraq invasion, makes too many assumptions.

US spy agency answers Iraq Study Group report

FT COMMENT: Why we need to rethink the exchange rate systemThe recent flurry in foreign ex­change markets highlights the fact that global exchange rate arrangements, viewed as a system, are not fit for purpose, writes Vijay Joshi of Merton ­College, Oxford.

COMMENT: Britain asa nation of innovative citizens and consumers

Editorial Moralism kills hope of less vicious vice Morality is choosing to live one's life by a code of behaviour. Moralism is inflicting a puritanical code upon others.

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Hidden value: how unlisted companies are eclipsing the public equity market

H16 American Politics

Time And the Frontrunner Is... John Edwards?

Democrats and the Johnson Crisis - Elearnor Clift, Newsweek

realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec

CSM THE MONITOR'S VIEW

Taking 'Obama-mania' in stride

'Dark epitaph' for departing Rumsfeld
Rove says he's 'done with politics'; W. House wants Cheney logs kept secret.

Jonathan Alter on 2008: The Contenders—The Shadow-Boxing Begins.

A SAFE Approach to the Energy Debate Stratfor

Fitzgerald Mum on Cheney in Leak Case

H17 Daily Telegraph Diana: the truth, the whole truth and conspiracy theories

It was a mistake for the coroner to have commissioned this white elephant of an inquiry, says Andrew Roberts.

Police question Blair on 'cash for honours' Tony Blair has become the first serving prime minister to be interviewed by the police in a corruption inquiry as the "cash for honours" investigation moved to the heart of the Labour government.

No release for Guantanamo detainees

The hard core of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp will be held indefinitely even if there is insufficient evidence to bring them to trial, a Bush administration official has warned

BBC UK ends fighter fraud probe

The UK Serious Fraud Office has ended its corruption inquiry into a £6bn fighter plane deal with Saudi Arabia

H18 Independent Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's WMD

The full transcript of evidence given to the Butler inquiry

Anne Penketh: Saddam seen as no threat - then politicians got to work

Robert Fisk: Who's running Lebanon?

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Top general: Army 'will break' without thousands more troops

U.S. to Defend Space with Military Force By: Bill Gertz | The Washington Times The United States will use military force in space to protect satellites and other space systems from attack by hostile states or terrorists, the Bush administration's senior arms-control official said

NATO: Comprehensive Political Guidance Source: Source: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Rumsfeld Farewell Message

H20 Slate For now, Obama's scandal is too small to hurt.

The Economist Economics focus Shots across the Stern

“Newsweek Enterprise focuses on energy this week, with contributions from Al Gore and Fareed Zakaria. The premise of Daniel Yergin's cover story is that sustained high oil prices will lead to a renewable energy bonanza that "could rival the Internet boom."”

H21 From TLS, a review of Satan: A biography; Stages of Evil: Occultism in Western theater and drama; Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual combat in early Christianity; and Satan the Heretic: The birth of demonology in the medieval West

Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammad Yunus argues that it's time global capitalism gave up its strongest-takes-all ethic

Introducing Google Patent Search

10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2007

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