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18 December 2006
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H1 Washington Post Bush Is Loath to Budge President's challenge is to change direction in Iraq without sacrificing core principle of steadfastness

NYT Brainstorming on Iraq: The Whispers and the Why Nots The capital awaits a masterstroke on Iraq, and even a radical proposal of Darwinian proportion is part of the buzz.

ARMED FORCES JOURNAL - Plan B for Iraq - November 2006 by Ralph Peters

NYT If You Love Lebanon, Set It Free By ROBERT GRENIER The best hope for American interests in the Middle East is not to isolate and minimize Hezbollah, but to further integrate it politically, socially and militarily into the Lebanese state.

Iraqi Chief Calls Forum to Press for National Reunification; Major Groups Are Absent

Newsweek Zakaria: Time to Move Beyond Iraq

The Observer US accused of using aid to sway votes in UN security council

WP The Grandest Strategy Of Them All By Daniel W. Drezner

Doubts About Iraqi Leader's Capabilities Persist Uncertainty Puts In Question Plan To Shift U.S. Role

Los Angeles Times How to talk to enemies By Joseph McMillan Negotiating with Iran and Syria can pay off, but only if we know what we're doing.

No talks with Iran and Syria By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey Negotiating with adversaries can be useful, but this time we'd have to give up too much

New manual at odds with key Iraq tactics

Iraqi army open to Hussein loyalists The government will let Baathists 'whose hands

Newsweek Syria: Partner or Spoiler?

CBS Powell: We Are Losing In Iraq Exclusive: Former Secretary Of State Says More Troops Isn't The Answer

Sunday Telegraph Two kinds of dictator: ours and theirs. A large number of old dictatorships limp on, from Cuba to North Korea to Zimbabwe. What's worse, a new generation of strongmen is now emerging, who are more skilled than their predecessors at disguising the mailed fist of intimidation in a velvet glove of rigged elections, writes Niall Ferguson.

Imperialist Iran - Amir Taheri, New York Post

The Region: US primacy lives
[ BARRY RUBIN

Ha’aretz - Zvi Bar'el: Israel may secretly want Hamas to win again

Financial Times MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA: Abbas's gamble deepens strife with Hamas

Policy Review Iraq: Last Chance
A political settlement before any withdrawal. Robert Zelnick

Flynt Leverett, "Dealing with Tehran: Assessing US Diplomatic Options Toward Iran." (A pdf of the article can be downloaded here.)

The Israel Quandary Robert D. Novak

A New Mideast, or Wishful Thinking? Fred Hiatt

Newsweek Roach: The World Is
Unprepared for a U.S. Slump

Garten: Can Indian and
Chinese Firms Go Global?

NYT A War That Abhors a Vacuum By BEN CONNABLE The debate over the future of troops in Iraq must include a sober look at the street-level impact of withdrawal.

Christian Science Monitor Palestinian turf wars picking up steam President Mahmoud Abbas called Saturday for early elections. Hamas says it won't participate.

What Iran vote says of Ahmadinejad's support

Time Person of the Year: You
Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.

Foreign Policy The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006

New Yorker Eclectic, Reminiscent, Amused, Fickle, Perverse Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records, died on December 14th. In 1978, George W. S. Trow wrote about the legendary music executive. Read Part One and Part Two.

Russia: CIA Helped Pasternak Win Nobel Prize RadioFreeEurope /RadioLiberty

H2 Guardian Despite the chorus of pious hope, Turkey is not going to join the EU Geoffrey Wheatcroft: There will be no place at the table for Ankara in any foreseeable future, and the most profound reason is geographical.

NYT Book Review Turkey’s Killing Fields 'A Shameful Act' By TANER AKCAM Reviewed by GARY J. BASS - A historian digs into state records to explain the Armenian genocide.

Cyprus’ Military Balance: Greek and Turkish Forces in Comparison
Balkanalysis.com

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

URGENT APPEAL FROM THE IRAQI TURKMENS TO THE EUROPEAN AUTHORITIES ...

Kerkük'te şartlar düzeltilmezse Türkmenler referanduma katılmayacak

Ferai Tınç Tartışmalı toplantıya beklenmedik destek

Komisyonla çözülür Terör örgütü PKK'nın lideri Abdullah Öcalan, Kürt sorununun çözülebilmesi için sivil toplum örgütü temsilcileri, akademisyenler ve bilim adamlarından oluşturulacak bir komisyonun kurulması gerekt...

Ahmet Türk: Ankara'ya coğrafi ve hissi mesafeleri kapatmak için yürüyoruz

Barzanî: Federal sistemin uygulamaya geçmesi sorunları çözer

Abdullah Öcalan: Devlet samimi davranmadı, Anlamıyorum neden böyle oluyor?

Öcalan'ın Sırdaşı Pilot Necati Bulundu

Ragıp Duran Kürt Meselesinde ABD Çıkmazı

MAHMUT ÖVÜR 'Mehmet Ağar, De Klerk, Yaşar Kemal, Tutu olmalı'

PKK "eylemsizlik" kararı aldı ama...

Düz ovaya indiler

Sadi SOMUNCUOĞLU
Kıbrıs geriye, PKK beriye: Yürüyüş değil,isyan haberi

DTP'li başkan: Kaleyi boşalt, turizme açacağız

Vedat YENERER ABD ile ipleri atan Barzani’den tarihi isyan çağrısı !..

Dink 'Kürtler ayrılıkçı politikaya prim vermesin'

Talabani İstanbul konferansı tehlikeli

Barzani, Irak için af önerdi

Barzani: federalism would solve Iraq’s problems

Reliance Industries eyes Kurd oilfields

K.Irak Kürtlerinden İsviçre'de temsilcilik

Jalal Talabani Kommersant

The Baker-Hamilton Report: Undoing Kurdish gains

Iraq: American and Kurdish interests collide

PUK and internal conflict: the loss of more political ground The latest resignation of one of the prominent figures of PUK reformist, Mohammed Tawfiq, delivers another blow to the PUK leadership.

Turkey, the Kurds, and the EU

A Christmas Message To Jalal Talabani and Masoud Barzani

A letter to US president Geroge Bush
KurdishMedia

Daniel Fried - End-of-Year Review

Google News Greece - Cyprus

Stanford Shaw American Historian, Known for his Work on Ottomans, Dies

In Memoriam | Stanford J. Shaw (1930-2006)

Pope in Turkey: boom or bust for ecumenism

Ertuğrul Özkök Sizi arka kapıdan alırız 1940’lı yılların sonlarına doğru, Türkiye’nin Washington Büyükelçisi, ilginç bir mektup alır.

Mevlana ve günümüz tarikatları AVNİ ÖZGÜREL

Özdemir İnce Türkik diller konuşan halklar

İnternete kimlik numarasıyla girilsin teklifi

Hilmi Yavuz Oryantalizm Üzerine: Şerif Mardin'in Yanılgıları

Sezer vetolarda Evren'i geride bıraktı

Bor`da ABD`yi solladık..

New Turkish Ambassador to Israel

Ekrem Dumanlı Yeni bir gazeteye 'hoş geldin' derken

Gazi Erçel Büyüme ve yapısallaşan cari açık

Sosyal güvenlik sistemini adam edemeyen yoksulluğu azaltabilir mi?
Fatih Özatay

Erdal Sağlam Erdoğan cumhurbaşkanı olursa Durmuş Yılmaz gidici

Ercan Kumcu Önce devlet kendi parasına saygı duymalıdır

Piyasalardaki katılıkları gidermek yapısal reformdur

Saruhan Özel Merkez Bankası neden uyarıyor?

Yaman TÖRÜNER Stanley Fischer ne diyor?

Güven ortamını bozan düşük büyümeye de razı olur Fatih Özatay

Faik ÖZTRAK
Büyüme neden yavaşladı? (2)

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIMFaizi Merkez değil Başbakan belirler

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU Doğalgazda büyük hesaplaşma

H3 Yasemin CONGAR
ABD'nin Irak'ta çıkış arayışı

Burası Washington 7 - ABD’nin yeni Irak stratejisinde Türkiye’nin yeri ne olabilir?

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Silah ihalelerinden dışlanmayan ABD, PKK işine daha fazla sarılabilir...

Ordu gücünü korumak için yeni strateji buldu Prof. Mithat Sancar'a göre Cumhurbaşkanı Sezer'in erken seçim telkini Anayasa'ya aykırı. Sancar: Kamuoyu önünde konuşup kriz havası yaratmak ordunun yeni stratejisi.

Türkiye'de demokrasi ve ABD ÖMER TAŞPINAR

Semih İDİZ
Irak'ta denge Kürtlerin aleyhine değişiyor

Selçuk Gültaşlı [BRÜKSEL] 'İnsanın köpeği ısırması' ve Avrupa'yla ilişkilerimiz

Ruşen Çakır Artık İran ve Suriye’nin borusu ötüyor

Ateş etseydik 60-70 ABD askerini öldürürdük

’Çuval olayı’nın kilit ismi konuştu

METEHAN DEMİR Askerden haber getiren kabzımal

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ 'Sorun başörtüsü değil'

İmtiyazlı ortaklığın içini doldurmaya çalışıyorlar 'İmtiyazlı ortaklık AB'nin askeri olmaktır'

Fuat Keyman AB, Türkiye'den neden vazgeçemez?

Lillikas'tan yeni tehdit
Kıbrıs Rum yönetimi Dışişleri Bakanı Yorgos Lillikas, ''Türkiye, uluslararası kuruluşlara üyeliğimizi veto ederken yeni müzakere başlığı açmamızı kimse beklemesin'' dedi.

Cüneyt Ülsever Recep Tayyip Erdoğan olsaydım ne yapardım

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

Cengiz Çandar Tüm yazıları

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş Baykal neden Lübnan'da?

SOLİ ÖZEL Asıl soru...

Hasan ÜNAL İlahi adalet

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Askeri havacılık sanayiinde atılımın sırrı akılda...

Taha Kıvanç

TAHA KIVANÇ Demokrasinin günah galerisi

Türkiye Doğu'ya yöneliyor MUHAMMED NUREDDİN -

Fehmi Koru

FEHMİ KORU Nalıncı keseri

NAZLI ILICAK

Ömer Lütfi Mete Ankara, 'yeter' diyebilecek mi?

Erken seçim çok zor Altan Öymen

CHP lideri Baykal: Kaçmanın bedeli ağır olacak Murat Yetkin

Enis Berberoğlu Uçakta bu defa hangi soruyu sormayacağım

Nuh Gönültaş Madem bana inanmıyorsunuz, bari Huge Pope’a inanın!

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Sezer, ilk kez patronlara söyledi

Fatih Çekirge Genelkurmay’a Sahap haritası

ERDAL ŞAFAK Rejimin dengeleri

Hasan Ünal Ertuğrul Özkök'ün 28 Şubat itirafı

CHP Meclis'ten çekilir mi?
İsmet Berkan

Bilal Çetin
CHP sine-i millete dönecek mi?

Mustafa Ünal Sille-i millet…

Tuncay Özkan CHP en geç Şubat’ta sine-i millete dönecek

Hakan Aygün ABD, Türkiye’de “seçim sondaj”ında...

Şakir Süter AKP-Sezer ve Demirel

Eser Karakaş Cumhurbaş-
kanlığı, Erdoğan ve büyük teoriler

Şamil Tayyar Ağca’dan MİT’e transfer oldu, Sezer affetti

Mümtazer Türköne 2007 senaryoları

Ferai Tınç Ne derlerse desinler Türkiye zirvesiydi

Fikret BİLA / Blair'in moral ziyareti

The storm in a European Union teacup YÜKSEL SÖYLEMEZ

Blair'den KKTC'ye iyi haber

Avrupa'nın ruhunu oluşturan nedir? Ulrich Beck

Ermenilerden AB'ye çağrı: Türkiye'ye karşı bizi de kullanın

Ermeni lobisi güçleniyor

İslam dünyasını bölme planı amacına ulaşmak üzere
MUHAMMED EL SEMMAK

İsmail Küçükkaya
Baykal'ın Ortadoğu analizi...

Şükrü KÜÇÜKŞAHİN : Baykal, kargalardan da önce gülmüştür

Ali BulaçKur'an'da sağ ve sol

Fikret ErtanKazakistan ve İran

Türkiye milletvekilliği için partilere mektup yolladık

Sosyal güvenlik reformu Anayasa'ya aykırıdır(!) Tarhan Erdem

Vatan Dev ihaleyi alan şirketin merkezi 1.5 milyar dolarlık Zeytinburnu Yat Limanı’nı yapacak şirketin merkezi, Maltepe’de bir apartman dairesi çıktı

90 bin memurun emeklilik kaosu

Yeni Sosyal Güvenlik Yasası'nın emeklilikle ilgili maddesinin iptali emekli olacak 90 bin memur için belirsizlik yarattı. Yılbaşına kadar yeni düzenleme yapılmalı

H4 New York Times nytcolumns

If You Love Lebanon, Set It Free By ROBERT GRENIER The best hope for American interests in the Middle East is not to isolate and minimize Hezbollah, but to further integrate it politically, socially and militarily into the Lebanese state.

Iraqi Chief Calls Forum to Press for National Reunification; Major Groups Are Absent

Legal System in Iraq Staggers Beneath the Weight of War By MICHAEL MOSS The system in Iraq for detaining, charging and trying suspects has become another weak link in the rule of law.

Brainstorming on Iraq: The Whispers and the Why Nots The capital awaits a masterstroke on Iraq, and even a radical proposal of Darwinian proportion is part of the buzz.

A War That Abhors a Vacuum By BEN CONNABLE The debate over the future of troops in Iraq must include a sober look at the street-level impact of withdrawal.

How Iran’s Leader Keeps the West Off Balance For Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, being compared to Adolf Hitler is better than being asked about civil liberties in Iran.

Iran Offers Nuclear Skills

Editorial Observer: A Speculator’s Guide on What’s Happening in Putin’s Russia By SERGE SCHMEMANN We may never learn who killed Alexander Litvinenko or why. But that doesn’t mean the murder doesn’t figure in Kremlin politics.

DAVID BROOKS This Age of Anxiety If you spend time poring over the highlights from a year’s worth of magazines, you get a window on the spirit of the times.

Former U.S. Detainee in Iraq Recalls Torment

After Deadly Clashes in Gaza, Leaders Appeal for Calm

H5 Washington Post Bush Is Loath to Budge President's challenge is to change direction in Iraq without sacrificing core principle of steadfastness

The Grandest Strategy Of Them All By Daniel W. Drezner

A New Mideast, or Wishful Thinking? Fred Hiatt Rice obviously thinks that former secretary of state James Baker just doesn't get how the Mideast has changed since he last plied the peacemaking shuttle 15 years ago.

The Israel Quandary Robert D. Novak

Stretched Too Thin We Don't Have Enough Troops to Meet Defense Demands By Kevin Ryan,

Doubts About Iraqi Leader's Capabilities Persist Uncertainty Puts In Question Plan To Shift U.S. Role

A Call to Hussein-Era Soldiers Iraqi Premier Urges Members of Disbanded Army to Join New Force

Results in Iranian Vote Seen as Setback for Ahmadinejad

Powell Says U.S. Losing in Iraq, Calls for Drawdown by Mid-2007

Hearts, Minds and Voodoo By Lawrence E. Harrison, The war in Iraq has produced many casualties. One lesser-noticed one may be the death of an idea -- the idea that the culture of a nation or region can be transformed quickly by well-intentioned foreigners.

America, MIA in The Gulf By Jim Hoagland

The Russians Whodunit AgainBy Charles McCarry, It 's a case stranger than fiction. Or is it?

Hundreds of Russians Detained Before Protest

Misunderstanding Afghanistan By Craig Charney and Gary Langer, Afghanistan's problems are real and deepening. They demand major military, reconstruction and diplomatic efforts before dashed expectations turn into active discontent. But the situation is hardly catastrophic.

Hamas Rejects Plan by Abbas To Call Elections

Britain's Blair Visits Iraq


Gaza Violence Escalates

Editorial Intelligence Ignorance A nimble step on spending oversight; a fumble on personnel

The Risks of Too Much City By Jeremy Rifkin, Our urban way of life have been purchased at the expense of vast ecosystems and habitats. We need to ponder how best to lower our population and develop sustainable environments.

U.S. Sees Growing Threats In Somalia

Al-Qaeda's Influence, Possible War With Ethiopia Are Concerns

Capitalists We Don't Trust Sebastian Mallaby

H6 Guardian Blair gets up close to his distant goals Patrick Wintour: It is often said that all political careers end in failure. But few end in frenetic failure. No one can accuse Tony Blair of not going the extra thousand miles for peace, leaving the grey bureaucracy of the EU in Brussels on Friday afternoon, heading for Ankara, followed by the heat of Cairo.

Leader Ending illusions It speaks volumes about the dire state of the Middle East that a foreign head of government visiting Iraq dare not stray beyond the heavily fortified 'green zone' in central Baghdad and that the entire Gaza Strip.

Ethics are dead. Long live BAE!
Larry Elliott: This week's abject assertion of realpolitik showed a very British kind of corruption.

Bush accused of gagging critic of Iran policy Former CIA analyst barred from publishing a critical newspaper commentary on American policy towards Iran.

The Observer US accused of using aid to sway votes in UN security council

Leader The BAE affair sends all the wrong signals The government decided that the Saudi alliance was more important, in the long-term, than anti-corruption law.

H7 Victory: Frederick Kagan has a plan for success in Iraq.

Spencer Ackerman on Fred Kagan's disastrous plan for "victory" in Iraq.

Policy Review Iraq: Last Chance
A political settlement before any withdrawal. Robert Zelnick

Flynt Leverett, "Dealing with Tehran: Assessing US Diplomatic Options Toward Iran." (A pdf of the article can be downloaded here.)

CBS Powell: We Are Losing In Iraq Exclusive: Former Secretary Of State Says More Troops Isn't The Answer

Key Advisor To Bush Recommends Sending 40,000 More Troops To Iraq For At Least A Year

Reid: Brief troop increase OK in Iraq

Victor Davis Hanson reviews Fiasco: The American Adventure in Iraq;

From Conversation with History, an interview with Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman, authors of Ethical Realism

A review of Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Conflict in the Middle East; Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic; and Iran's Nuclear Ambitions.

From Time, an interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Steve Clemons: Flynt Leverett Blasts White House National Security ...

Bush's 'new way forward' is into quicksand The power brokers in Washington spent the week carefully arranging fig leaves and tasteful screens to cover the emperor’s nakedness while he was busy pretending to listen hard to everyone with an opinion about Iraq while hearing nothing.

V D Hanson Things are coming to a head

From The National Interest, J-Curve Economics: Robert VerBruggen on a theoretical argument for development, not democracy, in Iraq.

Kofi's UN: More Scandal Than Peace - Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Old American Century: Twenty Years of Realist Foreign Policy

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

McClatchy Al-Maliki reaches out to the country's Sunni minority

BBC Iran reformist regains influence
Iran's moderate ex-President Rafsanjani wins election to Iran's powerful clerical body, marking a surprise comeback.

Newsweek Syria: Partner or Spoiler?

Imperialist Iran - Amir Taheri, New York Post

Uniting Against Al-Sadr Shi'ite, Kurdish, and Sunni parties are said to be discussing a government not reliant on the political support of radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr

Washington Times Iraqi factions spurn summit Iraq's prime minister reached out to Sunni Arabs at a national reconciliation conference yesterday, urging Saddam Hussein-era officers to join the new army and a review of the ban against members of the former dictator's ruling party.

Iran Offers to Share Nuke Tech with Gulf States

Ahmadinejad allies fail to sweep Iran vote

Time People Who Mattered: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
An Interview with Iran's Agitator

Clinton's defense chief warns of Iraq 'quagmire'

Egypt's Pro-Democracy Movement Divided

Daily Star Palestinian clashes are the inevitable result of outside pressure, meddling

Lebanon's war altered the region
By Amr Hamzawy

Resolving the Middle East's crises needs integrated efforts
By Christian Hanelt

Washington’s Iraq Dilemma: Dialogue with Syria Could Serve Bigger Purpose

Analysis: Secret to figuring out Syria's intentions

Nuke row merits ‘new grand bargain’

H9 Ha’aretz - Zvi Bar'el: Israel may secretly want Hamas to win again

Editorial Don't turn Syria away

ANALYSIS: The fragile cessation of a Palestinian civil war

Preparing for a civil war

ElBaradei's nightmare While Arab states continue to describe a Israel as the source of the threat to regional stability, their decisions to become nuclearized are more influenced by Iran.

Olmert: Now is not time to start talks with Syria, Bush opposed

PM associates: Syria will support terror, even with Golan

ANALYSIS: Abbas prepares for battle - one of these days

BBC Palestinian factions 'agree deal' Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah agree to a deal to end fighting in Gaza, officials of both groups say.

Palestinian unrest alarms press

Poll call a 'risky political move'

McClatchy Palestinian power struggle has major implications

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

Yedioth Ahronoth Hamas, Fatah agree on truce

'No reason for dialogue'

Senior Israeli official: Conditions for talks are clear, but Syrians are not doing the minimum

Peres: There Are Preconditions for Talks With Syria

Neocons: We Expected Israel to Attack Syria

Ahmadinejad good for Jews/ Ben-Ari

The Nation Many Israelis and their American allies are sleeping through the rise of the virulently anti-Arab Avigdor Lieberman.

Rabbani on Palestinian politics

Ours is not a nation like all others
Jerusalem Post

Analysis: Secret to figuring out Syria's intentions

Analysis: The looking glass war
Pity the Syrians trying to analyze Israeli headlines on Sunday.

ArmsControlWonk Israel and Nuclear Opacity

Israel’s nuclear ambiguity BY PHILLIP KNIGHTLEY

Expecting rain: a letter from Jerusalem | Fred Halliday

H10 Christian Science Monitor Palestinian turf wars picking up steam President Mahmoud Abbas called Saturday for early elections. Hamas says it won't participate.

What Iran vote says of Ahmadinejad's support

Opinion: A predecessor's lessons for Robert Gates

Escalating air war costs NATO Afghan supporters Air strikes have led to innocent deaths as the Taliban use civilians as human shields.

Newsweek Roach: The World Is
Unprepared for a U.S. Slump

Garten: Can Indian and
Chinese Firms Go Global?

Is China Subsidizing its Exports or Subsidizing US Imports?

Tom Barnett It's just not a straight line world

An interview with Rebiya Kadeer, the Uighur Dalai Lama

BBC Migrant power
The foreign workers at the heart of the world economy

Tom barnett KnoxNews China's next set of leaders, America's next challenges

H11 IHT Priorities for a new Europe
The EU must make clear that its policy protects the interest of all its countries and people and that it is strong and unified in enforcing it.

Merkel faces growing rebellion over health reforms

Newsweek International: Ségolène Royal The woman who may be France's next leader is much more than a pretty face.

Newsweek Al Qaeda’s Western Recruits

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

Russia softens stance on Iran Sanctions

H13 The Times Leader Back to the Cauldron Halting violence in the Middle East will take more than a few months

Tim Hames To expect an Israeli-Palestinian settlement to deliver Middle East harmony is intellectually ludicrous

Hardliners defeated in Iran's twin elections

Russia defies West and goes ahead with nuclear fuel sale to Iran

Sunday Times Police to quiz top Blair aide Jonathan Powell, the chief of staff, will be interviewed under caution next month after police uncovered e-mails implicating him in the scandal

Blair snubbed by Bush move to send more troops to Iraq

The Impossible Mission of Changing China - Irwin Stelzer, Sunday Times

SIMON JENKINS:
Cloak, dagger, bluff and Tony's nervous protector

Wall Street Journal

H14 Financial Times MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA: Abbas's gamble deepens strife with Hamas

MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA: Ahmadi-Nejad suffers setback in Iran elections

EU trade chief to reject ‘green’ tax plan The European Union’s trade commissioner will on Monday dismiss French proposals for a “green” tax on goods from countries that have not ratified the Kyoto treaty as not only a probable breach of trade rules but also “not good politics”.

EUROPE: Europeans see religion as no bar to joining union Support for further enlargement of the European Union has fallen in the UK and Spain in the past six months, but a majority in the EU’s five largest countries believe religion should be no barrier to EU entry.

COMMENT: Sanctions would force a change of policy in Sudan If the international community is to protect the people of Darfur, it must convince Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir that his best interests are served by allowing deployment of an effective international peacekeeping force, say 15 former foreign ministers. By Madeleine Albright, Lloyd Axworthy, Ismail Cem, Erik Derycke, Lamberto Dini, Gareth Evans, Joschka Fischer, Bronislaw Geremek, Rosario Green, Niels Helveg Petersen, Ana Palacio, Surin Pitsuwan, Lydie Polfer, Jozias van Aartsen and Hubert Vedrin

NATIONAL NEWS: Mission improbable for Blair in Mideast

FRONT PAGE - FIRST SECTION: Gaza violence Street battles ahead of Blair visit

MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA: MORE US TROOPS NEEDED TO STOP SUNNI 'CLEANSING', SAYS IRAQ VICE-PRESIDENT

COMMENT: A dangerous precedent for corporate corruption The statement that ‘the wider public interest...outweighed the need to maintain the rule of law’ sets a dangerous precedent, writes Wolfgang Munchau

H15 Los Angeles Times How to talk to enemies By Joseph McMillan

Negotiating with Iran and Syria can pay off, but only if we know what we're doing.

No talks with Iran and Syria By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. CaseyNegotiating with adversaries can be useful, but this time we'd have to give up too much

New manual at odds with key Iraq tactics

Iraqi army open to Hussein loyalists The government will let Baathists 'whose hands are not stained with blood' reenlist.

Ties that bind Iraqi forces break easily

Iran Election may show conservatives split

Tyranny, realism and Jeane Kirkpatrick By David Rieff Liberals today sound an awful lot like the neoconservative realists of the Reagan era.

One dictator, two Chiles By Ariel Dorfman At the general's funeral, two grandsons reveal Chile's struggle over Pinochet's legacy.

FT Editorial Good relations needed Before leading a jumbo-sized US delegation to Beijing last week, Hank Paulson, Treasury secretary, cautioned against expecting any big breakthroughs from the visit...

Visiting Blair vows to stand by Iraqis Promise of support in likely final visit

Saudis’ al-Qaeda threat killed BAE fraud probe Saudi Arabia threatened to withdraw all co-operation on security, including intelligence sharing on al-Qaeda, and downgrade its embassy in London, unless Tony Blair scrapped a fraud inquiry into its dealings with BAE Systems.

Editorial Goodwill to all men

EUROPE: Rumours of Roman faith's demise greatly exaggerated

EUROPE: Spain's Moorish past helps Muslims feel at home

Westinghouse scores China nuclear deal China has awarded a multibillion nuclear reactor contract to Westinghouse Electric, the US nuclear power company owned by Toshiba of Japan, giving its technology a central role in the ambitious expansion of the country’s atomic energy sector

H16 American Politics

GOP Contenders on a Tightrope By George F. Will, Events are accelerating the 2008 Republican nomination contest -- and may soon force John McCain and Mitt Romney to make choices they'd have preferred to avoid.

Newsweek Samuelson: Its Time to Rebalance the Economy

Is America Ready for Hillary or Obama?

Will Iraq Still Be the Issue in 2008?

From Rolling Stone, Paul Krugman on The Great Wealth Transfer: It's the biggest untold economic story of our time: more of the nation's bounty held in fewer and fewer hands.

NYT Magazine The Vanishing By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL Why hardly anyone mourns the collapse of George Bush’s authority.

NYT Editorial Unfinished Business The departing Republican Congress has left the new Democratic majority much urgent, unfinished business to restore due process, civil liberties and the balance of powers.

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