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H1 Washington Post President Confronts Dissent on Troop Levels Bush Indicates Military Won't Dictate Numbers; Top General to Retire

New York Times nytcolumns In Iraq, Let’s Fight One War at a Time By REUEL MARC GERECHT The sooner we start to clear and hold the Sunni areas of Baghdad, the better the odds are that the radicalization of the Iraqi Shiites can be halted.

Editorial Rudderless in Iraq Only a political strategy, embraced by Iraqis themselves and backed by American military muscle, can have even a remote chance of altering events, and even that may be too late.

WP Shiite Clerics' Rivalry Deepens In Fragile Iraq In the quest to create a new Iraq, two powerful clerics compete for domination, one from within the government, the other from its shadows.

American Conservative Ivo Daalder & James Lindsay:

Democracies of the World, Unite

We need a Concert of Democracies to manage the global politics of the 21st century. With comments from Gary Hart, Francois Heisbourg, Richard Perle, Christoph Bertram and Anthony Lake.

The Times Anatole Kaletsky
The ideological battle between radical Islam and the West must be fought with Saudi Arabia, not Iran

Ha’aretz – Editorial Respond to Assad, convince Bush

Kosovo’s Status: Difficult Months Ahead International Crisis Group

The Economist The European Union summit Back to the constitution

Time Bush and the Generals: A Growing Split?

Financial Times Editorial Palestinian deadlock

Rumsfeld’s exit signals about-turn on military

NRO MACKUBIN THOMAS OWENS: "Realism" isn't what you think it is. “Realism, Iraq, and the Bush Doctrine”

CFR National Security Consequences of US Oil Dependency (Audio) -- (Video)

Independent Hamish Mcrae: 'BRIC' economies hold the key to building global growth in 2007 ,

Guardian It is possible to respect the believers but not the belief Timothy Garton Ash: We don't have to abandon our own principles to celebrate competing faiths in this multicultural midwinter.

Brown's first job must be to break free of US shackles Max Hastings

Eye on Iraq: The other Iraq report,,

Ahmadinejad's First Defeat - Amir Taheri, Gulf News

Daily Star Giving to Bashar Assad, and taking away
By Michael Young

George W. Bush's last chance in Iraq: an Israeli view By Shlomo Ben-Ami

Surging to Disaster - Lawrence Korb & Max Bergmann, The American Prospect

Christian Science Monitor Bush moves to supersize military

He called for a bigger fighting force for a long war on terror. Congress would have to sign off.

IHT Germany planning tougher European policy on Russia

Weekly Standard Kosovo's Back
(It Never Really Left) It's not so pristine in Pristina. That's still our problem. by James G. Poulos

From Foreign Affairs, Tony Blair on a Battle for Global Values; an article on Saving Afghanistan; and a look at The Challenge of Global Health

The Economist Iran A rebuff for the president

Saudi Arabia Princes at odds

A Two-Way Street With Syria By: David Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale | USA Today
An opportunity is rising out of the ashes in Iraq. The United States clearly could use Damascus' help. What's often overlooked is that Syria's stagnant economy needs a lift, too.

Wall Street Journal Who's Tough on Tehran?
Iranian voters are, but not the U.N. Security Council

For and Against Dialogue with Syria

Washington Institute Crisis in Lebanon: Hizballah, Siniora, and Arab League Mediation

H2

NewsHour w/ Jim Lehrer: Interview with Turkish Prime Minister

FT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: The EU is becoming irrelevant to Turkey's aspirations

VOA News - Turkey Debates Its Future

Ertegun and Cosmos Two of the game's greatest never donned a uniform

Turks acquitted over Chomsky book

Turkey's Erdogan says US should set Iraq timetable

ComingAnarchy.com » Blog Archive » Turkey: Historical Fears and Insecurity

Coups and Hybrid Regimes

The Iraq that Works

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

Time for Iraqi Kurdistan to play its Kurdish cards in neighbouring ...

Güler Kömürcü Bu kritik sorular cevap bekliyor

Rizgari Ödenecek bir bedel var.. ödeniyor..

Neçirvan Barzani: Federal Kürdistan Bölgesi' ne (FKB), %17 bütçe verilmesi üzerine anlaşmaya vardık

Cemil Bayık: ABD Kürt sorununun çözülmesini istemiyor

Kürtlerin hak sorunu yok diyen Erdoğan’a tepki yağdı

The Baker-Hamilton Proposal: An empty promise to America and protracted suffering for the Iraqi people By Rauf Naqishbendi

The Kurds and the ISG: losing friends, losing the war By Dlawer Ala`Aldeen

Cracking Down on Kurdish Criminals Strategy Page

'Türkiye Irak'a yardım etmeli'

Kürtleri yine satmayın, sözünüzü tutun
Mesrur Barzanİ

Ümit ÖZDAĞ
Sağ-sol çatışması yok bölücü saldırı var

KDP’den Anayasa Mahkemesi’ne‘kapatmayın’ çağrısı

Report: The Yezidis Kurds from Tbilisi

AP gıda raporunda ’Kürdistan’

PKK’nın istekleri kriter oluyor..

Ecevit’e göre Maraş olayını MİT planladı

Atabeyler davasının hakimi: Fazla derine inemiyoruz

‘Çuval’ tartışması Meclis’te

Askerin bütçesi daraltıldı

Google News Greece - Cyprus

Kardak'ta ikinci gün gerilimi

Yunan, Kardak’ta tahrikten vazgeçmiyor

Rumlardan şimdi de NATO şartı

ABD'den 'soykırım' demeyen elçiye ret

BBC 21 Aralık 2006 Basın Özeti

Yabancılara bizi tanıtacak el kitaplarımız yok

Azeri’nin yaşlısı Rus genci Türk kanalı izliyor

Orhan Pamuk'a öğrencilerden protesto

Deniz Ülke Arıboğan
Birleşmiş Milletler’e CEO

Letter from 'Ezra'
Burak Bekdil

[Yorum - Alev Alatlı] Bakındı şu İran'ın yaptığına!(1)

İbrahim Kiras ABD başkanı İsrail'e karşı

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU TÜSİAD Başkanı, yarın sağduyu mesajı verecek

[Yorum - Eser Karakaş] Sosyal Güvenlik Kanunu'nun iptalinin düşündürdükleri

Ercan Kumcu Likidite ayarı Merkez Bankası’nın işidir

Erdal Sağlam Sosyal Güvenlik Reformu hálá uygulanabilir

Güngör URAS / Merkez "bir şeyler" pişirmeye çalışıyor

Hurşit GÜNEŞ / Tayland sıcak paraya "dur" dedi

Sanal kur, sanal büyüme
Mahfi Eğilmez

Sosyal güvenlik başka bahara

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Türkiye pozisyonu yeniden revaçta

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN Akbank-Citibank ortaklığı için Rekabet Kurulu'ndan ilginç karar

Asaf Savaş Akat “Düzeltme kaçınılmazdır” tezi

Büyüme öngörülerine bir de böyle bakalım Fatih Özatay

H3 ABD ile sınır ötesi operasyon pazarlığı
Murat Yetkin Pazarlığı yürüten Başer umutlu: Operasyon kararı verirsek engel çıkarmamaları için konuşuyoruz. Şartlarımızı anlayışla karşılıyorlar. Yakında bir sonuç alırız...

Sınır ötesi operasyon için vizeye gerek yok

Loğoğlu 'Çuvalın karşılığı verilecektir'

Ruşen Çakır Erdoğan’dan Amerikan Demokratlarına ilk açılım

Cüneyt Ülsever Türkiye Irak’ta ne yapmalı?

SOLİ ÖZEL Rapor

Halka rağmen adım atmam

Çankaya için son noktayı koydu!

Şahin Alpay Erdoğan aday olmadığını açıklamalı

Cengiz Çandar Tayyip Erdoğan, Çankaya Köşkü'nde otursun mu?..

Birand Erdoğan, köprüleri neden atmadı?

Sami KOHEN / Irak için yeni yaklaşımlar

Erdoğan: Sabrımızın sınırı var

2006 Yılında Türk Amerikan İlişkileri

Yine hayal kırıklığı AB, Ankara'nın beklentilerinin aksine, Türkiye'ye sadece "işletme ve sanayi politikası" başlığında müzakere pozisyonunu hazırlaması için davet mektubu gönderiyor

AB ile tek başlıklı müzakere

Avrupa göz boyuyor

Erdoğan tezleri

MEHMET OCAKTAN ABD'ye güvenerek, 'ara rejim' randevusu vermeyin…

Çankaya savaşına ateşkes önerisi!

BASIN İÇERİ ALINMADI.. Kissinger ve Holbrooke’la görüştü

Kaset Kürtlerde
Talabani’nin oğlunın çuval baskınını çektiği video filminin Barzani’ye yakın bir grubun elinde olduğu ortaya çıktı.

Kürtler baskını önceden biliyordu

Hürriyet'in 'Tim lideri' onbaşıymış

Murat Çelik 4 Temmuz 2003'ten iki önemli detay

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

Baykal Sine-i millete dönmekle engellenmez

Sine-i millete dönmek darbe çağrısıdır İsmet Berkan

Çankaya savaşları ve erken seçim
Nuray Mert

Sorunun kaynağı baraj Altan Öymen

Ankara'dan trajikomik sahneler
Hasan Celal Güzel

Ekrem Dumanlı Başbakan'ın açtığı küçük; ama önemli parantez

ERGUN BABAHAN Asıl korku

4 Kasım'ı hangi partiler önerdi?
Tarhan Erdem

Taha AKYOL / Anayasa Mahkemesi ve bürokrasi

Fikret BİLA / Sine-i millet tartışması

Hasan CEMAL / Anayasa Mahkemesi ve bazı sorular!

Güneri CIVAOĞLU / 'Bit' kriteri

Semih İDİZ / AB, Türkleri rencide etmekte ısrarlı görünüyor

MÜMTAZ'ER TÜRKÖNE - "Sine-i devlet"

İsmail Küçükkaya
Şener’e göre Gümrük Birliği hata

Derya SAZAK / Sine-i millet

Can Ataklı CHP Erdoğan dışında başka bir AKP’li adayda uzlaşacak mı?

Mehmet Tezkan CHP ve MHP’ye destek parayla mı, değil mi?

Cengiz Çandar Tüm yazıları

Taha Kıvanç

Fehmi Koru Cumhurbaşkanlığı ve uzlaşma

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU
Cumhurbaşkanlığı meselesi, krizler ve hamleler

ERDAL ŞAFAK Türkiye'deki cumhurbaşkanlığı seçimi tartışmalarıyla Tayland'daki borsa krizi arasında ilişki olabilir mi? Bakalım.

Yusuf KANLI Warning from Bahçeli

NAZLI ILICAK ABD Büyükelçisi Menemen'i anlatıyor

Ömer Lütfi Mete İhtilal mi kıldan iktidar mı köpükten?

Biz onaylamadan sine-i millet olmaz

Ahmet Hakan AKP’li Dengir Bey’in sine-i millet bombası

Yalçın Doğan Demokrasinin intiharı ya da Sezer’le zirve

H4 New York Times nytcolumns In Iraq, Let’s Fight One War at a Time By REUEL MARC GERECHT The sooner we start to clear and hold the Sunni areas of Baghdad, the better the odds are that the radicalization of the Iraqi Shiites can be halted.

White House Memo: A New Phrase Enters Washington’s War of Words Over Iraq

Wary Generals Tell Gates That Sending More Troops May Delay Security Role for Iraqis

US to Declassify Secrets at Age 25

Bush Asserts That Victory in Iraq Is Still ‘Achievable’

US and Britain to Add Ships to Persian Gulf in Signal to Iran

US Negotiator Notes an Improved Tone in Talks on North Korea

Report Details Archives Theft by Ex-Adviser

H5 Washington Post President Confronts Dissent on Troop Levels Bush Indicates Military Won't Dictate Numbers; Top General to Retire

Shiite Clerics' Rivalry Deepens In Fragile Iraq

BAGHDAD -- In the quest to create a new Iraq, two powerful clerics compete for domination, one from within the government, the other from its shadows.

Gates Talks Over Options With U.S. Commanders in Iraq

A Soldier's Soldier, Outflanked Supporters Say Politics, Insurgency Tied Retiring Commander's Hands

U.S. Transfers Control Of Najaf Province to Iraqi Security Forces

Europeans Yield on Iran Sanctions

Concession at U.N. Aimed at Securing Curbs on Nuclear Trade

Saudi Arabia Set to Name Jubeir as Ambassador

Editorial Al-Qaeda's Sanctuary Pakistan's tribal areas look a lot like Afghanistan in 2001 -- and the Bush administration is tolerating it.

Editorial Fix Needed Congress should correct the mistake it made in eliminating habeas corpus for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

Rice Stresses the Positive Amid Mideast Setbacks What many Americans may see as chaos and turmoil in the Middle East is partly the result of the Bush administration hastening historical forces that are destined to reshape the region, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday.

William Arkin More Troops? Come on.

Berger Hid Archives Papers Under a Trailer, Probe Shows

H6 Guardian It is possible to respect the believers but not the belief Timothy Garton Ash: We don't have to abandon our own principles to celebrate competing faiths in this multicultural midwinter.

Brown's first job must be to break free of US shackles Max Hastings: A new prime minister has the opportunity to do what Blair never could - leave Iraq and face the consequences.

Now Blair must appeal to Iran's moderate Blair claimed yesterday that Iran poses a "strategic challenge" to moderate Middle East governments and the west as a whole, in a message that will gratify the ruling hardliners in Tehran.

Muslims need to take part Salma Yaqoob: Palestinian dispossession is a reason to participate in Holocaust Memorial Day, not boycott it

Russia should be allowed to escape the cliches of its past Hywel Williams: Britain has long cast Russia as a corrupt and destabilising state - because it disturbed the established imperial order.

Bush plans bigger army amid fear of Iraq deployment
Pentagon wants $100bn more for twin campaigns.

Bush Defies Commanders by Bolstering Troops Bush today confirmed that a temporary increase in US troops for Iraq is under consideration, despite the opposition of his top generals.

Thai U-turn Amid Fears of Meltdown in Asia By: Larry Elliot | The Guardian
The Thai authorities were forced into a rapid and humiliating U-turn yesterday after the introduction of tough controls on taking money out of the country prompted the biggest sell-off on the stock market in the country's history and prompted fears of a return of the Asian financial crisis of a decade ago.

Inside the secret world of the BNP
Exclusive: How Guardian reporter Ian Cobain joined the BNP and became central London organiser.
Seven months undercover

H7

Ahmadinejad's First Defeat - Amir Taheri, Gulf News

Surging to Disaster - Lawrence Korb & Max Bergmann, The American Prospect

Behind Bush's
'New Way Forward'
by Sidney Blumenthal

Bush, Asleep in the Bunker by David Corn

Crisis Group Seeks 'Clean Break' in US Strategy

Why Radical Islam--And Why Now? - Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitic

Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach on Ben Bernanke

Boston Globe Editorial A surge without power in Iraq

Democrats Prepare to Fund
Longer War by Alexander Cockburn

The Right Men,
the Wrong President by Leon Hadar

Washington Times Avoiding a Thirty Years War By Richard W. Rahn

Celebrating an oil crisis (Suzanne Fields)

Jeane Kirkpatrick, shadow of the present

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

The Economist Iran A rebuff for the president

Saudi Arabia Princes at odds

A Two-Way Street With Syria By: David Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale | USA Today An opportunity is rising out of the ashes in Iraq. The United States clearly could use Damascus' help. What's often overlooked is that Syria's stagnant economy needs a lift, too.

A Key Player in Lebanon Alters His Part Los Angeles Times In these days of fear and distrust in Lebanon, there may be no man who inspires more venom than Gen. Michel Aoun.

Cracks begin to appear in support for Hezbollah

U.S. transfers security to Iraq in Shi'ite south

In the Minority, Iraq's Sunnis Lack Clear Leadership

Eye on Iraq: The other Iraq report

Reconciliation Conference Fails To Deliver

Bush Admin Considering Alliance With Militant Shiite Cleric In Attempt To Isolate Rival Al-Sadr...

BBC US charges over Haditha killings The US military is to announce charges against a group of marines accused of killing Iraqi civilians in Haditha a year ago.

Haditha: Massacre and cover-up?

Show of defiance
Iran's students protest against 'mass purges' by the hardliners

Iran confrontation
Blair raises the rhetoric in attack on 'extremism'

Tough choices
President Bush faces hard decisions on Iraq in the coming year

Iran: Elections Disappoint Presidential Camp

CFR A Conversation with Tariq al-Hashimi (Audio)

Foreign Policy Seven Questions: War in Somalia

Who's who in Iranian politics

SCOOP: Pragmatic Non-Royal to be Next Saudi Ambassador to the United States

Holy warriors set sights on Iran
Asia Times

H9 Ha’aretz – Editorial Respond to Assad, convince Bush The unreasonable responses to the Syrian president's efforts to draw closer to Israel give rise to concern that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government will go down in history as a belligerent and uncooperative one.

U.S. ambassador appears to confirm Israeli-Saudi contacts

Iran May Hold Talks With Saudis on Diffusing Lebanon Crisis

Benn Four reasons for ranting

Final results show Ahmadinejad opponents win Iran elections

Eldar They build it, we pay

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

The Economist Palestine The spectre of civil war

Jerusalem Post IDF: Hizbullah almost back to full combat strength

Analysis: Will PA infighting degenerate into civil war?

Time: US working to influence Syrian election

U.S. Not Waiting for Palestinian Unity The Washington Times The United States will not wait for Palestinians to agree on a unity government or to hold elections in order to push for a renewed peace effort with Israel and will step up its support for President Mahmoud Abbas

Reiterating the Keys to Peace By: Jimmy Carter | The Boston Globe

Why won't Carter debate his book? (By Alan Dershowitz)

Washington Times Carter's Arab financiers Petrodollars fund global endeavors

Yedioth Ahronoth 'US looking to topple Assad'

OZ Have we not learned a thing?

Expose Syrian bluff/ Ben Yishai

Daily Star Giving to Bashar Assad, and taking away
By Michael Young

George W. Bush's last chance in Iraq: an Israeli view By Shlomo Ben-Ami

Stopgap measures won't save Lebanon from its own fatal flaws

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Al Qaeda was in an uncharacteristically big hurry to criticize Palestinian elections - only five days after the Abbas declaration of new polls More...

H10 Christian Science Monitor Bush moves to supersize military

He called for a bigger fighting force for a long war on terror. Congress would have to sign off.

Pakistan's aid crisis The Pakistani government has blocked much-
needed food aid to war-torn Balochistan.

Opinion: So this is what occupation feels like

Fighting breaks out in Somalia

Islamic militants and pro-gov't forces battle as an EU envoy arrives to promote peace talks.

ASIA

The Economist America and China Big guns, small prizes

Kazakhstan An awkward anniversary

The Challenge of Global Health By: Laurie Garrett | Foreign Affairs
Thanks to a recent extraordinary rise in public and private giving, today more money is being directed toward the world's poor and sick than ever before. But unless these efforts start tackling public health in general instead of narrow, disease-specific problems, poor countries could be pushed even further into trouble, in yet another tale of well-intended foreign meddling gone awry.

Asia's new nuclear race
Asia Times

H11 IHT Germany planning tougher European policy on Russia

Letter From Britain: Saudi defense contracts and the Blair legacy

France uses money, not manacles, for deportation

EUROPE

Furious Poland Threatens to Re-Open German Border Treaty Der Spiegel
More bad news for Poland's rocky relations with Germany: The Polish government, incensed at a compensation claim by an obscure German group representing people expelled from Poland after World War II, has threatened to reopen a 1990 Treaty fixing the Oder and Neisse rivers as the border between the two countries.

Kosovo’s Status: Difficult Months Ahead
International Crisis Group

The Economist The European Union summit Back to the constitution

Muslims in the European Union: Discrimination and Islamophobia
Source: European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) Highlights (PDF; 43 KB)
+ Full Report (PDF; 786 KB)

Sarkozy's enemy within

European attitudes
The EU splits opinion in its newest members

H12 RFE/RLSecurity Ties Among 'Siloviki' On what is known as "Chekists' Day," RFE/RL spoke with a researcher on the ties between the security services and the current ruling elite

BBC Authoritarian Turkmen leader dies President Saparmurat Niyazov, who created a personality cult in the gas-rich central Asian country, dies suddenly.

Obituary: Saparmurat Niyazov

Country profile: Turkmenistan

Eurasianet Armenia: "Oligarchic" Party Gaining Ground Ahead of 2007 Vote

Google News Azerbaijan

H13 The Times Anatole Kaletsky
The ideological battle between radical Islam and the West must be fought with Saudi Arabia, not Iran

British soldier 'gave Army secrets to Iran'
The case was considered so sensitive that after the charge reporters were told to leave

Blair: Arab world must see threat Iran poses
The PM said he believed that Iraq and Afghanistan could still become holiday hotspots for tourists, following the example set by Dubai

Irving freed from prison after appeal on Holocaust denial charge

Wall Street Journal Who's Tough on Tehran?
Iranian voters are, but not the U.N. Security Council.

H14 Financial Times

Editorial Palestinian deadlock

Rumsfeld’s exit signals about-turn on military Less than a week after Mr Rumsfeld finished his six controversial years at the Pentagon, President George W. Bush has repudiated his former defence secretary by asking Robert Gates, the new Pentagon chief, to start expanding the size of the army and marine corps.

NATIONAL NEWS: Striking gulf between Blair's ambitions and reality

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Bush tones down claim that US is winning war

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: AL-QAEDA'S DEPUTY LEADER URGES US TO HOLD DIRECT TALKS WITH RADICAL INSURGENTS

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Gilded age: how a corporate elite is leaving middle America behind At a time when the incomes of average Americans have only recently started to grow again in inflation-adjusted terms after half a decade of stagnation, the CEO windfall is striking – and potentially capable of generating political controversy.

Editorial Other people's carbon

Gazprom poses challenge to EU nations From Portugal in the west to Ukraine in the east Gazprom is expanding its presence in the European market. For the European Union, this rapid development represents both an opportunity and a challenge. While Gazprom insists its motives are purely commercial, its critics say the state-controlled gas group often acts as a political instrument of the Kremlin.

Iran admits oil projects suffering Iran’s oil minister admitted that Tehran was having trouble financing oil projects, in a rare acknowledgment of the economic cost of its nuclear dispute.

Iraq’s top Shia cleric inches towards coalition

Holy city of Najaf handed over to Iraqis

Top US general in Mideast to step down

Israeli PM lifts hope of summit with Abbas

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: A case for more US empire - not less

COMMENT: Why Japan cannot afford to ignore the iconoclasts A shake-up of the order is exactly what Japan needs. In spite of the brutal economic restructuring imposed by a decade of deflation, a tenacious yearning to cling to the old ways persists, says Guy de Jonquières.

COMMENT: Africa's three main problems and how to fix them Since the 1960s, Africa has been diverging from other developing regions at an accelerating rate, a trend that will surely generate unmanageable social pressures, writes Paul Collier, professor of economics at Oxford University.

Are you a religious bigot if you would not cast a ballot for a believing Mormon? The issue arises with the bid by Mitt Romney, governor of Massachusetts, for the Republican nomination in 2008, writes Jacob Weisberg.

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial Pacifism's last stand in Japan

A constitution that bars Japan from military action seems quaint in the face of North Korea's nuclear threat. But right-wingers should tone down the rhetoric.

Subcontinental missiles A U.S. nuclear deal with India will complicate Washington's strategy elsewhere -- such as North Korea.

U.S. weighs Navy buildup in Mideast

Bush seeks 'new way forward' in Iraq

Bush seeks a larger military

Iraqi government reshuffle leaves critics dissatisfied

Top general in Mideast to retire

YouTube Journalism By: Moisés Naím | Los Angeles Times YouTube includes videos posted by terrorists, human rights groups and U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Some are clips of incidents that have political consequences or document important trends, such as global warming, illegal immigration and corruption. Some videos reveal truths. Others spread propaganda and outright lies.

Hitler's Mideast Helpers By: Max Boot | Los Angeles Times
Pointless though it may be to argue with a madman, it is worth noting that Muslims were not as blameless in the genocide of the Jews as Ahmadinejad and his ilk would have it. Arabs were, on a small scale, cheerleaders and enablers of the Final Solution

H16 American Politics

From Human Events, here's a list of ten principles of conservatism

Labor's Man In '08? By Robert D. Novak,

While Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama soak up media attention, John Edwards has pushed for organized labor's support.

Downhill slide for Hillary?

realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec

Report Says Berger Hid Archive Documents

From The Economist, Middle America's soul: If you want to understand America, turn that dial to a country-music station.

US: the conspiracy that wasn’t US: the conspiracy that wasn’t The left in the United States remains distracted by fantastic stories about conpiracies hatched by the Bush administration: in many of these, even the 9/11 attacks are believed to have been an inside job. Yet the chief, and most fearful, characteristic of the Bush administration has been its low level of practical management abroad and at home.

H17 Daily Telegraph Bush puts his hope in one last push

George W. Bush has delayed his formal response to the Baker/Hamilton report until the New Year, but there are already indications that he is thinking of sending an extra 20,000 or more troops to Iraq in a final push to reverse the rising spiral of violence.

Top British Army aide accused of spying

A military aide to the commander of British forces in Afghanistan appeared in court yesterday accused of spying.

H18 Independent Hamish Mcrae: 'BRIC' economies hold the key to building global growth in 2007

Scientists reveal that bears have stopped hibernating

Bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain, scientists revealed yesterday, in what may be one of the strongest signals yet of how much climate change is affecting the natural world.

Michael Mccarthy: A shock to the ancient rhythms of the natural world

King: IMF must reform or face prospect of irreparable damage

Morgan Stanley accused of falsely claiming e-mails were lost in 9/11

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

The Terrorist Mindset: The Radical Loser

The Economist Military doctrine Think before you shoot

Getting Counterinsurgency Right By: Ralph Peters | New York Post
IF a prize were awarded for the most-improved government publication of the decade, we could choose the winner now: "Army Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency" (MCWP 3-33.5 for the Marine Corps). Rising above abysmal earlier drafts, the Army and Marines have come through with doctrine that will truly help our troops.

Essay: Special Operations Forces and War Crimes by Guerillas (PDF; 491 KB)
Source: ExpressO Preprint Series

After Iraq, reservists weigh re-enlistment As the Pentagon seeks to increase the burden on the Army's two reserve components, the Reserve and National Guard, many are taking a hard look at military commitment and choosing family when re-enlistment time arrives

Analysis: A tipping point in Afghanistan?

Outside View: Many faces of Robert Gates

Shake-up among top U.S. generals widely expected

Video: US embassy attack in Syria

Bomb birth certificates. Francis Boyle, a professor of international law who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, says the Bush administration is developing illegal bioterror weapons for offensive use.

Fred Kaplan

From Human Events, here's a list of ten principles of conservatism

State Department Office of the Historian: Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume XII, Soviet Union, January 1969-October 1970

+ Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume XIV, Soviet Union, October 1971-May 1972

+ Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume XX, Southeast Asia, 1969-1972,,

From Germany, Jürgen Habermas praises Ronald Dworkin: " Bearing in mind how exasperated I can get with politics in such fiercely-fought situations..."

From India, an article on the national interest as a flawed notion

Research: Regional Monetary Integration among Developing Countries: New Opportunities for Macroeconomic Stability beyond the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas?

H21 The Economist A Survey of the Brain Who do you think you are?

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