1225-2006f - FOREIGN PRESS REVIEW (FPR) - ‘Relevant news, views, comments and analyses from all around the world’ Compiled by Şanlı Bahadır Koç U.S. / Britain / Turkey / Magazines / Think-tanks / Blogs / Misc /Books / Quickread / Numbers / Reports - FPR Table - Subscribe to FPR

H1 New York Times U.S. Is Detaining Iranians Caught in Raids in Iraq

Resolution 1737 here.

What Surrounds the Iraqi Tinderbox If Iraq should descend into full-blown civil war, could its neighbors be drawn into a much wider conflict?

Iran Is Defiant, Vowing to U.N. It Will Continue Nuclear Efforts

Christian Science Monitor What a 'troop surge' in Iraq might accomplish An increase in US troops in Iraq could also mean a shift in military strategy.

WP U.S. Military Urging Iraq to Rein In Guard Force Service Set Up by Coalition Provisional Authority Is Linked to Sectarian Militias and Death Squads

Jackson Diehl Though 'energy security' has become a favorite topic for discussion at E.U. and transatlantic summits, next to nothing has been done about it.

Key Iraqi Cleric Rejects U.S. Bid For Moderate Political Bloc

LA Times Shiite rifts emerge as militias battle police

NYT A Discussion Max Boot and Geoffrey Wheatcroft on American Foreign Policy

Newsweek Oil: Fuel for Iraq's Insurgents No question, we have entered an era of inflated energy prices that is already producing a boom in new innovations, and a slowdown in consumption. How radical will these changes be? The answer depends largely on how much oil the earth really holds. But make no mistake: there's plenty of it. This is a new oil age, not the end of oil as we know it.

Shiites resist isolating Sadr

Vanity Fair David Rose on neoconservatives' regrets about Iraq

The Mideast Through the American Looking Glass
by Robert Fisk

The American Counterinsurgency Tradition — Eliot Cohen

Washington Post After the Fall By Michael McFaul, When a powerful state disintegrates, the result is usually conflict, anarchy or even civil war. So the relatively peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union -- once the world's largest empire, most brutal regime and most menacing threat to Western civilization -- and the subsequent peaceful end of the Cold War probably ranks as the most remarkable achievement of the 20th century.

From RAND Corporation, an article on globalization's unequal discontents

Sunday Times Bush ponders £10bn New Deal to create jobs in Iraq

Yedioth Ahronoth Mediterranean pact needed Israel should aim to form an alliance of all Mediterranean nations, Uri Savir writes

OpenDemocracy The global development agenda in 2007 The challenges of poverty, aid, trade, politics and human security will make 2007 a tough year, says Simon Maxwell

Jerusalem Post The Region: National Islamism: The new front [ BARRY RUBIN

Time Bush's "Way Forward" on Iraq: More of the Same Analysis: It now looks like the President will order a troop surge. But in most other ways, it's "stay the course" so far

Los Angeles Times Escaping accountability Wolfowitz owes us an explanation By Sonni Efron A job at the World Bank shouldn't shield the architect of the war from answering for his mistakes. ACCOUNTABILITY is one of those ideals, like justice or the triumph of right over might, that are wonderful in principle but usually disappointing in practice.

NYT Azerbaijan Protests Prompt Fears of Iranian Influence

Neoconservative believes Bush mulling 'permanent' surge

EurasiaNet Russia Looks to Protect Economic Interests in Turkmenistan amid Political Uncertainty

Selected Papers From the United States Government Counterinsurgency Conference (September 28-29, 2006; U.S. Department of Defense/U.S. Department of State Conference)
+ The American Counterinsurgency Tradition — Eliot Cohen, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins/SAIS (PDF; 175 KB)
+ Three Pillars of Counterinsurgency — Dr. David Kilcullen, Senior Strategist, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State (PDF; 296 KB)
+ Best Practices in Counterinsurgency — Dr. Kalev Sepp, Naval Postgraduate School (PDF; 65 KB)
+ Counterinsurgency In the 21st Century — LTG Sir John Kiszely, Director, UK Defence Academy (PDF; 69 KB) Related Documents (PDFs):
+ Counterinsurgency Redux (Kilcullen; 805 KB)
+ Principles, Imperatives, and Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency — Eliot Cohen; Lieutenant Colonel Conrad Crane, U.S. Army, Retired; Lieutenant Colonel Jan Horvath, U.S. Army; and Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl, U.S. Army (513 KB)
+ Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the 21st Century: Reconceptualizing Threat and Response — Steven Metz and Raymond Millin, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College (PDF; 292 KB)
+ The Human Terrain System: A CORDS for the 21st Century — Jacob Kipp, Ph.D.; Lester Grau; Karl Prinslow; and Captain Don Smith (6.5 MB)
+ The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes A Terrorist And Why — classic 1999 report prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress (1.4 MB)

H2 JOOST LAGENDIJK AB, Türkiye'ye çifte standart mı uyguluyor?

Hasan ÜNAL Mızrak artık çuvala girmiyor

Selçuk Gültaşlı [BRÜKSEL] Avrupa'nın İslam'la imtihanı

Tom Friedman Ortadoğu'da hayatta kalma yöntemleri

Hüseyin Bağcı Turkish foreign and security policy analysis in 2006 (I)

Mensur Akgün Yaptırımlar İran'ı nükleer sevdasından vazgeçirir mi

Türkiye davet edilmedi
Türkiye, Suudi Arabistan'ın Mekke kentinde bugün başlayacak olan 'Irak Halkı Konferansı'na Sünni grupların İstanbul toplantısı gerekçe gösterilerek davet edilmedi.

Cüneyt Ülsever Kerkük için öneriler

Rauf DENKTAŞ Sayın Türkmen’e cevabım (3)

Ferai TınçErivan ile önkoşulsuz ilişki mümkün mü?

Osman ULAGAY
'Duygular çatışması' ve Türkiye'nin durumu

River of no return in Iraq
YÜKSEL SÖYLEMEZ

ABD Atina elçisinden kötü haber ABD'nin Atina Büyükelçisi Charles Ries, KKTC'ye doğrudan uçuş yapılmasında "uluslararası anlaşmalara göre hukuki engeller bulunduğunu'' söyledi.

Corridors of Power: Turkey's EU Candidacy, Nuclear Recycling and More World Politics Watch

Askerî uydu ihalesinde dört yabancı yarışıyor

İlk askeri uydu için büyük yarış başladı

Turkish-Russian energy cooperation has great potential

Georgia in gas deal with Turkey

Rice: Turkey supports Iraqis, makes bridges to Kurds

Rice’tan Türkiye’nin Irak politikasına övgü

Güney Kıbrıs ile Londra arasında Ercan gerilimi

Bakoyanni: 2007'de Kıbrıs konusunda hareketlilik olacak

ERDAL ŞAFAK BM Güvenlik Konseyi'nin İran'a yaptırım kararı, dünya için Noel armağanı mı, yoksa bazılarının savundukları gibi teslimiyetçilik mi?

La Republica 'Türkiye tartışması moral bozucu'

Mirza Çetinkaya [MOSKOVA] Türkmen, Türkmenbaşı ve Türkmenistan

Kerim Balcı Türkmenbaşı'nın demir yumruğu

Türkiye Tiflis'e Şahdeniz gazı satacak

Altan Öymen - Cumhurbaşkanı seçimi ve çelik çomak oyunu...

İlnur Çevik Meaningless debates on the new president

Holland shows more interest in Kurdistan

Zaman Genelkurmay Başkanlığı'nın arşivine göre Kubilay'ın katilleri esrarkeş

ETYEN MAHÇUPYAN - Batılılar bizi niçin anlamıyor?

HİLMİ YAVUZ - İslamiyet Düşmanı 'Edebi Muhafazakarlar'

FİKRET ERTAN - Daha büyük ordu

Boston Globe AB'nin asıl derdi Kıbrıs değil –

Taha AKYOL İsmet Paşa'yı anmak

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

The Unintentional Creation of Iraqi Kurdistan

Kirkuk crude in Ceyhan port rose to 3.5m barrels

DTP: Diyarbakır bize Kudüs gibi

KORAY DÜZGÖREN Şavaş yerine barışın dilini konuşmak

Durmuş HOCAOĞLU
Amerika Kürtleri satıyor mu?

Blair desires to visit Kurdistan of Iraq -- source

PKK şimdi Alevileri ayartmaya çalışıyor GÜNCEL de

Way back when Kurdistan enjoyed agricultural self-sufficiency

British Foreign Office changes travel advice for Kurdistan Region

Kurdish minister defies Baghdad over oil licences - Industry ...

Iraqi Christians Debate Self-Autonomy to Halt Exodus

Kurdish Peshmarga should stay where they belong

Vatikan: Gerçek köprü Türkiye

ERDAL ŞAFAK Kafkaslar John Le Carre'nin hayal gücünü bile aşan gelişmelere sahne oluyor.

Neocon'lar, İran, Irak, Vahabi Sünniler ve 'İslam savaşı' tehlikesi...
Ceyda Karan

[Tarık Ali, Zaman için yazdı] Filistin'i iç savaştan kurtaracak formül ne?

Şer mihverini tecrit politikası çöktü
Musa Kos

Demokrasi Arapları bölmek için kullanılıyor

Google News Greece - Cyprus

Türk askeri uydusu için yarış ...devamı

Armenian Lobby Sites

Ermeni sorununda Nâzım tek değil
...devamı

Anayasa Mahkemesi üyesine, YÖK'ün gerekçesiyle intihal suçlaması

Oray Eğin Özbekler Tekkesi hakkındaki gerçekler

H3 Gül Meclis'ten olmalı

Enis Berberoğlu Dışarıdan aday teorik ihtimal

Ruşen Çakır Öcalan’dan Talabani’ye zeytin dalı

FEHMİ KORU Uzlaşma var, uzlaşma var…

SOLİ ÖZEL Kavşak

Yasemin CONGAR / Hamas ile Abbas arasında

MHP barajı CHP'den aldığı oylarla geçecek Siyaset bilimci Doç. Tanju Tosun

İktidar partisinin en zor yılı: 2007 ÖMER TAŞPINAR

METEHAN DEMİR Başer Paşa istifanın eşiğinde mi? Savunma Sanayisi ile ilgili üç kritik perde arkası

Emin Pazarcı Güneydoğu notları

Hasuhi Güngör Sınır ötesi gündemi

Mehmet Metiner Dağdakiler ne olacak?

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu İran eksenli görüş ayrılığı Kürt devletine odaklandı...

Semih İDİZ Kürt lobisi de Türkiye'yi 'soykırımcı' ilan ettirme çabasında

TAHA KIVANÇ Olur mu, olur mu, olur mu hiç?

AKP’nin Köşk planı adım adım mı işliyor?

Osman ULAGAY 'Kurtarıcılar'la AKP çekişmesi ne getirir?

Haluk Şahin - Çuvallayan ittifak ve sonrası

Tüzmen'den ABD'yü üzecek çıkış

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ Çankaya sorusu bıktırdı

Başbakan ‘anketi’ öne çıkarıp uzlaşma için bir adım attı Erdoğan, Köşk’e çıkarsa AKP 7 puan kaybeder

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

Bilal Çetin “11. Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan”

Fatih Çekirge İkisinden birini verin

MUHARREM SARIKAYA TÜSİAD'ın istediği...

Murat Yetkin - Lübnan izlenimleri ve Ortadoğu'nun geleceği

NURAN YILDIZ 'Çelik çomak' oyununa tam not!

Baykal, Erdoğan'ı iktidara hazırlıyor Bekaroğlu, "Sanki CHP ile AKP anlaşmış gibi. Bu gerginlik Erdoğan'ın da Baykal'ın da işine geliyor. Tayyip Bey, Erbakan'dan öğrendiğini yapıyor. CHP de farklı değil" diyor

ERGUN BABAHAN Muhalefete sahip çıkmak

MAHMUT ÖVÜR'Siyaset Borsası'nda inenler, çıkanlar!

Hasan Celal Güzel - Tarihi istismar etmek ya da Menemen

İsmail Küçükkaya
“İhtilal taşının” görgü tanığı...

Can Ataklı Büyük patronlar ne demek istedi?

FATİH ALTAYLIBir haberin anatomisi

Etyen Mahçupyan Liberalizm homojen toplum ister

Ahmet Hakan Tanrısal işaret

Ahmet Hakan Mürteci derler bana

Ekrem Dumanlı Türkiye'nin gerçek gündemi ve irtica fobisi

MUSTAFA ÜNAL - TÜSİAD'ın mesajları

MÜMTAZ'ER TÜRKÖNE - Cumhurbaşkanını halk seçerse?

Taha Kıvanç

Fehmi Koru

NAZLI ILICAK

Ömer Lütfi Mete

Çin'e 44 tekstil dalında kota uygulanacak

Sıcak paraya ne yapalım? Fatih Özatay

Deniz Gökçe Piyasada emir demiri kesmez!

"2023 ihracat hedefi 500 milyar dolar"

"Reformda gecikme ekonomiyi etkiler"

Vatan Dev projenin sır patronları

Ercan Kumcu Çıkmaz bir yol yaratıyoruz

Erdal Sağlam Başkan Yılmaz’a Serdengeçti muamelesi

Rusya’nın yeni silahı

Cenazede doğalgaz kulisi

Bir musibet, bin nasihat... Uğur Civelek

Deniz Gökçe Tayland’da finansal “harakiri”!

Saruhan Özel Döviz ne zaman yükselir?

Gazi Erçel Sıcak para dersleri

Morgan Stanley'den uyarı

Güngör URAS Merkez dolarizasyona neden dikkat çekiyor?

Atilla Yeşilada Artık 2007’ye bakalım

Morgan Stanley: Sosyal güvenlikteki gecikme büyümeyi olumsuz etkiler

OECD 'Emeklilik reformu Türkiye için kilit rolde'

H4 New York Times U.S. Is Detaining Iranians Caught in Raids in Iraq At least four Iranians were seized in raids aimed at people suspected of conducting attacks on Iraqi security forces, officials said.

What Surrounds the Iraqi Tinderbox If Iraq should descend into full-blown civil war, could its neighbors be drawn into a much wider conflict?

Iran Is Defiant, Vowing to U.N. It Will Continue Nuclear Efforts

Commander Said to Be Open to More Troops Altering his earlier position, the top American ground commander in Iraq is now willing to back an increase in U.S. troops in Baghdad.

Islamic Forces Expand Attacks and Urge Muslims to Join War on Somalian Government

A review of Joseph Stiglitz's Making Globalization Work.

H5 Washington Post After the Fall By Michael McFaul, When a powerful state disintegrates, the result is usually conflict, anarchy or even civil war. So the relatively peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union -- once the world's largest empire, most brutal regime and most menacing threat to Western civilization -- and the subsequent peaceful end of the Cold War probably ranks as the most remarkable achievement of the 20th century.

Jackson Diehl Though 'energy security' has become a favorite topic for discussion at E.U. and transatlantic summits, next to nothing has been done about it.

Iran Rebuffs U.N., Vows to Speed Up Uranium Enrichment

Sanctions On Iran Approved By U.N. Strongest Measures Stripped From Final Resolution

Iran Condemns U.N. Sanctions Iran vows to push forward with efforts to enrich uranium following a Security Council vote.

Key Iraqi Cleric Rejects U.S. Bid For Moderate Political Bloc

FROM THE RAND CORPORATION: Globalization's Unequal Discontents

Thousands Mourn Death of Turkmen President for Life U.S. Is 'Open' To New Start with Ex-Soviet State

Lebanon's Slow Slide From Hope To Deadlock Massive '05 Protest Couldn't Heal Rifts

Gates Gives Bush Evaluation of Iraq War Defense Secretary Shares Post-Trip Impressions as Strategy Review Continues

Olmert, Abbas Hold Two-Hour Meeting First Formal Session in Almost 2 Years Aimed at Reinvigorating Peace Process

Editorial 'Nyet' on Iran Russia has turned a U.N. sanctions resolution on Tehran's nuclear program into a demonstration of Western weakness.

THE CASE FOR FLIP-FLOPPING When Resolve Turns Reckless By John F. Kerry, There's something much worse than being accused of "flip-flopping": refusing to flip when it's obvious that your course of action is a flop.

The Man Who Knew Russia Too Much By Leon Aron

Is It All Yeltsin's Fault? 15 Years Later, the Legacy of a Russian Reformer By Stephen Sestanovich

Which Way Did It Go? By Peter Baker, Fifteen years ago tomorrow, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned

Editorial Seize the Chance The politics of inequality have shifted. Now policy must follow.

Quasi-Freedom Agenda For President Bush, democracy doesn't begin at home.

Interior, Pentagon Faulted In Audits Effort to Speed Defense Contracts Wasted Millions

Panel Faults FBI in Okla. Bombing Follow-UpQuestion of Foreign Role Unanswered, House Board Says

H6 Guardian UN sanctions hit Iran
UN authorises sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment programme.
Blair was dangerously off target in his condemnation of Iran

Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has rejected a plan for a new coalition in the Iraqi parliament

Channel tunnel is terror target
Fears Islamic militant terrorists aim to cause carnage over Christmas.

Gaza talks raise hope for peace
Meeting between Olmert and Abbas boost prospects of full negotiations

The Muslim prophet born in Bethlehem Karen Armstrong: The story of Jesus held a special place within early Islam. There is no need for a clash of civilisations.

The Observer Blair has had a brilliant year Andrew Rawnsley: He will soon join that very select group of leaders who have had a decade of power in Downing Street.

2006: a vintage year for ideas that will change our world Will Hutton: Thanks to some truly original thinking - on subjects as diverse as the web and global warming - mankind stands on a glorious threshold.

Bush may boost Iraq troops by 20,000
The President is likely to bow to a request for five more brigades as attacks rise to 1,000 a week.

UN passes sanctions on Iran
Tehran is told to comply over nuclear programme after a unanimous vote by the United Nations yesterday.

At least the super-rich will vote for Brown Nick Cohen: The great domestic political question of the 21st ought to be why the working and middle classes should pay taxes when the rich are all but exempt.

H7 Neoconservative believes Bush mulling 'permanent' surge

Newsweek Oil: Fuel for Iraq's Insurgents No question, we have entered an era of inflated energy prices that is already producing a boom in new innovations, and a slowdown in consumption. How radical will these changes be? The answer depends largely on how much oil the earth really holds. But make no mistake: there's plenty of it. This is a new oil age, not the end of oil as we know it.

Could Bush Start
Another War? by Scott Horton

Recent CRS Reports About Iraq + Iraq: Elections, Government, and Constitution
+ Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security
+ Iraqi Civilian Deaths Estimates
+ Iraqi Police and Security Forces Casualty Estimates
+ U.S. Forces in Iraq
+ U.S. Treatment of Prisoners in Iraq: Selected Legal Issues

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

Helena Cobban Sistani foils the occupiers' plot (again)

IraqSlogger U.S. Papers Monday: Two Exclusives

Al Hayat Syrian Complexities Hazem Saghieh

Will Bush re-Formulate a Comprehensive Strategy, Starting with Iran? Raghida Dergham

Al Awsat Negotiate with Assad : Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed

US Says UN Iran Resolution Not Enough

Gates Denies Naval Buildup in Gulf Is Meant as Threat to Iran

Geopolitical Diary: Iran's Sudden Opportunity In Turkmenistan
Stratfor

From Ethiopia, fighter jets hit Somali targets, declaring war, an escalation that could turn Somalia’s internal crisis into a religious conflict that engulfs the entire Horn of Africa.

H9 Ha’aretz – Report: U.S. weighing plan for Palestinian state by end of 2007

After the president admits failure The much anticipated report by the Iraq Study Group proved to be a major disappointment.

IDF opposes Olmert plan to dismantle checkpoints

Haaretz Editorial: PM-Abbas meeting was too little, too late

Keeping the promise and punishing Iran

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

Shin Bet Chief: Israel Trapped by Policy of Restraint

Glimmer of Hope After Israeli-Palestinian Summit

Yedioth Ahronoth Mediterranean pact needed Israel should aim to form an alliance of all Mediterranean nations, Uri Savir writes

Sanctions better than nothing

Jerusalem Post Lead or fail
Passing of UNSC sanctions form yet another line in the sand for int'l opposition to Iran's nuke plan.

The Region: National Islamism: The new front [ BARRY RUBIN,

H10 Christian Science Monitor What a 'troop surge' in Iraq might accomplish An increase in US troops in Iraq could also mean a shift in military strategy.

Talks emerge out of Gaza At a weekend summit, Israeli and Palestinian leaders met to talk about finances and prisoner release in the interest of restraining violence.

THE MONITOR'S VIEW Escaping corruption's global grip

ASIA

H11 IHT

EUROPE

OpenDemocracy The tension between freedom of movement and national self-determination of citizenship within the EU has the potential to create serious conflicts in the future.

Europe's new Ostpolitik: a Polish echo Europe's clash of perspectives over Russia sounds different in Warsaw, finds Ivan Krastev

H12 RFE/RL

EurasiaNet Russia Looks to Protect Economic Interests in Turkmenistan amid Political Uncertainty

Turkmenistan after Turkmenbashi BY GREGORY GLEASON

Putin to remain leader after leaving Kremlin ...

Talks With Russia Over Gas Price Stalled: Azerbaijani President

Report: Italy Makes Arrest in Spy Case

Google News Azerbaijan

Road infrastructure in Europe and Central Asia : does network quality affect trade? World Bank Policy Research Working Papers

Bigger, Better, More Expensive: It's not just high oil prices. In 2006, Russia tried to reassert its status as a cultural superpower with a cluster of high-profile events.

H13 The Times

Sunday Times FREDERICK KAGAN: Send more troops to Baghdad

LEADING ARTICLE: Bush’s last throw

IRWIN STELZER AMERICAN ACCOUNT The business community is reaping the harvest it sowed before the elections

MUHAMMAD YUNUS
WORLD POVERTY BEATER
David Smith meets the Nobel-winning microcredit pioneer

UN imposes nuclear sanctions on angry Iran

Bush ponders £10bn New Deal to create jobs in Iraq

Memo warns of crime wave The prime minister has been told that Britain is facing the first increase in crime for more than a decade and a 25% jump in the prison population

Read the document: Part 1 | Part II

MICHAEL PORTILLO: Now Labour wants Blair in jail

Wall Street Journal

H14 Financial Times

H15 Los Angeles Times Escaping accountability Wolfowitz owes us an explanation By Sonni Efron A job at the World Bank shouldn't shield the architect of the war from answering for his mistakes. ACCOUNTABILITY is one of those ideals, like justice or the triumph of right over might, that are wonderful in principle but usually disappointing in practice.

Neocons and Bush deserve each other By Jonathan Chait

Panel: Alarming 9/11 claim baseless An analysis chart did not identify any of the hijackers before the attacks, a Senate committee reports.

Expanding the military, without a draft

Iraqis see uses for more U.S. troops

The spookiest of the CIA's spooks

By David Wise More than three decades after James Jesus Angleton was fired as the CIA's chief of counterintelligence — and 19 years after his death — he remains a figure of intrigue who keeps popping up, in one guise or another, in novels, nonfiction books and movies. With the opening this weekend of the Robert De Niro film "The Good Shepherd," he's back again.

Shiites resist isolating Sadr

Editorial Emerging market memories Thailand toyed with its currency this week, reminding investors that with high growth comes high risk.

H16 American Politics

WP Editorial The Narrowing Field A number of presidential contenders leave the race.

Clinton, Obama Clearing The Field Without Declaring, They Beat Back Would-Be Rivals

How Free Trade Hurts By Byron Dorgan and Sherrod Brown, Nothing less than the future of America's middle class and the American Dream are at stake when we talk about trade policy.

Biggest Story of Our Time: Our Self-Extinction - Mark Steyn, Chicago ST

Media Want Documents in CIA Leak Case

realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec

H17 Daily Telegraph

Sunday Telegraph Iran vows to defy UN nuclear sanctions

Bush plans 30,000 troop 'surge' into Iraq

Saudis dispute strategy on Iran

Admiral warns of 'tinpot' armed services Our Armed Forces are in danger of being turned into a "tinpot gendarmerie" incapable of defending UK interests, claims top figure.

If I do it, it's not wrong: the thread of delusion that links Nixon to Blair Nothing that the Blair government has done compares in scale or immorality to the spectacular network of wrongdoing uncovered in the Nixon White House, writes Matthew d'Ancona. But in the loans for peerages scandal there are some striking similarities.

Leader Time to stand up to the Russians Vladimir Putin is making himself our problem. There is a difference between persecuting political opponents at home and doing so in neighbouring states. The moral distinction may be slight, but the legal distinction is vast: the international order rests on the principle of territorial jurisdiction.

H18 Independent Leading article: Is the glass half full? Why, bless us, so it is

Ali Ansari: Just when Iran's moderates make some progress, Blair wades in

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Selected Papers From the United States Government Counterinsurgency Conference (September 28-29, 2006; U.S. Department of Defense/U.S. Department of State Conference)
+ The American Counterinsurgency Tradition — Eliot Cohen, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins/SAIS (PDF; 175 KB)
+ Three Pillars of Counterinsurgency — Dr. David Kilcullen, Senior Strategist, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State (PDF; 296 KB)
+ Best Practices in Counterinsurgency — Dr. Kalev Sepp, Naval Postgraduate School (PDF; 65 KB)
+ Counterinsurgency In the 21st Century — LTG Sir John Kiszely, Director, UK Defence Academy (PDF; 69 KB) Related Documents (PDFs):
+ Counterinsurgency Redux (Kilcullen; 805 KB)
+ Principles, Imperatives, and Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency — Eliot Cohen; Lieutenant Colonel Conrad Crane, U.S. Army, Retired; Lieutenant Colonel Jan Horvath, U.S. Army; and Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl, U.S. Army (513 KB)
+ Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the 21st Century: Reconceptualizing Threat and Response — Steven Metz and Raymond Millin, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College (PDF; 292 KB)
+ The Human Terrain System: A CORDS for the 21st Century — Jacob Kipp, Ph.D.; Lester Grau; Karl Prinslow; and Captain Don Smith (6.5 MB)
+ The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes A Terrorist And Why — classic 1999 report prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress (1.4 MB)

Space Operations: Air Force Doctrine Document 2-2, 27 November 2006 (PDF; 932 KB)
Source: U.S. Air Force (via Federation of American Scientists)

The World Distribution of Household Wealth (PDF; 1.14 MB) World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University
From press release (PDF; 254 KB)

Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Capabilities (unclassified summary; PDF, 850 KB)
Source: Defense Science Board

H20 Slate

From American Political Science Review, a special issue on The Evolution of Political Science, including Andrew Bennett (Georgetown) and G. John Ikenberry (Princeton): The Review's Evolving Relevance for U.S. Foreign Policy 1906-2006; Mark Blyth (JHU): Great Punctuations: Prediction, Randomness, and the Evolution of Comparative Political Science; Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (NYU): Game Theory, Political Economy, and the Evolving Study of War and Peace; Philip E. Converse (Michigan): Researching Electoral Politics; Kathleen Knight (Barnard): Transformations of the Concept of Ideology in the Twentieth Century; Gerhard Loewenberg (Iowa): The Influence of European Emigre Scholars on Comparative Politics; Michael Parenti on Patricians, Professionals, and Political Science

Jacob Levy (McGill): Federalism, Liberalism, and the Separation of Loyalties

Projections of Global Mortality and Burden of Disease from 2002 to 2030
Source: PLoS Medicine

Effective Counterterrorism and the Limited Role of Predictive Data Mining Cato Institute

H21 10 myths -- and 10 truths -- about atheism

Guardian Did the CIA kill Bobby Kennedy?

US News Old Books Stir Up
New Debate on Jesus What does The Da Vinci Code have to do with a letter written by the archbishop of Alexandria in the year 367? As it turns out, quite a lot. Call it part of the Gnostic connection, a long thread of influence connecting contemporary cultural debates with an important struggle in the early Christian movement to define the meaning of Jesus's life. Full Story

Wikipedia and Amazon Taking on Google

Eleanor Clift on Bush's worst lies of 2006.

FRANK RICH Yes, You Are the Person of the Year! This was the year Americans escaped as often as they could into their private pleasure pods.

Proust Questionnaire: Norman Mailer

Flaws Are Detected in MICROSOFT's Vista...

Perspective: Book Searching: OCA/GBS Update

Dick Cheney's Google Searches

Boston Globe An Ideas forum on the challenge of interfaith dialogue Five scholars of religion -- Diana L. Eck, Richard John Neuhaus, Reza Aslan, Alan Wolfe, and Mark A. Noll -- offer their perspectives on what can and cannot be accomplished through interfaith exchange.

PAUL KRUGMAN Helping the Poor, the British Way There’s no excuse for our lack of progress in the war on poverty. Just look at what the British government has accomplished over the last decade.

Google News / Slate Today's Papers / memeorandum / antiwar.com - political theory Arts & Letters Daily / Media Roundup / University Channel / DocuTicker / Arts & Letters Daily/ PolicyPointers / cursor / realclearpolitics / Drudge Report| raw story | truthout / Dayan Current Contents / Blogometer - Wikipedia technorati / Slate's Today's Blogs Stratfor

Juan Cole - Kevin Drum - Belgravia Dispatch - washington realist - Tom Barnett - democracy arsenal - - Josh Marshall - Daniel Drezner - Laura Rozen - the washington note - David Corn - SyriaComment - William Arkin - Phil Carter - Helena Cobban - MatthewYglesias - Oxblog - Brad DeLong - coming anarchy / Wonkette William Arkin Tom Hayden - IraqSlogger

PostGlobal - AmericaAbroad -The Corner - Passport - huffingtonpost / Pajamas Media / Open University / nytcolumns CounterterrorismBlog Today in Iraq / OutSide the Beltway - InstaPundit - winds of change Kausfiles - Becker Posner-andrewsullivan.com - Registan - armscontrolwonk - IsraPundit Regime Change Iran