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H1 Christian Science Monitor

Will EU and US be tougher now on Iran? With a weakened but unanimously approved UN resolution, they could take the lead on more action.

GuardianSaddam death sentence upheld Saddam Hussein could be hanged within 30 days after the rejection of his appeal by Iraq's highest court.

Washington Post Bush's New Look on Iraq: Weary By David Ignatius

The Right Type of 'Surge' Any Troop Increase Must Be Large and Lasting By Jack Keane and Frederick W. Kagan, Success in Iraq is possible only with a surge of at least 30,000 combat troops lasting 18 months or so. Any other option is likely to fail.

Washington Times Assad inspires 'flip' theories By Iason Athanasiadis - Recent visits are prompting speculation that Syria is seeking to leave the Iranian orbit and pursue closer ties with the West.

Debka Foreign Intercession in Somalia’s War Could Presage Foreign Free-for-All in Iraq In full

Winter 2006-07 issue of The Washington Quarterly READ MORE (repeat)

World Economic Forum - Europe@Risk Turkey and EU Risk analysis (repeat)

Boston Review Nir Rosen's anatomy of a civil war. (repeat)

The German Marshall Fund Turkey, the United States and the Delusion of Geopolitics by Ian Lesser Download File 685 KB (repeat)

JINSA Report #559, Israel as a Security Asset for the United States (repeat)

Prospect Does the future really belong to China? Will Hutton

Meghnad Desai

Boston Globe Military considers recruiting foreigners

US ready to send 3500 troops: sources

Biden Vows to Fight Any Iraq Troop Boost

Financial Times Editorial A scary vacuum in world leadership

Salhani Analysis: Middle East predictions in 2007

Guardian 2007: a storm is brewingLarry Elliott As 2006 draws to a close and I gaze into my crystal ball, I can see three possible financial forecasts for the year ahead.

Independent Leading article: Not even Saddam's death will unite Iraq

France joins UK on 'high terror alert' ABC News reports 'attack on French soil likely in next few weeks or months.'

The Economist It’s still down to George Bush The president has a last chance to prove his worth

A Battle for Global Values - Tony Blair, Foreign Affairs

Poverty and Civil War: What Policymakers Need to Know
Source: The Brookings Institution

CFR What Saddam’s Death Will Mean for Iraq

The Future of the United Nations: Outlining a Reform Agenda for Ban Ki-Moon [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]

The Legislative System Under the Iraqi Council of Representatives (COR): A Comparative Assessment
Source: ExpressO Preprint Series

Kevin Drum 'He has built up expectations'

Nato has little to offer to GCC
Gulf News - By Amir Taheri

Turning Iraq's Tribes Against Al-Qaeda - Mark Kukis, Time

Ha’aretz – Benziman What do Assad and Olmert want?

H2 Who Owns Kirkuk? The Turkoman Case - Middle East Quarterly by Yücel Güçlü Winter 2007

Prospect Magazine Islamic Calvinists Gerald Knaus Can Islamic states foster an entrepreneurial ethic? Look no further than Anatolia

AP Change in US Congress boosts prospects for Armenian genocide ...

Kurds Threaten to 'Annex' Kirkuk if Referendum not Held in 2007

216 F-16'ya ABD modernizasyonu tamam

Lockheed Martin gets $635M contract

Lockheed Martin, 635 milyon dolarlık F-16 upgrade ihalesini kazandı GÜNCEL de

Aselsan to manufacture equipment for Seahawks

ABD elçiliğinin güvenlik endişesi

Soykırım yasasına bir adım

Turkish general in Israel for key talks

Rasizade: Kars-Ahikelek-Tbilisi-Baku railway agreement will be signed next month

Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan To Discuss Caspian Gas

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

Yoksulluğu gel de Diyarbakır'da gör
Sadece iki mahallede 15 bini aşkın kişi günde en çok 1 dolar gelirle yaşıyor. 1117 hane tek odada kalıyor. 734 çocuk okulsuz, 447 hanede engelli var

TÜİK Kürdistan’da yoksulluğun resmini çizebilir mi?

Barzani 'isim vermeden' Türkiye'yi eleştirdi

Başkan Türk DTP'yi eleştirdi

2007 Kerkük Yılı

Devlet adım atsın PKK’ya ’Mayınların yerini söyle’ deriz

Human Rights Watch News Releases: Iraq: Reverse Decision to Execute Saddam

İlnur Cevik Will executing Saddam bring stability to Iraq?

Google News Greece - Cyprus

Lefkoşa'nın önünde zor günler var

Fileleftheros Ankara’ya Pencere

Serdar Turgut Ahmet Ertegün gerçekte kimdir?

Serdar Turgut Bu nasıl gaz politikası?

İsrafil K. Kumbasar
Şahap füzeleri ile tekrar gündeme gelen Türk-İran çatışması

UMUR TALU Türkiye ve İsrail

Savaş SÜZAL Çuval üzerine palavralar

2006 Söyleşileri

Noam Chomsky yılı BBC Türkçe'den Emre Temel'e değerlendirdi

27 Aralık 2006 Basın Özeti

Azerbaycan, yabancı TV yayınlarını durduruyor

IHT After Iraq, a new U.S. military model STANLEY A. WEISS For the United States, in Iraq and beyond, a leaner military presence abroad may be the key to greater security.

NYT Memo From Moscow: Putin’s Assertive Diplomacy Is Seldom Challenged

Senate FRC Hearing Iran’s Political/Nuclear Ambitions and U.S. Policy Options (repeat)

The Iranian Nuclear Program: Motivations and Priorities Kenneth M. Pollack (repeat)

The 2007 Herzliya Conference Program ---- 2006 conference

Executive Summary Part1 Part2 Conference Proceedings VOD

H3 CENGİZ ÇANDAR Ortadoğu, Türkiye'deki seçimleri etkiler mi

ABD'ye Kandil taahhüdü yok

Taha AKYOL Kürtler ve siyaset

Fikret BİLA Lozan'a aykırı yaklaşımlar

Ertuğrul Özkök İkinci defa harita lafı

Sami KOHEN İran için "sihirli seçenek" yok...

Cüneyt Ülsever Erdoğan neden cumhurbaşkanı olmamalı?

ABD, Genelkurmay'ı baskı altına aldı!

Abdülhamit Bilici Biri sakıncalı, üç görüş

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 Bugün yazıları

An EU-linked 2007 outlook
Cengiz Aktar

Sadi SOMUNCUOĞLU
Çankaya yolu “Barzani”den mi geçiyor?

Hasan ÜNAL Basın neler yazacak

Asker, askerciler ve hatalar Avni Özgürel

Taha Kıvanç

Fehmi Koru

İsmail Küçükkaya Güngör Yerdeş anlatıyor

Ömer Lütfi Mete Üniversite ve salyangozcu medya

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Mumcu'nun Ağar'a teklifi...

Çankaya için sürpriz tartışma

METİN ÖZKAN Özkök, ‘Özköşk’ mü oluyor?

Hulki CEVİZOĞLU ÜNİVERSİTELERDEKİ PKK YAPILANMASINA DİKKAT!..

Erdoğan ağır konuştu

Emekli askerler ve Türk-İş Murat Yetkin

Demirel konuşmalı M.Ali Kışlalı

Yalçın Doğan Mayısa kadar al gülüm ver gülüm

Hasan CEMAL Başörtüsü ve ayıbı!

Cumhurbaşkanlığı seçimleri ve anti demokratik eğilimlerin kökenleri(II)

FATİH ALTAYLI Mızrak çuvaldan çıktı

POAŞ'a bu kez de faiz şoku

Ege Cansen Laik şeriat

Osman ULAGAY Gelecek yıl bisikletten düşer miyiz?

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Kaygılı ortamda bütçe arenası

Deniz Gökçe Gelir dağılımı ne hakla düzelir?

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Hükümetler fakir edebiyatı yapıyor, gelir dağılımına hiç etkileri olmuyor

ERDAL ŞAFAK Dünyamız hiçbir zaman böyle bolluk ve zenginlik görmedi.

Dünya ekonomisi ve Türkiye SÜLEYMAN YAŞAR

Gel yabancı sermaye gel!
MUHAMMED ÖRTLEK

Asgari ücret zammıyla ne alınır?

Beş kişiden biri yoksul

Saruhan Özel Reel ekonominin çarkı nasıl dönüyor?

En zengin 100 Türk

Dünyanın en zenginleri arasına Türkiye'den 26 milyarder girdi

Ercan Kumcu Küresel sermaye ve risk yönetimi

Hükümet, otoyol ve köprüleri satıyor

İşte listedeki en zengin 10 Türk

Morgan Stanley - Turkey: Urban Recovery, Rural Poverty (repeat)

H4 New York Times nytcolumns Editorial Israel’s Mixed Messages Amir Peretz, Israel’s defense minister, has undercut the encouraging steps taken by Ehud Olmert over the weekend by approving the first new West Bank settlement in more than a decade.

U.S. Says Captured Iranians Can Be Linked to Attacks

Iraqi Court Says Hussein Must Die Within 30 Days

Gerald R. Ford, 38th U.S. President, Dies

Iran Is Seeking More Influence in Afghanistan

H5 Washington Post Bush's New Look on Iraq: Weary By David Ignatius, The stress of the job -- so well hidden for much of the past six years -- has begun to show on President Bush's face

The Right Type of 'Surge' Any Troop Increase Must Be Large and Lasting By Jack Keane and Frederick W. Kagan, Success in Iraq is possible only with a surge of at least 30,000 combat troops lasting 18 months or so. Any other option is likely to fail.

Biden to Fight Iraq Troop Buildup Senator Plans Hearings That He Hopes Will Influence U.S. Strategy

Iraqi Court Upholds Hussein's Sentence Hanging Could Happen Within 30 Days

On a Mission In a Hard Place RAMADI, Iraq

Editorial War in Somalia Another front in the fight against terrorism has exploded.

Turkmenistan Council Weighs in on Succession

Exiled Opponents Barred From Race Set for February

Russian Continues the Tantrum Tradition at U.N. Belarus Issue Causes Envoy To Storm Out

Despite Pledge, Israel Approves New Settlement

Pardoned Nixon in the Wake of Watergate
Gerald R. Ford, the 38th and only unelected president in America's history, has died

Obituaries Gerald R. Ford, 93, Dies; Led in Watergate's Wake

Mubarak Vows Greater Democracy

PostGlobal: The Middle East's Misery Poetry

Myths And the Middle Class By Robert J. Samuelson, Americans' optimism and perfectionism are constantly mugged by reality. Consider why this will continue.

Ethiopians Closing In On Capital of Somalia Islamic Militias Vow Stiff Defense As War Intensifies

H6 Guardian What has long been a catastrophic tragedy is also now a horrific farce Roy Hattersley: The British occupation army's assault on its own police force in Basra confirms Iraq as a far greater disaster than Suez.

Saddam death sentence upheld
Saddam Hussein could be hanged within 30 days after the rejection of his appeal by Iraq's highest court.

Gazprom threatens to cut gas to Belarus Row recalls last year's shortages in Europe.

Scots and English would pay dearly for ending the union David Clark: The real threat is that the Tories may not be able to resist the temptation to pander to a resentful English nationalism.

Conflict worsens in Horn of Africa
UN security council calls emergency meeting.
FAQ: Somalia and Ethiopia conflict

Pakistan plans for fence and mines along Afghan border · Islamabad reveals move to stem flow of militants
· Afghan permission not required, minister warns

Leader From bad to worse
Somalia has impinged on the consciousness of sated westerners over Christmas because Ethiopia's intervention has now added a dangerous new dimension to an already protracted crisis

H7 Nato has little to offer to GCC
Gulf News - By Amir Taheri

Turning Iraq's Tribes Against Al-Qaeda - Mark Kukis, Time

Tony Karon - Iran and North Korea Show the Limits of Sanctions Analysis: In both cases, the U.S. managed to achieve diplomatic consensus only after the sanctions imposed were considerably watered down. And neither case looks likely to work Iran and North Korea Show the Limits of Sanctions

US Study: Iran May Need Nuclear Power

Brookings Foreign Policy Energy Security Series + China+ India
+ Japan + The Russian Federation

China in Revolt - Gordon Chang, Commentary

Securing energy needs

By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

Eight Nations Building ICBMs

NRO VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Kofi Annan plays to form. “What Is Annanism?”

2006 considered By Tony Blankley A good year for the forces of darkness

Just What is "the World's Wealth"? - Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics

Why Knowledge Yields the Wealth of Nations - Nick Schulz, TCS Daily

2007, reflections and predictions | openDemocracy | Isabel Hilton

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

Iraq Slogger US Papers Wednesday: Saddam to Hang

Washington Times Assad inspires 'flip' theories By Iason Athanasiadis - Recent visits by Syrian President Bashar Assad to U.S.-allied Yemen and the United Arab Emirates are prompting speculation that Syria is seeking to leave the Iranian orbit and pursue closer ties with the West.

Salhani Analysis: Middle East predictions in 2007

Bush's Iraq plan gets big build-up (AP)

Stay Out of Iraq's Internal Politics, Shi'ite Politician Warns Neighbors

Allawi Asks Iraq's Neighbors to Help Before 'Time Runs Out'

Human Rights Watch News Releases:
Iraq: Reverse Decision to Execute Saddam

İlnur Cevik Will executing Saddam bring stability to Iraq?

BBC Depressing year
Early hopes fade as war and discord grip Middle East

Living with militias
Iraqis describe life in areas controlled by sectarian gangs

State Dept. sides with Ethiopian military

Al hayat The Moderation of Al-Hakim and the Extremism of Al-Sadr

Syria Wants to Work With US Forces to Control Iraq Border

Syria Plans Regional Conference on Iraq

H9 Ha’aretz –

Livni backs talks with PA, even under fire

Benziman What do Assad and Olmert want?

Olmert, Peretz plan to review policy of restraint

Eldar How the IDF won over Peretz

Israel Breaks Promise to US With Settlement

Yedioth Ahronoth Syria hallucinations President Bashar Assad won't be disengaging from Iran or Hizbullah, Zalman Shoval writes

Syria talks bad for Israel/ Dore Gold

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

The 2007 Herzliya Conference Program ---- 2006 conference

Executive Summary Part1 Part2 Conference Proceedings VOD

Middle East Newsline says the US has stopped arms and technology transfers to Israel.

BBC Israel to weigh Gaza truce stance
Israeli ministers are to discuss the month-long Gaza truce after renewed rocket attacks injured two Israelis.

Top Israeli Military Judge: 2,700 Palestinians Detained Without Trial This Year

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Will EU and US be tougher now on Iran? With a weakened but unanimously approved UN resolution, they could take the lead on more action.

The world speaks on Iran's threat

Opinion: Abolish presidential term limits

Why cousin marriage matters in Iraq Clan loyalty fixed by cousin marriage was always bound to undermine democracy in Iraq.

Energy costs up in '07? Next year's energy forecast looks like 2006, with higher oil prices during a soft economy.

US builds a new antiterror tool:
a terrorist fingerprint database

Forensic specialists are trying to match names to fingerprints from places once occupied by suspected terrorists.

Uncle Sam wants US Muslims

The Pentagon builds Islamic prayer rooms and hires imams to boost the military's appeal.

US military may recruit foreigners

Pentagon considering 'disputed proposals' including fast-track citizenship for volunteers.

New U.S. strategy in Latin America: turn on the charm

ASIA

H11 IHT After Iraq, a new U.S. military model STANLEY A. WEISS For the United States, in Iraq and beyond, a leaner military presence abroad may be the key to greater security.

US has high expectations of German EU and G-8 presidencies

Trading places ROBERT KUTTNER
If the world is to be one big economy, it definitely needs one set of rules — and not made exclusively in America. Rules for the environment are a good place to start.

Russians keep up pressure over energy
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
Gazprom threatened to cut off gas to Belarus if that country did not agree to a large price rise by Monday.

EUROPE Analysis: Europe's year in energy

H12 RFE/RL 2006 A Year Of Proliferation Challenges

The spread of nuclear weapons continues to be a major concern for the international community, and events in 2006 did little to assuage fears

Post-Turkmenbashi: Gaming the Five 'Stans Stratfor

Google News Azerbaijan

Turkmen Exiles Threaten Coup

H13 The Times Leader Britain and Basra A sound security and political infrastructure must be ensured

Saddam to go to the gallows within 30 days as court rejects appeal

Troops fear reprisals will follow Basra raid British soldiers in Basra are poised for retaliatory attacks after their raid on a police station on Christmas Day

Britons head for the promised land as Israel faces a population threat The emigration of British Jewry to Israel stands in stark contrast to the general decline in immigration to the Jewish state from elsewhere

Wall Street Journal Jimmy Carter Has a Religious Problem With Israel - Michael Oren, WSJ

The Payroll Tax Trap
Will Bush's legacy be a huge new burden on the most productive Americans?

H14 Financial Times Editorial A scary vacuum in world leadership The year 2007 will see a changing of the guard in the world's political leadership. The political careers of Kofi Annan, Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac are coming to a...

EU split on Romanian and Bulgarian labour access European Union countries are split over whether to impose labour market restrictions on workers from Romania and Bulgaria when the Black Sea states join the EU on Monday

Mubarak presses for democratic change Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, on Tuesday asked parliament to consider proposals for amending 34 articles of the constitution with the purpose of “opening wide the doors to democracy and its practice.”

Iran ‘revises’ co-operation with IAEA

US tries to assure allies that extraordinary renditions are over

WORLD NEWS: Complicated backlash as UK forces hit Basra police station

COMMENT: A lack of fear is cause for concernThe new year will begin with the greatest divergence for a generation between the general view of global risks as reflected by conventional wisdom and the risks as priced in financial markets, writes Lawrence Summers.

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Manna from Omaha: a year of 'giving while living' transforms philanthropyBill Gates may have established himself as the world’s biggest philanthropist but 2006 marked the year when he was outbid in both style and substance by his friend and fellow bridge player Warren Buffett

COMMENT: The mysteries of a match between Brown and Cameron It is not often one can say with assurance that the coming year will see the departure of a British prime minister and be almost as sure of the choice of successor, writes Philip Stephens.

Sarkozy breaks silence over scandal

Ethiopia forces Somali Islamist retreat

Biden to run for White House in 2008

COMMENT: Ignore the storm warnings

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Income gap in China widens

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Growing influence of India and China

H15 Los Angeles Times Democrats prepare to battle Bush on Iraq war After years of playing marginal role, lawmakers plan to assert more control and undercut any White House effort to increase troop levels.

Iraqi leader upset by arrest of Iranians by U.S. forces

Somalia could be Ethiopia's quagmire

Editorial Tick, tick, tick Somalia is a bomb threatening to explode. Washington knows that, but it has no good policy options.

In humanity's failings, pope sees need of God

2006: We the reasonable the year we discovered pragmatism. Joel Stein

Anonymous Testimony for Israeli Agents Pushes Limits Defense lawyers say justice isn't served if they can't know the identities of the Israeli agents

H16 American Politics Bush is bracing for new scrutiny Bush Filling White House Positions With Lawyers To Brace For Congressional Probes...

Sen. Biden touts experience in 2008 bid

Experts: Housing, energy key to economic outlook

realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec

Ex-US President Gerald Ford dies Obituary: Gerald Ford

Strategy, Not Drama, in ‘I Intend to Run in ’08’

The New Populism in Congress - Irwin Stelzer, Weekly Standard

History Will See '06 Election as Tidal as 1932 - Don Rose, Chicago Tribune

Democracy's 'Systemic' Problems - Tod Lindberg, Washington Times

White House Hiring Lawyers for Democratic Probes - Baltimore Sun

H17 Daily Telegraph For Bush the year went from bad to worse

Predictions '07

The Daily Telegraph's in-house experts look forward to what the coming year may bring

H18 Independent Saddam to die within 30 days as appeal fails

Leading article: Not even Saddam's death will unite Iraq

Stephen King: We must embrace change if we want to keep being successful

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Military considers recruiting foreigners Boston Globe

The Battle of Moscow was the biggest of WWII, with seven million people on both sides and an area of operations the size of France... more»

Do We Need a Bigger Military? - Chicago Tribune

US builds a new antiterror tool:
a terrorist fingerprint database

Forensic specialists are trying to match names to fingerprints from places once occupied by suspected terrorists.

France joins UK on 'high terror alert' ABC News reports 'attack on French soil likely in next few weeks or months.'

US Wants Anti-Missile Radar in Japan

The Impact of Police and Media Relations on a Crisis (PDF; 380 KB) Naval Postgraduate School

Book Successful Response Starts with a Map: Improving Geospatial Support for Disaster Management

U.S.-Russian Collaboration in Combating Radiological Terrorism 130 pages. Sources: Committee on Opportunities for U.S.-Russian Collaboration in Combating Radiological Terrorism, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia, National Research Council

Analyzing terror campaigns on the internet: Technical sophistication, content richness, and Web interactivity
Source: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Rumsfeld and the American Way of War by Gabriel Kolko

H20 Slate Forget Dylan and Elvis. James Brown was the most important ...

World Bank New: Debt Enforcement Around the World (64 pages; PDF)

2006: A review of major health issues Source: World Health Organization (WHO)

Estimation of potential global pandemic influenza mortality on the basis of vital registry data from the 1918–20 pandemic: a quantitative analysis Source: The Lancet

H21 Alexis de Tocqueville
Hugh Brogan Tocqueville is misread if turned into a prophet or philosopher. We should see him as a travel writer and historian

Giving a hand up, not a handout
Muhammad Yunus is an unusual banker: famous but not rich. His celebrity derives from his clients, Bangladesh's poor.

AMAZON.COM: 2006 holiday shopping season 'best ever'; 4 million orders in single day...

Is 'Web 2.0' Another Bubble?

Two technology venture capitalists debate whether there is a bubble in so-called Web 2.0 companies.

It is extremely difficult to give robots human abilities: to respond to sounds or grasp objects. This is changing, says Bill Gates... more»

“Every man has his secrets,” Carl Jung said. Especially Jung’s colleague Sigmund Freud, an old hotel register now reveals... more»

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