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H1 LA Times Yitzhak Nakash If U.S. drops the ball, Iraq shatters The U.S. must bring all Iraqis to the negotiating table while maintaining support for a Shiite-led government.

The Times Amir Taheri Mr President, herewith my ten tips to deal with Iraq

Our Only Hope" - Eliot Cohen & Bing West, Wall Street Journal

IraqSlogger U.S. Papers Tues.: Bush Speech Tomorrow

Iraqi Papers Tuesday: U.S. Warning

No Time to Heal by Sidney Blumenthal

Who Is Planning Our Next War?
by Patrick Buchanan

Walker's World: Rumors of war

Elliot Abrams’ Uncivil War

Baghdad 2025: The Pentagon Solution to a Planet of Slums by Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt

POLITICS-IRAN: Defiant but Weighing the Cost of UN Sanctions Inter Press Service

Spengler If you so dumb, how come you ain't poor? Asia Times There has been an inordinate amount written about US decline, complete with Russian and Chinese designs to benefit from America's embarrassment in Iraq. The reality could not be more different. The US holds all the economic aces, and civil carnage in Iraq and Palestine works to Washington's advantage as it counters Iran.

FT COMMENT: After 15 astounding years, the Union enters its surreal phaseThe EU is poised to spend the next five years in agonised debate about things that look less and less likely ever to happen, writes Gideon Rachman

Financial Times Europe, US squeeze Iran on nuclear plans

Bush's smart new general can't save Iraq.Slate - By Fred Kaplan.

Guardian Low wage competition isn't to blame for western job losses and inequality Will Hutton: US and British business culture is creating our widening pay gap, not the impact of sub-contractor economies like China.

Belarus cuts off Russian pipeline in bitter gas war · Supply disrupted to Germany and Poland · European Union demands urgent explanation

New York Times News Analysis: Bush’s Task: Thrusting New Strategy on ‘a Sovereign Nation’

U.S. Airstrike Aims at Qaeda Cell in Somalia

Christian Science Monitor Third Iraq trip will test troops The Third Infantry Division deploys to Iraq again later this month, making it the first US Army unit to pull three tours there.

Helena Cobban How to withdraw from Iraq: The three-step program

A 2007 warning: the world's twelve worst ideas | Fred Halliday

Wall Street Journal Crafting an Iraq Plan Deputy national security adviser J.D. Crouch is obscure by Washington standards, but his influence will be felt in President Bush's new Iraq proposals.

Was the drafting of the new Iraqi petroleum law outsourced to a US contractor?

IHT Iran actually is short of oil ROGER STERN The economic damage Iran inflicts on itself by failing to invest in new oil production is far worse than anything the meaningless UN sanctions could accomplish.

One size does not fit all PRANAB BARDHAN Today there is less certainty that there is only one model, the American model of capitalism, for developing and transition economies.

McClatchy Bush, Congress poised for bitter battle over Iraq war

From Monthly Review, here's a short history of resource wars.

US Targets Al Qaeda's 1998 US Embassy Bombers in Somalia Strike

Ha’aretz - Olmert: Unilateralism policy has been a failure

CFR Drozdiak: Merkel’s Visit Points Up ‘Big Improvement’ in United States-German Relations

Time’s The Ag

Aksiyon Ortadoğu’nun Karakutusu Ortadan Kaldırıldı - Fatih Uğur

Ahmet Taşgetiren Saddam’dan sonra... İran

VOA Türkiye'yle Amerika Arasındaki Ticaret Gelişiyor

Türkiye Batı'nın 'son savunma hattı' değil
Michalis Firillas

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

Bakırhan: Avrupa, Kürtleri oyalıyor

Çözüm Kürtler mi?
Bağdat'a gidecek üç tugayın ikisinin Kürtlerden oluşacağı iddiası tartışılıyor

ABD, Irak'ta sırtını peşmergelere dayadı

Ankara'da 'Kürt sorunu' konferansı

PKK’nın celladı Suriyeli Dr. Bahoz

PKK: We are in Harmony with the Barzani and Talabani Forces

Kerkük seçmen kütüğüne 227 bin Kürt yazıldı Araziler, Türkmenler'den alınıp taksim edildi

Muratlı: ABD gerçeği gördü

Google News Greece - Cyprus

Fikret BİLA Görüş ayrılığı Lokmacı geçidinden daha önemli

Bilal Çetin Genelkurmay ikna oldu mu?

Talat Köprüleri atıyor

Ve geçit bugün yıkılıyor

KKTC nedir? İsmet Berkan

Talat ne diyorsa o

Talat Köprüyü yıkıyor

BBC Lokmacı köprüsü

Köprüye gerek var mıydı? Kıbrıslı Türklerle tartıştık

ERDAL ŞAFAK Bir köprü öyküsü

Metin MÜNİR 'Lokmacı krizi' böyle ortaya çıktı

Sami KOHEN "Tasos, sen de şu duvarı yık..."

KÜRŞAT BUMİN Cumhurbaşkanına vali muamelesi

NAZLI ILICAK Kendimize çelme takıyoruz

HAKAN ALBAYRAK Boşuna kaşımayın Herr Schmidt, o yara kapandı!

Ali Bayramoğlu Sorunlar belli, çözümleri de....

CHP seçim vaadlerine başladı!

Ermeni yalanlarıyla savaşan general, Harun Çelik

AP'de Türkiye karşıtı grup kuruluyor

Proje yap,parayı kap
AB'nin hibelerinden yararlanamıyoruz

Sen kimsin!.. “Çuvalı artık unutalım. Türkiye’nin Kürt devleti sorunu yok” diyen Washington Büyükelçisi Nabi Şensoy’a tepki yağdı.

Kriz Boğazlara yaradı 1- Tankerler azalacak Rusya, Azerbaycan’a sattığı doğalgazın fiyatını 110 dolardan 230 dolara çıkarınca, Bakü de Rusya’nın Novorosisk limanı üzerinden petrol sevkiyatını durdurdu. Böylece Boğazlardan artık daha az tanker geçecek.

Namaza ve bara gidenler birbirlerine kızmadan aynı sokakta yan yana yürüyordu

BBC 9 Ocak 2007 Basın Özeti

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

New Yorker The Starting Gate Iraq becomes a test for the Democrats. By Jeffrey Goldberg The likely Democratic presidential candidates, so unified on issues like the Middle East peace process, are approaching Iraq differently: John Edwards favors withdrawal, Barack Obama opposes a marginal increase in troops, and Hillary Clinton declares herself in the "lonely middle" between idealists and realists. Whatever the outcome in Iraq, the winner will still have to deal with Iran and North Korea: "The next President is heading into the biggest, most dangerous set of problems that we've faced since the Cuban missile crisis," says former Council of Foreign Relations chief Leslie Gelb

H3 Bir uyarı Gündüz Aktan

From the Archive Arzın Merkezine Seyahat: ABD Ulusal Güvenlik Konseyi

Akşam İşte o rapor

Cengiz Çandar MİT değerlendirmesi, Irak petrol yasası, 'Benelüks Modeli'

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU MİT ne demek istiyor?

MİT Müsteşarı'nın tespitleri Hasan Celal Güzel

Enis Berberoğlu Çankaya kararı sadece Erdoğan’a ait değil

[Yorum - Bülent Orakoğlu] Güçlü Türkiye için MİT müsteşarına kulak verilmeli

Murat Çelik ABD’YE rağmen’ ihtimali yüksek

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Makedonya K. Irak hattı...

Gül, şubatta ABD yolcusu

ABD yönetiminden PKK itirafı

Büyükanıt şubatta ABD'de

TSK'nın üslubu değişiyor

Erdoğan: Koordinatörlük kalkmayacak

Ankara: İsrail'e hava sahamızdan saldırı izni vermeyiz

United States and the PKK: Why did coordinator not help out? - Journal of Turkish Weekly

Derya SAZAK Irak vizyonu

Başer: Zor durumda kaldım
Murat Yetkin

Bakan Gül, Rice'tan randevu bekliyor...

Yalçın Doğan Asıl gerçek 22’nci sayfadaki son cümlede

Birand Hadi bakalım, artık şenlikler başlıyor…

Güler Kömürcü Başkan, sondan bir önceki uyarıyı yaptı

Cüneyt Ülsever Lafla peynir ekmek gemisi yürür!

'Ülkenin güvenliği Kerkük'ten başlar'

Başer says Iraq operation possible under 'right conditions'

Hasan CEMAL MİT'in farklı dili...

Arslan BULUT “Laik Barzani’yi tercih edelim” diyen emekli orgeneral ve MİT açıklaması

Ümit ÖZDAĞ ABD Irak’ta savaşı kaybetti mi? (1)

İsrail, İran ve dünya Turgut Tarhanlı

Güngör Mengi Kerkük çığlığı

Can Ataklı Kerkük Türkleri korku içinde

Hasan DEMİR CIA Başbakanlığı dinlerken Telekom yabancılara satılıyor

Bakan Çiçek, "MİT, devletin gözüdür, kulağıdır"

Erdoğan: Sözlerim Başer'e değil, ABD'ye

Savaş SÜZAL Irak ve yanlış Amerikalı

'PKK sorunu işbirliğini engelliyor'

Berat Özipek Irak’la tek temasımız kamyoncular mı?

Hadi UluenginMİT, devlet miti ve fetiş

Hükümet, MİT'in açıklamasına sıcak

İlter Türkmen Öykü ve gerçek

Taha Kıvanç Bush'a dâvetiye, Cumhuriyet'ten...

Fehmi Koru Önemli bir açılım

Erhan Çelik MİT Müsteşarı’nı konuşturan kim?

TAMER KORKMAZ - 'Ezber Bozan' MİT

Hüsnü Mahalli Irak, petrol, Somali ve...

ŞAHİN ALPAY - Güçlenen demokratik mutabakat

Mehmet Altan Tutucuların MİT korkusu

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL MİT Müsteşarı ne demek istiyor?

MELİHA OKUR Kuzey Irak'ta iki şehir birbiriyle yarışıyor

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Türkiye'de dolardan sadece devalüasyon yıllarında kazanılıyor

Eser Karakaş 2007’ye girerken en olumlu manzara nerede?

2007 için portföy önerisi
Mahfi Eğilmez

Ercan Kumcu Enflasyonla mücadeledeparanın rolü

Erdal Sağlam Piyasa için bir Cumhurbaşkanlığı anısı

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Yoksa ekonomi büyüyor mu?

Asaf Savaş Akat 2007’nin riskleri (2)

TÜİK rakamları şaşırdı!

Deniz Gökçe Osman Ulagay dostuma mektup!

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF An Escalation of American Blood President Bush’s surge may be just big enough to expose more troops to danger without being big enough to achieve security.

H5 Washington Post Bush Makes Push for Iraq 'Surge' to Senators

President argues that plan will succeed because of greater willingness by al-Maliki to commit Iraqi forces against Shiite militias, lawmakers say.

U.S. Targets al-Qaeda in Somalia Gunship attacks suspected terrorists and may have hit senior member on the wanted list, sources say.

House Bill Backs 9/11 Reforms
Proposals signal willingness on the part of House Democrats to pressure colleagues in the Senate.

Editorial A Bad Investment A lot more cash for a little more security WHAT'S MORE important, Coast Guard patrols or collecting fingerprints at border crossings? Running checked bags through X-ray machines at airports or installing blast barriers at nuclear plants?

WiLLiam Arkin The American Military Cleans Up Again

Dan Fromkin Been There, Done That

Russia Halts Oil Flow To Belarus in Dispute

Quarrel Reignites Worries in Europe Over Reliability of Key Energy Supplier

The Archbishop's Bargain -- and Poland's »

Anne Applebaum

H6 Guardian Low wage competition isn't to blame for western job losses and inequality Will Hutton: US and British business culture is creating our widening pay gap, not the impact of sub-contractor economies like China.

Belarus cuts off Russian pipeline in bitter gas war · Supply disrupted to Germany and Poland · European Union demands urgent explanation
EU calls for 'industrial revolution' in power generation

Rising Iraqi deaths loom over Bush announcement

MI5: no terror threat on eve of 7/7
MI5 told senior MPs there was no imminent terrorist threat less than 24 hours before the July 7 bombings.

Homophobia, not injustice, is what really fires the faiths Polly Toynbee: Tonight, the intolerance that comes with religion's moral certainty will be on display for all to see.

After five years of torture, Bisher is slowly slipping into madness
G Brent Mickum: False allegations from MI5 put my clients in Guantánamo Bay and the British government has failed them abysmally.

Bangladesh: a democracy in crisis
Simon Tisdall: The prospective collapse of democracy in predominantly Sunni Muslim Bangladesh is raising concerns reaching far beyond the politically divided south Asian nation of 145 million people. A state of emergency and intervention by the army are distinct possibilities if already delayed elections fail on January 22.

Intelligent design is a science, not a faith Response: If Darwinists distinguished between science and their religious beliefs, we'd all be wiser, says Richard Buggs.

H7 If you so dumb, how come you ain't poor? Asia Times There has been an inordinate amount written about US decline, complete with Russian and Chinese designs to benefit from America's embarrassment in Iraq. The reality could not be more different. The US holds all the economic aces, and civil carnage in Iraq and Palestine works to Washington's advantage as it counters Iran.

No Time to Heal by Sidney Blumenthal

Who Is Planning Our Next War?
by Patrick Buchanan

Walker's World: Rumors of war

Elliot Abrams’ Uncivil War

Selective Amnesia from Neocons - Glenn Greenwald, American Conservative

Iraq: Last Chance - Robert Zelnick, Policy Review

Iraq's Natural State - Arnold Kling, TCS Daily

Washington Realist Ikle and Annihilation

Pelosi and Krauthammer Agreeing on Iraq?

Washington Note More on Bush's Not-so-New Plan for Iraq

CIA helped Bush Sr. in oil venture Refutes Bush's denial that he had any connections to intel community pre-1976.

Officials: New Intel Chief to Darken Iran Intel Estimate, Broaden Surveillance

Laura Rozen - a brief tour through Cheney's state within the state.

Atlantic "Another Wrong Thing" Why the surge is a bad idea. By James Fallows

COMMENT A War to Start All Wars The Middle East looks like Europe circa World War I. by Niall Ferguson

Succeed or fail By Tod Lindberg

Morgan Stanley Power Shift Do not underestimate the significance of the political shift that has just taken place in the US Congress.

The Neo-Cons' Role in Saddam's Execution 'Deal' Raghida Dergham

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

POLITICS-IRAN: Defiant but Weighing the Cost of UN Sanctions
Inter Press Service

Analysis: Iran stepping up Iraq terror

Iran Reformists Slam Government's Nuclear Policy

Senior Iraqi Shi'ite Joins Sectarian War of Words

Near Sadr City, US Troops Await Attack

Military Officer Threatens Key Oil Strait

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Iran’s supreme rule Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 68, appeared on state TV Monday looking pale and feeble, after suffering a cerebral stroke last Wednesday Jan. 3

this column by UPI Editor at Large Arnaud de Borchgrave details Bibi Netanyahu leading the charge to lobby the Bush administration to take out Iran's nuclear facilities, and paints U.S. air strikes against Iran in 2007/08 as all-but-a-done deal.

Iran’s Nuclear Choice : Margaret Mary Beckett

Policy Watch: Maliki's monumental mistake

Court drops Kurd charges against Saddam

Iraq's Billions

What happened to the $20 billion of Iraq's reconstruction money?

Looking abroad
Iran loses thousands of its educated young people to foreign jobs

New Saddam Execution Video

Saudi Kingdom to soon receive warplanes from UK

Nir Rosen profiles Adnan Dulaimi, a leader of the Sunni religious "National Accord Front

Was the drafting of the new Iraqi petroleum law outsourced to a US contractor?

H9 Ha’aretz - Olmert: Unilateralism policy has been a failure

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

'Fatah working with Israel'

Palestinian terror cells seek to acquire Katyusha technology
IDF official: Kassams cannot be further upgraded; Home Front Command preparing simulations, testing defenses against longer-range rockets.

Tony Karon Condi’s Savage War on the Palestinians" href="http://tonykaron.com/2007/01/07/condis-savage-war-on-the-palestinians/">Condi’s Savage War on the Palestinians

Letter from Jerusalem Fred Halliday

Shin Bet: 14 Percent of Suicide Bombers Had Israeli Citizenship

Assad's Olive Branch Can Bear No Fruit Ammar Abdulhamid, Forward

Dershowitz: Six Million Additional People Have Died Because of Obsessive Focus on Israel

Israel's PM ready for China talks

Faction tensions simmer in W Bank

H10 Christian Science Monitor Third Iraq trip will test troops The Third Infantry Division deploys to Iraq again later this month, making it the first US Army unit to pull three tours there.

Life at the bottom wage As the House of Representatives considers increasing the minimum wage, a look at the realities of life at $5.15 an hour.

Israel denies Iran nuke attack plan

Experts wonder if political 'posturing' is behind report of tactical strike on Tehran's program.

ASIA China's explosive economic reforms will create seismic tensions within the one-party authoritarian state and asks: can the centre hold?

"China Pursues Stronger Navy and Seeks to Calm Fears of Arms Race"
Full text of report

H11 IHT Iran actually is short of oil ROGER STERN
The economic damage Iran inflicts on itself by failing to invest in new oil production is far worse than anything the meaningless UN sanctions could accomplish.

One size does not fit all
PRANAB BARDHAN Today there is less certainty that there is only one model, the American model of capitalism, for developing and transition economies.

Denmark's secret to happiness: low expectations Over the last 30 years, the citizens of Denmark have scored higher than any other Western country on measures of life satisfaction, and scientists think they know why: a culture of low expectations.

A Frank Starting Point for Germany’s Big Year

The lynching of Iraq
JAMES CARROLL / The Boston Globe
Revenge drove the initial U.S. attack on Saddam Hussein every bit as much as it snuffed out his life at the end.

EUROPE Powering the future
A guide to the EU's new priorities in energy policy

BBC President Le Pen?
Can the veteran far-right leader capture the French presidency?

Berlin: Kosovo Is EU's Most Pressing Issue

Gypsies put EU to the test

(By Colum McCann)

From Spain, in the tradition-rich Basque Country, a cease-fire has brought a halt to four decades of separatist violence. But will it hold? (and an interview); and the recent Madrid airport bombing is a sign that the Basque nationalist group ETA is flailing.

H12 RFE/RL Russia: Gazprom Looks Ahead To A New Year

EurasiaNet Azerbaijan: Still No Public Results from Coup Investigation

Russia and the United States Wrestle for Control of the OSCE Agenda

The Armenian Scientific Sector Receives a Boost With an eye toward attracting foreign investment, the Armenian government is trying to update and overhaul Armenia’s scientific sector for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Sizing Up U.S. Aid

Has security assistance to states transitioning from conflict to democratic systems been more effective than assistance to governments that remain repressive? RAND thinks so.

Azeris stop Russia oil exports

From Turkmenistan, President Niyazov is dead, but his country lives under his shadow--so is it time for a new beginning? Go west, young Chinaman: China's economic explosion is rippling out to Central Asia.

Google News Azerbaijan

Prime minister of energy-rich Kazakhstan quits

H13 The Times Amir Taheri Mr President, herewith my ten tips to deal with Iraq - President Bush still has a monopoly on making Iraq policy because the Democrats have nothing to offer

Russians turn off Europe's oil supply Moscow abruptly halted millions of barrels of oil destined for the EU via Belarus in an increasingly hostile wrangle with its neighbour

Saddam speaks from beyond grave to give orders on genocide
An audiotape purportedly carrying Saddam Hussein's voice has him giving approval to the use of chemical weapons in crowded Kurdish areas

Bush sets new goals to sell his Iraq 'surge' President Bush hopes to sell the idea of sending additional troops to Iraq, as he makes one the most important speeches of his presidency

'We must have Britain on our side to make Europe work'
The German Chancellor says Europe’s hopes of a new Constitution are doomed without Britain, as her country takes on the EU and G8 presidencies

How plagiarising Neil Kinnock saved my life Plagiarising Neil Kinnock 20 years ago destroyed his campaign for the US Presidency, but Senator Joe Biden believes it also saved his life

Wall Street Journal Crafting an Iraq Plan Deputy national security adviser J.D. Crouch is obscure by Washington standards, but his influence will be felt in President Bush's new Iraq proposals.

Murtha Outlines Strategy to Restrict Troop Surge With Bush seeking more U.S. forces in Iraq, a House Democratic chairman outlined options that would restrict any troop surge if it meant depleting readiness at home or extending the tours of troops now in the war zone.

2007 will remain a bullish year for many industrial raw materials, says the Economist Intelligence Unit

H14 Financial Times Europe, US squeeze Iran on nuclear plans Western Europe and the US are seeking to ratchet up pressure on Iran over its controversial nuclear programme in the wake of a UN resolution last month that declared almost all of Tehran’s nuclear activities illegal.

Bush ready to announce new Iraq plans

Russia halts oil exports to Belarus Russia halted oil exports to Europe that pass via Belarus and blamed Minsk for siphoning off oil from a big transit pipeline

EUROPE: Brussels must broaden energy alliances

COMMENT: After 15 astounding years, the Union enters its surreal phaseThe EU is poised to spend the next five years in agonised debate about things that look less and less likely ever to happen, writes Gideon Rachman

COMMENT: A strong responseto Putin's Russia is overdueEurope has done next to nothing to produce a coherent reaction to the authoritarian regime, writes Robing Shepherd, transatlantic fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the US

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Make the very rich pay for more troops, says top senator

EUROPE: Moscow-Minsk oil row leaves Europeans in a quandary

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Veteran US diplomat completes Bush's new Iraq team

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Bush and Barroso back 'final push' on Doha

Editorial Brown has nowhere to go but Europe

COMMENT: Why the green lobby must be treated asa religion

COMMENT: On the march - how Germany's extreme right is making gains in the blighted east Patient fieldwork is allowing the National Democratic party to build a power base at local level in poor parts of the countryside

COMMENT: Corporatism comes in from the cold

COMMENT: Merkel's transatlantic trade notions are misguided

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: In Beijing's footsteps: how a still wary Hanoi is forsaking ideology for trade

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Tyranny in the twenty-first century The new model of power and efficiency is no longer the general or the guerrilla but the corporate CEO, writes Ian Buruma of Bard College.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Japan gives defence agency ministry status

A military ministry Japan's decision to upgrade its defence agency to a full ministry symbolises its desire, once again, to engage with the world as a "normal" country. Japan's neighbours should not see that as a threat.

Open the files The resignation of the Archbishopof Warsaw over revelations he co-operated with the communist secret police is a profound shock for Poland.

Kelly's reluctant blow for school competition Ruth Kelly, a cabinet minister and until recently education secretary, has decided to educate one of her children privately

White House to unveil Medicare overhaul

H15 Los Angeles Times Bush policy may mean second tours in Iraq Guard and reserve units have been limited to 24 months of mobilization for the war, but a new direction could reverse the Pentagon's rule.

Yitzhak Nakash If U.S. drops the ball, Iraq shatters The U.S. must bring all Iraqis to the negotiating table while maintaining support for a Shiite-led government.

Not all Republicans convinced of Bush's Iraq plan

Bush to nominate ambassador to Iraq for U.N.

Editorial First wiretapping, now letter-opening?

Can the feds read your mail without a warrant? You wouldn't think so, but that's not how the president sees it.

H16 American Politics

New Yorker The Starting Gate

Iraq becomes a test for the Democrats. By Jeffrey Goldberg

'A Classic War Powers Confrontation'

Do Democrats Have the Power to Stop an Iraq Surge?

Most Americans Say No to Iraq Buildup

From Vanity Fair, John McCain knows how nasty the road to the White House can get. Now that he's the GOP front-runner for 2008, must he stoop to win?

Atlantic Untruth and Consequences Presidents have always lied. Here's how George W. Bush is different. By Carl M. Cannon

Interviews: Carl M. Cannon
The author of "Untruth and Consequences," talks about the lies our presidents tell us—and the ones they tell themselves.

Winning strategy By Claude R. Marx Navigate landmines on road to 2008

realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec

The man who coined Ford's most hopeful phrase was among the first to learn that Cheney and Rumsfeld would use Watergate as an excuse to expand executive power.

H17 Daily TelegraphRussia threatens Europe's oil supply Russia halted oil exports to Europe via Belarus as a bitter trade dispute escalated, renewing concerns that Moscow is bent on pursuing aggressive energy diplomacy.

Saddam: Shia hostages hanged Saddam's execution has triggered a gruesome cycle of revenge, with hundreds of lynched Shia Muslims found hanged from lampposts in Baghdad.

H18 Independent Iraq admits 23,000 civilians died in 2006

Leading article: A situation fraught with confusion and tension

Oil market gets the jitters after Russians close Belarus pipeline

Louis Michel: Somalia should have an international peace force

Why is my dad far away in that place called Guantanamo Bay?

Ten-year-old Anas el-Banna will walk to Number 10 Downing Street this week to ask - again - Why can't my Dad come home?

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Security bill picks 9/11 panel ideas

But the House Democrats' fast-track bill leaves out key recommendations of the '04 report.

Full Text: Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007 276 pages; PDF.

From Military.com, an essay on The State of the Jihad.

From Newsweek, we're losing the infowar: Insurgents using simple cell-phone cameras, laptop editing programs and the Web are beating the United States in the fierce battle for Iraqi public opinion.

Analysis: Negroponte's departure may create vaccum

The spy who came in from the boardroom

James J. Carafano January 2007
Promoting Security and Civil Liberties: The Role of Data Mining in Combating Terrorism

RFERL Ex-CIA Analyst Says West Misunderstands Al-Qaeda

The man who spent six years hunting for Osama bin Laden doubts that the Al-Qaeda leader will be killed or captured anytime soon.

A split within the CIA has emerged over the policy of sending terror suspects abroad to be tortured and interrogated.

Reevaluating the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: Model and Data Uncertainty (PDF; 444 KB)
Source: National Institute of Justice

Study: Price for Border Fence Up to $49 Billion

Spidermen and exploding frisbees
The Pentagon is running a massively profitable weapons-development business off fictional futures of its creation. A crucial one of these scenarios is fighting in 2025 in the slums of the world's mega-cities. Here, dazzling high-tech gadgets will allow America's warriors to scale walls like Spiderman, perform surveillance via unmanned aerial vehicles and direct "smart" grenades around corners. - Nick Turse

Fred Kaplan

Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger

Rethinking Twentieth-Century History - The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

by Niall Ferguson California Literary Review

Singapore: The Art Of Building A Global City by Sanjeev Direct to Full Text
30 pages; PDF

The AC-130 gunship is capable of firing thousands of rounds per second.

Outside View: Shrinking US sub fleet
United Press International

H21 Threatened by the Internet, Time magazine slims down

A Historian For Our Time
Thucydides may have been more trustworthy, but Herodotus would have been more fun to share a wineskin with—and is a far better guide to the present. by Robert D. Kaplan

A look at how George Akerlof is hoping to spread the debate on markets and reality by taking on some of the profession’s most sacred cows.

Can online games be used as a laboratory for economic experiments? Tim Harford investigates.

The Digital-Music Mosh Pit
A new wave of Web innovation is finally challenging Steve Jobs’s empire of cool.

A review of Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations

In Trying Times, Papers Retreat From Washington

The Jackson 45 - a new search angle for Google Internet portal opens door on 200 years of patents.

J. Robert Oppenheimer: a kind Aristotlean man, god-like the in life of the mind – but god-like also in his power over life and death... more»

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