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10 January 2007
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H1 Washington Post With Iraq Speech, Bush to Pull Away From His Generals President's new strategy does something he has avoided since invasion in 2003: Ordering top brass to take action they resisted and advised against.

Lessons for One Last Try By David Ignatius, Some useful military guideposts for success in Iraq can be found in a new field manual of counterinsurgency warfare.

New York Times Bush’s Troop-Increase Plan Is Expected to Draw Six Guard Brigades to Iraq

Los Angeles Times Bush courts widespread skepticism over Iraq plan Experts view economic and political portion of president's reconstruction strategy to be a gamble with limited chances of success.

Independent Leading article: One last, desperate, throw of the dice

Guardian Like a deluded compulsive gambler, Bush is fuelling a new cold war Jonathan Freedland: With air strikes on Somalia and a surge in troops in Iraq, he is staking everything on a finale he can call victory.

Concessions in the pipeline Dilip Hiro Nouri al-Maliki's government plans to grant big concessions to western oil companies - but in reality, it lacks the legitimacy to do so.

McClatchy Soldiers doubt an influx of American troops will benefit Iraqi army

Sen. Kennedy & Iraq Surge

Financial Times COMMENT: Globalisation's future is the biggest long-term question Even a relatively mild slowdown might shift policy in high-income countries, especially in the US, in a much more protectionist direction, writes Martin Wolf.

COMMENT: Blair has one last chance to defy Bush Blair should work with other EU leaders to develop a position that went beyond limping a few paces behind whatever Washington is prepared to do in the Middle East, writes Chris Patten.

IraqSlogger US Papers Wed.: Bush Speech Pre-Reax

Iraqi Papers Wednesday: Haifa Street

McClatchy Governments hunt for militants in SomaliaThe United States, Ethiopia, the transitional Somali government and Kenya coordinated land, sea and air operations Tuesday against al-Qaida operatives and remnants of Somalia's defeated Islamist militias in a southern corner of the war-ravaged African nation, U.S. and Somali officials said.

Juan Cole Bush's plan for Iraq. ...

Congressional Limitations and Requirements for Military Deployments and Funding
Source: Center for American Progress View as PDF with citations (90 KB)

Daily Telegraph CIA to take on Hizbollah CIA authorised to take covert action against Hizbollah.

Christian Science Monitor How will Bush sell his Iraq plan to the public? His address Wednesday will push a strategy that would increase US troop levels in Iraq.

John Hughes: What's behind Bush's staff moves

Opinion: A Middle East free of nuclear weapons Such an agreement could not only head off an arms race, but might also help in addressing fundamental political issues as well.

Independent EU: Climate change will transform the face of the continent Europe, the richest and most fertile continent and the model for the modern world, will be devastated by climate change, says the EU

Congressional Research Service "Russian Natural Gas: Regional Dependence"

UPI Outside View: Separatism good for Russia?

World Proved Reserves of Oil and Natural Gas, Most Recent Estimates The table is also available in Excel spreadsheet format. World Proved Crude Oil Reserves, January 1, 1980 - January 1, 2007 Estimates (XLS)

IHT Get tough with Gazprom
To succeed, the European Commission's Strategic Energy Review's top priorities must be equal terms of business between the European Union and Russia.

H2 CER - Turkish business and EU accession By Sinan Ülgen

Turkey Works to Stop 'Honor' Killings By: Tracy Wilkinson | Los Angeles Times In Turkey, the government has finally taken action. Under pressure from an invigorated women's movement and eager to win approval from the European Union, the government has launched a major campaign against honor killings, at a level and with a breadth virtually unheard of in the Islamic world.

Turkish PM Warns Iraqi Kurds Over Kirkuk

Google News Greece - Cyprus

Fikret BİLA Talat: Komutan uzakta, ben her gün buradayım

Rauf DENKTAŞ Konumuz nedir?

Ertuğrul Özkök Lokmacı, Mostar köprüsü mü?

Hasan ÜNAL Lokmacı’da atılan geri adım

M. Ali BİRAND / Üst geçit kavgası, hepimize yara aldırdı

ERDAL ŞAFAK Gusbo ve gavro

MUHARREM SARIKAYA 'Barış olmadan asla...'

Sadi SOMUNCUOĞLU
TSK’ya “Lokmacı” çuvalı mı?

Oktay Ekşi Talat kazandı mı, kaybetti mi?

ABDÜLHAMİT BİLİCİ - Bir Lokma'da boğulduk

Hasan CEMAL Lokmacı'nın ardındaki gerçek!

Metin MÜNİR Talat, zıtlaşma yerine konsensüs aramalı (2)

İsrafil K. Kumbasar
Talat’a ‘Arkandayız, bildiğini oku’ diyen akıl hocası kim?

Talat'a sitem etti: Erken adım attı

Serdar Turgut KKTC hakkındaki nihai fikrim

FT Turkey postpones electricity sell-off

PKK and the Turkish-American Relations Journal of Turkish Weekly

ABD'de Ermeni tasarısı geliyor

Hizbullah ve PKK’ya karşı ’vaaz ve irşat’ timleri

Iraklı Şii ve Sünniler Ankara'ya geliyor

Kongre: Kerkük'ü Unutma

Kerkük:2007 Paneli

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

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

No Peshmerge in the Arab cities, please! KurdishMedia

Rucan Keleş'in yazısı ve Abdurrahman Dilipak'ın yorumu

Kuzey Kürdleri üzerindeki asimilasyona karşı durmak

Türkiye, Karayılan'ı Irak'tan iki kez istedi

AİHM cezayı kesti 'Ya cemaat vakıflarının tapularını iade edin ya da mülklerin bedelini ödeyin'

"Irak'ta, Türkiye'siz istikrar kurulamaz"

Ermeni tasarısı ABD Kongresine geliyor

BBC 10 Ocak 2007 Basın Özeti

AB'nin yeni enerji stratejisi

Güngör URAS / İhracat artıyor, ithalat daha hızlı...

Deniz Gökçe Bu bir tercümedir!

Saruhan Özel Türkiye'de enflasyon nasıl düşmeli?

Osman ULAGAY Deniz Gökçe dostuma teşekkür ve cevap

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM 2007'nin ayırıcı özelliği ne?

Hurşit GÜNEŞ / Tekstil sadece pamuk değil

Words and Deeds: Russian Foreign Policy and Post-Soviet Secessionist Conflicts NUPI

EurasiaNet Resurgent Pragmatists Work to Push Iran in a Different Direction BY KAMAL NAZER YASIN Emboldened by success at the ballot box, resurgent pragmatists are working to rapidly reshape Iran’s political outlook.

H3 Kerkük'ün yeni Karabağ olmasına izin vermeyiz

Erdoğan Irak'ta yine kırmızı çizgiler çizdi

Mensur Akgün Türkiye'nin Kürt devleti vizyonu değişirken

'PKK koordinasyonu' niye çalışmadı? SEDAT LAÇİNER

Mumcu Habur’u kapat Ovacık’ı aç PKK’lıları teslim etsinler

Bilal Çetin Erdoğan’dan ABD’ye Kerkük mesajı...

Bush’a 6 uyarı

Mustafa Ünal Erdoğan'ın Kerkük uyarısı

Cengiz Çandar Lokmacı barikatı ve karşılıklılık

M.Ali Kışlalı - Türkiye çaresiz mi?

Avni Özgürel - MİT'i konuşturan sebep ne?

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

İsmail Küçükkaya
AK Parti son yıl taktiği

Son anket 'çıkma' dedi

Taha AKYOL Azınlık kararı

Azınlık vakıfları için tarihi karar

AB politikası belirlenecek

'AİHM istemeden temsilde adaleti sağlamalıyız'

Matt Bryza da laiklik tartışmalarını 'kakofoni'ye benzetti

Irak'ta daha fazla önlem almalıyız!

'Ralston Etkili Oluyor'

Cengiz Aktar Seçim yılı ve AB işleri

Murat Sabuncu Irak'ta petrolün yeni patronlarına bir bakış

FATİH ALTAYLI

Mumcu'ya göre MİT Müsteşarı Taner, 'son uyarı'yı yaptı

Baykal'dan kadrolaşma cevabı: 28 yıldır iktidarda değiliz, nasıl kadrolaşacağız?

Talat, Lokmacı üstgeçidini yıktı Rumlar jesti görmezden geldi

[Yorum - Prof. Dr. Yunus Çengel] Irak petrolü ABD'yi ihya eder mi?

Arslan BULUT
MİT açıklamasına sazan gibi atlayanlar ve gerçekler!

AB'nin etkisi Murat Yetkin

Election year and EU affairs
Cengiz Aktar

Türkiye, Lübnan aracılığıyla Ortadoğu'da rol istiyor HUSAM EDDAVİ

[HABER ANALİZ] ABD, üçüncü fay hattını da harekete geçirdi

Sami KOHEN Bombalama "hakkı"...

ALİ BULAÇ - Büyük güçlere dayanmak!

Ermeniler sözde soykırım için 2007’den umutlu

'Klasik sağcı Müslüman tezi' iyidir MUSTAFA AKYOL

Güneri CIVAOĞLU
Mustafa Kemal gizli serviste...

Güngör Mengi MI5 iyi örnek

Necati Doğru F-16’nın beynini Türk mühendisler yenileyebilir!

Ümit ÖZDAĞ
ABD Irak’ta savaşı kaybetti mi? (2)

YENI SAFAK| Yazarlar|
FEHMİ KORU “Durdurun dünyayı...” >


ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Kıbrıs'taki meydan okuma... >


TAHA KIVANÇ Tekin değil, hiç değil... >


KÜRŞAT BUMİN Cumhurbaşkanına vali muamelesi (2)>


MEHMET OCAKTAN KKTC'nin bağımsızlığına önce biz inanıyor muyuz? >


İBRAHİM KARAGÜL İdamın arkasındaki gizli pazarlık bu mu? >

Gül 'Hedef Yunanistan'la stratejik ortaklık' >

H4 New York Times Bush’s Troop-Increase Plan Is Expected to Draw Six Guard Brigades to Iraq

Democrats Rush to Frame Political Debate Over Troops

Democrats Plan Symbolic Votes Against Bush’s Iraq Troop Plan Democrats hope to isolate the president politically over his handling of the war by forcing Republicans to take a stand on the issue.

Bush to Propose Restoring Iraqi Factories to Create Jobs

U.S. and Iraqis Hit Insurgents in All-Day Fight The battle in downtown Baghdad was one of the most dramatic operations in the capital since the invasion nearly four years ago.

U.S. Prohibits All Transactions With a Major Iranian Bank

Beirut Memo: A Nation With a Long Memory, but a Truncated History

Separatists Admit to Madrid Airport Attack but Stand by Cease-Fire

Airstrike Rekindles Somalis’ Anger at the U.S.

Russia Considers Alternatives to Oil Pipeline Through Belarus

MAUREEN DOWD Love Among the Ruins The search goes on for the right relationship metaphor to describe our deadly embrace of Iraq.

Editorial Venezuela Inc.’s Hostile Takeover While the Bush administration needs to condemn any seizure of American assets, it should choose its words carefully so as not to play into Hugo Chávez’s Yanqui-baiting game.

H5 Washington Post With Iraq Speech, Bush to Pull Away From His Generals President's new strategy does something he has avoided since invasion in 2003: Ordering top brass to take action they resisted and advised against.

Lessons for One Last Try By David Ignatius, Some useful military guideposts for success in Iraq can be found in a new field manual of counterinsurgency warfare.

Bush Warns Democrats About Effects of Troop Pullout From Iraq

Don't Give Up On Iraq Yet - Tariq al-Hashimi, True reconciliation in line with what happened in South Africa and Ireland is needed for resolution of the conflict in Iraq.

U.S. Is Not Saying Who, or What, Was Hit in Somalia Raid Accounts Differ in Mogadishu and D.C.

U.S. Airstrikes Back Troops in Baghdad Clash Insurgents Wage Fierce Battle In Mostly Sunni Arab Enclave

Hezbollah Widens Anti-Government Campaign Protest Opens Promised Phase of Daily Demonstrations in Lebanese Capital

U.S. Bars Iranian Bank To Curb Access to Dollars

Germany's Merkel Assails Russia Over Cutoff of Oil

Entitled Selfishness Boomer Generation Is in a State of Denial By Robert J. Samuelson, Baby boomers are trying to rob their children and grandchildren, putting the country's future at risk in the process.

Editorial Venezuela's Leap BackwardHugo Chavez steers his country toward the socialism of the 20th century.

U.S. Overseas Image Gets New Focus State Dept. to Honor Groups That Promote Understanding

American Considered for U.N.'s Top Political Job

Dan Fromkin The Hardest Sell

William Arkin Congress, and the American People vs. The Troops

Post Global Write an open letter to the new UN Secretary General.

H6 Guardian Like a deluded compulsive gambler, Bush is fuelling a new cold war Jonathan Freedland: With air strikes on Somalia and a surge in troops in Iraq, he is staking everything on a finale he can call victory.

Concessions in the pipeline Dilip Hiro Nouri al-Maliki's government plans to grant big concessions to western oil companies - but in reality, it lacks the legitimacy to do so.

US air strikes at al-Qaida suspects
At least 27 killed as 'war on terror' moves to Somalia.
World briefing: Simon Tisdall

Leader – Somalia - America attacks
The US airstrikes which reportedly killed large numbers of people in southern Somalia on Sunday and Monday - whether they are jihadi militants or civilians is not yet known - were the first overt military action Washington has taken in the country since 1994.

Distorted by the terror prism Ian Black: The US attack on Somalia was driven by the search for al-Qaida operatives and showed no regard for for Somalia's domestic complexities.

Changing states Mai Yamani: The map of power in the Middle East has altered dramatically and Bush's policy for the United States in Iraq will need to change accordingly.

Angry Merkel attacks Putin over latest pipeline closure · Russian pricing row with Belarus alarms EU
· Dispute hastens effort to safeguard energy supplies

Bush hits new low
George Bush's public approval ratings hit a new low due to the opposition of an increase of US troops in Iraq.

H7 McClatchy Soldiers doubt an influx of American troops will benefit Iraqi army

Iraq hearings offer first debate of 2008 presidential campaign

Juan Cole Bush's plan for Iraq. ...

Time The Man Who'll Lead the Surge

Globalist Globalization: The 2006/07 Balance Sheet (Part I)

Globalization: The 2006/07 Balance Sheet (Part II)

China's Real Three Challenges to the United States By Chas W. Freeman

Will the World's Financial Dam Break in the Coming Year? By: Joseph E. Stiglitz | The Daily Star

Edward Kennedy Escalation? It's Not His Decision to Make

Bush's New Plan Not All New

Salhani Analysis: Middle East on the verge of yet another conflict?

Policy Watch: Maliki's mishandling of Saddam’s execution

Iraq Requires a Military Solution - Dennis Byrne, RealClearPolitics

Succeed or Fail - Tod Lindberg, Washington Times


More Troops Won't Make A Difference - Michael Hirsh, Newsweek

Bush's 'hail Mary'

Bush's Rushto Armageddon
by Robert Parry

Lobe Hardliner's Hardliner Led Bush's Iraq Review

PINR "Lebanon: A Strained Political Stalemate" Full text of report

Daily Star Dealing with the challenge of 'national Islamism' By Barry Rubin

Saddam's brutality cannot be erased by more of the same

Reconsider containment in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East By Ian Shapiro

Downtown Beirut: front line to the world By Rami G. Khouri

America should end its futile policy of isolation By Mousa Qous

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

BBC Bush set to reveal Iraq strategy The US president prepares to deliver his strategy for Iraq, as Democrats oppose any troop increase.

Taking the Vietnam out of Iraq

What Democrats will do next

Congressional Research Service "Islam: Sunnis and Shiites,"

Oil Angst May Fuel Iran's Nuclear Quest By: Cesar Chelala | The Japan Times That Iran should not pursue nuclear power because it has substantial oil resources is being challenged by industry analysts who indicate that the country may be facing future diminished oil-export capabilities.

Official: First wave of troops to Iraq by Jan. 31

Iran announces 'nuke spy' arrest Man arrested on suspicion of 'selling nuclear secrets' to opposition group.

EurasiaNet Resurgent Pragmatists Work to Push Iran in a Different Direction BY KAMAL NAZER YASIN Emboldened by success at the ballot box, resurgent pragmatists are working to rapidly reshape Iran’s political outlook.

BBC Cold comfort
Nato uses winter lull in Taleban fighting to push on two fronts

Fleeing Baghdad
Iraqi refugees describe their new lives abroad

Somalia U.S. backs proposal for U.N. peacekeeping force

CFR US Strikes Somalia

Rice to visit Middle East

Analysis: Restarting Iraq's factories

Iran's Ayatollah Appears in Good Health

Timing of Iraq Intelligence Estimate Questioned

CounterterrorismBlog The Strategy on Somalia

America's Boots on the Ground in Somalia

H9 Ha’aretz - Dahlan to Haaretz: We proved to Hamas that Gaza is not theirs

Eldar Attack of the Ehuds

Peace Index / They know the price of peace, but are unwilling to pay it

Yehuda Ben-Meir: Not the Green Line, not Greater Israel

MI chief: Al-Qaida militants in Lebanon planning attacks

Rosner The optimist has his say

J Post Israel pressing for beefed-up sanctions against Iran
The Post learns that Foreign Ministry is exploring legal options against President Ahmadinejad for inciting genocide.

Analysis: Israel's numerous war wounds
Beyond the long list of those killed and injured, what was the most serious damage the war caused us?

The 'elections-militias' connection

YA - Poll: Arabs dirty, uneducated Recent survey reveals 75 percent of Jewish students believe Arabs uneducated, uncivilized

Expert: Sunnis scared by Shiite bomb

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

A Christian snuff movie that links blood with salvation Giles Fraser: Substitute the Mayan temples for Jewish ones and Mel Gibson's latest film is as anti-semitic as The Passion of the Christ.

CSM Israeli documentary captures citizen reconciliation, and encourages more 'Encounter Point' gives those affected by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a chance to see people on both sides talking and listening.

Federalism: A Solution More for Israel than for Iraq Asian Tribune

West Bank Settler Population Grew by Six Percent in 2006

FBI Investigation of AIPAC Reportedly Expanded

H10 Christian Science Monitor How will Bush sell his Iraq plan to the public? His address Wednesday will push a strategy that would increase US troop levels in Iraq.

John Hughes: What's behind Bush's staff moves

Opinion: A Middle East free of nuclear weapons Such an agreement could not only head off an arms race, but might also help in addressing fundamental political issues as well.

US takes hunt for Al Qaeda to Somalia

This week's airstrikes illustrate how much US military policy has changed since Sept. 11, 2001.

ASIA Abe Goes to China By: Duncan Currie | The Weekly Standard In Japan, the consensus on sundry foreign and defense policy matters has shifted rightward. And Japanese voters have elected their two most hawkish prime ministers since the mid-1980s. Cause for alarm among the neighbors? Hardly.

Don't Nuke the Facts By: Brahma Chellaney | The Times of India
The future of the US-India nuclear deal remains uncertain despite President Bush signing into law the enabling Bill. The conditions-loaded legislation, in fact, has increased the odds that implementing the deal will be a long, challenging process.

How Japan's Economic Class Views China and the Future of Asian Regionalism
JIIA

How will the Olympics affect China?

Research: The Rising New Asian Economy: Impact of China and India's emergence

Analysis: Asia's New Growth Mechanisms Toward 2010 and Beyond

H11 IHT Get tough with Gazprom
To succeed, the European Commission's Strategic Energy Review's top priorities must be equal terms of business between the European Union and Russia.

Russia considers scaling back oil output

Bad timing in the Mideast The juxtaposition of the Israel-Egypt summit meeting at Sharm el-Sheikh and the bloodshed in Ramallah reveals the opposing vectors for and against a Mideast peace.

EUROPE Environmental taxes in the European economy 1995-2003

BBC New EU climate and energy plans The European Commission will propose measures to combat climate change while securing consumer energy supplies.

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

UPI Analysis: A new ‘special relationship’? Bush welcomes Angela Merkel

Italy’s ‘Monstrosity’ By: Tim Parks | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) The social dynamic by which everybody suspects everyone else of bad faith and ideology is always seen as a cover for faction remains endemic in Italy. It thus becomes difficult for a politician or indeed businessman to renounce any chance of power, or step back from any potentially useful association, however ambiguous, since there is the fear that without power one will be vulnerable to opposing factions or even to the supposedly independent but perhaps manipulated organs of the state.

France 'no longer a Catholic country' Barely half the French population describe themselves as Catholic, according to a new poll.

In Greece, old and new collide

Der Spiegel Merkel, EU's Barroso Condemn Russian Pipeline Shut- Off

Russia Becoming 'Frighteningly Arrogant' Over Oil

H12 RFE/RL

UPI Outside View: Separatism good for Russia?

EurasiaNet Gazprom Makes the Georgian Government Pay Tbilisi’s gas-price feud with Moscow has ended as it began -- with the Russian energy giant Gazprom serving as Georgia’s chief supplier. But while Georgian government officials have presented the deal as a temporary expedient until gas supplies from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz field start to flow, a long-term solution to Tbilisi’s energy problems remains elusive.

EDM RUSSIA-BELARUS STANDOFF MAY BEGIN AFFECTING OIL TRANSIT TO EUROPE


- ARREST OF ARMENIAN “COUP PLOTTERS” RAISES QUESTIONS


- AMID MOUNTING CRITICISM IN KAZAKHSTAN, BEIJING AND ASTANA SEAL NEW DEALS

Google News Azerbaijan

Words and Deeds: Russian Foreign Policy and Post-Soviet Secessionist Conflicts NUPI

Further Towards Post-Communism? From 'Left' to Regions in Ukraine NUPI

FPIF A New Era for Turkmenistan?

Congressional Research Service "Russian Natural Gas: Regional Dependence"

H13 The Times Leader Mutual Interest The United States and China find themselves with a common cause

Daniel Finkelstein Neocon has become the ultimate term of political abuse, an alien idea foisted on an unwary nation

US airstrikes on coastal swamps target al-Qaeda secret hideouts
American forces have bombed a suspected al-Qaeda base in Somalia claiming terrorists hiding there were responsible for attacks on US embassies in Africa

China admits fear of Muslim terror as police kill 18 in mountain battle China has announced for the first time the discovery of a secret training camp on its own territory

Putin stands firm on oil blockade
European leaders criticised President Putin as he stepped up his battle with President Lukashenko of Belarus over the future of oil supplies to Europe

Trouble in the pipeline will test Merkel's foreign resolve

Full transcript of interview with Angela Merkel

Wall Street Journal No Exit in Somalia This time the U.S. stays on the anti-terror offense.

Condi Gets Israel's R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Secretary Rice should set a tone of mutual frankness during her Mideast tour.
By BRET STEPHENS

Roberta Wohlstetter, Codebreaker
Some believed in a Pearl Harbor conspiracy, but a book set the record straight.

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: Globalisation's future is the biggest long-term question Even a relatively mild slowdown might shift policy in high-income countries, especially in the US, in a much more protectionist direction, writes Martin Wolf.

COMMENT: Blair has one last chance to defy Bush Blair should work with other EU leaders to develop a position that went beyond limping a few paces behind whatever Washington is prepared to do in the Middle East, writes Chris Patten. Ask the expert: Blair, Bush and the Middle East

Editorial The Belarus question

Bush ready to announce new Iraq plans

‘Saturation’ attack on Iraq insurgents Fierce fighting broke out in the Baghdad district of Haifa Street as US and Iraqi forces moved into an area once viewed as a showcase for the ability to control neighbourhoods by “saturating” them with military forces.

Anger as Russia digs in over oil to Belarus Putin faced an angry European backlash about his decision to halt oil supplies through the pipelines crossing Belarus.

Editorial Free Europe's energy

COMMENT: Competition is the keyto Europe's energy security The European Commission’s own goal – to liberalise European energy markets by July 2007 – is far from being realised, writes Sam Laidlaw, chief executive of Centrica, parent company of British Gas.

COMMENT: The gloom about America's economy is overdone As growth has slowed, pessimists are convinced the oft-predicted demise of the economy is upon us. Neither recent data nor longer-run trends support this, says Nariman Behravesh, of Global Insight.

Latest push to end Doha talks welcomed US and EU try to reconcile differences

Congress on collision course with Moscow Washington’s stance towards Moscow could become frosty in coming months, potentially colliding with expected attempts by Russia to use its new found oil and natural gas wealth to step up its investment in the US.

EU business confidence overtakes US for the first time in five years - Turkey was unusual in being one of the few countries showing a large drop in optimism about the economy compared with last year

H15 Los Angeles Times Bush courts widespread skepticism over Iraq plan Experts view economic and political portion of president's reconstruction strategy to be a gamble with limited chances of success.

- Parties prepare for president's speech

- Democratic leaders face pressure over war

- Baghdad sees heaviest fighting in months

Call for bolstering Iraq reconstruction teams under fire

Editorial

Working Syria, Iran Into Talks on Iraq By: Paul Richter | Los Angeles Times
Although President Bush has rejected proposals for direct talks with Syria and Iran over the future of Iraq, officials in his administration are working to find a way to include those countries in negotiations in a way that might be acceptable to Bush.

No more Middle East crusades By Dimitri K. Simes Europeans couldn't export Christianity 1,000 years ago; what makes us think we can export democracy now? Sending more brigades to pursue the same crusade is unlikely to bring success — at least not on an American political timetable. The problem is not just the incompetent management of the war's aftermath. The problem is that the crusade to reshape the Middle East that led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq precludes anything that could be legitimately called victory.

FT COMMENT: Why Italy's political centre isa radical place to be Romano Prodi has described 2007 as ‘the year of change’. The PM intends to embark on ‘phase two’ of reforming the country, but his main challenge will be holding together a disparate nine-party coalition, writes Geoff Andrews, of the UK’s Open University

Merkel concern over N-plant closures Angela Merkel cast doubt on the wisdom of her country’s plan to phase out nuclear power in the light of this week’s closure by ­Russia of the Druzhba oil pipeline

US imposes sanctions on Iran bank

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Left turn - Chávez shifts up a gear in his drive for '21st-century socialism' Mr Chávez will seek new powers from the legislature to rule by decree. He will press ahead with measures to reform the constitution along socialist lines, a move that is widely expected to allow for his unlimited re-election.

H16 American Politics Center for American Progress: Congressional Limitations and Requirements for Military Deployments and Funding

McClatchy Bush's speech may be the most important of his presidency

Kennedy bill could block Iraq surge

Boomer Generation Is in State of Denial - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek

realclearpoliticsABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec

Poll: 60% oppose Iraq surge

RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE When the lowest pay rises ... As Massachusetts experienced, a minimum-wage hike doesn't cause the economy to implode. But it doesn't make poverty disappear, either.

Condi for 08

H17 Daily Telegraph CIA to take on Hizbollah CIA authorised to take covert action against Hizbollah.

Con Coughlin: A Welcome victory Sunday's events in Somalia, says Con Coughlin, lend credence to the warning the late President Ronald Reagan gave a previous generation of Islamic terrorists: you can run, but you can't hide.

Analysis: US ties up unfinished business

Putin's blackmail challenged

Angela Merkel has been refreshingly undiplomatic in her response to Putin's latest bully-boy posturing over energy supplies.

H18 Independent EU: Climate change will transform the face of the continent Europe, the richest and most fertile continent and the model for the modern world, will be devastated by climate change, says the EU

Leading article: One last, desperate, throw of the dice

Germany may end anti-nuclear policy

'Many dead' as US bombers return to Somalia to attack 'al-Qa'ida suspects'

Hamish McRae: The slow shift of economic power As the workforce becomes more flexible, the more this swings the advantage towards women

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

`Data mining' may implicate innocent people in search for terrorists

Plans for border fence draw renewed scrutiny

Tenet memoirs under White House 'review' Natl. Security Council checking if ex-CIA head's book has 'classified info.'

MI5 to Send Terror Alert Emails to British Citizens

ETA Admits to Madrid Bombing, Blames Authorities for Failing to Evacuate

UNITED STATES:Gates shapes new intelligence leadership

H20 Slate Dems Hate Surge, but They Don't Dare Stop It - John Dickerson

Jefferson's Quran - Chirstopher Hitchens, Slate

Foreign Policy Why Chávez Wins

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