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Editorial Picking Up the Pieces

The Observer Bush set for climate change U-turn

US denies British report

The Other Team's Playbook A Bush U-Turn On Climate Change? By Sebastian Mallaby

Bush: US Decisions Made Iraq Unstable

Newsweek Tough Talk About Iran: How Far Will It Go?

Independent Shock and oil: Iraq's billions & the White House connection

Wall Street Journal Bush Has Managed to Divide & Conquer Mideast - Edward Luttwak The Sunni-U.S. alignment in Lebanon, which interestingly coexists with the U.S.-Shiite alliance in Iraq, may yet achieve results of strategic importance if Syria is successfully detached from its alliance with Iran.

Jerusalem Post The Region: The new Mideast alignment By BARRY RUBIN The Arab states fear growing Iranian influence, yet are pushing Iraq into the arms of Iran.

Zakaria: Even If We 'Win', We Lose

Fineman: Iraq Realigns American Politics

IraqSlogger U.S. Papers Monday: Surge Controversy

Sunday Telegraph If Bush can't control Iraq, the UN must Niall Ferguson.

We're Fighting Not to Lose - Leslie Gelb & Richard Betts

A Skeptic's Case For the Surge - Michael O'Hanlon

Bush's Hail-Mary PassBy George F. Will,

In Baghdad, a Test Of the Petraeus Principles By Jim Hoagland

The Big Gambit In IraqBy David S. Broder

Trapped by Hubris, Again By Robert G. Kaiser

Guardian Next target Tehran
Dan Plesch: All the signs are that Bush is planning for a neocon-inspired military assault on Iran.

Leader Sarkozy's distorted vision

The dictator's legacyF Stephen Larrabee The death last month of Turkmenistan's president-for-life, Saparmurat Niyazov, could have dangerous repercussions across Central Asia.

Djerejian "Surge" Math

Steve Clemons A Glimpse at America's Brewing Nightmare with Iran

Nasrallah: Israeli-Syrian Pact Unrealistic

Raymond J. Learsy: Saudi Arabia's Oil? Sovereign Resposibility Trumps Sovereign Rights!

H2 FT Turkey to step up reforms for EU accession Turkey has vowed to mount a "do-it-yourself" legislative onslaught to prepare for European Union membership, in spite of the fact that significant parts of the...

Alevis push for Turkish tolerance (Benjamin Harvey)

LA Times Plan would add Kurds to civil war mix

Talabani Meets With Assad in Landmark Visit to Syria

Suriye'de tarihi buluşma

Kurdish General: Brigade Trains for Baghdad

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

"Kürtçe devlet mekanizmasına girsin" çağrısı

Osman Öcalan'a suikast girişimi

Em.Org Parmaksız: Kandil’i işgal edelim

Senatör Reed: Kürd tugayları Kürdler için çalışır

Federe Kürdistan yönetiminden Türk hükümetine: artık Osmanlı imparatorluğu mevcut değil

Yaşar Kemal: Bir insana, halka ne yaparsanız yapın onuruyla oynamayın

Kürtlerin TC Asimilasyon Politikalarına Katkıları

Türkmen ve Araplar Kerkük referandumunu boykot kararı aldı

Başbakan, Haşimi ile Kerkük'ü konuştu

Türkiye'nin Kerkük'le ilgili kaygılarını anlıyoruz

Erdoğan: Artık PKK sorunu çözülmeli

Gül: Türkmenler de Kürtler de akrabamız

"Türkiye barışını arıyor, barış baraja takılıyor"

Kerkük tartışılacak

East Kurdistan: Cold and restless
KurdishMedia

Reexamining The Partitioning of Iraq

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Barışı arayan ülke!

Türk'ün Türk'ten başka dostu var!

Gerillanın adını terörist koyduk

Kürtlere iyi ki 'azınlık' denmemiş

’Bölücünün adını aydın koyduk’ deseydi

Arslan BULUT İnce Memed, “Büyük İsrail” e hizmet eder mi Yaşar Kemal?

Kürşad Zorlu ABD Kerkük’ü de istiyor

Saddam gibi direniş oyununa gelmedim

Suriye'ye 'terörü engelle' mesajı

Altemur KILIÇ
Barışa mı, PKK’ya mı fırsat?

Google News Greece - Cyprus

AB, KKTC ile doğrudan ticarete başlayacakmış

Babacan: "AB takvimini biz belirleyeceğiz"

Sarkozy: Türkiye'nin AB'de yeri yok

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

[Yorum - Prof. Dr. Jean Marcou] Türkiye bir seçim malzemesi olamayacak kadar değerli

World Briefings: Greece pursues Balkan 'arc of stability' (Andrew Borowiec)

The tragedy of Turkey
Hans A.H.C. de Wit

Türk ordusunun denetimini başta biz istemiyoruz
Eski KKTC Başbakan Yardımcısı Mustafa Akıncı

İngiltere, KKTC'ye direkt uçuşlar konusunda topu yine Rumlara attı

Türk-Ermeni sınırı ABD gündeminde

Avrupa’da da öldürecektik

Yeni strateji savaş habercisi Zbigniew Brzezinski

ABD'nin yeni hedefi İran ve Suriye ABDULBARİ ATWAN

Ruşen Çakır ABD kadın ya da siyahi bir başkanı kaldırır mı?

Erdoğan cumhurbaşkanı olacak Amerika İran’la anlaşacak Yeni yılda Türkiye ve dünyada neler olacağını köşe yazarlarına sorduk

Today's Zaman yayın hayatına yarın başlıyor

Ankara ve Today's Zaman

Nobel Edebiyat'ta CIA parmağı

İslam'ın Matrix'çi gizli mezhebi Hurufilik

İstanbul’a vize, otoya sınırlama

Erdoğan'ın önerileri
Tarhan Erdem

Turkey surprise: It's a big hit with tourists Los Angeles Times

Novelist / Screenwriter Bezzerides Dies... in Samsun, Turkey. His mother was Armenian

BBC 15 Ocak 2007 Basın Özeti 14 Ocak 2007 Basın Özeti

[Yorum - Doç.Dr.Zeynep Dağı] Darbe arayışlarına cevap: 'Beynelmilel'

H3 Yasemin CONGAR
Sınırımızda ABD askerine hazır mıyız?

Mark Parris Zor bir yıl olacak

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ "Stratejik muallaklık" mı dediniz?

Kürt sorunu Amerikan dönemecinde Murat Yetkin

METEHAN DEMİR 6 sorunda MİT'in kafa karıştıran açıklamasının şifreleri MGK krizinde çözüme doğru

Bush ve Türkiye için zor dönem ÖMER TAŞPINAR

Semih İDİZ ABD'nin Erbil baskınıyla gelen samimiyetsizlik

Yasemin Çongar Balayının sonu mu? Erbil'deki İran Konsolosluğu'nun basılması, Bağdat'a Kürt tugay gönderilmesi ve Kürtlerin General Petraeus'a kırgınlığı, ABD ile Irak Kürtleri arasındaki güven ilişkisini zorluyor

Taha AKYOL Yaşar Kemal'in konuşması üzerine

Dizai Medya aracılığıyla değil yüz yüze konuşalım!

Enis Berberoğlu ABD’nin petrol ortağı Kürtler mi, Türkler mi?

ABD'yle hep hayal kırıklığı AVNİ ÖZGÜREL

SOLİ ÖZELCambaz'a bakarken

Türkiye'nin 2 kozu

Eyüp Can Musevi Lobisi’nden Dışişlerine Ermeni soykırımı tasarısı için uyarı

Fikret BİLA ABD neden endişe ediyor?

Türkiye barışını arıyor

ABD'li Ralston'dan kritik randevu

Irak Türkleri ve gerçekler Hasan Celal Güzel

İlnur Çevik US is destabilizing Iraq's Kurdish north

Hasan ÜNAL Haydi bakalım Tayyip Bey, ver şu Barzani’ye ağzının payını

Cengiz Çandar Saddam mı kazandı Turgut Özal mı

Mehmet Metiner Irak, Kürdistan ve Kerkük

ERDAL ŞAFAK 30 Yıl Savaşı

Ruşen Çakır An gelir, susmak ihanet olur

Ali H Aslan [WASHINGTON] İyice yalnızlaşan kovboy

Oktay Ekşi Duvara çarpmaya az kaldı

Bilal Çetin 9 Eylül’de erken seçim mi?

Yusuf KANLI Searching for the Turko-Kurdish peace

İlnur Cevik Is Turkey really seeking its peace?

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Şener: Erdoğan, Cumhurbaşkanı seçilirse istikrar pekişir

Tüzmen Diplomatlar iş dünyasını da bilmeli Babacan’ı Oğuz Bey’e devrettim

AKP, CHP ile köprüleri attı

Irak'a askere CHP'den destek

Baykal: Türkiye'nin de aktif katkısıyla Irak bölünmektedir

‘Meclis sınırötesi için toplansın’

Mehmet Tezkan Öleceğinize sıtmaya razı olun!..

ERGUN BABAHANMusul ve macera

Ankara, Rice’tan ’PKK düzeltmesi’ bekliyor

Iraq needs `redeployment` of justice, not troops Sylvia Tiryaki

Turkey is wary about the Iraqi Pandora`s box Doğu Ergil

Fatih Çekirge Güneşliydi, uçak havada yanıyordu

ABD, enkazı biz gelmeden kaldırdı

Deniz Ülke Arıboğan
En iyi savaş sebebi

[Yorum - Alev Alatlı] Emre Taner'in demecine dipnotlar (2)

Mahir Kaynak Gizli servislerin açık faaliyetleri

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

AKP’den mal bildirimi atağı

Başkan Bush ne yapmak istiyor?
Baran Tuncer

MUSTAFA ÖZEL Yenilen hegemon güreşe doymaz!

Ferai Tınç Barışçı çözüme dünyadan örnekler

Zapatero zorda kaldı

Ertuğrul Özkök Hodri meydan mı

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Erdoğan'a selâm, istikrara devam mı?

İsmail Küçükkaya AK Parti’nin sevapları günahları

Etyen Mahçupyan Bir meşruiyet hikâyesi

Asaf Savaş Akat 2007’de kriz olur mu?

Bu yıl kriz olmaz garanti ederim

Kâğıda dönüş Mahfi Eğilmez

Ercan Kumcu Fakirin de fakirine fırsat yaratılmalı

Osman ULAGAY Küreselleşme hızlandıkça karşıtları da güçleniyor

Turkish people rather buy real estate than paying debts

Erdal Sağlam 2007 risklerine yenileri ekleniyor

Ercan Kumcu Ürettikçe açılıyoruz açıldıkça üretimi riske atıyoruz

Faik ÖZTRAK Küreselleşme tehdit mi?

Osman ULAGAY İyimserlik erozyonunu ciddiye almalıyız

Güngör URAS Öde öde bitmiyor, borç havuzu doluyor

Newly in the Minority, GOP Shows Signs of Division on Iraq and Domestic Policies

Washington Memo: An Uphill Push for Public Opinion on Iraq

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Stumbling Around the World With Iraq sliding off a cliff, it’s worth wrestling with a larger question: Why are we so awful at foreign policy?

PAUL KRUGMAN The Texas Strategy The lesson of the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s was that when a bank has failed, you should shut the thing down. We should do the same with President Bush’s failed war.

Spanish Prime Minister Takes Political Heat After Airport Attack by Basque Group

H5 Washington Post Opposition to Iraq Plan Leaves Bush Isolated Even Some in GOP Keeping Distance

Bush Says More Troops the Only OptionMore Troops Called The Only Iraq Option

Democrats Differ on Iraq Bill's Bite Some See It as a Powerful Statement, but Murtha Would Give It Fiscal Teeth

Officers Look Back for Clues to Future Failure of the ongoing Baghdad security plan, Operation Together Forward, provides valuable lessons.

Editorial Congressional Pushback The storm on Capitol Hill over President Bush's latest Iraq strategy is justified -- but it should be tempered.

We're Fighting Not to Lose - Leslie Gelb & Richard Betts

A Skeptic's Case For the Surge - Michael O'Hanlon

Bush's Hail-Mary PassBy George F. Will,

In Baghdad, a Test Of the Petraeus Principles

By Jim Hoagland

The Big Gambit In IraqBy David S. Broder

Trapped by Hubris, Again By Robert G. Kaiser Iraq has become another Vietnam -- except that defeat there is likely to produce catastrophic consequences for Iraq, its neighbors and the U.S.

The Time to Negotiate Is NowBy Robert K. Brigham,

General Studies Petraeus on Vietnam's Legacy

Admiral's Diplomatic Skills Could Prove Crucial Central Command Nominee Credited With Achieving U.S. Goals in Asia

The Other Team's Playbook A Bush U-Turn On Climate Change? By Sebastian Mallaby

The Lives on the Line By Fred Hiatt, Who's using the troops for political purposes?

Don't Ban Your Instincts, Ban Ki-moon - John Bolton

Abbas Rejects Concept of 'Temporary Borders'

Permanent State Favored Over Israeli-Backed Proposal, Rice Is Told at West Bank Meeting

Iraq Urges U.S. to Free Five Iranians

Officials Said to Be Providers Of Consular Services in North

On Iraq, U.S. Turns to Onetime Dissenters By Rajiv Chandrasekaran Desperate to combat sectarian violence and avoid all-out civil war, the White House is embracing the same strategies -- and people -- it once cast aside

Officials: Pentagon Probed Finances

Citizens' Records Culled in Expanded Intelligence Efforts

At Libby Trial, Power Players Face Uncomfortable Spotlight

Argentina Steps Up Pursuit of '94 Bombers Argentine government reinvigorates attempts to prosecute Iranian figures for their alleged role in Jewish community center bombing, as Tehran expands ties in region.

Editorial Martin Luther King Jr. Day More than just a day off

New Law Could Subject Civilians to Military Trial

Provision Aimed at Contractors, but Some Fear It Will Sweep Up Other Workers

H6 Guardian Next target Tehran
Dan Plesch: All the signs are that Bush is planning for a neocon-inspired military assault on Iran.

Sarkozy wins UMP vote France's interior minister anointed presidential candidate.

Leader Sarkozy's distorted vision
There is a shared assumption in the inner circles of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that Nicolas Sarkozy will be elected as the next president of France on May 6.

US row with Tehran grows over arrest of 'diplomats'· Iran demands release of five men held in Kurdistan · White House vows to deal with foreign interference

Abbas snubs Rice effort to revive road map · Pledge of deeper US involvement · Fatah leader to give Hamas talks one more try

Insurgent TV channel turns into Iraq's newest cult hit

Don't believe this claptrap. Migrants are no threat to us Philippe Legrain: Immigration energises our economy, and has made many Britons more productive. We should welcome it.

Welcome to Chávez-land
Tourists flock not to the beaches, but the slums to see '21st-century socialism'.

The Observer Bush set for climate change U-turn US recognition of global warming could lead to post-Kyoto agreement.

MI5 braced for fresh 7/7 disclosures
Security services listed Tube bombing ringleader Khan as a 'desirable suspect' a year before the attack.

After the surge ... what next?
President Bush, under fire for sending 20,000 extra troops into Iraq, is now ready to target Iran.

War zone aid 'fuels more conflicts'
Up to half the billions spent to rebuild countries scarred by violence feed a corruption that breeds more unrest, says a report on world hotspots.

Give us the real deal, not weasel words Will Hutton: When faced with human dilemmas, politicians inevitably get themselves into trouble

Even in the twilight, Blair can make the world a better place Mary Riddell: Despite the Iraq war, the Prime Minister has done much to be proud of. Now he must decide exactly where Britain goes next.

Editorial Spend our taxes on troops - not Trident It was not surprising to hear Tony Blair recommend last week that Britain looks to the future in anticipation of war.

H7 Helena Cobban Last-ditch ground force 'surge': Israel's precedent

Djerejian "Surge" Math

Newsweek The Next Jihadists: Iraq’s Lost Children

Dickey: There’s No Stopping Iraq’s Bloody Cycle

Iraq: Blame the Top Brass?

Newsweek Tough Talk About Iran: How Far Will It Go?

Steve Clemons A Glimpse at America's Brewing Nightmare with Iran

Murtha's Plan to Stop the War

No Easy Exit From Iraq - Clive Crook, National Journal

Iraq is the War We Must Not Lose - Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Playing a Real Bad Hand

Juan Cole My op-ed at the Mercury News, "Misreading the Enemy,"

Tom Barnett Scripps Howard Iran isn't the big, bad nuclear wolf it pretends to be

Al Awsat Meshaal’s Concessions from Damascus : Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed

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

BBC US warns Iran on Iraq 'meddling' US Vice President Dick Cheney warns Iran not to interfere in Iraq, saying it is "fishing in troubled waters".

What Iran and Syria want

Iraq plan: Quick results needed

Mid-East awaits Rice answers

White House: Can't Rule Out Attack on Iran

Mahdi Army lowers its profile, anticipating arrival of US troops

Gates: US Troops Should Stay Even if Iraq Plan Fails

Iraqi Rebels Make $1 Billion/Year From Refinery

IraqSlogger

U.S. Papers Sunday: 25-0

McClatchy Administration leaving out important details on Iraq

Joshua Landis What is New about Bush’s New Strategy?

Choices Dwindle if Plan Fails

Chalabi still in charge of de-Baathification in Iraq.

Rice, Gates Hint Maliki May Be On His Way Out

Hillary Clinton: Send Troops From Iraq to Afghanistan

US links 5 Iranians to Iraq insurgency

“Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that its sources in the Iraqi government are saying that there are some secret paragraphs to the agreement between the Bush administration and the al-Maliki government in Iraq to act against militia leaders. The article suggests that the model of the US raid on an Iranian liason office in Irbil might be deployed against Mahdi Army leaders and against Sunni Arab guerrilla commanders. That is, such raids would be small, targeted, quick and involve kidnapping suspected wrongdoers.”

Saddam Hussein's top aides hanged

Saddam Hussein's half-brother and the former head of Iraq's Revolutionary court are hanged, reports say.

Saddam trial: Verdicts in detail

Profile: Barzan al-Tikriti

Profile: Awad Hamad al-Bander

H9 Ha’aretz – Editorial: Who's Israel trying to cheat, who's PM trying to fool?

Rice vows 'deeper' U.S. role in Mideast peace efforts

Eldar Twenty-two partners It is too bad that on her way to the region Rice could not find the time to stop in Madrid and drop in on the peace conference being held there to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the conference her boss' father and one of her predecessors, James Baker, convened in 1991.

Rosner The Carter trap

Bradley Burston: Carter's offensive against U.S.Jewry

'Syria peace unrealistic'

Hizbullah leader Nasrallah estimates there's not much chance for peace between Israel, Syria

Jerusalem Post The Region: The new Mideast alignment By BARRY RUBIN
The Arab states fear growing Iranian influence, yet are pushing Iraq into the arms of Iran.

Rice: UN sanctions on Iran 'not enough'

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

Why Europe Abandoned Israel - Richard Baehr, American Thinker

Is There an Anti-Anti-Semite Problem? - James Traub, NY Times Magazine

Time Rice Visit Leaves Palestinians Gloomy

Jerusalem Post Skip the astrology, probe Syrian seriousness

Rice and Olmert poised for talks

Rice vows U.S. back on track for 'road map'

Clifford D. May: Arab-Israeli peace? No time soon

H10 Christian Science Monitor

ASIAChina Seizing Chance to Power Up - Richard Halloran, RealClearPolitics

Roubini My new paper on "Why China Should Abandon Its Dollar Peg"

H11 IHT

Sarkozy wins presidential nomination

Leadership crisis in Bavaria threatens Merkel bloc

EUROPE BBC Newcomers enter EU's parliament

EU newcomers Romania and Bulgaria take their seats in the European Parliament for their first session.

Newsweek Will Europe Survive 2007?

Der Spiegel Factional Strife in the French Presidential Race: Is Sarkozy the Right Man to Take on Royal?

BBC Presidential dream
Will Nicolas Sarkozy's radical reform plans woo the French?

Basque to basics
How Eta's broken ceasefire has shocked people and politicians

An alternative exit strategy for Jacques Chirac

Sarko's In, But Where are the Votes?

European far-right seeks status in EU (Bruno Waterfield)

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

Immigrant quota for Russia retail
New legislation comes into force in Russia limiting job opportunities for foreigners in Russia's retail industry.

H13 The Times Sarko vs Sego The French face a revolutionary political choice

Iraq is much less stable now than before we invaded, admits Bush

Rice fails to sway Abbas on border compromise Proposals to jumpstart the Middle East peace process by establishing a provisional Palestinian state were rejected by President Abbas

Is it right for a single woman to send a nation's sons to war?

Theodore Dalrymple
It is now beyond dispute that many Britons are completely without any sense of fairness or justice

Sunday Times Britain 'tropical by 2100' Our green and pleasant land” will be almost unrecognisable by 2100, a new experiment suggests

How the CIA won Zhivago a Nobel

JOHN BOLTON PUTTING THE WORLD TO RIGHTS The real issue is whether the UK sees itself as part of a 'little Europe'

LEADING ARTICLE: Using a stick and carrot

Iraqis get all-firing foretaste of Bush's final Baghdad gamble

Wall Street Journal Bush Has Managed to Divide & Conquer Mideast - Edward Luttwak

Four Scenarios for the US Economy in 2007

H14 Financial Times

Iran security chief meets Saudi leaders The visit comes as relations between the Gulf’s two leading states are being strained over Iraq and by the stand-off over Iran’s nuclear programme.

Talabani tackles Syria over security

China threatens America’s lead in technology With China’s much larger population and lower production costs, the only way the US can maintain its high standard of living and military security is to retain vastly superior technology within its borders, write Ernest Hollings and Charles McMillion.

China in key deal with Asean on services Could create world’s biggest free-trade zone

We who are about to supplant you salute you Because they have their own distinct history, culture and values, Asians can copy the US without fear of becoming ‘Americanised’, writes Dominique Moisi, of France’s Institute for International Relations

Editorial Will the real Sarkozy please stand up? The man who would succeed Chirac sounds alarm bells. The very qualities that have driven him so far in search of the ultimate prize could yet undermine his campaign for the presidency

Jubilant Sarkozy seeks broader appeal France’s presidential election campaign begins in earnest after Nicolas Sarkozy celebrated winning the nomination of the ruling centre-right UMP party with a promise to broaden his appeal to voters.

Bush vows to defy Congress on Iraq plan

Abbas rules out plan for interim state The Palestinian Authority president pre-empted emerging pressure to accept an interim Palestinian state with temporary borders.

Egyptian 'torture' video fuels debate on police

Editorial Why everyone needs a deal in Doha A new dawn, or another false start? If the faint signs of life in the Doha round are to amount to anything at all, it needs to get going quickly

Cheney defends Pentagon's searches Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, yesterday defended the controversial Pentagon practice of examining the banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and...

Japan’s future looks brighter than Germany’s Japan’s stagnation began with an asset price crash; Germany’s was brought on by unification. In both cases, lousy economic policies made a bad situation worse, writes Wolfgang Munchau.

Euro displaces dollar in bond markets...

H15 Los Angeles Times Democrats threaten to cut off military funds Party still faces challenges in what could become historic showdown between two branches of government over course of war.

Bush's plan to add troops fueling Iraq insurgency, Sunni scholar says

Apple pie and the Middle East by Michael Oren

- Bush reaffirms decision to invade Iraq

- War costs are hitting historic proportions

U.S., Iraqi forces look toward horizon

Bush says he has authority to add troops

- Plan for increase antagonizes Sunnis

EditorialWe can't surrender to the doves Jonathan Chait: Anti-war liberals turned out to be right about Iraq, but they shouldn't necessarily be regarded as foreign policy sages.

Amnesty for Fatah fighters a Mideast hurdle

Russian-Belarusian oil feud ripples through Europe

Plan would add Kurds to civil war mix

US and Iraqi forces in the western desert look toward the horizon

Did getting ahead get us into Iraq?

By Corey Robin How upward mobility and careerism inside and outside government may have silenced naysayers before the U.S. invaded Iraq.

H16 American Politics

Newsweek Fineman: Iraq Realigns American Politics

House GOP Shows Its Fractiousness In the Minority

Open-Field Presidential Politics in 2008 - Michael Barone, RealClearPolitic

Weekly Standard Hillary's War The loneliness of the long-distance front-runner. by Matthew Continetti

Brooks and Shields President Bush's Iraq Speech Overshadows New Congress

DAVID BROOKS The American Way of Equality Will Americans demand new policies to redistribute wealth, to provide greater economic security?

AP Analysis: Iraq policy isolates Bush (AP)

Chuck Hagel Smacks Lieberman: Questions his competency (John Amato/Crooks and Liars)

realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec

The Coming Democratic War on Free Trade - Steve Chapman, Chicago Trib

Iraq Realigns American Politics - Howard Fineman, Newsweek

Bush Plan Swells '08 Intrigue - A. Nagourney & P. Healy, New York Times

Escalation Alone is Doomed to Fail - David Mack, Baltimore Sun

Bush Stands Alone
Defying Congress, the press, and the Washington establishment.
by Fred Barnes

H17 Daily TelegraphEnd Taliban tolerance The controversy over George W Bush's bold initiative in Iraq has diverted attention from an equally strategic theatre in the fight against global terrorism, the areas along the Afghan-Pakistani frontier.

Splitting UK 'may fuel race tensions'Break up of Treaty could lead to 'balkanised Britain'.

Iranians 'trained Shia militants'Tensions rise as Teheran demands the release of five men arrested by US in northern Iraq.

Sunday Telegraph If Bush can't control Iraq, the UN must

Sooner or later, the president's critics must realise that it is not he and his advisers who will pay for their blunders, but the people of Iraq, points out Niall Ferguson.

diluting Iraq surge, general says — The military mastermind of President George W Bush's new troop "surge" strategy for Iraq has hit out at signs that the Pentagon is watering down the proposal for political reasons.

US accuses Iran of arming insurgents Detained Iranians 'supplied weapons and money'.

Taliban vs British Army vs Whitehall A shortage of soldiers and "complete disconnection" between the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence combined to hinder progress in the war in Afghanistan, a report by military chiefs has concluded.

Whitehall to create new 'super-database'

A huge Whitehall 'super-database' of people's personal details could be created in what the government says is a bid to improve public services.

Europeans who use a credit card to buy an airplane ticket to the United States open themselves to further scrutiny by US authorities. Even special food preferences indicated to the airline would be communicated to US law enforcement (i.e. if you order a kosher, vegetarian or halal meal), and those could be the basis for requests for more information. Investigations kicked off by these minor details would concern not only possible ties to terrorism but also anything the US considered criminal activity.

Blair’s Foreign Policy and its Possible Successor(s) (PDF; 78 KB)
Source: Chatham House

H18 Independent America threatens to 'deal with' Iran over insurgents The White House declared that it was "going to deal" with the actions of the Iranian regime.

Leading article: Hopes and fears about M. Sarkozy

Who will succeed George Bush?

Saddam's half-brother is hanged

Bruce Anderson: Suddenly we find the Union is under threat

Sarkozy installed as presidential candidate despite Chirac's snub

Big Brother: What it means in Britain today Moves to share people's personal details across Whitehall have provoked accusations that the Government has taken another step towards "a Big Brother state".

Shami Chakrabarti: Yet another step along a dangerous road

Leading article: Personal privacy and the power of the State

Shock and oil: Iraq's billions & the White House connection

Surge: US troops prepare for George Bush's last stand

Leading article: Brown's duty to the forces

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Cheney Admits Expanded Military Spying Role Inside US

Transcript: Annual Threat Assessment, Hearing Of The Senate Select Committee On Intelligence
60 pages; PDF.

Time to Act: 14 Steps in 2007 to Further Implement the 9/11 Commission Recommendations
17 pages; PDF.

CIA, Military Reveal Acquisition of Domestic Bank Records

Apparent Signs of Renewed Friction Between Sunni Insurgents

Iraq: Blame the Top Brass?

Terror: 'We're Going to Get Hit'

H20 Slate

Convicted Watergate 'plumber' claims LBJ had JFK killed

World Economic and Social Survey 2006 Source: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Summary (PDF; 670 KB) ||| Full Report (PDF; 2.84 MB)

Financial Sector FDI and Host Countries: New and Old Lessons
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York “Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the financial sectors of emerging economies soared during the 1990s, leaving many countries with banking sectors owned primarily by foreign institutions. While the implications of FDI into emerging markets are well documented, less clearly understood is how the host countries are affected by financial sector FDI specifically. An understanding of this relationship is crucial for countries formulating policy with respect to foreign banks. This article argues that many lessons learned from work on FDI into manufacturing and primary resource industries apply directly to host-country financial sectors. The author provides evidence on such themes as technology transfers, productivity spillovers, wage effects, macroeconomic growth, and fiscal policy to show that financial sector FDI into emerging markets generally has positive effects on the host countries. In banking and finance specifically, she argues that financial sector FDI can potentially strengthen institutional development through improvements to regulation and supervision.”
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Immigrants Assimilate as Communities, Not Just as Individuals
Source: Institute for the Study of Labor

H21 Explaining International Soccer Rankings Source: CRIEFF Discussion Papers (University of St. Andrews)
“Existing research on the determinants of FIFA’s international soccer rankings suffers from serious statistical problems, particularly sample selection bias and non normal errors. We correct for this by extending the data set by an additional 100 countries. Furthermore, we find important roles for new variables in the form of the size of population and a long history of international soccer in explaining world football rankings. We also investigate the determinants of an alternative ranking measure to that constructed by FIFA.”
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The Evolution of Jack Bauer

Freedom of Information, the Wiki Way

Site to Allow Anonymous Posts of Government Documents

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