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H1 The Times America prepares to talk with Iran about Iraq

Guardian Inside the struggle for Iran Grand coalition plans second Iranian revolution via the ballot box.
Reformists to take on Ahmadinejad Rafsanjani at head of new alliance focusing on corruption and failing economy.
Planned US talks are 'leap forward'

NYT A Saudi Prince Tied to Bush Is Sounding Off-Key Prince Bandar bin Sultan may no longer be an unerring beacon of Saudi intent, U.S. officials say.

Washington Post The Honeymoon's Over for Bush and the Saudis Bush administration had been listening to the wrong Saudi By Martin Indyk

The Abandonment How the Bush Administration Left Israelis and Palestinians to Their Fate By Aaron David Miller Diplomatic neglect from the Bush administration and years of armed confrontations have cut the chances for Arab-Israeli peace from slim to none.

Obama the Interventionist By Robert Kagan, Barack Obama's critique is not that we've meddled too much but that we haven't meddled enough.

War Called Riskier Than Vietnam: Military Experts Fretful Over Long-Term Consequences

The Observer Iranian tip-off may have led Americans to al-Qaeda leader A major in Saddam's army, believed to have masterminded the London bombings, could have been betrayed in Tehran, reports Jason Burke.

Ha’aretz – German weekly: Olmert believes 1,000 missiles will hurt Iran nukes; PMO denies

Bitterlemons Muscular Saudi diplomacy Five views

IHT Who, exactly, is Sarkozy? By WILLIAM PFAFF / TMS
I t seems hard to say just who Nicolas Sarkozy is.

Middle East Quarterly Efraim Inbar, How Israel Bungled the Second Lebanon War To prepare for future battles, Israel first must recognize its failures

NYT Uneasy Alliance Is Taming One Insurgent Bastion Sunni leaders have united with U.S. and Iraqi forces in Anbar Province, heartland of the Sunni resistance.

Los Angeles Times Iraq violence creeps into Basra Once an oasis of relative calm in Iraq, the city is seeing a spike in attacks as British troops disengage

Bush's record is a problem for Republican candidates

There's no .44-caliber Koran By Ian Buruma It's easy to go too far while banning words in the name of preventing violence.

Ex-Lt General: 'Bush has gone AWOL' Former NSA director speaks out: 'Something is fundamentally wrong.'

Newsweek Zakaria: Boris Yeltsin Took Russia in the Wrong Direction

Financial Times COMMENT: We need to bring climate idealism down to earth Utopian vision and ambition unmoored from political, economic and social reality can be counterproductive, writes Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot professor at Harvard.

David Cameron - Aristotle Got It Right - Well-being, not just wealth, should mark the progress of our societies.

The 21st Century Will Not Belong to China - Guy Sorman, City Journal

Newsweek Book Excerpt: Condi's Rescue Mission In his forthcoming biography of Condoleezza Rice, NEWSWEEK's MARCUS MABRY explains the roots—and the consequences—of her loyalty to the president.

Sadr: Spreading Havoc to New Parts of Iraq Under siege in Baghdad, fighters from Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army are going freelance, and they're already spreading havoc to once calm parts of the country

H2 NYT Memo From Istanbul: In Turkey, Fear and Discomfort About Religious Lifestyle

Daily Telegraph Leader Turkish distractions Turkey's Western vocation rests on its respect for human rights, representative government and individual liberty.

Guardian Leader Tension turns into crisis Turkey's political future is hanging in the balance. The cause of the crisis is the nomination of the foreign minister Abdullah Gul as the country's next president.

Turks try to stop Islamist president
Constitutional stand-off over election of new president deepens.

FT Turkish court to rule on bid to thwart Gul

Turkey’s constitutional court will hear an appeal by opposition leaders seeking to derail the appointment of a new president as a clash between the government and the military threatened the country’s most serious political crisis in a decade.

WORLD NEWS: Attack against Kurdish rebels risks strategic defeat, US says

WORLD NEWS: Generals' veiled threat signals fight for religious or secular future

Generals throw down gauntlet to foreign minister

Ali H Aslan External Factors of April 27 Process

Ömer Taşpınar Jacobinism strikes back

[Yorum - Joost Lagendijk] Katı laiklerin ve modernleşen İslam'ın hikâyesi (1)

Selçuk Gültaşlı [BRÜKSEL] 'Darbeden sonra'

İhsan Dağı The military intervenes: Will the West lose Turkey?

DT Turkey's anti-Islamic rally draws 500,000

Independent One million Turks protest over 'plans for Islamic state'

CSM Military sharpens debate in Turkey A rally Sunday backed a secular Turkey. The military weighed in, warning against Islamization.

Washington Times Turkish crowds slam Islamist candidate

The Times Protesters see red as Islamist heads for presidency Demonstrators in Istanbul carried blood-red national flags and posters of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of a secular Turkey

BBC Huge rally for Turkish secularism Hundreds of thousands gather in Istanbul in support of secularism in Turkey, amid a row over a presidential vote

In pictures
Turks take to Istanbul streets in defence of a secular state

The Observer EU tells generals to back off Selection of Islamist as presidential candidate is test of Turkish military's respect for democracy

Turkey faces military crisis Selection of Islamist as presidential candidate is test of Turkish military's respect for democracy.

NYT Elected Chief of Turkey Warns Army

ABD: Türkiye, 80'lere geri dönemez

Rehn 'Asker seçimlere karışmasın'

ABD Dışişleri: Laik demokrasiye saygılıyız

Dış basın: Bilek güreşi istikrarı tehdit ediyor

Dünya basını: Türk hükümeti, nadir görülen bir cevap verdi

Dünyanın gözü Cumhuriyet Mitingi’ndeydi

Rehn de yadırgadı

Dünya basını: Erdoğan, orduya tepki gösteren ilk siyasetçi

Le Monde: “Bir milyonu aşkın kişi Laiklik için yürüdü"

'Ordu siyasetten elini çekmeli'

Bildirinin ardından irtica incelemesi

Açıklamadan sonra iki inceleme

Diyanet'ten Genelkurmay'a yanıt

Karar Çarşamba açıklanabilir

Turkey's democratic institutions labor in shadow of military

Mass rally pressures Turk govt over president race

Türkiye yine tehlikeli sularda yüzüyor CEMAL SULTAN

Pamuk: Artık ordu müdahalesi olmasın

Coups prevent Turkey from becoming a strong and rich EU member by KAZIM BERZEG*

FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE - PLEASURES PURSUED: Pampering Pleasure - Turkish delights

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

UPI Analysis: Fight rages over Iraq oil law

Zebari advises Ankara to meet Barzani

DTP: Açıklama ırkçı ve ayrımcı

KRG MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES RESPONDS TO STATEMENTS FROM ... Kurdistan Regional Government,

Oil minister says contracts should be done through central government

Burhan Ayeri Barzani’den talimatlı milletvekili bile var

Talabani Barzani'yi 'susturmalıydı'
FAYSAL HASUN

Jerusalem Post Turkish diplomat: 'Syria unlikely to attack Israel'

Tüzmen, Suriye'ye çıkartma yapacak

DTP’li 54 belediye başkanına soruşturma

GÜVEN SAK Fouad Ajami'ye göre Irak'tan umut kesmek yersiz

Genelkurmay açıklamasına protesto

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Customs collaboration with Turkey
Cyprus Observer

KKTC'den Rumlara görüşme çağrısı

France-Turkey: Where are we headed?

Gazeteye Ermeni baskısı

Yüksel Söylemez Bilal Çetin
Gözler Anayasa Mahkemesi’nde...

FİKRET ERTAN - Kosova ve son gelişmeler

'Soykırım yoktur' diyeni Fransa'da hiçbir gazete yazmaz

Fikret Ertan Putin’s last move: the CFE Treaty

Who is responsible for the horrible murders in Malatya? Bülent Kutlutürk

Miting-muhtıra sarkacında demokrasi AVNİ ÖZGÜREL

A collection of Armenian stamps in the Ottoman Empire

Böyle gitmez! Uğur Civelek

Erdal Sağlam Piyasa siyasi krizi ucuz atlatabilir

Deniz Gökçe Kimsenin saçmalama hakkı yok!

Dengeler bozuluyor Mahfi Eğilmez

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU Ankara, istikrarı bozucu gelişmelere önlemini alacak

Asaf Savaş Akat Enflasyon tahminleri

Ekonomi nasıl etkilenir? Fatih Özatay

Önce deprem mühendisleri, sonra ekonomistler ve şimdi de hukukçular
Fatih Özatay

Ercan Kumcu Döviz rezervi biriktirmek bir para politikası mıdır

Ercan Kumcu İktisadi beklentiler

Faik ÖZTRAK Artık hemen seçim şart

Yaşananlara 'olumlu' bakmayı deneyelim... Yiğit Bulut

FT COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL: Galatasaray ordered to make buy-out offer

İklim değişikliği bir güvenlik sorunu
NEJAT ESLEN -

H3 Hükümetin basın açıklamasının tam metni

Yasemin CONGAR Omurga

Şamil Tayyar Genelkurmay karargahında neler oldu?

Ali H Aslan [WASHINGTON] 27 Nisan sürecinin dış uzantıları

Fikret BİLA Askerin açıklamasının nedenleri ve hedefleri

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ Bir gazetecinin sorusu

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Askere hayır...

Demokratik tepki

Ruşen Çakır Çelik çomak oynamanın alemi yok

Semih İDİZ Batılı diplomatlar TSK'nın açıklamasından rahatsız

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM
Muhtıra piyasalarda tozu dumana katar mı?

Raportör Hikmet Tülen, Sezer'e karşı çıkmıştı

Kulislerdeki sekiz senaryo

Taha Kıvanç 'Görünmeyen el'

Rapor bugün sunuluyor

Gerginlik yumuşadı mı? İsmet Berkan

Miting Ankara'da nasıl yankılanacak? Murat Yetkin

Mitingden çıkarımlar Tarhan Erdem

Fehmi Koru Sokaklardan korkmak mı, o niye?

Ekrem Dumanlı Demokrasi! Demokrasi! Demokrasi!

Ali Bulaç Postmodern muhtıra

Mehmet Metiner ‘Muhtıra’ ve ‘darbe tehdidi’

Salih Neftçi İsteyen satar... Ama fazla abartmamak kaydıyla...

Bilal Çetin Gözler Anayasa Mahkemesi’nde...

İsmail Küçükkaya Hükümetin cevap aradığı soru

Ahmet Hakan İki laik, bir aklı karışık Çağlayan Meydanı’nda

Güngör URAS Piyasacılar ayaklarına kurşun sıkmaz

Referans Piyasalar Köşk'ten önce genel seçim istiyor

Süreci küçümsedik orduyu ihmal ettik yeni senaryo şart

Piyasaları merak edenlere Uğur Gürses

METEHAN DEMİR O gece Başbakan nasıl öğrendi?

Elveda Avrupa Birliği!..
ÖMER TAŞPINAR

KORAY DÜZGÖREN "Darbelere karşıyız, ama…"demeden...

Sezer olmasaydı hükümet emekliye sevk eder miydi!

Osman ULAGAY Piyasalarda jeton düşer mi?

Köşk seçiminden hemen sonra genel seçim olabilir

Şahin Alpay Secularism without democracy is an illusion

YAVUZ DONAT Kaza raporu

ERDAL ŞAFAK Not etmek

UMUR TALU Bir, iki, üç... onüç!

Turan lkan Dijital ve nobran

Nedim Hazar Seçim çözüm değil!

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
Bu kilidi kim açar?

Mehmet Altan Tehlikede olan demokrasi değil mi?

Kulislerdeki sekiz senaryo

Mitingde kaç kişi vardı?

Bülent Keneş No need for ‘Midnight Express’ anymore, we have a midnight memorandum

Erdoğan ve Büyükanıt telefonla görüştü

Genelkurmay bildirisinin perde arkası

Askerin bildirisi için kim ne dedi?

23.20'nin şifreleri

Erdoğan ulusa seslenecek

Taha AKYOL Tek yol demokrasi

MURAT BARDAKÇI Muhtıranın asıl muhatabı Nakşî harekettir

İlter Turan Muhtıra Gül'ün adaylığına karşı verilmedi

ERGUN BABAHAN İnadına demokrasi

Mumcu: Meclis'in açık kalması Gül'ün iki dudağı arasında

Cindoruk: Halk darbe teşebbüsüne karşı dik durmalı

Nasuhi Güngör Genelkurmay aslında ne diyor?

YASİN AKTAY
Darbe kültürü ve “e-muhtıra”

Ferai Tınç Siyasete geri dönüş

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Ne postal ne de takunya!

Tufan Türenç Türkiye’nin bu üçlü ile işi çok zor

Emin Çölaşan Sabır taşı çatladı...

Şükrü Küçükşahin Bu mitinglerden sonra AKP seçim duasına çıkar

Deniz Ülke Arıboğan
Seçim, bildiri, karşı bildiri

Ertuğrul Özkök O kız

Engin Ardıç e-muhtıra

Oray Eğin Basın sınavı geçti mi?

Serdar Turgut Sağduyulu olmalıyız

Mehmet Tezkan Asker sıkıntılı: Başkomutan’ın eşi türbanlı olursa teğmene ne deriz?

HAKAN ALBAYRAK BBP'nin verdiği ders

Mustafa Erdoğan Asker cumhurbaşkanı seçimine karışabilir mi?

Çatlı, Evren'in kızını kaçıracaktı!

Bulun bu sahtekârı Genelkurmay bildirisine giren, okul müdürlerinin Kutlu Doğum kutlamalarına katılmalarının emredildiğiyle ilgili haberlerin yalan olduğunun ispatlanmasına rağmen, dün gazetelere aynı konuyla ilgili sahte bir belge daha gönderildi

Anavatan, babamın kemiklerini sızlattı

Anavatan ve DYP teşkilatlarında yönetime tepki istifaları sürüyor

Gül'den Cumhuriyet Gazetesi'ne yalanlama

Medyadan geceyarısı bildirisine destek yok

Atilla Yeşilada Cuma muhtırası ve piyasalar

Vatan İşte AKP'nin yol haritası Ya tek sandık ya da iki seçim birlikte...

Gerilimi aşağı çekmek için

Askerlerin yaptığı bu içerikte açıklamaların sivil kurumların inandırıcılığını ve saygınlığını gölgelemesi kaçınılmazdır. MİLLİYET / BAŞYAZI

Gül'ün adaylığından geri adım atılmıyor

Yüksek Mahkeme'nin önünde dört yol var

e-muhtıra erken seçimi gündeme taşıdı Murat Yetkin

Enis Berberoğlu Bildirideki istek cümle

METEHAN DEMİR Açıklamanın satır araları

İsmail Küçükkaya Bildirinin içeriği ve zamanlaması...

Bilal Çetin “Vuruşarak çekilme” taktiği mi?

SOLİ ÖZEL Muhtıra

Ertuğrul Özkök Durumdan vazife çıkarıyorum

Ahmet Hakan Darbeci mi oldum?

TÜSAD'dan erken seçim çağrısı

Miting kürsüsüne marjinal gölge hakim oldu

Cevabı hazırlayanların tam kadrosu

Serdar Akinan Atmacanın ağzı

Cengiz Çandar

'Emrimdesin' resti

Çelik: Org. Büyükanıt telefonla söyleyebilirdi

Tehlikenin farkında mısınız? Saatler 27 yıl geri alındı bile İsmet Berkan

Millet iradesine karşı suikast
Hasan Celal Güzel

Cüneyt Ülsever 27 Nisan Muhtırası millete hayırlı olsun!

[Yorum - Doç. Dr. Tanju Tosun] Demokrasiye sahip çıkma zamanı

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası

Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri - Dış Basında Güncel Türkiye Bülteni

Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700

VOA TSİ 06:30 Dış Basında Türkiye Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey Turquie Türkei TurcoPundit

Taha Kıvanç

Fehmi Koru Anlaşılmaz işler

KÜRŞAT BUMİN İlk izlenimler...

NAZLI ILICAK

MEHMET OCAKTAN 'Vesayet'e karşı demokrasi duruşu…

HAKAN ALBAYRAK Rahatsız mısınız? İstifa edin!

EMRE AKÖZ Bürokratik elit direniyor

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Demokrasi 'yara' aldı!

'Alışmak' üstüne Murat Belge

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Tek yol seçim

EKREM DUMANLI - Demokrasiden dönüş olmaz

Oktay Ekşi Son çare...

Emin Çölaşan Muhtıra

Gece gelen muhtıra Haluk Şahin

Muhtıra Türker Alkan

With Gül as president, Turkish democracy will speed ahead by Prof. Dr. LEVENT KÖKER*

Yavuz Baydar The grand failure and the damage done

İhsan Yılmaz Pseudo democrats and opportunism

[By Today's Zaman] Turkey cannot turn its back on democracy

Turkish civilians condemn military declaration

Muhalefet sıkı fıkı

YAVUZ DONAT Demirel: Mayın tarlasından çıkmak lazım

ERDAL ŞAFAK Testi kırılmadı

UMUR TALU Anayasa ihlali!

Mehmet Tezkan Ordu bildirisi demokratik değil de muhatabı çok mu demokrat!

Ferai Tınç Bildiriler kadar meydanlar da dikkate alınsaydı

Her satırı yanıt dolu

MUHARREM SARIKAYA
Vuruşmayla değil, seçimle...

Derya SAZAK 27 Nisan uyarısı

ERGUN BABAHAN Demokrasi için sandık başına

Serdar Turgut Darbe stili

Hasan CEMAL Hayır!

Can Dündar Önce Meclis, sonra ordu

[KALEIDOSCOPE] The existential Fear of the regime: İs it real or paranoia?

Gülay Göktürk Görev demokrasiyi kurtarmak

Mümtazer Türköne Yanlış Hesap

Mustafa Ünal Demokrasi tek yol

Bülent Korucu Açıklamanın analizi

Arınç: Hepimizin duyarlılığı var

Şakir Süter 27 Nisan Muhtırası

Ardan Zentürk Askerin gölgesinde yaşamak... Ve Baykal’ın serüveni...

Mahir Kaynak Ne oldu?

Kanadoğlu 367 tezi reddedilse de 'yorumum doğru' derim

FİKRİ AKYÜZ
Yılmaz Özdil ne yapmaya çalışıyor?

Salih Neftçi Gelişmeler hızlı olacak... Bazı ilkeler şunlar>

Eser Karakaş Cumhuriyetten sözde değil özde yana olmak

Can Ataklı Savaşarak geri çekilmek

Ayşe Karabat A child’s eating habits and Turkish democracy’s shortcomings

Mehmet Altan Demokrasiye muhtıra...

47 yıl sonra aynı soru Cemil Müneccim

'Olağandışılıklar zinciri'nin son halkası... Altan Öymen

PAUL KRUGMAN Another Economic Disconnect In the Bush years high profits haven’t led to high investment, and rising productivity hasn’t led to rising wages.

Uneasy Alliance Is Taming One Insurgent Bastion Sunni leaders have united with U.S. and Iraqi forces in Anbar Province, heartland of the Sunni resistance.

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Diplomacy at Its Worst

A document shows that there was a real hope for peace with Iran; now there is a real danger of war.

Editorial Still Waiting for Answers Why, after all this time, are Americans still in the dark about many of the Bush administration’s most important decisions?

French Candidate Holds a Curious Debate

FRANK RICH All the President’s Press

The White House correspondents’ dinner has become a crystallization of the press’s failures in the post-9/11 era.

H5 Washington Post The Abandonment How the Bush Administration Left Israelis and Palestinians to Their Fate By Aaron David Miller Diplomatic neglect from the Bush administration and years of armed confrontations have cut the chances for Arab-Israeli peace from slim to none.

Obama the Interventionist By Robert Kagan, Barack Obama's critique is not that we've meddled too much but that we haven't meddled enough.

The Honeymoon's Over for Bush and the Saudis By Martin Indyk,

War Called Riskier Than Vietnam: Military Experts Fretful Over Long-Term Consequences

Saudi King Declines to Receive Iraqi Leader

'Heady Times' For India And the U.S. By Nicholas Burns, While Iraq and Iran have dominated recent headlines, the United States and India have quietly forged the strongest relationship the two countries have enjoyed since India's independence in 1947.

Tenet's Still to Blame By Michael F. Scheuer, Don't buy George Tenet's attempts to let himself off the hook.

82 Inmates Cleared but Still Held at Guantanamo Recently released Moroccan and Afghan are among a handful of those who have been discharged from the U.S. prison in Cuba.

Database: Names of the Detained

Editorial Ban All the Lawyers Prisoners at Guantanamo don't really need them, or so says the Justice Department.

Car Bomb in Shiite Holy City of Karbala Kills at Least 56

Report Finds Problems at Iraqi Sites Built or Aided by U.S.

Linked by Alliance and Rivalry In White House bid, McCain is challenged to reconcile dual roles as supporter and critic of Bush

Editorial Reality Show Sen. McCain injects some useful truths into the presidential campaign.

Gender Bash in France By Jim Hoagland PARIS -- How does a macho conservative politician run against a Socialist feminist who has pegged much of her campaign to the gender issue? Very carefully if you are Nicolas Sarkozy and you are in the final week of a French presidential campaign that is yours to lose.

Pakistan Suicide Bombing Kills 22, Injures Minister

When the Skies Filled With Dust By George F. Will, "The soil is the one indestructible, immutable asset that the nation possesses. It is the one resource that cannot be exhausted."

Post-Katrina Foreign Aid Offers Went Unaccepted

H6 Guardian Inside the struggle for Iran Grand coalition plans second Iranian revolution via the ballot box.
Reformists to take on Ahmadinejad Rafsanjani at head of new alliance focusing on corruption and failing economy.
Planned US talks are 'leap forward'

The Iraq war is over. It is the moment for Democrats to show real leadership Gary Younge: If President Bush's veto is not challenged tomorrow, thousands of Iraqis and hundreds of US troops are certain to perish.

Europe's leaders pin their hopes on Sarkozy victory · Gaullist could win change in EU without referendum
· Blair backs plan to push through mini-treaty

Israeli war inquiry 'rebukes Olmert over military errors' · Report censures handling of conflict with Lebanon
· Opposition plans vote of no confidence in Knesset

US report blames Iraqis for failing reconstruction Projects hailed as success found to be falling apart.
News blog: We're losing, says US officer

Blair's regrets over wasted years
Tony Blair has 'big regrets' at his inability to reform public services more quickly, Lord Falconer says.
Comment: Jackie Ashley
Interview: Lord Falconer
Interview: Lord Kinnock
Interview: David Blunkett

Markets will never spot the black swan

The lady's not for turning Margaret Thatcher

The Observer Iranian tip-off may have led Americans to al-Qaeda leader
A major in Saddam's army, believed to have masterminded the London bombings, could have been betrayed in Tehran, reports Jason Burke.

Leader Blair's legacy After 10 years Blair has made Britain a better place Tony Blair hopes that history will judge him kindly; he knows that this Thursday the British public will not. Labour is braced for a savaging in elections for local councils in England, the Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly.

Sarkozy will be better for Gordon Brown's Britain Denis MacShane: On foreign policy and EU issues the vision of a Brown-Sarkozy tandem - or on a tricycle made for three with Angela Merkel - offers the prospect of Europe shaping a new foreign policy that is coherent and effective.

What really gets Gordon Brown out of bed in the morning... Andrew Rawnsley: The next Prime Minister knows he must restore energy and purpose to a desperately unpopular government.

Special forces sent to Iraq amid fears for Harry's safety
Army strengthens protection for the prince, as experts warn of 'nightmare kidnapping scenario'.

H7 Newsweek Book Excerpt: Condi's Rescue Mission In his forthcoming biography of Condoleezza Rice, NEWSWEEK's MARCUS MABRY explains the roots—and the consequences—of her loyalty to the president.

Sadr: Spreading Havoc to New Parts of Iraq Under siege in Baghdad, fighters from Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army are going freelance, and they're already spreading havoc to once calm parts of the country

UPI Outside View: A more predictable Iran

Hagel on Iraq - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times

Weekly Standard Congress and Iraq Democrats insist both that the Iraq war is lost and that setting timelines is the best way to achieve a political settlement. They're wrong on both counts. by Frederick W. Kagan

NRO VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Is George Tenet apologizing about Zarqawi too? ““...Find Caches of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Absolutely."”

VDH: Support for the war is eroding because Americans don’t think the people there are worth the sacrifice. “Iraq, and the Truth We Dare Not Speak”

RAYMOND IBRAHIM: Tariq Ramadan is wrong to try to exonerate Islam of terrorism. “200 Million Minority”

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

BBC Rice 'not ruling out Iran talks' The US secretary of state says she does not rule out meeting Iran's foreign minister at a conference on Iraq.

US says Iran arming Sunnis

Daily Star Sports and the law can bookend an Iranian nuclear accord

Tenet: CIA Warned of 'Anarchy' in Iraq

Iran to attend Middle East conference (Qassim Abdul-Zahra)

Iraqi Police Years From Taking Charge

Maliki Warns US Against Foreign Pressure

The Great Wall of Segregation... Riverbend

BBC Iran bans 'Western' hairstyles Iranian police warn barbers not to give male customers Western hairstyles or use make up on them.

Andrew Sullivan The Exit And Anbar

H9 Ha’aretz – German weekly: Olmert believes 1,000 missiles will hurt Iran nukes; PMO denies

Gideon Levy: Learning nothing from the Second Lebanon War

PM: No reply to Winograd report until publication

Winograd committee: We won't call for resignations, let the public decide

Benn Olmert / The right stuff?

Oren First objective: an exit strategy

Eldar Endgame in Damascus and Gaza

It is somewhat absurd to suggest that the US could be understood as pursuing force as a first resort. Editorial, Jerusalem Post

''A 10-day attack could delay Iran's nuclear race by years'

Magazine retracts PM quotes on Iran Focus quotes Olmert as saying it'll take 10 days to damage nuke program.

BBC Olmert braces for Lebanon probe

Washington Times Olmert and jihadist threats The political storm clouds around Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have grown to the point where they threaten to become a distraction from the mounting security threats to that country.

One on One with Al-Quds University president Sari Nusseibeh

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

Efraim Inbar How Israel Bungled the Second Lebanon War

Newsweek Israelis Look to Ex-Soldiers for Leadership

German magazine retracts Olmert interview...

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Gov't will survive report'

BBC Nablus gangland
West Bank police aim to reclaim the streets from the gunmen

Weekly Standard How Odd of God .  .  . Milton Himmelfarb on the worlds of Judaism. by David Gelernter

H10 Christian Science Monitor Tension rises in D.C. over war-funding bill

Congress is eyeing three strategies after an all-but-certain Bush veto of the Iraq war bill.

New Saudi tack on Al Qaeda

The arrest of 172 suspected militants reveals a Saudi public that is helping in the fight against the terrorist group.

Genocide: hard to prosecute

Protesters in 35 nations and more than 280 US cities rallied Sunday for protecting Darfurians.

ASIA The 21st Century Will Not Belong to China - Guy Sorman, City Journal

WP 'Heady Times' For India And the U.S. By Nicholas Burns, While Iraq and Iran have dominated recent headlines, the United States and India have quietly forged the strongest relationship the two countries have enjoyed since India's independence in 1947.

Washington Times Don't cotton to China fears By Richard W. Rahn If scary headlines and newspapers, and know-nothing politicians have caused you anxiety about the U.S. trade deficit and foreign ownership, relax and stop worrying. Here is why.

BBC Sri Lanka rebels in new air raid Tamil Tiger rebels stage an air raid on Sri Lanka's capital as large crowds gathered for cricket's World Cup final.

Tamil Tigers unveil aerial tactic

Q&A: Sri Lanka crisis

Country profile: Sri Lanka

China's Submarines - Richard Halloran, RealClearPolitics

H11 IHT Who, exactly, is Sarkozy? By WILLIAM PFAFF / TMS
I t seems hard to say just who Nicolas Sarkozy is.

Candidates in France make bids for centrist's support

Kosovo leader expects independence by end of May

U.S. and EU hope to stress better ties, but expectations are very modest

France's moment of truth for femininity
By ISABELLE DE COURTIVRON / The Boston Globe
Femininity and power are still incompatible in many parts of the world.

EUROPE European press review

Weekly Standard Le Showdown The French presidential election is down to its last two-and-a-half candidates. by Christopher Caldwell

Newsweek Dickey: Sarko Has the Best Plan, But French Voters Don’t Want It

MacShane: Economic Growth Was the Secret to France's Past Glory

BBC Food for thought
France wants reform, but not at the cost of a 'civilised' lifestyle

New Republic Henry IV and the French election With France's most popular king as his model, François Bayrou may decide the country's presidential election. by David A. Bell

The Securitisation of Migration: A Risky Strategy for Europe DIIS

European Strategies for Reducing 'Unwanted' Immigration

The Lisbon Declaration — Europe’s Universities beyond 2010: Diversity with a Common Purpose (PDF; 121 KB)
Source: European University Association

H12 RFE/RL

New Republic RUSSIA'S ISLAMIC WOES

Google News Azerbaijan

Der Spiegel The World from Berlin: Putin and His Cold War Bombast

H13 The Times America prepares to talk with Iran about Iraq

Direct talks would be America’s most significant contact with the Islamic Republic since ties were severed 28 years ago

Wolfowitz is given time to go quietly

The fate of Wolfowitz, who was one of the architects of the Iraq war, has opened up a split between EU countries and the US

Mr Brown’s decisive first hundred days Gordon Brown is the most unpopular politician in Britain. That is the Labour Party’s problem William Rees-Mogg

A Royal Betrayal

Unabashed opportunism as France enters the final stretch of the race

Sunday Times We need a British story Nationality should not require individuals to give up their distinctive cultural and religious attributes, says Jack Straw

Andrew Sullivan Republicans wriggle towards the war exit

Despite himself, Tony Blair has made Britain a better place Hypocrisy is even less attractive than deceit, though war is more terrible than political corruption

They see it here, they see it there, they see Al-Qaeda everywhere Blair’s wars have been a distraction from grassroots policing of extremism in Britain

Ségo tries to woo Bayrou in bid to beat Sarko Presidential contender Royal puts heart into courting fallen rival Bayrou to win his crucial votes for second round

The accursed: widows of Iraq’s torn-apart society

Innocent families live in constant fear of their neighbours

Change the world: elect a drunk The cold war was ended by Reagan and Yeltsin; two people you would not wish to invite to dinner

Wall Street Journal Dutch Rub-Out
Wolfowitz and the World Bank's Euro-cabal.

The Mirage of Energy Independence
When it comes to fuels, diversity, not self-sufficiency, should be the goal.
By DOUG WILSON

China Trade by Numbers
America's fastest-growing export market.

Emerging Trends in Global Economic IntegrationJean-Claude Trichet

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: We need to bring climate idealism down to earth Utopian vision and ambition unmoored from political, economic and social reality can be counterproductive, writes Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot professor at Harvard.

COMMENT: Support for the war could give a surge to McCain No war in modern American history exhibits a greater partisan divergence in support than the war in Iraq, writes Matthew Continetti, associate editor of The Weekly Standard.

COMMENT: (Not quite) the return of the monetarists If inflation were to rise above target and stay there, the expansion in money and credit would have served as a warning, writes Wolfgang Munchau.

WORLD NEWS: Rice refuses to rule out Iranian meeting

Iran to attend Iraq summit with US

Editorial Below expectations The latest US output figures, published on Friday, put gross domestic product growth at just 1.3 per cent in the first three months of 2007, barely half of last year's...

Scotland's election and the Union The debate preceding this week's elections in Scotland cannot have inspired too many visions of a shiny independent future or too much warmth about the union with...

Poland missile plan to raise tensions

Warsaw seeks Patriots from US

MARKETS: Style and substance in UN's halls IN THE SPOTLIGHT ZALMAY KHALILZAD

H15 Los Angeles Times There's no .44-caliber Koran By Ian Buruma It's easy to go too far while banning words in the name of preventing violence.

Republican support for troop buildup wears thin ANALYSIS: Hoping to stave off GOP defections, the White House asks the top commander in Iraq to deliver a progress report by early Sept.

Bush's record is a problem for Republican candidates The party's top choices for the House have declined due to a "poisonous" environment, and their fundraising edge has dwindled.

Iraq violence creeps into Basra Once an oasis of relative calm in Iraq, the city is seeing a spike in attacks as British troops disengage

Bush speech calls for new immigration policy

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H16 American Politics

Murtha says Dems could consider Bush impeachment...

House calls ex-CIA head to testify on Iraq

Tenet Memoir Draws Heat From Key Players...

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BBC Making a point
Who came out ahead in the first US Democratic debate?

realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note – US News Political Bulletin

Early Bird GovExec

NYT McCain Tries to Recapture Vigor of His Last Campaign

DAVID BROOKS Grim Old Party On Capitol Hill, there is a strange passivity in Republican ranks; they are like people quietly marching to their doom.

'SHOCK, AWE' IN DC OVER ESCORT LIST

H17 Daily Telegraph Where I would be tough and sensitive

The fact that a statist approach to social problems does not mean (as Tony Blair believes) that they are not, in fact, social problems - it just means that the remedy was wrong, argues David Cameron.

'Severe damage' to reputation UK has suffered by halt to Saudi arms deal inquiry.

Mediocre or worse: voters on Blair The Prime Minister started so well yet ended so badly.

Sarkozy attacks 'immoral' 1968 heritage Nicolas Sarkozy launched his final push for the presidency with a stinging attack on France's "immoral" Left, symbolised by his rival, the Socialist Ségolène Royal.

Sunday Telegraph Is anyone in America listening? Niall Ferguson sympathises with American soldiers returning home from Iraq, who must feel like latecomers to a gold rush.

Al-Qaeda supporters at strategic sites

D-Day for the Union The Union between England and Scotland has been the most successful in history. We urge Scots to vote in support of it.

Olmert to face calls to resign

Report to pin Lebanon crisis on ailing government.

Wolfowitz damaged bank's reputation, says inquiry World Bank officials conclude that Paul Wolfowitz breached ethics rules by helping engineer a promotion and pay rise for his girlfriend.

Why Europe needs to loosen up Britain can have a wonderful future, writes Ruth Lea, but first it must be freed from the EU's political and regulatory shackles.

Stories fiasco hurt Navy, chief admits The Royal Navy's reputation was badly damaged by allowing freed sailors to sell their stories, naval chiefs admit.

H18 Independent US-Iran relations warm as Rice says talks 'not ruled out'

Bruce Anderson: The Union with England pulled Scotland out of poverty, and it would be madness to end it

Sarkozy: I am no fascist (even if I sound like one)

War without end As the world calls for action against Sudan, one man's story reveals why the suffering in Darfur will continue

Leading article: Don't let Russia bully the Baltics

Damning war report puts Olmert on the brink Ehud Olmert came under growing pressure to resign after media leaks that an inquiry is to blame the Israeli Prime Minister for the failures of last summer's Lebanon war.

Independent on Sunday Wolfowitz tried to cover his tracks over lover's job

Ex-head of CIA accuses Bush over rush to war

Hamish McRae: At last, German self-discipline is paying off - and the Spanish fiesta has to stop

Europe threatens trade war over US biodiesel subsidies

Britain becoming a Big Brother society, says data watchdog

Bombers in Pakistan defy US over al-Qa'ida arrest

Ex-head of CIA accuses Bush over rush to war

Respect! Good manners to be taught in schools ::: Classes to combat rudeness and anti-social behaviour ::: Children to be given lessons in 'emotional intelligence'

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Weekly Standard The Pentagon Cash Crunch
War is a pay-as-you-go business.
by Tom Donnelly

Building an Army of Believers: Jihadist Radicalization and Recruitment Source: RAND Corporation

Training for Urban Resistance: The Case of the Provisional Irish Republican Army Source: RAND Corporation

SMILE: 1 CAMERA FOR EVERY 14 PEOPLE IN UK

The Anatomy of Violence
Pathological genes, a disturbed mind, social isolation and a gun culture are not enough. Mass murderers also need the individual will to pull the trigger.

How Chaplains, Soldiers Keep Faith During War

Gen Casey Pushes To Accelerate Increase Of Active-Duty US Troops

Is the IDF ready for women in combat?

To slow spread of radical Islam, Saudi Arabia woos detainees
By Hannah Allam, McClatchy Newspapers
Alarmed to find that detainees are emerging from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and other U.S. detention centers more devoted than ever to radical Islam, Saudi Arabia is offering counseling, financial aid and even matchmaking to pull young militants away from terrorism.

Do secret interrogations continue? By Nat Hentoff

Reports of CIA, FBI querying Americans in Ethiopia

H20 Slate Can "neurotheology" bridge the gap between religion and science?

United States Remains One of the Least Taxed Industrial Countries (PDF; 66 KB) Source: Citizens for Tax Justice

Go west in the great Canada oil rush of '07 Canada has launched a campaign to attract 100,000 new citizens in an appeal reminiscent of the great colonial migrations of the middle of the 20th century.

Harvesting heroin
How Afghanistan's opium producers are getting mixed signals

Phone taps in Italy spark a rush for cellular encryption High-profile eavesdropping cases stoke demand for tap-proof wireless communications technology.

The Future of Wireless The problem with wireless Net access is you can't take it with you. But a host of organizations -- from ISPs to businesses and cities -- are seeking to make cheap or free connections ubiquitous. What does the future hold?

Keywords: a Growing Cost for News Sites

Competition is fierce in the news industry for the best online search words for big stories as news outlets look for ways to drive traffic to their Web sites.

H21 Boston Globe Hearts & minds

Since Plato, scholars have drawn a clear distinction between thinking and feeling. Now science suggests that our emotions are what make thought possible.

Followers of passion THE new interest in the relationship between emotion and thinking has fueled a growing body of research.

Newsweek Politicians are looking to the dismal science for ways to make us happier—but is the well-being state a bad idea?

Money can't buy you loyalty
Google faces a brain drain as high-flyers it has made rich fly the nest.

The folly of downsizing book reviews By Michael Connelly Why newspapers may be cutting their own throats

The good news is that divorce is increasing

The rise is attributable to the increase in the number of people, particularly women, filing for divorce after the age of 60 Carol Sarler

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