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H1 Washington Post Cheney And the Saudis By David Ignatius For a glimpse at hidden power plays, keep your eye on Vice President Cheney's trip this week to Saudi Arabia.

Sunnis give al-Maliki one week to rein in Shiite militias , McClatchy Newspapers Both Sunni and Shiite political factions are threatening to withdraw from the already weak government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a prospect that threatens the political accommodations needed to calm Iraq's sectarian warfare.

FT Iran offers to help US find Iraq exit

COMMENT: Revive the Republican way of war The Eisenhower approach could provide the Democrats with a tough but cost-conscious national security strategy, writes Michael Lind.

COMMENT: Why Sarkozy's triumph portends strife in Europe France may regain its confidence and even accept a globalising world economy. The country may then be reconciled to a market-based EU. Miracles do happen, writes Martin Wolf.

White House struggles to fill senior posts

ABCNews Bush Keeping Military Option Open Against Iran

National Security Archive Iraq: The Media War Plan Declassified White Paper and PowerPoint Slides on Pentagon's "Rapid Reaction Media Team" for Iraq

America's Suicidal Statecraft By: Shlomo Ben-Ami | The Miami Herald
America remains by far the world's most powerful country; Its decline has more to do with its incompetent use of power than with the emergence of competitors. It is American leaders' ''suicidal statecraft,'' to use Arnold Toynbee's pithy phrase for what he considered the ultimate cause of imperial collapse, that is to blame for America's plight.

Strategic Lessons of the Winograd Commission Report - Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror (Institute for Contemporary Affairs/Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Corridors of Power: Afghan Leadership Changes? By: Roland Flamini | World Politics Watch Are Hamid Karzai's days numbered as Afghanistan's president? Knowledgeable Afghan expatriates predict Karzai will probably not last out the year.

Reuters-ANALYSIS-Europe set for revamp under new leadership

Another Bush man in Europe
Gulf News - By Amir Taheri,

University Channel Constitutional Democracy: Creating and Maintaining a Just Political Order - Pt 1

SyriaComment “The Difference Between Wahhabis and Muslim Brothers,” by David Commins

Guardian Don't be fooled by Europe's mood. Globally, the left is reawakening Jonathan Freedland: The political ructions of the past week can't hide a progressive resurgence - even in the belly of the capitalist beast

Putin puts the boot in Simon Tisdall: Russia's mighty resurgence on the world stage has a destabilising influence on its neighbours.

WP Commanders in Iraq See 'Surge' Into '08 U.S. Plans to Deploy 10 Brigades to Iraq

Commanders increasingly convinced that heightened troop levels, which president announced in January, will need to last into spring 2008.

CFR The Capital Interview: Hagel Urges Shift in Iraq Policy, End to Partisanship

The Armenian road to democracy – Dimensions of a tortuous process - Maria Raquel Freire and Licínia Simão - CEPS Working Documents

H2 European Public Opinion and Turkey’s Accession: Making Sense of Arguments For and Against - Antonia M. Ruiz-Jiménez and José I. Torreblanca - EPIN Working Papers

CEPS Measuring EU citizens’ attitudes toward Turkey’s membership Download PDF for free

LA Times Editorial EU shouldn't shun Turkey The new French president doesn't want Turkey in the European Union. But keeping its admission a possibility would help spur reforms.

Ankara'nın AB üyeliği yabancı düşmanlığına endekslenemez

Turkish army takes its place in race Reforms have reduced the military's authority in state affairs, but as general elections near, its presence is palpable.

Christian Science Monitor On Turkish streets, local battles over Islam's role Amid the deep political crisis over the country's presidency, secularists bemoan an incremental Islamization of everyday life on the local level.

Trouble in Turkey By: Melik Kaylan | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) Democracy should be respected. But secular Turks have reason to fear.

Daily Star Turkey beyond Islamism versus secularism
By Rami G. Khouri

OxAn TURKEY: Economy survives crisis -- so far

LOCAL ACTIONS ADD UP TO A NATIONAL CRISIS IN TURKEY
EurasiaNet

Daniel Pipes: Support Turkish Secularists Against Islamists

Die Welt Gül, makineyi çalıştıran adam

NPQ Ayaan Hirsi Ali: EU SHOULD STAND BY TURKEY'S LIBERALS

FT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Non-Muslim Turks find law is less than secular

American Thinker: The Relative Stablity of Turkey

Push for Popular Vote in Turkey

Genocide is not a fact: A review of La Perversion Historiographique: une réflexion arménienne.

Reality behind Turkey’s ‘defence of secularism’ Socialistworker.co.uk

What Turkey's constitutional crisis means for investors MoneyWeek

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

Barzani tells Euro MEPs the PKK is ‘a political issue’

Kirkuk referendum needed soon, says Iraqi Kurdish leader Parlamento Europeo

The Future of Kurdistan Huffington Post

Ankara: Iraq lacks political will to respond to PKK note

'Türkiye'nin endişelerini paylaşıyoruz'

Why Erdogan Will Lose
The Conservative Voice

GOOD KURDS/BAD KURDS V.2
By Mizgîn

PKK, siyasî yollardan çözülmeli

DTP'de hedef 3. cephe

Bağdat, PKK notasına hâlâ cevap vermedi

Beyaz Saray: PKK konusunda Türkiye'nin endişelerini paylaşıyoruz

Cabbar Yaver: ‘’Türkiye çok iyi biliyor ki Kürdistan bölgesi Türk ordusu için kırmızı hattır“

Ordu, AKP’yi vurmak için özgür Kürdistan’a fiili harekat düzenleyebilir

Mesud Barzani Avrupa'da PKK'yı konuştu

Fate of Kirkuk Could Spell Trouble for Iraq

Ümit ÖZDAĞ Tahran, K. Irak’ta Kürt devletini destekliyor (2)

Truck Bomb in Iraq's Kurdistan Kills 12, Wounds 40

The Reality of the Turkmen Population in Iraq

Tehdit etmiyormuş dostluk eli uzatıyormuş

Masud Barzni`s visit

WP: Irak sorunu ortaklık için test

DTP'den demokrasi için ittifak çağrısı

UN Report Sparks Uproar in Kurdistan By: Mohammed A. Salih | Inter Press Service
A United Nations report on Iraq's human rights situation has provoked mixed reactions in the northern Kurdistan region. Officials accuse the UN of "exaggeration and inaccuracy" while human rights activists say the "actual extent of violations has been understated by the UN."

Roj TV davası karara kaldı

Adayları bağımsız çıkarın

Erbil'deki patlamada 1 Türk öldü

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Rehn "Avrupa Birliği Türkiye'ye karşı adil ve titiz olmalı"

AB, müzakereleri sürdürmeye kararlı

AB'den dört kritik uyarı

Abdülhamit Bilici Sarkozy başarırsa Türkiye kazanır!

Semih İDİZ Türkiye sicilini düzeltiyor AVRUPA İNSAN HAKLARI MAHKEMESİNİN YENİ BAŞKANI COSTA, MİLLİYET'İN SORULARINI YANITLADI

Sarkozy'ye balans ayarı

AB'nin hedefi 26 Haziran

Secularist paranoia raises tension across Turkey (3)by JOOST LAGENDIJK*

Ankara'dan Sarkozy'ye: Söylemlerini değiştir

Rauf DENKTAŞ Çok olumlu...

Çankaya seçimi AB'yi unutturdu!

Pamuk: Dink ile politik mücadele verdik

Laik ve demokratik bir Türkiye'ye ihtiyacımız var

HAKAN ALBAYRAK Kim korkar Sarkozy'den?

Sarkozy's win likely to strain relations with Turkey

Sami KOHEN Sarkozy değişir mi?

'Sarkozy Türkiye'ye yumuşamaz'

Amanda Akçakoca Vive la France! But what about Turkey?

Yavuz baydar Will Sarkozy shift to realism?

Mensur Akgün Sarkozy de değişir

Beril dedeoğlu Is the election over in France?

Hadi Uluengin Fransa seçimi ve Türkiye (II)

Ankara’dan Sarkozy’e tebrik mesajı hâlâ yok

Lagendijk: Paris'in tutumu değişmez

EU unmoved by Sarkozy win, eyes fresh talks with Turkey

Osman ULAGAY
'Hedef 2023' için adres 'Forum İstanbul'

Greek policy toward Turkish EU bid unchanged

Russia keeps close eye on presidential crisis

Turkish Atomic Energy Agency: No leakage from Armenia’s Metsamor reactor

Greek Cyprus opposes Turkey’s oil search in the Med

Vahap Munyar Banka hissesi alan ABD’li yatırımcı sordu: Asker darbe yapar mı

Never mind Ankara’s mess — Turkish economy is full of opportunities Robin Hollingbury

Hurşit GÜNEŞ IMF'nin 2007 küresel büyüme tahmini

Ege Cansen Enflasyon üzerine geyik muhabbeti

YASED Başkanı Uysal: Yabancı güveniyor, yerli vesvese yapıyor

Güngör URAS Akbank-Citigroup ortaklığı New York'ta kutlandı

Ercan Kumcu Bulanık suda balık avlamak

'Akbank'a ortak olarak finans dünyasının Louvre'unu seçtik'

Bana programını söyle! Uğur Gürses

'Politik risk' sigortası Metin Ercan

Siyasi gerginlik İMKB ile dünyanın bağını kopardı

İ.Hüseyin Yıldız
Enflasyon trendi ve yeni beklentiler

TURKEY SEEKS SIDEWINDER FROM US

BBC 9 Mayıs 2007 Basın Özeti

Ferhat Boratav Aptallık Üzerine

H3 Finans devinin seçim raporu

Asker ne istediğini biliyor mu?
Avni Özgürel

Hasan CEMAL Acele işe şeytan karışır!

Şamil Tayyar Genelkurmay bildirisi, oyları nasıl etkiledi?

İki sandıklı referandum

Saygun Görüşme baş başa gerisi spekülasyon

Demokrasi sınavında krizden aydınlığa yönelmek için hamleler
CEVAT ÖNEŞ

AB'den dört kritik uyarı

Taha Kıvanç Doğan Medya'ya haksızlık…

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Ak Parti'ye neocon tuzağı!

Taha Kıvanç Doğan Medya'ya haksızlık…

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Tandoğan, Çağlayan ve diğer mitinglere dair…

M. Ali BİRAND Asıl tehlike, AKP'nin yüzde 40'ları aşmasıdır

Erdoğan'dan TÜSİAD'a tepki: Meclis ne yapacağını onlardan gayet iyi bilir

Erdoğan'ın üç iddiası da boşa çıktı

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş New York'ta devlerin dansı Akbank ile Citigroup arasındaki dev ortaklık, Waldorf Astoria Otel'deki ödül töreninde taçlandı.

Baykal çekilse... İsmet Berkan Baykal'ın liderlikten çekilmesi, DSP'yle birleşmenin getireceğinden fazla katkı sağlar. Baykal Çankaya seçiminde ikinci tura kalırsa, ciddi şansı olur.

Cengiz Çandar “Vesayet rejimi”ne hoş geldiniz...

Emre Uslu Understanding the web behind the Ulusalci movement

Ece TEMELKURAN Miting, darbe, pozisyon: Aydınlar ne yapmalı?

Nuray Başaran Yeni dönemde yeni AKP

Salih Neftçi AKP ve merkezdeki kalabalık...

Ertuğ Yaşar İlk seçim senaryoları

[Yorum - Yard. Doç. Dr. Bekir Berat Özipek] Ağar ve Mumcu: 'Mola' bitti, demokratlığa devam edebilirler

Metin MÜNİR The Economist amca yol gösteriyor

Bilal Çetin Skandal... 2002’den beri seçmen sayısı artmamış aksine azalmış

Cüneyt Ülsever Mehmet Ağar ne yapmalı

Asker üslubunu anlamak M.Ali Kışlalı

Baykal AKP kalırsa, rejim sorun olur

Ertuğrul Özkök Ozi’nin hikâyesi AKP^ye mi oy vereceğim?

Siyasi rehin: Abdullah Gül!

Turkey may see three ballot boxes

Forced political marriages may be short-lived

25 yaş bile elde kaldı Yeni oluşacak Meclis, temsilde adalet açısından eskisinden farklı olmayacak. Tüm partilerin desteğiyle çıkan 25 yaş düzenlemesi bile bu seçime yetişmedi

Gözler Yüksek Mahkeme'de Haşim Kılıç, CHP'nin cumhurbaşkanı seçiminin takvimini düzenleyen Meclis kararının iptali ve yürürlüğünün durdurulmasına ilişkin başvurusunun muhtemelen bugün görüşüleceğini söyledi.

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 Doğan Medya'ya haksızlık…

Fehmi Koru Doğru yöne bakmalıyız

NAZLI ILICAK Neden 367 tutturulmadı?

Metin MÜNİR Perdeyi mi seyrediyoruz, oyunu mu?

KÜRŞAT BUMİN Cumhurbaşkanını halk seçerse ne olur?

Sadi SOMUNCUOĞLU Ordusunu düşmana şikayet eden Başkomutan adayı!..

Fikret Başkaya [Cumhuriyet Mitinglerinin gerçek amacı ne?] Tehlikede olan laiklik değil, elitlerin iktidarı (I)

Serdar Turgut Hangi ekonomik model

YAVUZ DONAT Ankara fırtınası

Ahmet Hakan Bülent Arınç 8 yıl önce ne diyordu?

Tamer Korkmaz 'Olay Yeri İnceleme' Raporu ya da 'CSI-Ankara'

Nasuhi Güngör ‘Merkez’ postuna büründüler

Mustafa Ünal Cumhurbaşkanını kim seçsin?

Ali Bulaç Ankara kriterleri

Birleşmenin formülü Ecevit
Murat Yetkin

Anavatan ve DYP ayrıntılarda da anlaştı

Gülay Göktürk Seçimler yapılabilecek mi?...

Fikret BİLA Baykal'dan Sezer'e: Haydi, İzmir'e birlikte gidelim

Güneri CIVAOĞLU 3 parti tamam gibi...

Nuh Gönültaş Son günlerde en sık karşılaştığım soru...

Serdar Turgut Gazete patronu

Nükleer yasası sessiz sedasız geçti

AKP gereken dersleri aldı mı?
Haluk Şahin

Bürokraside sandık istifaları

AKP'de ''kadın aday'' tartışması

Solda 'nişan' sorunu: DSP'den yanıt çıkmadı

Adaylık için istifa eden Dinçer: Vicdanen rahatım

İttifak fire verdi

EMRE AKÖZ Domuz etiyle propaganda

Erdoğan 50 ilde miting yapacak

Adaylıktan çekilme dilekçesini gruba verdi

İşareti aldı aday oldu

'Muhtıracılar yargılansın'

Ecevit ve Gül’ün yanından MHP’ye

YSK'nın seçim ve propaganda yasakları

Siyaset kadını keşfetti amaç daha çok vekil

Sezer'in damadı CHP'den aday

DSP'de tedirgin çok
DSP yönetimi, CHP'yle ittifak konusunda teşkilatı ikna etmekte zorlanıyor

Oktay Ekşi Kargaşada bir soru...

Tufan Türenç Hesaplaşma bir gün AKP içinde olacak

Özdemir İnce Anavatan + Doğruyol = Demokrat Parti

İsmail Küçükkaya
AK Parti’nin önüne çıkan fırsat

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Turizmde kritik karar...

Mehmet Tezkan AKP, insanların özel hayatına bakın nasıl müdahele etti

ERGUN BABAHAN Siyasetin özü yok olmamalı

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
'Yargının yetkisini kullanıp, hukuksuz işler yapıyorsunuz'

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN
Sakin olun, istikrara ve reformlara sahip çıkın

ERDAL ŞAFAK Uçak dolusu demokrasi

Doğu Ergil Problem: the soul of the system

Şakir Süter Erdoğan çok öfkeli

'Kamu' Meclis'e hücum etti

H4 New York Times Official Takes Case to U.S., but Skeptics Don’t Budge The Iraqi prime minister’s national security adviser told lawmakers that a pullout would be catastrophic.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN The Arab Commission Less than a year after a war that Hezbollah called a “divine” victory, Lebanon is weaker and Israel is stronger. If Hassan Nasrallah had any honor, he would resign.

MAUREEN DOWD Get Off the Chaise Lounge

The French wanted to be prodded even more than they wanted to be pampered

H5 Washington Post Cheney And the Saudis By David Ignatius For a glimpse at hidden power plays, keep your eye on Vice President Cheney's trip this week to Saudi Arabia.

China's Trade Time Bomb By Robert J. Samuelson, On its present course, China threatens to wreck the entire post-World War II trading system.

Commanders in Iraq See 'Surge' Into '08 U.S. Plans to Deploy 10 Brigades to Iraq Commanders increasingly convinced that heightened troop levels, which president announced in January, will need to last into spring 2008.

House Bill Ties War Funding to Iraq Benchmarks: Measure Would Free Half the Money Now, Require a Second Vote for Approval in July

Chinese To Deploy Soldiers To Darfur: Engineers to Bolster Peacekeeping Force

Tehran Jails Iranian American Scholar After Long House Arrest

Six Charged in Plot To Attack Fort Dix : 'Jihadists' Said to Have No Ties to Al-Qaeda

Editorial Chance for Reform

House Democrats could move to restore habeas corpus rights to foreign prisoners.

H6 Guardian Don't be fooled by Europe's mood. Globally, the left is reawakening Jonathan Freedland: The political ructions of the past week can't hide a progressive resurgence - even in the belly of the capitalist beast.

Putin puts the boot in Simon Tisdall: Russia's mighty resurgence on the world stage has a destabilising influence on its neighbours.

Biofuel boom 'brings famine risks'
Food shortages and increased poverty among warnings from UN about burgeoning biofuel industry.

DVD find foiled terror plot - FBI
Six charged over plot to kill soldiers at New Jersey base.

How to fix the Foreign Office

Alex Evans and David Steven May 08 07, 02:30pm: Gordon Brown has signalled he wants to tackle global uncertainty - but he will not be able to do so without deep-seated reform.

Sarkozy sails into trouble as questions asked over yacht Opulence at 'odds with people's president pledge'.

Goodbye to la belle France?
Will Sarkozy destroy what makes France great, asks Stuart Jeffries

The World Bank really does help the planet's poorest Response: Yes, Paul Wolfowitz must go, but this great institution has much to be proud of, says Michael Carter.

Nationalist elected speaker of Serbian parliament Acting PM deserts alliance of democratic forces in a setback to EU hopes of pro-western government.

Leader A time of peace
The task facing Northern Ireland's new rulers is to better the lives of its people. The peace process is over. The political one is just about to begin.

The new pragmatist?

Naima Bouteldja: France's minority communities are depressed about Sarkozy's intentions, but they may end up better represented than before.

H7 Corridors of Power: Afghan Leadership Changes? By: Roland Flamini | World Politics Watch Are Hamid Karzai's days numbered as Afghanistan's president? Knowledgeable Afghan expatriates predict Karzai will probably not last out the year.

Salon Bush's Favorite Historian Explains Why the Iraq War Was Wrong

Boston Globe Finding partners in Islam (By Lorenzo Vidino) AS THE United States battles insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan while fearing the next terrorist attack on our shores, it has become apparent that the solution to the struggle against radical Islam is neither military nor diplomatic, but rather, ideological. Only by tackling the ideology that motivates potential jihadis from Baghdad to London can the United States hope to win ...

Al Hayat An Israeli Apologist (1) Jihad El-Khazen - Edward Luttwak is an Israeli apologist who hides behind a thin veneer of vacuous scholarship to present warmongering and racism as serious thought. Every time Israel is about to commit a crime or has committed one the Israeli apologists are quick to shroud the crime in the fog of another crime committed elsewhere.

Al Awsat Do Not Abandon Iraq : Tariq Alhomayed

How Many Ground Troops Does The U.S. Need? - Austin Bay, RCP

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

US Papers Wed: Funding the War in Two Courses

Iraqi Papers Wed: the "New Sadrists"

Sunnis give al-Maliki one week to rein in Shiite militias , McClatchy Newspapers
Both Sunni and Shiite political factions are threatening to withdraw from the already weak government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a prospect that threatens the political accommodations needed to calm Iraq's sectarian warfare.

Cheney to follow Rice to Middle East

Geopolitical Diary: Cheney in a Sandstorm Stratfor –

Poll: Americans Disapprove of Bush's Iraq Veto

In an interview with Nic Robertson of CNN, Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, has laid down an ultimatum.

United States Urges Iraq's Neighbors To Play Constructive Role

Geopolitical Diary: The Thawing of US-Syrian Relations Stratfor

Daily Star If Northern Ireland can have peace, so can the Middle East

Arab pluralism requires a free, contentious media By Marc Lynch

Fine-tuning Arab television
[ DAOUD KUTTAB

BBC US attack 'kills Iraqi children' A US helicopter attack on suspected insurgents in Iraq has killed a number of children, Iraqi sources say.

Despair stalks Baghdad as plan falters

Illegal Arms Said to Reach Lebanon Frequently -- UN –

China, Russia in 'Weapons Breach' BBC News Rights watchdog Amnesty International has accused China and Russia of supplying arms to Sudan for use in Darfur, in breach of a UN arms embargo.

BBC Protest movement
Why Pakistan president has little room for manoeuvre

Geopolitical Diary: Musharraf's Political Dilemma Stratfor

H9 Ha’aretz - Kadima officials: We must look for replacement PM Kadima: Ehud Barak's statement urging PM to resign effectively sounded death knell for Olmert's government.

The team is more important than the leader

The World Jewish Congress must reform or die

Guest: The internet will democratize Judaism

Yoel Marcus: Halutz was the wrong man in the wrong war

Planning the previous war The political world is now focused on the critical question of who has greater experience to deal with the military challenges ahead: Shimon Peres or Ehud Barak.

Cancelation of Rice visit 'not because of gov't crisis,' U.S. insists

DEBKAfile: In “open mike” remark, Olmert tells the Israeli army to take it easy, while Nasrallah declares another war is impending

National security cabinet discusses secret sections of Winograd report

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

Strategic Lessons of the Winograd Commission Report - Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror (Institute for Contemporary Affairs/Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Israel prevents PA recovery'
In harsh report, World Bank says Israel's use of closures and web of roadblocks in West Bank go beyond its security needs, aimed at enhancing settlers' movement and prevent Palestinian economy from recovering

Failure to Act is Not an Option By: Gershon Baskin | The Jerusalem Post
There is a small, albeit unlikely chance that Olmert may suddenly adopt a more aggressive peace-making platform as a way to divert public attention from his own decline. It is more likely though, that Olmert will launch an aggressive ground operation into Gaza in order to achieve the same shift in public attention.

War testimonies of PM, Peretz, Halutz to be published today
Winograd Committee brings forward protocols publication; security cabinet scheduled to discuss confidential sections of report.

Dayton Plan: Benchmarks won't work in the Middle East By YAAKOV KATZ
Defense chiefs fear the new US plan will create an upsurge in terrorism in Judea and Samaria.

Newsweek Hamas Leader Khaled Meshal Predicts a New Intifada –

Congressional Hearing Shows Israel at Crux of Missile Defense Plan –

The Price for Israel By: Ayman El-Amir | Al-Ahram Weekly
Despite all US-Israeli attempts to provoke a Shia-Sunni war, an Iranian-Arab alliance is the Middle East's last and best hope for balanced security, regional stability and the elimination of foreign hegemony.

Boston Globe Israel's deadly stupor

(By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist)

IF EHUD OLMERT had been as adroit and resolute in defending his nation from its enemies as he is in defending his grip on power, Hezbollah today would be a disgraced relic

H10 Christian Science Monitor

John Hughes: Tenet of the Iraq war

Opinion: The Tony Blair decade

Report highlights effects of repeat Iraq deployments on US soldiers

General Petraeus says he is 'very concerned' about results on US troops' battlefield ethics.

Young Americans and Egyptians talk, but don't see eye to eye

From jihad to occupation - East and West define the basic terms of the Middle East debate differently.

ASIA Asia's Decoupling From U.S. Economy is a Myth By: William Pesek | Bloomberg
The spotlight on Asia's growth rates is also spawning hubris about how far the region has come since 1997. Perhaps the best example is the argument that China and India are doing so well that Asia no longer needs the U.S. economy.

H11 IHT Do not neglect culture By NASSRINE AZIMI In recent nation-building operations, culture has been at best an afterthought.

Sarkozy faces an economic test in ailing Airbus How he navigates the thorny issues may help clarify whether he is, at heart, a free-market reformer or an economic nationalist determined to prop up France's industrial patrimony.

Americans look to French election for tips
By BRIAN KNOWLTON
An election in which a rightist candidate managed to succeed a highly unpopular two-term president of his own party may provide some tips for U.S. politicians.

Bulgaria asks EU for legal expertise
By MATTHEW BRUNWASSER
The European Commission received an unusual request for legal expertise from Bulgaria on Tuesday, as the country grappled with a growing corruption investigation labeled a mega-scandal by the country's media.

The assault on Assyrian Christians By PAUL ISAAC Iraq's Assyrian Christians know quite well that these latest threats are not empty promises.

Rights groups oppose Serbian presidency of Council of Europe Belgrade is due to assume the six-month rotating presidency Friday, just three months after the United Nations' highest court ruled that the country had violated the Genocide Convention on several counts.

EUROPE European press review

Ha’aretz The secret of Europe's success Europe's prosperity has grown out of a particular form of regional cooperation that has developed hand in hand with a deep commitment to human rights, fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of law.

BBC Serbian strife
A hardline speaker adds to Belgrade's political uncertainty

Geopolitical Diary: Implications of a Sarkozy Presidency Stratfor

RPT-UPDATE 1-ANALYSIS-Europe set for revamp under new leadership

In France, Dubya Won Again By: Amir Taheri | New York Post
Are we going to vote for a French George Bush? So asked Marianne, a left-wing Parisian daily, in its cover story about the French presidential election. On Sunday, French voters answered: Yes.

New Europe By: Simon Serfaty | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
The atmosphere of renewal that accompanied Mr. Sarkozy's triumph, and reinforced by Ms. Royal's honorable showing, will soon be tested. The millions who voted for "anyone except Sarkozy" will not be easily seduced.

Serbia's Choice Stratfor

Washington Times Europe's best hope (Paul Belien)

Sarkozy's victory (Helle Dale)

A potentially lethal blow to France's rigid Socialists By Michel Rocard

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

Eurasianet Azerbaijan: Experts Skeptical About Prospects for Nagorno-Karabakh Breakthrough

Armenia Former Foreign Minister Arrested for Alleged Money Laundering

Russians Braced for Ruling Elite to 'Fiddle' Parliamentary Election By: Tom Parfitt | The Guardian
Almost half of Russia's voters expect that the parliamentary election this year will be falsified by the ruling elite and defy the will of the people, a new poll indicates.

EDM RUSSIAN STRATEGY, EU DRIFT IN ESTONIA

- ROSNEFT WINS KEY YUKOS ASSETS IN EASTERN SIBERIA

- U.S. PLANS TO ATTACK IRAN FROM MANAS DENIED

H13 The Times How to survive 100 days without riots

Nicolas Sarkozy's plans together amount to a small shift in policy – and he may not get far down the list

Bronwen Maddox

Wolfowitz ‘broke rules’ but won’t resign

World Bank ethics panel found Wolfowitz guilty of breaking rules in authorising pay rise and promotion for his girlfriend

Wall Street Journal Axis of Soros
The men and motives behind the World Bank coup attempt.

H14 Financial Times Iran offers to help US find Iraq exit Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian deputy foreign minister who attended last week’s conference on Iraq’s future at Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, has offered Tehran’s co-operation to the US in developing an “exit strategy” from Iraq.

Prominent US scholar detained in Iran

Iranian authorities arrested Haleh Esfandiari, a prominent Iranian-American academic who headed the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Middle East programme in Washington, the think-tank’s president said.

COMMENT: Revive the Republican way of war The Eisenhower approach could provide the Democrats with a tough but cost-conscious national security strategy, writes Michael Lind.

COMMENT: Why Sarkozy's triumph portends strife in Europe France may regain its confidence and even accept a globalising world economy. The country may then be reconciled to a market-based EU. Miracles do happen, writes Martin Wolf.

White House struggles to fill senior posts

The Bush administration is facing growing difficulties in filling a rising number of high-level vacancies following a recent spate of senior departures

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: What Iran has in common with the great Satan

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Palestinian conflict not the same as Ulster

Editorial Immigration mess

Saudis plan to curb public spending

Saudi Arabia plans to control public spending in a bid to damp rising inflation in the kingdom's fast-growing economy,

Ministers warn Sarkozy on Central Bank

In a determined defence of the ECB’s independence, European finance ministers issued a concerted warning to Nicolas Sarkozy to stop undermining the bank by blaming it for France’s economic problems

Wolfowitz seeks more time to reply to panel

Hank Paulson, US Treasury secretary, backed calls by Paul Wolfowitz’s lawyer for more time for the World Bank president to respond to a report that found he broke conflict of interest rules

Six arrested in plot to attack Fort Dix

Editorial The next task for Northern Ireland

Editorial Equity in taxation The principle of progressive taxation - that those who earn more should pay more in income tax - has been in retreat since the 1970s, when marginal tax rates rose so...

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial

H16 American Politics

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

Early Bird GovExec

Giuliani, GOP split on abortion Critics question whether the party should accept a nominee who favors a more liberal view of the issue.

September may be the Cruelest Month

By Tony Blankley

Iraq weakens GOP brand appeal

Giuliani campaign under fresh threat

Rudy Giuliani's status in the 2008 Republican nomination battle is under threat after it was revealed he had made at least six donations to a group that performs abortions.

H17 Daily Telegraph How will Brown get on with Bush?

Gordon Brown must quickly learn that maintaining a strong alliance with Washington is crucial to protecting Britain's interests, argues Con Coughlin.

Israel's battling premier fights on Tim Butcher reports on a beleaguered Israeli prime minister who is continuing to weather the storm, for now.

CIA killed 50 villagers in Taliban hunt

Military specialists with the CIA were among a US force accused of killing more than 50 civilians during the hunt for a Taliban commander in Afghanistan.

BYE NOON: Tony Blair will finally bring the curtain down on his decade in power Thursday - by announcing his retirement...

H18 Independent The miracle of Belfast After 40 years of hatred, the veteran Protestant demagogue and the ex-IRA commander pledge to share power in Northern Ireland

Iraqi minister says US may release Iranians

Hamish McRae: France has everything going for it now

Letwin: 'Cameron Conservatism' outflanks Brown's 'post-Marxism'

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

How Did the "Fort Dix Six" Enter and Stay in the US?

Factors to Consider in Blending Active and Reserve Manpower Within Military Units Source: RAND Corporation Summary (PDF; 146 KB)
+ Full Document (PDF; 650 KB)

Intel: Oceans of Data, No Silver Bullet By: Brooks Tigner | ISN Security Watch
A European open-source information forum discusses how to swim through oceans of data without focusing on recycled intelligence or forgetting to ask the right questions.

Full Text, Full Image: Fort Dix Terror Plot Charges
27 pages; PDF.

H20 Slate Eight More Reasons To Distrust Murdoch:

Freedom of the Press 2007: A Global Survey of Media Independence Source: Freedom House From press release: Press freedom suffered continued global decline in 2006, with particularly troubling trends evident in Asia, the former Soviet Union and Latin America. A major study of the state of media freedom released today by Freedom House also warned of a growing effort to place restrictions on internet freedom by censoring, harassing, or shutting down sites that provide alternate sources of political commentary. + Charts and Graphs (PDF; 235 KB)
+ Overview Essay (PDF; 108 KB) + Draft Reports (PDF; 950 KB)
+ Methodology (PDF; 22 KB)
+ Map of Press Freedom 2007 (PDF; 787 KB)
+ Historical Trends in Media Freedom (maps)

From The Oxonian Review, a review of Amartya Sen's Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny

From The Economist, an article on the tragedy of the commons: Property rights may be the way to preserve forests. The ethics of land and liberty: How can a person justifiably own something? There are clear moral principles that explain this, although many pundits get confused.

From The New Yorker, since all industries crave foreign markets to expand into but fear foreign competitors encroaching on their home turf, they lobby their governments to tilt the rules in their favor. Usually, this involves manipulating tariffs and quotas. But, of late, a troubling twist in the game has become more common, as countries use free-trade agreements to rewrite the laws of their trading partners.

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WIRE: Old media turns combative against new media...

Quality of Google Book Search Is Questioned

Herod: The Bible's biggest villain

Cato Coercion as a Political Concept

Event: The Cuban Missile Crisis: Lessons for the War on Terror

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