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H1 Independent Exclusive: Secret US plot to kill Al-Sadr The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in the holy city of Najaf, which it then attacked, according to a senior Iraqi government official.

Is the American Era Over? - James Kitfield, National Journal

Washington Post Iraq Study Group Report May Get a Second Look Seeking to salvage U.S. military engagement, White House and Congress show new interest in panel's recommendations for regional diplomacy

Boston Globe Across the divide (By Anne Barnard Iran, in its effort to become a regional and global power, is reaching out across the Sunni-Shi'ite divide, exhorting Muslims worldwide to tolerate their differences -- and march under one Islamic banner.

Washington Post A Shining Model of Wealth Without Liberty By James Mann, The Iraq war isn't over, but one thing's already clear: China won.

Beyond Saber Rattling By Jim Hoagland, This is the moment for Bush to show America's long-term strength by fully engaging with Iran on both Iraq and nuclear weapons.

An Army Against the Clock By David Ignatius, Time is the strategic resource in Iraq; Congress and the administration need to agree on ways to add some minutes to the clock.

Iraq Isn't Like Vietnam -- Except When It Is By Robert Dallek, 'Nations and governments have never learned anything from history,' Hegel said. There are times when it's hard to believe otherwise.

Iraq's Sadr Overhauls His Tactics Shiite Woos Sunnis, Purges Extremists - Shiite cleric reaches out to Sunnis, recasts himself as less anti-American and more nationalist

Assessments Made in 2003 Foretold Situation in Iraq Intelligence Studies List Internal Violence, Terrorist Activity

New Leadership Trio Could Put Europe Back on Political Map Merkel, Sarkozy and Brown Seen Reenergizing Region

Sunday Telegraph Bush gets ready for Iraq U-turn by Brown New PM to speed withdrawal and cool the 'special relationship', advisers tell President

The Tragedie of George Before the curtain falls, says Niall Ferguson, we must decide the fates of three characters: Israel, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

Syria's Deception - Amir Taheri, New York Post

The Observer Pakistan bloodshed opens new fault lines Religious and ethnic divisions, poverty, power cuts and typhoid. Jason Burke reports from Orangi, Karachi.

War fears as Moscow veto looms
Serbs and Albanians know Russia holds the key to their future as the rift between them widens.

Los Angeles Times U.S. hunt for bin Laden reveals Al Qaeda influx The CIA discovers that money from Iraq is bolstering the terrorist network

Sunday Times Britain in Secret Talks With Iraq Rebels

Sarko’s ‘Club Med’ makes waves From Tangier to Tobruk, the area was last week weighing with suspicion an invitation from President Nicolas Sarkozy

Decline and fall of the neocons Paul Wolfowitz’s departure from the World Bank signals the end of an ideological era in Washington

Putin spy war on the West Russia’s covert foreign intelligence operations against America have reached cold war levels under President Vladimir Putin

Guardian Healing the wounds Dilip Hiro The Bush administration may not like it, but a Muslim peacekeeping force in Iraq could solve a lot of problems.

Leader A broad church If getting elected president was a coup, Nicolas Sarkozy produced an even bigger surprise when nominating his first government.

50 killed in Lebanese fighting Northern city of Tripoli hit by worst violence for two decades as army troops fight Sunni militants.

Europe's decisive role Morton Abramowitz The decision on Kosovo raises serious questions for the EU's relations with Russia and the US, as well as for stability throughout the Balkans.

Ha’aretz –U.S. policy change will allow Israel-Syria talks

Peres: Israel to present counter-proposal to Arab peace plan

Financial Times COMMENT: China and America need not be energy rivals The US imports 60 per cent of its oil; China 50 per cent. Both countries benefit from stable, open markets, writes Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates

COMMENT: Europe sways to a centre-right swansong

The changing political dynamics of German and French pensioners should deliver a big structural majority for the left, writes Wolfgang Munchau.

Editorial A very French sort of grand coalitionIf France had grand coalitions, they would presumably look like the cabinet unveiled by Nicolas Sarkozy – about as close to a national unity government as the fifth republic is likely to get.

China begins to shift foreign reserves into private investments...

Christian Science Monitor Dollar buying ever less of the world's goods The dollar has fallen 5 percent against the euro and the pound so far this year, the equivalent of a 20 percent annual decline.

US-Iran fallout affects the South Caucasus Armenia, an ally of both countries, shows how tensions between the two could upset the region's diplomatic balancing act.

Obama Lines Up Behind Neocon Campaign Against Iran by Jim Lobe

From Boston Review, a special section on Nukes, Democracy and Iran, including The View from Tehran: Akbar Ganji on changing Iran from within; Nuclear Freeze Hans Blix on the Middle East and global arms control; Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns on carrots and sticks; and Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani on how normalizing relations will help both sides.

US News & World Report A General Tries to Make Headway in Iraq David Petraeus has a difficult task: making the surge work and lessening the violence. Can he do it?

American Prospect A Conversation with Zbigniew Brzezinski

Ft Iran woos Mideast business elite Iran took its diplomatic offensive to the Middle East’s business and political elite at the the weekend, deploying its politicians at a high-profile conference to make its case as it fights off international pressure over its nuclear programme.

A review of Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing by Leszek Kolakowski

H2 NYT A Rumble Is Heard in Ataturk’s Grave By SABRINA TAVERNISE The heirs of Turkey’s great secularist couldn’t join Europe. But Muslim reformers may

The Observer A fight for the soul of the new Turkey It is one of the most strategically important of nations - poised geographically, and symbolically, between Europe and Asia. But a fierce struggle is taking place between modernity and tradition, Islamism and secularism, democracy and repression. The outcome could have an explosive impact on us all, writes Andrew Anthony.

Yeni Türkiye'nin ruhu için mücadele Andrew Anthony

Guardian Europe must let Turkey in
Peter Preston: It is in everyone's interest to welcome Ankara into the stagnant club of the European Union.

Cook [MONDAY TALK]
Turkish military rules but not governs, says expert

Barry Rubin The Region: From Paris and Ankara to Foggy Bottom | Jerusalem Post

Desire for Europe, fear of Europe
by BEJAN MATUR

FT Koc could sell off stake in Migros

WORLD NEWS: Education push Turkey publishes more books than the Arab world combined.

WORLD NEWS: Carlyle looks at Mideast deals Carlyle is adding the more mature Turkish market to its geographic definition of the Middle East

Observer: Türkiye’deki sert mücadelenin etkisi yıkıcı olabilir

BBC New rally for Turkish secularism

Turks Join Mass Protest Against Government

Washington'da Cumhuriyet Mitingi

AKP demokrasinin geliştiğinin kanıtı
FATIMA MESUD EL MANSURİ

Laik Türklerin endişeleri son derece haklı
SEYYAR EL CEMİL

İran ve Türkiye Ortadoğu'nun yeni iki gücü Amani Fikri -

MGK'da vekâlet dönemi

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

Emin Pazarcı Kuzey Irak'a
girdik

Kürtler ve Irak için kritik bir dönem - David Satterfield ile röportaj

Kürdler, petrolsüz özgür olamazlar

Enriching the Constitution of Kurdistan Region (Kurdish Globe)

‘Kürtler sivil toplum açısından giderek ilerliyor...’

Mehmet Niyazi Kerkük'ün tapusu

"Kandil'de mi siyaset yapalım?"

'Kürtlerin petrole sahip olmaları engellenmeli'

PKK, mayınlarla sivilleri de hedef alıyor

Talabani Zayıflamak için ABD'ye gitti

Guardian Renewed solidarity Brian Brivati Christopher Hitchens portrayed a brilliant picture of Kurdistan in a recent Vanity Fair article, raising the question: who should we identify with in Iraq right now?

KORAY DÜZGÖREN Diyarbakır Askeri Cezaevi'ndeki vahşetin belgeleri

Peşmergeden sınıra yığınak

PKK'dan hain pusu: 1 er şehit, 4 yaralı

WP Gunmen Lay Siege To Shiite Kurd Town, Killing at Least 13

Attackers Then Burn 30 Homes, Police Say

Irak’ta Kürt köyüne baskın: 13 ölü

Inside Iraq, Ansar al-Sunnah Chooses Sides... with Al-Qaida

Mahir Kaynak Seçime doğru

İran ve ABD arasında 'Arap müttefik yarışı' MUHAMMED NACİ UMEYRA

Ömer Taşpınar The Saudi-American connection

The post-Islamist AKP threatens not secularism, but the secularists
Mohammed AYOOB

El Ahram: Araplar Türkiye'den ders alsın

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Selçuk Gültaşlı [BRÜKSEL] "Laikler müzakereleri asla başlatamazdı"

AB'yi boşver Club Med'e gel

PONTUS NEFRETİ

Müslüman ve laik Türkiye Avrupalı

Türk mafyası eroinden sorumlu

Koltuk Deveciyan’a gitti

Barroso: "Türkiye şu anda AB'ye hazır değil"

Mayolu kadına sansür Avrupa Konseyi'nde

KKTC’den sağ ol çağrısı

'KKTC'ye sahip çık' mitingi yapıldı

'Pontusçular' yine Selanik'te yürüdü

Ata Atun The shame of the EU: exclusion of KKTC universities from the Bologna Process

[Yorum] Fransızlar George Bush'u seçti!

Lagendijk: Laikler müzakerelere engel

4 Türk Avrupa Parlamentosu'nda

AB organize suç raporu: Türk mafyasının sorumluluk alanı eroin

[Mesrob Mutafyan] Türkiye Ermenileri de Meclis'te temsil edilmeli

Sarkozy korkusuna İspanya su serpti

Barçın Yinanç Türkmenistan'a atak yarım kaldı golü Rusya attı

Bir zamanlar fakir ama çalışkan bir çocuk vardı

SOLİ ÖZEL Moustaki'li şarkılar

Soner Yalçın Ankara’da silahların susmadığı gece

Tufan Türenç Bir Aydınlanma devrimcisi

New York'ta Türk Yürüyüşü

Yozgat’ın Sorgun ilçesinde gerginlik

Report says Turkey is a water poor country

Serdengeçti IMF çapası zayıfladı Türkiye artık kendi çapasını oluşturmalı

Ercan Kumcu Seçimler ekonomik dengeleri bozar mı

Kur mu enflasyon mu

Erdal Sağlam Türkiye kendi programını yapabilecek mi?

IMF Press Release: IMF Executive Board Completes Sixth Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement for Turkey and Approves US$1.1 Billion Disbursement

IMF niyet mektubunu onayladı

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM
İktidar değişse de ekonomik yapı değişmez

Salih Neftçi Gerçekleşirse... Piyasalar açısından olumlu bir gelişme

Güngör URAS Ekonomide alternatif politikalar

Asım Erdilek The IMF’s ineffective exchange rate policy advice

İbrahimÖztürk Gelir dağılımı düzelme yoluna girmişti ki...

Seçim ekonomisi mi? Uğur Gürses

Faik ÖZTRAK IMF kur gözetiminden sınıfta kalmak üzere

Turkish economy likely to slow down until elections

Genel seçimler neyi değiştirebilir?
Uğur Civelek

Ne olduğunun farkında mısınız?
Yiğit Bulut

Sadece aklımızda bulunsun diye
Fatih Özatay

İBRAHİM KAHVECİ
Genç Türkiye'nin tarihi fırsatı

Hükümet seçim kararı aldı Hazine 7 milyar dolar sattı

Bakan Kürşad Tüzmen: Kaçak akaryakıt operasyonları devam edecek

Her il aynı değil Baran Tuncer

Nazar etme ne olur, bu rejim gün gelir sana da lazım olur... Fatih Özatay

H3 Yasemin CONGAR Kılıfına uydurmak

Yasemin Çongar Rusya'nın etki alanına girmiş askerler var Çongar ABD'nin askeri bir darbeye destek vermediğini hatta 'Emir komuta zincirinin dışında bir darbe olabilir mi' diye kaygılandıklarını söylüyor. Çongar, "Ordu içinde Rusya'nın antidemokratik otoriter rejimine sempati var. Bu eğilim ABD'yi endişelendiriyor"

Ali H Aslan [WASHINGTON] Türk faşistlere Wolfowitz ve Blair dersleri

Demirel Ben olsam veto etmezdim

Ruşen Çakır Sorun AKP değil, çözüm de AKP değil

Başer Bu mekanizma artık bitti

METEHAN DEMİR AKP'lilerin iddia ettiği askerlerin anketi var mı?

İşte Ağustos'ta terfi edecek komutanlar!..

Dolmabahçe'de ne konuşuldu? Murat Yetkin

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ Değişik bir seçim

Kırsal kesim ağırlığını yitirdi sandığa kent yoksulu damga vurur

Sencer Ayata Meydanlardakiler 'yeni orta sınıf'tır

[Yorum - Dr. Ümit Kardaş] Demokrasiyi askerden koruma kılavuzu!

[NEWS ANALYSIS]
Turkish defense industry sets its road map

Unutturulan ihtilal girişimi AVNİ ÖZGÜREL

Şamil Tayyar Öp paşanın elini, gir sıraya

Cengiz Çandar

Ahmet Hakan Tayyip Erdoğan Yahudi mi, şeriatçı mı?

HAKAN ALBAYRAK Anti emperyalistseniz, AK Parti'yi rahatlatın!

Kürtler ve Irak için kritik bir dönem - David Satterfield ile röportaj

MUHARREM SARIKAYA 4 Haziran "havucu..."

Sistem hatası Genç Siviller

Fatih Çekirge Gecenin mesajı

Ağar ve Mumcu'dan BBP'ye ittifak teklifi

Radikal Çal partinin kapısını gör başına neler gelir Radikal 'kararsız bir seçmen' olarak Küçükçekmece'deki parti ilçe teşkilatlarını gezdi. 'Kararsız bir seçmen var, gelsin mi?' sorusunun ardından CHP yöneticisiyle görüştük SHP'nin kapısı kilitli. DYP'ye takviye kuvvet gelmiş. Genç Parti'de görevli genç 'Ezilenler iktidar olacak' diyor. AKP'lilerse hemen mahalle temsilcilerine yönlendiriyor

Kadın mitingde kolları uykuda

Siyaset pazarı İsmet Berkan

CHP'ye kayıp 3 trilyon sorusu

Mensur Akgün Umutsuzluğa kapılmamak için

Aykırı bir 19 Mayıs yazısı Hasan Celal Güzel

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 KıvançBir umutsuz, bir umutlu

Fehmi Koru İmtiyazsız, sınıfsız ve kaynaşmış..

Nasuhi Güngör Ağar ve Mumcu ovada ne yapacak?

Sarkozy herkesi şaşırtabilir ÖMER TAŞPINAR

Türkiye'nin jeopolitik çelişkileri NEJAT ESLEN -

NAZLI ILICAK

Ertuğrul Özkök

Serdar Akinan Evet mi? Hayır mı?

Ahmet Hakan Necla Arat meselesi

M Ali Birand

Semih İDİZ Sosyal demokratlar pişmiş armut değildir

İsmail Küçükkaya Siyasetten görüntüler, adaylar ve hedefler

Bilal Çetin 4 Haziran tehlikesi...

Mehmet Tezkan

En büyük tehlike, AKP’nin intikam duygusuna kapılması

Cüneyt Ülsever Wolfowitz ve intihal

Enis Berberoğlu Peki, AKP’den omlet olur mu?

[Yorum - Doç. Dr. Birol Akgün] DP'nin başarı şansı nedir?

CHP-DSP ittifakına yasa engel mi?

Fikret BİLA Baykal'ın ziyaretinde neler konuşuldu?

[CAFE CAPITAL]Cooperation between the gentlemanly democratic left and the quarrelsome left

Ali Bulaç İçi başka, dışı başka

Ekrem Dumanlı Korku tünelinden çıkmak şart

Taha AKYOL Softa kafalı kimdir?

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN
İktidar partisinde ünlü adaylar moda, çapkın adaylar demode

Eser Karakaş Cumhuriyetin temel yanlışı

Asaf Savaş AkatBaşkanlık sistemine ilk adım

ERDAL ŞAFAK Çankaya'nın tercihi

Malatya olayının kilit ismi konuştu

AKP’de 7 bin delege ile temayül yoklaması

‘Aile içi rekabet’e demokratik hoşgörü

Hisarcıklıoğlu siyasete atılmıyor

Aleviler, ittifakı yeterli bulmadı

AKP'de 440 kadın aday

Aydın Doğan'dan beklenmeyen çıkış

Siyaset hayatımızda 'normalleşme'nin ilk adımları... Altan Öymen

Siyasi kadrolaşmayla gelen CHP korosu

Oy ne kadar değişir? Tarhan Erdem

Oktay Ekşi

Sami Selçuk Anayasa Mahkemesi kararlarının yarattığı çağrışımlar ve düş kırıklıkları-III

Can Ataklı Fethullah Gülen Kıbrıs’a gönderiliyor

Ferai Tınç Bir gece ansızın nükleer yasamız oldu

Mehmet Y yılmaz Rövanş mitinglerinde suç işleniyor

Kesici, 'DP'den aday' iddiasını yalanladı

AKP yönetiminde ‘küskün’ korkusu

AKP'nin vitrin atağı

Aleviler tepkili

Biz birleştik, sıra halkta!

Gelincik tarlası Samsun'da

UMUR TALU Bir anlasam!

Çelik: Yarasalar aydınlıkta dolaşmaz

CHP'li Alevilerden tuhaf çıkış: Başka partiden aday olanlar katillerle el ele

Alevi konferansına CHP-DSP katılmadı

Çelik: Üç sloganla ulusalcılık olmaz

Büyükanıt: Vatanseverleri yadırgayanlar yanlış yolda

Faruk Şen The External Glance at Ankara

Serdar Turgut Makul çağrı

Dev kapışma Üsküdar’da

84 yıllık serüven Murat Belge

Mümtazer Türköne Mayo reklamlarındaki laiklik illüzyonu!

TSK'dan atılanlar AKP'de

YAVUZ DONAT Sol hâlâ 'göz oymakla' meşgul

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Türkiye 'hazır' değil mi?

EMRE AKÖZ Türkiye eksen değiştirir mi?

Mehmet Altan Baykal CHP programı okur mu?

Bazı yazarlar CHP'ye özendi
Kemal Yılmaz

Çürük yumurta yanıtı: Ruh hali böyle, Allah şifa versin

Diyanet'ten seçim kriterleri

Dülger AKP, eşi DP'den aday

CHP anketi: Temel sorun irtica değil

Solda birlikte 90. madde sıkıntısı

AKP karargâhı

YSK’dan uyulması zorunlu yöntemler

Yaman TÖRÜNER Türkiye'de demokrasi

Can Dündar Bikini ve laiklik

Şükrü Küçükşahin Vitrinde değil özde değişim

Şakir Süter Çürük başlangıç!

Mustafa Erdoğan Yargı birliği ve askeri yargı

Emin Çölaşan 40 çürük yumurta

ERGUN BABAHAN Bask Bölgesi'nden Türkiye'ye bakış

Seçmen listeleri iniyor

Zeynep Dağı Kadınlar üzerinden kriz tezgahlanıyor

H4 New York Times In the Heat of Battle and Politics, the Hard Facts Melt America wants progress reports. What’s lacking in Iraq is good information.

Lebanese Troops Fight Islamists; Dozens Are Slain nThe battle left at least 22 soldiers and 17 militants dead and set off a military campaign to root out militants inside Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps.

The Tin-Star Title for the Too-Tough Job Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute of the Army will now oversee operations in Iraq and Afghanistan — the so-called war czar. But is it a title worth having?

U.S. Pays Pakistan to Fight Terror, but Patrols Ebb The Bush administration fears that cutting off cash or linking it to performance will further destabilize Pakistan’s president, according to some officials.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Playing the Hand We’ve Dealt Our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — and our energy gluttony — have empowered Iran.

Illegal Migrants Dissect Details of Senate Deal The immigration bill would change a system based primarily on family ties into one that favors skilled and educated workers.

Editorial The Immigration Deal The Senate last week seized a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul a broken system and emerged with a deeply flawed compromise.

Armenia Backs Pro-Presidential Parties

Mob Stones India Police After Rites For Muslims Killed in Mosque Blast

Gunmen in Iraqi Army Uniforms Kill 15

U.S. Force Kills Shiite Linked to Deaths of 5 Soldiers

Emphasis Shifts for New Breed of Evangelicals The evangelical Christian movement has evolved in potentially momentous ways.

8 Killed as Israel Hits a Hamas Politician’s Gaza Home

Europeans Welcome Victory of Romanian in Ouster Vote

Hold the World Bank to Account By CHRISTOPHER B. BURNHAM

With the resignation of Paul D. Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank, it is possible that his focus on corruption will go with him.

H5 Washington Post Iraq Study Group Report May Get a Second Look Seeking to salvage U.S. military engagement, White House and Congress show new interest in panel's recommendations for regional diplomacy

A Shining Model of Wealth Without Liberty By James Mann, The Iraq war isn't over, but one thing's already clear: China won.

Beyond Saber Rattling By Jim Hoagland, This is the moment for Bush to show America's long-term strength by fully engaging with Iran on both Iraq and nuclear weapons.

An Army Against the Clock By David Ignatius, Time is the strategic resource in Iraq; Congress and the administration need to agree on ways to add some minutes to the clock.

Iraq Isn't Like Vietnam -- Except When It Is By Robert Dallek, 'Nations and governments have never learned anything from history,' Hegel said. There are times when it's hard to believe otherwise.

Iraq's Sadr Overhauls His Tactics Shiite Woos Sunnis, Purges Extremists

Edging Their Way Into Sadr City

U.S. Officers Try Negotiating Before Buildup in Baghdad Slum

Assessments Made in 2003 Foretold Situation in Iraq Intelligence Studies List Internal Violence, Terrorist Activity

New Leadership Trio Could Put Europe Back on Political Map Merkel, Sarkozy and Brown Seen Reenergizing Region

Bush, NATO Chief Seek Ways To Bolster Afghanistan Mission

Academics May Boycott Iran Over Scholar's Detainment

Bush Is 'the Worst in History' In Foreign Relations, Carter Says

Western Allies In the Twilight By David S. Broder,

Both men know that Blair has paid an awful price for allying himself with Bush on Iraq and other international issues.

Missiles Hit Home Of Hamas Lawmaker Gaza Strike Kills 8; 'Terrorist Cell' Was Target, Israel Says

Lebanese Army Battles Guerrillas; Many Killed

Terrorism Work to Be Unaffected by Climate Review War Resources Will Not Be Diverted for Intelligence Estimate on Warming's Effects on National Security

Editorial Time's Up The action President Bush promised on Darfur last month is overdue.

No Easy Path to Immigration Reform

Senate's Comprehensive Proposal Raises Concerns About Implementation

Sudanese Police Attack On Aid Workers Tests U.N. Chief's Diplomacy

He Calls It 'Unacceptable' in Letter to Bashir

A Law Terrorism Outran

We Need a FISA For the 21st Century

By Mike McConnell, Page A13

Terrorists use up-to-date technology. Too bad our surveillance laws haven't kept pace.

Selling Georgia by the Bottle Emigre from ex-Soviet republic aims to woo U.S. wine lovers with his homeland's bouquets.

H6 Guardian Healing the wounds Dilip Hiro The Bush administration may not like it, but a Muslim peacekeeping force in Iraq could solve a lot of problems.

Leader A broad church If getting elected president was a coup, Nicolas Sarkozy produced an even bigger surprise when nominating his first government.

50 killed in Lebanese fighting Northern city of Tripoli hit by worst violence for two decades as army troops fight Sunni militants.

Europe's decisive role Morton Abramowitz The decision on Kosovo raises serious questions for the EU's relations with Russia and the US, as well as for stability throughout the Balkans.

Natives, not immigrants Nimer Sultany Palestinian citizens are not immigrants to Israel; they had lived in their homeland long before Israel became a reality.

Renewed solidarity Brian Brivati Christopher Hitchens portrayed a brilliant picture of Kurdistan in a recent Vanity Fair article, raising the question: who should we identify with in Iraq right now?

US embassy in Iraq criticised for costVatican-sized structure will be most expensive US embassy when it opens in September.

Bush presidency worst in history, says Carter · Iraq reversed US's basic values, says former leader · Blair's backing for the war a 'tragedy for the world'

Eight die in Israeli missile attack
Sixth day of air strikes fails to stop militants firing rockets at Israel.

Artists are now taking the lead policiticans have failed to give
Madeleine Bunting: As professional politics becomes ever more remote, the most fraught controversies of our time are migrating into art.

When Nixon stunned the world with his quiet dignity
Conrad Black: The disgraced president's achievements were great - but nothing became America's most devoted son as his resignation.

Oh yes, he's got an agenda
Agnès Poirier: Michael Moore's new film about the US healthcare system must be seen in Europe as well as the US

If the world is his oyster
Neil Clark: The appointment of an avowed interventionist as France's foreign minister bodes ill for human rights.

The Observer Brown plans UK's nuclear future Gordon Brown is to face down the left wing of his own party and give the go-ahead to a new wave of nuclear power stations which will be built across the country by 2020.

Leader: The only realistic option Nuclear power is the only realistic option On wednesday, the government will publish a white paper on energy policy. It will promote the building of a new generation of nuclear plants.

Pakistan bloodshed opens new fault lines Religious and ethnic divisions, poverty, power cuts and typhoid. Jason Burke reports from Orangi, Karachi.

War fears as Moscow veto looms
Serbs and Albanians know Russia holds the key to their future as the rift between them widens.

Israel ready to settle scores
As another fragile ceasefire begins between rival Gaza factions, Tel Aviv launches air strikes.

They are all Brownites now. Whatever that means ... Andrew Rawnsley: Gordon Brown has attracted support from every wing of the Labour party. He won't be able to keep them all happy for ever.

H7 Obama Lines Up Behind Neocon Campaign Against Iran by Jim Lobe

From Boston Review, a special section on Nukes, Democracy and Iran, including The View from Tehran: Akbar Ganji on changing Iran from within; Nuclear Freeze Hans Blix on the Middle East and global arms control; Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns on carrots and sticks; and Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani on how normalizing relations will help both sides.

An interview with Augustus Richard Norton, author of Hezbollah: A Short History.

An interview with Olivier Roy, author of Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Umma.

From Open Democracy, a developed view of multiculturalism can complement democratic citizenship and nation-building.

US News & World Report A General Tries to Make Headway in Iraq David Petraeus has a difficult task: making the surge work and lessening the violence. Can he do it?

American Prospect A Conversation with Zbigniew Brzezinski

Tony Karon Iraq: The Oiliest Benchmark

CFR Democrats, Republicans, and Political Fault Lines on Iraq

From Frontline, a review of Masks of Empire. Is imperial liquidation possible for America?

Jonathan Rauch on how President Bush is resolute about the war, but he's delusional about how long America is willing to wait for that outcome.

Iraq expert Stephen Biddle says that is the wrong strategy. There is no insurgency, he says. Instead, we need to focus on ending the civil war.

A review of Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq.

If Iraq has taught us anything, it is that facts are slippery little creatures, even when published in The New York Times.

From Foreign Service Journal, many in the Foreign Service may hope that things will get back to "normal" once the Iraq War is over. Don't count on it.

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

Iraqi Papers Mon: Violence Erupts in Basra

Iraqi Parliament Falling Into DisarraySpeaker's behavior seen as outrageous

Time to Get Out of Afghanistan
by Patrick Seale

BBC Scores killed in Lebanon fighting At least 40 people have died in a battle between troops and Palestinian Islamist militants in north Lebanon.

Seven US soldiers killed in Iraq

SyriaComment “Ash’ari Islam Predominates in Syria,” by Anonymous

H9 Ha’aretz –U.S. policy change will allow Israel-Syria talks

Peres: Israel to present counter-proposal to Arab peace plan

Editorial Painful sanctions for Iran With the help of effective and painful sanctions on Iran, its nuclear program can still be stopped, but time is of the essence

Editorial A kind of military coup Does Israel still uphold that proper state of affairs in which the elected government sets policy and civil servants carry it out?

Lieberman: Break Hamas, or we'll break up the gov't Kadima minister: Even Haniyeh could be on IDF hit list; PM to Hamas: Halt fire or face stronger attacks

Uzi Benziman: Enough lip service, it's time for Olmert to talk to Syria

Iranian official reports good progress on nuclear program

Shin Bet: Wiretaps can be used to guard state's Jewish nature

J Post Leadership for the wilderness
By AVRAHAM FEDER Israel needs less 'moderation' and more vision.

No more arms to Gaza Your enemy's enemy is usually your friend. But not necessarily in this case.

Yedioth Ahronoth Wisdom of waiting/ Dr Michael Oren

Send Arab troops to Gaza

Multinational Arab force only way to prevent Israeli reoccupation, Riad Malki says

BBC Israel hits Hamas politician home

Israel launches a new air strike in Gaza, hitting the home of a Hamas leader and reportedly killing eight people.

Daily Alert.org – Middle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review – Google News Israel - Palestine

Jerusalem: 40 facts for 40 years

H10 Christian Science Monitor Dollar buying ever less of the world's goods The dollar has fallen 5 percent against the euro and the pound so far this year, the equivalent of a 20 percent annual decline.

US-Iran fallout affects the South Caucasus Armenia, an ally of both countries, shows how tensions between the two could upset the region's diplomatic balancing act.

THE MONITOR'S VIEW

The poor need a better World Bank

Immigrants call bill unrealistic For the Senate reform plan to work as intended, illegal immigrants would need to embrace its rules – not opt for business as usual.

Ex-leaders look to new, global roles As Blair and Chirac step down, they look to the examples set by Clinton, Mandela, and others for life after public office.

Opinion: A life out of the newsroom, into the news Sipping tea with babushkas ... and other scenes from a freelancer's life

Chinese activists looking to Africa As its economic role in Africa expands, China's budding civil society takes cautious steps to hold its government to account.

ASIA

Newsweek The U.S. In China: Profit Over Principles

Reordering India’s Caste System

BBC Banking on China
Foreign banks lured by prospect of 600 million customers

H11 IHT Corruption at the World Bank By CHRISTOPHER B. BURNHAM As Wolfowitz leaves the bank, every initiative he championed will be in danger.

Disarming North Korea
By GRAHAM ALLISON / The Boston Globe
Considerable uncertainty remains about how the Bush administration will play its hand.

EUROPE European press review

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

Newsweek Young Militants Give New Muscle to Kremlin

Armenia Backs Pro-Presidential Parties

BBC President for life?
Kazakh lawmakers allow leader to run again and again

H13 The Times Ahmadinejad and the petrol paradox Iran is an Opec giant so why does it import gasonline?

Brown in, troops out. It could happen Gordon Brown was not enthusiastic for the invasion of Iraq. His endorsement was reluctant

William Rees-Mogg

Lebanon Army battles ‘al-Qaeda’ militia

Fifty people were feared dead as Lebanese troops fought Islamic militants in some of the worst internal violence in years

All aboard for a revived Ottoman Express

The Hejaz Railway, the line blown up repeatedly by Lawrence of Arabia, is to be rebuilt as an intercity express

Sunday Times Britain in Secret Talks With Iraq Rebels

Blair under mortar attack in Iraq

Sarko’s ‘Club Med’ makes waves From Tangier to Tobruk, the area was last week weighing with suspicion an invitation from President Nicolas Sarkozy

Israel prepares Gaza attack to crush Hamas

Decline and fall of the neocons Paul Wolfowitz’s departure from the World Bank signals the end of an ideological era in Washington

Still making it special

The Bush-Blair relationship has been as close and as powerful in its way as that between Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan

From Russia with Pain

Brown is about to inherit a serious foreign policy problem

Putin spy war on the West Russia’s covert foreign intelligence operations against America have reached cold war levels under President Vladimir Putin

Europe doesn’t need a treaty For the past 50 years Britain’s engagement with Europe has been constrained by sterile debate, says Ed Balls MP Ed Balls

Police hunt arms trail in Downing Street

Wall Street Journal Your U.N. at Work -- II
Iran, Zimbabwe, Syria -- and more!

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: China and America need not be energy rivals The US imports 60 per cent of its oil; China 50 per cent. Both countries benefit from stable, open markets, writes Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates

COMMENT: Europe sways to a centre-right swansong

The changing political dynamics of German and French pensioners should deliver a big structural majority for the left, writes Wolfgang Munchau.

Editorial A very French sort of grand coalitionIf France had grand coalitions, they would presumably look like the cabinet unveiled by Nicolas Sarkozy – about as close to a national unity government as the fifth republic is likely to get.

WORLD NEWS: Carter irrelevant, says White House

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: We have lessons to learn over so-called Kosovo success story

Editorial Win-win option for the US and China It is hard to feel sorry for investment bankers in today's financial climate, but they deserve sympathy and support for their desperate efforts to break into the heavily protected equity brokerage industry of mainland China.

Iran woos Mideast business elite Iran took its diplomatic offensive to the Middle East’s business and political elite at the the weekend, deploying its politicians at a high-profile conference to make its case as it fights off international pressure over its nuclear programme.

WORLD NEWS: Tehran makes its case to Mideast elite

Lebanon clashes with Islamic militants At least 48 people were killed in clashes between the Lebanese army and an Islamic militant group in the worst fighting in northern Lebanon in more than 15 years.

UK makes Gulf priority for trade The UK is targeting the Gulf as a priority for trade development along with India and China, the chief executive of UK Trade & Investment said on Sunday.

Carlyle looks at Mideast deals

A new melting pot This is a crucial week for immigration reform in America: the Senate faces a historic vote on legislation aimed at tackling the mess that is America's immigration...

Kuwait abandons US dollar peg Kuwait removed its currency peg to the US dollar, throwing plans for a Gulf currency union into doubt and raising the prospect that other states might abandon their dollar pegs

Iraqi leaders pay health visits to US

Economic Outlook: Surveys to shed light on Germany’s improvement The performances of global economies are established themes, so how main drivers are performing will be a key question

Services sector growing more optimistic The build-up in economic momentum across Europe is reflected in companies’ expectations that sales, profits, employment and investmetns will rise, according to a new survey

LEADER: Bleak view of a coalition of extremes

H15 Los Angeles Times U.S. hunt for bin Laden reveals Al Qaeda influx The CIA discovers that money from Iraq is bolstering the terrorist network

Editorial

H16 American Politics

Newsweek Zakaria: Immigration and The Rise of America’s Know-Nothings Four of the Republican nominees once had sensible views on immigration. Apart from McCain, all have now backtracked

Fact Sheet: Border Security and Immigration Reform
Source: White House, Office of the Press Secretary

Does Bill Clinton Help or Hurt Hillary?

NYT The Right: Down, but Maybe Not Out By SAM TANENHAUS Seeing the persistence of the conservative movement through two of its most recent fallen — Paul Wolfowitz and Jerry Falwell.

How Church and State Made Their Match By LOU CANNON The obituaries were quite right in crediting Jerry Falwell for putting a Republican in the White House. He just wasn’t Ronald Reagan.

MAUREEN DOWD Résumé of Doom Having Paul Wolfowitz back on the job market is a tremendous opportunity

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas Swamp Sunrise Daybook

When special interests talk, politicians listen and the rest of us suffer. But why do politicians listen? "Special-interest" legislation is popular. Was Henry Kissinger right when he said, “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac”?

H17 Daily Telegraph Lebanese fear new al-Qa'eda group

Army fires shells into a Palestinian camp harbouring militants.

Gloom marks Bulgaria's EU election

Sunday Telegraph Bush gets ready for Iraq U-turn by Brown New PM to speed withdrawal and cool the 'special relationship', advisers tell President

The Tragedie of George Before the curtain falls, says Niall Ferguson, we must decide the fates of three characters: Israel, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

H18 Independent Exclusive: Secret US plot to kill Al-Sadr The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in the holy city of Najaf, which it then attacked, according to a senior Iraqi government official.

Scores dead as Lebanese army battles Islamists in bloodiest day since civil war

Stephen King: As New Europe and Asia grow, Britain is losing its influence

Israel steps up attacks on Hamas as Palestinian ceasefire teeters

Blair on 'pop star farewell tour', says Cameron David Cameron will accuse Tony Blair today of acting like a pop star on a farewell tour as he demands the Prime Minister bring forward his 27 June departure date.

Leading Article: Mr Cameron stumbles into an unwanted confrontation

Independent on Sunday Renewable energy: The tide turns Senior cabinet ministers are pushing for Britain to be the first nation in the world to get much of its power from the tides, as part of a massive new expansion for renewable energy

Russians ready to seize back BP's Siberian gas reserves

Hamish McRae: What should the World Bank do in the wake of Mr Wolfowitz? Listen and learn

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

'The Atomic Bazaar' by William Langewiesche

NYT Book Review 'The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor' By WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE
Reviewed by JONATHAN RABAN First Chapter

William Langewiesche's Atlantic Monthly Article on A. Q. Khan

A Dangerously Depleted Guard Nearly 90 percent of stateside National Guard units are rated less than fully ready because of equipment and training shortfalls.

Newsweek Why U.S. Military Never Leaves Anyone Behind
A massive search for three missing GIs highlights the best of the warrior's code—and its consequences.

US National Security Council Org Chart

US Missile Defense: A Strategic Challenge for Europe
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H20 Slate

Boston Globe 'Give me back my legions!' Rome's most humiliating defeat -- and a lesson for America

BBC Press views
What the critics make of Michael Moore's new film Sicko

Climate Solutions: WWF’s Vision for 2050

Pandemic Influenza: Best Practices and Model Protocols (PDF; 401 KB)
Source: U.S. Fire Administration

Ethanol Expansion in the United States: How Will the Agricultural Sector Adjust?
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

H21 A review of Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing by Leszek Kolakowski

Platini: ‘We need to go where football has to go’ Michel Platini, president of European football’s governing body Uefa, tells the FT’s Leisure Correspondent, Roger Blitz, how he plans to give power back to the sport’s national associations.

Politics: Small Magazines, Big Ideas

Not everybody's a critic

By Richard Schickel Sure, anyone with a blog can express an opinion about a book, but true criticism is more than just an opinion.

Joseph Schumpeter is still seen as the apostle of creative destruction, the death and birth of industries and technologies... more»

The cult of celebrity trivializes all that it touches. But then, was there ever a time in human history when people judged serious matters by serious criteria?... more»

A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright? By MARK HELPRIN No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind.

Why Are They Greener Than We Are? By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF When it comes to designing buildings that are good for the environment, Europe gets it.

Einstein Biographies by Walter Isaacson and Jürgen Neffe Reviewed by COREY S. POWELL New biographies confirm the genius — and the humanity — of Albert Einstein.

Man who took Google global Omid Kordestani talks about the risky move that paid off

Arianna Huffington: Queen of the blogs

Exploding comet blasted cavemen
New theory: Fireball barrage killed mammoths, set back early civilization.

Anthony Hopkins to play Tolstoy

Internet censorship on the rise: study
More countries are blocking or filtering access to websites than ever.

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