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26 May 2007
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H1 New York Times White House Said to Debate ’08 Cut in Iraq Troops by 50% Internal deliberations described by senior officials are the first indication that the Bush administration is considering what happens after its troop increase.

U.S. Military Leader in Iraq Talks of ‘Thinning the Lines’

Shiite Cleric Ends Absence From Iraq With Fiery Speech

Senate Democrats Say Bush Ignored Spy Agencies’ Prewar Warnings of Iraq Perils

The Senate Intelligence committee releases a new part of its Phase II investigation (.pdf): Report on Prewar Intelligence Assessments about Postwar Iraq.

Washington Post Analysts' Warnings of Iraq Chaos Detailed Months before war, intelligence agencies predicted sectarian fissures, al-Qaeda opportunism, and an emboldened Iran, Senate committee reports.

Los Angeles Times Mideast nations move toward nuclear programs Iran's suspected weapons program has sparked a chain reaction of nuclear interest among its Arab rivals

Bush's draft dodge By Lawrence J. Korb and Max A. Bergmann The president doesn't support a draft, but our Army isn't built to fight a war such as Iraq without one

Forward With Islamic Militancy Rising, Syria’s Baath Regime Finds Religion While Israel and America rank high on the list of Syria’s enemies, it is the rising tide of militant Islam within the country that ultimately might pose the greatest challenge to the staunchly secular, Baathist regime of President Bashar al-Assad

Jerusalem Post Bush authorized CIA to carry out 'soft revolution' in Iran "Non-lethal" plan reportedly includes large-scale global economic measures and undermining the regime on a local political level.

Syrian overtures stir interest in J'lem

Column One: Statecraft in the absence of statesmen
[ CAROLINE GLICK,

Ha’aretz Former U.S. defense chief: Israel must not attack Iran

Ze'ev Schiff: Deals with the Palestinians have no value It's obvious that the Palestinians do not want to, or are not capable of, keeping agreements. Israel has no choice but to continue to seek agreements with them, but it also must insist on maintaining broader margins of security

Assad Grows into Role of Syria's Iron Ruler - Hassan Fattah, IHT

Steve Clemmons More on Bush-Cheney White House Intrigue on US-Iran Policy

Strategic Studies Institute Strategic Competition and Resistance in the 21st Century: Irregular, Catastrophic, Traditional, and Hybrid Challenges in Context

Venus Approaching Mars? The EU as an Emerging World Power ATASP A 32-page German draft paper analyzing the nature of the EU's emerging world power

The Times Democracy - you just can’ t trust it My final problem with democracy is that through ignorance or folly, the public may simply be wrong Matthew Parris

Hawks and Realists Splitting White House - James Klurfeld, Newsday

Financial Times US and Berlin clash on G8 climate text Tensions between the US and Germany over climate change have worsened sharply, with Washington threatening to no longer ‘tread lightly’ in negotiations ahead of the G8 summit next month.

COMMENT: Sarkozy will drag the French back on to centre stage

There is a feeling that since the No there is less France in Europe and that the new president must reverse this, writes Dominique Moisi.

Europe must now stand up to Russia over Kosovo The European Union’s responsibilities will begin rather than end with recognition of independence for Kosovo, writes Philip Stephens

NYRB A New France?
By William Pfaff
The scenario for the 2007 French presidential election was written by the foreign press and embassies before it happened. France was said to be experiencing "malaise" and decline, mired in ineffectual resistance to market economics, low growth, and high youth unemployment because of its failure to integrate its African and North African immigrants. Its economy was said to be blocked by union power and an overmanned administrative apparatus hostile to initiative. Hiring was so costly as to discourage expansion; success in business was exorbitantly taxed, forcing the rich to leave for Brussels and the ambitious young for London.

Asia Times Tehran ignores the bluff and bluster
On the eve of the Baghdad dialogue, the US has accused Iran of planning a major "summer offensive" in Iraq, details have been leaked of covert operations against Iran, and the US is strutting more naval stuff in the Persian Gulf. All the same, Washington is manifestly uneasy that it is being called on to negotiate from a position of weakness. The bottom line: Tehran knows the US needs its cooperation to extricate itself from the crisis in Iraq. - M K Bhadrakumar

Dialogue amid rattling sabers
Iran has shrugged off the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency that it is still defiantly progressing with its uranium-enrichment program, insisting it is within its rights. At the same time, the "military option" against Iran remains firmly in the US spotlight, even though this simply poisons the environment for fruitful US-Iran dialogue. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

How Damascus can help US find its lost keys The US administration is searching for solutions in Lebanon because there seemingly is no light in Iraq - the real place where it should be looking for its "lost keys". And the first place to go for help in its hunt is Damascus: Syria wants to be seen as part of the solution to the Middle East, rather than as part of the problem. - Sami Moubayed

Weekly Standard Congress Gives InOn War Funding Now can we fight the enemy?

The Army We Need by Tom Donnelly

We can't fight The Long War with the forces we have.

Looking for a Mediator to Fill an American Vacancy By: Daniel Kurtzer | The Daily Star U.S. failures in the peace process during the past decade or more have given rise to the possibility of a gradual but fundamental reassessment by the US of its primary mediating role. If this gradual shift proves real, it will have profound consequences for Arabs and Israelis.

Gaza: The Jailed State By: Zaki Chehab | New Statesman The world cannot afford to stand by while the Israeli army and Palestinian militias fight their unwinnable and bloody war. Already, al-Qaeda is exploiting any power vacuum.

UN Official: Iran Bomb Possible by 2010

Independent Secret memo shows Israel knew Six Day War was illegal

BBC Disenchanted
Why many Bulgarians have lost their enthusiasm for the EU

ASIA Pentagon Details China's New Military Strategies By: Bill Gertz | The Washington Times
The Pentagon's forthcoming annual report on Chinese military power will reveal a growing threat from Beijing's new forms of power projection, including anti-satellite weapons and computer network attack forces.

Is the sky falling? Books by liberals assure us our "empire" is kaput. Conservatives are just as glum. But our rivals are weaker and America is far stronger than many think.

Bush's Amazing Achievement By Jonathan Freedland One of the few foreign policy achievements of the Bush administration has been the creation of a near consensus among those who study international affairs, a shared view that stretches, however improbably, from Noam Chomsky to Brent Scowcroft, from the antiwar protesters on the streets of San Francisco to the well-upholstered office of former secretary of state James Baker. This new consensus holds that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a calamity, that the presidency of George W. Bush has reduced America's standing in the world and made the United States less, not more, secure, leaving its enemies emboldened and its friends alienated. Paid-up members of the nation's foreign policy establishment, those who have held some of the most senior offices in the land, speak in a language once confined to the T-shirts of placard-wielding demonstrators.

Asia Times Iraq's Sadrists follow Hezbollah's path The ill-disciplined and fragmented Sadr movement in Iraq led by Muqtada al-Sadr is worlds apart from the iron-clad discipline and sophistication of Hezbollah, through which Iran exerts extensive influence in Lebanon. Despite these challenges, the Sadr movement can be used by Tehran to consolidate its influence in Iraq and to manage hostilities with the United States. - Mahan Abedin

Seven Questions: A Walk On The Dark Side Amnesty International

H2 NYT Turkey’s President Vetoes Bill Allowing Direct Elections

A Turkish Move Into Iraq? TIME

Turkey at the crossroads Al-Ahram Weekly

FT Turkish president vetoes direct electionAhmet Necdet Sezer vetoed an amendment that would have led to the direct election of his successor in the latest move to keep a former Islamist from becoming head of state

Türkiye'nin hızını ulusalcılar kesiyor Washington'daki Türkiye Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Müdürü Prof. David Cuthell

Turkey not preparing to send troops to Iraq-formin

CIA Received Recent Detainee From Turkey, Al-Qaeda Says By: Karen DeYoung | The Washington Post
Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, the most recent al-Qaeda operative to be captured and held in the secret CIA rendition program before being sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in April, was captured in Turkey late last year and turned over to U.S. intelligence by that government, a senior al-Qaeda figure said in an Arabic-language interview broadcast yesterday in the Middle East.

Turkey president vetoes vote plan News

Turkey, Prof. Huntington, Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek, and the Antichrist
American Chronicle

Turkish Media Ramps Up Anti-Kurdish Attacks The Conservative Voice

Turkey's glorious past, uncertain future
Media Monitors Network,

Turkey leader backs idea of attack on Kurdish rebels in Iraq

Turkey: Pawns in the presidential game

AB Türkiye'yi hiçbir zaman kabul etmeyecek
SALİH ENNEMLE

Türkiye'nin eski şeytanları dönüyor
Alain Bockel / Ariane Bonzon

AKP'nin sırrı halkı laiklerden daha iyi anlaması H. D. S. GREENWAY

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

US says unilateral military action into Iraq will solve nothing Today's Zaman

Bilici Northern Iraq polemic in Ankara

The Kurdish National Assembly of Syria fights for Federal Democracy

Türk F-16'ları SINIRDA

Teröristbaşını Avrupalı heyet inceledi

CPT, PKK'nın talebi üzerine İmralı'da

Sınırda siper kazdırıyor

Tezkere yok hazırlık var

U.S. once again warns against Turkish military action inside Iraq

Bakan Gül: Sınır ötesi için talep yok

Cenazede Başbakan yuhalandı

DTP to strenghten position in large cities by working with leftist ...

Yüksek Mahkeme'den DEP'lilere emsal karar

Hollanda’da PKK eylemine katılmış

Turkey slams the kidnapping of Palestine lawmakers

International students summer camp in Kurdistan

Emniyet Müdürü beş saniyeyle kurtuldu

Leyla Zana aday olmuyor

Abdullah Gül: Askerden operasyon talebi yok

Polise terör yetkisi veriliyor

Simdi Kuzey Irak Türkiye’ye girdi

Ege'de Kuzey Irak harekatı

Iraq aims to ramp up capacity of northern pipeline

Oil Well Explosion in Kirkuk Highlights City's Struggle

Kurdistan: The Next Zionist Cause?

PKK going after the BTC

WSJ on Iraq's Northern Oil
By Robert Dreyfuss

War of words increases as Kirkuk referendum approaches (Kurdish Globe)

Baghdad's response to note not satisfactory for Ankara

Iraq oil law talks ongoing, no progress

El Kaide, Türkiye’yi hedef gösteriyor

Sadi SOMUNCUOĞLU
Gerçek teröristler

Gül: Askerden yetki talebi yok

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Ankara to host Turkey-EU Troika meeting amid domestic turmoil

Sarkozy Tackles Turkey Question During Diplomatic Tour Deutsche Welle,

Turkish reaction to PACE report 'normal'

Barçın Yinanç Fransa Türkiye'yi AB konusunda ahret sorularıyla terletiyor

Piskoposlardan AB’ye Türkiye uyarısı

Atat Atun ‘Our enemy is Ankara, not the northern Cypriot Turks’

Ege'de farklı senaryo

Sarkozy'nin ikilemi!

Greece tells Turkey to respect history

Türk askeri Kosova'da komutanlık üstleniyor

Belçika Başbakanı: Müzakereler sürmeli

Semih İDİZ Sarkozy sorunu kemikleşiyor

Taha AKYOL Yargı ve futbol hakemi

Terör can alıyor onların derdi çay

Başbakanlık: Tek kuruş çay parası ödetmedik
Karagöz: Çaycı Ali orada

H3 Sezer'den veto

Operasyona izin şart mı? İsmet Berkan

Gül: "Şu anda tezkere hazırlığı yok"

ABD Irak sınırında Türk askerini izliyor Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri’nin Türkiye - Irak sınırı boyunca PKK'ya yönelik yürüttüğü operasyon Amerikan askerlerinin de takibinde

Gül: Kuzey Irak konusunda önemli gelişmeler olacak

7 şirketin seçim anketi sonuçları

Sınırda sıcak saatler

Abdülhamit Bilici Kuzey Irak'a nasıl girilir?

Türk F-16'lardan Kuzey Irak'ta keşif uçuşu

Amerika'dan sınır ötesi operasyona kırmızı ışık

Sami KOHEN Operasyonun "sınırı"

Kişi laik olur mu? Gündüz Aktan

AKP kapatılır mı?

Referans Büyük iller sosyal gelişmede hız kesti AK Parti zorlanacak

Güven Sak Türkiye haritanın neresindedir

Terör yasası

M Ali Birand Kimse müdahale kararı vermek istemiyor

PKK ve silahlı mücadele Murat Belge

Fikret BİLA Sezer'in veto ettikleri ve etmedikleri

Hasan CEMAL Terör ve iktidar savaşı!

Cengiz Çandar Ya seçim kampanyası; Ya savaş hali...

Is the world really flat? (Burak Bekdil )

Osman Sert Kürtlere küs, ABD'yle konuş, Bağdat'a kız...

Vetolu paket değişmeyecek

Askerle kopukluk yok

Polis sertleşecek

Ali Bulaç Müdahalenin maliyeti

İlter Türkmen Terördeki tırmanma ve Irak

Anafartalar çarşısını kana bulayan patlayıcı RDX çıktı

US says unilateral military action into Iraq will solve nothing

Ege Cansen Mitingler AKP’ye yaradı

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Bu seçimi 'adaylar' kazandıracak!

Derya SAZAK Barzani faktörü

AKP'nin niyeti Murat Yetkin

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 Şifreler kırılıyor

Fehmi Koru Neyi tartıştığımızı bilelim

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU
80 yılda bir arpa boyu yol…

KÜRŞAT BUMİN
Olağanüstü senaryolar

NAZLI ILICAK

Ertuğrul Özkök Başbakan'ın yazmadığım cümlesi

Enis Berberoğlu CHP’ye Uzan telefonu

Mahir Kaynak Farklı bir yaklaşım

Harekat tartışması

Kuzey Irak'ta harekat tartışması ve Ankara saldırısı

Oktay Ekşi Politikasızlık...

Şener Erdoğan'a ters düştü

Veto gerekçesini, Sezer yerine kim yazdı?

Köşk'ü halkın seçmesine veto

ERDAL ŞAFAK Ya tuz kokarsa...

Can Ataklı İktidarın yanlış tavırları ulusal güvenlik sorununa dönüşüyor

ERGUN BABAHAN Güvenlik ve hukuk

Polise süper yetkiler
Polise, yargıya gitmeden, yol kesme, durdurma, arama ve izleme yetkisi

Yabancı cehaleti M.Ali Kışlalı

DP'den bağımsız aday olacak ama 5 kontenjan istiyor

Mehmet Kamış Sauna, Atabeyler, Danıştay...

İlnur Çevik Cross border operation is not a political game

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN
Yeni Faustlar

Türkiye'de laikliği asıl 'laikçiler' mi ihlal ediyor?
HASAN ÖZSAN

[Yorum - Doç. Dr. Mustafa Şentop] Meşruiyet sorunu asıl kimde?

[Türk Ocakları Başkanı yazdı] 27 Mayıs'ı okumak şimdi daha önemli

Anavatan Sezer'e sert çıktı: Rejim değişecek, demokrasi gelecek

Yalçın Doğan Erdoğan Caddesi’ne çıkan sokak

Murat Çelik Ralston’un mahmur başarısı!

MİT: "El Kaide sorumlusunu teslim etmedik"

Kissinger to attend conference in Istanbul

Şakir Süter Yılmaz ve Karadeniz

ŞAHİN ALPAY - Terörle mücadelenin dersleri

'AK Parti'den aday oluyor' diye mühendisler derneğinden atılıyor

Sol’un 3 ismi GP adayı

Serdar Turgut TÜSİAD’a ne oldu?

Reevaluating Terror’s Purpose by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE

Turkey beefs up home security after blast

HAKAN ALBAYRAK
“Aynı ocaktan ısınıyoruz, ileri!”

MEHMET ŞEKER
Sinir ötesi operasyon

İsmail Küçükkaya Siyasetin cilvesi

Mehmet Y Yılmaz ’Sayısı az olanlar’ bugünden sorumlu değil

Hazır ol kerata! Savaşa! Perihan Mağden

Ahmet Kekeç İyi adamın kötü işleri...

Otoriter demokrasiye doğru Erol Katırcıoğlu

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam Hükümet ekonomik program uyguladığını unuttu

IMF: Vergi indirimi taahhütlere uymuyor

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN
Seçim ekonomisine IMF kıskacı

Yaman TÖRÜNER Bütün suç global likiditede

Güngör URAS Tarımda alternatif politikaları tartışmaya mecburuz

Likidite bolluğu Taner Berksoy

Unakıtan: Economy more resistant to external shocks

IMF: Ekonomik performans etkileyici, hükümeti kutlarız

ABN Amro: Artık 2001 krizinin yeniden olması mümkün değil

H4 New York Times White House Said to Debate ’08 Cut in Iraq Troops by 50% Internal deliberations described by senior officials are the first indication that the Bush administration is considering what happens after its troop increase.

U.S. Military Leader in Iraq Talks of ‘Thinning the Lines’

Shiite Cleric Ends Absence From Iraq With Fiery Speech

Senate Democrats Say Bush Ignored Spy Agencies’ Prewar Warnings of Iraq Perils

A Quiet Revolution in Algeria: Gains by Women In a tradition-bound nation, women are emerging as an economic and political force unheard of in the rest of the Arab world.

WHITE HOUSE MEMO; Winning on Iraq, Bush Turns to Immigration

Clinton and Obama Face G.O.P. Attacks for War Vote

U.S. Rebuffs Germany on Greenhouse Gas Cuts

Israel Hits Hamas Posts in Gaza With Airstrikes

Battle Over Control of Troops Escalates Political Crisis in Ukraine

A Tough 5 Months, but Democrats Cite Successes

THE SATURDAY PROFILE; Within 25 Miles of New York, Iran Offers a Congenial Glow

My Life as a Diplomat

By NURUDDIN FARAH Why the conflict in Somalia has become so difficult to solve and why the transitional government, backed by the United States and with the support of Ethiopia, is probably doomed to fail.

H5 Washington Post Analysts' Warnings of Iraq Chaos Detailed Months before war, intelligence agencies predicted sectarian fissures, al-Qaeda opportunism, and an emboldened Iran, Senate committee reports.

Sadr Reappears With Nationalist Ambitions

Pentagon Warns That China Is Adding Missiles and Building Capacity to Fight Abroad

Naval Academy Graduates Get Civics Lesson From Gates Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates encouraged the U.S. Naval Academy's Class of 2007 yesterday "to remember the importance of two pillars of our freedom under the Constitution: the Congress and the press."

China's Reform Debate Surfaces in 2 Essays

U.S. Military Aid Begins to Reach Lebanon

William Arkin A Bloody August Could Precede the Fall

Top Talent Could Lose Fast Track to U.S. Under Bill, Foreign Luminaries Would No Longer Skip Immigration Line Would America open its doors for the next Albert Einstein? Under the new immigration bill, the answer is maybe, but maybe not.

U.S. Rejects G-8 Climate Proposal

Germany Urges Limiting Emissions, Temperature Increase

Making History in Scotland By Sean Connery, The Scottish National Party is making independence a reality for Scotland.

H6 Guardian US rejects all climate proposals Embarrassment for Blair and little hope of any deal at summit in two weeks.

Throw a pebble at Goliath: don't buy Israeli produce Yvonne Roberts: The 'boycott movement' forces the issue of Israel's disregard of Palestinian human rights into the public arena - where it is too little aired.

US sends arms to Lebanese troops
The US has sent planeloads of arms and ammunition for the Lebanese army, as tension grows in the north of the country

Left in Lebanon Adla Massoud May 25 07, 08:30pm: The recent fighting in Lebanon may have focused attention on the Palestinian crisis, but no one seems to be offering a serious solution.

Information wars

Paul McLeary May 25 07, 09:30pm: Information dominance is one of the most important fronts in the fight against terrorism - and it's a battle that America is losing sorely.

No return to the cold war
Yuri Fedotov: Russia is refusing to extradite - as Britain has for years. But there is no threat to our relationship.

Unsuitable, unsustainable
Matt Waldman: When Afghan children are forced to eat mud, it is clear we have squandered billions of dollars of aid.

H7 Is the sky falling? Books by liberals assure us our "empire" is kaput. Conservatives are just as glum. But our rivals are weaker and America is far stronger than many think.

BBC US 'opposes' G8 climate proposals

The US has "fundamental concerns" at German plans to curb G8 emissions, a leaked document shows.

US seeks G8 climate text changes

Climate change around the world

Q&A: Climate change

Washington Institute 'Bad Veils' and Arrested Scholars: Iran's Fear of a Velvet Revolution Fear of a popular revolution along the lines of those that overturned dictatorships in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia is leading the Iranian regime to take increasingly repressive measures, including holding U.S. citizens as political prisoners.

From Guernica, an interview with Stephen Kinzer, author of Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change

State Failure Revisited I: Globalization of Security and Neighbourhood Effects
INEF This 56-page German paper examines state failure through the focus of the globalization of security and neighbourhood effects

Lebanon Fighting: A Kaleidoscope of Modern Middle East Conflict By: Frida Ghitis | World Politics Review
The battle between Fatah al-Islam and the Lebanese army offers a look at the deadly kaleidoscope of Middle Eastern conflicts, some of them local on the surface, but all deeply interrelated. Among the many pieces of glass reflecting on each other in this dizzying dance of flames and blood are, among others, internal Palestinian divisions, the Iraq war, Lebanon-Syria tensions, the American presence in Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the United Nations, Saudi-exported ideology, Lebanon's fragile political balance, and other assorted divisions of different shapes, sizes and colors.

By Any Other Name? By: James S. Robbins | National Review
Are we at “war” with terrorism? If not, then what is it? Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards objects to the term, saying it has been concocted to give rhetorical support to the Bush administration’s foreign adventurism. Congress has stopped referring to the global war on terrorism in legislation for similar reasons. Central Command Combatant Commander Admiral William J. Fallon has deep-sixed the expression “The Long War,” a term of art that emerged from a Pentagon PowerPoint briefing a few years back.

From The Weekly Standard, liberal hawks, an endangered species: What Iraq has done to the interventionists of the Democratic party (and a response by Jon Chait).

Human Wrongs and the Activists Who Love Them By: Ralph Peters | New York Post
How many "human-rights activists" does it take to betray civilization? The sad truth is that the misnamed "human-rights community" just may be the worst enemy of human rights without a country of its own. There are real human-rights tragedies unfolding every day, from Harare to Havana, but activists don't give a damn about the average Joe or Miguel or Ali.

US Must Co-opt Syria in Iraq
The Conservative Voice

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

US Papers Sat: Insiders Debate 2008 Troop Cut

Forward With Islamic Militancy Rising, Syria’s Baath Regime Finds Religion While Israel and America rank high on the list of Syria’s enemies, it is the rising tide of militant Islam within the country that ultimately might pose the greatest challenge to the staunchly secular, Baathist regime of President Bashar al-Assad

BBC Sadr calls for Sunni co-operation

Radical Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr backs a peace plan with Sunnis aimed at ending sectarian violence

Cleric targets surge plans

Powers make IAEA Iran complaint

Four major power protest to UN nuclear chief Mohammed ElBaradei over remarks about Iran's nuclear programme.

Hezbollah head warns against raid

The leader of Hezbollah says Lebanon's government should not storm a refugee camp taken over by Islamists.

Boston Globe Editorial Pakistan's political hurricane PAKISTAN AND its president, Pervez Musharraf, are passing through turbulence. The causes may be traced to clashes between religious extremists and civil society; conflicts with autonomous regions or with Afghanistan and India; and Musharraf's autocratic style of governing. But if policy makers in the Bush administration have learned anything from their past blunders, they will refrain from imposing their own ...

SYRIA: External economic relations evolve slowly

From The Nation, The Secret Air War in Iraq: Bombs from American planes are killing tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, and no one in the mainstream media is talking about it; and Iraq has prompted the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world, and it's threatening to destabilize the entire region.

Betting It All on the Maliki Government By: Daniel Levy | The American Prospect
Maybe a war funding compromise was inevitable. But, beyond the basic recoil inspired by any bill that funds an open-ended continuation of the war, this specific compromise is based on a fundamental flaw -- namely, the benchmarks approach.

an interview with Ali Allawi, author of The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace

McClatchy Intelligence agencies warned Bush about challenges of Iraq invasion U.S. intelligence agencies warned the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq that ousting Saddam Hussein would create a "significant risk" of sectarian strife, encourage al-Qaida attacks and open the way for Iranian interference.

Al-Sadr reappears to call for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq

Militants in Lebanon 'ready for confrontation'An Islamist militant group holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon will fight to the death, a spokesman said Friday, adding that newly arrived military aid from the United States and other countries to the Lebanese army don't faze the fighters.

Al Qaeda in Lebanon?

A Communiqué Claiming That It Represents Al-Qaeda in Syria Threatens Lebanon With "Rivers of Blood" If It Does Not Stop The Attack On Nahr Al-Bared

The Palestinians & the Need for Reconsideration Maher Othman - The Palestinians have developed a desperate need for a deep, comprehensive reconsideration of the methods used to attain their national goals and restore their legitimate rights in their historic homeland. This stop is now necessary for reasons including not only the lack of progress toward achieving those goals, but also Israel's continued, and daily, aggression against the Palestinians, their rights and their lands by means of force and war in various guises

Al-Qaeda Rears its Head in Lebanon Patrick Seale - The immediate danger is that demonstrations and disturbances will spread to the dozen Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and even to the Sunni Muslim 'street' uneasy at the army's heavy-handed tactics, further undermining the government's popular base.

H9 Ha’aretz Former U.S. defense chief: Israel must not attack Iran

Ze'ev Schiff: Deals with the Palestinians have no value It's obvious that the Palestinians do not want to, or are not capable of, keeping agreements. Israel has no choice but to continue to seek agreements with them, but it also must insist on maintaining broader margins of security

Israel, U.S. views on Syria talks unchanged

Meshal learns that life is no picnic

A dialogue of Qassams and air strikes

Yossi Melman: Israel to blame for Pollard's harsh sentence

Rosner's Guest: GOP candidates pander to the religious right

The Jewish Man of the Year Award goes to...

BBC Moveable frontiers
Israel's borders are unresolved 60 years after its creation

Jerusalem Post Bush authorized CIA to carry out 'soft revolution' in Iran "Non-lethal" plan reportedly includes large-scale global economic measures and undermining the regime on a local political level.

Syrian overtures stir interest in J'lem

US Affairs: Exhaust-pipe dreams

Most observers don't really believe the US could ever be totally self-sufficient regarding oil resources.

Israel Needs Continuous PR By: Nachman Shai | Haaretz Just when it seemed that the intifada had ended, a war erupted in the North and turned out to be the second longest of all Israel's wars. This reality has forced Israel to be prepared to fight on five fronts: military, diplomatic, economic, legal (in the international arena) and hasbara (public diplomacy). All five are interconnected and influence one another. They need a single strategy that can be carried out in different ways.

Looking for a Mediator to Fill an American Vacancy By: Daniel Kurtzer | The Daily Star
U.S. failures in the peace process during the past decade or more have given rise to the possibility of a gradual but fundamental reassessment by the US of its primary mediating role. If this gradual shift proves real, it will have profound consequences for Arabs and Israelis.

Gaza: The Jailed State By: Zaki Chehab | New Statesman The world cannot afford to stand by while the Israeli army and Palestinian militias fight their unwinnable and bloody war. Already, al-Qaeda is exploiting any power vacuum.

Dear Hamas By: Uri Dromi | The Miami Herald
So, over the last 40 years Israelis have been told constantly by the world to pull out of Gaza and the West Bank. Two years ago we did evacuate Gaza, but what did we get in return? A barrage of deadly missiles on our south and a Palestinian government led by the Hamas people you had elected, people who openly advocate the destruction of Israel.

Gaza: Israel's Bad Choices By: Barbara Opall-Rome | New York Post
The deadly toll on Israeli civilians from Hamas rockets from Gaza threatens to drag Jerusalem into its second unwanted war in less than a year. Palestinian terrorists bear the brunt of the blame - but Israeli brass and bureaucratic bean-counters bear some, too.

Independent Secret memo shows Israel knew Six Day War was illegal

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

'Al-Qaeda aims to go nuclear'

Former UN official: Jihadis searching for nuclear technology to create massive destruction

H10 Christian Science Monitor

US supplies Lebanese Army for fight against Fatah al-Islam American involvement underscores complexity of Lebanese politics, intra-Arab conflicts.

ASIA Pentagon Details China's New Military Strategies By: Bill Gertz | The Washington Times
The Pentagon's forthcoming annual report on Chinese military power will reveal a growing threat from Beijing's new forms of power projection, including anti-satellite weapons and computer network attack forces.

China wants dialogue,
US just wants more

This week's Sino-US Strategic Economic Dialogue in Washington has mainly succeeded in annoying the Chinese. Some are starting to see the "dialogue" as a US mechanism to pressure China to yield on an endless list of demands by Capitol Hill, Wall Street, US government departments and assorted pressure groups. - Zhou Jiangong

Is U.S. Ceding 'Master of the Universe' Status? By: Caroline Baum | Bloomberg China is trying to slow its breakneck pace of economic growth. The U.S. could use a little of what China has too much of. Are the two countries working at cross purposes? The notion of a global growth cycle, with countries taking their cues from the U.S., is being challenged as Asia's developing economies continue to boom amid a slowdown in the U.S.

Fears of New 'Nixon Shock' By: Ralph Cossa | The Japan Times
Recent conversations with Japanese officials and leading scholars both in Tokyo and in the United States point to one central reason for rising apprehensions: fear of a new "Nixon shock" — the surprise 1972 rapprochement between China and the U.S. — this time concerning North Korea.

Chinese Officials Extol Benefits of U.S. Relations By: Steven R. Weisman | The New York Times
Chinese leaders traveled from the White House to Capitol Hill on Thursday, trying to persuade skeptics of the benefits of the Chinese-American relationship. But they appeared to make little headway in quelling Congressional anger over China’s economic practices.

Hard Facts on 'Soft Arrests' in China By: Brad Adams | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
When 10 policemen barged into the Beijing apartment of Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyan last Friday morning and told them that they were under house arrest and prohibited from leaving the country, it was more than just the latest incident in a long-standing crackdown against human-rights activists. It was also an indication of how China intends to handle dissent between now and the Olympic games that will open in Beijing in August 2008.

The Problem is Beyond Musharraf By: Husain Haqqani | International Herald Tribune
In essence, Pakistan has become a dysfunctional state, a tinderbox that may not light up for years, but could also go up in flames in an instant. The military's ability to keep a lid on dissent has diminished with the emergence of well-armed militias, both Islamist and secular, in various parts of Pakistan.

CHAN AKYA
Pegged problems
Coincident bubbles around the world threaten the credibility of central bankers, especially those in Asia. In China as elsewhere, at the heart of the problem is stubborn resistance to allowing currencies to appreciate against those of major trading partners, which has made the execution of domestic monetary policy nearly impossible. Instead of addressing the root of the problem, Chinese policymakers are fueling a secondary bubble

H11 IHT The world needs a stronger World Bank
The World Bank has no rival as a source of development expertise.

EU asks Google to explain data retention policies

Studying anthrax in a Soviet-era lab - with Western fundingU.S. and European concerns about bioterrorism have led to new funding for old Soviet research institutes like the Eliava biological institute in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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EUROPE European press review

BBC Disenchanted
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Venus Approaching Mars? The EU as an Emerging World Power ATASP
A 32-page German draft paper analyzing the nature of the EU's emerging world power

NYRB A New France?
By William Pfaff
The scenario for the 2007 French presidential election was written by the foreign press and embassies before it happened. France was said to be experiencing "malaise" and decline, mired in ineffectual resistance to market economics, low growth, and high youth unemployment because of its failure to integrate its African and North African immigrants. Its economy was said to be blocked by union power and an overmanned administrative apparatus hostile to initiative. Hiring was so costly as to discourage expansion; success in business was exorbitantly taxed, forcing the rich to leave for Brussels and the ambitious young for London.

The Priorities of the Portuguese Presidency | Speaker: HE Alvaro Mendonça e Moura, Permanent Representative of Portugal to the EU

H12 RFE/RL

CEPS The EU and Kazakhstan: Balancing Economic Cooperation and Aiding Democratic Reforms in the Central Asian Region

Hudson Institute Russian-American Security Cooperation After St. Petersburg: Challenges and Opportunities

Guardian Tensions rise in Ukraine
Yushchenko tries to take control of national guard.

Ukrainian State in Meltdown By: Vladimir Solovyev | Kommersant
The first clashes of law-enforcement bodies loyal to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and those loyal to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich took place yesterday in Kiev.

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H13 The Times Democracy - you just can’ t trust it My final problem with democracy is that through ignorance or folly, the public may simply be wrong Matthew Parris

Mahdi Army chief shot dead in Basra The killing of Abu Qadir in a British-Iraqi operation caused armed militiamen to take to the streets of Iraq’s second city

Saddam’s Shia victims turned into killers

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US dashes hopes for ‘Kyoto II’ deal Plans to tackle climate change at the G8 summit are in disarray after strong US objections to timetable to cut CO2 emissions

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Wall Street Journal Congress and Iraq The end of Hillary as security hawk.

Dealing With Iran Israel's former -- and future? -- prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, talks about the threats to peace.
By JAMES TARANTO

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By PEGGY NOONAN

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Venezuela's Hugo Chávez is nearing the end of his campaign to stifle independent media -- not due to a change of heart, but because through the years he has been singularly successful at cutting off dissenting voices in Venezuela. If he succeeds in his latest ploy, another will fall silent in the coming days.

H14 Financial Times US and Berlin clash on G8 climate text Tensions between the US and Germany over climate change have worsened sharply, with Washington threatening to no longer ‘tread lightly’ in negotiations ahead of the G8 summit next month.

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WORLD NEWS: Embattled Lebanese fear second summer of woe

EU urges Ukraine rivals to avoid violence President seeks control of troops

COMMENT: Sarkozy will drag the French back on to centre stage

There is a feeling that since the No there is less France in Europe and that the new president must reverse this, writes Dominique Moisi.

Europe must now stand up to Russia over Kosovo The European Union’s responsibilities will begin rather than end with recognition of independence for Kosovo, writes Philip Stephens.

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Google's search policy puts the user in charge Google believes that the responsible way to handle this privacy issue is to ask users if they want to opt-in to the service, writes Peter Fleischer, global privacy counsel for Google.

ANALYSIS: The $2,500bn question As China and the rest of the world seek to get a better return on swollen forex reserves, investors are asking where the money will actually be deployed.

COMMENT: An economist on Fantasy Island The alarmists might have a case. There is a whiff of ‘The Last Days of Pompeii’ in the atmosphere, writes Samuel Brittan.

Google's elder statesman Eric Schmidt, the articulate chief executive who is becoming the public face of the search giant, may struggle to charm corporate America.

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COMMENT: Immigrant law held up at the border

H15 Los Angeles Times Mideast nations move toward nuclear programs Iran's suspected weapons program has sparked a chain reaction of nuclear interest among its Arab rivals

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It's unacceptable to shell a refugee camp, but terrorist havens have no claim to sovereignty either.

U.S. anti-terrorism role criticized

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Two Hillary Clinton biographies create gossip storm in Washington

The Democrats' Iraq Infighting - Jonathan Alter, Newsweek
Why Congress Caved to Bush - Patrick Buchanan, Creators
Real Showdown Comes in September - E. J. Dionne, Washington Post

BBC Money for troops
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Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas Swamp Sunrise Daybook

Q&A on immigration reform measure

H17 Daily Telegraph US 'rebuffs' carbon cuts plan Tony Blair has failed to win over George Bush on climate change, environmentalists claimed last night, after a leaked draft of a G8 summit proposal disclosed US concerns.

Ukraine's president takes over the troops Political crisis in Ukraine deepens as both president Viktor Yushchenko and interior mininster Vasyl Tsushko claim control of the country's forces.

US warns of China's military build-up

Pentagon warns that China is developing long-range nuclear missiles that have the capacity to hit America.

H18 Independent Secret memo shows Israel knew Six Day War was illegal A senior legal official who secretly warned the government of Israel after the Six Day War of 1967 that it would be illegal to build Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories has said, for the first time, that he still believes that he was right.

The Six-Day War: Forty years on

Sadr uses dramatic reappearance to deliver blast of anti-US rhetoric

Congress gives Bush his Iraq money, but President faces mounting opposition to war

Attacks on UK forces feared as Basra's Shia leader is killed

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Pentagon Details China's New Military Strategies By: Bill Gertz | The Washington Times The Pentagon's forthcoming annual report on Chinese military power will reveal a growing threat from Beijing's new forms of power projection, including anti-satellite weapons and computer network attack forces.

Analysis: U.S. warning on Chinese buildup

New Technology in the Armed Forces Source: Infosecwriters Full Paper (PDF; 76 KB)

BBC Under suspicion
Are terror fears threatening US ideals of liberty?

GEN Petraeus' Chief Counter-Insurgency Adviser on "Iraqi Narratives"

Newly Nasty The Economist
Defences against cyberwarfare are still rudimentary.

'War czar' requires scrutiny
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Mexico to Boost Tapping of Phones and E-mail with U.S. Aid By: Sam Enriquez | Los Angeles Times
Mexico is expanding its ability to tap telephone calls and e-mail using money from the U.S. government, a move that underlines how the country's conservative government is increasingly willing to cooperate with the United States on law enforcement.

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Stasi secrets
New software may help solve history's most sinister puzzle

H21 Undercover Economist: Under the hammer

Online experiments show the problem with auction theories: we’re not rational enough

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