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H1 The Lessons of Vietnam By: Henry A. Kissinger | Los Angeles Times Iraq would not survive a rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces, but deseperately needs a political solution in the short term.

How the U.S. Could Leave Iraq By: Amir Taheri | New York Post
With congressional maneuverings over the funding of U.S. troops in Iraq over for now, it may be time to discuss ways in which the American military presence might end.

Washington Institute Building on a Vacuum: Ways Forward after the U.S.-Iranian Meeting

Guardian The hardliners lose a round Laura Rozen: A shadowy Bush administration group focused on Iran policy has been shut down by the state department. But will Cheney fight back?

From Foreign Affairs Renewing American Leadership Barack Obama After Iraq, we may be tempted to turn inward. That would be a mistake. The American moment is not over, but it must be seized anew. We must bring the war to a responsible end and then renew our leadership -- military, diplomatic, moral -- to confront new threats and capitalize on new opportunities. America cannot meet this century's challenges alone; the world cannot meet them without America.

Rising to a New Generation of Global Challenges. Mitt Romney

Geopolitical Diary: Keeping US Troops in Iraq Stratfor

New SIPRI Policy Paper: Foreign Military Bases in Eurasia

Iraqi PM Says Military Coup Possible

Salon The corporate takeover of US intelligence

Handling a Truculent Russia By: Hugh Cortazzi | The Japan Times
Russia cannot be isolated. Nor can it be compelled by sanctions to cooperate with the West. The only way to deal with the new Russia is to try to develop contacts and dialogues that may persuade the Russian government that its current policies are not in the long-term interest of the country.

BBC Hostage rescue
What was the story behind the Entebbe hijack?

Los Angeles Times 'Old Europe' is looking more pro-American

Continental Drift By: Gerard Baker | The Wall Street Journal
Is it possible, then, that the writers who have spent the past few years predicting Europe's collapse could be wrong? The short answer is: no. Even a corpse has been known to twitch once or twice before the rigor mortis sets in. The longer answer is provided by Walter Laqueur in "The Last Days of Europe," one of the more persuasive in a long line of volumes by authors on both sides of the Atlantic chronicling Europe's decline and foretelling its collapse.

McClatchy U.S. trying to open a dialogue with al-Sadr, commander says

US Gen.: Sept. Too Soon to Assess 'Surge'

Fire the Incompetents, Find the Pattons By: Max Boot | Los Angeles Times
There are precious few examples of an Army or Marine tactical commander being fired for ineffectiveness. One of the few exceptions occurred during the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 when Marine Maj. Gen. James Mattis replaced a regimental commander he felt was not advancing fast enough. More commonly, it takes extreme misconduct, often of a sexual nature, to get a ground-forces commander fired.

U.S.-Russia relations sink to near-Cold War depths By Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers
On the eve of next week's G-8 summit meeting, relations between the United States and Russia have ebbed to their lowest level since the Cold War, fueled by Moscow's growing confidence and an apparent Russian perception of U.S. weakness.

EDM CENTRAL ASIA-EUROPE ENERGY PROJECTS: ITEMIZING WHAT WENT WRONG

U.S., EU ENERGY POLICIES IN EURASIA COLLAPSE

Washington Post Gates, U.S. General Back Long Iraq Stay U.S. Presence Said to Reassure Allies

Rice: U.S. Will Not Change Conditions for Iran Nuclear Talks

Ha’aretz – The Syrian surprise

CSIS The Upcoming G8 Summit

Slate Iraq Is Korea?:

Bush's latest appalling historical analogy. Fred Kaplan

Separate Ways:

Iran and Syria are close in Lebanon. Will it last? Michael Young

Washington Institute Battling the Lion of Damascus: Syria's Domestic Opposition and the Asad Regime

Al Hayat The Post-Illusion Dance Ghassan Charbel - Iran must be aware of its numerous weak points. If the Americans withdraw from Iraq leaving it on fire, Iran may have to burn its fingers in a regional civil war.

Al Awsat Will America Sell Iraq to the Iranians? : Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed

The Economist The environment

Cleaning up How business is starting to tackle climate change, and how governments need to help

A survey of business and climate change Cleaning up

Tony Blair What I've learned Tony Blair reflects on the lessons of his decade as Britain's prime minister

Independent Robert Fisk: The scar of Hariri's murder will never heal in Lebanon

Militias Act With Impunity, Despite US Troop Surge by Patrick Cockburn

America is not Bush Salon y Sidney Blumenthal

H2 Kissinger: Türkiye K.Irak’a girmemeli

Kissinger 'ABD'nin derdi sınır güvenliği'

Kissinger'dan uyarı

AB olmazsa ABD var

National Interest Kurdistandoff by Henri J. Barkey As Turkey prepares for a strike on the PKK in northern Iraq, Henri Barkey provides insight into Turkey's less than rosy relationship with the Kurdistan Workers Party.

The World Today Testing

Democracy By Soli Özel

Guardian Turkey deploys extra troops to Iraq border as tension with Kurds grows Fear of regional instability as Erdogan's forces prepare for action against PKK.

ABD, Türkiye'ye savaş açar m?

FT Reform backed as Turkish parliament defies president Turkey's parliament yesterday defied a presidential veto and re-approved a package of constitutional amendments that will radically change the way the country is...

Pamuk 'If I'm at my desk, I'm happy'

The Times The headscarf that left a nation in turmoil The wife of Turkey's foreign minister talks exclusively to The Times about the political crisis caused by her Islamic dress

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

[INSIDE NORTHERN IRAQ] Barzani is popular but Talabani doesn't sell

Bush, Talabani cite progress in Iraq

Remarks by President Bush and President Talabani of Iraq in Photo ...

"Tek taraflı operasyon olmamalı"

PKK'yla Mücadelede Üçlü Mekanizma

Mehmetçik K.Irak’ta alarmda

Irak'taki birlikler tetikte

Operasyona karşı PKK alarmda!

Iraqi Kurdistan Officials Deny US Bases to Be Opened in Kurdistan Region

IKDP: Türkiye ile yapıcı diyaloğa hazırız

MUHARREM SARIKAYA
Sınır ötesinin tarihi...

UMUR TALU Kolay sorular!

ERGUN BABAHAN Irak meselesi ve operasyon

Mehmet Metiner Kuzey Irak bahane

Hakan Aygün Özal'ın Apo'ya tarihi “zarf” teklifi!

Paşa hedef istedi

YILMAZ ÖZDİL Barzani orda değil, burda

Lale ŞIVGIN Sınırötesi ve AKP'nin komplosu

Savaş SÜZAL Bölükbaşı doğru söylüyor

Almanya’da DHKP-C operasyonu

Ankara'dan Davis'e PKK tepkisi

Türkiye ile İran'dan elektrikte işbirliği

Eski DEP milletvekilinden adaylık başvurusu

Erdoğan: “Terörle mücadele devam edecek”

Kurds drawn into Iraq's firing line

Yazılı talimat şart

Kuzey Irak'taki Türk askerleri tetikte

İran: "Teröristlerin silahları ABD yapımı"

Ferai Tınç Barışı tarif edebilir misiniz?

Müteahhit direndi PKK 4 işçi öldürdü

PKK'yla Mücadelede Üçlü Mekanizma

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Sarkozy Akdeniz Birliği'ni genişletiyor

Avrupa futbolu 12.6 milyar Euro'luk oldu

YÖK'ten 'Psikolojik savaş merkezi' itirafı

Zeynel Güle Costa nasıl ağırlanmalı

Hırvatistan koşar adım

Bilderberg, tanışma toplantısıyla başladı

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam

Deniz Gökçe Bak şu arz ve talebe!

Volkan Akı MHP, bankacılıkta ve AB’de çok kararlı

Her şey yeniden değişiyor! Uğur Civelek

Amaç 'üzüm yemek' mi? Uğur Gürses

Eser karakaş Sermaye girişleri, cari açık, siyaset

Faik ÖZTRAK Küresel sermayeye emanet bir ekonomi

Güngör URAS Merkez, birilerini korkutmak istiyor

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM
Mortgage için faiz düşüşü yetmez gelir de artmalı

Settlement on Nagorno-Karabakh is not enough for Ankara to open border with Armenia

Armenia not going to enrich uranium on its territory

H3 Devletin tepesinde sağırlar diyaloğu

Yine de darbe olur mu?
İsmet Berkan

Cumhurbaşkanlığı, seçimler, Irak ve asker Murat Yetkin

Ya onaylayacak ya referandum

Son dakikada 370

Cengiz Çandar Kissinger ile “Kuzey Irak’a müdahale” söylemine dair...

Mustafa Ünal Büyükanıt'ın manevraları!

Ertuğrul Özkök Böyle bir uygulama yok

Ahmet Hakan Kaç Latif Abi kaç

M Ali Birand Bilderberg’den neden korkuyoruz?

Serpil YILMAZ
Bilderberg'de Türkiye masaya yatırılacak

ERDAL ŞAFAK
Büyükanıt ve Putin

Şamil Tayyar Sayın Paşam siz kimsiniz?

Ortada ABD var

Diplomasi-PKK ve Barzani
M.Ali Kışlalı

Güler Kömürcü
Barzani’nin ‘Zavita ordusu’ da operasyon kapsamında mı?

Yalçın Doğan ABD’nin ılımlı Türkiye formülü

Taha AKYOL Kuzey Irak'a operasyon

Fikret BİLA Büyükanıt 'ortada hedef yok' mesajı veriyor

Their men in Ankara
Burak BEKDİL

"Hükümete yazılı talep veremem"

Yaşar Büyükanıt: "Gerekli desteği alamıyoruz"

'Karanlık Savaş' ve terörle mücadele
Hasan Celal Güzel

İstanbul'da devlet lisesinin bodrumuna mescit

Silahlar İran’dan

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 Bir atımlık Bilderberg…

Fehmi Koru Gözleri sımsıkı kapalı

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU
Askerde fikir zikir ilişkisi ve sivil askerler

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL
Bu bir savaş ilanı!

MEHMET ŞEKER
Karanlık savaş dönemi

KORAY DÜZGÖREN
Büyükanıt yine konuştu: “Topyekün savaş”

NAZLI ILICAK Mesut Yılmaz ve Demokrat Parti

MAHMUT ÖVÜR
DP'de 'sıralama' sendromu!
Anavatan Partisi için yarın son gün... Türkiye'de ekonomiden siyasetepek çok alanda çığır açan ve bir zihniyet devrimi ...

EMRE AKÖZ
Birine paşam, diğerine paryam

Oktay Ekşi Patriğin şikáyetleri

Tufan Türenç Aslan sosyal demokratlar!

Nasuhi Güngör Yüksek mahkeme mi, alternatif parlamento mu?

Mustafa Karaalioğlu Meclis o basın toplantısını izlemedi galiba!

Emin çölaşan Teröristleri affeden Cumhurbaşkanı!

Gülay Göktürk Seçmen olarak aydın

Serdar Turgut ‘Öteki Türkiye’ ötede kalsın

At The Brink of a Chaos: Kurds, EU, Army and Poor Intellectuals of this Country Orhan Kemal Cengiz

Erdoğan, 'Siyaset yapmak istiyorsan çık karşıma' deyince partimi kurdum

İsmail Küçükkaya
Büyükanıt’ın sözlerinin gizli kodları

Referandum yasası hala gündemde

Mesut Yılmaz'ın adaylığı sorunu aşıldı

Komutanlardan Özkök Paşa’ya biyografi itirazı

Bilal Çetin Devlet krizi mi?

Mehmet Tezkan

Kasımda yeniden seçim yolu gözüktü..

Sürüden ayrılanı kurt kapar

AK Parti'ye yeni katılımlar

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Kanadoğlu'ndan iktiza

Mehmet Altan Güvenlik mi, demokratik güvenlik mi?

Güven Sak Cumhurbaşkanlığı seçim süreci hâlâ kötü yönetilmektedir

Yargı eleştiriden muaf değildir

Paket aynen geçti

40 gün için hamle

Tamer Korkmaz Tezkere Gerçekleri

Trenin sırrı İran'da

Küserlerse küssünler! "Değişim şart" diyen CHP lideri Baykal, 'DSP ittifakı sonrası' partisinden yükselen homurtulara sert yanıt verdi Yeni

AKP'den Köşk manevrası

[Yorum - Mustafa Akyol] Asıl suçüstü yakalanan kim?

AKP'den 'kadük' harekâtı

AK Parti'den referandum hamlesi, 120 gün kısalıyor

Berat Özipek Siyaset kızıştı, irtica tavan yapacak

Kanadoğlu: İptal kararı çıkar

Erdoğan'ın yargılanması zor görünüyor

Adaylık başvurusu yapmadım

Gül devreye girdi adaylık krizi aşıldı

Özdemir İnce Gel de inan!

Paranoyak mıyım? Haluk Şahin

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Hükümet var, iktidar yok!

Seçimde partilerle hasım değil rakibiz

Mehmet Altan Güvenlik mi, demokratik güvenlik mi?

AKP'de Şener sıkıntısı

Şakir Süter Merkez sağda ayıp girişimi!

Gül: Atatürk'ün hedeflerini biz gerçekleştiriyoruz

Şener: 4 Haziran’ı bekleyin

No Breakthrough as Iranian Nuclear Talks Recess

Dow Jones Says It Will Consider Options for Sale

A Growing Demand for the Rare American Imam

DAVID BROOKS Back to Basics Perhaps what the G.O.P. needs is Newt Gingrich’s brain lodged in Fred Thompson’s temperament.

H5 Washington Post Gates, U.S. General Back Long Iraq Stay U.S. Presence Said to Reassure Allies

Rice: U.S. Will Not Change Conditions for Iran Nuclear Talks

Bush Global Warming Talk Marks Shift by U.S. Presenting "new framework" to address issue, president urges 15 nations to agree by the end of 2008 on goal for reducing greenhouse gases.

Editorial Iran Hostage Crisis, Part 2 Tehran should immediately release the American citizens it has detained.

Sunni Insurgents Battle in Baghdad Residents of Western Neighborhood Join Groups' Fight Against Al-Qaeda in Iraq

Editorial Bad Methods President Bush's 'alternative' techniques for questioning terrorism suspects have no basis in science or law.

Debating In Parallel Universes By E.J. Dionne Jr

It's as if the presidential candidates were running for president in two separate countries, Democraticland and Republicanland.

An Egghead for the Oval Office By Eugene Robinson, Al Gore, poor fellow, is just too ostentatiously smart to be elected president. But we need to elect the brainiac kid you hated in high school.

Senators Seek Legal Review of CIA Methods

Poisoning Suspect Accuses British in Death of Litvinenko Ex-Agent Also Points at Tycoon, Russian Mafia

Get in Line, Einstein By Charles Krauthammer,

If Einstein were trying to get a green card, he would have to wait in the queue with Argentine plumbers and Taiwanese accountants to qualify under the new immigration 'point system'.

A Surgical Strike Against AIDS By Michael Gerson, When it comes to AIDS, circumcision is the kindest cut.

Libby's Lawyers Argue Against Prison as Fitzgerald Seeks 30 Months

As the World Warms, the White House Aspires

H6 Guardian The hardliners lose a round Laura Rozen: A shadowy Bush administration group focused on Iran policy has been shut down by the state department. But will Cheney fight back?

Bush kills off hopes for G8 climate change plan US recognises global warming danger but wants to lead response outside UN.

Key questions in global crisis

Leader Stamping all over Kyoto
Climate change: George Bush has a history of making visionary speeches which come to nothing. But nothing quite prepared his G8 partners for the proposal he made yesterday on climate change.

UK to seek Iran's help over hostages

Syria brands Hariri tribunal as harmful US ploy Damascus says UN move will destabilise Lebanon
· Last chance for parliament in Beirut to end impasse

Murder suspect points finger at MI6 Britain continues fight to extradite Lugovoi as security sources dismiss his claim as a 'smokescreen'.

Iraq's oil boom isn't delayed, it's relocated to Canada Naomi Klein: As Baghdad burns, destabilising the entire region and sending the price of oil soaring, Calgary boom.

Brazil does it better Lula da Silva: Biofuels cut emissions and offer hope to the poor, but the rich must make their contribution.

H7 The Invisible Crisis By: Michael Ledeen | National Review
Rarely have so many journalists, politicians and commentators so totally missed a headline. There are now five American hostages in Iran. Each case has been largely treated by itself, almost as if it were an oddity, something requiring a special explanation, instead of another piece in a luminously clear pattern whose meaning should be intuitively obvious to us all.

Exploiting Ali Larijani's Noble Idea By: Michael Young | The Daily Star
In an interview with the French daily Le Figaro published on Saturday, the head of Iran's national security council, Ali Larijani, had some interesting things to say about Lebanon. After calling for Franco-Iranian cooperation to help resolve the Lebanese crisis, he proposed a four-point plan. In many respects the plan was a trap, an opening hardly worth considering in most of its details, but for one thing: For the first time, an Iranian official mentioned a mechanism for Hizbullah's disarmament.

The Economist The environment

Cleaning up How business is starting to tackle climate change, and how governments need to help

Tony Blair What I've learned Tony Blair reflects on the lessons of his decade as Britain's prime minister

Global warming Struggling to save the planet

An index of pacifism Give peace a rating

BBC Hot air?
George Bush's climate initiative meets both praise and criticism

Here's how Robert Zoellick can rescue the World Bank
By Kenneth Rogoff

Iraq and the single narrative By Austin Bay The Iraqi government's central message is the Iraqi people don't need militias to protect [them] against terrorists.

Al Hayat The Post-Illusion Dance Ghassan Charbel - Iran must be aware of its numerous weak points. If the Americans withdraw from Iraq leaving it on fire, Iran may have to burn its fingers in a regional civil war.

Al Awsat Will America Sell Iraq to the Iranians? : Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed

Containing Iran The Globalist

Refugees in the Middle East: Challenges and Obligations for the United States and the World

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

McClatchy U.S. trying to open a dialogue with al-Sadr, commander says The U.S. military is seeking talks with Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr directly and through the government of Iraq, according to a top American general. A Sadr aide confirmed that U.S. officials had approached the anti-American cleric's supporters but said that Sadr would never begin a dialogue with what they describe as "occupation forces."

Assad's Unsurprising Victory The Economist The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has secured himself a second seven-year term in office with the near unanimous approval of the 11.7m Syrians that were eligible to vote in a referendum to endorse parliament's selection of him as the sole candidate

Separate Ways By: Michael Young | Slate
An increasingly pertinent question, albeit one only now beginning to provoke interest, is what the U.N. Hariri tribunal might mean for Syrian-Iranian collaboration in Lebanon.

BBC Fresh fighting hits Lebanon camp

Finger of suspicion
Why the Mehdi Army is suspected of the Baghdad kidnappings

Guantanamo 'suicide' named Black hole or vital tool?

EU and Iran make little progress on nuclear program dispute

Iraq: Christian Population Dwindling Due To Threats, Attacks

Jun 01 SD# 1606 - Syrian Government Press in Reaction to Security Council Resolution to Establish International Tribunal for Al-Hariri Assassination: Resolution Entails 'Great Dangers' and 'Dangerous Repercussions' for Lebanon

Muslims can practice religion and be democratic By Asma Afsaruddin

The Economist Israel It could all soon change—but stay miserably the same

Palestinians in Lebanon A history of the hapless

Iraq Toe-dipping diplomacy

Lebanon's Prime Minister: Syria is Threatening my Country

US Papers Fri: What's Happening in Amiriya?

Asia Times Mission impossible: NATO's Afghan dilemma
The longer the US-led NATO alliance stays in Afghanistan, the more things appear to get worse, and the more people's expectations are lowered. NATO and the US are now being urged to decide what their real mission is - economic development or the hunt for al-Qaeda and the Taliban. - Philip Smucker

Geopolitical Diary: Musharraf Cracks Down Stratfor

Hariri: 837 Days Later, the Scene of the Crime

CSIS An Assessment of Afghanistan

Commentary: Arab plan key to ending Gaza violence

H9 Ha’aretz – The Syrian surprise

Bradley Burston: Boycotting Israel as moral masturbation

The other war / Syria, not Gaza

PM, Bush to discuss Iran, PA on June 19

Benjamin Pogrund: Israel needs to wash the Arabs' wounds

Yossi Sarid: Israel needs Gore or Sarkozy, not Barak

It's not the war stupid, it's the occupation

Summer surprises in Syria and Palestine

WTR: Iraq Study Group popular than ever

Dancing with Barak and Ayalon

The Arab positions have changed

Surprising conversations

'Israel behind Entebbe hijack'

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

New theories on Entebbe hijacking British diplomats suspected the Entebbe hijacking in Uganda was an Israeli plot to discredit the PLO

Hostage rescue
What was the story behind the Entebbe hijack?

Analysis: Different directions for European Jewry

A two-state solution is the only option By Raafat Dajani

H10 Christian Science Monitor

America's Iraq strategy boosts combat losses If the high death toll for US troops in May continues beyond the summer, it could raise questions about US strategy.

White House nears completion of new guidelines governing torture Critics say administration's endorsement of 'enhanced interrogation' is 'immoral,' draw comparisons to Nazi war crimes.

Schorr: On Darfur, Bush calls a spade a spade

I was framed by MI6, says ex-KGB spy

Andrei Lugovoi says the British intelligence service is behind the murder of Kremlin opponent Alexander Litvinenko.

American markets hit highs, but global stocks are soaring The S&P 500's record on Wednesday is still in the shade of robust Europe and Asia markets.

Defeating Afghanistan's Drug Fix By: Nick Grono and Joanna Nathan | The Christian Science Monitor
The exploding drug trade is both a symptom and a source of instability and corruption. It is not just a case of evil drug traffickers taking advantage of a good but ineffective government to facilitate terrorism and insurgency – as frequently portrayed. The traffickers and their agents are all too often corrupt government officials themselves, who forge alliances of convenience with insurgent groups, including the Taliban, to protect their businesses and distribution routes.

ASIAChina’s Economic Fluctuations and Their Implications for Its Rural Economy
Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Full Report (PDF; 1.06 MB)

Greenspan's Caution Won't End Asia's Stock Boom By: Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg
Pricey Chinese stocks may have tumbled yesterday, yet the Asian equity boom is far from over. Abundant global liquidity and strong investor appetite for risk are the two biggest pillars supporting rich valuations.

China's Conquest of Africa By: Andreas Lorenz and Thilo Thilke | Der Spiegel
China is conquering Africa as it becomes the preferred trading partner of the continent's dictators. Beijing is buying up Africa's abundant natural resources and providing it with needed cash and cheaply produced consumer goods in return.

From Torture to Plaintiff: A Pilgrim's Progress in China By: Nicholas D. Kristof | The New York Times (Times Select)
If the Chinese government continues to nurture the rule of law, China could increasingly move toward greater democracy.

What Really Makes a Difference By: Michela Wrong | New Statesman
Aid, Paul Collier argues, just isn't that important. It has been hugely oversold, both by those who think it works miracles and by those who blame it for Africa's woes. It has probably added just one percentage point to the annual growth rates of the poorest countries in the past 30 years - hardly the economic Viagra that Sachs suggests.

IHT Two bad decisions
By PHILIP BOWRING
For both Malaysia and Thailand, the rulings on Wednesday represent major setbacks.

H11 IHT Israel and the bomb By AVNER COHEN If Iran goes nuclear, then Israel's reluctant style of being nuclear will no doubt be replaced by a major nuclear arms race throughout the Middle East.

Letter from Europe: EU faltering on a strategy for Putin's Russia

Talking tough on trade, Paris seeks 'reciprocity'

EUROPE European press review

Los Angeles Times 'Old Europe' is looking more pro-American

Continental Drift By: Gerard Baker | The Wall Street Journal
Is it possible, then, that the writers who have spent the past few years predicting Europe's collapse could be wrong? The short answer is: no. Even a corpse has been known to twitch once or twice before the rigor mortis sets in. The longer answer is provided by Walter Laqueur in "The Last Days of Europe," one of the more persuasive in a long line of volumes by authors on both sides of the Atlantic chronicling Europe's decline and foretelling its collapse.

National Interest Ties that Bind—Or Not by Nikolas K. Gvosdev Despite a cautious attitude in Europe, there is still plenty of hope for continued cooperation between the United States and the EU.

The Economist Charlemagne

In search of an immigration policy

Valery Giscard d'Estaing: QUELS RESULTATS PEUT-ON ESPERER DE LA REUNION DU G8 ?

A Change of Plan? by Marisa Morrison The UN-backed plan that calls for Kosovo’s independence should be scrapped, say Nikolas Gvosdev and Andrew Parasiliti.

BBC Aide to wanted Mladic is arrested Zdravko Tolimir, a close aide to top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, is arrested in Bosnia.

The hunt for Mladic and Karadzic

Karadzic and Mladic: The charges

Timeline: Siege of Srebrenica

CER On oligodemocracy and people power in Ukraine

H12 RFE/RL Russia/U.S.: Analysts Say New Arms Race Unlikely

Russia: A New MIRV Emerges

Armenia: Talks On New Government Enter Third Week

Presidential Elections Will Be Held As Scheduled

The Economist Russia and Chechnya The warlord and the spook

Tatarstan The survivor

PINR lligence Brief: Russia Sends Missile Signal to U.S. and China" Full text of report

Google News Azerbaijan

Handling a Truculent Russia By: Hugh Cortazzi | The Japan Times
Russia cannot be isolated. Nor can it be compelled by sanctions to cooperate with the West. The only way to deal with the new Russia is to try to develop contacts and dialogues that may persuade the Russian government that its current policies are not in the long-term interest of the country.

U.S.-Russia relations sink to near-Cold War depths By Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers
On the eve of next week's G-8 summit meeting, relations between the United States and Russia have ebbed to their lowest level since the Cold War, fueled by Moscow's growing confidence and an apparent Russian perception of U.S. weakness.

Putin's Excuses By: Peter Brookes | New York Post Yesterday, the Kremlin seemed to put another nail in the coffin of U.S.-Russian relations by testing a new intercontinental ballistic missile supposedly capable of penetrating any missile-defense system.

Kazakhstan: President Nazarbayev Makes a Power Play ARIEL COHEN
Wishing to preserve good relations with Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev and concerned about its influence in the Caspian Basin, the United States is unlikely to challenge his recent constitutional reforms.

KAZAKH PRESIDENT’S SON-IN-LAW FACES CRIMINAL CHARGES
- U.S., EU ENERGY POLICIES IN EURASIA COLLAPSE
- CENTRAL ASIA-EUROPE ENERGY PROJECTS: ITEMIZING WHAT WENT WRONG

BBC Russia rejects new Kosovo draft Russia says a draft UN resolution supporting Kosovo independence is unacceptable and hints at a veto.

UN dilemma
Long-running Kosovo dispute strains Russian ties with West

From Newsweek, why another face-off between Washington and Moscow isn’t as impossible as you might think.

H13 The Times The Russians did it, they’re the experts

The Litvinenko affair is a sorry reminder of how overmatched we were in the Cold War spy business Gerard Baker

Suspect: MI6 had a hand in death of Litvinenko

Bush's new plan for climate change

Hariri tribunal divides Lebanese Stricken by political paralysis and rocked by bombings and Islamist violence, Lebanon’s prospects for stability look bleak

Wall Street Journal Fitzgerald Doubles Down
Prosecutor asks for a sentence based on never-seen evidence.

Syria's Useful Idiots
Why are so many commentators denying the obvious about Lebanon?
By MICHAEL YOUNG

Justice for Lebanon
Syria may at last pay a price for the Hariri assassination.

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: The cost of not talking to your enemy Even if the US does not achieve agreement with Iran in the near future, there are many reasons to sustain a dialogue, writes Lee Hamilton.

COMMENT: Bush plays for time asthe planet begins to burn

His Damascene conversion should be welcomed, but he will have to forgive those who greet it with more than a touch of scepticism, says Philip Stephens.

COMMENT: A battle brews for Blair's legacy The fact that the state chooses to pay for a service does not mean that it would also be its best provider, writes Martin Wolf.

US military seeks ceasefires in Iraq US military officers in Iraq are attempting to negotiate ceasefires with some insurgent groups that have been responsible for the violence in the country

Confusion and fear for dual citizens in Iran

NATIONAL NEWS: Defiant Blair defends foreign policy

WORLD NEWS: Do not block treaty, Barroso warns Britain

Leader Leading from the rear on emissions George W. Bush is justly famous for his tendency cheerily to dismiss uncomfortable realities, but even by his standards, his comments yesterday on climate change...

Leader Libyan warning By all accounts, Tony Blair's meeting with Colonel Muammer Gadaffi this week was a cordial affair

EU leaders greet new strategy with caution Britain welcomed US President George W. Bush's climate change announcement as ‘a huge step forward’, but the European Commission and Germany, host of next week’s G8 summit, reacted more cautiously.

Litvinenko was British spy, says Lugovoi Berezovsky accused of working for Britain

FT interview: Boris Berezovsky

Confusion and fear for dual citizens in Iran Four Iranian-Americans facing charges

Putin defends missile tests as response to US shield

ANALYSIS: Bearing gifts Normally associated with sandy beaches and sunshine, Greece is at the centre of a controversy in the bond market

COMMENT: Oil groups can still gain from a new era in Russia Moscow’s era of ‘the tyranny of unpredictability’ may be drawing to a close, write Alex Turkeltaub and Eleanor Thorp

LOMBARD: Energy boost Britain has published an energy white paper that will give the green light to a new generation of nuclear power stations. Is it the right move?

COMMENT: Spend political capital not aid dollars on Africa Donors tell African leaders to confront entrenched interests at home. Blair could not find the backbone to take on his own, writes Alan Beattie.

Thai ban blunder Too soon, foreign investors welcomed the seemingly calm response in Bangkok yesterday to the banning of Thaksin Shinawatra, the ousted prime minister, and the...

H15 Los Angeles Times 'Old Europe' is looking more pro-American

Fire the Incompetents, Find the Pattons By: Max Boot | Los Angeles Times
There are precious few examples of an Army or Marine tactical commander being fired for ineffectiveness. One of the few exceptions occurred during the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 when Marine Maj. Gen. James Mattis replaced a regimental commander he felt was not advancing fast enough. More commonly, it takes extreme misconduct, often of a sexual nature, to get a ground-forces commander fired.

U.S., Saudis at Odds Over TV Station By: Paul Richter | Los Angeles Times
Outraged by video footage of bloody attacks on American troops, U.S. officials have worked for about half a year to close down a satellite television station that promotes the cause of Iraq's Sunni Arab insurgents to millions of viewers in the region.

Panel is critical of secret CIA jails

The new World Bank president?

Lame-duck Bush has been picking professionals over ideologues, as his choice of Robert B. Zoellick for World Bank shows.

General doubtful on assessment deadline

H16 American Politics

The Economist The candidates: John McCain

In search of the old magic

Democrats and health care

Cautious competition

The new surgeon-general

Enter Dr Nice Guy

Natural gas in Wyoming

Boom and doom

The Creation Museum

Keeping the word

Republicans in Texas

Monkey and other business

Lexington

Gore in the balance

Rep. Paul and the Founders vs. Our Interventionist Elite by Michael Scheuer

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas Swamp Sunrise Daybook

Washington Times Obama's delusional spreadsheet Democrat Barack Obamas 15-page, heavily footnoted (65 of them) policy paper on U.S. health care does not add up.

H17 Daily Telegraph Al-Qa'eda Prepares for a New Wave of Terror By: David Blair | The Telegraph
British officials believe al-Qa'eda's core leadership, headed by Osama bin Laden and his Egyptian deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has regrouped and found refuge.

Leave global warming to market forces

The G8 members must shoulder the blame for the rise in greenhouse gas emissions - but so too should the developing countries they invited to the summit.

America's heart is in the right place It's time for a reminder of what a powerful influence for good America has been - and still is - in the world, warns WF Deedes.

Sudan joins the club of evil

The news that Iranian troops will be arriving in Darfur to train Sudanese forces will give little comfort to the starving victims of the region, writes Con Coughlin.

H18 Independent Robert Fisk: The scar of Hariri's murder will never heal in Lebanon

Militias Act With Impunity, Despite US Troop Surge by Patrick Cockburn

Leading article: A murky affair that exposes far deeper tensions

Bush sidesteps G8's climate change agenda In a last ditch bid to fend off international criticism of his climate change policies, President Bush has called on 15 of the world's biggest polluting countries to agree on a target for reducing greenhouse gasses by the end of 2008

Litvinenko was killed by MI6, claims suspect The twisting saga of the death of Alexander Litvinenko reached a new level of intrigue yesterday when the man charged with his murder claimed MI6 and a leading Russian exile were behind the assassination

Abortion: The hysteria which divides the US

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

U.S. Army's 'Future Combat Systems' Program Remains Under Fire By: Richard Mullen | World Politics Review The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, under new pressure from congressional budget-cutters, continues to draw criticism that its underlying concept is flawed.

Prospect My brother the bomber Shiv Malik
What turned Mohammad Sidique Khan, a softly spoken youth worker, into the mastermind of 7/7? I spent months in a Leeds suburb getting to know Khan's brother. A complex and disturbing story of the bomber's radicalisation emerged

EU to Strengthen Surveillance of Terrorist Websites By: Helena Spongenberg | EU Observer
The European Union wants to strengthen its monitoring of militant Islamic websites, saying the internet plays a major role in the running and communication network of terrorist organisations.

National Intelligence Council Sponsors Wiki on Global Disease

NIC sponsors wiki on global disease

Interoperability and Space Exploration
Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies Full Document (PDF; 9.89 KB)

Homeland Security: From Inspector General, Dept. of Homeland Security: Report from IG: Review of Department’s Handling of Passengers Aboard Northwest 327
51 pages; PDF.

Counterinsurgency Intelligence in a “Long War”: The British Experience in Northern Ireland
Source: RAND Corporation

‘’People Make the City,'’ Executive Summary — Joint Urban Operations Observations and Insights from Afghanistan and Iraq
Source: RAND

H20 Slate Iraq Is Korea?:

Bush's latest appalling historical analogy.

Fred Kaplan

Separate Ways:

Iran and Syria are close in Lebanon. Will it last? Michael Young

Global Peace Index and Sustainability
Source: Vision of Humanity/Economist Intelligence Unit/Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
From introduction: Rankings
+ Countries of Note
+ Regions
+ Indicators
+ Drivers of Peace
+ Methodology and data sources
+ Full-text reports (PDFs)

A review of Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization by Nayan Chanda.

From Monthly Review, a review of A People's History of the World by Chris Harman.

Adapting to Climate Change: What’s Needed in Poor Countries and Who Should Pay (PDF; 493 KB)
Source: Oxfam America
From press release:

H21 If nationalism is a lie, its rebuttal will less likely be found in grand internationalist abstraction than in the human details of the novel... more»

Statement on Prediction Markets
THOMAS C. SCHELLING Statement on Prediction Markets - Download

Humanity must recognise our entire way of life is chronically short-termist Peter Wilby: The costs of tackling climate change are too high and the benefits too distant for us to think we can make any difference.

Why religion poisons everything Christopher Hitchens was 9 when he decided that his teacher was talking nonsense about God. This is his argument

Google catches up on Microsoft with help of new Gears

Is there a God? To believe or not to believe

A review of The Messenger: The Meanings of the Life of Muhammad by Tariq Ramadan

The evolution of daft ideas: Islamic creationism is growing and the movement is now repackaging ideas from reactionary American Christian groups.

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