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H1 Gary Sick Lays Out Probabilities in US-Iran Arena

New York Times What if Israel Had Turned Back? By TOM SEGEV What if Israel hadn’t taken East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the Six-Day War?

DAVID BROOKS A Million Little Pieces Iraqi society has continued to fracture and is so incoherent that it can’t even have a proper civil war any more.

IHT The four circles of a changing world By JAMES WOLFENSOHN Tackling global transformations and imbalances means embracing change and reform along with a complete revision of our America- and Euro-centric view of the world.

The original idea was for them to actually talk By VALÉRY GISCARD D'ESTAING / What results can be expected of the G-8 summit other than clarifications, orientation and the search for consensus in certain areas

Hear the first victims of climate change By BAN KI MOON Solutions to global warming proposed by developed nations cannot come at the expense of less fortunate neighbors on the planet.

Restoring balance to a globalized world By WILLIAM PFAFF / TMS There is a need to bring balance and social justice to the world economy to redress the political and social impact of globalization.

Financial Times COMMENT: Top dog America should enjoy its last, precious years The US remains the sole superpower, but other countries are hot on its heels, says Gideon Rachman.

COMMENT: Europe must sow a wider crop of energy suppliers John Kay on how to devise an energy policy for Europe that endures security without distorting the market.

LEADER: Putin's threats have gone too far Russia has lost all sense of proportion over missile defence Everything Putin has done so far this year has made missile defence a zero sum game with only one winner

CIA BLACK PROPAGANDA EFFORTS IN IRAN, SYRIA,
LEBANON; DARKER PENTAGON EFFORTS LOOMING?

Djerejian A Region In Crisis

CFR Will India Eclipse China?

Guardian The best chance for Iraq is to bring American troops home Barack Obama: This war has diverted us from the struggle against terror. We need to refocus on Israel/Palestine, so long neglected by Bush.

Encircled and humiliated Martin Jacques: The source of the current tension between Moscow and the west is US and Nato military provocation

Leader The latest salvo Russia and the G7: Do the Russians really intend to target their missiles at cities such as London, where thousands of Russians live?

The Times Briefing: US proximity, not power, annoys Russia It is not the prowess of the US missile shield that has irritated President Putin, it is the encroachment on Russian turf

Analysis: West needs strategy on Russia Vladimir Putin's chilliness and sabre-rattling cannot disguise how much the Russia and the West still need each other

Bush to press for missile-defense system McClatchy Newspapers President Bush will spell out Tuesday his vision of a new ballistic missile-defense system that he wants to build in Europe, one that's fraught with controversy over whether it can work, is necessary and is worth the large economic and political costs it's already incurring.

Wall Street Journal Realists on Iraq Democratic presidential candidates should listen to the "experts" they so often cite. By DAN SENOR

Christian Science Monitor

How should US protect privately owned facilities from terrorism? The disruption of an alleged plot at JFK reveals a complex homeland-security challenge.

Enduring lessons of the Marshall PlanCan its principles be applied to the Middle East?

Report: US drive in Baghdad falters

US, Iraqi Troops Control Only 1/3 of Baghdad

Ha’aretz – Our fight for survival has become fight for other people's homes

Nat'l Security Council urged PM to end Lebanon war on 4th day Winograd cmte. testimony reveals NSC joined chorus calling PM to stop offensive against Hezbollah.

RFERL Middle East: Are Iranian Arms Flowing Into Iraqi, Afghan Conflict Zones?

Iran: Defense Expert Discusses Iran's Missile Capabilities

Even Plan B Doesn't Look Promising in Failed State of Iraq

Geopolitical Diary: The Meltdown of the Musharrafian State Stratfor –

Gvosdev World Order, Kosovo and Palestine

Web Site: Capture Of US GIs On Tape CBS News

Washington Post As Crises Build, Lebanese Fearful of a Failed State

Military Reports Slow Progress in Securing Baghdad

Charges Against Guantanamo Detainee Set for Trial Dropped Over Limit in Law

Strains With Russia Shadow Bush's Europe Trip

Asia Times Iran and Egypt point to a new order As US-led pressure to isolate Iran over its nuclear program intensifies, Tehran's bid to normalize ties with Egypt is a timely antidote. Cairo officially supports Iran's nuclear program, and also has the ability to influence the Arab response to the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad. And as much as Egypt may be calculated by the US as a "strategic counterweight" to Iran, simultaneously Egypt benefits from Iran's counterweight to Israel. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

EurasiaNet Armenia: Questions Continue About Elections
BY MARIANNA GRIGORYAN
Nearly a month after Armenia’s May 12 parliamentary elections, dissatisfaction with the vote among opposition parties and local election monitors shows no sign of abating. Four opposition groups have called for fresh elections, while a prominent non-governmental organization has questioned the campaign finance practices of two major pro-government parties.

Lessons of the Six-Day War

By Ariel Cohen Today the world will commemorate the 40th anniversary of Israel's victory in the Six-Day War.

Jerusalem Post The war that didn't end War, and the rejection of Israeli sovereignty, perpetuates the lack of a Palestinian state.

H2 US signs security pact with Kurdistan, warns Turkey not to invade World Tribune

FT Editorial COMMENT: Invading Kurdistan

Financial Times'tan çok tartışılacak yazı: Kürdistan'ı işgal!

Slate What's Next for Kurdistan?:

A question every American politician needs to address.

VOA 'ABD İkilem İçinde'

CSIS Türkiye Programı Direktörü Bülent Alirıza, sınır ötesi operasyon tartışmalarını ve Amerika’nın tutumunu yorumladı

The next challenge for Turkish-American ties: Iran Ilan Berman

UPI Eye on Iraq: Kurds in a crunch

Asia Times Turkish threat echoes across Iraq In a bid to shore up failing support, embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has given his full backing to the country's Kurds in a potentially disastrous confrontation with Turkey, whose troops are massed on the border. On the regional front, the move could be political suicide, as Iran and Syria, key players in resolving Iraq's problems, also have Kurdish concerns. - Sami Moubayed

Needed in Kurdistan: Charm offensive
Kurdistan, the one success in the Iraq debacle, is precariously balanced, but the Kurds seem oblivious to this. One small provocation could send Turkish troops into northern Iraq. The Iraqi Kurds should not arrogantly assume that their current privileged position protects them from the vagaries of both US and Turkish policies.

Parliament Eyeing Buildup on Iraqi Border By: Andrew Borowiec | The Washington Times Turkey's parliament could move as early as this week to authorize an armor-backed force along the mountains facing Iraq to cross the border in pursuit of Kurdish rebels.

Washington Times Infighting in Turkey (Tulin Daloglu)

Rebel Kurds kill Turkish troops Turkey 'will track Kurds into Iraq'

Independent Kurdish rebels attack Turkish military outpost

Reuters Eight Paramilitary Killed In Attack In Eastern Turkey

Turkey to Submit Report to UN on North Iraq

Turkey debates military operation against PKK

"Ankara Irak'taki PKK varlığı konusu BM'ye taşıyacak"

Iraq: Tensions Rise Over Turkish Troop Movements

Kurdish rebel action tests Turkey-US ties Gulf News

Türkiye’nin imajı diplerde

Brands of Nations – First Ever Global Survey on How the World Sees the World

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

Öcalan: Tutuklanmadım halen Kuzey Irak'tayım

Öcalan da ulusalcı! - Haşim Söylemez

Kerkük referandumu ele geçmeyecek 'tarihî bir fırsat'

'İran'da yakalandı' iddiası

Osman Öcalan ailesiyle birlikte kayıplara karıştı

PKK'lılara sahte çürük raporu veren çeteye albayın da adı karıştı

Kurds in what is called Turkey

KYB: Türk askeri ateş açtı 20 havan mermisi düştü

Iraqi Kurdish leaders not to engage in war of words with TGS

ERGEÇ: Ardımızda Türkiye Var!

Yüreğimizi yakan liste

Tunceli'de jandarma karakoluna saldırı: 7 şehit

Kurdish rebels kill 7 in attack on Turkish military base

Human rights of victims versus human rights of terrorists Sylvia Tiryaki

Tunceli'de jandarma karakoluna saldırı: 7 şehit

Karakola baskın: 8 şehit

Ahmet Türk milletvekili adaylığı için başvurdu

CHP Tunceli İl Başkanlığı'nın önünde patlama

DTP Oran’ın bölgesinden aday gösterdi

KYB’nin iddiası: Türk topçusu yine ateş açtı

Sonraki hedefi askeri tesisti

Mehmetçik’e K. Irak’ta ‘silah kullanın’ emri

Iraklı kimliği kayboluyor
NİZAM MARDİNİ

YILMAZ ÖZDİL Sabırla mücadele koordinatörü...

Baba Barzani'yi oynaması için teklif

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Karadeniz Ekonomik İşbirliği veya barış mantığı ÖZDEM SANBERK

Avrupa'daki 4. kuşak Türkler, kimliğinden uzaklaşıyor

Türkiye-AB zirvesinden demokrasi mesajı

AB'nin Türkiye'ye ihtiyacı var, Sarkozy süreci engellemeyecek

Michel: Sarkozy will give a chance for talks to go ahead

EU says not expecting Turkish military incursion into Iraq

Sami KOHEN Kıbrıs unutuldu!

Rehn: 301 var, görüş veremem

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Hükümet enflasyonda başarılı! Hadi hayırlı tıraşlar!

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM
Enflasyonda madalyonun öteki yüzü

Murat Yülek Bizarre conclusions on Turkey’s balance of payments statistics

CHP krizlerde yok mu? Yiğit Bulut

Türkiye kaçıncı ligde?
Mahfi Eğilmez

Ercan Kumcu Para bolluğu devam eder mi

Erdal Sağlam Siyasi kriz artık dış bakışı da değiştiriyor

Asaf Savaş Akat Nisanda dış ticaret

TÜSİAD wants political parties to focus more on environment

From Daedalus, Daron Acemoglu on the Economic Origins of Democracy.

Cengiz Aktar Yabancı dil öğrenelim!

Andrew Finkel Cold War Fever

Güngör URAS Ne sağcıyız ne solcu futbolcuyuz futbolcu!

Istanbul the city of peace-for 554 years plus a millennium
Ariana Ferentinou

'Gelişmekte olan ülkeler Atatürk'ün biyografisini alsın başucuna koysun'

Swimming is a delight for these Turkish cats

Meraları işgal eden 300 bin kaçak yapıya af geliyor

Will Giuliani be the Erdoğan of the United States? Vural Cengiz

BBC 5 Haziran 2007 Basın Özeti

WSJ In Murdoch's Career, a Hand on the News A central issue in Murdoch's bid for Dow Jones is whether he will preserve the independence of its news operations. An examination of his half-century career shows how he has blurred the boundaries between business and news sides.

H3 Kalleş saldırı:7 şehit

PKK'ya sıcak takip

PKK taktik değiştirdi

BM'ye PKK başvurusu

Partilerin milletvekili aday listesi

Ahmet Kaya tişörtlü iki gence linç girişimi

Karanlık savaş Gündüz Aktan

Ahmet Taşgetiren Ilımlı İslam kavgası

Taha AKYOL 'Bölünmüş' Türkiye'de merkez sağ

Kemal Derviş Türkiye artık 'mültilateral'*

Şahin Alpay Halk seçerse demokrasi mi olur?

Siyasetin yeni yüzü ‘Batmanlı ekonomist’

Mehmetçik'ten Kuzey Irak'ta sıcak takip

Listeler açıklandı, partiler karıştı

Ertuğrul Özkök Unutmayın millete söz veriyorsunuz

M Ali Birand Bilderberg’de ne konuşuldu?

Can Dündar Kuzey Irak'a Washington'dan bakınca...

Cüneyt Ülsever Manzara-i umumiye

Enis Berberoğlu Böyle seçim görülmedi

Cengiz Çandar 'Süleymaniye tacizi' mi, 'hükümete taciz' mi

Mensur Akgün Irak’a müdahaleye neden karşıyız

[Sınır ötesi harekât] Türkiye oyuna mı getiriliyor?

Berat Özipek Irak’a müdahale bizi felakete sürükler

Parti değil, cephe seçimi Murat Yetkin

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Merkez sağda 'Şafak 23 Temmuz' hareketi

Koç: Eşi türbanlı Köşk'e çıkamaz

Güler Kömürcü Abdüllatif Şener’i, AKP’de kim-neye tehdit gördü?

Mustafa Karaalioğlu Mumcu ve Ağar o kulübe neden giremedi?

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Causes for parliamentary weaknesses...

Ekrem Dumanlı Sağda birleşme çöktü, sıra solda mı?

Mini Susurluk mermi yağdırdı

Bombacı İran’da eğitilmiş!

Irak sınırına tank sevkiyatı yapıldı

Öcalan da ulusalcı! - Haşim Söylemez

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 15 dakikalık şöhretler geçidi

Fehmi Koru Herkes aklını başına alsın

İdris Küçükömer ve Türkiye'de sağ-sol meselesi Nuray Mert

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN
Merkezdeki zelzele

Derya SAZAK Merkez sağın sefaleti

Meclis, başkan seçebilecek mi?
İsmet Berkan

Fikret BİLA Şener: Aday olmayarak bir imza atmak istedim

Suat Kınıklıoğlu Getting Turkey right again

KÜRŞAT BUMİN Türkiye'ye dışarıdan bakanlar

Aklın yolu birdir - Ali Bayramoğlu

MEHMET ŞEKER Birleşemezler çünkü...

DAVUT DURSUN “Eski ve yeni elitler arasındaki güç paylaşımı”

Tamer Korkmaz "Abdüllatif Düşerken!"

Mümtazer Türköne Darbe tehdidi altında ezilen Merkez Sağ

Nuh Gönültaş Muhtırayı verirken de mi Başbakan’a sordunuz paşam!

Gülay Göktürk Siyasetteki “Truva Atları”

Bilderberg İstanbul’da toplandı, çünkü…

Erhan Çelik Acaba Bilderberg Fehmi Koru'ya ne kazandırdı!?

NAZLI ILICAK CHP ve Anayasa Mahkemesi

Merkeze yönelen AKP Milli Görüşçüleri çizdi

Sağ ittifak çöktü

CHP'de kan değişimi

DP ve Anavatan listesinde 'ittifaka hazırız' sinyali

MHP liste açıklayamadı

Parties present mixture of left and right candidates

Mehmet Tezkan Siyasette son moda: Karışık turşu usulü aday listeleri!..

Bilal Çetin Bazıları iktidar, bazıları Hazine yardımı derdinde...

ERDAL ŞAFAK Merkezde randevu

DP'de ittifak taktiği

Kime yarayacak?
Sağ'da birleşme planının bozulması sandığa nasıl yansır?

Şakir Süter Merkez sağ yengeniz!

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Demirel ve Köşk

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Şener'in geçim derdi...

‘Regime crises that never end...’ byProf. ZÜHTÜ ARSLAN*

CHP'de vekillerin üçte ikisine şok

İlnur Çevik Center-right flop, left-wing success

YAVUZ DONAT Alevinin harman olduğu yer

Yalçın Doğan Saçmalıklar komedyası

Hasan CEMAL Oyun planı!

Hüsnü Mahalli Bir komplo teorisi

Mahir Kaynak Kaygılarımız yersiz miydi?

MHP listesini açıklamadı

İkinci Susurluk’ta silahlar konuştu

İlter Türkmen Kriz içinde kriz

Fatih Çekirge Yılmaz'dan son dakika açıklamaları

Oktay Ekşi Pabuç büyük geldi...

Bekir Coşkun Demokrasi mi soytarılık mı?..

Emin Çölaşan Aleviler-Bektaşiler üzerine

Öymen: Vitrin malzemesi değilim

Siyasette kimlik bunalımı

Baykal’ın iktidar kumarı

Herkes Merkez

Merkez sağda umut yerini kaosa bıraktı

Baskın Oran'ı desteklemek
Turgut Tarhanlı

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Doların çöküşü, ABD'nin çöküşü

Arslan BULUT
Putin'in tepkisi ve Başbuğ'un Çin gezisi

Sabahattin ÖNKİBAR
Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi'ne ve Deniz Baykal'a dikkat!

Okay Gönensin CHP’nin sağcıları

İmdaaat! Öğrenciler namaz kılıyor
Hasan Celal Güzel

Gene şu koalisyon meselesi Korkmaz İlkorur

ATÜT yaklaşımı Murat Belge

DAVID BROOKS A Million Little Pieces Iraqi society has continued to fracture and is so incoherent that it can’t even have a proper civil war any more.

BOB HERBERT The Passion of Al Gore Speculating on what might have been if the man who got the most votes in 2000 had actually become president is like imagining an alternate universe.

H5 Washington Post As Crises Build, Lebanese Fearful of a Failed State

Military Reports Slow Progress in Securing Baghdad

Charges Against Guantanamo Detainee Set for Trial Dropped Over Limit in Law

Strains With Russia Shadow Bush's Europe Trip

Insurgent Video Claims Captured U.S. Soldiers Are Dead

Farewell, New Europe By Anne Applebaum

PostGlobal Musharraf = Military Rule, Cannot Survive

William Arkin Eavesdropping on Rice and Cheney on Iran

Discontent Over Iraq Increasing, Poll Finds Americans Also Unhappy With Congress

China Outlines Climate Goals Government rejects mandatory caps on emissions as unfair and a threat to country's development.

Editorial Leadership by Evasion On immigration, GOP presidential candidates duck and dodge.

The Missing Issues . . . By E. J. Dionne Jr.,

Traditional Democrats care most about domestic policy issues. So why aren't they being debated?

Disapproval of Congress Grows

Pessimism over Iraq cuts satisfaction with nation's direction, especially among liberal Democrats

H6 Guardian The best chance for Iraq is to bring American troops home Barack Obama: This war has diverted us from the struggle against terror. We need to refocus on Israel/Palestine, so long neglected by Bush.

Encircled and humiliated Martin Jacques: The source of the current tension between Moscow and the west is US and Nato military provocation.

Missed opportunity turns ugly
Simon Tisdall, world briefing: Since marching unexpectedly on to the world stage in 2000, Vladimir Putin has by turns baffled, encouraged and outraged Russia's international interlocutors.

Leader The latest salvo Russia and the G7: Do the Russians really intend to target their missiles at cities such as London, where thousands of Russians live?

Six days of war, 40 years of failure Ian Black

Six-day war: 40 years on Israel triumphed in 1967. But the bitter conflict with the Palestinians seems more intractable than ever.

A force to be reckoned with Simon Tisdall Vladimir Putin's aim could have been achieved in collaboration with the west; instead Russia's reassertive power is now defined in opposition to it.

Explosive issues Martin Kettle: When Vladimir Putin says the missile defence system is a provocation, he is right - even though he is challenging it for the wrong reasons.

US: Putin missile threat unhelpful

Russia's threat to train missiles on Europe described as an 'escalation of rhetoric'.

Guantánamo legal chaos as two cases thrown out Charges against two detainees dismissed on grounds that US failed to establish jurisdiction.

Don't listen to what the rich world's leaders say - look at what they do
George Monbiot: Take the thousands of Filipino children who die every year courtesy of the formula milk corporates, backed by US lobbying.

A Cool Reception By: John Sauven | The Guardian George Bush's climate change plan merely creates the impression of action. The G8 must not allow this procedural torpedo to hit its target.

Britain to urge US to set climate goal

· Bush has responsibility to world, Miliband will say · Pressure grows ahead of this week's G8 summit

Fighting between Islamists and Lebanese spreads south

Second radical group joins attacks in Lebanon

Soldiers seized in Baghdad ambush are all dead, says video

New fears of state takeover of BP gas field Russia has accused BP and its local partners of 'doing nothing' to meet their obligations.

H7 Asia Times Iran and Egypt point to a new order As US-led pressure to isolate Iran over its nuclear program intensifies, Tehran's bid to normalize ties with Egypt is a timely antidote. Cairo officially supports Iran's nuclear program, and also has the ability to influence the Arab response to the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad. And as much as Egypt may be calculated by the US as a "strategic counterweight" to Iran, simultaneously Egypt benefits from Iran's counterweight to Israel. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Bush's Korea specter in Iraq
For more than 50 years, the US has deployed troops to Korea, and now the White House - in its latest rejection of the Baker-Hamilton commission's call to drop the idea of permanent US bases in Iraq - is touting a "Korean model" for the country. "I think it's a great idea," says the field commander of US forces in Iraq. Many observers in the US, as well as in Iraq itself (not to mention South Korea), disagree. - Jim Lobe

The Price of Delaying
the Inevitable by Rep. Ron Paul

Guns of August? by Arnaud de Borchgrave

How to Foil a Terrorist Plot in Seven Simple Steps
by Nora Ephron

'Soft power' unplugged

By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. There is a growing appreciation of several facts about the war we are in. First, we are most immediately up against an ideology -- Islamofascism describes it well -- that has unmistakable totalitarian political characteristics and ambitions.

Next stop Darfur?

By Michael Barone Joseph Biden wants the United States to intervene with military force to stop the genocide that he and George W. Bush say is going on in Darfur.

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

Report: US drive in Baghdad falters

RFERL Middle East: Are Iranian Arms Flowing Into Iraqi, Afghan Conflict Zones?

Taliban uses weapons made in China, Iran

New vow to spread Lebanon battle

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Ahmadinijad’s bluster boosted by secret deal for North Korean Taep’o-dong-2 ballistic missiles

Officials: CIA Running Black Ops Against Iran, Syria, Lebanon

Gary Sick Lays Out Probabilities in US-Iran Arena

"Dialoguer avec la Syrie, une nécessité", Robert Malley and Peter Harling in Le Monde

Lebanon: 108 Dead in Worst Strife Since Civil War

H9 Ha’aretz – Our fight for survival has become fight for other people's homes

Nat'l Security Council urged PM to end Lebanon war on 4th day Winograd cmte. testimony reveals NSC joined chorus calling PM to stop offensive against Hezbollah.

Talks with Syria not on agenda for Olmert-Bush meet

PM aides fear talks with Syria could harm U.S. ties White House seeks to isolate Damascus over Hariri trial, talks not on Olmert-Bush meeting agenda

Mr. Baker, your services no longer needed

What day is today?From one war to another it is much more difficult to achieve peace today. Forty years after the Six-Day War, nearly everyone recognizes this, and many are even willing to admit that nothing good came out of the occupation.

In praise of the occupationThe occupations brought about by the 1967 war accomplished one great thing: They reunited the majority of the Palestinian people within the boundaries of their homeland.

Border control / The peace that could have been in '67 During the Six-Day War, David Kimche and Dan Bavli handed the government a document outlining two states, but the state chose to ignore it.

Who deters whom? Hamas now deters Israel from going after its fighters in Gaza, despite the daily rocketing of Sderot. A sovereign country cannot permit this kind of imbalance to maintain without suffering severe damage.

CSM Two views on the impact of the Six-Day War An Israeli and a Palestinian reflect on the impact of the Six-Day War that began 40 years ago Tuesday.

Commentary: Israel's past, Mideast reality

Analysis: 40 years after the Six-Day War

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Al-Qaeda still in 1st grade'

Israeli conference on global jihad calls for int'l unity to prevent strengthening of terror group

Abbas, Hamas or Syria/ Barnea

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

BBC Amnesty seeks Mid-East watchdog Amnesty International calls for a body to prosecute human rights violations by Israelis and Palestinians.

Palestinian ceasefire plan agreed The Palestinian Cabinet agrees the terms of a ceasefire to put to Israel to end cross-border attacks.

Lessons of the Six-Day War

By Ariel Cohen Today the world will commemorate the 40th anniversary of Israel's victory in the Six-Day War.

Jerusalem Post The war that didn't end War, and the rejection of Israeli sovereignty, perpetuates the lack of a Palestinian state.

Analysis: A decision needed on Syria

Historian finds proof of Arab armies' intent to destroy Israel
Michael Oren tells "Post" that documents in Arabic debunk myth that Israel could have avoided war in 1967 through negotiations.

'50% chance Iran sanctions will succeed' Transportation minister to "Post": 'Secret channel' with Syria must be opened.

Ex-MI chief calls for int'l intel pool to combat al-Qaida

Survey: US Arab, Jewish Communities Share Peace Goals

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Backdrop to G-8 summit: Russia-West tensions A growing list of irritants, including Kosovo and Russian energy policy, may sour the meeting.

How should US protect privately owned facilities from terrorism? The disruption of an alleged plot at JFK reveals a complex homeland-security challenge.

Enduring lessons of the Marshall PlanCan its principles be applied to the Middle East?

In Fight Against Militants, Lebanon Bolstered by US, Gulf Countries By: Nicholas Blanford | The Christian Science Monitor
The Lebanese army, carrying out a major offensive against Fatah al-Islam, has little combat experience and outdated equipment.

China balks at caps on greenhouse emissions Announced Monday, China's first plan to confront climate change cites growth as its top priority.

Two views on the impact of the Six-Day War An Israeli and a Palestinian reflect on the impact of the Six-Day War that began 40 years ago Tuesday.

ASIA The Americanization
of India's military
New Delhi's planned purchase of six Lockheed Martin C-130J aircraft and accessories worth more than US$1 billion - the single biggest Indian military purchase from the US - may pave the way for a breakthrough in bilateral defense relations next year. Traditional weapons suppliers to India, such as Russia, may soon be left out in the cold. - Siddharth Srivastava

CFR Will India Eclipse China?

BBC Looking to China
How Russia's Far East is moving out of Moscow's orbit

China says West must take lead on climate change

Survivor: Chinese Communist Party

ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT BRIEFING Hey, big spender China's investments in the rest of Asia are booming

CHINA STOCKS EXTEND LOSS; DOWN 15 PERCENT OVER 4 DAYS...

China Explains 17.8% Rise in Defense Budget

H11 IHT The four circles of a changing world By JAMES WOLFENSOHN Tackling global transformations and imbalances means embracing change and reform along with a complete revision of our America- and Euro-centric view of the world.

The original idea was for them to actually talk By VALÉRY GISCARD D'ESTAING / What results can be expected of the G-8 summit other than clarifications, orientation and the search for consensus in certain areas

Hear the first victims of climate change By BAN KI MOON
Solutions to global warming proposed by developed nations cannot come at the expense of less fortunate neighbors on the planet.

Restoring balance to a globalized world By WILLIAM PFAFF / TMS There is a need to bring balance and social justice to the world economy to redress the political and social impact of globalization.

How long before Bush pushes Russia back?
By JOHN VINOCUR While the U.S. describes its policy toward Russia as one of cooperation and push-back, an increasingly aggressive Russia is doing most of the shoving.

G-8 quandary: Dealing with Putin By JUDY DEMPSEY
Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing another delicate task: dealing with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.

Sarkozy prepares for his G-8 debut

Music and conflict
Barenboim simply presses along with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and its musical mission, arguing that people need attachments and things to live for.

EUROPE European press review

It's Now Up To Europe To Prove Its Global Relevance By: Joschka Fischer | The Daily Star
Europe today presents a contradictory picture. It is a land of peace, democracy, and the rule of law. It is also a land of prosperity: Its economy is competitive, its currency strong, inflation is low, and its standards of living are among the highest in the world.

Bush to press for missile-defense system McClatchy Newspapers President Bush will spell out Tuesday his vision of a new ballistic missile-defense system that he wants to build in Europe, one that's fraught with controversy over whether it can work, is necessary and is worth the large economic and political costs it's already incurring.

BBC Team-builder
Tough G8 summit will test Angela Merkel's diplomatic skills

CSM Serbia-EU relations set to improve ahead of Kosovo decision

After Serbia helped arrest a key war-crimes fugitive last week, the EU has promised to resume integration talks.

The Pros and Cons of EU Racial Profiling By: Brooks Tigner | ISN Security Watch
As the EU examines additional methods of combating terrorism, racial profiling is attracting scrutiny from experts as they analyze the pros and cons.

France gets tough on illegal immigration, setting quotas for arrests, expulsions...

Flying the flag
Kosovo holds contest to come up with new state symbols

H12 RFE/RL

EurasiaNet Armenia: Questions Continue About Elections
BY MARIANNA GRIGORYAN
Nearly a month after Armenia’s May 12 parliamentary elections, dissatisfaction with the vote among opposition parties and local election monitors shows no sign of abating. Four opposition groups have called for fresh elections, while a prominent non-governmental organization has questioned the campaign finance practices of two major pro-government parties.

Who Lost Russia? by Patrick Buchanan

EDM ANTI-AMERICANISM IN PUTIN’S EUROPEAN MANEUVERING

- PREPARATIONS FOR SCO SUMMIT AFFECT KYRGYZSTAN'S RELATIONS WITH THE U.S.

- KREMLIN HELPS KARACHAEVO-CHERKESSIA PRESIDENT PURGE HIS POLITICAL RIVAL

BBC Q&A: Missile shield
Russia's row with the West over US missile defence plans

Putin's politics
Russia's new discord with the West is more than a passing phase

Google News Azerbaijan

Improving Japan-Russia Ties By: Kazuo Ogoura | The Japan Times
Why have Japan and Russia focused on their differences and been unable to build a relationship of trust or feel an affinity for each other?

A review of The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union by Mark Mackinnon.

Ukrainian democracy might be highly chaotic and immature – but at least it's a democracy.

The best and worst of Russia's present mind-set was on full display in the weeks leading up to May 9, when Russia celebrates its victory over Nazi Germany.

Russia's wars in Chechnya, which the Kremlin says are over, have shaped the country that Russians and the world are now living with.

H13 The Times Briefing: US proximity, not power, annoys Russia It is not the prowess of the US missile shield that has irritated President Putin, it is the encroachment on Russian turf

Analysis: West needs strategy on Russia Vladimir Putin's chilliness and sabre-rattling cannot disguise how much the Russia and the West still need each other

West heads for showdown with Putin Attack on US missile defence system threatens to overshadow the G8 summit and further sour Russian-Western relations

Is Putin leading Russia into fascism? Russians are nostalgic for the time when the their country was a supposed equal of America and a superpower feared abroad

Michael Binyon

Forty years of bitter harvest

Conditions on the West Bank have helped the rise of a truly formidable fundamentalism David Aaronovitch

The Wise MuftiA visiting Egyptian tells the truth about Islamist extremism

Wall Street Journal Realists on Iraq Democratic presidential candidates should listen to the "experts" they so often cite. By DAN SENOR

Muslim Melting Pot By: Irshad Manji | The Wall Street Journal
Against the backdrop of civil war, Abraham Lincoln stirred Americans by appealing to their "better angels." Now some of those angels appear in an unprecedented study about Muslims in the United States -- and they may show us how to prevent civil war in Europe.

Register's Last Hurrah? By: Joel Mowbray | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
Our tax-payer financed Arabic network was set up to counter Al-Jazeera, not echo it.

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: Top dog America should enjoy its last, precious years The US remains the sole superpower, but other countries are hot on its heels, says Gideon Rachman.

COMMENT: Europe must sow a wider crop of energy suppliers John Kay on how to devise an energy policy for Europe that endures security without distorting the market.

LEADER: Putin's threats have gone too far Russia has lost all sense of proportion over missile defence Everything Putin has done so far this year has made missile defence a zero sum game with only one winner

WORLD NEWS: Bush shelters from Putin's rhetorical raid

COMPANIES UK: Blair to quiz Putin about BP and Shell

FRONT PAGE - FIRST SECTION: Blow for White House as court dismisses Guantánamo charges

New UN map charts West Bank reality A new map of the West Bank, 40 years after the Six Day War, gives the most definitive picture so far of a territory in which 2.5m Palestinians are confined.

WORLD NEWS: Taliban armed with weapons sent from Iran, claims Gates

Eastern Europe hit by shortage of workers Western Europe is not the only part of the EU suffering from a shortage of labour. Companies in the east are finding it difficult to recruit qualified workers

WORLD NEWS: Republicans put bipartisan immigration deal to the test

Anglo-Saxon reflexes tempered by very French instincts When it comes to discussing his views on the global economy, Nicolas Sarkozy issuccinct and clear, writes John Thornhill.

WORLD NEWS: Sarkozy determined to make his mark

Sarkozy appeals to ‘outmoded’ Brown France’s new president has urged Gordon Brown to leave behind his views on the EU when he takes over as British prime minister next month

COMMENT: Why Africa needs a Marshall plan Such a scheme could ignite growth and cut poverty without today’s aid system, write Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan.

COMPANIES UK: Blair to quiz Putin about BP and Shell

COMMENT: It looks bad for Brown and Cameron Denting Labour’s majority is one thing. Winning enough seats to govern is another, says Philip Stephens

COMMENT: Regulation is blocking enterprise in Silicon Valley America’s technology communities fear the death of exit strategies, writes Clark Judge of the White House Writers Group.

ANALYSIS: Western IT consultancies take the fight to India IBM and others are cutting costs by building up their presence in the subcontinent – the undisputed hub for outsourcing.

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial

In Iraq, Semper Fidelis By: Tony Perry | Los Angeles Times
Under a sweltering Iraqi sky, the general asked for questions from his troops. Many were reluctant, but one stepped forward. Despite the public's waning support for the war, Marines' morale remains high.

Pentagon Chief Sees Progress in Afghanistan By: Peter Spiegel | Los Angeles Times Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived Sunday evening for his second visit to the Afghan capital since becoming the Pentagon chief, saying that he believes progress is being made in the country, but he wants to ensure there is no slackening of effort.

Bush's domestic Iraq

By Mickey Kaus The rigid thinking leading us to failure in the Mideast spawned 'comprehensive immigration reform.'

H16 American Politics

Presidential candidate Richardson drops prospect of Baker...

ABCNEWS/WASH POST POLL: Dems Lose Their Edge; Congressional Approval Ratings Return to Pre-Election Levels...

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas Swamp Sunrise Daybook

H17 Daily Telegraph Putin is playing a dangerous game The foreign policy of the Russian president is 'creepily retrograde', says Anne Applebaum.

An affront to democracy A dead duck prime minister is conducting a clandestine foreign policy on matters of the utmost importance without a by-your-leave

7/7 bombs staged, say 500,000 Muslims A quarter of Britain's two million Muslims believe Government agents staged the July 7 suicide bombings, a new survey has found.

Top general leads hunt for seized Britons America's supreme commander in Iraq is personally involved in the search for five kidnapped Britons, he disclosed yesterday.

On patrol in Iraq with Gen Petraeus

H18 Independent Yelena Tregubova: Why I fled Putin's Russia. And why the West must appease him no longer I have personal experience of Vladimir Putin's regime and the way the Russian President operates. I have been forced to seek asylum in Britain for criticising the Kremlin as an independent journalist. I have come to realise that to return to my homeland would be suicidal for me.

Putin's bellicose rhetoric casts a shadow over start of G8 summit

Leading article: No sense in revisiting the politics of the past

The nuclear stand-off in Europe between US and Russia

Miliband goes to US to deliver ultimatum on climate change A senior British minister warns today that the US should sign up to UN targets for reducing climate change

Blair announces plan to tighten scrutiny of university courses in Islamic studies

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

BBC Guantanamo pair charges dropped A US judge drops charges against two Guantanamo Bay inmates, in a setback for efforts to try terror suspects.

Black hole or vital tool?

Q&A: US military tribunals

Guantanamo timeline

Washington Times Global dimensions (Walid Phares)

Time The JFK Plot: Overstating the Case?

Modernizing the Army By: John R. Guardiano | The Washington Times
Can the U.S. Army reconcile its current -- and future -- force requirements? That's the key question now at the center of an important debate concerning the Army's budget. At issue is an $867-million cut to the Army's Future Combat Systems modernization program recommended by the House Armed Services Committee.

JFK/Oil Plot Shows Dangers of Mundane Targets...

TERROR SUSPECTS USED GOOGLE EARTH FOR DETAILS...

Security expert: JFK plot 'virtually impossible' to execute

H20 Slate

Blogs: Ten indicators for a happy society

From Monthly Review, John Bellamy Foster on The Imperialist World System.

Drezner on The Power of the State in a Global Economy (and more on Drezner).

From Think Tank, an interview with Anne Applebaum, author of The Gulag: A History.

From The Moscow Times, a review of Comrades! A History of World Communism by Robert Service.

Depression and the Psychological Benefits of Entering Marriage (PDF; 461 KB)
Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Romantics who visit Cuba from rich lands like to kid themselves that they have found a true alternative to capitalist democracy. Why?... more»

The content of what we imagine will be cultural. But what of the imagination itself? Is it cultural artifact? No, argues Simon Baron-Cohen, it’s biological... more»

Analysis: Game Theories: Calling the End Of Cheap Debt - 1) Crisis of Confidence; 2) Death by Drowning; 3) A Slow, Clean Leak

H21

James Surowiecki on how technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder.

Mankind’s moral sense is not a brilliant beacon. It is a flickering candle that casts vague shadows. James Q. Wilson wants to keep that flame alight... more»

From Harper's, an article on Why Dickens Matters.

Orhan Pamuk's prosecution for "insulting Turkishness" made headlines around the world but he is not interested in engaging directly with politics. He is delighted to find that people are finally talking to him about his novels.

intrepid foreign correspondent Jason Burke finds harmony in the spare prose of the late Ryszard Kapuscinski's final work, Travels with Herodotus.

A review of Courage: Eight Portraits by Gordon Brown and Instruction to Deliver by Michael Barber (and more).

Multi-tasking is a myth, say experts

Emailing on your Blackberry and talking on the mobile, while wondering what to cook for dinner and whether you have run out of dishwasher tablets, is mentally damaging.

Listen to Music Free, but Pay to Carry

A Silicon Valley start-up is betting that by giving users free access to digital music at home, they will pay to buy the songs they want to take with them on iPods and other music players

Blogger, Journalist, Citizen: Which is Which?

God is greater than Christopher Hitchens

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