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H1 Financial Times Leader The irreconcilable When the latest deadline for a reconciliation package of laws designed to end Iraq's violent insurgency came and went with little progress being shown, few people...

COMMENT: Kosovo's final chapter is still to be written The fear is that the longer diplomats delay, the more likely local frustration will turn
to bloodshed, writes Chris Patten, chairman of the International Crisis Group board.

Time is running out for political solution in Iraq The country is divided, but the possibility of a unilateral withdrawal by the US may help to concentrate minds

BBC Saudi prince 'was paid arms cash' A Saudi prince received secret payments from the UK's biggest arms dealer, a BBC investigation reveals.

Asia Times Hitting Russia where it hurts The escalating war of words over the United States' proposed deployment of a missile defense system in Europe highlights the determined effort by Washington to eliminate Moscow's strategic parity with the US. This is the first essential step toward the US regaining "unipolarity". Moscow is firmly resisting, no matter what it takes, and has a budding ally in China. - M K Bhadrakumar

Financing the imperial armed forces
Add it all up, and the US will spend nearly $1 trillion on defense, intelligence gathering and homeland security this year, even though it faces no credible state enemy. The amazing thing is that nobody dares question this extravagance, not even the leading Democratic presidential candidates. - Robert Dreyfuss

Al-Qaeda spark for an Iran-US fire
The Bush administration is apparently prepared to use an al-Qaeda attack on the United States as a reason to attack Iran. This plays directly into al-Qaeda's hands. - Gareth Porter

The Times The West is starting this Cold War Casting Russia as the enemy suits everyone at this year’s G8 summit Anatole Kaletsky

New York Times Memo From the Middle East: Ballot Boxes? Yes. Actual Democracy? Tough Question.

Editorial Looking for Leadership The challenge for leaders of the world’s richest and most powerful nations at this week’s Group of 8 gathering is to back up past declarations

Guardian There's one thing the US presidential contenders all have in common: God Timothy Garton Ash: With 17 months to go, the 2008 race is already well under way, and the first signs are of a resentful, defensive America.

Olmert calls for peace with Syria
Israeli PM seeks to calm fears of war breaking out

Christian Science Monitor

Sect leaders craft message for masses Leaders of a new 'axis of resistance' mix populism and Shiite theology to win broad support in a fight against America and its allies. Part 2 of two.

Geopolitical Diary: NATO in Crisis Stratfor

The Nation The Six-Day War,
40 Years Later by Jon Wiener

Foreign Policy Seven Questions: Can Climate Change Be Stopped?

IHT Depersonalizing relations with Pakistan By DANIEL MARKEY A Pakistan without Musharraf would probably look a lot like the status quo.

International Crisis Group - Pakistan: Emergency Rule or Return to Democracy?

Boston Globe Editorial No news is bad news in Pakistan

BBC Tough talks ahead for G8 leaders G8 leaders will hold their first full day of talks amid climate change discord and a rift between Russia and the West

Ha’aretz – Syria Strengthening Forces on Border with Israel -

Schiff Israel and Syria / Threats' silver lining

Benn The invisible governmentIn Israel things are run by 'the invisible government.' Its deliberations and its decisions are hidden and leave no traces in official records and archives, but they determine the fate of the country.

Realpolitik: Time for leadership in the Middle East Alon Ben-Meir |

Dennis Ross on how to contain the conflict in Iraq.

Washington Times Decision time in Iraq By James A. Lyons Jr. We need a plan that bypasses Mr. al-Maliki's sectarianized government and restores stability by empowering the Iraqis themselves.

Iraq's Leader Can't Get Out of 1st Gear By: Ned Parker | Los Angeles Times Iraq's government is teetering on the edge. Maliki's Cabinet is filled with officials who are deeply estranged from one another and more loyal to their parties than to the government as a whole.

Cool It, It's Not a Cold War By: Rajan Menon | Los Angeles Times
New reports these days opine with tiresome regularity that Russia and the United States are headed for a new Cold War. But don't believe the hype

Before Talking, See if There is Anything to Talk About By: Tony Badran | The Daily Star
Damascus doesn't want the kind of arrangement the congressman hopes for, but rather unilateral US concessions, especially on Lebanon. The Syrian leadership is not interested in anything else. Issa is right to observe: "What matters is the substance of the dialogue and the action that follows," but even he admits that implementing agreements with Syria is always elusive.

Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban...

Iran and US: The diplomatic dance

Republican Debate Transcript, New Hampshire

Independent The genetic revolution The discovery of genes responsible for seven of the most common illnesses offers hope to millions

World Proved Natural Gas Reserves, January 1, 1980 - January 1, 2007 Estimates (xls) Source: Energy Information Administration

CFR US-Russia Rift Deepens

William Arkin Nuking Iran: The Republican Agenda?

US, Israel: Time Not Ripe for Talks With Syria

Heritage Foundation Manners and Morals in Democracy

Cato The Persistent Power of the State in the Global Economy

H2 Turkish raids into Iraq raise concerns (AP)

Turkish officials say troops enter Iraq (AP)

FT Turkey denies Iraq incursion

A challenge to Turkey's ideologues Andrew Duff MEP

Washington Note Turks and Kurds: What Happens When Both are US Allies?

Independent Turkish troops 'chase Kurds in Iraq'

Turkey and Kurdistan: Behind the Non-Invasion TPMmuckraker –

What Spurred the Turkish Move into Iraqi Kurdistan?

Turkey-United States Economic Partnership Commission - Action Plan | Türkçe

NYT Bombs Hit Shiites in Baghdad; Turkish Threats Grow Acute

Türk Ordusundan, Federe Kürdistan bölgesine hava indirme operasyonu

Turks enter northern Iraq? [Michael Rubin] National Review

Quid pro quo for Turkey on Kurdistan
By Thomas P.M. Barnett

US Papers Thursday: Northern Rumors

Rice Says Worldwide Cooperation Needed in Terrorism Fight Rice says the “best thing that we can do as governments” is to have “extensive counterterrorism cooperation, share information, share intelligence, arrest people when necessary, and remain absolutely vigilant.”

Turkey denies major incursion into N.Iraq

Debka Another Middle East war erupts Wednesday as 50,000 Turkish troops launch operation against Kurdish PKK bases, several thousand crossing into N. Iraq

Türkiye Irak'a girerse çok kan dökülür Peter Brookes –

The Economist Sınır ötesi harekâtın bedeli yüksek –

Key Notes from Turkey

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

Baghdad, Ankara, White House Deny Reports of Turkish Incursion

Turkish raids into Iraq raise concerns (AP)

İşin aslı komutan denetimi

Nokta operasyonlar için özel tim

Operasyon haberi dünyayı karıştırdı

'Irak'a Askeri Harekat Doğru Değil'

Kuzey Irak'ta Batı senaryoları

ABD Türkiye'den Geçen Boru Hattını Destekliyor

GUEST: IRAQ PRESIDENT JALAL TALABANI Federal News Service

Aysel Tuğluk'un şahsında kompleksli Kürt kimliği

Ankara: Dialogue with N. Iraq requires concrete steps against PKK

'TSK, K.Irak'a girdi' haberi ortalığı karıştırdı

Turkey's Kurdish solution: no peace, no war
Kurdish Aspect

Turkish Path Slate

Erdoğan: Kabile reisiyle görüşmem

Peşmerge, Türk TIR'ında 'helikopter' buldu!

Şırnak’ın mesajı: Türk-Kürt kardeştir ayrım yapan kalleştir

Harekâtın adı yetti

Iraqis Flee to Kurdish North in Search of Safety Voice of America

Kurdish Flag Hoisted Over Regional Parliament in North Iraq

Officials deny incursion as army launches massive operation

"TSK'nın önünde durmayız"

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Dağ karakolları

Look who's knocking on your door, Mr. Wilson!.. C. Cem OĞUZ

Türkiye Federe Kürdistan’a harekât için BM’e mektup verdi

Kuzey Irak sınırında 3 ile yasak bölge ilanı

Araca 35 kilo patlayıcı yerleştirilmiş

Genelkurmay'dan 3 ilde geçici güvenlik bölgesi

Tanklar Gabar'da atış talimi yaptı

Teröristi DTP'liler defnetti

3 il geçici güvenlik bölgesi ilan edildi

Çürük operasyonu DTP'ye sıçradı

Erdoğan: Muhatabımız merkezi hükümet

PKK’ya Kürtçe lanet

Masood Barzani is a national idol
Kurdish Aspect

PM Barzani: Government will encourage, not control, civil society

14 DTP'liye 'PKK'ya destek' suçlaması

DTP bağımsız adaylarını tanıttı

2 metrelik pusulalar seçmeni zora sokacak

İŞTE O KATİL

PKK, Türkiye-AB ilişkileri için test oldu

Diyarbakır ve Şırnak'ta teröre karşı miting hazırlığı

Şırnak ve Lice'de mayın: 6 er yaralı

Hadi Uluengin 1967 harabeleri (III)

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Semih İDİZ AB orkestrası susmasın, ama müzik bitince ne olacak?

Olli Rehn, kitabıyla da Türkiye'ye destek verdi

AP’nin Kuzey Irak heyecanı

BM, Kıbrıs'ta tarafları diyaloğa çağırdı

Turkey sees KKTC property ruling will set precedent

Cyprus Four scenarios: Taiwan or Yugoslavia?

Sarkozy’den Türkiye’yi engelleme önerisi

Bilimde AB ile yola devam

Belgian FM says stopping EU talks ‘completely foolish'

Müzakereleri durdurmak tamamen aptallık olur

Rum basını: KKTC'ye başvuranlar vatan haini

Rum basınından 'utanç listesi'

Stern muhabirinin tesettür deneyimi!

Rasmussen, rest çekti: Başörtülüleri rahat bırakın

Almanya'nın 'vicdan' muhasebesi

Müslümanlara ayrımcılığı incelemek isteyen AGİT'e İsviçre'den izin çıkmadı

Yunanistan, Kuzey Irak'a konsolosluk açıyor

Armenians of Istanbul are the hostages of the Turkish Government

Rusya, Nurcuları tartışıyor

TSK internet sitesi yenilendi

Kısa günün kârı Perihan Mağden

Sultan'ın albümünden bir asır önce İstanbul

[BURASI TÜRKİYE] Understanding the Turkish school system

7 Haziran 2007 Basın Özeti

[HABER ANALİZ] Partiler ekonomiyi ikinci plana attı

Ercan Kumcu İthalat ihracatla artıyor

Yaman TÖRÜNER Uzmanlar yabancıları hangi konularda uyarıyor?

Turkey ‘global leader in privatization’ over past 4 years

Asaf Savaş Akat

Döviz kuru ve enflasyon (yine)

Deniz Gökçe Ekonomi mucizesi nasıl yaratılır?

Kalkınmayı Japonlardan öğrenmek

23 Temmuz Mahfi Eğilmez

Yeni bir şeyler söylemek lâzım..
Fatih Özatay

Erdal Sağlam

Güngör URAS 13 yıl bekleyen kanun 13 dakikada çıktı

Meral TAMER Kent bazında milli gelir hesaplamasına son verildi

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN
Tüzmen'den cevap var

H3Erdoğan, Barzani'yi ima ederek konuştu: Kabile reisleriyle görüşmem

Ruşen Çakır Erdoğan AKP’nin genleriyle oynadı

Cengiz Çandar Türkiye’ye kapan, hükümete açmaz

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM
Yeni bir siyasi senaryo gündemde

Çandar Bilderberg’de ‘darbe’ konuşuldu

K.Irak'ta sıcak takip

Türkiye operasyon için keşif yaptı

Cyprus Four scenarios: Taiwan or Yugoslavia?

Sağ birlikte son cırpınış

Erdoğan, Gül'ü yanıtlamadı mı?

Mesut Yılmaz: 'Bütün sağ oylar DP'ye' Murat Yetkin

AB'ye asker protestosu

Seçim sonu istikrar Gündüz Aktan

Sabahattin ÖNKİBAR K. Irak'a harekat eşikte, seçimler ertelenebilir

Irak'a müdahalede hukuk tartışması
Turgut Tarhanlı

'Corporate generals' and beyond
Burak BEKDİL

[ENERGY TRANSPORTATION-2] Building an energy hub

Serdar Turgut Kuzey Irak’ı düşünmek

How limited would an ‘over-the-border’ operation be? (1) by Assoc. Prof. MELİH CAN*

Güler Kömürcü Karanlık savaşın ekonomi manipülatörü kim?

Anafartalar'a sürpriz tanık

Ulus saldırısında sürpriz tanık: Orada 3 gözcü vardı

Report: Turkish truck seized in northern Iraq

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

Fehmi Koru Aleviler ve seçim

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Suni birleşmelerin erken iflası

NAZLI ILICAK Fazilet'in 'Yenilikçiler'i darbe yedi

Taha AKYOL Alevi oyları

Fikret BİLA Biftek tabağındaki havuç ve bezelyeler

Şahin Alpay Liderler demokrasisi

Ekrem Dumanlı Zaman'ın anketini doğru okumak gerekiyor

Bilal Çetin Düşme hattında son hamleler

Sami KOHEN Terör kolay bitmiyor

M Ali Birand Muhalifler cezalandırıldı...

Cüneyt Ülsever AKP merkeze gelebilir mi?

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN
Yeni AKP yeni dönem

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ
"Öteki" listelerdeki mesaj

YAVUZ DONAT MHP nasıl liste yaptı?

Aday listeleri yasal mı? Tarhan Erdem

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL K. Irak üzerinden rejim değişikliği!.

SOLİ ÖZEL 7'nci gün

Seçilmiş kralların listeleri Hasan Celal Güzel

Oktay Ekşi Listeler ve sorular...

Tüm adayları 'merkez'den belirleme usulünün sonuçları...
Altan Öymen

Leaders have final say in candidate lists

Erdoğan'dan çarpıcı açıklama

‘Vitrin’den kabineye

Şener: Terk etmeyi bilmek lazım

Son çırpınış

Sağda birleşme kördüğüm

Zaman'ın anketini yorumlayan uzmanlar: Halk dayatmalara tepkili

Türk siyaseti normalleşirse...

AKİF EMRE Devlet iktidarı yahut siyasetsizleşme

YASİN DOĞAN Merkez partisi olmak

Emin Çölaşan Subaylar nerede imiş!

Mehmet Barlas Demirel’in ve Baykal’ın saatleri şimdiki zamanı gösteriyor mu?

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Zıtlaşmalara son vereceklermiş!

'Müslüman sol'a ne oldu?
Nuray Mert

MAHMUT ÖVÜR İki Ertuğrul arasında ne fark var?

Mehmet Tezkan Erdoğan yeni AKP’yi kurma peşinde..

Mümtazer Türköne "Merkezin Vitrini"

Yalçın Bayer Erdoğan, BOP eşbaşkanlığını bırakmalı

ERDAL ŞAFAK İran'ın öbür yüzü

Şükrü Küçükşahin Erdoğan’ı çok ağlatan bilgi

Seçim kâr kapısı mıdır? İsmet Berkan

AKP'de Kırmızı plaka bekleyenler

Can Ataklı AKP Meclis’i toplayacak mı?

İsmail Küçükkaya
MHP’nin listesi...

ERGUN BABAHAN Bahçeli'nin duruşu

UMUR TALU Bana göre bu seçim...

DTP Genel Başkanı Türk'ün bacanağı MHP'den liste başı

Siyasetteki "karşı tercihler"

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Siyasette kadın temsili

Nuh Gönültaş S.Demirel gibi olmayın da nasıl olursanız olun!

Turks want more democracy, survey reveals

Mehmet Altan Devletten güçlü hükümet ihtiyacı...

Ardan Zentürk ‘Vatan sağolsun’ demek...

İlnur Çevik Same old story before early polls

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Military candidates and politics

İhsan Dağı Understanding Center Right Politics

İbrahim Kalın Can Turkish politics normalize?

DP, ANAP'a ittifak önerdi

Ilımlılar listede

AK Parti demokrasiye vurgu yapacak

AKP'de ilginç adaylar

Milli Görüşçüler SP'ye gider mi?

GP'de Uzan'ın yakınları aday

Şener'in ağzından aday olamama gerekçesi

MHP'ye 'Dolapdere Big Gang'

Demirel: Beni suçlayanlar halt etmiş

Sağda birlik için sürpriz atak

Şakir Süter Geçmiş olsun!

ANKARA'DA İSTİFA DEPREMİ SÜRÜYOR

H4 New York Times Memo From the Middle East: Ballot Boxes? Yes. Actual Democracy? Tough Question.

Pakistan Arrests 300 Workers From Opposition

H5 Washington Post Insurgent Group Announces Truce With Al-Qaeda in Iraq

Baghdad's Green Zone Is a Haven Under Siege

Editorial Pass the Immigration Bill Hope for 12 million people -- if the center holds

Candidates Lacking A Real-World Clue By David S. Broder, In this week's two debates, candidates displayed a remarkable ability to ignore the real-world consequences of many of the policies they were advocating.

Editorial Stuck in Guantanamo President Bush tried to create a new legal system for terrorism suspects. He created a quagmire instead.

G-8 Leaders Trade Conflicting Views on Warming

American Detained in Iran Appeals for State Dept. Help Reporter Fears Case May Take Years to Play Out

Official: Cheney Urged Wiretaps Stand-In for Ashcroft Alleges Interference

GOP Hopefuls Keep Distance From Bush In Debate, President Was Roundly Criticized on Iraq, Immigration and Katrina

Pentagon Says Terror Suspect Has Been Moved to Guantanamo Groups to Sue, Alleging Disappearance of Dozens Held by U.S.

H6 Guardian There's one thing the US presidential contenders all have in common: God Timothy Garton Ash: With 17 months to go, the 2008 race is already well under way, and the first signs are of a resentful, defensive America.

Bush under EU pressure at G8
US sticks by demand to include India and China on emission cuts.

Olmert calls for peace with Syria
Israeli PM seeks to calm fears of war breaking out.

Polls predict majority for Sarkozy
Landslide would boost president's reform plans.

Spain braced for attacks as Eta calls off ceasefire · Separatist group rearmed during hiatus, PM warned
· Opposition parties hit out at failed peace process

1967: A shared, if distant, goal

Nick Stadlen Jun 06 07, 08:00pm: Interviewing Shimon Peres a few days after Hannan Ashrawi and Ghassan Khatib, I was struck by how similar they are. And they all want peace.

Bodies, bombast and bombs in the Balkans Ian Williams Jun 06 07, 08:30pm: Joint diplomacy could ease the way to Kosovar independence, and stop revival of the cold war in eastern Europe.

Putin's popularity Dilip Hiro Jun 06 07, 09:00pm: Russian voters crave stability and security, which is why Vladimir Putin's quasi-authoritarian system continues to score an enviable approval rating.

Leader A time for boldness and reform British government: Sir Michael Barber, argues that the modern stretching of the prime ministership now necessitates both a strengthening of prime ministerial power and a sharpening of the cabinet, parliamentary and civil service constraints on the office in order that government can become more effective. Some will dismiss this as delusional.

H7 BBC Tough talks ahead for G8 leaders G8 leaders will hold their first full day of talks amid climate change discord and a rift between Russia and the West

Dennis Ross on how to contain the conflict in Iraq.

Washington Times Decision time in Iraq By James A. Lyons Jr. We need a plan that bypasses Mr. al-Maliki's sectarianized government and restores stability by empowering the Iraqis themselves.

India-Brazil: New Power Alliance By: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta | Inter Press Service Brazil and India are together sending out a clear message to the rest of the world -- do not ignore us when it comes to discussing and resolving important issues such as global warming, peaceful uses of nuclear energy, bio-fuels, farm subsidies and United Nations reforms.

“Former National Intelligence Council officer on the Middle East Paul Pillar writes in the National Interest about the intelligence assessments on Iraq he ordered and supervised that foretold the instability and violence”

The Apprentice Anthony David From our June issue: Scooter Libby was a nice liberal boy until he met Paul Wolfowitz -- who'd been a nice liberal boy till he met Albert Wohlstetter. A brief history of apocalyptic neoconservatism.

Rights groups list 39 'disappeared' in war on terror

Forward Tehran Arrests Iranian Americans in Echo of ‘Shiraz Dozen’ Affair

Weekly Standard Too Soon to Tell
Judgment on the progress or failure of the Baghdad Security Plan shouldn't be passed during its opening phase.
by Bill Roggio

FACTBOX-Republicans on foreign policy issues

Lebanon, Syria: A Political Breakup and an Explosive Summer

Time Did the US Incite Iran's Crackdown?

A Truce Between US Enemies in Iraq

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

Iraqi Papers Thur: Conspiracies!

Before Talking, See if There is Anything to Talk About By: Tony Badran | The Daily Star
Damascus doesn't want the kind of arrangement the congressman hopes for, but rather unilateral US concessions, especially on Lebanon. The Syrian leadership is not interested in anything else. Issa is right to observe: "What matters is the substance of the dialogue and the action that follows," but even he admits that implementing agreements with Syria is always elusive.

Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban...

International Crisis Group - Pakistan: Emergency Rule or Return to Democracy?

Boston Globe Editorial No news is bad news in Pakistan

Middle east Times Commentary: The Six-Day War's cruel irony

Commentary: Why won't the US let Iraq just be Iraq

Commentary: Jordan and the Arab initiative

BBC Mass arrests of Egyptian Brothers Police in Egypt detain 75 supporters of the opposition Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood.

Saudi prince 'was paid arms cash'

A Saudi prince received secret payments from the UK's biggest arms dealer, a BBC investigation reveals.

Afghanistan ill-prepared as Iran deports thousands

Al Awsat "The Setback" of Our Cyclical Age : Mshari Al-Zaydi

Al Hayat The Setback 40th Anniversary Abdullah Iskandar - Not only was the 1967 war an occupation of Arab territories and an expansion of the State of Israel, but also a justification for despotism and totalitarianism and a pretext to suppress Arab society.

Who Can Shake Iran's Economy? Randa Takieddin - Iran of a population of 70 million garnered oil proceeds amounting to $60 billion in 2006. However, Iran continues to strive with a frail economy, unemployment rates exceeding 11%, and growing inflation rates, notwithstanding a reasonable growth rate ranging between 5 and 6%

Algeria: Al-Qaeda Suffers from Differences Among its Leaders, 'Protectors of the Call' a Non-Violent Group Holed up in the Mountain, Salafists Invade Algiers Capitalizing on the Security's Preoccupation with the Fight against Jihadists - Part I - (by Camille Tawil)

Jun 07 IA# 361 - Syrian Oppositionists Call for International Action

United States Hopes To Engage Libya on Political Reform US Department of State

H9 Ha’aretz – Syria Strengthening Forces on Border with Israel –

Schiff Israel and Syria / Threats' silver lining

Benn The invisible governmentIn Israel things are run by 'the invisible government.' Its deliberations and its decisions are hidden and leave no traces in official records and archives, but they determine the fate of the country.

Mofaz to tell Washington it must block Iran if UN sanctions fail

Syria Upgrading Army with Iranian Aid –

Burg: Defining Israel as Jewish state is key to its end

Benvenisti: Palestinian society defined by more than occupation, terrorism

Fatah to Israel: Let us get arms to fight Hamas

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Syria holds back full-scale war with Israel as last resort while its proxies win low-intensity conflicts in Lebanon and Gaza

US Policy Toward Settlements

Jerusalem Post Israel may allow Egypt to transfer arms to Fatah
Dayton plan calls for supplying PA with millions of bullets, Kalashnikovs; weapons to go to Presidential Guard against Hamas.

Rattling the Cage: Facing war, choosing peace By LARRY DERFNER
Once again, after a long hiatus, Israel is doing the right thing with Syria.

A fool's errand [ KARL R. MOOR AND DAVID B. RIVKIN, JR Olmert is likely to embark on serious negotiations with Syria.

Our World: Echoes of 1919
[ CAROLINE GLICK,

Israel weighs threat, new talks Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert huddled with Cabinet ministers yesterday to discuss Syria and Lebanon amid heightened speculation that Israel may be at a crossroads between war and renewed peace talks with Damascus

Human Rights First: Hate crimes, anti-Semitism on rise in Europe

Forward On Eve of Olmert Visit, Israel Rebuffs American Push for Interim Peace Steps

Yedioth Ahronoth Assad wants talks, not peace

'Hizbullah continues to rearm' Shiite group will never leave southern Lebanon, Transportation Minister Mofaz tells US Secretary of State Rice during Washington visit. 'It is arming with missiles that could hit central and even southern Israel,' he warns

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

Are There Signs of a Jordanian-Palestinian Reengagement? - Dan Diker and Pinchas Inbari (ICA/JCPA)

Jordan Quietly Discussing Closer Ties with West Bank - Ilene R. Prusher

On the Seventh Day By: Yehuda Avner | The Jerusalem Post
The Israeli-American alliance began with a meeting between Eshkol and Johnson at the latter's ranch.

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Sect leaders craft message for masses Leaders of a new 'axis of resistance' mix populism and Shiite theology to win broad support in a fight against America and its allies. Part 2 of two.

Portraits of Shiite resistance

In Lebanon, resistance from cradle to grave

A baker's son driven by faith

Moqtada al-Sadr fills his militia with Shiite 'true believers.'

THE MONITOR'S VIEW

Iraq: the first Arab Shiite state?

A tough agenda for Group of Eight chiefs Climate change and aid to Africa are top issues for leaders of industrialized nations.

GLOBAL WARMING | A weekly update Too many climate plans, too little consensus

Could the US repel a cyberattack?

The nation's defense relies on a small group that operates on a tiny budget and with little clout, experts say.

US thwarts planned Laos coup plot

Respected leader in the Hmong community among those arrested and charged.

ASIA Karl Marx is Back, and Punting on Chinese Stocks By: William Pesek | Bloomberg
Today, when investors look at China's 11 percent growth and domestic reforms, the Marxist theory China subscribed to back in the 20th century seldom comes to mind. Yet something about China's spectacular stock rally has Marx written all over it.

Why China Won't Save Darfur By: Morton Abramowitz and Jonathan Kolieb | Foreign Policy
Frustrated by the West’s failure to halt the slaughter in Sudan, Darfur advocacy groups are pinning their hopes on a country they see as genocide’s enabler in chief: China. But in pressuring an indifferent Beijing, activists are merely helping Western governments evade responsibility for a humanitarian crisis that they could do far more to stop.

Last-minute hitch in US-India dealFinal negotiations over the US-India civilian nuclear deal have stalled, and time is fast running out. The sticking points are US threats to halt fuel deliveries if India conducts a nuclear weapons test and whether spent fuel can be reprocessed to extract plutonium for fast-breeder reactors.

Forging Political Alliances for Money By: Andre Vltchek | World Press China is emerging as one of the major players in Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. It offers aid and assistance, as well as investment. But there is one unbending condition — countries which get aid from Mainland China can't maintain a diplomatic relationship with Taiwan.

China: Looming Beijing Olympics Cause Strains In Host Country

H11 IHT Depersonalizing relations with Pakistan By DANIEL MARKEY A Pakistan without Musharraf would probably look a lot like the status quo.

Roger Cohen: The Middle Eastern Imperative By ROGER COHEN
On the 40th anniversary of Israel's capture of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, a Middle East peace appears more distant than ever

Gates calls for strengthening of trans-Atlantic alliance

EUROPE European press review

Le Monde L'Europe en manque de stratégie nucléaire, par Roger Baleras, Emile Blanc, Henri Conze et Bernard Lavarini

Analyse Le nouveau dialogue franco-russe, par Natalie Nougayrède

Spring in FrankfurtThe European Central Bank raises interest rates again

Germany's Other Anti-Globalists: Neo-Nazis Against the G8 By: Jan Langehein | World Politics Review
With the international media focused on the violent clashes between left-wing "anti-globalization" activists and German police at the anti-G8 protest in Rostock this past weekend, another component of Germany's broad "anti-globalization" consensus will have passed largely unperceived: namely, the neo-Nazis of the National-Democratic Party of Germany or NPD.

BBC 'God's banker'
Trial sheds no light on mysterious murder of Roberto Calvi

Del Ponte urges EU-Serbia talks

The chief UN war crimes prosecutor urges EU talks on co-operation with Serbia to resume as soon as possible.

Geopolitical Diary: Spain's ETA Ends Cease-Fire Stratfor -

Alice in Basqueland New Statesman,

CEPS Climate and Trade Policy: Bottom-up Approaches towards Global Agreement

Europe's New Anti Terrorism Convention Strong on Substance, Short on Adherents

POPE BENEDICT XVI: Pope lacks common touch, observers say

How long can the Prodi Administration last?

H12 RFE/RLRussia Will Not Seek To Leave CFE Treaty At Vienna Conference

Azerbaijan Expects Production Gas, Exports To Rise

Russia Reaffirms 'Solidarity' With Serbia On Kosovo

Putin Takes Aim The Economist
A row about Russian missiles hangs over the G8 summit.

Commentary: Understanding Putin By Arnaud de Borchgrave

Politics & Policies: Russia’s asymmetrical challenge

Google News Azerbaijan

A review of Chechnya: The Case for Independence by Tony Wood.

A review of Beslan: The Tragedy of School No 1 by Timothy Phillips (and more).

Uzbekistan Looks to Diversify its Energy Options

EDM RUSSIA STILL SEES WEST AS PRIMARY ENEMY

- IS UKRAINIAN INTERIOR MINISTER SICK OR HIDING?

- RUSSIAN OIL PIPELINE SHUTOFF TO LITHUANIA: WIDER RAMIFICATIONS

H13 The Times The West is starting this Cold War

Casting Russia as the enemy suits everyone at this year’s G8 summit

Anatole Kaletsky

Business could shun Russia, Blair warns Putin Russia could face an economic backlash unless it shares the West's key democratic value of tolerating dissent, PM warns

Save the planet: give to China

China has a climate plan that is less vague than the US, including stringent energy efficiency goals

Camilla Cavendish

Drop the Boycott The proposal to halt academic links with Israel is blinkered and perverse

Wall Street Journal Syria Is Exporting Instability - Michael Young

Free Scooter Libby
Bush could be a stroke of the pen away from ending Libby's ordeal.

America's 'Open Frontier'
A revealing debate on global warming. By BRIAN M. CARNEY

The Unnecessary Constitution
Should the revised EU constiution skip the referendum?

H14 Financial Times Leader The irreconcilable When the latest deadline for a reconciliation package of laws designed to end Iraq's violent insurgency came and went with little progress being shown, few people...

COMMENT: Kosovo's final chapter is still to be written The fear is that the longer diplomats delay, the more likely local frustration will turn
to bloodshed, writes Chris Patten, chairman of the International Crisis Group board.

Time is running out for political solution in Iraq The country is divided, but the possibility of a unilateral withdrawal by the US may help to concentrate minds

COMMENT: Worlds collide in India over global warming India harms itself by providing a figleaf for US inaction: climate change could devastate its crop yields by mid-century, writes Jo Johnson.

COMMENT: Brown must set out his vision for Europe

NATIONAL NEWS: Downing Street jobs are to be vetted

Merkel accepts defeat on US climate bid Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, accepted defeat in her bid to persuade the US to agree targets for reducing carbon emissions and stabilising global temperatures

FT REPORT - THE FUTURE OF EUROPE: Germany heals deep divisions

Sarkozy ‘blue wave’ hard to beat The UMP party seems set for re-election, shattering France’s pattern of alternating governments and confirming the dominance of President Nicolas Sarkozy.

US growth forecast to exceed 3% next year US growth will strengthen over the course of the year and exceed 3 per cent in 2008 and 2009, the Bush administration’s top economists said

Detainees admit guilt, says Iran Iran’s judiciary said that two Iranian-American dual citizens who were detained last month and charged with espionage have “accepted” that they were acting against the Islamic regime

India plays down race for Africa’s assets India’s minister with responsibility for Africa has hailed a new era of investment in the continent but firmly rejected talk of a contest with China for its resources.

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial

Iraq's Leader Can't Get Out of 1st Gear By: Ned Parker | Los Angeles Times
Iraq's government is teetering on the edge. Maliki's Cabinet is filled with officials who are deeply estranged from one another and more loyal to their parties than to the government as a whole.

Cool It, It's Not a Cold War By: Rajan Menon | Los Angeles Times
New reports these days opine with tiresome regularity that Russia and the United States are headed for a new Cold War. But don't believe the hype.

Talking tough to Bush

Ronald Brownstein: Calling out Bush's intransigence on emissions caps may be the best way for other G-8 countries to get the U.S. to budge on global warming.

State Senate OKs ballot measure on Iraq troop withdrawal

FT Democrats fail to achieve ‘do-good’ Congress After a burst of activity in its first 100 working hours, the Democratic majority has struggled to break the lock of a divided government to move dozens of proposed bills into law.

Paulson seeks support for China dialogue Hank Paulson, US Treasury secretary, defended his strategic economic dialogue with China against charges that it has achieved little, winning support from James Baker, a former Treasury chief and secretary of state.

‘God’s banker’ murder suspects acquitted All five defendants in one of modern Europe’s most mysterious murder cases were acquitted of killing Roberto Calvi, the Italian financier known as ‘God’s banker’ on account of his illicit work on behalf of the Vatican’s bank.

The future UK premier should attend EU summitHe can go instead of Margaret Beckett, foreign secretary. Staying at home is an abdication of responsibility.

Equities tumble on rate rise concerns World equity markets fell heavily as investors reconciled themselves to higher interest rates in Europe and little prospect of a cut in the US.

UK warns of investing in Russia ‘More evidence’ of risks to outsiders

FT REPORT - SUSTAINABLE BANKING: New way of gaining competitive edge

COMMENT: Bush may be on to something . . . Flexible co-operation might do what ‘binding’ targets failed to – restrain temperatures, writes Clive Crook.

Italy’s government survives key votes

Europe warned on migrants Europe’s half-hearted attempt to patrol its maritime borders was exposed when the EU’s justice commissioner predicted another wave of people from Africa this summer.

To pop a bubble The last thing a bipolar patient needs is a bipolar doctor. Yet that is what the manic Chinese stock market appears to have in the form of the Chinese authorities: one minute desperate to cool the market down, talking it up the next.

H16 American Politics Democrats set out to close the ‘God Gap’

Republican Rudy Giuliani is alone in the top tier of presidential candidates in refusing to say whether he goes to church

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas Swamp Sunrise Daybook

Why Giuliani could win Michael Tomasky: As he showed in just one minute of last night's debate, Giuliani can talk to moderate voters like no other Republican can.

H17 Daily Telegraph Leader G8 must produce results, not hot air

Heiligendamm offers an unprecedented conjuncture of public expectation and broad top-level political representation. The reputation of the G8 hangs on the outcome.

Tap-dancing towards a Euro constitution

It's bad enough that you're foisting the Euro constitution on us despite two "No" votes, says Daniel Hannan. But don't mock us by pretending that the outcome is still in doubt.

Why Bush is unlikely to sign G8 pledges

'Intimate gathering now a circus'

H18 Independent The genetic revolution The discovery of genes responsible for seven of the most common illnesses offers hope to millions

Bush dashes Blair hopes of climate change deal Tony Blair has prepared the ground for a tactical retreat over climate change after George Bush rejected demands by Britain and Germany for him to commit to a specific target for cutting global carbon emissions

Olmert favours peace talks with Syria while making preparations for war

Russia tries to defuse crisis over missile plan

How the summit has cemented Merkel's standing

Leading article: Ms Merkel auditions for global stage

Zachary Katznelson: In Guantanamo, men shadow-box for their lives

Calvi murder: The mystery of God's banker It was a trial which promised to solve the 25-year old case of Roberto Calvi, who was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge. But yesterday a judge acquitted all five defendants

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Weekly Standard Echoes of the Future What the criminal complaint for the JFK terror plot suggests about shifting terrorist tactics.
by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Kyle Dabruzzi

Salon: Waterboarding out? CIA must find new form of torture

CLAIM: 39 PEOPLE HELD IN US CUSTODY 'VANISHED'

NATO: Iran caught supplying Taliban ABC report: Iran caught 'red-handed' shipping weapons to Taliban

The Secrets of Countersurveillance Stratfor

Al-Qaeda's American-Style Message By: Michael Scheuer | Asia Times Adam Gadahn - now known as Azzam al-Amriki (Azzam the American) - has emerged as the third-most-important spokesman among al-Qaeda leaders, after Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

A review of The Changing Face of War: Lessons of Combat, From the Marne to Iraq by Martin van Creveld.

Coercion doesn’t work. Empathy is a more powerful tool than you might think. A veteran Air Force interrogator who grilled prisoners in Iraq talks about how to gather information during wartime.

Have the Guantanamo judges soured on the president's war tribunals? Dahlia Lithwick wants to know.

Capitalism vs. Terrorism: More and more American companies are buying terrorism insurance.

Police move to foil 'tanker bombers' Petrol tankers searched in London

Who's Cherry Picking Now?
A less than useful report from the Senate Intelligence Committee.
by Gary Schmitt

H20 Slate

How to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Now Source: Brookings Institution

Corruption rife in world's schools and universities
Bribery and graft is seriously undermining education systems worldwide and costing governments billions of dollars.

H21 pursuit of happiness: The science of wellbeing must turn to philosophy in order to understand the true nature of friendship.

Serious diseases genes revealed
UK researchers have published the results of the largest ever study of the genetics behind common diseases.

Lack of sleep 'is creating a zombie nation' The rise of sleeplessness in increasingly sophisticated economies could lead to the creation of a "zombie nation".

From Discover, here are 20 things you didn't know about Nothing: There's more there than you think.

The introduction to How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics by William Byers.

When tolerance becomes dangerous: In a civil society, decency must rank ahead of just about everything else, sacred and not.

Thomas Sowell on how we're surrounded by adolescent intellectuals.

In the 1940s, W.H. Auden began to write poems that scarcely anyone knew how to read – and that scarcely anyone even today knows how to read... more»

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