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H1 Independent A triumph for Hamas... but a tragedy for the Palestinians? A war in Gaza threatening to redraw the map of the Middle East

Jerusalem Post Israel's options: Disconnect from Gaza or talk to Hamas [ YAAKOV KATZ

BBC EU constitution 'can be simple' An EU summit could re-package the draft constitution as a simple treaty, German officials suggest. Q&A: EU constitution Full text of the constitution (1.9MB)

Washington Post A 'Two-State Solution,' Palestinian-Style By Martin Indyk Hamastan and Fatahstine aren't what Bush had in mind.

Takeover by Hamas Illustrates Failure of Bush's Mideast Vision

Slate The Enemy of My Enemy:

How Sunni insurgents can help us.

Fred Kaplan

Is This the End of the Two-State Solution?: The consequences and possibilities of the civil war in Gaza. Shmuel Rosner

The Times We must break with the crazies The US Administration is belligerent in its diplomatic conduct and dangerous to world peace Anatole Kaletsky

Financial Times US missile plan to forge ahead The US formally told Russia that it would go ahead with plans to build missile defence facilities, despite an offer from Moscow to share data from a radar site in Azerbaijan

COMMENT: France's first revolution of the 21st century Is France under Nicolas Sarkozy about to experience something radically new–a ‘pragmatic revolution’? By Dominique Moïsi

COMMENT: Behind the mask in therace for the White House The Republican hopeful has little chance of emulating the new French president, writes Philip Stephens.

The Economist The European Union A constitutional conundrum A new European treaty is acceptable only if its contents are kept to a bare minimum

Europe's population Suddenly, the old world looks younger Reports of Europe's death are somewhat exaggerated

Readings in European Security, Volume 4 CEPS This 269-page volume considers the EU's internal and external security challenges

Amitai Etzioni A Third Way for Iraq

Understanding Terrorist Ideology
Source: RAND Corporation Full Document (PDF; 135 KB)

IHT The return of Authoritarian Capitalists By AZAR GAT The United States remains the greatest guarantee of the survival of liberal democracy.

Germans and Poles at odds over EU constitution A document circulated ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers ignored completely Warsaw's main demand in restarting talks on the group's constitution: that the EU revamp its proposed new voting system.

Come together, right now By MARGARITA MATHIOPOULOS
We in Europe need to wake up to the reality that we cannot afford a weak America.

Washington Times MEK sense

By Tom Tancredo and Bob Filner Lift 'terror' designation on Iranian group

Deceptive Damascus (Elliot Chodoff and Nir Boms)

The Truth About Syria FPRI A US article discussing the futility of negotiating with Syria

Is There a Democratic Deficit in World Politics? Andrew Moravcsik

Geopolitical Diary: Putin and Merkel Face Off Over Kosovo
Stratfor –

Bilderberg 2007 Report « WHY ORGANIC James Tucker

Washington Institute Syria's Export of Terrorism to Lebanon: Threat and Response

Iraqi Refugees in the Syrian Arab Republic: A Field-Based Snapshot Source: The Brookings Institution Full Report (PDF; 434 KB)

Trading in Ideas and Knowledge Source: The Work Foundation Full Report (PDF; 1.21 MB) If Germany is good at making cars and Japan at micro electronics, what does Britain excel at economically? The answer is ‘knowledge services’. Trading in Ideas and Knowledge argues that knowledge services – in essence selling specialised brainpower - is the one category of economic activity in which the UK appears to be leading the rest of the world. Analysing official trade figures (from the government’s ‘Pink Book’), the paper finds that in 2005, the UK exported about £75 billion worth of knowledge services – up from £28 billion in 1995, a rise of 170 per cent – and now worth some 6.3 per cent of GDP.

YaleGlobal Megacities, Mega Dreams for a Connected World

CSIS U.S.-Russia Relations after the G8 LISTEN TO THE EVENT | RUSSIA AND EURASIA PROGRAM

Ha’aretz – Israel weighs transfer of frozen tax funds to PA Abbas dissolves gov't, calls state of emergency; Haniyeh: Decision to fire government 'hasty.'

U.S. wants to fast-track peace talks, boost Abbas standing Bush to ask Israel to loosen military grip on West Bank; Israel favors 'containment' strategy in Gaza.

What I Saw in Iraq - Joseph Lieberman, Wall Street Journal

Israel is Threatened From All Sides - Con Coughlin, Daily Telegraph

On the Escalator to War With Iran - Patrick Buchanan, Creators

H2 The Economist Turkey Election fever The election campaign in Turkey begins in a febrile atmosphere

Guardian The real struggle is inside Turkey, not on its borders
Jonathan Steele: The issue is not between Islam and modernity, but whether secularists can end their reliance on class prejudice and fantasy

Boston Globe Editorial Turkish threats to Turkey IF EVER there was a military operation guaranteed to create more trouble than it could possibly solve, it is the incursion into northern Iraq that Turkey's generals have been threatening in recent days. The United States, the European Union, leaders of the autonomous Kurdish zone in northern Iraq, and the Iraqi government must help Turkish officials avoid a reckless action ...

CFR Zebari: Iraq's Neighbors "Have Not Been Helpful"

The Economist Business in Turkey Flying the flag Turkey's national carrier highlights the forces reshaping the country

From Connections Quarterly: Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism in Europe by Zeyno Baran

From TLS, an essay on James Baldwin's letters to Istanbul

Partitioning Iraq; Saving Afghanistan

BBC Quest for justice
Kurds outraged after Turkish police cleared over killings

Reuters Turk AK Party Presents Modern Face In Showcase City

Turkey Says Iraq Not Doing Enough Against Kurd Rebels

İlnur Çevik Targeting Barzani is the easy way out

The United States and Turkey: Innovating together Daniel SULLIVAN

Turkey Must Think Carefully Peter Stitt

WHAT'D WE DO? In Turkey, Yet Another Reason to Worry

Kuzey Irak'ı işgalin ölümcül cazibesi... Thomas Seibert

Time Kurdish Wedding

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

Diyarbakır'da patlama: 6 yaralı

Mehmetçik PKK'nın geçiş yollarını toz duman etti

PKK’nin, Kürdistan yönetimi ve ABD ile arası açılmalı

PKK Barzani'nin kontrolüne geçti

IKYB: Bush, Barzani'yi arayarak 'demokratik süreç güvencesi' verdi

Bush'tan Barzani'ye uyarı telefonu

Irak ve Amerika, PKK konusunda diplomaside ısrarlı

ABD helikopterleri sıfır noktasında

Kuzey Irak konusunda pozisyonumuz değişmedi

ABD helikopterleri sınır boyunca uçtu

Kurdish Problem, PKK Terror, Realities and Myths

The PKK: A Privileged Terrorist Organization? - Journal of Turkish Weekly

Gül: PKK’ya karşı hiçbir şey yapmıyorlar

Kuzey Irak’ta 3 bin 800 terörist var

PKK truce positive if loss of innocent lives stops, US says

Bush, Barzani'yi aradı

Fransa yine PKK sınavında

'Bush ile Barzani'nin yaptığı görüşmeden haberim yok'

Gelali:'Tampon Bölge' Kabul Edilemez

Zebari "PKK sorunu sadece diyalogla çözülür"

DTP: Ateşkese uyulmaması gerilimi artırdı

DTP’den bir garip açıklama

"Düz ovada siyaseti" sordu

Serpil YILMAZ MALİKİ'YE DAVET

Teröristler soysuz

ABD Kürt liderleri ikna çabasında

Ağar K.Irak'a girmenin getirisi çok iyi hesaplanmalı

Turkey's incursions into Kurdistan may lead to economic losses for ...

"Bush-Barzani görüşmesinden haberim yok"

ABD helikopterlerinden alçak uçuş

Sınırda "operasyon bölgesi" olasılığı

Sezer'den 'uluslararası önlem' vurgusu

"Özel Harekat timleri bölgede yeni değil"

Diyarbakır'da patlama: 5 yaralı

Ecevit: Türkiye K. Irak’a girmeli

Türkiye ve ABD ortak yol bulsun

Saldırının kaynağı Irak

Sınıra tank ateşi

Diyarbakır Sur Belediye Başkanı düşürüldü

‘Çok dilli’ başkan görevden alındı

Batman’da PKK tutuklamaları

Turkey/Syria Confronts Iran/Kurds/US
The Conservative Voice

Ferai Tınç Ortadoğu haritası her şeyi anlatıyor

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Türkiye siyasete daldı, Sarko boş kaleye gol peşinde

Zeynel Lüle Aleviler ve AB

Aleviler AP’de konuştu YENİ

Sarkozy ile işbirliği yapabiliriz (2)

Ali Bulaç The EU factor

AB'nin geleceği

AB uzmanı Kalypso Nicolaidis, anayasa projesini değerlendirdi

Scholars launch new initiative in genocide row

Rumlardan veto tehdidi

KKTC Başbakanı'ndan akreditasyon yorumu: TSK ile sorunumuz yok

Cyprus a sticking point in EU-NATO co-operation (SETimes.com)

Ece TEMELKURAN Bayrak

Paşa'ya yazdığı e-mektuba..

Meral TAMER Milletvekili borsası kurup, siyasileri oylayalım

Bülent Keneş Where on our agenda is global warming?

Tuncay Şanlı says ‘yes’ to Boro, but can he deliver?

15 Haziran 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 Yasemin Çongar 'Dehşet senaryosu' ABD'de Hudson Enstitüsü'ndeki bir toplantıda, Tülay Tuğcu'ya suikast ve PKK'nın Beyoğlu'nda saldırısı ardından Türkiye'nin Kuzey Irak'a girmesini içeren bir senaryonun konuşulduğu iddia ediliyor BBC Turkish 0700 (starts at 8: 49)

CNNTürk ABD Kürt liderleri ikna çabasında

Wilson: Yöntem, ABD'yle işbirliği içinde bulunmalı

USAK MGK öncesi raporlu uyarı: Sınır ötesi için askerî ve diplomatik hazırlık iyi yapılmadı

Gül’den Kuzey Irak konusunda pozisyonumuz değişmedi

Taha AKYOL Teröre karşı tedbirler?

Fikret BİLA Gül'ün sözleri Kuzey Irak'ı gösteriyor

A cross border offensive would be harmful to the Kurds and the US as well Barçın YINANÇ

ABD Sözcüsü: Tampon bölge fikrini destekleyeceğimizden emin değilim

ABD ve K. Irak ‘tampon bölge’ye soğuk

ABD bizi gözetliyor

Star Kuvvaevinden ‘Danıştay’ çıktı

Sabah Bu ne tesadüf!

'Koalisyon Çıkmayacak'

İkinci Anayasa tartışması

Cengiz Çandar Terörün dış desteği: Kuzey Irak mı? Batı Avrupa mı?

Şamil Tayyar Son 5 yılda 2 cunta hükümeti direkten dönmüş

Terörist ve terörizm İsmet Berkan

Kendini anlatabilmek Murat Yetkin

Terörle mücadelede herkesin görevi var
Hasan Celal Güzel

Eser Karakaş Kürt meselesine bir çözüm önerisi

Güngör URAS Askeri mayından koruyacak araç önemli

Sami KOHEN Terör uzmanlarına mesajlar...

KORAY DÜZGÖREN Patlayan-patlamayan bombalar ve sorular…

Yusuf KANLI Coordinated action or total confusion

Gül Terörle mücadelede demokrasiden taviz yok

Sınırlarını kontrol et

İşte hurriyet.com.tr'nin habercilik başarısı

Türkiye'nin adresi Haluk Şahin

Eser Karakaş Kanat operasyonu ve askeri darbeler

30’luk sandıktaki 3 el bombası kayıp

Danıştay'ın rövanşını almak istiyorlar

Anayasa paketinde Sezer’in karar günü

Türkiye-İspanya, ETA-PKK M.Ali Kışlalı

Güler Kömürcü Sessiz yanıltmalar...

Şemdinli’de ‘aykırı’ karar

Sex matters -I- (Toward a post-patriarchal Turkey) Mustafa AKYOL

Ali H Aslan Islam and the West: Benefits of integration

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 Eski bir olay

Fehmi Koru Su uyur, çeteler uyumaz

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Asker de düşecek bu krizin ocağına…

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Savaşı Türkiye'ye taşıyan kim?

NAZLI ILICAK Çorap söküğü gibi

Nuray Başaran Yeni Meclis'in ömrü uzun olmayacak

Nuray Mert ANAP'ı 'darbe ürünü' diye eleştiren Demirel, 28 Şubat'a destek verdi

Gülay Göktürk Deprem ve kutsal devlet

Ertuğrul Özkök Dindar cumhurbaşkanı insafsızlığı

Ahmet Hakan İki genel merkez arasındaki 7 fark

M Ali Birand Bu karamsarlığa hiç gerek yok…

Türkiye'de içe kapanmanın dış boyutu MEHMET HASGÜLER

Mücahit Bilici Türkiye için yeni tehdidin adı: Baas'cılık!

YASİN DOĞAN MHP'nin durumu

Lagendijk'tan Alevilere: CHP'ye hâlâ nasıl oy verirsiniz?

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Hamasi nutukla olmaz

Derya SAZAK AKP, terör, CHP

Tamer Korkmaz Zurnanın zırt dediği yer

Mustafa Ünal En zayıf nokta...

Bilal Çetin Terör Erdoğan’a zor günler yaşatıyor...

Mehmet Tezkan En büyük sorun: Erdoğan kriz yönetemiyor.. Çuvallıyor..

Mehmet Altan Dere yatağında bomba bulunur mu?

Berat Özipek Makul olmak cesaret ister

Oktay Ekşi Bir şehidin huzurunda

Özdemir İnce İdris Küçükömer’in çilesi

Emin Çölaşan Bilmeden konuşan

Nasuhi Güngör Asıl hezeyan ulusalcılık

Erken dönem ırkçılığı Murat Belge

Mümtazer Türköne Cenazeler ve MHP

Hüseyin Gülerce Sağduyunun gücü

Bülent Korucu Endişeye mahal yok, bombanın pimi çekilmemiş

Uzan Terörde TSK ne derse o uygulanmalı

Şakir Süter Cem Uzan

Serdar Turgut ÖSS kaldırılmalıdır

Mehmet Barlas Kimin kime oy verdiğini bilmeden seçimin tadı olur mu?

Savaş SÜZAL PKK ile mücadeleye Erdoğan darbesi

AKP Seçim kampanyasını Washington'da başlattı Ayrıntılar

Egemen Bağış: AKP, siyasi yelpazenin tam ortasındadır

AKP'liye marş marş! Bu da oldu: Bir general, bir AKP'liyi okul bahçesinden çıkardı

Suat Kınıklıoğlu AKP'nin sosyal demokrat adayı

Sağlıkta sözleşme devrimi

Seçim sonrası: Durgunluk!
Uğur Civelek

Dış konjonktür değişiyor mu? Uğur Gürses

Ercan Kumcu Pozitif ayırımcılık

Erdal Sağlam

Kredi veriyorlarmış! Ne iyi insanlar!
Yiğit Bulut

Salih NEFTÇİ Piyasalarda yaşananlar bir alım fırsatı mıydı?

Yiğit Bulut Türkiye faizin anavatanı

Güven Sak Acaba Çin yabancı sermaye ile ne yapıyor

Seçimin baş aktörü yine IMF!..

Arrests in Egypt Point Toward a Crackdown

Senate Leader Criticizes Performance of Joint Chiefs Leader

DAVID BROOKS The National Pastime A Harris poll suggested that more than 40 percent of Americans would use genetic engineering to upgrade their children mentally and physically.

H5 Washington Post Abbas Dissolves Palestinian Government Palestinian Authority president declares state of emergency as rival Hamas nearly completes military conquest of the Gaza Strip.

A 'Two-State Solution,' Palestinian-Style By Martin Indyk Hamastan and Fatahstine aren't what Bush had in mind.

Takeover by Hamas Illustrates Failure of Bush's Mideast Vision

Mosques Hit After Shrine Attack: Security Measures, Iraqi Appeals Credited With Limiting Violence

September Song and Dance By Eugene Robinson, Here's a surprise: Remember how we were told that if we just waited until the fall, we'd see that George W. Bush's "surge" was working in Iraq? Well, now it turns out that we shouldn't expect answers in September after all.

Accidental Allies in Russian Politics

Intrepid Putin Foes See a Chance for Real Change in '08

National Security and Intelligence Dana Priest (

Reid Faults Petraeus as Not 'in Touch' : Senate Leader Cites General's Upbeat Remarks About...

Libby Loses Bid to Stay Out of Jail For Appeal

The GOP's Identity Crisis By E. J. Dionne Jr., The great drama in American politics today revolves around the question: What is the Republican Party?

Good Fences By Charles Krauthammer, The reason comprehensive immigration reform remains in jeopardy, despite yesterday's partial resuscitation, is that it is a complex compromise with too many moving parts and too many competing interests.

H6 Guardian Hamas declares victory The Palestinian quest for an independent state is on the verge of collapse after Hamas declares Islamic rule on Israel's doorstep.

UN search for solutions
Little to celebrate in 'Hamastan'
'Only gunmen walk the streets'

New German pact for EU puts UK on collision course Germany insists on 'single legal personality' for EU and calls for legally binding charter of fundamental rights across Europe

We need a rebellion against a press that's damaging our national psyche
Polly Toynbee: Blair's speech omitted the root of the problem with the media - the ownership structure he did nothing to break.

Guantanamo and Colin Powell

Steve Clemons Jun 14 07, 07:30pm: Why has Colin Powell, Bush's famously reticent former secretary of state, come out and called for the immediate closure of Guantanamo Bay?

BAE bought £75m Airbus for prince BAE gave Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia an airliner as part of Britain's al-Yamamah arms deal, and the arms firm is still paying the expenses of flying it.

Bush under pressure to save aide
Pressure to pardon as Lewis "Scooter" Libby faces 30-month sentence.

Sarkozy looks south

UN envoy: anti-Hamas rhetoric undermines democracy Alvaro de Soto warns hostility to Hamas could convince millions of Muslims that democratic methods do not work.

The threat to al-Jazeera George Galloway: It would be a disaster for the Middle East if the US neutered the region's most independent TV station.

Venezuela £500m deal to buy Russian submarines · Fleet would help Chávez thwart future US embargo · Sale to worsen relations between Putin and Bush

H7 Zbigniew Brzezinski on the Middle East and Global Insecurity

Time America's Foreign Policy Trap Sure, it's smart to help weak nations. But the strong powers still pose the biggest challenges By Peter Beinart

Washington Times MEK sense

By Tom Tancredo and Bob Filner Lift 'terror' designation on Iranian group

Deceptive Damascus (Elliot Chodoff and Nir Boms)

The Truth About Syria FPRI A US article discussing the futility of negotiating with Syria

The Middle East’s five crises
by JORIS VOORHOEVE*

On the Escalator to War With Iran
by Patrick Buchanan

More on That Meeting in Prague… by Jim Lobe

Asia Times Iraq waiting for the next shoe to drop
Another Sunni attack on the highly symbolic Golden Mosque in Samarra has not sparked a retaliatory move by Shi'ites - yet. Though Muqtada al-Sadr has called on his followers not to retaliate, it is likely that reprisal attacks will be carried out. Just how Iraqis respond to the bombing will reveal much about the emerging climate in the country.

A general in God's patriotic army
It's not just secular neo-cons pushing for more war in the Middle East. They are cheered on by a set of religious fundamentalists eager for Armageddon. One of the generals in God's patriotic army is Mike Evans, whose newest book appears at the top of the New York Times best-seller list thanks to tireless efforts of the right-wing propaganda machine

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

The Economist Egypt Another flawed election

Boston Globe A heavy hand in Afghanistan (By Sarah Sewall)

NATION-BUILDING, counterinsurgency, and counterterrorism coexist uneasily in Afghanistan, and the contradictions are beginning to chafe. As large numbers of civilian casualties begin to feel like terrorism to ordinary Afghans, the West could lose on every count.

Political Islam in Algeria CEPS A 10-page working paper analyzing how Islamic parties in Algeria are building a new relationship with democratic mechanisms in Europe

Daily Star Curtains for the Palestinian Authority?
By Daoud Kuttab

Palestine threatens to move from gang wars to de-legitimization

Hamas Poised to Convert Captured Gaza Strip into Islamist Enclave

Al Awsat The Gaza Invaders : Tariq Alhomayed

MEMRI Jun 15 IA# 364 - Dispute in Iran over Renewing Relations with Egypt

Le Monde Iran : Ahmadinejad et l'inflation, par Marie-Claude Decamps

Afghan Minister Dismisses US Claims on Iran

Commentary: Iran's oil weapon

H9 Ha’aretz – Israel weighs transfer of frozen tax funds to PA Abbas dissolves gov't, calls state of emergency; Haniyeh: Decision to fire government 'hasty.'

U.S. wants to fast-track peace talks, boost Abbas standing Bush to ask Israel to loosen military grip on West Bank; Israel favors 'containment' strategy in Gaza.

Fatah gunmen kill Hamas militant in West Bank city of Nablus Sign of Gaza violence spreading to W. Bank; Hamas seizes final Fatah-run security compound in Gaza City

Ramallah residents: West Bank is 'different nation' than Gaza ANALYSIS: Israel is relunctant to get involved but will not be able to keep the Gaza crossings closed forever

Amira Hass: Hamas, Fatah sacrificing the struggle for liberation

Peretz: We won't allow Gaza infighting to spread into Israel

Jerusalem Post Israel's options: Disconnect from Gaza or talk to Hamas [ YAAKOV KATZ

BBC Abbas sacks Hamas-led government Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas sacks the Palestinian government and declares a state of emergency.

Q&A: Chaos in Gaza

West Bank fears
Palestinian concern at retributions for violence in Gaza

McClatchy Hamas fighters seize control of the Gaza Strip Jubilant Hamas fighters took control of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, raising their Islamist party's green flag over conquered government strongholds and forcing their routed Fatah rivals into a last redoubt, where they prepared to make a final stand or negotiate surrender.

Yedioth Haniyeh: Not dissolving gov't Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh rejects President Mahmoud Abbas' decision to dissolve Palestinian unity government; 'Abbas' move was hasty and he didn't fully consider its consequences,' Haniyeh declares

'We won't interfere in Gaza'

PM's Office official says recent developments in Gaza very troubling, but Israel won't intervene

10 tips for Barak

Cover story Ha'aretz - Like the Israeli Mossad and the American CIA, the BND is empowered to collect intelligence only outside the country and is barred from operating on German ...

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

The Economist Palestine and Israel As bleak as it gets A civil war among Palestinians is bad for the Israelis too

Editorial: Peres and Barak - the comeback kids

CIA Leak Trial Judge Received Threats

Israel's Grand Design: Leaders Crave Area from Egypt to Iraq

H10 Christian Science Monitor

As Gaza unravels, Palestinians flee

Thousands have left the coastal strip because of its social and economic degradation.

Schorr: America's undisclosed vice president

ASIABank cautions on implosion of Asian economies Asia's economic boom could still be undercut if the region fails to address a growing income gap and the lack of strong financial and infrastructure links, a top official of the Asian Development Bank said yesterday.

Keeping China's best and brightest at home China is the top dog in the global struggle for talent. A recent study showed that seven out of 10 Chinese students who study abroad never return. The motherland cannot continue to develop so long as it loses so many of its best and brightest. The government is trying to provide incentives to stay home, but will they be enough? - Kent Ewing

CFR The Capital Interview: Paulson Says China’s Currency ‘Doesn’t Reflect Reality’

H11 IHT The return of Authoritarian Capitalists By AZAR GAT The United States remains the greatest guarantee of the survival of liberal democracy.

Germans and Poles at odds over EU constitution A document circulated ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers ignored completely Warsaw's main demand in restarting talks on the group's constitution: that the EU revamp its proposed new voting system.

Come together, right now By MARGARITA MATHIOPOULOS
We in Europe need to wake up to the reality that we cannot afford a weak America.

Gates wins NATO backing on U.S. missile shield

EUROPE European press review

Le Monde "Le Traité simplifié, oui , mutilé, non", par Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

BBC EU constitution 'can be simple' An EU summit could re-package the draft constitution as a simple treaty, German officials suggest. Q&A: EU constitution Full text of the constitution (1.9MB)

Euroblog: A treaty reincarnated

The Economist The European Union A constitutional conundrum A new European treaty is acceptable only if its contents are kept to a bare minimum

Europe's population Suddenly, the old world looks younger Reports of Europe's death are somewhat exaggerated

Poland and the European Union The square root or death

Readings in European Security, Volume 4 CEPS This 269-page volume considers the EU's internal and external security challenges

Nationalism and Religious Extremism in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo Since 1990 IFIMES

An excerpt from Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America by Andrei Markovits (and a review).

H12 RFE/RL U.S. Seeks “Creative Compromise” To Keep Russia in Key Pact

Google News Azerbaijan

The Economist Russia and the West Chilling time

Missile defence Strategic surprise The riddle of Russia's offer to help defend Europe from missiles

Russia's killer drinks
Jobless alcoholics turn to cheap substitutes as toll soars.

Caucasian Enemies Engage in Unofficial Trade

H13 The Times We must break with the crazies The US Administration is belligerent in its diplomatic conduct and dangerous to world peace Anatole Kaletsky

‘There will be no dialogue with Fatah, only the sword and the rifle’ Triumphant Hamas fighters are to celebrate their Gaza victory with Friday prayers in the compound of the routed President

Fresh start or revived constitution?

Two years ago French and Dutch voters appeared to have killed off the blueprint for Europe’s future. What will happen next?

Europe divided over summit plans

Britain faces a battle over the future of the EU after it emerged that most nations want to keep key parts of the failed constitution

Poland ‘is ready to wreck everything' Poland is ready to let next week’s EU summit collapse rather than accept a new constitutional treaty that eats away at its voting power

Accused Syrians condemn murder

Syria has condemned the bombing near a Beirut beach club which killed Walid Eido, a Lebanese politician, and his son

What next for Israel?

How should Israel respond to the boycott of its universities?

Wall Street Journal What I Saw in Iraq
Iran remains a problem, but Anbar has joined the fight against terror.
By JOSEPH LIEBERMAN

H14 Financial Times US missile plan to forge ahead The US formally told Russia that it would go ahead with plans to build missile defence facilities, despite an offer from Moscow to share data from a radar site in Azerbaijan

Abbas dismisses Hamas-led government

COMMENT: France's first revolution of the 21st century Is France under Nicolas Sarkozy about to experience something radically new–a ‘pragmatic revolution’? By Dominique Moïsi

COMMENT: Behind the mask in therace for the White House The Republican hopeful has little chance of emulating the new French president, writes Philip Stephens.

WORLD NEWS: Symptoms of 'Iraq syndrome' may not be all bad

Markets could cope with doubling of US deficit Global capital markets would be able to finance a near-doubling of the US current account deficit to $1,600bn a year by 2012, a McKinsey study published argues.

Rebranding exercise may not seal deal for Merkel Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, confirmed yesterday that a new European treaty would be stripped of the trappings of a "superstate", including dropping its...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: US needs policy not laundry list to deal with Putin

NATIONAL NEWS: Samarra bombing sparks reprisals

Negroponte to press Musharraf

Backlash feared to US funding in Iran The survival of Iranian non-governmental organisations is being threatened by the US’s attempts to fund the country’s civil society, leading activists have warned.

Bush to back deal on arms sales to UK The US and UK are attempting to craft a treaty to tackle one of the most contentious issues in relations between the two countries by allowing Britain to buy defence products from American companies without having to obtain export licences.

ANALYSIS: Their Ukraine A deal on fresh elections solved a looming conflict for the country’s leaders but will not reconcile the divisions that caused it.

Big drop in Germany’s spending Public spending as a percentage of economic output has fallen sharply and is fast approaching British levels, according to a study by the finance ministry

Warsaw digs in over new EU treaty Doubts over progress on constitution

Editorial Two-speed reform It is no surprise that Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, and his ruling Liberal Democratic party are faring poorly in the opinion polls.

COMMENT: To treat Japan as an economic curiosity looks ever more odd Enough has changed since the asset bubble came and went that it is time to regard the country’s economy as just about entirely ‘normal’.

COMMENT: The Bank's broad money headache Interpreting changes in stock growth is difficult and, in the UK, extremely controversial, writes Martin Wolf.

NATIONAL NEWS: Ex-Bush aide urges 'wealth distribution through tax'

THE AMERICAS: Democratic hopefuls push for new way beyond Clintonomics

Hindsight's insight on Iraq

By Jonathan Chait Accusations of flip-flopping shouldn't obscure a simple truth: The war was a bad idea.

Editorial Listening to Putin Bush should pay more than lip service to the Russian president's proposal to put a missile defense shield in Azerbaijan.

Another J. Edgar Hoover? By Kenneth D. Ackerman The Red scare spawned the tyrannical FBI chief; will a similar homegrown villain emerge from the war on terror?

Al Qaeda targets France By Bruce Riedel Working in Algeria, the terror group has been laying the groundwork for attacks.

H16 American Politics

The Economist The candidates: Barack Obama The campaign's brightest star

In bellwether states, Mitt Romney surges ahead

The former governor of Massachusetts is now consistently running first in most Iowa and New Hampshire polls.

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas Swamp Sunrise Daybook

H17 Daily Telegraph Fundamentally threatened from all sides Welcome to the new Islamic Republic of Hamas-stan, says Con Coughlin, where every Palestinian woman is obliged to wear the veil and all traces of corrupting Western influences are strictly banned.

Islamic rule has arrived, says Hamas Abbas dissolves the Palestinian government and declares a state of emergency.

Analysis: A community ruled by the gun

Brown faces Germany's EU treaty push Gordon Brown faces a battle over Europe when he becomes PM after Germans move to resurrect the European constitution.

Germany's draft EU treaty

Russia backs down on missile threat

Russia dropped its threat to aim nuclear weapons at European cities after weeks of Cold War-style brinkmanship.

Brown's Euro-scepticism

Gordon Brown will not end up disappointed by his trips to Brussels because he has had no affection for them to begin with, says John Kampfner.

We must have our say on any Euro-deal The announcement by the German presidency of the EU that it recommends the rapid convening of an inter-governmental conference on future constitutional change in the EU is deeply significant.

'We have let in too many immigrants' Immigration is out of hand, say two out of three Britons.

The Economist Gordon Brown and foreign affairs Welcome to the world

H18 Independent A triumph for Hamas... but a tragedy for the Palestinians? A war in Gaza threatening to redraw the map of the Middle East

Sami Abdel Shafi: Amid this chaos, suffering will get worse

Failure to halt Iraqi violence revealed by Pentagon report

Dominic Lawson: What chance has Brown of penetrating the murky depths of the intelligence services?

Glenys Kinnock: The need for an ethical foreign policy, Mark II

Merkel admits that deal on new EU treaty 'is still not in sight'

Robert Fisk: Sinister strategy behind an MP's murder

Robert Fisk: Disgraced UN chief and Nazi war criminal Waldheim, dies aged 88

The Big Question: Is Scotland becoming separated from the rest of the United Kingdom?

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

CFR Is US Troop Morale Slipping?

Do past empires hold lessons for U.S. foreign policy today? Alex Cooley has thoughts on a debate.

A review of The Pentagon: A History by Steve Vogel.

US prepares for 'cyber war' with China

Reid Calls Joint Chiefs Chairman 'Incompetent' (Fox News)

Controversy over military vehicles for Iraq heats up In February 2005, Marines in Iraq made a "priority 1 urgent" request for 1,169 military vehicles with V-shaped undersides that save lives by deflecting blasts from roadside bombs. But instead of those Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, or MRAPs, the Marines back home sent armored Humvees, vehicles that offer far less protection.

HBO History Makers Series: A Conversation with William J. Perry (Audio)

H20 Slate The Enemy of My Enemy:

How Sunni insurgents can help us.

Fred Kaplan

Is This the End of the Two-State Solution?:

The consequences and possibilities of the civil war in Gaza. Shmuel Rosner

The Economist Political liberalism To the rescue of liberalism

An excerpt from Manliness by Harvey C. Mansfield.

The Sopranos and the End of Masculinity: Six years of tough-guy posturing haven't gotten Tony anywhere

From Asia Times, China's current artistic renaissance has been likened to the emergence of Western Modernism more than 100 years ago. While this may be a questionable comparison, there is no doubt that something dynamic and vibrant is happening in the world of Chinese art.

H21 The RNA revolution Biology's Big Bang What physics was to the 20th century, biology will be to the 21st—and RNA will be a vital part of it

RNA Really New Advances

The Soprano effect

By Paul Greenberg The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan spared no superlative. The New York Times hailed "The Sopranos," as the "greatest drama ever created for television." I would never have known all that. I still don't.

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