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H1 Charlie Rose interviews Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft

Wall Street Journal Unifying Iraq
Partition is the path to more war--multiple wars, in fact. By DONALD L. HOROWITZ

Washington Post 'West Bank First': It Won't Work By Robert Malley and Aaron David Miller, Gaza is dead, long live the West Bank! Don't believe it. Changing our focus won't displace Palestinian anger

Financial Times ANALYSIS: The new capitalism How unfettered finance is fast reshaping the global economy By Martin Wolf, How much of the vast growth in the financial system is short-term and how much is structural will become known once current easy conditions end.

COMMENT: Missed opportunities, Gaza and the spread of jihadism Having 1.4m desperate Palestinians locked into a lawless Gaza Strip, dominated by Islamists, is a huge security risk for Israel, writes Gideon Rachman.

Editorial The west should not pick sides in the Palestinian conflict There is a danger that western policy will deepen the divide between Palestinians rather than reconciling them.

Iraq’s professionals flee death threats Statistics show 40 per cent have gone abroad as even a small amount of visible wealth makes people vulnerable to kidnapping.

DAVID BROOKS A New Global Blueprint The U.S. should make itself the center of a series of new global institutions where nations could come together and solve common

Christian Science Monitor

Israel's sudden Gaza dilemma Potential humanitarian crisis? The UN says food will run out in about 10 days if Gaza stays sealed.

An Iraqi city resists violence A referendum on the status of ethnically diverse and oil-rich Kirkuk will test its peaceful resolve

Could Pakistan fall to extremists?

Analysts say Washington's fears that Islamic extremists will take control of Pakistan are overblown

The Crime Pandemic By: Moisés Naim | Los Angeles Times
The world is experiencing a crime pandemic. Crime rates are on the rise almost everywhere, and these crime statistics typically are distinct from the death and mayhem that comes with terrorism, civil war or major conflict. The data reflect the booming number of civilians assaulted, robbed or murdered by other civilians who live in the same city, often in the same neighborhood.

CFR Cordesman: Gaza Isolated But Hamas Not Easily Contained

Guardian Resistance is futile

Dilip Hiro Hamas has deep roots in Palestinian society. Instead of trying to reverse this, Fatah would do well to seek reconciliation with the party.

Let Hamas govern Samir El-youssef: Fatah must concede defeat and learn to become an effective democractic opposition.

War's Sacred Toll By: James Carroll | The Boston Globe
A conflict in which victory is defined by chaos, strategy by the mere inflicting of social anguish, naturally organizes itself around assaults on the sacred. Such taboo-shattering violence can seem endemic to the intra-Islam civil war that has been unleashed by the American invasion, but it contains a larger warning. Something about war itself.

More Troops, More Troubles By: Andrew J. Bacevich | Los Angeles Times The challenge confronting those aspiring to the presidency, therefore, is to devise an alternative to Bush's failed strategy. To pass muster, any such strategy will have to recognize the limits of American power, military and otherwise. It must acknowledge that because the United States cannot change Islam, we have no alternative but to coexist with it.

Wheel of misfortune

By Arnaud de Borchgrave Israel is now boxed in between three pro-Iran entities (Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas) and two pro-al Qaeda terrorist groups -- Hezbollah that is dominant in Lebanon to the north and Hamas that now controls Gaza, the size of Washington, D.C., to the south.

ABCNEWS: SUICIDE BOMB TEAMS SENT TO USA, EUROPE

Jerusalem Post The Region: It's hard to be an Arab [ BARRY RUBIN

Our World: Grounded in fantasy
By CAROLINE GLICK US and Israel wish to solve all problems with a Palestinian state in Gaza, Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.

Analysis: Olmert's message to US stresses new 'opportunity'

Syria: War with Israel won't be conventional

Washington Institute Hamas and the Second Six Day War: Implications, Challenges, and Opportunities

Yes, the Mideast matters Niall Ferguson Should we simply ignore the Mideast?

H2 From the Archive - The Kurds and the Destiny of the Middle East By Graham Fuller – Rand Corporation 1993

FT Erdogan set for bigger vote share Turkey’s government could see its share of the vote rise in next month’s general election but its seats in the new parliament fall sharply, according to an opinion poll on Monday.

Washington Realist Perle and Turkish Exceptionalism?

Independent Turkish president blocks government move to speed up referendum on presidency

BBC Turkey president vetoes poll plan

Harekât geriliminden ABD sorumlu TED RALL

Newsweek Ankara PKK'yı 'Bask taktiği'yle çökertebilir -

Ha’aretz Forgetting his Turkish, now thinking in Hebrew

Turkey President Blocks Referendum Move

‘The breakdown of democratic regimes’ by ELISABETH ÖZDALGA

Turkey's New Anti-Terror Campaign Avoids Iraq DefenseNews.com

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

Öteki Irak
Kumru Başer'in hazırladığı araştırma dizisini dinlemek için tıklayın

Zaho sanki Güneydoğu

PKK şehire indi

PKK bombasına karşı Türkiye-ABD işbirliği

Rice: "PKK'ya karşı üçlü mekanizmayı hızlandıralım"

ABD: PKK için somut adımlar üzerinde çalışıyoruz

PKK ateşkes ilan etmedi!

Ortak tampon bölge hazırlığı

Emre Uslu A realistic scenario: Loosing more soldiers on the eve of election

Turhan Çömez ÖZGÜVEN SORUNU…

Yusuf KANLI US needs to 'pinch Barzani'

Kandil Dağı boşaldı

Kampları boşaltan PKK'lıları DHA görüntüledi

Tunceli ve Erzincan'da PKK saldırısı: 8 asker yaralı

DTP ile koalisyon şartı

Barzani'ye senaryo mesajı

DTP Genel Başkanı Türk'ün yeğeni kanalda boğuldu

Bayik warns Turkey against Iraq incursion

Maliki: PKK'ya karşı birlikte adım atalım

Maliki accepts Erdoğan’s invitation to visit Ankara

Mesud Barzani hakkında soruşturma başlatıldı

Osman Öcalan PKK’dan özür dileyen Osman’ı terk edip kaçtı

ABD’ye Ladin’i hatırlatacak!

PKK'dan özür dileyince karısı, Öcalan'ı terk etti

Arslan BULUT MİT'te ve MHP'de federasyon hazırlığı mı var?

ERDOĞAN UMUT OLDU!..

Rice, PKK sorunun çözümü için yine aynı adresi gösterdi

Irak Başbakanı Ankara davetini kabul etti

Turkey Opens Investigation Into Iraq's Barzani

PKK’ya destek soruşturması

There is not much Maliki can provide
New Anatolian

Maliki'den PKK'nın faaliyetlerini yasaklama sözü

Ağar: Bağırmayla, küfürle terörü çözmek olanaksız

İtalya: Mayınlar için işbirliğine hazırız

Erdoğan'dan DTP ile koalisyon şartı

‘PKK’nın faaliyetleri yasaklanacak’

Askeri araca mayınlı pusu

Christians in Kurdistan

Bush Holds Video Conference With Iraqis

Rice: Üçlü mekanizmaya ağırlık verilmeli

Seferi Yılmaz adaylıktan çekildi

Güvenlik bölgelerine giriş askere göre 3, tabelaya göre 13 ay yasak

Erdoğan İslam dünyası yüzleşmelidir

Cenazeler istismar edilmesin İSMAİL ÖZCAN –

Hüsnü Mahalli İşgal, demokrasi ve iç savaş

Güven Sak Filistin Kadima’sını bulamadı ve işler iyice karıştı

Haluk Ülman "Yeni Ortadoğu düzeni"nin adı: "Kaos"

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Public opposition to Turkey's entry growing stronger in EU

[Yorum - Amanda Akçakoca] AB, Türkiye'yi ateşe attı!

Beş büyük AB ülkesi Türkiye'yi istemiyor

AB’de Türkiye karşıtlığı artıyor

İspanya ve Türkiye İsmet Berkan

''Dost yaklaşımı Yunanistan'dan karşılık bulmadı''

Fikret Ertan AKKA problemi...

Turkey’s strategy to become an energy corridorby HASAN KANBOLAT

Mehmet Altan Avrupa başka, AB başka...

Fransa, 1 başlığı açtırmayacak

Yunan pilota intihar emri

Early elections in sight in Greece, too Ariana FERENTINOU

Umut Uras EU law should be unilaterally implemented in northern Cyprus

Sami KOHEN Sarkozy için ilk test

Türkiye'deki ılımlı İslam tehdit değil

Rum Başpiskopos'tan Türkiye'ye tepki

Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomew visits Greek church leader

'Greeks on the Black Sea' at the Getty Villa reveals cultural blend

ERGUN BABAHAN Avrupa'daki Türkler

Şahin Alpay AKP kadın haklarını tehdit ediyormuş...

Gender equality given carrot and stick in ESI report

AKEL supports AKP, who will support AKEL? Sylvia TIRYAKI

BSEC to grant the EU observer status

Azeri vekiller, Ermenistan'a savaş açılmasını istedi

27 el bombasıyla ilgili soruşturma sürüyor

Hamili kart Susurluk'tan

“İçeridekiler Mumcu’nun gerçek katilleri değil”

Büyük palavra: ÖSS'yi kaldırmak Hasan Celal Güzel

[Yorum - Herkül Millas] Rigas'tan 250 yıl sonra dertleşme

YUSUF KAPLAN Amerika İzlenimleri: Fethullah Hoca'nın ufku (1)

Kübra Gül'ün türbanı Bilkent'in başını belaya soktu

Seyfettin Gürsel Baskın Oran’a oy vermek için iki önemli neden

EMRE AKÖZ Harem-selamlık oteli

KÜRŞAT BUMİN Bu mizah demokrasinin teminatıdır

Yeni kuşaklara korku aktarılıyor UFUK COŞKUN –

Gece karanlığında hedefleri 12'den vurdular

Hava Kuvvetleri'nden bir ilk

Tülay Tuğcu'nun yerine 3 kadın aday

19 Haziran 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 Doları 1.299’a çeken SEÇİM ANKETİ

Bahçeli ABD ikna edilir K. Irak’a girilir

Sezer'den veto geldi iki sandık imkânsız

Enis Berberoğlu İktidar bağımsıza bağlı

Bilal Çetin Hangi koalisyon?

Güler Kömürcü Bir başka korkunç senaryo daha...

ABD'deki dehşet senaryosu balon çıktı

Can Ataklı 22 Temmuz’a kadar orduyu tut

Rice: 'PKK ile Mücadelede Kararlıyız'

'Terör bağlantılı parti ile koalisyon olmaz'

Erdoğan'dan DTP'ye: Bulgaristan'daki HÖH gibi ol, gel

Gül için Köşk iyice zorlaştı Murat Yetkin

Fikret BİLA Düğümü Anayasa Mahkemesi çözecek

Taha AKYOL Felaket senaryoları

Hasan CEMAL Senaryo değil, el bombası!

Güngör URAS Türkiye-ABD ilişkilerini bozmaya çabalıyorlar

'Hiçbir ülkede böyle bir nefret görmedim'

PKK şehire indi

Radikal Yine Veli Küçük

Emre Uslu A realistic scenario: Loosing more soldiers on the eve of election

Turhan Çömez ÖZGÜVEN SORUNU…

Susurluk'un artçısı 'Kaldırım'ın altında

Kamyonsuz Susurluk

Otopark operasyonu Susurluk'a dayandı

Cengiz Çandar Kutuplaşma ve iç savaşlar coğrafyası

İki yıldır AKP’ye karşı darbe hazırlığı var

Arınç Ey mahkeme, 367'nin gerekçeli kararı nerede?

Gözler tsk.mil.tr’de

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 Büyük bir ayrıntı

Fehmi Koru Oyun içinde oyun

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Asker-ABD ilişkisi ve darbe meselesi

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Aptal yerine konulmak

NAZLI ILICAK Terör bilançosu ve AK Parti'nin 'sorumluluğu'

Ertuğrul Özkök Aman manşete çıkarmayın

Ahmet Hakan

M Ali Birand Bırakın inadı uzlaşıyla çözün…

ERDAL ŞAFAK Yeni bir sistem

MUHARREM SARIKAYA İki sandık birleşmez

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN
Sokaktan siyasete

İlter Türkmen Ortadoğu kábusları ve Türkiye

Cüneyt Ülsever USAK raporuna göre Kuzey Irak

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Our geography dictates conspiracy theories to us in the absence of wisdom

Sabahattin ÖNKİBAR
AKP'den askere karşı psikolojik harekat

Mehmet Tezkan AKP’nin üç hedefi: Çankaya, Anayasa Mahkemesi ve YÖK..

Nuray Mert 'Ben soruna sorun demem' Nuray Mert Bizde, her politik söylem veya çevre, öncelikler bir yana, sorunların ne olduğu ve de ne olmadığı konusunda da, tek karar verici olma iddiasında.

MHP: CHP ile koalisyon söz konusu olmayacak

Gülay Göktürk Senaryonun devamı

Mehmet Barlas Ev ziyareti ‘Zincirbozan arkadaşlığı’ndan 24 yıl sonra mı yapılır?

Tabanda 'biz' ve 'öteki' Murat Belge

Partilerin hak vaatleri Turgut Tarhanlı

Serdar Turgut Oyumuz kime?

İlnur Çevik Presidential veto becomes routine

Tamer Korkmaz "Karanlık Senaryo"da Rock Hudson kim?

Hudson'dan gecikmiş yalanlama: Senaryolar konuşulmadı

Oktay Ekşi Efkár etmek...

Emin Çölaşan Şimdiye kadar niye halletmedin!

Hadi Uluengin Washington kafası

Andrew Finkel The games people play

Baran "Senaryolar toplantıda tartışılmadı"

Savaş SÜZAL TSK kendi doğruları ile çelişiyor

Perinçek AKP, orduya psikolojik harekat düzenliyor

Suat Kınıklıoğlu What is this election all about?

Cumhurbaşkanını halkın seçmesine bir veto daha

Berat Özipek Parti değiştirenler tutarsız mı?

Arınç Asker açıklasın

Rauf Tamer “Deli saçması”

Okay Gönensin Deli saçması mı?

Mensur Akgün Tuhaf olan

İsrafil KUMBASAR Hudson damgalı felaket senaryosu AKP siparişi mi?

Zeyno Baran'dan 'çirkin senaryo' açıklaması: Tuğcu'dan özür diliyorum

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Sol'un yeni umudu Baskın Oran!

MELİHA OKUR MHP'nin Alevileri!

UMUR TALU Çuvaldız!

Murat Kelkitlioğlu Genelkurmay açıklama yapacak mı?

Senaryoya çok üzüldüm Türk yetkililerden açıklama bekliyorum

Yargının vereceği karar bekleniyor

Mahir Kaynak Farklı beklentiler

Hollandalı ING Oyakbank’ı alıyor

Karaparayla dört koldan mücadele başlıyor

Mümtazer Türköne Sezer'inki rejim suçu

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Bir Türk, İtalyan kılığına girince!

Ekrem Dumanlı Sağı solu olmayan seçim

Somuncuoglu: US Seeks AK Party Victory in Turkish Elections

Özdemir İnce Cumhurbaşkanı’na karşı müthiş tezvirat kampanyası

[Yorum - Doç. Dr. Birol Akgün] Seçimlere bağımsızlar damgasını vuracak

Başbakan olursam mallarım kayyuma

'Ordunun laiklik endişesi yersiz'

Şakir Süter Baykal’a teessüf!

‘Derin devlet’ değil ‘Derin Türkiye’ var

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM
Bu seçimde piyasalar sopasını neden sakladı?

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Seçimlere girerken mali piyasalar

Yalçın Doğan Politika sermayenin elinde

Ercan Kumcu İki olasılık var

Erdal Sağlam Londra’dakilerin bakışı yine yanlış

'Teflon lira' Korkmaz İlkorur

Asaf Savaş Akat Maliye politikası ve konjonktür

Murat Yülek Post-election economic agenda

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN Para ve maliye politikasını sıkın, bırakın kurlar dalgalansın

Deniz Gökçe Seçimin komik ekonomisi!

‘Election promises dragged Turkey into a morass of debt’

Volkan Akı Dünya temiz toprak arıyor, bizim GAP’ta altın yatıyor

Türkiye'nin buğday ambarı 10 ilde alarm zili çalıyor

Migros'u satışa çıkaran Koç dört sektörde yoğunlaşacak

DAVID BROOKS A New Global Blueprint The U.S. should make itself the center of a series of new global institutions where nations could come together and solve common problems.

Desperation Rises at Closed Border Crossings Between Gaza Strip and Israel

Kidnapping Trial of C.I.A. Agents Is Suspended by Judge in Italy

H5 Washington Post 'West Bank First': It Won't Work By Robert Malley and Aaron David Miller, Gaza is dead, long live the West Bank! Don't believe it. Changing our focus won't displace Palestinian anger

U.S. Lifts Embargo To Help Abbas Palestinian Leader Wins Support Amid Turmoil

Embassy Staff In Baghdad Inadequate, Rice Is Told Ambassador's Memo Asks for 'Best People'

Iraq, 'Sinking Fast,' Is Ranked No. 2 on List of Unstable States

U.S., British Troops Battle Shiite Militiamen in East Forces Push Into Insurgent Areas Around Baghdad

Dozens Die In NATO's Offensive in Afghanistan

Administration Struggles With Interrogation Specifics

Bush Aides' Misuse of E-Mail Detailed by House Committee

Dragging Down the Democrats By E. J. Dionne Jr., There's the brand, and then there's the product. At the moment, the Democratic brand is pretty good while the Republican brand is badly scarred. But when it comes to product, Democrats still have a lot of development work to do.

Words Of Mass Infuriation

By Anne Applebaum, "Eager to preserve the English language against a rising tide of nonsense," a British newspaper asked readers last week to compose a piece of prose "crammed with as many infuriating phrases as possible." The results make entertaining reading.

Editorial Mistreated Casualties

Veterans with psychological wounds are getting shabby treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Post Global Victory for Hamas, But At What Cost

William Arkin Petraeus' Perspective on Iraq

H6 Guardian Resistance is futile

Dilip Hiro Hamas has deep roots in Palestinian society. Instead of trying to reverse this, Fatah would do well to seek reconciliation with the party.

Let Hamas govern Samir El-youssef: Fatah must concede defeat and learn to become an effective democractic opposition.

Waiting and wondering Elena Qleibo What's the mood like in Gaza? Full of pain, confusion and fear about the future.

US ends Palestinian boycott Bush administration lifts political and economic embargo and pledges $40m in aid.

Two failed states Emanuele Ottolenghi: Events in Gaza must be understood for what they are: the end of Palestinian national aspirations.

Iraq was on course until 2003 UN bombing, says Blair

It has got to be Al Gore Peter Preston: If he is as serious about climate change as he says he is, he has to run for the US presidency.

Leader All over at last French elections: Mr Sarkozy lost a political heavyweight in the defeat of Alain Juppé, who had to resign as the government's number three minister.

The silent majority Nicolas Schmit: French and Dutch 'no' votes have obscured the fact that two-thirds of member states support the EU constitutional treaty.

Calculating risk Anthony Giddens Jun 18 07, 07:30pm: Gordon Brown's anti-terror plans are realistic: civil liberties have to be balanced against security given this new threat.

The view from the summit

Joschka Fischer Jun 18 07, 08:30pm: No real miracles occurred at the summit in Heiligendamm; instead, the G8 will need a miracle not to lose its relevance.

EU summit threat as Poland hints at veto Poland calls for reopening of talks on how power is wielded within the union.

H7 War's Sacred Toll By: James Carroll | The Boston Globe
A conflict in which victory is defined by chaos, strategy by the mere inflicting of social anguish, naturally organizes itself around assaults on the sacred. Such taboo-shattering violence can seem endemic to the intra-Islam civil war that has been unleashed by the American invasion, but it contains a larger warning. Something about war itself.

Time Surge Architect: More Time Needed — Fred Kagan, the man widely seen as the "architect" of the military surge in Iraq, sees signs of progress but warns that September is too early to make a final decision about how well it has achieved its goals.

NRO Iran & Mideast THE EDITORS: Iran won’t stop so long as there is no price to its acts of war. The controversy over Senator Lieberman’s remark shows how we aren’t prepared to make it pay one. “At War with Iran”

Washington Times Staring at Syria By Louis Rene Beres and Paul E. Vallely Israel should resist annexation

Boston Globe Editorial A new Mideast configuration

Radicalization, despair in the Mideast (By H.D.S. Greeenway)

Amid chaos, a chance for progress (By Bob Zelnick)

TEL AVIV SOMETIMES WEAKNESS is strength.

The Libby cabal ISN - Zurich,Switzerland
By Sidney Blumenthal

CAP An Axis of Peace for Darfur: The United States, France, and China

Iran and its neighbors (Tulin Daloglu)

Debate Swirls Over Fiscal Pinch on N. Korea, Iran By: Farah Stockman | The Boston Globe
As some senior policymakers seek to open a new era of diplomatic dialogue with North Korea and Iran, the aggressive financial actions have sparked a bitter debate in Washington among those who want to step up the pressure and those who see it as an obstacle to talks.

World Bank's Ongoing Corruption Battle By: Danny Leipziger and Sanjay Pradhan | The Japan Times
The recent turbulence surrounding the resignation of Paul Wolfowitz from the presidency of the World Bank has underscored the need to push ahead with the bank's good governance and anticorruption agenda.

Foreign Policy The List: The World's Top Immigrant Smuggling Routes

New Republic Does the United Nations have a future?
by Suzanne Nossel

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

US Papers Tuesday: Diyala Assault Underway

Iraqi Papers Tues: "Your Time Has Come"

BBC 'Iraq drives' global refugee rise The global number of refugees rises for the first time in five years, mainly due to the Iraq war, the UN says.

US, EU restore Palestinian ties

The US and the EU are to normalise ties with the new Palestinian government that excludes Hamas.

Hamas isolation
How the West wants to give its support to Fatah

Iraq: Hundreds Go Missing or Get Killed at Checkpoints Integrated Regional Information Networks
Manned by the Iraqi police, Iraqi soldiers or sometimes by militias, checkpoints are adding to the immense strain already felt by Baghdad residents. Locals say that people are often arrested at checkpoints on suspicion of working with armed groups—and after being arrested, anything can happen.

Rice Told Embassy Staff In Baghdad Lacking: Report

The Region is Silent Amid Iraqi Violence By: Alia A. Toukan | The Daily Star Journalists and opinion leaders must be quick to condemn the killing of Iraqi civilians, whatever their religious affiliation, each and every time this happens.

Britain feared US would 'nuke' Afghanistan: ex-diplomat

Conflicts Forum The Palestinian question: What now?

Hamas' Questionable Intelligence Windfall Stratfor

UPI Analysis: Palestinians face uncharted sea

Meshaal: Clever but Unconvincing

OpenDemocracy Hamas’s shortsighted manoeuvre

IsraPundit Just How Many Wars Will There Be In Lebanon This Summer?

Israel-West Bank-Gaza: the future

New Republic A journey through Afghanistan Among suicide bombers, feminist governors, and acres and acres of poppies. by Peter Bergen

H9 Ha’aretz - Akiva Eldar: Hamastan as Sharon's dream of a bantustan Gaza

PM to urge Bush: Make Hamas pariah, back Abbas

Syria denies rumors of secret talks, calls for new negotiations Syria's UN envoy says Damascus supports Arab peace initiative, urges U.S. involvement in peace talks.

Abbas aide says Iran told Hamas to use violence in Gaza Strip

Was it really Dahlan's fault?

Barghouti, Fatah execs urge Dahlan removal

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

'Take Hamas out of the game'
Prime minister in Washington to meet with US president Tuesday; Olmert expected to ask Bush to fortify Abbas to make sure Hamas is neutralized; leaders also likely to discuss possible renewal of peace talks with Syria Full Story . . .

A new Road Map

Gaza reality presents golden opportunity to turn new leaf in West Bank, Dror Ze'evi says

'Don't leave Golan Heights'

Ambassador to UK invites Israelis to remain under Syrian sovereignty if region returned

Jerusalem Post The Region: It's hard to be an Arab [ BARRY RUBIN

Our World: Grounded in fantasy
By CAROLINE GLICK US and Israel wish to solve all problems with a Palestinian state in Gaza, Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.

Analysis: Olmert's message to US stresses new 'opportunity'

Syria: War with Israel won't be conventional

ISRAEL: Discredited party politics under attack

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Israel's sudden Gaza dilemma Potential humanitarian crisis? The UN says food will run out in about 10 days if Gaza stays sealed.

An Iraqi city resists violence A referendum on the status of ethnically diverse and oil-rich Kirkuk will test its peaceful resolve

Could Pakistan fall to extremists?

Analysts say Washington's fears that Islamic extremists will take control of Pakistan are overblown.

Opinion: After Iraq war, resist the isolationist impulse

Iraqis find common ground - on a soccer field

In a match pitting Iraq against Iran, our reporter wades into the stands to find Sunnis and Shiites united.

Opinion: Media tips from a departing prime minister: Keep news and views distinct

Mandate won, Sarkozy set to reform

French voters gave his conservative party a majority in parliamentary elections Sunday, though it was narrower than expected.

Indonesia, Saudi Arabia make gains against Islamic militants

ASIA The First to Save the Planet By: Frank Ching | The Japan Times The U.S. and China are playing a dangerous game if each intends to insist that the other act first to reduce emissions blamed for global warming.

CFR China’s Slow Road to Democracy

Watch That Slump in Asia's Pricing Power Abroad By: Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg
Asian exporters are struggling to climb a slippery slope of rising costs and falling prices.

Japan Must Take More Risk Now for Future Generations By: John Val | Financial Times (subscription required)
The administration of Shinzo Abe is investigating the formation of a Japan Investment Corporation that would manage a portion of Japan’s nearly $1,000bn of foreign exchange reserves. In addition to increasing the income from this huge national asset, Japan can also alleviate yen appreciation pressure and promote the country as an inter national financial centre.

Some Questions for the Next World Bank President By: Joseph E. Stiglitz | The Daily Star
As several heads of US congressional committees have pointed out, it is in America's interest for the World Bank to be led by the most qualified person, selected in an open and transparent process, regardless of nationality, gender, or race.

H11 IHT Palestinian incompetence, Western hypocrisy By RAMI G. KHOURI As long as Israel and its Western backers persist in their shameful double standards, a credible

EU to release aid to Palestinian Authority

Small, uneasy Georgia praises the new France By JOHN VINOCUR Sarkozy is already steering French foreign policy away from the Chirac years' complaisant view of Russia's wanting a belt of limited-sovereignty countries at its borders.

Chief of BP urges Western countries to open up to Russian investment

Let the polluter protect the rainforest
By WILLIAM POWERS AND GLENN HUROWITZ
Programs like carbon ranching represent the world's best hope to save vanishing tropical forests and avert global climate catastrophe

EUROPE European press review

Why Should Kosovo Get International Recognition? IFIMES
An article examining the historical case for Kosovan independence

WSJ The Constitution Con
The EU tries to pull a fast one.
By DANIEL SCHWAMMENTHAL

The Kosovo Knot Just as in 1999, NATO should bypass the U.N.
By BORUT GRGIC

Der Spiegel France's New Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner: A French Doctor To Cure Trans-Atlantic Ills

H12 RFE/RL

Russia's Wrong Direction: What the United States Can and Should Do CFR A 104-page US report on the current state of US-Russian relations

Google News Azerbaijan

Geopolitical Diary: The Russian-Western Tug-of-War Stratfor

Armenian foreign minister: There no problems between Washington and Yerevan

UPI BMD Focus: Why US may reject Putin plan

Uncertainty Grips Uzbekistan as Leader's Term Ends By: Maria Golovnina | Reuters
Diplomats and analysts suggest a number of scenarios; from last-minute constitutional changes allowing Karimov to extend his term by a few years or run for president again, to a referendum declaring him president for life.

H13 The Times The biggest threat to radicalism On the face of it, the proposal by Europe and the US to lift the embargo on West Bank aid is sensible Bronwen Maddox

Hope in Afghanistan Two tragedies should not prompt exaggerated fears about the insurgents

Cameron’s Credo Smaller government and a larger role for the individual are vote winners

Blair’s EU treaty demands leave UK in the cold Britain was left isolated in its attempt to resist a new EU treaty after the PM said there would be no deal without opt-outs

Wall Street Journal Unifying Iraq
Partition is the path to more war--multiple wars, in fact.
By DONALD L. HOROWITZ

H14 Financial Times ANALYSIS: The new capitalism How unfettered finance is fast reshaping the global economy By Martin Wolf, How much of the vast growth in the financial system is short-term and how much is structural will become known once current easy conditions end.

COMMENT: Missed opportunities, Gaza and the spread of jihadism Having 1.4m desperate Palestinians locked into a lawless Gaza Strip, dominated by Islamists, is a huge security risk for Israel, writes Gideon Rachman.

Editorial The west should not pick sides in the Palestinian conflict There is a danger that western policy will deepen the divide between Palestinians rather than reconciling them.

Iraq’s professionals flee death threats Statistics show 40 per cent have gone abroad as even a small amount of visible wealth makes people vulnerable to kidnapping.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Shameful origins of Iraq conflict could yet yield vital long-term lessons in rebuilding failed states

Western boycott of aid for PA to end The west’s year-long financial boycott of the Palestinian Authority is set to end after the European Union signalled it would resume direct payments and Israel said it would release funds to the PA.

COMMENT: The awkward choices facing Brown Rejection of the new EU treaty would give Brown but temporary respite from the Europhobes, writes Philip Stephens.

COMMENT: How Blair can secure a lasting European legacy This may be an occasion for swallowing hard, accepting limited progress and securing a rapid agreement, says Stephen Wall, a former adviser on the EU to Tony Blair.

FT REPORT - ENERGY: Europe needs to break out of a captive market

FT REPORT - ENERGY: Afraid of backing the wrong horse

FT REPORT - ENERGY: Chances improve for a Kyoto successor

FT REPORT - ENERGY: A string of events brings a Damascene conversion

FT REPORT - ENERGY: A new era of nationalism

FT REPORT - ENERGY: Big four making their mark on power business

FT REPORT - ENERGY: Europe needs to break out of a captive market

Bush gambles on immigration for domestic legacy

Germany’s new political party is born Political parties on Monday reacted with bluster to the birth of a new force, the Left party, which could shake up the country’s political architecture.

Army finds new role in Lebanon Since Syria’s withdrawal the military has undergone at least a partial rehabilitation. It is increasingly seen as one of the few neutral institutions in a polarised country and as a last line of defence against rampant insecurity.

Italian judge freezes CIA rendition trial An Italian judge effectively froze the trial of US and Italian spies charged with kidnapping a terrorism suspect in Milan in 2003, giving Italy’s high court time until October to rule on the case.

Editorial Power brokerage An army of lobbyists has arrived in Washington this week to put its imprint on a much-needed bill to forge a national energy policy

COMMENT: Why Rorty's search for what works has lessons for business

When students want to ponder concepts, Richard Rorty is the philosopher John Kay recommends.

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Britons can tell when wealth is fairly won

COMMENT: Double trouble for American telecoms

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial Weep for Gaza The new 'Hamastan' is an unmitigated disaster, and a 'West Bank first' peace is unlikely.

Yes, the Mideast matters Niall Ferguson Should we simply ignore the Mideast?

U.S. troops form uneasy alliances in Iraq

More Troops, More Troubles By: Andrew J. Bacevich | Los Angeles Times
The challenge confronting those aspiring to the presidency, therefore, is to devise an alternative to Bush's failed strategy. To pass muster, any such strategy will have to recognize the limits of American power, military and otherwise. It must acknowledge that because the United States cannot change Islam, we have no alternative but to coexist with it.

Do we use torture?

It's up to Congress to get straight answers on secret CIA prisons and 'enhanced' interrogation techniques.

H16 American Politics

The Use of RNC E-Mail Accounts by White House Officials — The Oversight Committee has been investigating whether White House officials violated the Presidential Records Act by using e-mail accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee and the Bush Cheney '04 campaign for official White House communications.

Lessons learned on Joe Biden's second run

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas Swamp Sunrise Daybook

H17 Daily Telegraph Leader Adrift in Europe

What on earth, therefore, does our Government think it is doing in having such an incoherent approach to the so-called "mini-treaty" that may - or may not - be concluded at the imminent EU summit?

EU chaos as Blair and Brown disagree

A rift has opened between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown over whether a referendum may be necessary to approve gving more power to Brussels.

Aid pours in for moderate Palestinians

The US said it would resume aid to the Palestinian regime now that moderate Fatah is no longer working with militant Hamas.

The Conservatives can't afford many more mixed messages It is not that the voters dislike the Tory leader, but they think he is flaky on policy and lacks authenticity. This is a dangerous position for any politician to find himself in, says Rachel Sylvester.

The BBC can't kick its addiction to bias When it comes to accusations of Left-liberal bias, the BBC is a bit like an alcoholic, thinks Damian Thompson. It is in denial but, deep down, it knows it has a problem.

H18 Independent The Earth today stands in imminent peril

and nothing short of a planetary rescue will save it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous climate change. Those are not the words of eco-warriors but the considered opinion of a group of eminent scientists writing in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

Climate change brings early spring in the Arctic

Bush and Rumsfeld 'knew about Abu Ghraib'

Iraq 'has ruined case for liberal interventionism' Tony Blair has been told that his foreign policy of intervening in the world's troublespots is in tatters because of the disaster in Iraq.

The Sketch: Blair chose his words carefully - and said nothing

Aid boycott lifted to reward Abbas for new government The US and EU have lifted their 15-month boycott of the Palestinian government following the expulsion of Hamas from the cabinet.

Mary Dejevsky: The 'two-state solution' has just imploded

Pakistan joins condemnation of Rushdie's honour

Clinton consolidates her position as Democrat front-runner

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

The structure of Army special operations forces, their capabilities and characteristic mission profiles, and the role of intelligence in supporting them are described in a newly disclosed U.S. Army field manual (pdf). "Army Special Operations Forces Intelligence," Field Manual FM 3-05.102, July 2001.

SHOCKING NEW ABU GHRAIB DETAILS: HERSH

The Crime Pandemic By: Moisés Naim | Los Angeles Times
The world is experiencing a crime pandemic. Crime rates are on the rise almost everywhere, and these crime statistics typically are distinct from the death and mayhem that comes with terrorism, civil war or major conflict. The data reflect the booming number of civilians assaulted, robbed or murdered by other civilians who live in the same city, often in the same neighborhood.

Petraeus and Reid

By Michael O'Hanlon Sen. Harry Reid's recent statements questioning the forthrightness of Gen. David Petraeus in reporting on conditions in Iraq are unseemly and unfair.

U.S. eyes limits on 'cluster' weapons

By John Zarocostas The United States yesterday reversed its opposition to an international treaty on cluster bombs, with a senior State Department official saying it would negotiate limits but not a ban on the weapons.

PAPER: Bin Laden lays low, protected by network in Pakistan...

H20 Slate Free Scooter Libby:

The case gets weirder by the day.

Christopher Hitchens

Global Development Finance 2007: The Globalization of Corporate Finance in Developing Countries
Source: World Bank Download in sections (PDFs) or as full report (PDF; 5.14 MB).

Water for a Changing World: Enhancing Local Knowhow and Capacity
UNESCO-IHE
Background and discussion papers for an international symposium held to consider issues relating to water security (single page linking to individual papers)

Human Tide: The Real Migration Crisis
Christian Aid
A 28-page report drawing attention to the forthcoming global migration crisis likely to follow the deepening effects of climate change

H21

Social Studies

Over the past couple of years, vendors have been turning out "Web 2.0" products -- blogs, wikis and other kinds of social software -- aimed expressly at the corporate user. While most executives are cautious, their curiosity about the tools is increasing.

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