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H1 Brookings The Case for Soft Partition in Iraq View Full Paper (PDF—638kb). (repeat)

Pew Research Center Global Unease With Major World Powers Rising Environmental Concern in 47-Nation Survey

Guardian Environment and US policy top global fears · Worldwide support for withdrawal of Iraq troops · But Putin scores worse than Bush in huge survey

Washington Post China Lends A Hand By Richard Holbrooke, BEIJING -- Three seemingly unrelated events may not constitute a trend. But they certainly deserve attention when they shed light on the relationship between the United States and China, which is fast becoming the most important bilateral connection in the world.

Understanding General Petraeus's Strategy Testimony to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.by Frederick W. Kagan

The Economist Fresh Gordon What does Britain’s new prime minister, Gordon Brown, think of the world?

Hoover Digest 2007 No. 3 Table of Contents

Los Angeles Times U.S. strategy reflects expected exit timeline Generals shift focus to Al Qaeda in Iraq, which they believe will be emboldened by a withdrawal.

Christian Science Monitor

US Army plan would cut soldiers in Europe by half Some 35,000 troops would remain, if Defense Secretary Gates approves the recommendation

In West Bank, Hamas Is Silent but Never Ignored A new code was born here overnight. No one, it seems, belongs to Hamas in the West Bank anymore

IHT Spain's botched peace process By PADDY WOODWORTH The gap between the ETA and the Spanish government appears to get wider by the day.

Independent A manifesto for Gordon Brown Ten pieces of urgent advice for the new man at No 10

Anthony Giddens: It's time to give the Third Way a second chance

Wall Street Journal ROBERT MCFARLANE The Iraqi 'Nation'

Charges that Iraqis want to part ways are nonsense, as I saw firsthand.

WP Bush Plans Envoy To Islamic Nations Appointee Will 'Listen' and 'Learn'

McClatchy US:Al Qaida regroups in new sanctuary on Pakistan border

Ha’aretz - Winograd task force: Bolster PMO National Security Council

Editorial Welcome aboard, Tony It would be hard to think of a more fitting appointment, at a more suitable time, than that of Tony Blair as the Quartet's Mideast envoy.

Benn No one to give them back to There is a growing consensus in Israel that a withdrawal from the West Bank is no longer possible.

Saving Iraq The Nation by ROBERT DREYFUSS

RFE/RL Russia: Moscow Turns Its Attention To The Balkans Two summits in two Southeast European cities. One loud and clear message from Russian President Vladimir Putin: We're back

EDM GABALA PLAN SHOT DOWN BY TEHRAN, MOSCOW’S STRATEGIC PARTNER

CSM Why Russia is against Kosovo plan Ahead of Bush-Putin summit, the issue threatens to stymie efforts to repair relations.

Financial Times Iran continues petrol rationing amid riots Iran’s parliament agreed to press ahead with plans to introduce fuel rationing in the face of panic and rioting across the country over the proposals

Globalization, Jobs and Wages OECD An 8-page policy brief examining the vulnerability of some workers to the effects of globalization

The Next Generation of Jihad
New leaders are following a new strategy. by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
& Kyle Dabruzzi

Salon The imperial vice presidency
By Sidney Blumenthal

Juan Cole Surging toward disaster in Iraq By Juan Cole

The Economist Population

Moving to the city Which regions will see most urbanisation?

Brad DeLong Does China's Rise Make Things Harder for Other Developing Countries? Yes.

CFR Forty Years After the Six Day War: Where Are We with Middle East Peace? (Audio)

Bill Richardson's Speech on Engaging Iran

Heritage How to Confront Russia's Anti-American Foreign Policy by Ariel Cohen

Gordon Brown and the Future of the U.S.-U.K. Alliance

Launch of Center for a New American Security

Foreign Policy The FP Memo: Don’t Be Beijing’s Puppet

Seven Questions: The CIA Airs Its Dirty Laundry

H2 EurasiaNet Turkey: The Political Process Experiences a Quiet Revolution

CIA'nın çok gizli Türkiye raporu

Iraq's Kirkuk Causes US Concern
Wall Street Journal

McClatchy Now on top, Kurds in Kirkuk woo Arabs, Turkmens

Turkey: Hudson Institute Reportedly Discussed Plan to Abduct Karayilan, Bayik

CFR A Conversation with Hoshyar Zebari (Audio)

Turkey Military: Need Iraq Guide

McCormack "Operasyon çözüm olmaz"

Türkiye'de Amerikan Aleyhtarlığı Artıyor

U.S. Discourages Turkish Military Action in Northern Iraq

Turk Army Chief Reaffirms Need For N.Iraq Incursion

Kurdish: A different language by JOOST LAGENDIJK*

CNNTürk Meşal "Bölünme istemiyoruz"

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Washington'da Kerkük'ü anlattı

PKK'dan demiryoluna bomba: 300 yolcu faciadan döndü

Kurdistan on the Brink

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Org. Başbuğ'un haritası...

MHP's Bölükba : Close Habur to force Massoud Barzani's hand

Er ve erbaşlar komando yapılmayacak

Army to restructure to step up fight against PKK

İlnur Çevik When the Kurds enter the Turkish Parliament

'Sınır ötesi operasyonla PKK'yı bitiremeyiz; ama darbe vururuz'

Serdar Turgut Değişime destek

Bilal Çetin Profesyonel orduya doğru...

Başbuğ’dan hava: “Sınır ötesi harekat için uzun hazırlık süresine ihtiyaç yok”

EMRE AKÖZ Atatürk'ten Ağar'a isyanlar

Maliki will not visit Turkey shortly, says spokesperson

Çin: ''Türkiye’nin Kürdistan bölgesine gerçekleştirmek istediği her türlü askeri operasyona karşıyız

Maliki: Kerkük Referandumu zamanında uygulanacak

Hedef PKK değil AKP MUHAMMED NUREDDİN

Turkey: Hudson Institute Reportedly Discussed Plan to Abduct Karayilan, Bayik

Kurdish Peshmerga to Become Border Guards, Receive Iraqi Financing

Five Points Bank Formation of New Iraqi Kurdish Party Criticized in UK Arabic Paper

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 27 June 07

Turk troops kill eight Kurdish rebels in southeast

Askere alma sistemi değişmez...

Sınır ötesinde ısrarlıyız

Komandolar profesyonel olacak

Şırnak'ta 8 terörist ölü ele geçirildi

MELİHA OKUR Kuzey Irak Ortadoğu'nun "İsviçresi" olur mu?

Murat Çelik Eğirdir ve ‘savaşçı ruh’ gerçeği

Genelkurmay Başkanı ile değerlendirme yapmadan herhangi bir şey söyleyemem

Irak Türkmen cephesi başkanı, Kerkük Irak'ın kırılma noktası dedi Ayrıntılar

İsmail Küçükkaya Silahlı Kuvvetlerin değişen paradigması

Güler Kömürcü Komando hazır...

Emin Çölaşan Terör mücadelesi TSK’ya ihale...

Arslan BULUT Psikolojik harekat için teşkilât lâzım!

'Kuzey Irak'a girip darbe vurursunuz'

Profesyonel orduya doğru

Okay Gönensin Kuzey Irak ısrarı

PKK'ya karşı Rambo

Ardan Zentürk Terör ekonomisinin başrol oyuncuları...

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Bir açıklama ve yeni sorular

Murat Birsel Genelkurmay Başkanı’nın sakin gücü!

DTP: Evet, derdimiz özgürlük ve geliyoruz

Tunceli'de eylem hazırlığındaki 4 kişi yakalandı

DTP: Erdoğan her ilde farklı konuşuyor

Economic growth boost in Kurdistan

Çin, K.Irak'a müdahaleye karşı

Kurdistan enjoying stability in Iraq

Talabani calls for US military base in Kurdistan

Four Iraqi police killed in ambush south of Kirkuk

ITC's Ergeç holds Kirkuk talks in Washington

PKK psikolojik harekatta daha iyi

ABD: El Kaideli iki Türk’ü öldürdük

Organization of the Islamic Conference Will Gain U.S. Envoy

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

SOLİ ÖZEL AB çarkı

ERDAL ŞAFAK Gümrük Birliği kozu

Partilerin dış politika vaatlerinde AB damgası

Şahin Alpay AB'nin yitirdiği "ortak ruh"

To their European friends from the Turkish people C. Cem OĞUZ

‘Sarkozy's move promises tough days for Turkey’

Üyelik daha mı zor?

Türkiye-AB müzakerelerinde son duruma göz attık

TÜSİAD: Fransa Türkiye'yi engelleyemeyecek

New Turkish play on energy chessboard

Metin MÜNİR Doğalgazda değişen dünya düzeni ve Türkiye (2)

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ Laik Yargıtay dünya kiliselerini yönetebilir mi?

Serpil YILMAZ Türkiye'nin zor seçimi: Ya ABD ya Rusya

İki ülkenin boru hatları savaşı

Duransal Güneş Karadeniz'de yeni yarış başladı...

An area of frozen conflicts

Kissinger Kıbrıs harekátına destek vermişti

Atina: Ekümenik sıfatı Türkiye’nin çıkarınadır

Brown Türkiye'yi Blair kadar desteklemiyor

Umur Talu Türkiye dostu Sarko!

ERGUN BABAHAN Ermenistan sorunu

Can Dündar Erivan cephesinde yeni bir şey yok

Ermeni vakfına mal iadesi

ANCA: ABD'de Ermeni tasarısı destek kazanıyor

ABD'de Ermeni tasarısı destek kazanıyor

"Gazprom-Eni anlaşması bizim için olumsuz"

"Türkiye'de ABD'ye olumlu bakanların oranı yüzde 9"

Norveç Savunma Bakanı Ankara'da

DOĞAN HOLDİNG KARINI YÜZDE 50 ARTIRDI

ANA uçağı tartışması

Ecevit: Türkiye'de koloniler kurulacak

Cem Hakko'dan 'Bu ülkenin patronu biziz' ifadelerine yalanlama

Black Sea turns into a garbage dump

Mehmet Altan Rejim korkusu ve kanas

Ahmet Çakır Bir futbol devi göçtü

Davasever Muhbirler Hürriyet'ten Yepyeni Hedefler Perihan Mağden

Andrew Finkel Teenage clash of civilizations

BBC 28 Haziran 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 Terörle profesyonel komando savaşacak Başbuğ: Mayıs 2008'den sonra yedek subay, 2009'dan sonra da er ve erbaşlar komando tugaylarına alınmayacak.

En kritik nokta: Gül'ün tavrı
İsmet Berkan

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ Büyükanıt ne demedi?

Eskişehir'deki cephanelik evde Atabeyler bağlantısı

Gül 22 Temmuz'a kadar operasyon olmaz diyemem

ANKA Çankaya 'solun kalesi' olmayabilir!

Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri değişim içinde Murat Yetkin

Taha AKYOL Askerden mesajlar

M. Ali BİRAND TSK'dan PKK'ya ince ayar

Eğirdir kararları

Ve bir bağlantı daha Eskişehir'de yakalanan emekli binbaşı sorguda. Vali: Tekin'le bağlantılı

TİT'çi Gülaltay, Başbakan'a suikast planlamış

Bir emekli asker daha gözaltında

İşte, yargının iflasının vesikası!
Hasan Celal Güzel

ERDAL ŞAFAK Nitelikli uzlaşma!

EMRE AKÖZ 'Uzlaşma' kelimesi bir kere bile anayasada geçmiyor!

Mustafa Karaalioğlu ‘Gül olamaz’ daha iyi bir gerekçeydi

Bu, Anayasa'yı değiştirmektir

[GEREKÇEYE TEPKİLER]

Baykal'dan müthiş iddia Flaş

Semih İDİZ Iraklı Kürtler petrol zenginleri sınıfına girmek üzere

SOLİ ÖZEL AB çarkı

Partilerin dış politika vaatlerinde AB damgası

Sami KOHEN Başka bir hükümet olsaydı ne yapardı?

İtiraf gibi Gerekçeden de anlaşılamadı

Seçim Beyannameleri: 2. CHP
Tarhan Erdem

Cumhuriyetimizin kurucu ilkeleri kutuplaşmayı çözer - 2 ÖZDEM SANBERK

Cengiz Çandar Washington'un, Türkiye'de 'darbesever' aşırı sağı

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Military’s latest step: Fight terror with professionals

Baykal: Teröre çözüm iktidarın gitmesidir

Fikret BİLA Org. Büyükanıt'ın sürprizi

Güneri CIVAOĞLU 3. nesil savaşçı

Hasan CEMAL Tarih, kimleri ahmak ilan eder? (2)

İhsan Dağı The CHP and MHP: A joint nationalist foreign policy front

Call centerlarıyla Doğu, Türkiye'nin Hindistan'ı oluyor

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 Önemli haberler…

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Hükümet çetelerin peşinde…

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN
Kuzey Irak'ın cinleri...

NAZLI ILICAKEmekli askerler işbaşında

Ahmet Hakan Memleket hikáyeleri

Cüneyt Ülsever Seçmen, AKP’ye nasıl bakıyor?

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Dört yıldızlı emir...

Helping AKP transform itself
Burak BEKDİL

AKİF EMRE Aslına rucü eden MHP

YASİN DOĞAN Çarpıtmanın da bu kadarı…

Ankara on the Hudson
Taryn S. GILBERT

ERGUN BABAHAN 367 kararı ve muhalefet şerhi

Derya SAZAK Ordu ve güvenlik

Mehmet BARLAS Ne emir demiri keser ne de karar tarihi değiştirir...

Arzumuz bürokratik değil demokratik cumhuriyet

GP'den beyanname yerine taahhütname

Bülent Arınç: "Adaylığım sürüyor ifadesini yanlış"

Köşe yazarları hangi partiye oy verecek?

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN
Baykal solda, ben sağda daha hayırlı olurdu

Erdoğan'a 'Sayın Öcalan' şoku

Ekrem Dumanlı Demokrat kalmanın dayanılmaz ağırlığı

Hüseyin Gülerce Mecburi istikamet: Uzlaşma

A new AK Party for the new era?

Mümtazer Türköne "Ulan..."

Yalçın Doğan İktidar dizilerde siyasal programlar çok geride

Baykal'dan tuhaf iddia

Arınç Cumhurbaşkanı adayı olabilirim

Süheyl Batum Cevabına rastlayamadığım sorular...

Haşim Kılıç Baykal'ın tehdidini ve gece yarısı bildirisini eleştirdi

[Yorum - Prof. Dr. Zühtü Arslan] Gerekçeli '367 kararı'nın düşündürdükleri

Court’s neologism: qualified consensus

Burhan Kuzu: Anayasa’nın omurgası kırıldı

Mustafa Erdoğan Mürettep gerekçe

Şakir Süter Merkez Sağ

Mehmet Tezkan Demek ki türban amaç değil araçmış!

Oray Eğin AKP ne demek?

Ayrımcılığa karşı olmak Turgut Tarhanlı

TOKİ Başkanı: Teğmen beni itti

İlk iki turda 367 nitelikli uzlaşma

AKP'den gövde gösterisi

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Sermayenin adresi neden borsa değil?

Seyfettin Gürsel İşgücü piyasasında yeni eğilimler

Şener'den türbülans uyarısı

Hurşit GÜNEŞ İstanbul'daki OECD forumu: toplumsal gelişmeyi ölçme

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM
Ya oyun biterse ne olacak?

İbrahim Öztürk Seçime doğru siyasî parti analizleri (3)

Current problems require a medium and long-term strategy

Faiz dışı fazlayı azaltmak Mahfi Eğilmez

Erdal Sağlam Seçim için yüksek maaş zammı

Salih Neftçi Risk iştahının bir yorumu

Güngör URAS Türkiye "yolgeçen hanı" olmasın (...ama oldu bile!)

Hükümetten kuraklık kararnamesi

Partiler ÖSS'ye karşı

Ülker'e çok cazip bir teklif gelmişti, satsaydık başka ne iş yapabilirdik ki!

Tabip Odası'na göre hastanelerin halka açılması 'karşı devrim'

2 Iranian Gas Stations Burned Over Rationing

H5 Washington Post China Lends A Hand By Richard Holbrooke, BEIJING -- Three seemingly unrelated events may not constitute a trend. But they certainly deserve attention when they shed light on the relationship between the United States and China, which is fast becoming the most important bilateral connection in the world.

Senators Subpoena The White House Panel Demands Papers On NSA Wiretapping

Bush Plans Envoy To Islamic Nations Appointee Will 'Listen' and 'Learn'

Even Among Allies, Image of U.S. Drops Anti-Americanism 'Deeper,' Not Wider, Study Finds

At Least 13 Palestinians Killed As Israeli Military Enters Gaza

The Browns Move In at Downing Street Blair Closes His Decade of British Leadership to Rare Ovation in Parliament

Editorial A Principled Ally As British prime minister, Tony Blair was true to his belief in internationalism

Cheney Unbound By David S. Broder It is always useful for the president to have at least one aide who has had a successful career already, who does not need the job, and who therefore can offer candid...

Globalization's Stir-Fry By Harold Meyerson, Upset that Rupert Murdoch, who kowtows to China, will buy the Wall Street Journal? What if China itself buys the Journal?

Jim Webb and the Populist Pitch By David Ignatius

Editorial Immigration and Reality Better to be pragmatic than talk tough on illegal immigrants

Meeting With U.S. Campaign Aides Shows China's Interest in the Race

H6 Guardian Leader The old and the new Brown arrives: So much changed yesterday between noon, when Tony Blair began his extraordinary and sentimental final Commons session, and 3pm, when Gordon Brown spoke to the nation as prime minister, that it is easy to overlook the one thing that continued.

We've made it. We're in As Gordon Brown finally enters Downing Street as prime minister, the foreign, health and justice ministers lose their jobs.

Scepticism over Blair's envoy role
· Former PM to help build Palestinian institutions · No formal role in finding permanent solution

Environment and US policy top global fears · Worldwide support for withdrawal of Iraq troops · But Putin scores worse than Bush in huge survey

Kremlin lays claim to North Pole
Russia plans to annex a vast 460,000 square mile chunk of the frozen and ice-encrusted Arctic

In these cities of no God, democracy is mocked by poverty and inequality Timothy Garton Ash: Liberal democracy can't flourish where rookie drug dealers earn more than teachers and the poor are treated like dirt.

Cities face catastrophe, says UN
Big rise in poverty, slums and pollution feared as urban dwellers outstrip rural population.

With God on their side? Ed Husain: Zionism and Islamism have more in common than their adherents think: both are dangerous political ideologies posing as religious movements.

The endless Iranian nuclear crisis

AF Alhajji Jun 27 07, 10:00pm: Iran's nuclear power programme could aid global stability by releasing more oil exports, but the US is ensuring that won't happen.

No, this treaty doesn't need a public referendum Response: This new European deal does not signal any major changes; it merely improves efficiency, says Geoff Hoon.

Petrol stations burn in protest at Iran rationing
Fuel rationing threatens to further increase the unpopularity of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

He might not do theatre, but Brown can still surprise Jackie Ashley: There was nothing of the circus about yesterday's entrance. But the new leader looks to be erecting a bigger tent than Blair's.

Record Opium Crop in Southern Afghanistan By: Richard Norton-Taylor Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, where some 7,000 British troops are based, is on the verge of becoming the world's biggest drugs supplier, cultivating more opium than entire countries such as Burma, Morocco, or even Colombia, the UN warned yesterday.

H7 OpenDemocracy Tony Blair : farewell letters

Boston Globe Editorial Why Guantanamo is unjust

In order to help the poor of the world, protectionism must not be applied equally to all. It’s time for the rich nations to give a little... more»

CFR Melia: UN Human Rights Council 'Shanghaied' by Dictatorships

Islamic Follies By: Stephen Schwartz | The Weekly Standard
A majority of the American political and media elite appears enraptured with the notion of engagement and dialogue with Islamists. But rather than supporting moderate Muslims as they struggle with radical Islam, "engagement and dialogue" typically takes the form of fretting about the concerns of aggrieved Muslim activists.

BloggingHeads Bruce Feiler & Reza Aslan: Special Iranian Edition

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

Iraqi Papers Thur: Iraqi "Moderates"' Unite

US Papers Thu: Contracting Iraq

McClatchy Report: Iraqi soldiers hard to track, unready to take over

OpenDemocracy People power: Arab economies in a global era

MEMRI Jun 28 SD# 1638 - Warnings in the Egyptian Press: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt Is Going the Way of Hamas in Gaza

Taking Refuge in Dangerous Passions By: Michael Young | The Wall Street Journal The world of the Lebanese refugee camps is tremendously convoluted. It has today become, much like Lebanon itself, a battleground in a regional confrontation between Iran, Syria and their allies, on the one hand, and the U.S., the Sunni-majority Arab states and their allies, on the other.

Al Hayat Political Shiism and the 'Afghanisation' of Lebanon Abdullah Iskandar - The Aghanisation of Lebanon is being imposed by takfiri and jihadist Sunnis, who will be the rival of political Shiism, Sunnis and also Christians.

Iran: Is Tehran Sending Weapons to Afghanistan's Taliban?

DEBKAfile reports: Iranian Revolutionary Guards suicide unit’s incursion of S. Iraq is another step in undeclared war

Daily Star Siniora's allies at home can learn a lesson from his friends abroad

The dismantling of Resolution 1701 By Michael Young

From London to Iraq, who are you Gordon Brown? By Ian Davidson

Press Restrictions Ease in Egypt By: Jeffrey Fleishman | Los Angeles Times
The better atmosphere is partly the result of Bush administration pressure on the Mubarak regime, which began in 2003 to improve Egypt's repressive record on democracy and human rights. Writers also sense that Mubarak, a 79-year-old former air force commander who has led the nation since 1981, is a man in his twilight, less concerned about journalists than the widening influence of Islamists and the maneuvering over who will succeed him.

General Trends, Global Futures and U.S.-Pakistan Relations CCC A 5-page article placing U.S.-Pakistan relations in the context of geopolitical trends

Iran to Launch News Service in English By: Owen Gibson | The Guardian It has emerged that Iran's state broadcaster will start an English news service next week. Press TV, scheduled to launch on Monday, is staffed by Iranian and overseas journalists including Britons and Americans.

H9 Ha’aretz - Winograd task force: Bolster PMO National Security Council

Editorial Welcome aboard, Tony It would be hard to think of a more fitting appointment, at a more suitable time, than that of Tony Blair as the Quartet's Mideast envoy.

Benn No one to give them back to There is a growing consensus in Israel that a withdrawal from the West Bank is no longer possible.

Tips for Tony

Beilin Peace now, of all times In the best case, we will reach a historic agreement with the PLO. In the worst case, the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement will be a kind of unilateral Israeli withdrawal.

Selling illusions Fatah is pretending to be a partner. It will make promises and sign agreements, but as in the past, it's only tactics. The essence is the realization of the right of return.

Eldar Quartet games

Double agent in 1973 war found dead in London

Egyptian billionaire 'who spied for Mossad' found dead

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

Jerusalem Post An easy step toward tightening Iran sanctions By MIKE JACOBSON The addition of an independent monitoring team can make a real difference - it has elsewhere.

JCPA The Risks to Regional Security from International Forces in Gaza - Pinhas Inbari

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

Palestinians Are Looking for Alternative Leadership - Khalil Al Assali

Egypt Faces Policy Crisis Over Gaza (Oxford Analytica/Forbes)

Lieberman wants NATO troops in Gaza

BBC Hamas criticises Blair envoy move Palestinian group Hamas pours scorn on former UK PM Tony Blair's appointment as Middle East peace envoy.

Mid-East diary: Blair's new job

Is Blair right man for the job?

New Blair project
Can Tony Blair make a difference as Middle East envoy?

H10 Christian Science Monitor

US Army plan would cut soldiers in Europe by half Some 35,000 troops would remain, if Defense Secretary Gates approves the recommendation.

GOP support for Iraq fraying Support for the President's Iraq policy is fraying within his own party, sooner than expected.

What America Owes the Iraqis By: Andrew J. Bacevich | The Christian Science Monitor For the war's supporters, even as their numbers dwindle, the answer remains self-evident: our moral obligation requires us to persevere until peace is restored and justice guaranteed for all Iraqis.

Why Russia is against Kosovo plan

Ahead of Bush-Putin summit, the issue threatens to stymie efforts to repair relations.

Iraq rushes to guard its mosques

Six of the most important Shiite and Sunni mosques and shrines have been attacked over the past month. Now, politicians are vying for the title of religious protector.

Mixed response to Tony Blair as special envoy for Middle East Despite differences, everyone agrees the job Blair faces is a tough one.

Life in the Gaza Strip After two weeks of Hamas, a tense quiet in Gaza.

Bold gambit for disjointed UN: oneness Launched this year in 8 countries, the 'One UN' pilot aims to improve coordination between agencies.

Pollster: Major powers losing world's public support The US, but also China and Russia, have seen favorable ratings decline, says Pew's Andrew Kohut.

China now world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter Many of its polluting industries build goods for the developed world.

ASIA

Brad DeLong Does China's Rise Make Things Harder for Other Developing Countries? Yes.

Describing Vision for China, Hu Defends Reforms, Rejects Calls for Democracy By: Edward Cody | The Washington Post BEIJING -- President Hu Jintao, in a solemn speech laying out his views, said that China's swift economic reforms must continue but that the Communist Party should retain its monopoly on political power for the foreseeable future.

No Swan Song For Hong Kong By: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom | The Christian Science Monitor Ten years after the transfer to China, it fears Shanghai's resurgence. But reinvention may sustain its cachet.

H11 IHT Spain's botched peace process By PADDY WOODWORTH The gap between the ETA and the Spanish government appears to get wider by the day.

Bulgaria and Romania face EU rebuke By STEPHEN CASTLE AND DAN BILEFSKY Officials will make it clear Wednesday that both countries need to intensify efforts to rein in bribery, criminal networks and contract killings

CIA releases the 'family jewels' By DAVID CORN The CIA's chief wants the public to believe that his CIA is not your father's CIA.

Roger Cohen: No thought control needed By ROGER COHEN Blair has personified Britain's new openness. Under Brown, the government's style will change but not it's content.

More than half of humanity will live in cities by next year, UN report says

EUROPE European press review

Boston Globe Editorial Europe's incomplete union

CER What the summit says about the EU

Battle for the European Union's Identity By: David Howell | The Japan Times
The latest battle of Brussels is over and news of the outcome is circulating through the capitals of the European Union. But unlike the ferocious battles of past centuries on European soil, this appears to be an engagement that everyone has won.

Sarkozy Scuttles EU With Change to Treaty Goals By: Matthew Lynn | Bloomberg News It didn't take Nicolas Sarkozy long to make his mark. After a few weeks as French president, he has already kissed the European Union goodbye.

Rise in overall tax burden in the EU27 to 39.6% of GDP in 2005 4 pages; PDF.

A Statistical Analysis of the Quality of Impact Assessment in the European Union AEI-Brookings
A 27-page study of the quality of the impact assessments of EU initiatives

H12 RFE/RL SCO Says Activities Not Aimed Against Third Country

Russia: Moscow Turns Its Attention To The Balkans Two summits in two Southeast European cities. One loud and clear message from Russian President Vladimir Putin: We're back

Armenia Postpones Vote On Bill Limiting Foreign Media

Google News Azerbaijan

CRS "Russian Political, Economic, and Security Issues and U.S. Interests," updated May 31, 2007.

BBC Azeris criticised on human rights Amnesty International accuses Azerbaijan over its treatment of displaced people from Nagorno-Karabakh.

Chavez in Russia for arms talks
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrives in Russia for talks likely to focus on military co-operation.

Georgian Opposition Party Demands Clarification of Term "Meskhetian- Turks"

In Ukrane, Four Steps to Democracy

EDM SOUTH OSSETIAN LEADER CHOOSES EUROPE
- KREMLIN REJECTS “FOREIGN” APPROACH TO RUSSIAN HISTORY
- GABALA PLAN SHOT DOWN BY TEHRAN, MOSCOW’S STRATEGIC PARTNER

H13 The Times World turns its back on America over Bush War on terror sees US lose trust among traditional allies as well as in Latin America, Eastern Europe, China and Middle East

We need a down-to-earth leader

What should Brown do to convince the country that it now has a government of honesty and change? Anatole Kaletsky

Leader Philosophie Brown the Idealist must embellish the tenets of Blair the Realist

Comment: Iran's economy could undo Ahmadinejad

The President has not delivered on his election promises to raise living standards and share the country’s oil wealth

Billionaire ‘Mossad spy’ found dead An Egyptian billionaire financier who feared for his life after being accused of being a spy has been found dead in Mayfair

EU's energy quest in Africa

The EU should enter a trading partnership with Africa to counter a rise in Chinese influence, its executive Commission said

Watch Saint Gordon's halo vanish

Here is an unvarnished prediction of what the next few years of a Gordon Brown premiership will be

Mary Ann Sieghart

The nine pitfalls in the path of the new leader The handover was smooth and dignified, but after the cheers comes the hard bit. Everything Brown does now is fraught with pitfalls Peter Riddell

Silence over corruption helps nobody The 'progress statement' on Bulgaria and Romania is remarkable for its deliberate mildness Bronwen Maddox

Sense at last: medicine for poppies

Taking poppies out of the Afghan equation won't work. So let's make them a legal source of wealth

Rosemary Righter

Wall Street Journal ROBERT MCFARLANE The Iraqi 'Nation'

Charges that Iraqis want to part ways are nonsense, as I saw firsthand.

J'Accuse! On his deathbed, Sasha Litvinenko named Vladimir Putin as the man behind his murder.
By ALEX GOLDFARB and MARINA LITVINENKO

H14 Financial Times Iran continues petrol rationing amid riots Iran’s parliament agreed to press ahead with plans to introduce fuel rationing in the face of panic and rioting across the country over the proposals

WORLD NEWS: Crisis raises pressure on Ahmadi-Nejad

OBSERVER: Iran, petrol and the element of surprise

Senate steps up wiretapping probe A Senate committee has issued the White House and the justice department with subpoenas demanding the handover of documents relating to President George W. Bush’s controversial domestic surveillance programme

COMMENT: Squalls that await the new prime minister The new prime minister’s true colours will not emerge until he is faced with the kind of crises that marked the career of his predecessor, writes David Runciman, Cambridge lecturer.

NATIONAL NEWS: Top team signals end to 'sofa' style that the White House is getting the Palestinian problem off its hands by subcontracting it to Mr Blair

WORLD NEWS: Old comrades harden EU line against Russia

Brown pledges ‘new public service spirit’Blair bows out with a flourish

COMMENT: Why middle America needs free trade We should not blame globalisation for US economic anxiety, writes Clive Crook. Without it, the economy would have grown more slowly.

US and China fall from global favour Anti-US sentiment has grown in many parts of the world over the past five years but attitudes towards China, the strongest challenger to US hegemony, have also worsened, according to a survey of global public opinion

FRONT PAGE - FIRST SECTION: Brown pledges 'new spirit of public service'

COMMENT: A known quantity is no enemy of business We can infer what kind of prime minister Brown will be from his record as chancellor. He is reassuringly grounded in reality but prone to the odd surprise, says Jonathan Guthrie.

Sunni politicians rally behind accused minister Sunni Arab politicians rallied behind a minister accused of complicity in the assassination of a secular-leaning parliamentarian

A US probe that shames Britain The government was mistaken if it thought last December's shabby decision to drop its investigation into alleged corruption around the £43bn Al-Yamamah fighter...

Chávez gets his oil It is only natural for Hugo Chávez to demand a larger share of Venezuela’s oil wealth, and oil companies need to learn to barter their technical skills for a share of the spoils going to oil-rich governments

ANALYSIS: A dynamic Sarkozy profits from liberal preoccupation Could the French president’s triumph at the European summit presage a retreat from market reform?

Cyprus leader faces summons Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos may be called as a witness in a libel case in Cyprus.

COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL: Oil majors tread pragmatic path

High risks see super-rich pull away The world’s 100,000 ’super-rich’ last year extended their lead over the merely affluent, an authoritative study of the world’s wealthy has found

COMMENT: Shed no tears for the legendary Wall Street banker

Iranians erupt with anger at gas rationing

Pakistan's General Problem By: Ali Dayan Hasan | Los Angeles Times
Popular resistance to Musharraf's rule has seemingly caught the U.S. off-guard.

Christians Forced Out of Baghdad District By: Ned Parker | Los Angeles Times Displaced Christians described in interviews a civilian population too terrified of Al Qaeda to ask Americans for help. They said that even after the Baghdad troop buildup started in February, U.S. soldiers were rarely present in some neighborhoods and often had no idea what to look for.

H16 American Politics Centrists Finally Give Up on Iraq - Joe Conason, New York Observer

More GOP voters keen to exit Iraq; could shape '08 race

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

The Raw Story | Legal expert: White House stonewalling may force ... Congress to charge president

H17 Daily Telegraph

BBC Blair's ending
Why America is baffled by the exit from power of the UK's Tony Blair

H18 Independent A manifesto for Gordon Brown Ten pieces of urgent advice for the new man at No 10

Anthony Giddens: It's time to give the Third Way a second chance

Gordon Brown and the making of a Prime Minister

Blair's Middle East role tainted by associations with Bush As Gordon Brown, at last, inherited 10 Downing Street, Tony Blair took the first step towards life as an ex-prime minister and an international diplomat

Britain under Blair: 1997 to 2007

Leading article: Things can only get better...

Violence flares as Iran introduces petrol rationing

Senators subpoena White House over illegal surveillance programme

Adrian Hamilton: The wrong man for the wrong job

Bulgaria and Romania 'plagued by corruption'

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

From Hoover Digest, Gary Becker on The Case Against the Draft;

a study of two great generals who knew how to keep civilian and military leaders working together: An excerpt from Securing the State: Reforming the National Security Decision-Making Process at the Civil-Military Nexus

U.S. Army in Tatters - Nicholas von Hoffman, New York Observer

Financial Reinforcements
While the troops go after the terrorists, officials back in Washington must keep after the terrorists' assets. By John B. Taylor.

Rent-a-spy
By PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
U.S. intelligence agencies are wasting millions on contractors.

CRS Long-Range Ballistic Missile Defense in Europe," June 22, 2007.

Weapons in Space and the Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Regime
Global Security Institute

Punching the U.S. Military’s “Soft Ribs”: China’s Antisatellite Weapon Test in Strategic Perspective
Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Full Paper (PDF; 1.89 MB)

U. S. Offers Information for Investors on Companies in Countries Known to Sponsor Terrorism The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Training for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Berghof Center

European lawmakers back CIA secret prison report

H20 Slate Tony Blair Is the Wrong Man for the Job:

Bringing peace to the Middle East is a noble goal, but he wants to do too much. Shmuel Rosner

Globalization, Jobs and Wages OECD An 8-page policy brief examining the vulnerability of some workers to the effects of globalization

Global Report 2006 UNHCR The Annual report of the UNHCR, reviewing the achievements and impacts of its work for refugees during 2006

Foreign Assistance Reform: Successes, Failures and Next Steps Brookings Institution

Trade Adjustment in the WTO System: Are More Safeguards the Answer? Brookings Institution
This 33-page US paper examines the range of adjustment problems confronting the present and future international trading systems, the arguments for intervention, the existing adjustment environment and proposals for reform

Expansion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (PDF; 263 KB) Source: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Inspector General

H21 From LRB, Terry Eagleton reviews Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World by Graham Pechey.

From Mother Jones, a special section on Politics 2.0: Are we entering a new era of digital democracy—or just being conned by a bunch of smooth-talking geeks?

Into space, in Einstein's footsteps
· Nasa probes to stu dy black holes and dark energy· Main mission will search for gravitational waves

Peter Berkowitz on how hybrid conservatives are becoming the dominant species; in much of the world, conservatives clamor for subsidies while liberals fight big government. In the United States, it’s the other way around. Here’s why.

From Foreign Policy, William Easterly on how the failed ideologies of the last century have come to an end. But a new one has risen to take their place. It is the ideology of Development—and it promises a solution to all the world’s ills. But like Communism, Fascism, and the others before it, Developmentalism is a dangerous and deadly failure.

Its Own Worst Enemy: Is colonialism to blame for the woes of former colonies? Not in Ghana. Niall Ferguson explains.

Robert Zoellick could use the bank’s influence to help revive dead capital in developing countries. To that end, he could do no better than to follow the advice of Mark Davis and appoint Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto as chief economist for the World Bank

Buyers still bullish on newspapers

Rupert Murdoch and others see potential in the industry's digital-age transformation.

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