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H1 Jaffe Center Strategic Assessment June 2007 ------ The Changing Nature of War: Six New Challenges Giora Eiland

Iran's Nuclear Advances: The Politics of Playing with Time Emily B. Landau

The Governance of Britain This 63-page UK policy document discusses how to modernize the role of the executive in Britain's system of governance

Iran: 18 months to go Dennis Ross, NPQ.

The Economist Oil on troubled waters Iraq appears to move forward on sharing out its oil

Iraqi Papers Thur: Cabinet Passes Oil Law

Washington Post When the 'Bleed-Out' Begins A State of Unreadiness Nearly 6 Years After 9/11 By David Ignatius America's political disharmony is scary. But so is the lack of practical preparation for the next attack.

Body Count In Baghdad Up in June

Homemade, Cheap and Dangerous Terror Cells Favor Simple Ingredients In Building Bombs

Parameters Summer “Iran and the United States: The Emerging Security Paradigm in the Middle East” by Gawdat Bahgat (.htm format) (.pdf format)

“A Social Network Approach to Understanding an Insurgency” by Brian Reed (.htm format) (.pdf format)

AEI - Winds of War By Joshua Muravchik Islamist regimes in the Middle East increasingly see the United States as a weak, retreating power. This makes war with such regimes more likely.

Center for European Reform HURRAH FOR AN END TO

EU NAVEL GAZING By Hugo Brady

IHT Democracy works - only very slowly By NATHAN BROWN As a long-term solution, there is probably no sounder approach than using democracy to incorporate Islamist movements as normal political actors.

Eastern Europe's third transition By SHIGEO KATSU AND PRADEEP MITRA The World Bank warns that a badly handled transition from 'Red to Gray' threatens Eastern Europe's economic success.

Athens Muslims turn factory into a mosque The city is one of the few European Union capitals to lack a functioning mosque, so an old industrial site was transformed into a prayer site.

LA Times The Libby lesson on Iraq Ronald Brownstein: Bush responds to power, not argument. Lugar and other Republicans should take note

Obstacles pile up for Iraq oil bill

Guardian Since terrorism is not the only threat, our leaders must learn to multi-task Timothy Garton Ash: An interdependent world faces many challenges. Britain should promote a coalition of democracies to tackle them.

Denial of the link with Iraq is delusional and dangerous Seumas Milne: The insistence that terror attacks have nothing to do with Britain's actions in the Muslim world only makes them harder to stop.

Take the revolutionary road Michael Hardt The US has been the world's principal anti-revolutionary force for almost a century. As Thomas Jefferson would have said, it's time to rebel.

America's 21st century monarchy

Sidney Blumenthal Before Bush commuted Libby's sentence, did he bother to read the Declaration of Independence, or did he just consult Cheney?

WSJ Capital: A Princeton economist says poverty doesn't drive terrorism.

New York Times ROGER COHEN, International Herald Tribune Time to Call in the Iran Chips What is Iran up to in Iraq and Afghanistan? It wants to keep America bleeding.

Lowy Institute Enhancing Transparency in the Multilateral Trading System

After Gaza: How to salvage the two-state solution

McClatchy How U.S. policy missteps led to a nasty downfall in Gaza Officials in the Bush administration awoke on the morning of January 26, 2006 to catastrophic news. Hamas had decisively won Palestianian democratic elections. And, despite a concerted effort by the United States to isolate Hamas, the news would only get worse

New Republic Time for a Plan B for Gaza by Efraim Halevy

Geopolitical Diary: Hamas' Break Point Stratfor

Globalization: Bin Laden vs. the West - James Pethokoukis, US News & WR

ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT BRIEFING Ten years on How Asia shrugged off its economic crisis

Geopolitical Diary: Ivanov's Warning to Washington Stratfor

Bush and Cheney walk, too
Salon By Sidney Blumenthal

Boston Globe To improve security, follow the money

(By Miriam Pemberton and Lawrence Korb)

Washington Times A fresh look at Iraq (By Kosrat Rasool Ali)

Daily Star Some common sense from Javier Solana
By Michael Young

Europe begins picking up the pieces after the 2005 debacle
By Joschka Fischer

Libby and His 'Conservative'
Supporters by Jim Lobe

Ha’aretz – Gideon Levy: Blair is doomed to fail in the Mideast

Moshe Arens: Time to rethink two-state solution

Iran: Moderating Discourse In Tehran Complements Nuclear Talks

Sunni Legislators Won’t Support US-Backed Oil Laws in Iraq

Financial Times From frontline attack to terror by francise Six years after 9/11, al-Qaeda as an organisation has been severely undermined. But the violent fanaticism it promotes has proliferated – helped, many experts say, by the conduct of the US-led ‘war on terror’

Delay over Iraq oil regulation bill Iraqi politicians said on Wednesday that it might be a week or more before legislation regulating the country's oil and gas industry could be discussed in parliament...

H2 IraqSlogger Turkey Edges Closer to Military Action

US Hit With Turkish Demands on Kurds (repeat)

FT Turkey accused of using torture Torture continues to be practised in a “culture of impunity” in the Turkish criminal justice system and hardly anybody is ever held to account for it, according to Amnesty International.

AI - Turkey: No justice for victims of torture and killings by law enforcement officials

Af Örgütü'nden Türkiye'ye eleştiri

PKK leader: We defend southern Kurdistan to our last drop of blood

ABD, PKK'ya karşı gerekeni yapmıyor

BBC Monitoring Quotes From the Turkish Press 04 July 07

ABD'den işbirliği güvencesi

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 4 Jul 2007

Irak'a müdahale Tarhan Erdem

Taha AKYOL Seçimlerde Diyarbakır

HASAN ÜNAL Akılsız düşman Barzani

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Cross-border operation: Domestic game or real concern?

Barzani warns Turkish intervention into Iraq will ignite regional war

Serdar Turgut Terörle yaşamak

Yalçın Doğan Enver Paşa gibi paldır küldür

PKK'yı yeni sosyal anlaşma yok eder
MUHAMMED NUREDDİN -

Hasan CEMAL 2 bağımsız, 1 AKP yakın ihtimal

Barin Kayaoğlu An Open Memorandum On Solutions Other Than a Military Operation Into Northern Iraq

Rizgari Irmak: “Operasyon PKK’ye karşı değil, kuzey Irak’taki Kürd oluşumuna karşı bir operasyondur”

Güler Kömürcü ‘Oyları bölmeyelim, Barzani’ye verelim!’

Derya SAZAK İp

Kapusuz'dan Bahçeli'ye Apo cevabı

Bahçeli'yi belge ile vurdular

Iraqi Kurds Wrangle Over Islam

Senator Clinton Writes Kurds Out of Her Script

Baykal 'Kılavuzun Barzani'

Erdoğan: Artık laftan uygulamaya geçilmeli

Dostlardan laf değil uygulama bekliyoruz

Ağar PKK'NIN HEDEFİ BENİM

Diyarbakır'da 25 kilo patlayıcı bulundu

Çiçek: PKK’nın arkasında 28 ülke var

Regional Kurdish Govt Says It Has Not Seen Iraq Oil Law

Kurds to rebuild dam they had looted in 1990s

Seminar in London: Prominent lawyer addresses Kurdish issue in Iraq

No “Region” in the title of the “President of Kurdistan Regional Government”

Özcan YENİÇERİ ABD, Terör ve Türkiye!

Turkey + Northern Iraq = Golden Age
The Conservative Voice

Kurds campaign to annul the Lausanne Treaty (KurdishMedia)

No quick debate in Iraq parliament on oil law

Iraqi Kurdish Politician Favours Ali Al-Majid's Execution in Halabjah

Irak'ta Kürt-Şii cephesi hazırlığı

ABD, 'mayıngeçirmez' 20 bin araç alıyor

Demokrasi laikliğin sonunu getirmez –

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Hizbullah liderine suikast yapılırsa!

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

AP temas grubundan KKTC'ye destek

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN İngiltere'de sol: yeniden!

‘Hıristiyan Türkiye AB üyesi olur’

AKİF EMRE“Türkiye Hristiyan olsaydı…”

No breakthrough on Nagorno-Karabakh, talks go on

Being seduced by Russia, Turkey's divorce from the West? C. Cem OĞUZ

Fikret Ertan Hazar’da Yine sonuç yok...

Turkey receives first Azerbaijani Shakh Deniz gas

Linden calls for solution to conflicts in Caucasus

ERDAL ŞAFAK Olmak veya olmamak

Yöntem değişti, işkence baki

Brüksel şimdi de Türk bakanın askerliğine taktı

Avrupa Konseyi'nin CIA kararı ARMAĞAN GÖZKAMAN -

'Barış Harekatı' diyen İngiliz vekili Rumlar tartakladı

Türkleri seminere almayan Rumlar Lord'u da tartakladılar

AİHM'den silinmeyen kayıt için tazminat

Paşa yedi kişilik koğuşta kalıyor

'Vatansever'de Hrant Dink izi

'Dinleme'de kesin karar

Doğan HEPER 'Göç'ü önle, 'suç'u önle

EMRE AKÖZ Darbeci, çeteci, mitingci

‘Bir no’lu vatansever emekli general çıktı

Mehmet Altan Ne oluyor?

Soruşturmayı terör savcısı yürütecek

Milli Savunma Bakanlığı: Personelimiz tutuklanmadı

Metin MÜNİR Çanlar Türk rüşvetçileri için çalıyor

Türbeleri bile rant kapısı yaptılar

Propagandaya da 'tele kulak'

'Vatansever' şanlı, şehit eşinin, 60 bin YTL'sini dolandırmış

Parmak izli vatandaşlık kartı geliyor

Turkish citizens to be issued electronic ID cards

Polis sandığı, güvenlik şirketlerine rakip oluyor

Existence of GP leader's foreign accounts proved

Erdil Paşa 'er' rütbesiyle memur koğuşunda

Emin Çölaşan İlahlar kurban isteyince...

7 kişilik koğuşta rütbesiz bir mahkûm

Mehmet BARLAS Dilleri var bizim dile benzemez.. Mantıkları bizim gibi çalışır

'Arkadaşlığa dayalı 1 grup' davasöver Perihan Mağden

Serdar Turgut Dedikodu

BBC Istanbul sand sculpting festival begins

Çölleşen Konya Ovası Le Monde'a haber oldu

Friendship -- the bond that cares
Today's Zaman

5 Temmuz 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 Vatan Kum Şurâsı! TSK’nın yeni komuta kademesi belirlenirken, Genelkurmay Başkanlığı için Koşaner ile Saygun’un adı geçiyor

"Asker isterse yarın gireriz"

Abdullah Gül, '1 Milyar dolar' tartışmasına son noktayı koydu

Askerden operasyona hukuki zemin çalışması

'Tezkere konusunda gerekeni yaparız...!

CHP, MHP'yi gözüne kestirdi İki partili Meclis'e doğru

Sabah 'Bir numara' emekli Paşa Girdap operasyonuyla tutuklanan Vatansever Güç Birliği Hareketi'nin bazı üyelerinin telefon görüşmelerinde geçen "Bir numara kızmasın" ifadesi üzerine, emniyet güçleri bu kişinin kimliği üzerine odaklandı. İSTANBUL'DA OTURUYOR
Yapılan araştırmada "Bir numara"nın İstanbul'da oturan emekli bir jandarma generali olduğu sonucuna ulaşıldı. Emniyet'in bu bağlantıyı kesinleştirmek için kanıt toplama çalışmalarını yoğunlaştırdığı ifade edildi.

Türkiye'yi sarsacak iddialar

'Zıbartılan adam bizimkilerin işi'

Erdoğan'a verilen son anket

YASİN DOĞAN Anketler ne diyor?

Fikret BİLA Tezkere olasılığı

What is 'not' going to happen after July 22? Burak BEKDİL

Güneri CIVAOĞLU PKK'nın eylem haritası

Dışişleri: K. Irak anlaşmanın ön koşulu değildi

Bilal Çetin Anlaşma polemiğine Dışişleri de katıldı...

Tezkerede söylenti çok, hazırlık yok

Anayasa değişiklik paketinde karar günü

Askerden ABD'ye 4 Temmuz tepkisi!

SEÇİMLER VE NATO KONFERANSI KATILIMI ETKİLEDİ

Baykal AKP İKTİDAR OLURSA ÜLKE KARIŞIR

Ağar ve Uzan barajı geçer mi?

Cengiz Çandar Hukuk devletinde vatansever çeteler olmaz...

Ahmet Taşgetiren Ertuğrul Özkök'ün görmek istemediği

Bozkurt Abdullah

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ

İlnur Çevik Will the supreme court intervene again?

Nihat Ali Özcan AKP-TSK GERİLİMİ, NEREYE?

Suat Kınıklıoğlu ‘Turkey is no longer the Cold War’s satellite country’

Süheyl Batum Seçim tahminleri üzerine sorulmamış sorular

Ardan Zentürk MHP rolü çaldı... CHP sallanıyor...

İsmail Küçükkaya
Seçeneklerimiz

VOA Seçim Beklentileri

Seçim beklentilerini değerlendiren Radikal Gazetesi Parlamento Büro Şefi İsmet Demirdöğen, Meclis'te üç partinin temsil edileceğini düşünüyor

Ekrem Dumanlı Dayatmanın bedeli

Şahin Alpay Türkiye, hukuk ve vicdan sınavında

Türk yolcu uçağını vuracaklardı

Radikal AKP ile MHP bu kez uzlaştı: Kadının yeri kocasının dizinin dibi

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 Sol, CHP'den neden kaçıyor?

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Yeni bir siyasi yelpazeye doğru…

NAZLI ILICAK Seçimler ve matematik

M. Ali BİRAND DP, tekrar toparlanıyor

[Yorum - Etyen Mahçupyan] AKP'nin gizli ajandası belli oldu!

Mümtazer Türköne Rejimi tartışmadan seçim yapmak

Semih İDİZ 'İslami terör' ve Türkiye'ye düşen görev

Kim vatansever, kim vatan haini? Hasan Celal Güzel

Halk seçseydi ilk turda cumhurbaşkanı olurdum

Milliyetçiliğin ipini Birand mı çekti?

Ertuğrul Özkök Bana solcular yapmaz demeyin

Cüneyt Ülsever Kuzey Irak: Hükümet milleti oyalıyor

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Borsalar maçında mağlubuz!

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

Hüseyin Gülerce İradeler savaşının sonuna gelindi...

Andrew Finkel Playing Armenia

Mustafa Erdoğan Sivil anayasa nedir?

ERGUN BABAHAN Irak'ın geleceği ve Türkiye

Foreign Ministry clarifies claims over secret deal with US

ANLAŞMALARDAN HABERSİZ BİR HÜKÜMET DEVAM
SAVAŞ SÜZAL

Democracy test during the AK Party rule by SELİN BÖLME*

Merkez sağda seçim sonrası tufan!

Şakir Süter Bölükbaşı’dan bugünlere!

Büyükanıt Paşa tatilde

Bahçeli'nin büyük sırrı

Balıkesir’de AKP kıl payı

Yusuf KANLI Turkey must find a democratic way out

Şükrü Küçükşahin Baykal’ın Erdoğan’dan beklediği telefon

Rauf Tamer ‘Komutan’

Today’s Zaman presents parties’ Turkey vision

İhsan Dağı Beware of the ‘democratic reflex’

İbrahim Kalın The July 22 election: More than just politics

Hakan Aygün AKP'nin tekrar iktidar için tek şansı!

Nuray Başaran 22 Temmuz'un gölgesinde bir oyun

Mustafa Mutlu ‘Tek taraflı anlaşma’ mucidi parti: AKP

Umur Talu

Yılmaz Özdil "Başbakan, Yüce Divan'a gidiyor!"

Can Ataklı Türbanın tarihine kısa bir bakış

AKP'ye 1 haftada 54 bin yeni üye

Saadet'ten AKP'lilere: Beyaz imam hatipliler

«CHP+MHP» ve İlhan Selçuk
Hakkı Devrim

DAVUT DURSUN 'Sivil Anayasa'yı kim yapacak?

Mehmet Tezkan Sıcak, seçimin havasını kaçırdı.. Tatilciler bir bahane bulup kente dönmeyecek!

[Election strategies under spotlight-3]
Main opposition’s test in Turkey
by Dr. TALİP KÜÇÜKCAN*

Tuğrul Türkeş: CHP ile uzlaşmak bize yakışmaz

Sandalye senaryoları

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu Enflasyon bildiğiniz gibi

Erdal Sağlam

Büyüme ve Dış Borçlar Mahfi Eğilmez

AKP: Sıra mikro reformda

İbrahimÖztürk Eliminating choice problem in the Turkish economy

Yabancı ’tek parti’ye oynuyor

Deniz Gökçe Enflasyon düştü, düşüyor!

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Ohh! Enflasyon da düştü!..

Güngör URAS AKP'nin şansı mı, başarısı mı?

Büyüdüğümüzü neden hissedemiyoruz?

FDF'de tehlike sınırı ne? Fatih Özatay

Seyfettin Gürsel Merkez Bankası 0,1 puanla kurtardı

Salih Neftçi Piyasalarda rekor, büyüme ve petrol fiyatları

Hasan Ersel Ekonomik gelişme ve iktidarın oy oranı

Uzakdoğu Asya krizinin 10. yılı Korkmaz İlkorur

MELİHA OKUR Bu adam deli mi!

Hadi Uluengin Ey küreselleşme!

Ekonomistleri irkilten vaatler MEHMET HÜSEYİN BİLGİN

Yılın ilk yarısı üç güzel haberle noktalandı...

'US investments in Turkey may double in 5 years'

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Seçim turizmi vurdu mu?

Piyasaları çoşturan borçla şirket avı kabusa dönüşebilir

Chambers are crucial to Turkish reform Rona YIRCALI

H4 New York Times ROGER COHEN, International Herald Tribune Time to Call in the Iran Chips What is Iran up to in Iraq and Afghanistan? It wants to keep America bleeding.

H5 Washington Post When the 'Bleed-Out' Begins A State of Unreadiness Nearly 6 Years After 9/11 By David Ignatius America's political disharmony is scary. But so is the lack of practical preparation for the next attack.

Homemade, Cheap and Dangerous Terror Cells Favor Simple Ingredients In Building Bombs

Body Count In Baghdad Up in June

Editorial Buildup in Lebanon Heavy weapons flow freely across the border from Syria, the U.N. Security Council is told.

Global Safeguards for a Global Economy By Harold Meyerson, At present, our debate over how best the United States should relate to the rest of the world isn't very fruitful.

Sarkozy's Lesson for America By Newt Gingrich, France proves change is possible in a country whose special interests are even more entrenched than ours.

William Arkin A New Declaration of Independence

Iraqi Cabinet Approves Draft Oil Legislation

U.N., U.S. Actions Sometimes at Odds On Afghan Policy Case underscores how sanctions place commanders in awkward position of potentially violating them by funding certain programs.

Construction Woes Add to Fears at Embassy in Iraq Cable sent from U.S. embassy in Iraq highlights building, safety blunders in new facility that has diplomats increasingly fearful over their safety.

Terrorism Threat Level In Britain Is Lowered

More Screening Set For Foreign Doctors After Bomb Incidents

A Mob-Rule Moment By David S. Broder A particularly virulent strain of populism has made official Washington altogether too responsive to public opinion.

President Defends War on July 4th Bush Compares Iraq To Revolutionary War

Freed BBC Reporter Recounts Long Ordeal in Gaza

Roadside Bomb Kills Six Canadians in Afghanistan

Radical Cleric in Pakistan Standoff Captured

Some in Besieged Islamabad Mosque Surrender as Security Forces Pressure Holdouts

H6 Guardian Since terrorism is not the only threat, our leaders must learn to multi-task Timothy Garton Ash: An interdependent world faces many challenges. Britain should promote a coalition of democracies to tackle them.

Denial of the link with Iraq is delusional and dangerous Seumas Milne: The insistence that terror attacks have nothing to do with Britain's actions in the Muslim world only makes them harder to stop.

Take the revolutionary road

Michael Hardt The US has been the world's principal anti-revolutionary force for almost a century. As Thomas Jefferson would have said, it's time to rebel.

America's 21st century monarchy

Sidney Blumenthal Before Bush commuted Libby's sentence, did he bother to read the Declaration of Independence, or did he just consult Cheney?

New Russian missile threat
Russia 'will point missiles at Europe' if US rejects offer of cooperation.

Kandahar bomb kills six Canadian soldiers Nato’s mission in Afghanistan received a blow when six Canadian soldiers died in the south of the country and one of the alliance’s commanders indicated that more troops would be needed to reduce civilian casualties

Voters to get direct say on local spendingRadical plans unveiled today will let voters decide how tens of millions of pounds should be spent in their neighbourhood.

A history of violence Khaled Diab British-born 'jihadis' have been wreaking havoc at home and abroad for generations, lured by a heady mix of idealism, romance and rebellion.

Threat level lowered as inquiry examines foreign connections Police focus on possible links with al-Qaida in Iraq.

Russian energy firms allowed private armies

Biofuel demand to push up food prices
Biofuel and increase in meat-based diets in rapidly developing countries will push prices up over the next decade, says UN.

Sectarian row stalls Iraq oil bill

A breath of fresh air Tony Benn: For decades I've fought for constitutional reform. Now at last a leader has begun a proper debate.

Macho, sweaty politicians have given running a bad name. So what sport does befit a president? Catherine Bennett: Sarkozy's critics consider his jogging to be deeply un-French, undignified, American and possibly totalitarian as well.

H7 Boston Globe To improve security, follow the money

(By Miriam Pemberton and Lawrence Korb)

Washington Times A fresh look at Iraq (By Kosrat Rasool Ali)

Daily Star Some common sense from Javier Solana
By Michael Young

Europe begins picking up the pieces after the 2005 debacle
By Joschka Fischer

Libby and His 'Conservative'
Supporters by Jim Lobe

Al Hayat The International Court and Lebanon's Stability Randa Takieddin - The principal conclusion that diplomats based in Syria are reaching is that Damascus is not hearing the messages from the west. Syria considers burying the international court its fundamental condition for heeding the messages coming from the west.

New Republic The State Department's critical personnel shortage
by Joshua Kurlantzick

NAF Pakistan On the Edge

Der Spiegel A Dangerous Pipedream?: 'Nuclear Renaissance Increases Terror Risks'

UPI Outside View: Afghan problem is regional

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

Where next for Iraq's economy?

Iran: Moderating Discourse In Tehran Complements Nuclear Talks

Sunni Legislators Won’t Support US-Backed Oil Laws in Iraq

Bush braces Americans for prolonged struggle in Iraq

BBC Explosions rock Pakistan mosque

Security forces fire warning blasts at a mosque in Pakistan where armed Islamic students clashed with security forces.

Terror target
Yemen's long history of militant Islamism and instability

H9 Ha’aretz – Gideon Levy: Blair is doomed to fail in the Mideast

Moshe Arens: Time to rethink two-state solution

They just don't give up, those Mossad guys

Labor: New cabinet is the beginning of the end for Olmert

Olmert gets Shahak panel findings, but is in no hurry to implement

Israel, France to meet annually to mull common strategic issues

Hamas vows era of law and order The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip promised a new era of calm and respect for the law yesterday, after the release of kidnapped British reporter Alan Johnston.

Syria doubts IDF Golan Heights exercise is merely training IDF carrying out largest exercise in years; Syrian analyst: Cannot believe Olmert's lies Israel is just training

A problem of consciousness, not training Training, especially that earmarked for senior officers, is indeed insufficient. But the focus on this factor is taken out of proportion, and it ignores the real causes of the poor results on the Lebanese battlefield.

Yedioth Ahronoth Give Hamas a chance/ Dror Zeevi

Catch-22 in Lebanon

Jerusalem Post Cut off Hamas
No one, including the Arab states and Europe, wants them to succeed. Why is Israel sustaining Hamastan?

Our World: Olmert's international coalitions [ CAROLINE GLICK

George Bush goes wobbly [ DANIEL PIPES,

Some advice for Tony Blair [ GERALD M. STEINBERG

Opinion: Stop appeasing Abu Mazen

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

BBC Hamas intervention
What can the group gain from Johnston's release?

H10 Christian Science Monitor A gauge of Iran's hand in Iraq New US charges that it is working with Hizbullah in Iraq.

Hamas acts to show it's in charge The Islamist group won the release Wednesday of a British reporter, solidifying its standing in troubled Gaza.

Mosque attack adds to Musharraf woes Pakistani security forces were readying for a final assault on the extremist Red Mosque Wednesday.

Fourth of July sparks American values debate What does it mean to be an American?

Could this be the global-warming generation? Live Earth concerts in eight countries hope to inspire action. Will it work?

THE MONITOR'S VIEW

Al Gore's inconvenient tax

In Congress, a raft of 'fix it' ideas

The House plans to forge ahead on energy legislation even as consensus eludes the Democratic leadership.

ASIA ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT BRIEFING Ten years on How Asia shrugged off its economic crisis

Made in China: tainted food, fake drugs and dodgy paint
World's biggest exporter faces a global crisis of confidence as scandals grow over the quality of many of its goods.

BBC Plummeting star
Japan's 'princeling' prime minister loses his shine

H11 IHT Democracy works - only very slowly By NATHAN BROWN As a long-term solution, there is probably no sounder approach than using democracy to incorporate Islamist movements as normal political actors.

Eastern Europe's third transition By SHIGEO KATSU AND PRADEEP MITRA The World Bank warns that a badly handled transition from 'Red to Gray' threatens Eastern Europe's economic success.

Athens Muslims turn factory into a mosque
The city is one of the few European Union capitals to lack a functioning mosque, so an old industrial site was transformed into a prayer site.

EUROPE European press review

Wanted - A Renewable Europe: Ernst & Young European Attractiveness Survey 2007 (PDF; 5.8 MB) Source: Ernst & Young
From press release:

Troubles mount for EU as Portugal takes helm Problems are piling up for Portugal as it takes over the presidency of the 27-nation European Union for the next six months.

H12 RFE/RL Russian Duma Approves Tatarstan Power-Sharing Deal

Russia: Sochi Awaits Verdict On 2014 Olympic Bid

UPI Outside View: Azeri ABM problem -- Part 1

BBC Eastern Georgia suffers blackout Some 2.5m people are left without electricity in eastern Georgia after two power lines are damaged, officials say.

American billionaire Nazarian: I have close ties with Azerbaijan

Google News Azerbaijan

BBC Russia issues new missile threat Russia's first deputy prime minister raises the idea of basing new missiles close to Poland and Lithuania.

Boston Globe Editorial A little white lie about Putin

The lobster summit

(By Graham Allison)

H13 The TimesRussian reignite Cold War fears Russia has threatened to deploy rockets in the EU’s backyard in retaliation for US plans to install a missile defence shield

Finally, Brown reveals true nature

Maintaining economic growth is the indispensable condition for Brown's success as Prime Minister

· Anatole Kaletsky

Wall Street Journal Capital: A Princeton economist says poverty doesn't drive terrorism.

Iraq Oil Law Faces Opposition

Trade Double-Cross House Democrats go protectionist.

Iranian Trip Wire Putting the military option back on the table. By MARIO LOYOLA

H14 Financial Times From frontline attack to terror by francise Six years after 9/11, al-Qaeda as an organisation has been severely undermined. But the violent fanaticism it promotes has proliferated – helped, many experts say, by the conduct of the US-led ‘war on terror’

Delay over Iraq oil regulation bill Iraqi politicians said on Wednesday that it might be a week or more before legislation regulating the country's oil and gas industry could be discussed in parliament...

WORLD NEWS: Radicalising wave crosses the Atlantic

WORLD NEWS: Struggle to vanquish the 'icon of jihad'

Treatise that inspired terror by franchise

Russians threaten to counter US shield Russia could site cruise missiles in Kaliningrad if the US goes ahead with plans for a missile defence shield in central Europe, Russia’s first deputy prime minister warned

WORLD NEWS: Two end-of-term dilemmas

Palestinians get first full wages in 17 months President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency government pays PA workers after western powers ended the economic embargo imposed after Hamas seized Gaza last month

COMMENT: Europe must give Sarkozy some fiscal leeway The new French government’s intentions raise issues that go far beyond bean-counting and a legalistic view of the pact, writes Charles Wyplosz.

COMMENT: A peculiar race for the White House Obama is outperforming Clinton in what was supposed to be her strongest event; she is outperforming him in his, writes Clive Crook.

COMMENT: The static drama of China's party reshuffle The climax of the Chinese Communist party’s five-yearly congress is something rare in China: a moment of genuine political drama and suspense, writes Richard McGregor.

Editorial US economic news shows neither gloom nor doom There are a few scratches on the surface; some long-established features are lacking; but the fundamentals are largely intact

Editorial Fund leadership Rodrigo Rato's surprising decision to step down as managing director of the International Monetary Fund shortly after its annual meeting in October creates a unique...

Migration found to help girls left at home

Migration has a positive impact on girls’ education, healthcare and fertility rates in countries that export labour, according to a study by the World Bank

Hamas acts to free Johnston

COMMENT: The long arm of the global fraud squad Someone had to take action on BAE: if not the Saudi-fearing UK then the puritanical Americans, writes Patti Waldmeir.

Editorial A good beginning for business Actions speak louder than words, but getting the words right still matters. When Alistair Darling spoke to the FT in his first news-paper interview as chancellor, he...

WORLD NEWS: Republican candidates lag in race for donations

The Libby lesson on Iraq

Ronald Brownstein: Bush responds to power, not argument. Lugar and other Republicans should take note

Obstacles pile up for Iraq oil bill

Editorial The American way

The 2008 presidential contest may be crowded and long, but it's overflowing with choice.

Editorial Lucky Libby Editorial: Martha Stewart, even Paris Hilton, served time. But there's the rule of law -- and the rules of Bush.

What's bugging us?

By Lynn Kimsey

Our love of technology may be replacing expertise, but high-tech gadgets are a poor substitute for good old-fashioned know-how.

H16 American Politics Washington Post Data Crunching the Electorate THE GURUS | The pitch was simple: Turn corporate America's love affair with learning everything it can about its customers into a political strategy.

From Obama, Clinton, Dueling Ideas of Change

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

H17 Daily Telegraph Russians threaten Polish border

Kremlin steps up war of words with Europe over missiles plan.

Glasgow airport bomber left suicide note One of the two men accused of trying to bomb Glasgow airport left a suicide note, it was claimed last night.

UK's universities 'losing world position' Britain's reputation as a world leader for university education could be lost within 10 years, the vice-chancellor of Cambridge warned yesterday.

Bravo, Sarkozy - from one jogger to another

As one who also makes the pavement echo to the slap of his tread, Boris Johnson salutes the new French President's willingness to expose his knobbly knees.

Why should 'experts' be unbiased? The fetishisation of the "expert" is one of the most depressing features of contemporary politics, says Daniel Hannan.

Unions urge EU treaty referendum Gordon Brown came under renewed pressure to call a referendum on the new EU treaty after one of Britain's biggest unions joined the campaign for a national vote.

Journalist's release cause for concern The freeing of Alan Johnston is very welcome news, but the way it came about underlines the mess the Occupied Territories have made of their search for statehood and the magnitude of the foreign mediators' task.

H18 Independent Police link suspects held over failed attacks As the Home Secretary announced yesterday that the threat level of a terrorist attack in Britain has been reduced from "critical" to " severe", security forces were beginning to trace an intricate series of links between the arrested suspects

Johann Hari: The future of the Earth depends on China

In his own words: Alan Johnston on his release 'You have to have been a prisoner to know how good freedom is'

Leading article: A joyous day brightens the gloom

Charles Glass: The life of a hostage: terrifying, unjust and expendable

Climate change policies are ineffective, say businesses

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

New Video From Al Qaeda Number Two...

BBC Spin tactics
The men who ran propaganda operation for al-Qaeda in UK

A Poisoned Chalice? The Flaws in the FY2008 Defense Program
Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies

H20 Slate

The Governance of Britain Ministry of Justice -UK
This 63-page UK policy document discusses how to modernize the role of the executive in Britain's system of governance

Washington, Lincoln Most Popular Presidents: Nixon, Bush Least Popular
Source: Rasmussen Reports

So Long, Tony Even 'the greatest soap opera ever' must come to an end. by James Bowman

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