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H1 Independent Patrick Cockburn: Smokescreen for the war blown away

Halting Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program: Iranian Vulnerabilities and Western Policy Options - Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser (Institute for Contemporary Affairs/Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

New York Times Support in G.O.P. for Iraq Policy Erodes Further

Wesley Clark Legitimacy: First Task for America's Security

Guardian On Kosovo, the EU is united - by a sickening lack of will Jonathan Steele: Despite the modest successes of the reform treaty, the first post-summit crisis lays bare Europe's failures.

IHT Analysis: Is Sarkozy an old-style Gaullist in disguise?

Financial Times COMMENT: How to defeat the jihadis in something other than a warThe use of force can be only one dimension. Hearts and minds are critical in the effort to counter terrorism, writes Philip Stephens.

Editorial Al-Qaeda’s organisation is weaker, but the message still spreads Jihadism will not be defeated by a ‘war on terror’ that glorifies confrontation. Hearts and minds must be won

Los Angeles Times The guns of August? Editorial: A summer war between Israel and Syria isn't inevitable. But Damascus' arms buildup is worrisome.

Mideast has an old Cold War look

Daily Star Arabs Should Accept the Truth of Our Own Defeats - Khairi Abaza

Iran's Proxy War - Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Tehran is on the offensive against us throughout the Middle East. Will Congress respond? Wall Street Journal

WSJ The bomb plots in Britain may reflect a new terror strategy.

Ha’aretz – Avineri Post-Zionism doesn't exist Fundamentally, post-Zionism is a radical criticism not just of Israel's policy; at its base is total denial of the Zionist project and of the very legitimacy of the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish nation-state.

Eldar Deciding what we do want, not only what we don't It's fashionable in local diplomatic and military circles to say that without a peace deal with Syria, a third Lebanon war is only a matter of time, but even if the Americans come to the table there's no guarantee of an accord

David Kimche Blair as Tom Cruise

Yedioth Dennis Ross: Risk of war
Former senior US diplomat warns of risk of war with Syria this summer in exclusive Ynetnews interview; criticizes US for being soft on Damascus; says Fatah will lose West Bank to Hamas if it does not change

Today's Pessimism is Misplaced - William Kristol, Time

CFR Round Three with Iran

Slate How Putin Played Bush in Kennebunkport:

And how Bush could still come out on top. Fred Kaplan

Exclusive: U.K. Terror Plot — Why the Bombs Failed

USIP Briefing: The Role of the Media in Conflict

Global Politician Appeasement And Global Strategy Of The Russian-Iran Cabal

CFR Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture: Holding World Leaders Accountable to Reducing Global Poverty and Protecting Civilians (Audio)

Foreign Policy Seven Questions: The Wild, Wild East of Capitalism

H2 Washington Times Will Turkey shoot? Mark R. Parris There is a subtext in Turkey's current debate on how to deal with the PKK that has been largely missed in Western media coverage of Turkish saber rattling.

CSM Turkey's Kurds: some back the state Though embattled, not all Kurds support the militant Kurdistan Workers Party.

Washington Post A Test for The West In Turkey By Anwar Ibrahim This month's elections in Turkey have been described as a battle for the soul of the nation.

FT Turkish court supports poll

COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL: Central Asian group wins Petkim auction

Erdogan Struggles With Generals for Ultimate Power in Turkey
Bloomberg

TURKEY: Countdown Begins to Crossing into Iraq

American Chronicle: Turkey and Israel: Facing Common Threats and Sharing Great Perspectives

BBC Turkey court rules reforms valid Turkey's highest court rules that controversial constitutional reforms passed by the government are valid

AP Turkey set to hold a referendum on presidential election system

Iraq: Turkey Ratchets Up Pressure For Action Against PKK

ABD harekât olasılığını artırıyor! Howard Eissenstat

İşkence cezasız
TBMM insan hakları komisyonundan Faruk ünsal'la tartıştık

Court backs popular election of president, referendum looms

Turkey-European Union relations on parties' agendas

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Türk: Ders aldık aynı hataları yapmayacağız

Barzani: Türkiye ile her ortamda masaya otururuz

Rizgari TC, Kürdistan'ın güneyinde kendisini ve Kürdleri denemek çabasındadır

Almanya’da PKK operasyonu

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 5 Jul 2007

Irak'ta Petrol Yasası görüşmeleri yine ertelendi

DTP’DEN BAŞBAKAN’A SİTEM..

5 PKK'lı öldürüldü

Iranian, Turkish Officials Discuss Increasing Border Security

Kandil’e ABD silahı ilişkimizi zedeler

Barzani AKP İLE ARAMIZI MEDYA BOZUYOR..

Tunceli'de temizlik operasyonu

'Peşmerge takviyesi'ne yalanlama

Tuğluk'un 5 yıla kadar hapsi isteniyor

Kurdish Activists Confirm Damning Human Rights Report

Ortak Çalışma Grubu bugün toplanacak
Türkiye'nin girişimiyle Pakistan ve Afganistan arasındaki sorunları çözmek amacıyla oluşturulan ve Türkiye ile bu ülkeleri kapsayan Ortak Çalışma Grubu'nun ilk toplantısı, bugün Ankara'da yapılacak.

Ferai Tınç Hamas

Ali H Aslan American Muslim birth pains

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Avrupa'ya bir uyarı daha: Türkiye, İslam âleminin feneri

AP üyesi Resetaris: Başarılı olamadık Avrupa Parlementosu (AP) KKTC'ye verilen ekonomik ve politik izolasyonların kaldırılmasına yönelik sözlerin tutulmadığını itiraf etti.

"Rumların AB'ye kabulü hataydı"

Portekiz Dönem Başkanlığı'nın
Programı (Orjinal metin)

Erdoğan ve Brown telefonda görüştü
Başbakan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, İngiltere Başbakanı Gordon Bronwn ile telefonda görüştü.

Merkel Rumları almamalıydık

Turkey-European Union relations on parties' agendas
Today's Zaman

Köln'e cami planı ortalığı karıştırdı

Papa’nın doğduğu yere cami diktirmeyiz

Yunan güvenlik botundan ihlal

Ata Atun Why the Cyprus problem cannot be solved

Le Monde: Laikliği koruyanlarla eski İslamcıların savaşı sonuçlandı

AKPM Başkanı Linden:''Avrupa Konseyi üyeleri arasında kapalı sınır kabul etmeyiz''

EU’s Rehn says Turkey is a beacon for the Muslim world

İlerleme Raporu Kasım sonunda

Ali Bulaç Islamophobia

YORUM- "Türkiye Avrupa'da mı, değil mi?"

UAÖ'nün Türkiye hesapları donduruldu
Uluslararası Af Örgütü'nün Türkiye şubesinin banka hesapları, İstanbul Valiliği tarafından donduruldu. Karara gerekçe olarak, örgütün izinsiz yardım toplandığına ilişkin ihbarlar gösterildi.

A review of Five Years of My Life: A Report from Guantanamo by Murat Kurnaz.

Durmuş HOCAOĞLU
Siyâsette ciddî bir problem var; hâssaten muhâlefette

Ali Saydam İki kabine kurun, öyle karar verin...

Mitinglere asker desteği

Sincan’daki komutanın terfi sırası Bu yılki YAŞ’da atama bekleyen en ilginç isimlerden birisi de, 28 Şubat’ta Ankara’da Zırhlı Tümen Komutanı olan ve Sincan’da tankları yürüten Korgeneral Erdal Ceylanoğlu.

'Vatanseverler'e örtülü ödenek desteği iddiası

Trilyonluk ihalelerde 'Vatansever' parmağı

Derya SAZAK 3 arkadaş

Mahkemenin bulamadığı tanığın yerini, çete lideri Zengin gösterdi

Tamer Korkmaz Çorap Söküğü Çetesi

Mümtazer Türköne "Vatan haini" çeteler

1000 dolar için AKP'ye oy verir misiniz?

Nicole Pope Swimming with sharks

Erhan Çelik Emekli General Ali İhsan Gürcihan'ın bilinmeyenleri

Act now to eliminate poverty
Mahmood AYUB

6 Temmuz 2007 Basın Özeti

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu İhracat artışının nedenleri

Güven Sak Küreselleşen bir ekonomide büyümeye nasıl bakılmalıdır?

Haluk Bürümcekçi Kura değil, kur politikasına müdahale (II)

Erdal Sağlam

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Merkez Bankası tevekkülde

Deniz Gökçe Büyüme tuş etti!

Metin MÜNİR Nükleer cepheden yeni bir haber

Yiğit Bulut Dolar gerçekleri

Ertuğ Yaşar Petkim de ellere mi gitti

Volkan Akı Petkim’de masada 20 milyar dolar vardı

Güngör URAS Petkim kötü değil, iyi bir KİT idi (Satın alan hayrını görecek)

Tüzmen: Center of logistics to shift from West to East

H3 Referandum 21 Ekim’de

Kafalar karıştı işte konuşulan senaryolar

Meclis'te skandal: Bülent Arınç'ın odasında gizli kamera bulundu

Bilal Çetin Kasım’a kadar 5 ayrı seçim ihtimali...

Şamil Tayyar Kritik karar

Referandum yolu açıldı

Şimdi ne olacak?

En kötü senaryo: Referandum olmayabilir

Halk sürprizi

Hukukçuların yorumu

Mahkeme'den sürpriz karar, Köşk için ekimde referandum var

Referanduma vize

Taha AKYOL Anayasal devrim

Mustafa Karaalioğlu Şimdi ne olacak?

M Ali Birand Devlet çetelerinden kurtulalım...

M. Ali BİRAND Kriz havası dağıtılıyor

MUHARREM SARIKAYA "Anlaşmayı Erdoğan bitirdi"

ERDAL ŞAFAK Tıkanmayı aşmak

Seçmen, Köşk için uzlaşma şartını dayatma olarak algıladı

Nuray Başaran Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri 3'üncü parti gibi seçim meydanlarına da indirdiler

Mehmet Tezkan Askerler yarın Kuzey Irak’a girecek mi?

Sınır ötesine Sarıkamış örneği

Ruşen Çakır Baykal Türkiye’nin Lula’sı olabilir mi?

Radikal MHP, CHP, DP tutarsız AKP ise gerçekçi değil Muhalefetin ekonomik programlarındaki vaatler çelişkili. AKP'nin 2013'te 800 milyar dolarlık milli gelir hedefi için yıllık yüzde 9.5'lik büyüme gerekiyor

Amerika, Türkiye'de demokrasi istiyor mu? H. Gökhan Özgün

Petkim’i alan şirket Kazak değil ABD’li baş finansör Ermeni

Petkim’i alan şirket Kazak değil ABD’li baş finansör Ermeni

Petkim'in gizemli Yahudi ortağı

Milliyet SEÇİMLER VE BİR ETİK TARTIŞMASI Başbakan Erdoğan ve AKP'li bakanlar, seçim çalışmaları sırasında devlet imkânlarından geniş bir şekilde yararlanıyorlar. MİLLİYET – BAŞYAZI

Genelkurmay 1 Numara’nın peşinde

2 bin YTL maaşla komando aranıyor

Dışişleri açıklamasının perde arkası

Cengiz Çandar “Provokatörler, dolandırıcılar, kaçakçılar, sahtekarlar güçbirliği” üzerine

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ

5 ayda 5 sandık görünüyor

Çoğunluk laiklik konusunda kaygılı

ABD düşmanlığını anlamak
M.Ali Kışlalı

Seçimlerin ana temaları
Hasan Celal Güzel

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

NAZLI ILICAK Petkim: 605 milyon $'dan 2 milyar $'a

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN
Petkim'i alan gizli şirket kim?

Fikret BİLA Erbakan: Abdüllatif Bey'le görüşeceğiz

Ahmet Hakan Beyaz imam hatipli tartışmasına giriş

Ertuğrul Özkök İlahi genel yayın yönetmeni

Tufan Türenç Bu da öyle bir demokrasi işte...

Emin Çölaşan Muhalefet bunları niçin sormuyor?

Özdemir İnce Bambaşka bir anket sonucu

Yalçın Bayer AKP, boşta TV bırakmıyor

Rauf Tamer 15 gün kala...

Mustafa Mutlu Anayasa Mahkemesi şimdi ‘cici’ oldu mu?

ERGUN BABAHAN Çankaya bilmecesi

EMRE AKÖZ 'Kadınınız' kime oy verecek?

Bülent Keneş Who will people vote for? What will determine their decision?

Mustafa Ünal Gül'ün performansı

Hüseyin Gülerce Ertuğrul Günay'ı dinlerken...

CHP Genel Sekreteri'nden tuhaf konuşma: AK Partililer'in hepsi Ege denizine sürülecek

BALÇİÇEK PAMİR Mitinglerin mesajı

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Siyasette üçüncü nesil Menderes

[Yorum - Dr. Ümit Kardaş] Laik, demokratik, hukuk devleti klişesi!

Hasan CEMAL Şehit cenazesi, taziye çadırı!

İlnur Çevik Erdogan will not have an easy ride this time as PM

Arslan BULUT
Petkim'i Barzani de satın alabilir miydi

Eser Karakaş Türkiye’nin kısa vadeli öncelikleri

Ahmet Taşgetiren Her yerde Erbakan konuşuluyor ama...

En ilginç yorum Şener'den!

[Election strategies under spotlight-4] Democracy test during the AK Party rule by SELİN BÖLME*

[Election strategies under spotlight-5] AK Party’s performance in foreign policy by AHMET SELİM TEKELİOĞLU*

Nasuhi Güngör CHP dış politikada ne söylüyor?

MGK krizini Kraliçe çözdü

Mehmet Barlas Bütün partiler aynıdır ama bütün siyasetçiler aynı değildir…

Berat Özipek MHP urganı kimin boynuna takıyor?

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

Oy konusu Murat Belge

Acı bir kayıp Haluk Şahin Ülkemizin yaşamında belirli dönemlerde çok önemli işlevler üstlenmiş olan bir kelimeyi kaybetmiş bulunuyoruz: 'Vatanseverlik'.

Gülay Göktürk CHP'lilerin çaresizliği

Sami KOHEN Teröre rağmen...

Nuh Gönültaş Bahçeli’nin idam edilen ülkücülerden haberi yok galiba!

Şakir Süter Yalanlama uzmanları!

Metin Metiner Tahammülsüzlük...

Gül: "CHP-MHP koalisyonu için uğraş var"

Erdoğan: "Kirli çamaşırlarına da ip lazım"

ABD Başkonsolosu Beyza Zapsu'yla saf tuttu

Uzan’a yumruk

Güler Kömürcü İzmirli, CHP-MHP’yi kucaklıyor

Anavatan’da Gökçek isyanı

Al - Qaida Video Reflects Group's Troubles

PAUL KRUGMAN Sacrifice Is for Suckers Nobody has asked the obvious question: “What sacrifices have you and your friends made, Mr. President?”

DAVID BROOKS The End of Integration Expecting integration, Americans find themselves confronting polarization and fragmentation.

H5 Washington Post Key GOP Senator Breaks With Bush: Domenici Urges Change In Strategy on Iraq War

Bin Laden's Deputy Exhorts Muslims in Iraq to Coalesce

Editorial Same Old Protectionism House Democrats put up roadblocks to a balanced approach to free trade.

Glasgow Suspect Angered by Iraq War, Relative Says

Pakistan Moves to End Deadly Standoff at Mosque: Talks on Peaceful Ending Apparently Stall

Indian Doctors Fear a Bomb Plot Backlash

Political and medical leaders say they worry it will be harder to get visas to U.K. and that Indians living abroad will face racial profiling.

H6 Guardian On Kosovo, the EU is united - by a sickening lack of will
Jonathan Steele: Despite the modest successes of the reform treaty, the first post-summit crisis lays bare Europe's failures.

Blockade helps Gaza militants, says report Latest blockade of Gaza threatens territory's commercial sector and aids the cause of extremists, says report

Bombs plot investigators look at role of al-Qaida cells in Iraq MI5 and MI6 begin to build picture of foreign contacts.

There's no unbridgeable gap between culture and business
Creativity is not just about artistic expression - it can also generate wealth, writes Will Hutton.

H7 The Economist Language and terrorism Don't mention the GWOT

Global poverty Are we nearly there yet?

Millennium Development Goals The eight commandments

McClatchy Experts: Global drug abuse largely contained One war appears to be going well for the United States and its allies these days: the drug war. The availability of all major illegal drugs except Afghan heroin is flat or down, according to newly released global figures. So is drug use in the United States, the world's leading consumer. And drug seizures are up sharply. » read more

Airbrushing Islam's Role in Terror Threat - Irshad Manji, The Australian

In the battle for competing visions between the US and al-Qaida, the Sunni resistance is now opposing al-Qaida in Iraq, as are the Taliban in Afghanistan, and more on Takfirism, a messianic ideology.

The outcome of the battle of ideas between Americanism and anti-Americanism will set the tone of the 21st century. It will be the decisive ideological struggle of our times.

Who will sound the call to service? If we are to survive as a nation with our values intact, then we must find leaders willing to make the call

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

Daily Star Arabs Should Accept the Truth of Our Own Defeats - Khairi Abaza

US Papers Fri: Zawahiri, Bush face defectors

Persian Press: Daily Says US, UK Forces in Iraq Buying Iranian Uniforms

10-foot-deep trench will protect Iraqi city of Karbala

The Economist The Palestinians The labours of Fayyad

Lebanon From crisis to crisis

BBC Pakistan head orders mosque pause

President Musharraf says security forces should halt operations at Islamabad's Red Mosque to let women leave.

Mosque raid boosts Musharraf

Boston Globe Editorial Musharraf's belated crackdown

Blast targets Iraq wedding party

At least 17 members of a Baghdad wedding party are killed and 25 injured in a car bomb attack.

Iraq Flexes Arab Muscle
New Statesman -

H9 Ha’aretz – Avineri Post-Zionism doesn't exist Fundamentally, post-Zionism is a radical criticism not just of Israel's policy; at its base is total denial of the Zionist project and of the very legitimacy of the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish nation-state.

Eldar Deciding what we do want, not only what we don't It's fashionable in local diplomatic and military circles to say that without a peace deal with Syria, a third Lebanon war is only a matter of time, but even if the Americans come to the table there's no guarantee of an accord

Unintentional results In the Middle East as a whole, the discovery of the scope of the underground tunnel network in southern Lebanon and the pace of Hezbollah's rocket stockpiling have shaken the very foundations of the leaderships in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf Emirates.

Eitan to Winograd: IDF didn't present explicit war plans

Can 120 Jews reach a consensus on the future of the Jewish people?

Report: Settlers use just 9% of state-allocated land

Barak's popularity as PM candidate nearing Netanyahu's

Former IDF chief Ya'alon blasts Halutz's 'culture of corruption'

Yedioth Dennis Ross: Risk of war
Former senior US diplomat warns of risk of war with Syria this summer in exclusive Ynetnews interview; criticizes US for being soft on Damascus; says Fatah will lose West Bank to Hamas if it does not change

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

From Commentary, an exchange on Jews, IQ and history.

Ya'alon: Land for Peace Concept Failed

Russia Says Iran Nuclear Plant Will Not Open Before 2008

A review of An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry

Libby a Long-Time Mossad Agent

H10 Christian Science Monitor French revolution: Rentable bikes every 900 feet Beginning July 15, Parisians can get one with the swipe of a card - and the first half-hour is free.

THE MONITOR'S VIEW

In the war on drugs, one victory

Chinese exporters seek to assure US on safety

To keep their catfish in US markets, some of China's top producers seek independent ratings.

ASIA

A review of An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire by Arundhati Roy. Martha Nussbaum discusses her book, The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future. A review of Holy Warriors: A Journey Into the Heart of Indian Fundamentalism by Edna Fernandes. Maoists say they're fighting for the invisible tribal peoples of India. Are they terrorists, or the product of a corrupt and unjust system? A review of In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce. A review of India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha. Pradipta Chaudhury on India’s new caste politics. A look at how India has its own "soft power": Buddhism

The Economist Japanese politics The unbearable weight of Shinzo Abe

Pakistan A mosque red with blood

China blames unrest on pollution
Environment chief says unrest stems from anger over pollution.

H11 IHT Analysis: Is Sarkozy an old-style Gaullist in disguise?
By KATRIN BENNHOLD In recent days, criticism of the French leader's interventionist language and unapologetic intent to ignore EU budget rules is mounting.

London bombers sped to Glasgow, authorities say A week after the intended bombings, evidence is emerging that the two doctors were the main operatives, if not the leaders, of a network of other medical professionals.

Skilled workers leaving Eastern Europe in droves

The big guessing game By MARK AMES / Agence Global
Now that the first half of this year's protest season is over in Russia, both sides will take time to consider their position.

A crisis of identity and the appeal of jihad
By PETER R. NEUMANN Why are doctors and engineers as vulnerable to jihadism as the unemployed?

EUROPE European press review

The Economist Eastern Europe's economies Worrying about a crash

Ukraine's future Viktor ludorum

Charlemagne The two-speed myth

H12 RFE/RL Ukraine Urges OSCE To Do More On Frozen Conflicts

Google News Azerbaijan

Boston Globe Bush's white lie about Putin
Instead of assuring the world about Putin's truthfulness, Bush should be driving sound bargains that accommodate the vital interests of Russia and the United States.

CSM Russia's bold left stands up to Kremlin

Eduard Limonov's leftist National Bolshevik Party leads protests and spurs controversy.

Political Trends in the New Eastern Europe: Ukraine and Balarus by Dr. Arkady Moshes, Dr. Vitali Silitski Strategic Studies Institute

FT Putin’s lobbying wins Sochi the Olympics Like so many things in Russia these days, Sochi’s victory in the race to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games owes much to the personal intervention of its modern-day tsar

The Economist America and Russia Days of fishing and poker Bush and Putin agreed politely to disagree a lot and co-operate a bit

Armenian President, PACE Head Discuss Relations

Geopolitical Diary: The Spoils and Concerns of a Sochi Olympics
Stratfor

EDM KULOV CONTINUES TO ADVOCATE RUSSIAN-KYRGYZ CONFEDERATION
- NEW POLITICAL ALLIANCES EMERGE IN UKRAINE
- DID YUSHCHENKO BORROWS KUCHMA’S IDEAS FOR CONSTITUTION?

H13 The Times Hamas won the propaganda war

We’ve had an exercise in good-cop, bad-cop with our Islamist friends in the past week

Gerard Baker

Bomb plots ‘carried out with bin Laden’s blessing’

Top foreign intelligence source tells The Times: 'It was an established fact from Day 1 that al-Qaeda was behind this'

BOMB PLOT SUSPECTS 'DISAPPEARED FOR YEAR'...

Editorial Pakistan’s Catch-22

Musharraf may have to choose between a deal with Bhutto or martial law

There’s no point wanting our politicians to be saints

So, what is Gordon Brown up to? In speech after speech he proclaims his profound goodness

Jamie Whyte

Stand-off at mosque after army blasts walls Militants agreed to lay down their weapons in return for an amnesty after three days trapped inside a besieged Islamabad mosque

Wall Street Journal Money Meltdown
Forget the rise of the pound and euro against the dollar. The real story is the decline of all paper currencies when compared to gold.
By DAVID RANSON and PENNY RUSSELL

Japan in the Balance
Across the Pacific, an American ally faces electoral trouble.
By MICHAEL R. AUSLIN

The Economist Business The trouble with private equity Private equity has come in for much political criticism, but its more serious problems are financial

Public v private equity The business of making money

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: How to defeat the jihadis in something other than a warThe use of force can be only one dimension. Hearts and minds are critical in the effort to counter terrorism, writes Philip Stephens.

Editorial Al-Qaeda’s organisation is weaker, but the message still spreads Jihadism will not be defeated by a ‘war on terror’ that glorifies confrontation. Hearts and minds must be won

WORLD NEWS: Rallying call by al-Zawahiri

WORLD NEWS: Building bridges to destruction

Clinton and Obama back China crackdown Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have agreed to co-sponsor legislation that threatens trade retaliation against Chinese goods to cajole Beijing into revaluing its currency, according to their Senate aides.

Pentagon tackles globalisation The Pentagon is having to face a new set of challenges and opportunities as the defence industry heads along the path of globalisation

COMMENT: America will prefer to rely on rules, not principles

COMMENT: We must act when currencies become misaligned Our legislation aims not to punish but to encourage all countries to follow international rules, write four US senators

Despite its economic power, the Asia-Pacific still lacks a financial centre to rival London and New York. But not for long.

Afghanistan splits German parties Germany’s foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier rejected calls from senior members of his party to scale back troop numbers in Afghanistan.

MARKETS AND INVESTING: Price of crude breaks through $74 threshold

Sarkozy pursues GdF link to Algeria French president Nicolas Sarkozy may be hoping to breathe life into his Mediterranean union initiative with a deal to reinforce ties between Algeria’s Sonatrach and French state-owned Gaz de France

The mystery and myth of Lebanon's militants The face, arms and handsof Abu Omar, an Islamist "commander" in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh in southern Lebanon, are covered in second-degree burns...

WORLD NEWS: Israeli attacks in Gaza kill seven militants

European interest rates on the rise European interest rates are on the rise after the Bank of England announced another increase in borrowing costs and the European Central Bank signalled that eurozone rates were likely to go up in September

Editorial British and European central banks stick to the script Self-sustaining growth – with no contagion from the sluggish US economy – calls for higher interest rates

NATIONAL NEWS: Warning over private equity backlash

H15 Los Angeles Times The guns of August? Editorial: A summer war between Israel and Syria isn't inevitable. But Damascus' arms buildup is worrisome.

Mideast has an old Cold War look

Coalition faces blame for rise in Afghan deaths U.S. and allies have killed more civilians than insurgents have, according to independent tallies

Editorial

H16 American Politics

Obama safety fear after knife arrest

Armed man arrested outside presidential hopeful's hotel.

Fred Thompson rises in polls but not with policy specifics

A place to push impeachment

Poll: Bloomberg Takes From Giuliani -- in a Race Against Hillary...

Paper in military town calls for Iraq pullout
Newspaper with strong military readership says war is 'national shame.'

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

H17 Daily Telegraph 45 Muslim doctors planned US terror raids

Iranian banks are feeling the heat It has been a long time coming, but cracks are beginning to appear in the edifice of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's autocratic regime says Con Coughlin.

Pakistan in crisis Conspiracy theorists insinuate that the siege of the Red Mosque in Islamabad is being used by the government to demonstrate that Islamic radicalism is rampant in Pakistan. If that is the case, then the tactic has seriously backfired.

H18 Independent Patrick Cockburn: Smokescreen for the war blown away

Bombing suspects 'tried to radicalise Bangalore mosque' Two Indian brothers at the centre of police investigations into the alleged NHS terrorist plot tried to persuade their local Indian mosque to adopt a more "hard line" form of Islam.

Gaza economy on the brink as 85% of residents live on aid

Iran's leader hints at rights for women

Berlusconi's military intelligence chief accused of spying on judges

The Big Question: Are standards at UK universities threatened by overseas students?

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

An essay on The Evolution and Importance of Army/Marine Corps Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency; and Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency Operations: An excerpt from The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual

A review of Buda's Wagon: A brief history of the car bomb by Mike Davis. The Palestinian conflict may not meet David Singer's threshold of what constitutes a civil war, but it does speak to an important conclusion about war in general: In contrast to the last two centuries, intrastate conflicts nowadays are far more likely to be internationalized

Al-Qaeda No. 2 Urges Strikes On Western Interests

"Congressional Oversight of National Security Activities: Improving Information Funnels" by Heidi Kitrosser, Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 29, 2007.

Democratic Control of Intelligence Services : Containing Rogue Elephants" by Hans Born and Marina Caparini, July 2007.

Department of Defense Instruction: Conscientious Objectors (PDF; 177 KB)
Source: U.S. Department of Defense (via Federation of American Scientists)

Spying on Americans: New NSA Whistleblower Speaks

Brain Research, Nanotech and the Military: Mind Wars

Developing Irregular Warfare Leaders for the 21st Century

David L. Grange

Strategies for Asymmetric Threats to US National Security Steven Metz

The Lethality of Improvised Weaponry in Irregular Warfare

T.X. Hammes

CRS Views Private Security Contractors in Iraq

"Enemy Combatant Detainees: Habeas Corpus Challenges in Federal Court," updated June 26, 2007.

"Defense Procurement: Full Funding Policy -- Background, Issues, and Options for Congress," updated June 15, 2007.

"Data Mining and Homeland Security: An Overview," updated June 5, 2007.

"Coast Guard Deepwater Program: Background, Oversight Issues, and Options for Congress," updated June 22, 2007

Habeus Corpus Restoration Act of 2007 (PDF; 170 KB) Source: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (via Federation of American Scientists)

The Threat and Local Observation Notice (TALON) Report Program (PDF; 3.85 MB)
Source: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General (via Federation of American Scientists)

Food Security Assessment, 2006
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Report Summary (PDF; 141 KB)
+ Full Report (PDF; 843 KB)

A review of Five Years of My Life: A Report from Guantanamo by Murat Kurnaz.

Asylum seeker kept bomb manuals

A failed asylum seeker who kept a collection of manuals on how to carry out car bombings on nightclubs and airports, is facing a lengthy jail sentence.

'Cyber' gang targeted U.S. facilities

H20 Slate How Putin Played Bush in Kennebunkport:

And how Bush could still come out on top.

Fred Kaplan

Next the anti-smoking Guardianistas will be coming for dogs and cats
Simon Jenkins: This ban is a classic instance of centralised meddling which ignores the potential of local self-discipline.

From The Chronicle, new universities for Muslims, many supported by groups in the Middle East, are spreading through the sub-Saharan region

Imperial Washington: Cullen Murphy, author of Are We Rome?, takes in the sights and similarities (and an interview).

Ian Buruma on Embracing the Empire.

An op-ed on How a Revolution Saved an Empire.

A review of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson

From Commentary, the CIA's record of failure, bad enough before George Tenet, is now beyond question. Can it be repaired? From the New York Review of Books, what Tenet knew: A review of At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA by George Tenet. Did the Bushes get to George Tenet? Why did a man who seemed so bent on cashing in put off writing his memoir—at a loss of some $2 million? A review of Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power by Marcus Mabry. A review of George Kennan: A Study of Character by John Lukacs

From Vanity Fair, The History Boys: In the twilight of his presidency, George W. Bush and his inner circle have been feeding the press with historical parallels: he is Harry Truman—unpopular, besieged, yet ultimately to be vindicated—while Iraq under Saddam was Europe held by Hitler. To a serious student of the past, that's preposterous. Writing just before his untimely death, David Halberstam asserts that Bush's "history," like his war, is based on wishful thinking, arrogance, and a total disdain for the facts

From Foreign Policy, is it too late for America to win back its disappointed admirers? Not if the United States returns to its founding ideals and finally puts to bed the myth of “American exceptionalism” once and for all, says Anne-Marie Slaughter; and where's the love? Each year, the United States seems to slide ever lower in the world’s esteem. But not everyone hates America. Hidden inside a new 47-nation Pew Global Attitudes Survey are some surprising oases of support for the world’s sole superpower

From Conversations With History, an interview with Nayan Chanda, author of Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization.

H21 A review of Have a nice doomsday: why millions of Americans are looking forward to the end of the world by Nicholas Guyatt.

Google Book Search Gets Text Layer

What would the world be like if there were no humans here? A review of The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

A review of The 1001 Smartest Things Ever Said.

A prosperous, lucky country turns out to have been founded on genocide. Clearly, Australia urgently needs an intelligentsia to help it emerge from its dark moral labyrinth... more» ... more»

Geology, as much as any science, shows that trying to replace truth with consoling myth will fail – and insult human dignity along the way... more»

Gordon Brown resorted to his school's Latin motto when pledging commitment to his new job, but what's the significance of these ancient mission statements? The idea is simple, a bit of Latin spells a dose of gravitas, and a hefty slice of tradition and history

From Commentary, an exchange on Jews, IQ and history.

Catholic teaching once knew the evil that came from releasing individuals from moral law. Will it ever return to the idea that God’s justice must permeate relations of capital and labor?... more»

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