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H1 Financial Times Kosovo leader proposes date for independence Agim Ceku puts pressure on international community to end deadlock over the province’s final status by pushing for declaration on November 28

FRONT PAGE - FIRST SECTION: Bush bans 'inhuman' methods of interrogation in CIA guidelines

The growth of nations Why have some countries succeeded with development and others failed? By Martin Wolf

Guardian The insurgents' achilles heel Sami Ramadani The Guardian's report on Iraq's armed resistance groups indicates a major shift in their strategy, but also reveals their weaknesses.

Kosovo to declare independence despite opposition Kosovo said it would issue a unilateral declaration of independence within months.

Enemies that don't need to be Spencer Ackerman: The Guardian's bombshell report on a new insurgent alliance could force Bush to prove he means what he says about al-Qaida.

Asia Times Iran-Syria alliance on uncertain ground
Overwhelmed with Iraqi refugees, facing uncertainty in Lebanon and playing footsie with Israel and Turkey have Syrian President Bashar al-Assad under pressure to reconsider his country's previously strong alliance with Iran. Assad and Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad could find themselves rethinking, or perhaps remodeling, their bond. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Asia Times CHAN AKYA
The new imperialism
Asian countries remain beholden to archaic economic notions, attempting to control the growth of their economies by indulging in significant trade and investment manipulation. The resulting large wealth transfer to already rich Western societies comes at high cost to Asians, preventing them from fixing the most pressing items on their domestic agendas, including corruption, pollution and infrastructure issues.

Washington Post Editorial The Phony Debate Congress could agree on a new Iraq strategy, if its leaders would allow it.

Bush Approves New CIA Methods

Interrogations Of Detainees To Resume

Alphabet Soup in Iraq By: Michael Young | Reason Prepare for "Plan C" and hand Washington an "F."

New York Times Editorial The Iraq War Debate: The Great Denier Americans want President Bush to explain how he will extract the troops and contain the bloodletting and chaos the war has unleashed.

The Iraq War Debate: A Reality Check on Military Spending Defending Americans from today’s terrorists and other threats will require larger investments in diplomacy, peacemaking and eliminating dangerous nuclear materials.

Getting Hezbollah to Behave By NICHOLAS NOE The best way to contain Hezbollah may be to give it some of what it says it wants.

Court Tells U.S. to Reveal Data on Detainees at Guantánamo In a stinging legal challenge to the administration’s detention policies, a ruling requires virtually all information to be shared with defense lawyers.

Rules Lay Out C.I.A.’s Tactics in Questioning Officials said the C.I.A. could proceed with an overseas interrogation program that has been in limbo since last year

White House and Military Say Iraq Report Will Be Ready in September

Daily Telegraph Britain almost out of troops, memo reveals

Britain has almost run out of troops to defend the country, a secret document obtained by The Daily Telegraph reveals.

Ha’aretz – Report: Iran pledges $1B in military aid to Syria Asharq Al-Awsat: Syria to purchase weapons from Russia, N. Korea, agrees to refuse peace talks with Israel

Bradley Burston: What self-hating Jews can teach Muslims

Editorial: JNF law makes Israel a racist Jewish state The thin line between Israel as a democratic Jewish state and a racist one has been crossed.

The Economist Kosovo

Eyeing independence

It could happen in November

Cooking the intelligence, again
Salon By Sidney Blumenthal

US Must Move Fast to Keep Bomb From Iran Wall Street Journal –

The Times Leader A New Entente Pragmatism was the new note heard at yesterday’s summit in Paris

Geopolitical Diary: Pakistan on the Table, Germany on the Rise
Stratfor –

Morgan Stanley The Biggest Dollar Diversifiers Are American

Guardian An inability to tolerate Islam contradicts western values Karen Armstrong: Free speech is now the rallying cry of escalating tensions, but we can also use it to expose double standards on both sides.

NRO VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The consequences of a U.S. withdrawal are even greater than the Iraqi bloodbath that would follow. “Ripples of Retreat”

BOOK: CIA reading Internet cafe e-mails...

Weekly Standard They Don't Really Support the Troops
The latest from the New Republic and the Nation. by William Kristol

Iraq Is the Central Front
by Thomas Joscelyn

Washington Institute Reading Between the Lines of President Bush's July 16 Address

H2 Independent Leading article: The struggle for a country's soul

FT COMMENT: Turkey's 'local guy' Charisma and the common touch look set to return the prime minister to office for a second term, says Vincent Boland

Turkey's elite ponders the revenge of Anatolia

WORLD NEWS: Secular Turks leave beach to block AKP vote

Spotlight: Article 301 - Touching the nerve of Turkisness

Guardian Election fever grips Turkey
Polls pit Islam against secularism and military against democracy.

Border brinkmanship James Martin Turkey has been massing troops along its frontier with Iraq but it won't invade - at least, not yet.

Turkey Taking Harder Line on Restive Kurds Washington Post

New Republic The Turkish elections
Will the Kurds be unlikely kingmakers? by Zvika Krieger

Der Spiegel Turkey Goes to the Polls: A New Election Comes with Old Problems

Asia Times Turkey's election has no losers Barring a major upset, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party will be returned to power in Turkey's elections on Sunday. The opposition "Kemalists" and ultra-conservative nationalists, though, are likely to prevent him from garnering sufficient support in the new Parliament to push through any major reform programs, which would perfectly suit the military. - M K Bhadrakumar

Troops stay in their barracks - for now With just days to go before Turkey's polls, Prime Minister Erdogan called off military operations on Iraqi soil to neutralize Kurdish militias. Domestic political concerns and pressure from the US played a part in the decision, but there is no guarantee that it is a permanent one

The Times Women in headscarves challenge the status quo

The Islamic head covering and its role in public life in Turkey provides the backdrop for Sunday’s early elections

IHT A vote on Turkey's identity By MARWAN BISHARA Behind Sunday's parliamentary election lies an important debate about the three pillars that define modern Turkey: secularism, nationalism and republicanism.

WSJ Turkish Test In Sunday's parliamentary elections, it is the Islamist party that's carrying the banner of democracy and modernization.
By MATTHEW KAMINSKI

Daily Telegraph Fighting for the future of Turkey PM vows to retire if Islamist party fails to win election.

Turkish elections to test Islamic democracy - Telegraph

Gulfnews: Two conglomerates are barometer of Turkish economy

Independent Turkish PM Threatens to Invade Northern Iraq

Turkey's postmodern election
National Post

BBC Turkey prepares for key election Campaigning ends ahead of Turkey's general election, seen as one of the most important in its history.

Q&A: Turkish poll
The BBC's Sarah Rainsford answers your questions

Mardell's Euroblog
Turkish officers offer views on democracy and sharia law

FT Growing rich on the cusp of continents

Tourism, turtles and tilling the soil

When sales reach their sell-by date

Nationalists on Rise in Turkey

CSM Competing Visions for Turkey's Future

NPR Turks Prepare to Head to the Polls

TURKISH VOTERS HEAD INTO KEY ELECTIONS EurasiaNet

Turkey's PM Eyes Alevi Votes But Mistrust Lingers

[TÜRKİYE'NİN SEÇİMİ DÜNYA BASININDA] Seçim, Türkiye'nin daha özgür olup olmayacağı konusunda

Dünya basını: İki ayrı Türkiye
Altan Öymen

Dış basından yakın ilgi

Dünyanın gözü Türkiye’de

‘İslam’a, Kürtlere ve milliyetçiliğe dikkat’

'Sınır ötesi seçim'

Economist dergisi 'Seçimin önemi Türkiye sınırlarını aşıyor' dedi

Erdoğan muhalefete el uzatmak zorunda

Why is the PKK so Desperate? Ihsan Bal

Amerikan Kongresi'nden Türk demokrasisine destek

Holt: Dünyanın gözü Türkiye'de

Wexler: Türk halkının fikrine saygı gösterilmeli

Iran-Turkey deal: The sum of all US-Russia fears New Europe

Is the Turkish Military Scoring Points with Conservatives?

Turkey's Upcoming Elections

For Devout Turks, 'Alternative' Tourist Resorts

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

PKK-ABD ve DTP M.Ali Kışlalı

Kritik seçimin provokatörü

Zana: Kürdistan eyaleti kurulmalı

Pro-Kurdish politician Zana: Time to divide Turkey into states

Erdoğan’dan Zana’ya tepki:''Haddini bilmez yaklaşım''

Gül: Zana'nın açıklaması sorumsuzca ve provoke edici

Bağdat, Ankara'ya sınır ihlali notası verdi

UPI Analysis: Kirkuk vote a test for Iraq

Iraqi Kurdistan President Calls on Turkey for Mutual Respect

Kurdistan Alliance Rejects Formation of Regiment Made of Turkomans Only

Iraqi PM Seeks to Form Shi'I-Kurdish-Sunni Front

Iraq unions vow 'mutiny' over oil law

'Federasyon' uyarısı

Erdoğan'dan Zana'ya tepki: Savcılar harekete geçmeli

Turkey's young voters
Aljazeera.net

Güven Sak Hamas’ın ideolojik transı, Gazze’de yaşamı zorlaştırıyor

Bush Must Co-opt Sadr, Confront PKK
The Conservative Voice -

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

US breaks ice with Greek Cypriots, wants Cyprus solution

22 Temmuz AB'yi de ilgilendiriyor!
Daniel Widome

The European question in Turkish elections

Turkey at a crossroads
Cyprus Observer

Ata Atun Is Enosis still on the agenda?

ABD'li Rum ve Ermeniler'in Kıbrıs öfkesi

Yunanistan, 'ekümenik' kararını önce AB'ye, sonra dünyaya taşıyacak

Bakoyannis to carry Patriarchate issue to Brussels meeting

Papadopulos: “20 Temmuz lanetli gün”

Türkiye'den Avrupa Birliği'ne İran mutabakatı mesajı: Bize güvenin

Şimdi de parti sitesinden attılar

Turkey's Islamic hotels
No booze, bikinis. Jazeera English.

Ekümenik tartışması Brüksel’de

Türk cumhuriyetlerine vize kalkıyor

Türkeş: Bahçeli MİT'çi değil

İtiraf şovunda ikinci bölüm: 'Türkiye Soros'un hedefinde'

Talat: Both July ‘74 and UN resolution plan aim for peace

Karabağ'da yeni lider Saakyan

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN 7 bin yaşında Mete Tunçay...

Beril Dedeoğlu The need for friends

PKK'dan ayrıldı Deniz Kuvvetleri'ne girdi

İşte AKP yardımlarının faturası

Uzan: Ya siyaset ya ticaret yapın dedi

Ömer Çelik'ten Uzan'a yalanlama

Can Ataklı

Sahi küçük Erdoğan krediyi nasıl aldı?

Hâkim, izin verdiği dinlemeye takıldı

Çeteler çökertildi provokasyon bitti

PNAC: Know Your Traitors Pt. 5 The Edelman Shuffle
His 'interest' in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the Turkish media, and ethnic minorities make him go beyond his role as an ambassador. His presence here has never contributed to Turkish-American relations, and it never will.

20 Temmuz 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 PKK silahı bıraksın DTP’lilerle görüşürüz

Leyla Zana "Eyaletlere bölünme zamanı gelmiştir"

Kerkük referandumu ertelenmeyecek

İngiltere Büyükelçisi ''Sınır ötesi operasyonla ne kazanılacağını anlamıyoruz''

Ruşen Çakır AKP'nin sırrı ne?

İki tartışılacak anket daha...

Anket sonuçları AK Parti'nin merkeze yerleştiğini gösteriyor

Taha AKYOL Seçimde öncelikli iki konu

Fikret BİLA Anketler arasındaki fark

Hasan CEMAL Kürt sorunu ve PKK!

Can Dündar Herkes AKP'ye çalıştı

Ertuğrul Özkök Ben 23 Temmuz gününe geçtim

İSRAİL BÜYÜKELÇİSİ AVİVİ İLE AKP, İRAN VE SURİYE DEĞERLENDİRMESİ Zaman içinde AKP ile sevgiyi yakaladık

Sadi SOMUNCUOĞLU
"Ya AKP, ya diğerleri" Ya Sevr, ya Lozan

Erdoğan’dan Zana’ya tepki:''Haddini bilmez yaklaşım''

PKK-ABD ve DTP M.Ali Kışlalı

Cengiz Çandar

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ

Cem Uzan'dan HABERTÜRK'e çarpıcı açıklamalar

"CIA bildirdi, Hilmi Özkök'e suikast son anda önlendi"

Jeopolitik ezberleri bozmak
NEJAT ESLEN

Barçın Yinanç İran'la doğalgaz anlaşması Türkiye'nin başını çok ağrıtacak

Seçimde konuşulmayan laiklik
İsmet Berkan

Partiler ve medya AB standartlarında mı? Murat Yetkin

MAHMUT ÖVÜR
Halk, bu kez kimden hesap soracak?

YAVUZ DONAT Yeni dönem: "Çok bilinmeyenli denklem"

İsmail Küçükkaya
Bu seçimin önemi ve özelliği....

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Bir gün önce…

Before the elections, after the elections by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE

Sami KOHEN Dış basının seçimlere bakış açısı

Mavi boncuk kimdeyse BENİM OYUM ONDADIR Perihan Mağden

Ege Cansen Bu köşe babamın malıdır

Muscular politics demand muscular journalism DAVID JUDSON

Mustafa Karaalioğlu Sandığa çare yoktur

The sum of all secular fears — a sequel Mustafa AKYOL

İlnur Çevik Iraq will be priority after the elections

Hangi yazar, hangi partiye oy verecek?

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 İlhan Selçuk'a olanlar

Fehmi Koru Demokrasi bayramı: Seçim

NAZLI ILICAK Gündem Cumhurbaşkanı'nın seçimi

Türkiye hangisini seçecek?
Haluk Şahin

Şahin Alpay Kimlik politikaları nasıl evrildi?

Ali Bulaç Yarın 22 Temmuz, yani seçim var

[NEWS ANALYSIS] AK Party sole center party in elections

M Ali Birand Seçim meydanları, düzeysizliğimizi yansıttı

Enis Berberoğlu Marifet iltifata tabi

Oktay Ekşi Duruma bir göz atış

İlter Türkmen Seçimlerin arifesinde hissettiklerimiz

[Yorum - Yrd. Doç. Dr. Bekir Berat Özipek] Siyasi mühendislik

Tufan Türenç Seçim anekdotları ve benim oyum

Emin Çölaşan Seçim sonrası acı tablo

Mehmet Barlas Siyasette ‘O da olmazsa öbürüne oy verin’ modası…

Yalçın Doğan Harp Akademileri’nde uyuşmazlık fotoğrafları

Yalçın Bayer Cemaat ve tarikatlar ’siyasi’ rekabette

Zeynep Göğüş Nerede o eski seçimler

HAKAN ALBAYRAK

Nuray Mert'in yazısı

Aslı hedef kararsızlar

Bahçeli'den IMF'ye minnet mektubu

Serdar Turgut Kampanyanın sonu

Mehmet Kamış Ülke birliği için ülkü birliği

MGK'ya atama seçimden sonra

Erdoğan, ustasını çok ağır eleştirdi

Erdoğan'dan liderlere: Kapıları kapatmayın

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERDAL ŞAFAK Siyasette kadın farkı

KÜRŞAT BUMİN Seçim arifesinde kısa hikayeler...

Ahmet Taşgetiren Oy bilinci

Ali Bulaç Müslümanlar sisteme katılırken neyi kaybediyor?

ERGUN BABAHAN Hayırlı seçimler Türkiye

Hadi Özışık Mumcu mu, yoksa Ağar mı kelek yaptı!

MELİHA OKUR Musul Vilayet Konseyi!

Niçin Weimar? (2) Murat Belge

Şakir Süter Anketler, DP ve komiklik!

Mehmet Altan Oylanacak olan ne?

Semih İDİZ Seçimde Türkiye kazanmalı

Abbas GÜÇLÜ Seçim öncesi konuşulmayanlar

Abdülhamit Bilici What will the Turkish electorate say at the polls?

Derya SAZAK Umudun seçimi

Güngör URAS Partilerimizin hepsi KOBİ'ci (Ama, takayla Atlantik geçilmez. Transatlantiklerimiz olmalı)

Yaman TÖRÜNER 60 milyar dolar nasıl gitti?

Metin MÜNİR Mehmet Şimşek ve üretkenliğin gücü (2)

Yiğit Bulut Piyasalarımızda 'idrak' noktaları

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam Maliye haziran bütçesini geciktirdi

Ekonomi, seçim ve sokak
Taner Berksoy

Deniz Gökçe Likidite senetleri ne için çıkartılıyor?

Yabancılara 5 ayda 1.5 milyar dolarlık mülk satıldı

H4 New York Times Editorial The Iraq War Debate: The Great Denier Americans want President Bush to explain how he will extract the troops and contain the bloodletting and chaos the war has unleashed.

The Iraq War Debate: A Reality Check on Military Spending Defending Americans from today’s terrorists and other threats will require larger investments in diplomacy, peacemaking and eliminating dangerous nuclear materials.

Getting Hezbollah to Behave By NICHOLAS NOE The best way to contain Hezbollah may be to give it some of what it says it wants.

Court Tells U.S. to Reveal Data on Detainees at Guantánamo In a stinging legal challenge to the administration’s detention policies, a ruling requires virtually all information to be shared with defense lawyers.

Rules Lay Out C.I.A.’s Tactics in Questioning Officials said the C.I.A. could proceed with an overseas interrogation program that has been in limbo since last year

White House and Military Say Iraq Report Will Be Ready in September

Russian Foreign Minister Withdraws Article Critical of U.S.

Musharraf Loses Fight Over Suspension of Judge A ruling was a blow to Pakistan’s president, who has been beset by Islamic militants and pro-democracy opponents.

Britain Will Not Charge Former Blair Aides With Corruption

For Iraq, Common Ground Can Be Found on Soccer Field

The Saturday Profile: Out of Britain, Firebrand Sheik Takes New Tone in Lebanon

Editorial Long-Delayed Security As new warnings stoke the public’s fear of terrorist attacks, Congress is finally moving on some of the most important recommendations of the independent 9/11 commission.

H5 Washington Post Editorial The Phony Debate Congress could agree on a new Iraq strategy, if its leaders would allow it.

Bush Approves New CIA Methods

Interrogations Of Detainees To Resume

Bush, Reid Exchange Attacks Over Support For U.S. Troops in Iraq General Clarifies Statement on Strategy

The Pentagon Gets a Lesson From Madison Avenue U.S. Needs to Devise a Different 'Brand' to Win Over the Iraqi People, Study Advises

High Court Reinstates Pakistan's Chief Judge Decision a Key Setback For Faltering Musharraf

A New Kind of Abolitionist

Colbert I. King | Can Barack Obama make fighting poverty his cause the way Leonard Grimes made fighting slavery his cause?

H6 Guardian An inability to tolerate Islam contradicts western values
Karen Armstrong: Free speech is now the rallying cry of escalating tensions, but we can also use it to expose double standards on both sides.

The insurgents' achilles heel Sami Ramadani The Guardian's report on Iraq's armed resistance groups indicates a major shift in their strategy, but also reveals their weaknesses.

Kosovo to declare independence despite opposition Kosovo said it would issue a unilateral declaration of independence within months.

Enemies that don't need to be Spencer Ackerman: The Guardian's bombshell report on a new insurgent alliance could force Bush to prove he means what he says about al-Qaida.

Sarkozy and Brown plan Darfur trip and press for UN force

Russia keen to restore normal relations Russia's foreign minister said Moscow wanted to bring its relations with London back to normal.

Army: we're running out of troops · Defence memo leak says virtually no reserves left · 'Intense tempo of life' due to Iraq and Afghan fighting

Pakistan's chief justice reinstated Court rules president's suspension of judge illegal.

Israel looks to bolster Abbas by freeing militants · Prisoners driven to Fatah leader's compound · Hamas members excluded from amnesty

Blair aides attack police over honours inquiry Mandelson claims detectives created 'false impression' of PM.

10,000 pages, three arrests, no charges

H7 Iran-Syria Alliance on Uncertain Ground

Iran's Renewed Threats to Take Over the Arab Gulf States - Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan Dahoah-Halevi (Institute for Contemporary Affairs/Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Managing Islam's Civil War - Jonathan Kay

Asia Times Iran's clerical spymasters
Mahan Abedin puts the recent detention of four Iranian-American academics on spy charges in the broader context of US and Iranian intelligence-gathering operations. After being severely burned trying to recruit agents in the conventional manner, the Americans turned to "consultants". But in doing so they blurred the distinction between spying and legitimate research

NY Sun Intelligence Estimates, Illogical Conclusions - Youssef Ibrahim

Frank Thoughts on Islamist Extremism - Pierre Atlas, RealClearPolitics

Expert: Al-Qaida can't conquer Iraq

Dick Norton slammed...
for whitewashing Hezbollah.

Pakistan's Uncertain Future By: Rajan Menon | The Boston Globe
The United States finds itself in a familiar situation, aligned with a general who grabbed power in a coup but has become politically isolated, perhaps beyond repair. The difference is that Pakistan is now a more dangerous place than it was under the three prior military strongmen, Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, and Zia ul-Haq.

Time Musharraf on the Brink in Pakistan?

Al Hayat Bush's Initiative Reconfirms the Centrality the Renewal of the Palestinian Issue Raghida Dergham

Weekly Standard They Don't Really Support the Troops The latest from the New Republic and the Nation. by William Kristol

That Hazy, Crazy Bubbly Feeling of Liquidity By: Robert J. Shiller | The Japan Times
We increasingly hear that "the world is awash with liquidity," and that this justifies expecting asset prices to continue rising. But what does such liquidity mean, and is there really reason to expect that it will sustain further increases in stock and real estate prices?

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

US Papers Sat: Madison Avenue Goes to War?

Iraqi Papers Sat: A Sunni President for Iraq?

June Attacks in Iraq Worst in 4 Years

US General: Iraq Security Needs Years of US Help

Western Envoys Put Off More Iran Sanctions Until September

Iraq violence
Monitoring the results of the surge by US troops in Iraq

BBC Legal nightmare
Reinstatement of chief justice is a blow to President Musharraf

Spilling over
Darfur's neighbours fear fresh conflict as refugees arrive

The Arab World Can Do Much More to Help Mahmoud Abbas By: Yossi Alpher | The Daily Star
If there is any prospect at all for a positive new departure in Israeli-Palestinian relations during the Abbas era, it is the recognition that because the malaise is regional, so too must the solution be regional.

Iraqi Kurdistan: Tough Times for Arab Refugee Kids
Institute for War and Peace Reporting

H9 Ha’aretz – Report: Iran pledges $1B in military aid to Syria Asharq Al-Awsat: Syria to purchase weapons from Russia, N. Korea, agrees to refuse peace talks with Israel

Bradley Burston: What self-hating Jews can teach Muslims

Editorial: JNF law makes Israel a racist Jewish state The thin line between Israel as a democratic Jewish state and a racist one has been crossed.

Natan Sharansky: Iraqis more optimistic about future than U.S.

A message to the moderate Arabs: With Hamas there's no reconciliation

Olmert Presses for Syrian Peace Talks Without the US

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

Is Peace Really Feasible? - Yosef Tommy Lapid

Column One: Bush, the talented politician
[ CAROLINE GLICK, JUL

US Affairs: The Bush Doctrine revisited
[ HILARY LEILA KRIEGER

Revealing an Israel that Goes Beyond the Headlines –

Israelis Dodge Military Duty as Solidarity Fades Growing numbers of young Israelis are finding ways to avoid compulsory military service, a trend that many think reflects declining social cohesion in the Jewish state and increasing alienation from its most venerated institution.

Column One: Bush, the talented politician Jerusalem Post -

H10 Christian Science Monitor

US steadies its aim at gun trafficking into Mexico

Extra manpower is to be deployed to the border to pursue smuggling cases, but the huge scale of the problem dwarfs the government's response.

ASIA

Asia Times CHAN AKYA
The new imperialism
Asian countries remain beholden to archaic economic notions, attempting to control the growth of their economies by indulging in significant trade and investment manipulation. The resulting large wealth transfer to already rich Western societies comes at high cost to Asians, preventing them from fixing the most pressing items on their domestic agendas, including corruption, pollution and infrastructure issues.

Japanese Defense White Paper Reaffirms Strategic Priorities By: Richard Weitz | World Politics Review
The Japanese government's latest defense report identifies North Korea and China as Tokyo's primary strategic concerns while reaffirming Japan's alliance with the United States, commitment to international peacekeeping, and intent to keep defense spending slightly below 1 percent of its gross domestic product (some $39 billion).

From PINR, a look at why China will not cave to pressure over trade imbalance. The Wild Wild East of Capitalism: Traders in London and New York aren’t quite sure what to make of China’s chaotic stock markets. An interview with Asia economist Andy Xie on the unique psychology of Chinese investors, why the country’s markets are crashing, and how that matters 7,300 miles away on Wall Street. A review of China: Fragile Superpower—How China's Internal Politics Could Derail its Peaceful Rise by Susan L. Shirk. Why the mainland's problems could keep it from becoming the next superpower

H11 IHT Britain and France to make joint effort on terrorism and Darfur The decision by Brown and Sarkozy to try to end the conflict in Darfur signals a possibly reshaped European dynamic. Will Germany join the British and the French?

Dying to get to Europe
By BRUCE LEIMSIDOR
The death of three Iraqi refugees last week should make us Europeans rethink the way we comply with our obligations, both moral and legal, toward those seeking asylum.

Portuguese resent EU as they take its helm A recent poll shows Portuguese support for the EU at just 55 percent, and the country plans to use its presidency to advance programs in Africa and Brazil, the sites of its former colonies.

EUROPE European press review

CEPS Fake, Partial and Imposed Compliance: The Limits of the EUs Normative Power in the Western Balkans

Kosovo's Long Path to Autonomy By: David L. Phillips | The Boston Globe
Bush administration officials are urging Kosovars to have patience with efforts to steward Kosovo's independence. But with Russia blocking the UN Security Council from addressing the region's final status, Kosovo's leaders -- the so-called unity team -- are growing restive.

Greece-Macedonia: Sticks and Stones By: Anes Alic | ISN Security Watch
The Greece-Macedonia name dispute rages on as a Greek diplomat is dismissed for suggesting that Athens give up its hardline stance in the name of realism.

UK Foreign Policy Research Guide

BBC UN Kosovo vote plan put on hold

US and EU allies put on hold plans for a UN Security Council vote on Kosovo, citing Russian opposition.

Russia rebuffs West over Kosovo

UN plans tackle Kosovo limbo

Q&A: Kosovo's future

Refugees' lament
Kosovo Serbs ponder impact of possible independence

Der Spiegel Racism in France: Sarkozy's Justice Minister Subject of 'Unjust Campaign'

H12 RFE/RL

Central Asia: Governance, Geopolitics and Development Challenges

Domestic Debate Marks Karabakh Presidential Vote

Google News Azerbaijan

EDM SPY ROW CHILLS U.K.-RUSSIA RELATIONS: FOR HOW LONG?
- RUSSIA SHOWS MUTED PLEASURE OVER PROGRESS TO DENUCLEARIZE NORTH KOREA
- TURKMENISTAN-CHINA GAS AGREEMENTS: STILL A VERY LONG SHOT

H13 The Times Leader A New Entente Pragmatism was the new note heard at yesterday’s summit in Paris

Promising debut in double act at the Palace

The first session Brown and Sarkozy held as leaders gave a glimpse of the chemistry set to define the cross-Channel couple

Missionaries kidnapped by Taleban warned of death

Genpatsu-shinsai: the language of disaster in Japan

The combination of an earthquake and nuclear meltdown could destroy millions of lives and bring Japan to its knees

Wall Street Journal Veteran
Israel's new president on Iran's nuclear program--and his own.
By JUDITH MILLER

H14 Financial Times Kosovo leader proposes date for independence Agim Ceku puts pressure on international community to end deadlock over the province’s final status by pushing for declaration on November 28

FRONT PAGE - FIRST SECTION: Bush bans 'inhuman' methods of interrogation in CIA guidelines

The growth of nations Why have some countries succeeded with development and others failed? By Martin Wolf

Undercover Economist: Professional killers Even wealth and education are not barriers to becoming a terrorist

COMMENT: The rule of law collides with the code of the cold war Citizens of ‘civilised nations’ do not risk assassination if they engage in opposition politics, says Stefan Wagstyl

Anglo-French push for green tax cut Britain and France are to press European Union partners to lower value added tax on less environmentally damaging products as part of the fight against climate change

MARKET NEWS AND COMMENT: Pound hits highs against dollar

The fruits of freedom Review by John Lloyd

Deal reached on applying Basel II rules Agreement among US bank regulators

Google open to wireless bid Prepared to bid at least $4.6bn to join sector

WORLD NEWS: Clinton and Pentagon in war of words over Iraq troop withdrawal

The Brown bounce With the Brown steamroller gathering pace, and the chance of a general election next year, Mr Cameron must not panic

Nuclear progress In diplomacy, as in other walks of life, perseverance pays off. North Korea's decision a week ago to shut down a reactor that produced plutonium for nuclear bombs...

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial Giving peace a chance Although pitfalls lurk in President Bush's proposed Mideast meeting, it beats the status quo.

Bush signs new CIA interrogation rules Order allows agency to resume some harsh techniques used against terror suspects, while prohibiting others.

Their dream, our nightmare Rosa Brooks: Once just a neocon fantasy, a powerful Al Qaeda in Iraq fueled by Islamic extremism has become a reality.

Made (badly) in China

By Oliver August What allows it to produce shoddy or dangerous goods? Simple: Corruption.

Iraqi detainees living in filth .Suspected insurgents, alleged criminals and apparent innocents await fate in crammed Baghdad facility.

H16 American Politics

BBC God's house
Do you need to be religious to be elected US president?

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

Exclusive: Hillary's Stinging Letter To SecDef Gates Obtained

White House: Executive Order: Interpretation

H17 Daily Telegraph Britain almost out of troops, memo reveals

Britain has almost run out of troops to defend the country, a secret document obtained by The Daily Telegraph reveals.

Leader Armed Forces stretched to breaking A higher budget is only part of the answer for the Armed Forces. The trouble is that money is misallocated, spent in the interests of contractors rather than our soldiers.

Bush asks Senate for more time in Iraq President George W Bush and his generals have appealed for more time to allow his troop increase to work in Iraq.

H18 Independent Leading article: A good week for Gordon Brown, but a hard lesson for David Cameron

Kosovo premier mulls deadline on independence

Calls for Bulgarian president to resign over secret service collaboration

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Undercover Economist: Professional killers Even wealth and education are not barriers to becoming a terrorist

Bush bars CIA from using torture, but details remain cloudy

SEC suspends terror link search tool The Securities and Exchange Commission suspended a controversial feature on its website that allowed users to search for companies that could be indirectly subsidising a terrorist state

The Enemy Within: Where Are the Islamist/Jihadist Websites Hosted, and What Can Be Done about It?
Source: Middle East Media Research Institute

A new issue of The New Leader is out, including William L. O’Neill reviewing 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century by Stanley Weintraub and Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace by Mark Perry. A review of The Pentagon: A History by Steve Vogel. The CIA often has shaped information to meet White House expectations: A review of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner. From Harper's, meet the Pentagon’s New Spin Unit: Bush Administration hacks court bloggers, talk radio

· H20 Slate The Pentagon Insults Hillary Clinton:

Big mistake.

Fred Kaplan

Analysis: Knowledge, tech key for poor

Weekly Standard The 9/11 Generation
by Dean Barnett

H21 Appearance is the new reality Pontius Pilate did not have to contend with television editing and political grooming Matthew Parris

FT Editorial A balancing act Societies should do more to help combine careers and family. It is crucial to educate women about these choices -

Robert Fisk: No wonder the bloggers are winning

Bureaucrats of high-tax nations want tax “harmonization” rather than competition between tax systems. Call it an “OPEC for politicians”... more»

People viewed Richard Nixon as “cold and crafty.” This naturally hurt his feelings, so in 1970 he wrote a memo to Haldeman... more» ...original in PDF

Many economists have made careers out of finding “market failures,” cases where freedom has bad effects. Do their remedies work?... more»

“I often have to arrange talks years in advance,” says Noam Chomsky. “Asked for a title, I suggest The Crisis in the Middle East. It has yet to fail”... more»

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