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H1 Financial Times US may start Iraq pull-out this year, says Gates The Bush administration could begin drawing troops out of Iraq by the end of the year, Robert Gates, the defence secretary, said

Stocks face nervous start to week World markets face a nervous start to the week following the plunge in stocks in the US on Friday as concerns mounted about fallout from the US mortgage market turmoil

Christian Science Monitor Shiites press for autonomy Momentum is building for a federation of southern provinces in a further challenge to Iraq's unity.

Exiting Iraq, how is as key as when

Any troop withdrawal could take up to 18 months and would need careful planning, say experts.

IraqSlogger Iraqi Papers Mon: Maliki's Last Dance?

NYT Magazine Getting Iraq Wrong By MICHAEL IGNATIEFF What the war has taught me about political judgment.

Los Angeles Times We're still the world's caped crusader By By Robert Kagan The United States is the best hope to help steer nations through dangerous times.

Ha’aretz Study: Israel must hold talks with U.S. on conflicting Iran interests Institute paper advises Israel discuss Iran with U.S. to avoid Washington-Tehran deal excluding it

MI: Syria increases army activity for fear of Israeli plans to attack Military Intelligence research chief gives cabinet security briefing, says Hamas, Fatah likely to clash in W. Bank

Washington Post Weapons Given by U.S. To Iraq Are Missing The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, report shows.

How to Fight the Next War By Ivo Daalder and Robert Kagan, Before its next military intervention, the U.S. needs to ensure that its decision has the support of the world's democracies

Thank Heavens for Hedge Funds

Flush With Foreign Capital, They Help Defuse Crises By Sebastian Mallaby, If the world comes through the current market turmoil relatively unscathed, it will be thanks to the globalization of finance -- and the actions of hedge funds.

Lame-Duck Diplomacy Promoting Democracy Overseas Is No Longer a Priority As State Pursues Elusive Prizes in Middle East and Korea

By Jackson Diehl, In its final months, the Bush administration could be repeating the foreign-policy mistakes the Clinton administration made in its final months.

Another Report on Iraq, Another Round of Headaches for U.S.

Editorial Warrantless Surrender

Congress is stampeded into another compromise of Americans' rights.

Musharraf's Obsolete Way By Jim Hoagland, Watching Pervez Musharraf perform brings to mind Fred Astaire. The Pakistani president tap-dances so nimbly across the world stage with such flair that you forget he is practicing a dying art.

The Democrats Dither on Trade By David Ignatius, Democratic presidential candidates like to talk about "turning a page" in America's relations with the rest of the world. But what does that mean, in practical terms, on bread-and-butter issues such as trade?

Angie, the Uncrowned Queen of Europe By Josef Joffe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel may be the most influential European leader today.

Report: Harsh Methods Used On 9/11 Suspect Article Details Torture That Mastermind Said He Endured

Jane Mayer / New Yorker:

THE BLACK SITES — A rare look inside the C.I.A.'s secret interrogation program

Project on Defense Alternatives:

Complete or Partial Withdrawal from Iraq?

Confronting Iran: Critical views, and implications

Iraq War Withdrawal and Exit Plans

Al Qaeda member: U.S. embassies prime targets

Don’t Be Afraid of Rupert Murdoch By ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Love him or hate him, consider his influence to be benign or malignant, at virtually every step of change, Rupert Murdoch has been ahead of the game.

Guardian Power cuts worsen in Iraq Provinces refuse to share electricity across the country as Iraq's power grid is on the brink of collapse.

Liberty is not what it was
Roy Hattersley: Much has changed since John Stuart Mill's time, and his views on freedom are no longer valid

Iraq: The Way Out Alon Ben-Meir

Boston Globe The downside of diversity (By Michael Jonas A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth?

The Times ‘Rival to Nato’ begins first military exercise

At least 6,500 Russian and Chinese troops are joining forces in what is being described as an anti-terror exercise

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak will visit Cairo soon to discuss Egypt’s bid for renegotiation of 1979 peace accords

Geopolitical Diary: A Well-Timed Announcement on Iraq Stratfor

Der Spiegel Acting To Save The Climate: A Selection of Climate Protection Projects

Newsweek Who Are the Bombers?

Political Reform and the Reconfiguration of National Identity in Syria Arab Reform Initiative

Lebanon's Future at a Crossroad

Iraq and the Gulf States: The Balance of Fear USIP

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Pew names the ungracious and the appreciative — should we really care? “Popularity Contest”

Asia’s Rising Science and Technology Strength: Comparative Indicators for Asia, the European Union, and the United States Source: National Science Foundation Full Report (PDF; 1.75 KB)

McClatchy Democratic Party is growing more liberal Forty percent of Democrats now call themselves liberal, the highest in more than three decades and twice the low-water mark recorded as the conservative Reagan revolution swept the country in the early 1980s. » read more

Martin Kramer The Shiite banana

Wall Street Journal Barack Obama, Neocon At least he's willing to use force against something

Domestic Terror in Iran
Iran has just carried out the largest wave of executions since 1984.
By AMIR TAHERI

Reconstructing Europe: Two Alternative Proposals for a European Constitution
ZEI A 106-page German discussion paper offering a 'visionary' constitutional project and a 'realistic' one, relying on the current draft of the Constitutional Treaty

Eternal Euskadi, enduring ETA, Fred Halliday

The Rise of Islamists in the Near East:The EU, the US and Hamas ISN-ETH This Swiss paper describes how the resurgence of the Islamists in the Levant has changed the balance of power and confronted the West with various challenges

H2 Washington Post Turkey to Warn Iraq on Rebel Sanctuaries Cross-Border Attack on Separatists Appears Likely If Baghdad Fails to Act

Erdoğan may distance himself from 'lame duck' Bush

FT Gul future uncertain as Erdogan picks team Several new ministers likely

Tom Barnett: Fast-forwarding to better storyline in Middle East Knoxville News Sentinel Meanwhile, roughly 20,000 U.S. troops have shifted to Kurdistan. Following Kirkuk’s contested vote to join the Kurdistan Regional Government in late 2007, the Turkish military invades northern Iraq to root out strongholds of the Kurdistan Workers Party insurgency. America submits to the U.N.-mandated regional security dialogue led by super-empowered envoy Tony Blair in exchange for the great powers’ acceptance of our bases in Kurdistan, which simultaneously ensure its quasi-independence while purposefully dampening its magnetism for separatist movements in Syria, Turkey and Iran.

Ermeni lobisinin ısrarlı tavrı Bush'u pes ettirdi

Kurdish leader seeks U.S. help to topple regime (By David R. Sands)

Why Turkey is the homeland of modern Islamophobia (I) Mustafa Akyol

Russia and Turkey face political and military risk

Türkiye İran'ı dengeler mi? George Friedman

[Yorum - Richard Falk] Türk seçimlerinin gerçek anlamı (1)

Askeri iktidarların son kullanma süresi doldu Jim Hoagland

İslamcılar için özeleştiri vakti MAHMUD ERREYMAVİ

AKP'nin 'İslamcılığı' gerçek İslamcılar için kriter değil YASER EL ZEGATİR

AKP demokrasi sınavını geçti ABDULMÜNİM SAİD -

Turkish Military Expels Officers

Korea Signs $500 Mil. Jet Deal With Turkey

White House gives in on Armenia envoy It pulls the nomination of Richard Hoagland. Senate objected because he wouldn't call mass killings by Turks 'genocide

The Economist Türkiye hala çekici

Britain’s a terrible bore, that’s why I left Sunday Times Norman Stone

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

KYB'nin iddiası: Türk komandoları Irak sınırı geçti

Emre Uslu Ocalan's Grand Strategy Failed

DTP: 'Kürt sorunu' ekonomik bir sorundur

Political tension: The DTP and political normalizationby Dr. FAHRETTİN ALTUN*

İhsan Dağı Representing the Kurds, presenting the solution

Bush, Talabani ve Barzani'yle görüştü

Maliki yarın geliyor, Ankara 'sabrının taştığını' söyleyecek

Mayınlı tuzak: 3 asker şehit

PKK'nın telsizleri Avrupa'dan!

Türkiye'nin özlediği tablo

Kuzey Irak ateş altında

Öldürülen PKK'lı üst düzey yönetici

Ferai Tınç Altın fırsat kaçmamalı

Fatih Çekirge Şeref üzerine yemin ettiler

Önyargıları ilk günde yıktılar

Sağduyuya alkış yağmuru

[Yorum - Sadık Yalsızuçanlar] 'Kürt sorunu' ifadesindeki ko(r)ku

PKK’yı kınadıktan sonra ne etkim olur !

Kırmızı dosya ile karşılanacak

Öcalan'a hücre cezası iddiası

Diyarbakır'da 20 bin aile acil gıda yardımı bekliyor

MHP'ye jest, CHP'ye rest

IntelliBriefs: PKK and American policy: A Response to Peter Stitt

PKK Rebels Kill Turkish Villager For Denying Food

PEJAK: ABD İran'a karşı bize yardım etsin

DTP'yle 'toka' MHP'de normal karşılandı muhalifler 'Ben olsam tokalaşmazdım' dedi

'DTP PKK’ya 'bir sekilde' bagli'

Bölükbaşı: Medeni insanın yapacağı şey

“Kürtler niye DTP’ye oy versin?”

Mustafa Ünal İlk gün sürprizi; Türk ile Bahçeli tokalaştı

Nabi Yağcı Öncelikli meselemiz savaşı durdurmaktır

KORAY DÜZGÖREN “Herkes eşittir” diyenlere sunulur

Mersin'de PKK'ya karşı operasyon: 1 gözaltı

DTP'liler milli maçlara gidecek

Güneydoğu, işsizliği sanayiyle aşıyor

Kurdish Media Reaction to Hoisting Iraq Flag After Football Victory

PJAK liderine yüz vermediler

DTP'li Sakık: Milli maçlara da gideriz

'Kara panter' sürüyor

DTP'liler, 91'deki hataya düşmedi

Kahraman komutan erleri için şehit oldu

Barzani’nin bir eli Türkiye’de

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 4 Aug 07

Erdoğan’dan PKK’ya karşı ortak tavır temennisi

Diyarbakır'da mayın tuzağı: 2 astsubay, 1 er şehit

Don't Go To Kurdistan

Kurdish Civil War Warning The Conservative Voice

HAKAN ALBAYRAK

Washington rejimi bir diktatörlüktür

Kim kaçak? Kim yasadışı?
Yıldırım Türker

'ABD, İran'a müdahaleye hazırlanıyor'

Ömer Taşpınar Selling arms for peace ?

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Berlin'den Kıbrıslı Türklere darbe

Rumlardan Ankara'ya petrol arama tepkisi

Kıbrıs sularında yeni petrol krizi yolda

[NEWS ANALYSIS] Büyükanıt's remarks raise hopes for Cyprus politics

Anketlere göre Papadopulos önde

Bu dönemde Avrupa politikası
Murat Belge

Almanya'dan AB'nin genişlemesine destek

Club-Med gains supporters; Turkey puts fears to rest

Ankara'nın Orta Asya'ya vize hamlesi Brüksel'i rahatsız etti

Partition in the agenda for Cyprus

Karadeniz'de sular ısınıyor

Komuta Türkiye’ye geçiyor

Turkey to take over Blackseafor’s command

Bush Ermenistan'a büyükelçi atayamıyor

Erdoğan'dan kopya çekecek

Partition in the agenda for Cyprus

Turkey readying to counter Greek Cypriot move

Azerbaijan, Greece sign memo on energy

Pileli Türkler, gümrük işkencesine isyan etti

Türkiye AB’den vazgeçmez

'Milletvekili danışmanları danışmanlık dışında her şeyi yapıyor'

Hudson ziyareti Tanyeri’nin terfisini engelledi

Hava Kuvvetleri, Karadeniz’e teslim

Koşaner’in önü açık

SOLİ ÖZEL İki evren

Soner Yalçın İlk anayasayı ’Islamcı liberaller’ hazırladı

Teknokent beş yılda 10 kat büyümeyi başardı
ODTÜ bilim üssü dünyayla yarışıyor

Michael van der Galien / The Moderate Voice: Türkiye Sen Çok Güzelsin

Britain’sa terrible bore, that’s why I left Sunday Times Norman Stone

Ülkesini eleştirdi: İngiltere çok sıkıcı, Türk milliyetçisi oldum

Türkiye’ye gelir gelmez Türk milliyetçisi oldum

Guardian: Nobel kararı politikti

Ferai Tınç Siyah-beyaz

Milletvekili danışmanı mı sekreter mi?

Gülen kürsüsüne akademisyen ilanı

Danıştay, Şevket Demirel hakkındaki davada iki farklı görüş beyan etmiş

6 Ağustos 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 Yasemin CONGAR Yeni dönemde Kürt meselesi

Taha Kıvanç Aykırı sorulara mâkul cevaplar

10 yılın Genelkurmay başkanları belirlendi

Taslağı hazırlayan Özbudun Radikal'e konuştu Anayasa taslağında Atatürk var altı ok yok

Günay Referandum ertelenebilir

PKK'ya karşı Irak'la ilk anlaşmaya doğru

KYB'nin iddiası: Türk komandoları Irak sınırı geçti

Emre Uslu Ocalan's Grand Strategy Failed

Yasemin CONGAR Lobi Bush'u pes ettirdi

Maliki ziyaretinden ne beklenebilir? Murat Yetkin

Taha AKYOL Anayasal Türklük

İşte İstanbul'un 2011 hedefleri

Favori Gül, sürpriz Erdoğan'da
Murat Yetkin

[MONDAY TALK] 'Turkey needs an ombudsman for secularism issue' Hakan Yılmaz

Semih İDİZ Holbrooke da Türkiye'yi tanıma zahmetine katlanmamış

Şükrü Küçükşahin DP projesini kim bozdu

Şamil Tayyar Mimar Sinan’ın korsan listesi

Erdoğan'ın zor haftası
Erdoğan, bu hafta yeni kabinenin yanı sıra yeni Meclis başkanı ve cumhurbaşkanı adayını da belirleyecek. Günün sorusu: Gül Çankaya'ya çıkarsa hükümette ikinci adam Arınç mı olacak?

ABD'nin Ortadoğu vizyonu değişti
ÖMER TAŞPINAR

Şahin Alpay Turkish Islamic exceptionalism

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
AK Parti'de "Kohl modeli"

Serdar Akinan Nitelik ve niceliğin anlaması gereken

'Sezer'e sunmama' önerisi

METEHAN DEMİR
Kabine'de tabanca sürprizi Gönül'den bakanlara veda tabancası

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 Aykırı sorulara mâkul cevaplar

Fehmi Koru Ne operasyonlar gördük, aslında yoktular

KÜRŞAT BUMİN Kısa notlar...

KÜRŞAT BUMİN Kazasız belasız yemin törenini de atlattık

Ahmet Hakan Bergman seyreden Müslüman hikáyeci

Enis Berberoğlu Oğlumun nesli uçuracak

Ekrem Dumanlı Meclis'teki yeni oyun düzeni ve medya

Referandum takvimi işliyor; ancak geçici 19. madde kafaları karıştırdı

Gül, Köşk sorusuna İstanbul'da cevap vermedi

Oktay Ekşi Şimdi biz nerdeyiz?

Emin Çölaşan ’YAŞ kararları yargıya açılsın!’

Tufan Türenç Melih Gökçek efsanesinin çöküşü

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERDAL ŞAFAK Meclis'teki çiçek bahçesi Yemin etmek

ERGUN BABAHAN Umutlu olmak için neden var

EMRE AKÖZ Erdoğan aday olursa

Umur Talu Kulislerden en son bilgiler

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK Gül'ün cumhurbaşkanlığı

YAVUZ DONAT MHP... Ana muhalefet 'gibi'

MAHMUT ÖVÜR 'AK Parti bir fırsattır'

"Kutuplaşma geride kalmalı, kuşatıcı olma zamanı"

AK Party and the Military: Always tense and distanced New Anatolian -

İsmail Küçükkaya
Bahçeli’den “yeni bir siyaset” anlayışı

Bülent Keneş Supreme Military Council’s decisions should be subject to judicial review

Vatandaşlık tanımı ilk Anayasa'da daha çağdaş

Yüksel Söylemez A Post-mortem of Turkish Elections 2007

FİKRİ AKYÜZ

Gül'ün “Yazma..” dediği 'şey'..

İlk anayasamızın mantığı duruyor AVNİ ÖZGÜREL –

2. Erdoğan dönemi

Bir buçuğuncu cumhuriyet de var
H. Gökhan Özgün

Mümtazer türköne CHP'nin altı sebebi

'Ah sinekler olmasa!' Hasan Celal Güzel

Eser Karakaş Baykal çatışma kavramıyla neyi kastediyor?

Mehmet Altan İkinci cumhuriyetçiler...

Mahir Kaynak Büyük oyun

Nasuhi Uslu Kavgayı sürdürmek

Mehmet Metiner Çankaya, başörtüsü ve kriz...

Mustafa Erdoğan Yeni dönemin başında

Eser Karakaş Dünyayı iyi okumak ve ikinci cumhuriyet

Baykal'dan ikinci yüzme esprisi

YSK, topu Meclis'e attı

Asker neden yok

Mumcu'dan 'birleşememe' itirafları

YAVUZ DONAT Asiye nasıl kurtulur?

Altı ay kendinize gelemeyeceksiniz Meclis dışında kalan Yalçınbayır, çiçeği burnunda milletvekillerine 20 madde halinde öğütler sıraladı»

Yavuz Baydar OKUR TEMSİLCİSİ
Herkese söz hakkı

Mensur Akgün Boşa çıkan beklentiler ülkesi Türkiye

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Piyasalarda iyileşme sonranın işi kötüleşme haber ve veriye bağlı

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam Piyasaların gözü siyasi geleceğin kritik haftasında

Faruk Şen Yeni Açılımlar

Deniz Gökçe Enflasyon göçtü...

Enflasyonda yeni bir dönem mi?
Uğur Gürses

Enflasyonda son durum
Fatih Özatay

Güngör URAS Bizde "burjuva sınıfı" neden yok?

The Economist Türkiye hala çekici

İBRAHİM KAHVECİ Yüzde 5'le para veriyor yüzde 18'le borçlanıyor

Kapıdan kovulanın bacadan girmemesi için Fatih Özatay

Asaf Savaş Akat

Temmuzda enflasyon

İbrahim Öztürk Büyük deprem öncesi artçı sarsıntılar mı?

What the subprime mortgage crisis means for Turkey

Yaman TÖRÜNER Acil çözüm bekleyen sorunlar

Salih neftçi Yeni Türk Lirası nereye gider?

Güngör URAS Döviz mevduatı seçim öncesi bir haftada 1.9 milyar dolar arttı

Merkez Bankası'nın enflasyon tahmini dört şarta ba...

Yiğit Bulut Euro’su olmayan ağlarmış!

Turkey sees growth in AKP
Aljazeera.net

Salih Neftçi Bugün ne olur?

2050'nin süper gücü Türkiye!

GRAPHIC: Housing Busts and Hedge Fund Meltdowns: A Spectator’s Guide

H5 Washington Post Weapons Given by U.S. To Iraq Are Missing The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, report shows.

How to Fight the Next War By Ivo Daalder and Robert Kagan, Before its next military intervention, the U.S. needs to ensure that its decision has the support of the world's democracies

Thank Heavens for Hedge Funds

Flush With Foreign Capital, They Help Defuse Crises By Sebastian Mallaby, If the world comes through the current market turmoil relatively unscathed, it will be thanks to the globalization of finance -- and the actions of hedge funds.

Lame-Duck Diplomacy Promoting Democracy Overseas Is No Longer a Priority As State Pursues Elusive Prizes in Middle East and Korea

By Jackson Diehl, In its final months, the Bush administration could be repeating the foreign-policy mistakes the Clinton administration made in its final months.

Another Report on Iraq, Another Round of Headaches for U.S.

Editorial Warrantless Surrender

Congress is stampeded into another compromise of Americans' rights.

Musharraf's Obsolete Way By Jim Hoagland, Watching Pervez Musharraf perform brings to mind Fred Astaire. The Pakistani president tap-dances so nimbly across the world stage with such flair that you forget he is practicing a dying art.

The Democrats Dither on Trade By David Ignatius, Democratic presidential candidates like to talk about "turning a page" in America's relations with the rest of the world. But what does that mean, in practical terms, on bread-and-butter issues such as trade?

Angie, the Uncrowned Queen of Europe By Josef Joffe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel may be the most influential European leader today.

Report: Harsh Methods Used On 9/11 Suspect Article Details Torture That Mastermind Said He Endured

'Will it Ever End?' By Dr. Mohammed, A young Iraqi puts his future, family, and peace of mind on hold during the course of a typical week in Baghdad.

House OKs Pentagon Budget Minus War Funding

Tougher Stance on Pakistan Took Months U.S. Believes Its Harsher Tone Got Musharraf Moving Against Terrorists

House Approves Broader Surveillance Legislation Lawmakers, including many Democrats facing reelection in conservative districts, yield to White House pressure on bill changing U.S. wiretap law

The Can't-Do Nation Is America Losing Its Knack for Getting Big Things Done? By John McQuaid, Bridges fall. Levees fail. Even kitchen wiring is going haywire. Is America, the can-do nation, losing its basic competence?

Ouster By the People By Robert Dallek, Polls showing President Bush's approval ratings in the 20s and 30s and a New York Times survey last month reporting that people across the country are eager for an end to the current administration suggest that this nation has a problem it's going to have to live with for the next 17 months -- a ...

5 Myths About the Japan That Can Say No Myths About the Japan That Just Said No By Michael Zielenziger Japanese voters have spoken: Bush can't count on them to fight the war on terror.

Iraqi Deaths in Major Blasts Rose in July

Musharraf's Own Inaction Brought On Crisis, Observers Say

Bush Looks to Assure, Yet Prod, Karzai

Britain Rushes to Cull Cattle Fearing Epidemic Symptoms of foot-and-mouth disease are reported outside of London forcing the British government to put a nationwide hold on cloven-hooved animal exports.

H6 Guardian Power cuts worsen in Iraq Provinces refuse to share electricity across the country as Iraq's power grid is on the brink of collapse.

Liberty is not what it was
Roy Hattersley: Much has changed since John Stuart Mill's time, and his views on freedom are no longer valid

Obama's tough call Peter Preston: Threatening an unstable Pakistan with force isn't a prudent move for a would-be president.

The special relationship myth: Britain's supposedly privileged connection with the US is a fallacy: it is neither special nor based on shared values.

Britain presses US on top Afghan role

Iranian morals police arrest 230 in raid on 'satanist' rave
Iran's drive to enforce Islamic morals netted revellers from UK and Sweden after police swooped on "satanic" concert.

Nicaragua defies US with Iran trade deal · Tehran to fund projects in exchange for coffee, meat
· Washington warns of 'dangerous partner'

Human error may have led to foot and mouth outbreak

The Observer At long, long last, the UN flexes its muscles in Darfur
Mary Riddell: The international intervention in Sudan is the right move to avert more bloodshed. We should not be shy of taking action elsewhere.

Afghan victory 'could take 38 years'
British troops could remain in Afghanistan for more than the 38 years it took them to pull out of Northern Ireland. That is the bleak assessment by Army commanders on the ground in Helmand province.

Goodbye charisma, hello new politics
Alastair Campbell: Gordon Brown and Hillary Clinton represent a new era in which ability is more important than image.

You can rely on Gordon for loos, but for an election? Andrew Rawnsley: The Prime Minister looks good in a crisis and in the polls, but he knows he's still on probation with many of the voters.

Outcry as British Council quits Europe to woo Muslim world Across Europe, half a century of promoting British culture and values is slowly being wound down in favour of a huge increase in funding for activities in the Middle East and Muslim world.

Science lab suspected in outbreak
· Research plant is near infected farm
· Ban on export of British livestock

Iraq imposes 'Saddam style' ban on oil union

Better red than dead Kenneth Rogoff Healthcare pressures may cause the trend towards free-market capitalism to reverse, with a large chunk of the economy reverting to a socialist system.

H7 Iraq: The Way Out Alon Ben-Meir

Boston Globe Editorial The Mideast needs more guns?

THE LAST THING the Middle East needs is a new round of arms sales, but that is what the Bush administration wants Congress to approve, the better to contain Iran's bid for dominance in the region

JONAH GOLDBERG: Surge ahead, realistically. “Lower Expectations”

Jihadi galaxy in Pakistan (Claude Salhani)

Newsweek Two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto talks about her efforts to return to Pakistan.

Nine Notes on the Restoration of Pakistan’s Chief Justice
Source: Jurist Forum (via SSRN)

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

US Papers Mon: 30% of Iraqi Army Guns "lost"

Iraqi Papers Mon: Maliki's Last Dance?

UPDATE: Iraq's national electricity grid nearing collapse; cities short of water...

Geopolitical Diary: A Well-Timed Announcement on Iraq Stratfor

Political Reform and the Reconfiguration of National Identity in Syria Arab Reform Initiative

Iraq and the Gulf States: The Balance of Fear USIP

BBC US 'kills' key Iraq shrine bomber US troops say they have killed an al-Qaeda leader behind attacks on an important Shia shrine in Samarra.

Taleban trouble
Old problems top agenda for Bush-Karzai meeting

Opposition wins key Lebanese poll

A government candidate is defeated in a tense by-election seen as a battle for Lebanon's Christian leadership

High stakes Lebanon holds by-elections amid heightened tension

The whistleblower Paying a heavy price for exposing Abu Ghraib abuses

At U.S. base, Iraqis must use separate latrine

Report: US arms missing

GAO says 190,000 American assault rifles, pistols on way to Iraqi forces unaccounted for

President Grapples With Economy

Two years have passed since the former hard-line mayor of Tehran, Mahmud Ahmadinejad, came to power on a pledge to improve the economy

Hizballah's Global Terror Option
Washington Institute

H9 Ha’aretz - Zvi Bar'el: Are Saudis exempt from Bush's democracy drive? Saudi Arabia already has demonstrated that it cannot pose a military challenge, even with the finest weapons at its disposal. What strategic balance are we talking about here?

Study: Israel must hold talks with U.S. on conflicting Iran interests Institute paper advises Israel discuss Iran with U.S. to avoid Washington-Tehran deal excluding it

Editorial Will Winograd be relevant?

Spanish FM delivers 'positive message' from Syria for Olmert

ANALYSIS: Jerusalem lowering expectations over peace talks

MI: Syria increases army activity for fear of Israeli plans to attack Military Intelligence research chief gives cabinet security briefing, says Hamas, Fatah likely to clash in W. Bank

Benn Don't get hopes up

Fayad: PA not ready to control W. Bank security

If Hamas isn't in the game

Racism has nothing to do with it

Shin Bet chief who handed famed Khrushchev speech to CIA dies at 88

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak will visit Cairo soon to discuss Egypt’s bid for renegotiation of 1979 peace accords

Yedioth Ahronoth Bush's package deal US aid to Israel aimed at diffusing opposition to Saudi arms deal, Zalman Shoval says

Israel: No gestures planned
Israel, PA leaders to meet in Jericho on Monday in effort to establish framework for future agreement in preparation for upcoming US-sponsored peace summit, sources say talks will focus on two-state solution

'Skeleton' of a deal awaits in Jericho for Israel and the PA
Officials: PM, Abbas meeting will focus on sketch of future arrangement for "two-state solution" to be developed at US-led ME peace summit.

IDF to recruit Olim for hi-tech course Exclusive: Program to target Diaspora youth to up technological capabilities.

Ex-Arafat aide: Chirac knows Israel killed Arafat

The Region: East and West
[ BARRY RUBIN,

The Summer 2006 Conflict Between Hezbollah and Israel, One Year Later…Source: International Center for Media and the Public Agenda, University of Maryland

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

Like father like son: Could a liberal Jew really consent to the circumcision of his newborn boy?

Newsweek Getting Israelis, Palestinians on the Same Page

H10 Christian Science Monitor Shiites press for autonomy Momentum is building for a federation of southern provinces in a further challenge to Iraq's unity.

Exiting Iraq, how is as key as when

Any troop withdrawal could take up to 18 months and would need careful planning, say experts.

Afghanistan's success story: The liberated Hazara minority

Warblers, vireos, and tanks: Army tries new approach

Signs of faltering US economy

When the Fed convenes Tuesday, it could signal how it might respond to the slowdown.

Congress scrambles to show voters results It passed several laws before its recess. A showdown over the Iraq war looms in September.

ASIA

Asia’s Rising Science and Technology Strength: Comparative Indicators for Asia, the European Union, and the United States Source: National Science Foundation Full Report (PDF; 1.75 KB)

What's Happening in China Today? - Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chicago Tribune

India, once rich...
is rich again. William Dalrymple.

WP 5 Myths About the Japan That Can Say No Myths About the Japan That Just Said No By Michael Zielenziger Japanese voters have spoken: Bush can't count on them to fight the war on terror.

In China, Farming Advances Lie Fallow No Clear Path for New Science or Policy Changes to Reach Rural Fields

Oldest Profession Flourishes in China Economic Boom, Erosion of Values Cited in Increased Competition Among Sex Workers

South Asia Free Trade Agreement: Prospects for Shallow Regional Integration

H11 IHT Roger Cohen: Sarkozy surfs the U.S.A. By ROGER COHEN
Sarkozy's aim is to shake his country from tired habits. Any means are good.

EUROPE European press review

Reconstructing Europe: Two Alternative Proposals for a European Constitution
ZEI A 106-page German discussion paper offering a 'visionary' constitutional project and a 'realistic' one, relying on the current draft of the Constitutional Treaty

Eternal Euskadi, enduring ETA, Fred Halliday

BBC From boom to bust
Why fewer people are having babies in Central Europe

Polish coalition thrown in doubt

The future of Poland's ruling coalition is in doubt after the junior party pulls its ministers out of the cabinet.

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

Turkmen President Elected Head Of Nation's Single Party

An interview with dissident spy and former KGB general Oleg Kalugin about Putin’s KGB past, the dangers of political activism, and the future of Russian democracy.

H13 The Times ‘Rival to Nato’ begins first military exercise

At least 6,500 Russian and Chinese troops are joining forces in what is being described as an anti-terror exercise

Suspicion falls on US research company A second cull was ordered as those caught in the foot-and-mouth outbreak blamed Merial as the likely source of infection

Lord Brown: I'm a fan of giving power to EU

Britain’s seat at the UN Security Council will eventually be given to the EU, the Foreign Office Minister, has suggested

Sunday Times Taliban hi-tech weapons to fight British Iranian weapons and armour-piercing explosives are being smuggled into Afghanistan

‘Kidnapped’ Filipinos build US embassy

US soldier gets 110-years for raping girl An American soldier has been found guilty of raping a 14-year-old girl and killing her and her family while in Iraq

Why I had to tell the world what they’d done Joe Darby tells of his agonising decision to report fellow soldiers for abuse at Abu Ghraib, knowing his life would be in danger for ever

Search for a scapegoat finds Greenspan With investors having lost the odd trillion in recent weeks, the hunt is on for a scapegoat

Wall Street Journal Barack Obama, Neocon At least he's willing to use force against something

Domestic Terror in Iran
Iran has just carried out the largest wave of executions since 1984.
By AMIR TAHERI

H14 Financial Times US may start Iraq pull-out this year, says Gates

The Bush administration could begin drawing troops out of Iraq by the end of the year, Robert Gates, the defence secretary, said

Stocks face nervous start to week World markets face a nervous start to the week following the plunge in stocks in the US on Friday as concerns mounted about fallout from the US mortgage market turmoil

We must recognise that no nation is going to spend a lot in return for a little, write Eric Posner and Cass Sunstein

Handling gas disputes in a predictable manner will not solve every problem, but, as the case of Belarus shows, it certainly reduces tensions.

There is little incentive to be prudent if you know someone will step in when things go wrong. If rescues are the norm, an entire banking system may take on inefficiently high levels of risk

If so little can be achieved at the top of the economic cycle, what chance is there of serious reform if the economy were to slow down?

Palestinians struggle with ‘three-state solution’

Gaza’s 1.4m people have little else to celebrate from the first 50 days of Hamas rule in a territory that is more isolated than ever, both politically and economically

Russia to start missile production

Russia is ready to start production of a new submarine-based intercontinental ballistic missile that will form the core of the country’s seaborne nuclear arsenal in coming years, the commander of the Russian Navy said

US spy bill passes

Democrats in the House of Representatives reluctantly allowed the passage of a bill this weekend that expands the government’s ability to eavesdrop on foreign suspects without warrants

High turnout as Lebanon’s Christians contest seat Lebanese voters turned out in their thousands in two by-elections that have provided the latest battleground between the pro-western government and his pro-Syrian opponents

Americans will be lucky to catch up a decade from now to today’s social policy consensus in the UK, writes Matt Miller

Developing cheaper products, such as Renault’s Logan model, could help ease the yawning gap between rich and poor in the ex-Communist states, writes Stefan Wagstyl

H15 Los Angeles Times We're still the world's caped crusader By By Robert Kagan The United States is the best hope to help steer nations through dangerous times.

Aided by US, Iraq Militants Widen Reach

Death on wheels By Gregg Easterbrook Carnage on our roads exceeds that from wars and terrorism. So why are remedies ignored?

Comparing U.S. and Iraqi style democracy at work

H16 American Politics

McClatchy Democratic Party is growing more liberal Forty percent of Democrats now call themselves liberal, the highest in more than three decades and twice the low-water mark recorded as the conservative Reagan revolution swept the country in the early 1980s. » read more

Analysis: GOP rivals walk delicate line

The real race has hardly begun
Presidential election: Voters certainly prefer the idea of a Democrat to a Republican by large margins. But when they start comparing particular candidates - and that is what the real contest will come down to - those gaps narrow sharply.

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

Democrats spar at blog gathering Democrat presidential candidates field questions from more than 1,000 bloggers at their annual convention.

I Like Mike. You Will Too. By Ed Koch,

House Approves Taxes on Oil Companies...

The Immigrant Population of the United States in 2006
Source: Federation for American Immigration Reform

H17 Daily Telegraph Armed robots to go to war in Iraq

First machines that can wage war by remote control.

H18 Independent Leading Article: Justice in this case will benefit Israel too

Robert Fisk: Mistrust fuels cycle of violence in Lebanon

Independent on Sunday US strike on Taliban heightens tension as Afghan leader heads for Camp David

Economic View: Yet again, markets take a battering in stormy weather, but one bad summer doesn't make a recession

The Transformer: New era for the special relationship

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Report: Harsh Methods Used On 9/11 Suspect Article Details Torture That Mastermind Said He Endured

Qaeda video vows attacks on US missions

Congress backs foreign wiretaps The House of Representatives backs President Bush's bill allowing wiretaps on foreign terrorist suspects.

House OK's Bush's $460 Billion Pentagon Budget

Journey of Death: Suicide Bombers in Iraq USIP

Daily Telegraph Armed robots to go to war in Iraq

First machines that can wage war by remote control.

Interagency Assessment of the Counternarcotics Program in Afghanistan (PDF; 2.35 MB)
Source: U.S. Department of State, Office of Inspector General
From press release (PDF; 56 KB):

Passenger Name Record Data Agreement, United States and EU (PDF; 1.69 MB)
Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (via Council on Foreign Relations)

Poems from Guantánamo

THE JUST-released "Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak" is a collection of 22 poems by 17 detainees at the US detention center at Guantánamo Bay.

Washington Times Defending against rockets

James T. Hackett For years, missile defense opponents claimed defenses could not distinguish warheads from decoys and other penetration aids. The solution, they said, was to stop missiles in the first two or three minutes of flight, known as the boost phase, before warheads and decoys are released.

American Al Qaeda Leader Says U.S. Embassies Prime Target...

Newsweek Iraq's 'Martyr' Factory
The Iraq war has turned into a veritable 'martyr' factory, unlike any seen in previous conflicts.

Will: Why Voters Should Listen to Chris Dodd

H20 Slate

Ignoring Productivity at Our Peril (PDF; 3.3 MB)
Source: Center for American Progress

H21 Boston Globe The downside of diversity (By Michael Jonas A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth?

Building big, starting small

(By Ethan Zuckerman, A radical new way to for poor countries to get the phones, power, and roads they need

America's first king of the road
Fifty years ago Jack Kerouac's On the Road shaped America's youth culture. How does it resonate with young people today?

World memory champion reveals secrets

For the Love of Xenu By Mark Oppenheimer Scientology may be an odd faith invented by a sci-fi hack. But it's not a cult.

WSJ Secrets of the World's Richest Man Carlos Slim's fortune has grown faster than any else's in the world in the past two years, rising by more than $20 billion to about $60 billion. How did a Mexican son of Lebanese immigrants rise to such heights? By piecing together monopolies.

GREEN '24': Jack Bauer's Next Mission -- Fighting Global Warming...

Newsweek With WSJ, Murdoch Plans All-Out Media War
With The Wall Street Journal and a new business network, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News chief Roger Ailes plan their next move: all-out war

LA TIMES REWARDS DRUDGE FOR TRAFFIC TO WEBSITE: TOP OF PAPER PROFILE!

English Becomes Coin of the Realm
Wall Street Journal

IP addresses are running out

How can I help my friend get over losing his girlfriend?

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