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H1 IraqSlogger Pundits, Partition, and National Unity Must Iraq be Divided? Scholar Takes on Proposals to Break up the Country by Reidar Visser

Commentary How Not to Get Out of Iraq Max Boot - Sept 2007 (To complement it, contentions interviewed Boot about his views of the war in Iraq and the war on terror.)

US Papers Tues: US Officials Split on Maliki

Iraqi Papers Tues: Sistani Lashes Out

Time Bob Baer 'There Will Be an Attack on Iran'

AP US Military Looks To Reduce Role In Iraq

Financial Times COMMENT: Humanitarian action can mask an imperial agenda What we now call human rights advocacy can also be used to feed agendas of hatred, arrogance and aggression, says Anatol Lieven

ANALYSIS: Run out of town How British army lost Basra - UK forces in southern Iraq are paying the price for poor planning and a failure to commit resources

Fed fails to calm money markets

Money market investors staged a dramatic flight to safety, knocking down yields on short-term US government debt, as top Treasury and Federal Reserve officials continued behind-the-scenes efforts to maintain confidence in the credit markets

The Revolution in Transatlantic Affairs - Tony Corn, Policy Review

A Lasting Mark on Foreign Policy - Charles Kupchan, Huffington Post

The Nation The End of the Our Superpower Tom Engelhardt

Future is clear but uncertain amid turmoil Dramatic decline in the yield on short-term Treasury bills further strengthens market expectations that the Federal Reserve will make aggressive interest rate cuts

COMMENT: There is no new chill in the Arctic Russia’s achievement in reaching the sea bed below the North Pole has been almost wilfully misinterpreted, says Yury Fedotov

COMMENT: Sometimes the market is best viewed from afar The self-referential world of people whose communication is mostly with each other can, and frequently does, become divorced from external reality, writes John Kay

Morgan Stanley After the Shock: Risks for the Global Economy and Markets

A Conversation with Secretary Henry M. Paulson

A Conversation with Thomas Friedman

IHT Worried about Putin's Russia?: Read on By PAUL KENNEDY Vladimir Putin's deliberate campaigns to indoctrinate Russian youth and to rewrite the history of Russia might be very significant for the unfolding of our 21st century.

Daily Star What the Western retreat on Middle Eastern democracy means By Mark A. Heller

Is the 'special relationship' unraveling? By Michael Glackin Is there a wind of change blowing across the Atlantic toward Washington from London?

Brookings Shaping the 44th Presidency Source: Brookings Institution Full Paper (PDF; 259 KB)

Iraq Trip Report Source: Brookings Institution Full Report (PDF; 60 KB)

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Al Maliki plans to negotiate deal for routing Iraqi oil through Syria in his three-day visit to Damascus

Tony Karon Asking the Wrong Questions on Iran

Why is Iran Shelling Iraq? TIME –

Washington Post Editorial Tougher on Iran The Revolutionary Guard is at war with the United States. Why not fight back

Senator Calls for Maliki's Ouster Levin Urges Iraqis To Replace Leaders

Impatient Kosovo Albanians Press For a Declaration of Independence

Guardian Leader Keeping a closer eye Financial markets: As the past month has again demonstrated, what the financiers do affects the rest of us. It is time the rest of us made them more accountable.

Re-ordering the world order

Dilip Hiro The expansion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation means that, despite America's strong disapproval, a multi-polar global order is emerging.

The Times A new direction for French diplomacy What is there for France in Iraq? A lot, given it has no need to take responsibility for the outcome Bronwen Maddox

New Yorker Rovian Ways by Nicholas Lemann - In a city run by people who have spent their lives endlessly reënacting their election as class president, Karl Rove was un-dull: he was the fabulist, boundary violator, autodidact, mean boy, schemer…

IHT How Asia weathers the global credit crisis By PHILIP BOWRING When the United States sneezed, did Asia catch pneumonia

FT COMMENT: Get ready for the next big China effect As global markets freeze, fret and fall, there is an island of bullish sentiment way out east. Welcome to China’s stock market, writes StanChart’s Stephen Green

Time Storm Over "The Israel Lobby"

Der Spigel LOSING IT'S BEST AND BRIGHTEST Iraq's Elite Fleeing in Droves One in ten Iraqis has left the country. Baghdad's elite are trying to make ends meet in neighboring Jordan and Syria. Washington wants the United Nations to address the refugee crisis. In the meantime, the country is losing its best minds -- the very people needed to rebuild Iraq

Independent Leading Article: A proxy war for the provinces of the south

Hillary on Surge? 'It's Working'...

NPQ Nathan Gardels: CHINA: FROM DEMOCRACY WALL TO THE SHOPPING MALL, AND BACK

War Fever, By Kevin Drum - CBS News

Drezner OK, we're making some progress here....

USIP Report: US Police in Peace and Stability Operations

OpenDemocracy Capitalism's Gift, Roger Scruton The financial-market drama is a victory for a system that rewards wisdom and punishes stupidity

A world of dignity, Sergio Vieira de Mello The UN special representative for Iraq was killed on 19 August 2003. His ideas live on

Ha’aretz - Israel to PA: Give W. Bank welfare or Hamas will win Rani Loewenstein presents plan to PA ministers, predicts Hamas overthrow within 2 years if not implemented

Jerusalem Post US survey raises eyebrows in Jerusalem
15 foreign policy elites believe Israel doesn't serve US security interests.

Foreign Policy Survey Participants: The Terrorism Index 2007

H2 The Times Leader Calculated Risk The Turkish Army should accept the inevitable election of Gul as President

First vote puts Muslim closer to Turkey presidency Abdullah Gul moved one step closer to becoming President despite opposition from the country’s self-styled secularist elite

Andrew Mango Yabancı gözüyle

FT WORLD NEWS: Gul fails to win outright majority in Turkish poll

Washington Times Editorial A promise to secular Turkey

Turk or Muslim? (By Tulin Daloglu)

LA Times Gul fails to win majority in Turkey

Dünyanın iki büyük gazetesinden Gül yorumu

Der SPIEGEL Interview with Turkish Opposition Politician: 'Nothing Stands in the Way of Gül's Election'

Çekilme kısmen Türkiye üzerinden

Hillary: 'Türkiye çıkış izni vermez'

ABD Türkiye üzerinden çekilebilir mi?

US reiterates commitment to anti-PKK trilateral mechanism

'Iraklı Kürtler'in Devlet Kurması Zor'

Amerikalı Uzman Gary Anderson Irak'ta savaş sonrası olası senaryoları Amerika'nın Sesi'ne değerlendirdi

Cyprus 'may be split permanently' - Telegraph

First round of vote for president inconclusive

Turkish left sees great fracture

Aug 21 Announcement# 44 - Introducing MEMRI's Turkish Media Blog

Shooting the Messenger By: Ali Eteraz | The Guardian A Turkish court has ordered the blocking of the San Francisco -based million-blogger strong blog platform Wordpress. Is this the first sign of Islamist censorship in the secular state?

Reuters Turkey's Gul Fails to Win Presidency In First Vote

An Embrace How Far? BY YASEMIN CONGAR

Abdullah Gül: The Man Who Would be Turkey's President | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 20.08.2007

Turkey's New Chapter
American Spectator

Türkiye Batı için hayati önemde Johathan Adiri

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Enis Berberoğlu İmralı vetosu üzmedi

Ali Bulaç Çözümler

Türk ve Kürt aşiretleri Hasan Celal Güzel

Kürtlerin çıkarı PKK'da değil, siyasete katılmakta
FAYEZ SARE

YAVUZ DONAT DTP'nin yol haritası

Şengal’deki patlamada Türk ve Suriye istihbaratı destekli aşiretlerin parmağı

Iraqi Kurdistan Official Says Foreign Intelligence Operating in Region

Iraqi Kurds Reject US Call for Delaying Law on Kirkuk Status

GAP plants handle bulk of Turkish electricity

[Yorum - M. Naci Bostancı] Sırat köprüsündeki DTP(1)

Barzani'nin sitesinde kışkırtıcı haber Barzani soruyor: Amerikan askerlerinin giremediği yere Türkler nasıl rahatlıkla girebiliyor?

Barzani, Türk konsolosluğunu hedef gösterdi

CHP ve DSP'li vekillerin Köşk kapışması-VİDEO

Turkey: Watchdog Urges Release of Editor Held Over "Kurdistan" Label

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 20 Aug 07

Iran, Turkey Sign Agreement on Exchange of Electricity

Turkoman Movement Sues Iraqi Kurdistan President, Urges Article 140 Delay

No Third Party Can Hinder Expansion of Tehran-Ankara Ties - President

DTP’den Gül sinyali: Tavrımız değişebilir

Joe Biden: 'Irak resmen parçalanmadan çok gevşek bir federasyonda üçe bölünmeli'

Kürt sorunu vurgusu

"Avşar sülalesi Kürt'tür"

Is Kirkuk slipping away?

Kouchner Talabani’yle görüştü

Thousands arrive in Ankara to live in stone age conditions in tent cities - Turkish Daily News Aug 20, 2007

25 kilo patlayıcı son anda yakalandı

DTP deputies hold first group meeting

"Halaçoğlu görevden alınmalı"

Iran’s President Ahmadinejad: Outsiders can't hurt ties with Turkey

Ahmedinejad: Türkiye ile aramızı bozamazlar

Hüsnü Mahalli
Amerika’nın kolay bilmecesi

Tahran’a Kandil notası

Maliki'yi Şii-Kürt koalisyonu da kurtaramaz

ABD Ordusu, Irak'tan Kuveyt'e çekilmeyi düşünüyor...

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Report: Greece supplying US weapons to Greek Cypriot army

[ANALYSIS] Re-launching Turkey’s EU dream

Cengiz Aktar Avrupa’da Türkiye-AB ilişkisi

Poettering insists on privileged partnership

KKTC ve Rum temsilcileri bugün görüşecek

Conis, Pertev to meet today to set date for leaders’ meeting

STELYO BERBERAKİS Yunan Genelkurmay Başkanı İstifa edip seçime girecek iddiası

Greek elections: a rush job
Ariana FERENTINOU

OxAn GREECE: Close race prompts extravagant promises

Ekrem Dumanlı Yeni bir karikatür krizi yaşamamak için

Grigorie: Turkey is more than just a unique country; it is a continent

Yunanistan'da 3 Türk'e 217 yıl hapis cezası

Mesrob II: Büyükanıt babacan insan

FT: İslamlaşma korkuları yersiz

MİT Maaşları elden dağıtırız deşifre olan kimse yok

Babalar içeride çeteler şirketleşti TEMPO dergisi, son sayısında kapsamlı bir "Mafya Dosyası" hazırladı. Usta gazeteci Saygı Öztürk’ün kaleminden, Türk mafyasının geçmişi, şu andaki durumu ve gelecekteki hali derinlemesine incelendi, istihbaratçı ve emniyetçilerin görüşü alındı. Sonuçta, devletin eski tip mafyayı bitirdiği, mafyanın bu yüzden, çağa uyup şekil değiştirdiği ortaya çıktı...

Güneş'ten başbakana ilginç dosya

Zeyno Baran ve Matt Bryza evleniyor

Hava korsanı: FBI beni gözaltına aldı

Pilotlar uçağı kendi inisiyatifi ile terk etmiş

Prof. Halaçoğlu ırkçılık yapmakla suçlandı

Tarihçilere göre Halaçoğlu, Naziler'i hatırlatıyor

İyi ki İsrail, Manavgat'tan vazgeçti
Funda Özkan

Sahte belgeyle Merkez’e atanma oyunu

21 Ağustos 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 Ertuğrul Özkök Gül, Büyükanıt'la gizlice buluştu mu

GÜL ADIM ADIM

İlk engeli aştı, Köşk’e adımını attı

Gül 8 gün sonra Köşk'te

Gül döneminde Türk dış politikası ÖZDEM SANBERK

Barzani Türk konsolosluğunu hedef gösterdi

M Ali Birand Ankara’da garip bir sessizlik var

Tamer Korkmaz "Dükkan Neden Kapalı?" ya da "Geldi O Şuh Meclis'e!"

Taşlar yerine oturmaya başladı
Murat Yetkin

Cengiz Çandar 'Geri dönülmez demokratik yolculuk'

Erdoğan'dan start: Yeni anayasa yolda

Erdoğan: Kabine'nin 3'te 1'i değişebilir

'Orduyu siyasete karıştırmayın'

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu The military education system needs to change

Defense agency's 'national solution' approach set to continue under new government

Babalar içeride çeteler şirketleşti TEMPO dergisi, son sayısında kapsamlı bir "Mafya Dosyası" hazırladı. Usta gazeteci Saygı Öztürk’ün kaleminden, Türk mafyasının geçmişi, şu andaki durumu ve gelecekteki hali derinlemesine incelendi, istihbaratçı ve emniyetçilerin görüşü alındı. Sonuçta, devletin eski tip mafyayı bitirdiği, mafyanın bu yüzden, çağa uyup şekil değiştirdiği ortaya çıktı...

Güneş'ten başbakana ilginç dosya

Fehmi Koru CHP nereye koşuyor?

Mehmet Altan Gül askerlerle anlaştı mı ?

Nuray Başaran Gül 'köşk'e çıkarken

Fikret BİLA CHP'nin gerekçeleri

Sami KOHEN ABD'de Irak'ın taksimi tartışması

Sezer'den 367 itirafı

Gül yargıya damgasını vuracak

CHP lideri son anda yumuşadı

MGK'da sıcak gündem ve veda

Sezer ile son MGK

Erdoğan "Sezer'de tarafsızlığı göremedik"

Erdoğan'ın ifadelerinin TAM METNİ

Nejat Eslen ABD'nin Irak açmazı

İsmail Küçükkaya Meclis’in birinci tur fotoğrafı

Ilımlı İslam devleti mi dediniz?
İsmet Berkan

Ruşen Çakır DSP, CHP’yi açığa düşürdü

Mümtazer Türköne Dindarlığın sosyolojisi

Ahmet Taşgetiren Hayrünnisa Hanım için bir başörtüsü teklifi

Mehmet Tezkan Sivil anayasa ile üniversitelerde türbana izin çıkacak mı?

Gitsin artık bu adam Farklı görüşlere tahammül edemeyen, aydınlara hakaret eden Halaçoğlu'nun Kürtlerin Türk, Alevilerin Ermeni olduğunu söylemesi AKP'nin bile tepkisini çekti: Bu ırkçılık. Görevden alınmalı

‘Kürt yoktur diyemem’

Öyle demedim ki çok ayıp ediyorlar

EMRE AKÖZ Sezer'i sevdiniz mi?

Umur Talu Tahrik Kurumu

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Devlet, siyaset ve Gül

Allah mahcup etmesin Nuray Mert

İlnur Çevik The presidency will now have added importance

Bilal Çetin Heyecansız tur...

Suat Kınıklıoğlu Why Gül makes sense

İlköğretimde devrim

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 Kükreyen fare

Oktay Ekşi Orkestra ve şefi

Güler Kömürcü MHP’nin tavrı...

Bekir Coşkun Dizinize vuracaksınız...

Mehmet Yılmaz Rol yapmadığına inanmamız için

Özdemir İnce ’Modernleşen Müslümanlar’

Yılmaz Özdil Çankayaspor...

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Arınç: Bakanlık beklentim yok

ERDAL ŞAFAK Kara mizah gibi

ERGUN BABAHAN SABAH'ın değerine değer katıyoruz

NAZLI ILICAK AK Parti grubu tetikte

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Çiller'in sürpriz konuğu

YAVUZ DONAT

Eser Karakaş Yine sivil anayasa, yine atatürkçülük

Ekrem Dumanlı New chapter with Abdullah Gül

Andrew Finkel The defense of secularism

[Yorum - Haluk Özdalga] Yeni dönemde Türkiye'yi bekleyen riskler (2)

Şahin Alpay Ayvalık'tan seçmen profilleri

İşkenceci ile ittifak Murat Belge

Yılmaz'dan örtülü 'darbe' uyarısı

Sezer'den jet hızıyla 'Hoşça kalın' turları

Can Ataklı

SALİH TUNA 'Sana ne lan benim yorumumdan'

DAVUT DURSUN

Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi değişimi başarmalıdır

CHP ve DSP'li vekillerin Köşk kapışması-VİDEO

Okay Gönensin Herkes içerde CHP dışarda

Mehmet BARLAS
Sezer de Gül de bu toprağın insanları

İşte TBMM Başkanlık Divanı

Volkan Akı Türkiye neleri konuşmalı?

Dikkat tanımlar değişiyor
Mahfi Eğilmez

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM ABD'de ne kadar iyi yönetim, bizde o kadar az etkilenme

Ercan Kumcu Bu film burada bitmez

Erdal Sağlam Yeni dünyaya yeni ekonomi politikası

Güven Sak Durun bakalım, daha yeni başlıyoruz

Erdoğan'a uluslararası kriz brifingi

Yiğit Bulut 8 soruda “mortgage”

Bankaların ilk yarıda yüzde 98 artan kârlılığı dalga ile hız kesecek

Kur düzeyi ve tartışma kültürü Korkmaz İlkorur

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Piyasa istikrarı mı öncelikli, fiyat istikrarı mı?

[NEWS ANALYSIS] Turkish economy strong enough to resist global turbulence

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Ekonomik kaos ve altına hücum!

MELİKŞAH UTKU

Küresel dalgaya müdahaleler

İbrahim Öztürk Küresel piyasalardaki sarsıntıya Türkiye'nin direnme gücü var mı?

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN
Piyasalardaki gelişmeler için senaryonuz olsun

H4 New York Times Take Al Qaeda to Court By KELLY ANNE MOORE The United States does not need a new and untested detention system for terrorists.

BOB HERBERT War’s Chilling Reality A new documentary offers a portrait of combat and its aftermath that bears no relation to the sanitized version of war that often comes from politicians and the news media.

H5 Washington Post Editorial Tougher on Iran The Revolutionary Guard is at war with the United States. Why not fight back

Senator Calls for Maliki's Ouster Levin Urges Iraqis To Replace Leaders

Impatient Kosovo Albanians Press For a Declaration of Independence

Governor Assassinated In Iraq's Oil-Rich South Violence Swells Among Region's Shiites

William Arkin Iraq and the Market: Volatility and Uncertainty Ahead

The War Over the War Thomas E. Ricks

Egypt's Unchecked Repression By Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Like other autocrats with declining legitimacy, Hosni Mubarak is trying to tighten his grip on power.

For Wall Street's Math Brains, Miscalculations

Complex Formulas Used by 'Quant' Funds Didn't Add Up in Market Downturn

What Presidents Don't Know By Anne Applebaum It's far from obvious that foreign policy experience has helped a president make good calls.

Cheney's Office Says It Has Wiretap Documents

Army Drops More Charges in Officer's Abu Ghraib Case

H6 Guardian Leader Keeping a closer eye Financial markets: As the past month has again demonstrated, what the financiers do affects the rest of us. It is time the rest of us made them more accountable.

Re-ordering the world order Dilip Hiro The expansion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation means that, despite America's strong disapproval, a multi-polar global order is emerging.

US Military Looks To Reduce Role In Iraq

Roadside bomb kills governor in Iraqi province lauded for progress

France signals wish for Iraq role with visit by foreign minister

The blame game begins Robert Fox The differing approaches of the British and American military make a withdrawal from Basra problematic and potentially dangerous.

The realities of withdrawal Claire Spencer Redeploying troops to Afghanistan may be a good idea, but there should be no exit from Iraq without serious discussion on the future of the region.

Prophet sharing Inayat Bunglawala: A documentary last night highlighted the differences between Islamic and Christian views of Jesus - but the two religions could learn from each other.

H7 The introduction to Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger by Bruce Kuklick

Mid-East Peace Conference under the Shadow of the Iraq War by Alon Ben-Meir

Oil, copper, factories, houses, and roads make up some of a country’s wealth. But intellectual capital is the real source of riches... more»

Levin: Escalation's Goals Have 'Totally And Utterly Failed,' Begin Withdrawal In Less Than 4 Months

Daily Star Maliki walks a fine line in his recent efforts to put Iraq first

What the Western retreat on Middle Eastern democracy means By Mark A. Heller

Islam doesn't strive for a mullah-led theocracy By Mohammad Habash

US Arms Create New Divisions in Mideast

UPI Walker's World: Do we face another 1931? The bad news is that the market turmoil could get worse, a great deal worse

Newsweek City in a Time Warp War is pushing Baghdad out of the 21st century and back to a bygone age of ferrymen, midwives, donkey drivers and shepherds.

America on the Downward Slope
by Dilip Hiro and Tom Engelhardt

New Republic The U.S. Must Act in Darfur--Right Now
by the Editors

Der Spiegel Secret Negotiations with the Islamists Proved Fruitless To negotiate with the Taliban or not? That is the question being discussed in Germany this autumn. But as it happens, the talks already took place -- two years ago in Zürich.

Jihad and dhimmitude (By Andrew G. Bostom)

CAP Deploying All Diplomatic Hands to Break Iraq’s Political Deadlock

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

US Papers Tues: US Officials Split on Maliki

Iraqi Papers Tues: Sistani Lashes Out

US Military Moves Toward Reducing Combat Role in Iraq

Sadr: Iraq's Government Is Near Its End

Pentagon 'To Do' List Gives Little Hint of US Goals for Iraq

Paper Claims Sistani Outburst Against Ruling Party

Iraq Trial Revives US 'Betrayal' of Kurds

Roadside Bomb Kills Second Iraqi Governor

Sadr Vows to Work With UN if It Replaces US, UK

Syrian Ties With Iran, Tension With Saudi Arabia Discussed on Al- Jazeera TV

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Middle East Arabic Press 20 Aug 07

Al-Jazeera Talkshow Discusses New Iraqi Alliance, Future Prospects

Iran to Export 35bn Cubic Metre Gas to Europe

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Iranian Press 20 Aug 07

Syrian Paper Urges Arabs to Distance Themselves From USA

Analysis: Iran's drug problems expanding

Al hayat Al-Shara's Slip of the Tongue and the Saudi Outrage? Jamil Theyabi - Syria’s failure to appreciate the nature of the sensitive regional situation and its fall under the Iranian influence aims only at serving the Iranian interest in marginalizing the Saudi role in the region.

A review of Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation by John Ruedy.

US Holding Nearly 800 Children in Iraq for 'Planting Bombs'

IraqSlogger 2.0 Launching as Premium Service

In Baghdad, Services and Violence Linked Armed Groups -- Including US -- Extort and Manipulate Vital Needs, Locals Say

H9 Ha’aretz - Israel to PA: Give W. Bank welfare or Hamas will win Rani Loewenstein presents plan to PA ministers, predicts Hamas overthrow within 2 years if not implemented

IDF source: Army will no longer pay for 35 settlements' security

Border Control / Ramallah fiddles, Gaza burns

Israel's military shame campaign

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

BBC Defiant Hezbollah
Guerrilla group comes under pressure a year after Lebanon war

Yedioth 'Prepare for retaliation' Spokesman for Hamas' military wing says 'Zionist enemy will shoulder consequences' of airstrike in Gaza, states group has 'more dangerous weapons than rockets'; six gunmen killed in Strip Monday

The next Palestinian crisis

Right of return constitutes one of Palestinian society's biggest disputes, Moshe Elad says

Jerusalem Post US survey raises eyebrows in Jerusalem
15 foreign policy elites believe Israel doesn't serve US security interests.

Why Oslo really failed (II) [ GERSHON BASKIN

Can Tony Blair end the age of ventriloquism? [ SARAH KASS,

The Persian Abyss: America's missed opportunity

'Changing Shaba border will be a dangerous precedent'
Defense officials say redrawing route may pose threat to nat'l security; UN initiative will bring cartographer to review disputed area.

The value of service
IDF conscription should itself be considered a precious national asset to be modernized and developed.

The Observer No middle way in the Middle EastTwo fine, powerful books explore the intractable relationship between Israel and Hizbollah, says Tom Templeton

Hidden identity
The Jewish boy they called 'the Reich's youngest Nazi'

The Hamas takeover of Gaza: A spur to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process?
Dr. Robert O. FREEDMAN

H10 Christian Science Monitor Investors ride out volatile market

Stocks and bonds have been on a wild ride lately, but so far mainstream investors are staying the course.

Iraqi governor killed as inter-Shiite competition appears to spread

The murder of the governor of Muthana Province in the Shiite-dominated south of Iraq on Monday has highlighted the growing political tensions between Iraq's competing religious factions.

A 'better' West Bank faces roadblocks

International efforts are under way to inject new life into the Palestinian economy in the West Bank, something Israel hopes will contrast life under the Fatah government with life under Hamas rule.

Opinion: The reality of Ukraine's revolution Three years after the Orange revolution, reform is glacially slow and may yet prove too painful.

ASIA

The Economist Thailand approves a flawed charter

Elections will follow—but the army may not approve of the winners

NYT News Analysis: Thai Vote Shows Division Among Classes Is Simmering

Lowy Institute Stopping a nuclear arms race between America and China

UPI India, Japan to talk strategic ties

Gen. Pace says China not military threat

Tom Barnett The well-rounded picture of China's economy emerges

IHT How Asia weathers the global credit crisis By PHILIP BOWRING When the United States sneezed, did Asia catch pneumonia

FT COMMENT: Get ready for the next big China effect As global markets freeze, fret and fall, there is an island of bullish sentiment way out east. Welcome to China’s stock market, writes StanChart’s Stephen Green

China's Tough Leap Forward By: Glyn Ford | The Japan Times
While China's population has grown by a third, its economy has grown 13 times, meaning that per-capita GDP is up by a factor of 10. The consequence is a cascade of goods from China flooding global markets, gifting enormous gains to Europeans as consumers while menacing their role as producers

Weekly Standard Pakistan's Unfulfilled Promise
The tragic gulf between the country's founding ideals and its contemporary culture. by Joseph Loconte

Geopolitical Diary: Japan's Attempt to Reverse its East Asia Losses
Stratfor

The Afghan Grassroots By: Ann Marlowe | The Weekly Standard
All politics is local, even in Nangarhar Province. For the first time in Afghan history, Afghans are about to set spending priorities for their localities, rather than accepting the crumbs that a king, warlord, or Kabul-appointed governor condescends to allow them.

Asia Times Taliban, US in new round of peace talks Taliban commanders, Pakistani and American intelligence members, and Afghan authorities are involved in talks to revive and extend peace deals in selected parts of Afghanistan. The Taliban are being offered the prospect of greater political representation both in Kabul and provincially, while Afghanistan will be able to push ahead with infrastructure projects, such as a major pipeline from Turkmenistan via Afghanistan to Pakistan. - Syed Saleem Shahzad

India's blue water dreams may have to wait
The Indian Navy's dreams of fielding three aircraft-carrier battle groups to project power far beyond the country's shores will have to wait, as construction delays have dogged delivery of a carrier purchased from Russia and India's first indigenous carrier. For the moment, India will have to do with an ancient though refurbished carrier acquired from Britain. - Sudha Ramachandran

TNI Conservative Columnist: Welcoming an Asian Elephant in Africa All eyes are on China and its growing involvement in Africa, but India’s expanding relations with African countries have gone largely unnoticed. China’s intentions create anxiety; India’s do not. New Delhi’s increased African engagement, unlike Beijing’s, ought to be welcomed in Washington

H11 IHT Economic woes threaten Sarkozy's agenda A string of disappointing reports on the French economy this summer is threatening to block President Nicolas Sarkozy's ambitious reform plans.

How Asia weathers the global credit crisis By PHILIP BOWRING When the United States sneezed, did Asia catch pneumonia

Musharraf's choices
The United States would best serve its own and Pakistan's interests by supporting the rules of the democratic game.

EUROPE European press review

Daily Star Is the 'special relationship' unraveling?
By Michael Glackin Is there a wind of change blowing across the Atlantic toward Washington from London? Is British Prime Minister Gordon Brown distancing himself from the United States', and from his predecessor Tony Blair's, policies in Iraq and the Middle East? The latest evidence that Brown is moving toward a more semi-detached arrangement comes in the shape

The Human Bomb By: Adam Gopnik | The New Yorker To understand Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been President of France for three intense months, it helps to know the story of the human bomb.

BBC France announces paedophile curbs

France's president announces new measures to deal with sex offenders in response to a paedophile scandal.

Islamization of Europe and how to stop it. Part II

H12 RFE/RLRussia Disappointed With U.S. Over Georgia Missile

Iran: Iranian Ambassador To Azerbaijan Discusses Ahmadinejad's Baku Trip

IHT Worried about Putin's Russia?: Read on By PAUL KENNEDY Vladimir Putin's deliberate campaigns to indoctrinate Russian youth and to rewrite the history of Russia might be very significant for the unfolding of our 21st century.

Kremlin turns a blind eye to racism
By JEFF MANKOFF
Acknowledging that xenophobia is an acceptable political strategy, the Russian government is playing with fire.

National Interest Thoughts on the Bishkek Summit Is a new anti-American alliance taking shape? TNI editor Nikolas K. Gvosdev gives China’s perspective while Julia Nanay highlights other developments.

Google News Azerbaijan

Azeri Official Confirms Iranian Leader to Visit Baku on 21 Aug

BBC Precious resource
China's increasing hold over Kazakhstan's oil reserves

DEBKAfile: Russo-Chinese war game brought Chinese commando and air units onto Russian soil for the first time

UPI Analysis: Caspian pipeline wars

Kazakhstan Set to Have One-Party Parliament Following Disputed Election

Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summiteers Take Shots at US Presence in Central Asia

H13 The Times A new direction for French diplomacy What is there for France in Iraq? A lot, given it has no need to take responsibility for the outcome Bronwen Maddox

Putin’s bare chest display is best kept secret His bare-chested peacockery is in line with the broader cult of Putin as his nation’s silverback, the leader of the band Michael Gove

A milestone reached by banks

Amid the turbulence, the world’s central banks have been largely in lock step. In a global marketplace, they need to be

James Harding

Wall Street Journal Fresh Doubts: U.S. officials are divided over Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki.

Debunking Decoupling
Asia's economies are still heavily dependent on the U.S.
By MICHAEL KURTZ

Fed Fails in Bid to Reassure Investors

Investors shrugged off the Fed's attempt to restore order to credit markets and bought the safest government securities, triggering the biggest drop in short-term Treasury yields in nearly 19 years

Russia Plans Nuclear Plant Aboard a Boat

Russia began a broad drive last year to reinvigorate its nuclear industry. Among the initiatives: A fleet of reactor-equipped ships. The vessels are meant to provide electricity to remote areas, mooring just offshore and supplying enough power to run a small city.

Upward Mobile-ity for India's Poor
The digital divide finally appears to be giving way to digital integration.
By MANOJ KOHLI

Asia Times When the Fed's big guns fail, call in China The US Federal Reserve has three main cannons. One is open market operations, another the discount window, and the third is targeting a specific level of the Federal Funds rate. In the past 10 days, the Fed has shot off the first two - one was an abject failure, the other had an infinitesimally small effect. Rather than shoot the third cannon, China could be called in to bail out the US. - Julian Delasantellis

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: Humanitarian action can mask an imperial agenda What we now call human rights advocacy can also be used to feed agendas of hatred, arrogance and aggression, says Anatol Lieven

ANALYSIS: Run out of town How British army lost Basra - UK forces in southern Iraq are paying the price for poor planning and a failure to commit resources

ANALYSIS: Brown mulls the costs of withdrawal

Berlin moves to scrap conscription

Germany took a big step towards abolishing mi­litary conscription after lead­ers of the Social Democrats, the junior partner in Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition, said military service should be voluntary

WORLD NEWS: Roadside bomb kills Iraqi governor

COMMENT: Get ready for the next big China effect As global markets freeze, fret and fall, there is an island of bullish sentiment way out east. Welcome to China’s stock market, writes StanChart’s Stephen Green

Iran seeks foreign oil investment

Fed fails to calm money markets

Money market investors staged a dramatic flight to safety, knocking down yields on short-term US government debt, as top Treasury and Federal Reserve officials continued behind-the-scenes efforts to maintain confidence in the credit markets

Future is clear but uncertain amid turmoil Dramatic decline in the yield on short-term Treasury bills further strengthens market expectations that the Federal Reserve will make aggressive interest rate cuts

COMMENT: There is no new chill in the Arctic Russia’s achievement in reaching the sea bed below the North Pole has been almost wilfully misinterpreted, says Yury Fedotov

COMMENT: Sometimes the market is best viewed from afar The self-referential world of people whose communication is mostly with each other can, and frequently does, become divorced from external reality, writes John Kay

WEALTH: Fed and Wall Street farther apart on the credit crunch

Bundesbank talks up recovery Germany’s Bundesbank has said global financial turmoil is “no reason” to correct its fundamentally up­beat economic assessment, but inflationary pressures were also building

COMMENT: An island story and no one to tell it There is a political need to create a new narrative history of Britain. Our island story is fragile and our Scots prime minister feels that fragility keenly, says John Lloyd

Pakistan hostages freed, Iran says

Iranian officials said hostages taken by armed men inside Iran and taken across the border had been freed by Pakistani security forces

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial Drunk on ethanol

Editorial: The U.S. is fueling a potential disaster by cobbling together an energy policy based on corn.

Being More Like Ike By: Michael Korda | Los Angeles Times
The 34th president of the United States and ex-general Dwight D. Eisenhower avoided wars that he thought were unwinnable.

H16 American Politics

Shaping the 44th Presidency
Charles O. Jones and Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, Issues in Governance Studies

New Yorker Rovian Ways by Nicholas Lemann - In a city run by people who have spent their lives endlessly reënacting their election as class president, Karl Rove was un-dull: he was the fabulist, boundary violator, autodidact, mean boy, schemer…

WSJ Can the GOP Make a Comeback?
The recipe for Republicans is to stop acting like, well, Republicans--that is, Republicans of recent vintage.
By FRED BARNES

McClatchy Can Clinton win over men?

Average incomes fell for most since 2000

New Republic How Political Psychology Explains Bush's Ghastly Success. by John B. Judis

Romney runs from Bush — a little, carefully, sort of

Our Religious Destiny The salience of religion in our presidential politics perplexes Europeans.
By ARTHUR C. BROOKS

Novak Clinton backers see Warner — not Obama — as best V.P. choice —

Kurtz Karl Rove, Insider With an Outsize Reputation

Too clever by half

How Karl Rove might help Hillary win the White House

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

H17 Daily Telegraph Terrorism will win if we fight each other If the allies in the war on terror can't agree among themselves, the chances of the military campaign achieving its goals gets slimmer by the day argues Con Coughlin

H18 Independent Leading Article: A proxy war for the provinces of the south

Army chiefs deny al-Sadr's claim of victory in Iraq

John Lichfield: The president with popularity to burn Sarkozy appears to be driven by a desire to impress public opinion - and to appease his wife

Hamas forced to commit to electricity revenue checks

What happened to the Husseins? Some are dead, some in exile, some in hiding. As a warrant is issued for the arrest of Raghad Hussein, the daughter of Saddam, Kim Sengupta reports on the fate of the family whose charmed life was ended by the invasion of Iraq

The Big Question: Are there more hurricanes, and are they the result of global warming?

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

USIP Report: US Police in Peace and Stability Operations

The Decentralized Networks of Terrorism and Transnational Crime

Army Cuts Time Spent on Training

AP Exclusive: Extending Iraq buildup would be tough for stretched ...

The Spread of Missile Technology and its Countermeasures
DIIS

City Journal: Why Study War? Victor Davis Hanson — Military history teaches us about honor, sacrifice, and the inevitability of conflict. — Try explaining to a college student that Tet was an American military victory. You'll provoke not a counterargument—let alone an assent—but a blank stare: Who or what was Tet?

US officer tried over Abu Ghraib The court martial starts of the only US Army officer charged over the abuse scandal at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.

Britain 'stretched'
Top general steps up pressure for UK to leave Iraq

Austin Bay Blog:
What metrics will Petraeus use?

Muslims Eye America By: Mohammad Ali Salih | The Washington Times
I have 12 siblings, more than 30 cousins, about 50 nieces and nephews and many friends scattered in seven Muslim countries. I am a foreign correspondent in Washington for a major Arabic-language Middle Eastern newspaper. If the U.S. National Security Agency, using its new powers to monitor overseas communications without any approval from a judge, will electronically look into my communications for catch words like "Allahu Akbar," and "Kafir (infidel)," it will find them.

'Abu Ghraib abuse tip of iceberg'

H20 Slate No Experience Necessary

Do you need to know the name of Pakistan's leader to be a good president? Anne Applebaum

God's Still Dead Mark Lilla doesn't give us enough credit for shaking off the divine. Christopher Hitchens

Asia Times SPENGLER
It must be the end
of secularism ... ... It's in the New York Times! In a despairing vision of the political future, a Columbia University professor opines that secular liberalism stands helpless before a new century of religious wars. But he cannot bear to surrender to Western Christians; instead, he proposes to surrender to the Muslims

New Yorker The Marshall Plan, sixty years on. Niall Ferguson

David A. Lake (UCSD): Building Legitimate States After Civil Wars: Order, Authority, and International Trusteeship

International Outsourcing under Monopolistic Competition: Winners and Losers CESifo

H21

Philip Hensher: The real meaning of education

The Search Landscape Search Engine Roundtable

White House Wiki Watch

British MPs have recommended that scientists be allowed to create human-animal hybrid embryos under certain conditions. Should scientists be allowed to create such hybrids to aid research into disease?

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