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H1 McClatchy Report: CIA failed to respond to al Qaida threat By Warren P. Strobel The CIA had no comprehensive strategy for dealing with al Qaida before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and failed to act on information indicating that suspected terrorists had been dispatched to the United States, the CIA's inspector general concluded in a report that was partially declassified on Tuesday.

CIA Office of Inspector General Report on CIA Accountability with Respect to the 9/11 Attacks (.pdf). Completed in 2005 by a team headed by IG John Helgerson. AP, NYT and WP reports. Tenet's statement.

Financial Times Editorial History will judge who lost Iraq Both forces are now staring at defeat. The remaining question is how to organise withdrawal in the way least damaging to Iraq

COMMENT: Why the Federal Reserve has to keep the party going American households must spend more than their incomes. If they fail to do so, they face the threat of recession, writes Martin Wolf

COMMENT: America risks the fate of the Roman republic Washington’s crisis-management approach to hard public policy choices is no longer prudent, writes David Walker

Investors Say That Fed Must Do More for Markets After another day of restless anxiety in the world’s credit markets, Wall Street thinks the Federal Reserve is running short of time.

Editorial Do not cut rates

Central banks should not crack and cut their policy rates while they have more suitable tools in the box

IMF warns of risk to global growth Turmoil in the financial markets will affect growth worldwide, said John Lipsky, the number two official at the International Monetary Fund

COMMENT: Terrorists are neither criminals nor soldiers By Amitai Etzioni

Breaking the Kosovo Stalemate: Europe’s Responsibility International Crisis Group

"Iraq Does Not Exist Anymore": Journalist Nir Rosen on How the U.S. Invasion of Iraq Has Led to Ethnic Cleansing, a Worsening Refugee Crisis and the Destabilization of the Middle East

Guardian Russia steps up military expansion Vladimir Putin announces ambitious plans to restore Russia's role as leading producer of military aircraft.

Oil reserves draw big powers to Arctic Countries battle for control of ocean tracts thought to be replete with fossil fuels.

William Arkin Washington to Maliki: Help!

Iraqi Papers Wed: Who Will Inherit the South?

Der Spiegel Opinion: Iraq on the Path to a Shiite Dictatorship Baghdad's new Kurdish-Shiite coalition may end efforts at national reconciliation with the Sunnis. But a government pursuing common interests is Iraq's only hope. Even stability brought about by a Shiite-dominated regime would be better than the chaos that currently reigns.

FT US intelligence launches 'MySpace for analysts'

Restoring Deterrence by Elbridge Colby, Rand Corporation - Orbis Summer 2007

The Times US hits out at Iraq government as moment of truth nears The US Administration says Iraqi Government’s performance has been disappointing and it has failed to promote reconciliation

PINR "Georgia-Russia Missile Row Calls for the West to Revise its Strategy in Eurasia" Full text of report

Asia Times Rising powers have the US in their sights
The assault on the United States' supremacy has been as striking as it has been unexpected - from the breaking of the Anglo-American 24-hour news monopoly globally to the rise of the Russian energy superpower and of the Chinese economic juggernaut. New powers are challenging different aspects of US dominance - Russia and China in the forefront, with Venezuela and Iran forming the second rank. - Dilip Hiro

IHT The financial gods that failed By PAUL A. SAMUELSON

National stress in Iraq By H. D. S. GREENWAY / The Boston Globe
Whether it is by race, nationality, language, class custom, or religion, mankind seems to find ways and reasons to separate himself from and to hate his neighbor -- especially under conditions of national stress

France's Pro-U.S. Turn on Iraq By: Amir Taheri | New York Post
One key promise that Nicolas Sarkozy had made during his presidential election campaign last spring was to "correct foreign-policy mistakes" made by his predecessor Jacques Chirac.

Al Awsat The Power of the Lobby : Hussein Shobokshi

Michael J. Totten:

How to Spy in Iraq

Air Force Doctrine Document 2-3: Irregular Warfare (PDF; 1.1 MB)
Source: Secretary of the Air Force (via Small Wars Journal blog)

Weekly Standard The Thuggery of William Kristol Complexity is weakness. Dissent is treason. What neoconservatism has become.
by Jonathan Chait

Washington Times Editorial Are the Democrats evolving? After months of heaping scorn on the very idea that a new military strategy could achieve results in Iraq, a growing number of antiwar critics now acknowledge that the very idea they contemptuously dismissed is achieving results after all.

Agonizing choices of war (Harlan Ullman)

The Fear Factor: Why Bush Won? - Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic

Brian Rokus / CNN:
Muslim women: My headscarf is not a threat

Washington Institute Hizballah's 'Big Surprise' and the Litani Line

US Envoy Unhappy With Iraq's Progress

The Petraeus Report: More Kabuki?
by William S. Lind

George W. Bush: A CIA Analysis
by Ray McGovern

Alarming the ayatollahs

Claude Salhani Want to scare the turbans off the heads of Iran's ayatollahs? Don't threaten to bomb them, which will only give them greater popular support. Instead make plans to open a U.S. Embassy in Tehran. A very large embassy.

Salon Fantasy island Karl Rove calls himself Moby Dick. One speechwriter sees himself as St. Francis. Another sees him as Iago. All regard Bush as Abraham Lincoln. In Washington, reality is a myth.

Drezner What did the foreign policy community think about Iraq?

H2 Guardian Leader Islam and democracy Turkey: If Islam and democracy can be proved compatible in Turkey, why not elsewhere? Mr Gul's coming presidency, and the army's response to it, will make waves far beyond the Bosphorus.

The Economist Ready to take office Turkey's Abdullah Gul will soon be president. Then what?

Washington Institute Iraqi Kurds and the Turkish-Iraqi Memorandum against the PKK By Soner Cagaptay and H. Akin Unver

Ha'aretz Under pressure, ADL admits: Turks' Armenian massacre was genocide

Slate What Do They Want? Kirkuk! When Do They Want It? Now! The Kurds play a dangerous game of brinksmanship. Zvika Krieger

OxAn TURKEY: Gul presidency to improve near-term stability

Rosner ADL and the Armenian genocide: The incidental victim

WTR: yes to "genocide", no to bill

Truth and Consequences: Armenians, Turks and Jews American Jewish Committee

ABD'deki önemli Yahudi kuruluşu ADL, Ermeni iddialarını tanımaya karar verdi

Turkey on US agenda as possible Iraq pullout route

FT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Failure to recognise AKP as a modern party will vindicate the firebrands

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Courting Turkey will not counteract the damage we are doing elsewhere

BBC Turkey's potential first lady has a makeover - headscarf and all

Dünyanın gündemi Abdullah Gül

Iraq to resume oil exports via Turkey Iraq is preparing to resume oil exports through Turkey in a few weeks through a new pipeline built in the midst of violence to help handle the flows, Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said.

The Times TSK Gül'ü 'izleyecek'

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Güneydoğulu kızlar neden AK Parti’ye oy verdi? - Haşim Söylemez

Slate What Do They Want? Kirkuk! When Do They Want It? Now! The Kurds play a dangerous game of brinksmanship. Zvika Krieger

"DTP'nin Gül'e destek vermemesi büyük bir hata"

Sami KOHEN Fransa'nın Irak'a dönüşü...

Hüseyin Çelik DTP'lilerle görüştü

[Yorum - M. Naci Bostancı] DTP zamanla asıl aktör olabilir

DTP Gül'den ''işaret'' bekliyor

Mahalleye mayın

Biz de aynı sonuçlara ulaşmıştık, kutluyorum

Turkish Daily Interviews Kurdish Deputy on Political Career, Future Plans

Bülent Keneş Turkey-Iran relations should be encouraged

Human Rights Group Alleges Torture in Kurdish Prisons

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 21 Aug 07

Çekilme Planlarında Türkiye'nin Rolü

"İran sınır ötesi operasyona hazırlanıyor"

İran: 'Köyleri boşaltın operasyon düzenleyeceğiz'

Türkiye, ABD'nin çıkış yolu olabilir

Irak, Türkiye üzerinden petrol ihracına başlıyor

KDP points finger at Turkey and Syria for Yezidi massacre

Iran Shells Iraqi Border Areas, Plans Large-Scale Operation in Arbil - TV

HAKAN ALBAYRAK

Ehlen ve sehlen Dr. Rıdvan

'Türk Konsolosluğu hedef gösteriliyor'

ABD dışişleri bakan yardımcısı Ürdün ve Türkiye gezisine çıkıyor

Yazidis risk persecution, attacks to follow religion (By Julia Duin)

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Friedrich: In case of a regime problem, EU would freeze all relations with Turkey

Türkiye'de rejim sorunu olursa AB ilişkiyi keser

Tartışmalı Göç Yasası'nı onayladı

Almanya'da yeni Göç Yasası devrede

ERDAL ŞAFAK Çürüme

STELYO BERBERAKİS Oramiral Hinofotis bugün istifa ediyor

Talat-Papadopulos buluşması 5 Eylül'de

Talat, Papadopulos'la 5 Eylül'de görüşecek

Güngör URAS Ordulular proje hazırlayarak AB fonlarından yararlanmaya çalışıyor

Türk jetlerine Ege'de Yunan tacizi

'Gül'ün seçilmesi AB ve Türkiye için iyi olur'

Yunanistan'da 'askeri şok'

AB: Türkiye'nin Yunanistan'ı fotoğraflamasında usulsüzlük yok

Talat’tan acil çözüm çağrısı

The historian at war with 'history'
Scotsman

Amanda Akçakoca Uncomfortable neighborhood -- the fight for Nagorno-Karabakh

Ermeni diasporası çalışıyor

Belçika bölünmenin eşiğine geldi

Yargıtay'dan Sayha kararına onama

Genelkurmay’dan gazeteci Demir’e tepki

Yeni seçilen vekillere verimlilik tavsiyeleri

Hava korsanları ders oldu arananlar uçağa binemeyecek

Ruslar Fethullah Gülen okuluna el koydu

Komutandan sitemli veda: Üniformama hiç leke sürdürmedim

Boğaz'daki sade nikâha olağanüstü güvenlik önlemi

Serdar Turgut Yılmaz Özdil’in yazarlığı

NYT Turkish Palace as Summer Home

Correction: For the Record

Türk ismi alan 100 bin Ermeni'nin listesi elimde

Alevilerden TTK Başkanı hakkında suç duyurusu

Şaraplı risottoyla Danıştay'a yükseldi

Hayrünnisa Hanım tasarımdan habersiz

Hayrünnisa Hanım’ın tarzı değişmeyecek

Birds fly away as Anatolia dries out

H3 Genelkurmay Basın Açıklaması / 21

Başbakan değil turizm acentesi

Bekir Coşkun Gidecek yerim yok...

Ruşen Çakır ‘Ya sev ya terk et’, öyle mi!

Hasan CEMAL Erdoğan'ın aşırı ve yanlış tepkisi!

Bilal Çetin Yeni anayasa ve sistem reformu

Yeni anayasa 38 madde eksik Vatandaşlığa 1924 modeli

Çankaya will be the new address for diplomacy BARÇIN YİNANÇ

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Büyük hesaplaşmada kritik raund…

Taha Kıvanç Ağır gündem

Fehmi Koru Yeni dönemde basın- Genelkurmay ilişkisi

Ahmet Taşgetiren Abdullah Gül profili

Çankaya’da Gül nöbeti - Yedi yıllık “Cumhurbaşkanı Gül” döneminde Türkiye’yi hangi sürprizler bekliyor? Gül’ün Köşk’e taşıyacağı “Başkan’ın adamları” kimler olacak? Gül’e yakın isimler, bütün bunları ve daha fazlasını Aksiyon’a anlattı

Baykal Gül, yeni Osmanlıcı

Hakan Aygün 28 Şubatçılar 27 Nisancılar için ne düşünüyor? –

M. Ali BİRAND Gül seçilemedi, ancak kazandı...

Dışişleri'den Barzani'nin açıklamasına tepki

Taha AKYOL Kürtler, Aleviler, Ermeniler

Gül setting up a new team for Çankaya

İzmir�de AKP oylarına inceleme

Asker ne der? Avni Özgürel

Abdülhamit Bilici Askerin yeri?

Mustafa Ünal Askerin yakasından düşün artık!

Kemal Karpat Karpat: CHP demokrasiyi kundakladı; inanamadım

Cengiz Çandar 1920’ler ya da 2020’ler,artık önümüze bakalım

İsmail Küçükkaya Siyasi kehanetler...

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ "367 kararı hataydı"

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Martta ikinci referandum

Gül ‘Yeni Ankara’nın adayı

Ya sev, ya terk et Murat Yetkin

Sedat ERGİN Vatandaşlıktan atmayın, sürgüne gönderin

Bir başbakan 'Ya sev, ya terk et' der mi? İsmet Berkan

Eser Karakaş Seçim sonuçlarını analiz edemeyenlere yeni bir veri

Karşı devrim sembolü M.Ali Kışlalı

Erdoğan'dan Arınç sinyali

Mehmet Barlas İktidar ‘türbanlı eşler cemaati’ görüntüsü vermemeli…

Modelim Özal

Evren ‘Çankaya’da türban yasağı kanunlarımızda yok’

Serdar Turgut Değişim sürecinde AKP

Mümtazer Türköne 'Ilımlı İslâm'

Demokratör Burak Bekdil

Yargıtay, Gül'e eşli davetiye gönderiyor

Gül'e '30 Ağustos' için eşsiz davetiye

TTK Başkanı Halaçoğlu: Dönme Ermenilerin listesi var

Nabi Yağcı Halaçoğlu hangi tarihte yaşıyor

MGK toplantısında askerler konuşmadı

Üniversitede yüzde 4 katkı payı yetersiz eğitim paralı olsun

Uçağa binene büyük gözaltı

Anayasa atılandan sonra en kısa MGK

'Ilımlı İslam olmaz'

Yalçın Bayer AKP’nin 681 oyu nasıl 1553 oldu

Yeni Şafak'ın iddiası: Sezer '367 yanlış' dedi

'Sivil anayasa'da Türk vatandaşlığı tanımı değişiyor

İlnur Çevik The media is flying high, but military not amused

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

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Taksim'de bomba, Boğaz'da düğün!..

Talihsiz, yersiz ve haddini asan sözler

Ertuğrul Özkök Andree Coşkun'un Başbakan'a cevabı

Oktay Ekşi Maske düştü...

Tufan Türenç Öfke maskeleri düşürüverir

Mehmet Yılmaz Herkes bizi göndermek istiyor!

Yılmaz Özdil Bavulları hazırlayın...

Özdemir İnce Sahi mi? Yok canım!

Yalçın Doğan Şimdi vücut dili zamanı

Yavuz Baydar First round of the election confirms a ‘return to normality’

Doğu Ergil Political greed and bad judgement

Yusuf KANLI
Democrats and 'democrators'

ERGUN BABAHAN Sevmeyenlerin de cumhurbaşkanı

EMRE AKÖZ Bekir Coşkun bizimdir!

Umur Talu Dert çok, hem dert yok!

NAZLI ILICAK Ankara'da kafalar karışık

YAVUZ DONAT Gündem sapması

Nasuhi Güngör Gül ve askerler

Kenan Evren: "Ben de yakıştıramıyorum"

SALİH TUNA Semboller ikiye çıktı, var mı artıran?

Nuh Gönültaş Babanın mirasını mı reddediyon lan!

Can Ataklı Jest-rest ve anında harcanıvermek

Mehmet Tezkan

Başbakan�ın sigortası yine attı galiba!

Kaynak 2B’den Hükümet, geçen dönem Cumhurbaşkanı Ahmet Necdet Sezer’in vetosu nedeniyle uygulanamayan 2B arazilerinin satışını, en önemli kaynak beklentisi olarak yeni dönem için programına aldı.

Ege Cansen İnsansız iktisat

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM FED'in silahı ters tepti peki geriye ne kaldı?

Seyfettin Gürsel Yangını kontrol etmenin güçlükleri

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN
Ekonomi ilgi bekliyor

Otoritelerin farklılığı Uğur Gürses

Salih Neftçi Korkular ve gerçekler...

Ercan Kumcu Faizler yüksek mi

Erdal Sağlam

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Kıt suyun ekonomisi

Metin MÜNİR Subprime krizi nedir, nasıl çıktı, nasıl sona erecek?

TEPAV: Bütçe açığı büyüyecek

JPM, Türk tahvillerinin ağırlığını düşürdü

Toplu görüşmelerde 3. tur Yetkili memur sendikalarıyla Kamu İşveren Kurulu, bugün toplu görüşmelerin üçüncü turunda bir araya gelecek. Görüşmede, maaş zamlarının gündeme gelmesi bekleniyor.

Uzlaşma arayışı bugün devam edecek

Üç kıtayı TAVladı

Son ekonomik dalgalanma Mustafa Aysan

Greenspan'den Bernanke'ye FED Metin Ercan

[Yorum - Prof. Dr. Ali İhsan Işık] Global kriz mola verdi, ya sonra?

Yiğit Bulut AKP�yi sandıktan çıkaran ekonomik gerçek

İbrahim Öztürk Turkey’s ‘national team’ in foreign trade and coming success

Economic Scene: Pushing Fed to Act Early if Not Often

Jailed Academic in Iran Is Released on Bail

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Go Green and Save Money

Do you, like me, live in one of those states where electricity has been deregulated and your utility rates have skyrocketed?

H5 Washington Post Bush Turns Up Heat on Iraqi Prime Minister

President declines to offer a public endorsement of embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, expressing his disappointment at the lack of political progress in Iraq

Democrats Refocus Message on Iraq After Military Gains: Criticism Shifts to Factional Unrest

Tenet's Pre-9/11 Efforts Faulted CIA Reluctantly Releases 2005 Report Critical of Agency Leadership

White House Briefing : White House Still Loves Maliki Dan Froomkin

Treasury Dept. Has Few Options Facing credit crunch, U.S. lacks tools to manage the downturn in financial markets, say analysts

Is the Boom in Peril? By Robert J. Samuelson,

Today's global economy undeniably faces some big, potentially destabilizing threats.

Another Test in Iraq: Our Aid to Refugees

By Michael Gerson, The American response to Iraqi refugee crisis has improved from dismal to minimal

Pakistan Frees Alleged Al-Qaeda Operative

Operative suspected of involvement in plots targeting the U.S. and Britain spent more than two years in a secret prison run by Pakistan's spy agencies, human rights group says.

Iran Releases U.S. Scholar on Bail: Release Arranged by Supreme Leader Khamenei After Appeal From Hamilton

H6 Guardian CIA 'blew chances to spot 9/11 threat' Information on two hijackers was kept from key personnel, internal investigation finds.

Russia steps up military expansion

Vladimir Putin announces ambitious plans to restore Russia's role as leading producer of military aircraft.

Oil reserves draw big powers to Arctic

Countries battle for control of ocean tracts thought to be replete with fossil fuels.

Fed chairman signals US rate cut

Ben Bernanke makes it clear he is willing to use 'all available tools' to calm markets.

Iran frees US 'spy' on bail 67-year-old academic held for three months after being accused of fomenting 'soft revolution'.

At stake in Sudan Václav Havel: This trace of hope offers a rare chance for Darfur. The global consequences could hardly be greater.

'Chemical Ali' on trial for brutal crushing of Shia uprising

H7 Poll: U.S. should engage with terrorists

France's Pro-U.S. Turn on Iraq By: Amir Taheri | New York Post
One key promise that Nicolas Sarkozy had made during his presidential election campaign last spring was to "correct foreign-policy mistakes" made by his predecessor Jacques Chirac.

Al Awsat The Power of the Lobby : Hussein Shobokshi

Washington Times The Saudi-Syria rift (By Farid Ghadry)

Agonizing choices of war (Harlan Ullman)

Weekly Standard The Thuggery of William Kristol Complexity is weakness. Dissent is treason. What neoconservatism has become.
by Jonathan Chait

America's Hypocritical Impulse To Spread Freedom And Democracy by Eric Rauchway

Time A Last Chance for the Surge

Helena Cobban Why Arms Sales to the Persian Gulf will Backfire

Middle East Times Commentary: Realpolitik - Mideast peace under Iraq war shadow

National Review MICHAEL RUBIN: Ranting against America & more. “Iranian News Round-up”

Al Hayat America, Iran and Avoiding War Hazem Saghieh - it might be impossible for the clerical regime in Iran to arrive at a settlement that deserves to be celebrated and welcomed. However, merely being successful at distancing the war option once again from the Gulf will be a gain. As for the rest, it is the task of the Iranians themselves, should they wish such a thing.

Iraqi 'surge' misses its mark
It appears that the "surge" of American troops in Iraq is pleasing no one. Residents of Baquba, site of Operation Arrowhead Ripper, caught in the middle of the US-al-Qaeda fight, say it has brought no security. And in the US, a survey of 100 foreign-policy experts reveals that more than half now think that the "surge" is having a negative impact. - Ahmed Ali

UPI Analysis: Washington's Iraq blame game

BBC Divided Iraq
New trial of Saddam Hussein aides gets mixed reactions

From The Economist, something rather exciting is happening in Latin America: Adios to poverty, hola to consumption: Faster growth, low inflation, expanding credit and liberal trade are helping Latin America create a new middle class

Daily Star When the US makes the rule of law an unaffordable luxury
By Stephen Holmes

North Lebanon between food and gun By Rami G. Khouri

Isolate Beirut's foes, but test their intentions first By Rami Naser

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

US Papers Wed: Iraqis can evict PM, Bush says

Sunni leaders gain power by working with U.S.

U.S. ambassador rates Iraq progress as poor

Obama: No Military Solution in Iraq...

Leaflets warn of Iran move into north Iraq...

Iran-IAEA nuclear agreement 'not sufficient': US

US urges allies to cut economic ties with Iran

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Middle East Arabic Press for 21 Aug 07

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Iranian Press 21 August 2007

BBC Monitoring Weekly Roundup of Iraqi Press 15-21 Aug 07

BBC Monitoring Headlines, Quotes From Iraqi Press 21 Aug 07 - Package B

Iraqi-Syrian Leaders' Security Talks Focus on Border Control - Al- Iraqiyah

UK Arabic Paper Reports Iraqi Moves to Counter "Front of Moderates"

Syrian Official Discusses Economic Growth, Currency Reserves

Syrian Muslim Brotherhood Official Attacks "Despotic" Regime - Saudi Paper

BBC Top US envoy holds talks in Libya A top US Middle East envoy arrives in Libya to prepare for a possible landmark visit by the US secretary of state

Iran frees detained US academic

RFERL Radical Right Renews Attacks On Moderate Clerics

Government critics suggest that right-wing displeasure is behind some of the hostility targeting President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's political opponents

Khaddam Slams Syria Over Row With Saudi Arabia The Daily Star
A Syrian former vice president turned opposition leader said in remarks published on Sunday that his successor's criticism of Saudi Arabia was part of Damascus's policy of cutting links with Arabs and moving closer to Iran while Syria accused Saudi press of misrepresentation.

H9 Ha’aretz – Yoel Marcus: Olmert's peace moves are nothing but hot air

Bradley Burston: Hamas the cripple, Gaza the doomed

Fatah struggles to regain power

Debka Defense Minister Barak warns: Israel's military is under-manned, under-equipped and under-trained for deterring or winning wars

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Syria transfers elements of its commando Division 14 to Mt. Hermon north of Golan. Both sides extend fortifications

Yedioth Ahronoth The next Palestinian crisis Right of return constitutes one of the biggest disputes within Palestinian society

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

Wishful Thinking - David Horovitz (Jerusalem Post)

Daily Star Hamas promises something new, but delivers more of the same

BBC Israel strike kills Gaza militant An Israeli aircraft kills a Hamas military commander in the Gaza Strip, two days after six were killed.

EU to resume Gaza fuel payments The EU will resume paying for fuel shipments to the only power plant in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

Copies of Nazi files transferred The keepers of a vast archive of Nazi Holocaust files transfer millions of documents to Israel and the US.

The Legal Status of East Jerusalem Under International Law

H10 Christian Science Monitor A new push for change in the war on terror In Foreign Policy magazine's Terrorism Index, experts paint a bleak picture of progress and point to diminishing security for the US.

THE MONITOR'S VIEW Breaking bread in Iraq

New misgivings on wiretap law Some Democrats regret updating FISA to expand the NSA's ability to tap American calls.

First court-martial for an officer in Abu Ghraib scandal gets under way

The case may shed light on whether the abuse of detainees was the result of poorly trained soldiers' behavior or directives from higher up.

Hamas refashions its militancy The Palestinian group has not claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on Israel since taking over Gaza in June.

India: Nuclear pact causes deep rift

India's Prime Minister is digging in this week to face political challenges over a high-stakes nuclear deal with the US that could destroy his fragile government.

Sovereignty, NAFTA loom large at summit

The leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the US face anxieties at home about weaker national sovereignty.

ASIA

China's Inflation Will Stymie Subprime Response By: Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg News
As central banks around the world try to contain the subprime crisis by easing money and credit, their response will be stymied by concerns that Chinese inflation might infect other nations.

NYT As Japan and India Forge Economic Ties, a Counterweight to China Is Seen

BBC Strategic dialogue
Japan seeks defence partners to counter China's growing might

Beijing population brings city to bursting point Beijing’s rapidly growing population has all but reached the officially set ceiling of 18 million some 13 years early

The Nuclear Deal and Regional Security
Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies

India says Pakistan building bunkers

India, Australia for closer defense ties

WSJ China Pays Steep Price as Textile Exports Boom

China has recently faced harsh criticism over the safety of its exports. But environmental activists and the Chinese government are increasingly pointing to the flip side of the problem: the role multinational companies play in China's growing pollution by demanding ever-lower prices for Chinese products.

Asia Times India splitting atoms over nuclear dealThe ongoing political impasse in New Delhi over India's nuclear deal with the United States obscures the broader debate over the direction of India's foreign policy, and that India, rather than choose to be anti-US or pro-US, could take the middle path. - Zorawar Daulet Singh

De-demonizing Southeast Asian Islam The so-called "Islamic threat" has been overblown and distorted to the detriment of more realistic and sober explanations such as those offered by a London School of Economics professor in an essay that breaks new ground in seeking ways to defuse the Islamic time bomb. - Michael Vatikiotis

China takes a currency
leap forward China's latest move to solve its excess liquidity problem and cool the its overheated stock markets may be its best one yet. It is allowing Chinese citizens to buy unlimited amounts of foreign currency to invest in overseas securities, but only through one designated bank in a specific area. It could be a big step on the road to a fully convertible currency. - Wu Zhong

Morgan Stanley A Theoretically Bold Move Toward ‘Managed Capital Account Liberalization’

PBS Newshour Former Pakistani Premier Discusses Power-sharing Plan

Al Hayat Pakistan: The Cure That Doesn't Cure Hazem Saghieh - The fear is that the Western-brokered alliance between Musharraf and Benazhir will be nothing but a fleeting treatment for a symptom rather than a cure for the cancer that is Pakistan’s crisis. For this ‘failed’ nation – that just recently celebrated 60 years of independence – cannot adopt an understanding of political legitimacy that conflicts with Islamic interpretations.

H11 IHT The financial gods that failed By PAUL A. SAMUELSON / TMS My phone rings around the clock as foreign journalists ask, what is going to happen in the coming years for America and the globe after the recent volatility indexes' recent explosion?

EUROPE European press review

Stratfor Global Market Brief: Europe Loosens the Energy Ties that Bind to ... Russia

USIP Briefing: Double Alienation and Muslim Youth in Europe

Hungary in the Firing Line The Economist
Eastern Europe has started to succumb to the global stockmarket turmoil, with regional bourses and currencies suffering sizeable losses in recent days. Hungary in particular now faces challenging times, despite the government’s attempts to rescue public finance and investor confidence in recent months.

H12 RFE/RL Central Asia: Kazakh Vote Sparks Fear Of Regional Imitations

Russia Says Czechs Making 'Big Mistake' On U.S. Radar

PINR "Georgia-Russia Missile Row Calls for the West to Revise its Strategy in Eurasia" Full text of report

Google News Azerbaijan

Kazakh vote: A step forward (Ariel Cohen)

Iran, Azerbaijan Set to Boost Energy Ties

Paper: Lack of Meeting Between Russian, Iran Presidents a Missed Opportunity

Azeri Clerics Praise Iranian President's Visit to Baku

Iranian Leader to Get Baku's Support for Its Nuclear Programme - Analyst

Iran's Azeris Set to Protest at President's Visit to Azerbaijan

BBC UK jets shadow Russian bomber Two new RAF Typhoon jets shadowed a Russian bomber heading for Britain, the Ministry of Defence confirms.

FT Kazakhstan in threat over Eni oil licence

Warning over the vast offshore Kashagan field comes as the government seeks to tighten its grip over the energy sector

EU urges Kazakhstan to bring election laws up to international standards

U.S. Cites Serious Shortcomings in Kazakhstan Election By: David Gollust | VOA News
The U.S. State Department said Monday there were serious shortcomings in parliamentary elections held Saturday in Kazakhstan that were swept by the ruling party of President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

From Asia Times, a look at how Tajikistan is mired in great power game

No One Is Afraid of the Big Orange Wolf By: Alexi Pankin | The Moscow Times
I was in Ukraine last week sitting with an old friend in his kitchen. We were talking about politics, recalling the Moscow barricade of 1991 after the coup attempt against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and the 2004 Orange Revolution in Kiev.

WP Reins on Remembrance 70 Years After Stalin's Purge, Candor Has Its Limits

By Masha Lipman, The Russian public would just as soon forget Stalin's butchery.

H13 The Times US hits out at Iraq government as moment of truth nears The US Administration says Iraqi Government’s performance has been disappointing and it has failed to promote reconciliation

Head of CIA ‘failed to stop’ 9/11 attacks An inquiry into the performance of the agency blames its former director George Tenet for failures leading up to the atrocity

Sacked officers turning to terror, say police

RAF jets scrambled to intercept Russian bomber

Two brand new RAF Eurofighter jets were launched to shadow a Russian bomber over the North Atlantic, the MoD said

India’s nuclear deal has growth at its core

Trial begins of Chemical Ali for 1991 massacres

Paris vacates the moral high ground

Wall Street Journal

H14 Financial Times Editorial History will judge who lost Iraq Both forces are now staring at defeat. The remaining question is how to organise withdrawal in the way least damaging to Iraq

COMMENT: Why the Federal Reserve has to keep the party going American households must spend more than their incomes. If they fail to do so, they face the threat of recession, writes Martin Wolf

COMMENT: America risks the fate of the Roman republic Washington’s crisis-management approach to hard public policy choices is no longer prudent, writes David Walker

Editorial Do not cut rates

Central banks should not crack and cut their policy rates while they have more suitable tools in the box

IMF warns of risk to global growth Turmoil in the financial markets will affect growth worldwide, said John Lipsky, the number two official at the International Monetary Fund

COMMENT: Terrorists are neither criminals nor soldiers By Amitai Etzioni

WORLD NEWS: Iran says it is overcoming banks' dollar transaction boycott

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Labour in the red, Brown sees red

WORLD NEWS: Slow progress

WORLD NEWS: 'Chemical Ali' on trial for Shia killings

WORLD NEWS: Academic on spy charges freed from Tehran jail

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial Stay the course When it comes to interest rates, the Federal Reserve should worry less about Wall Street and more about Main Street.

H16 American Politics

first chapter from Does American Democracy Still Work? by Alan Wolfe.

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

Smashing Capitalism - Barbara Ehrenreich, The Nation

H17 Daily Telegraph George Bush hints Iraqi PM must go

Calls for Iraqi PM to go before security deteriorates further.

Gaddafi's son calls for new constitution

India nuclear deal with US could blow up

Worldstage by Peter Foster

H18 Independent Bush distances himself from the 'non-functional' Iraqi government

Hamish McRae: Prepare for a slowdown, but not a crash

Russia flexes its muscle as Cold War missions resume

Democrats in $7bn plan to turn US green

US politicians are waking up to the moneymaking and job creation possibilities of combating global warming and challenging the Bush administration to invest in a new generation of "green-collar" jobs

US-Iranian academic freed after making TV 'confession'

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

FT US intelligence launches 'MySpace for analysts'

Air Force Doctrine Document 2-3: Irregular Warfare (PDF; 1.1 MB)
Source: Secretary of the Air Force (via Small Wars Journal blog)

Policy Review Making Intelligence Smart Some necessary reforms
Elbridge A. Colby

Michael J. Totten:

How to Spy in Iraq

Desert Sunrise By: Ralph Peters | New York Post The most striking thing to a Cold War-era soldier is the profusion of combat patches on the right sleeves of today's soldiers -- who look bewilderingly young.

Experts: Pakistan most likely next al-Q HQ

Iraq War Brings Drop in Black Enlistees

Murky tale
Conspiracy theories surround acquitted 'terror kingpin'

BBC CIA criticises ex-chief over 9/11 An internal CIA probe accuses ex-chief George Tenet of failing to prepare for the al-Qaeda threat before 9/11

H20 Slate

From Scientific American, an op-ed Rational Atheism: An open letter to Messrs. Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens by Michael Shermer.

MEMRI Aug 22 SD# 1691 - The Heavy Metal Music Scene in Tehran

A passionate affair between Nehru and Lady Mountbatten was but one of the scandals and outrages of the end of the Raj... more»

Oscar Wilde, Conrad, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, Dickens, Waugh, Larkin, Amis: their genius shone through clouds of nicotine. And what now of English literature?... more»

White House Manual Details How to Deal With Protesters Not that they're worried or anything. But the White House evidently leaves little to chance when it comes to protests within eyesight of the president. As in, it doesn't want any.

H21 As a reformed addict, I can now see the full menace of a Blackberry habit Jonathan Freedland: They might make us feel indispensable, but mobile email gadgets are bad for relationships, bad for work and bad for the soul.

It’s better to be just one of the boys

The collapse of feminism is a bit like seeing a chunk of melting glacier falling into the sea

· Magnus Linklater

Googling 'Monopoly'
There's no lack of competition on the Web.
By THOMAS M. LENARD and PAUL H. RUBIN

YouTube is rolling out its first approach for selling ads within videos, nearly 10 months after Google agreed to buy the site

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