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H1 Washington Post No Major Shifts Planned on Iraq White House unlikely to change course after mid-Sept. report from U.S. commanders in region.

Asia Times Bush: In the footsteps of Napoleon There are eerily familiar resonances between Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798 and the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Both began with supreme arrogance and ended as fiascoes. Above all, the leaders of both occupations employed the same political vocabulary and rhetorical flimflammery. But at least Napoleon looked to the future and saw the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. Bush's neo-colonialism swam against the tide of history, and its failure is all the more criminal for having been so predictable. - Juan Cole

TCS Who Should Establish Rule of Law in Iraq? Britain's India Civil Service is a good model for the US to follow.

McClatchy Bush left with few options, even fewer chances for success in Iraq One way to look at the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq released this week is to review what it describes as the best-case scenario

Washington Post Waste Mars Iraq Reconstruction U.S. military effort to rebuild country is marked by inefficiency and vulnerable to corruption.

U.S. Terror Suspect List Produces Few Arrests New details about database that flags Americans and foreigners as potential terrorists raise concerns about its efficacy and impact on privacy

NYT With Troop Rise, Iraqi Detainees Soar in Number A 50 percent increase in the number of detainees comes, officials said, because U.S. forces are operating in areas where they had not been present for some time.

Iraq’s Insurgency and Civil Violence: Developments through Late August 2007 Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies Full Report (PDF; 1.19 MB)

IHT China: The pretend superpower
By WILLIAM PFAFF / TMS How can China dream of rivaling the West without its lost creativity?

Interview With Sen. John Warner

Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:

Allawi's Muscle: The CIA-Controlled Iraqi National Intelligence Service

Tony Karon Maliki’s Fate and America’s

Pentagon launching Iraq ‘war room.’

Top Ten Results from the 2007 Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Top 3 Upcoming Challenges to the Nonproliferation Regime

Top 3 Best New Policy Proposals

Top 4 High Impact Ideas to Implement by 2010 Press Release + Full Document (PDF; 70 KB)

U.S. National Security and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century
Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Measuring the Efficacy of Leaders to Assess Information and Make Decisions in a Crisis: The C-LEAD Scale Source: Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Faculty Research Working Paper Series Full Paper (PDF; 523 KB)

Jerusalem Post Security and Defense: Peace and disquiet By YAAKOV KATZ
Tensions are high in the defense establishment about the imminence of all-out war.

Column One: The rise of the fantasists [ CAROLINE GLICK ,

First Word: Can the new peace push work? [ EFRAIM HALEVY

Financial Times COMMENT: Iraq's would-be champion The Islamist Shia leader is positioning himself for power but is he ready for it yet, asks David Gardner

LEADER: Markets need a bit more backbone For healthy returns in the long run, and to avoid a bigger crash in the future, investors need to feel some pain rather than calling for the nearest ambulance

BBC Georgia fires at 'Russian plane' Georgia opens fire on an aircraft believed to be Russian after it violates its airspace, officials say.

Azerbaijan's suitors -- EU, US, Russia and...Iran New Europe

EurasiaNet Iran-Azerbaijan Summit: "Brotherly" Feelings, Without Results

Guardian Moscow flexes military muscle Bombers and tanks too old to worry cold war rivals.

Leader Sarkozy supreme France: For all his energy, Mr Sarkozy has not yet convinced the French of the wisdom of his reforms..

Sarkozy Pushes Mediterranean Union By: Nicole Itano | The Christian Science Monitor The deep blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea connect three continents and 21 countries with a combined population of more than 400 million. But can this vast and diverse region – with Christians, Muslims, and Jews; Africans, Europeans, and Arabs – operate as a coherent political entity?

CIA said to step up operations against Iran as hawks seek to tie Iraq bombs to Tehran

Wall Street Journal Georgia on His Mind The former Soviet republic is becoming a shining star. But will Russia drag it back into darkness?
By MELIK KAYLAN

A Fatwa Against Violence Top Sunni and Shia clerics look toward reconciliation. By ROBERT MCFARLANE

Asia Times The new 'NATO of the East' takes shapeThe recent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization moved the grouping a few steps closer to becoming a "supra-regional alliance". That was underscored by Russia's simultaneous flexing of its dormant air power. Washington still believes that the SCO is some way from becoming a strategic alliance and that there is still time to weaken it before an opposition bloc actually takes shape. - M K Bhadrakumar

US 'Poised to Strike Iran'

Al Awsat A Crisis in Pan-Arabism's Beating Heart : Mshari Al-Zaydi
The recent Saudi-Syrian ‘dispute’ has reshuffled the cards; scattering some,

Syria Attacks Saudi Arabia to Reaffirm Its Control of Lebanon : Huda al Husseini

Daily Star Why does Egypt choose to stoop so low?
By Rami G. Khouri

Time to put away the conspiracy theories and assume responsibility
By The Daily Star

RFE/RL Life At The End Of The Line For 14 years, railway cars have served as homes for Azerbaijanis displaced by Nagorno-Karabakh

Independent Robert Fisk: Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11

Biden: Ethnic cleansing a legitimate US policy tool

Russia vs Georgia: a war of perceptions, Donald Rayfield An intimate past and bitter present make amity hard but separation impossible

Immanuel Wallerstein RIP: Nonproliferation

Time How Washington Missed 9/11 By ROBERT BAER

The Next War in Iraq. (Commentary)
The final outcome will depend on the Shi'ites fighting it out. There's little the U.S. can do but stand by By JOE KLEIN

Pakistan's New Odd Couple? His political survival at stake, a crucial U.S. ally in the war on terrorism is forced to contemplate a deal doomed to fail

Newsweek Hirsh: Vietnam Withdrawal Was a Success

Cole Bush's Napoleonic Folly

Djerejian What's Really "Inexcusable" Here?

Los Angeles Times Editorial The cold rush The Bush administration's hostility to treaties has backfired in the Arctic. Who will control the North Pole?

Six years later, we're still vulnerable By Amy Zegart The CIA's desclassified report on the 9/11 breakdown shouldn't fool anyone: Our intelligence agencies still need a lot of fixing

U.S. troops mired in morale issues Many soldiers are increasingly disdainful of the talk that they say commanders on the ground and White House officials use.

H2 FT WORLD NEWS: Gul kept waiting in bid to be Turkish president

Dünyada Çankaya yorumları

Ha’aretz Turkey angered by new ADL stance on Armenian 'genocide'

Bir çatlak ses de AJC'den

Armenians pressure US Jewish groups on genocide claim

Turkey looks to Israel to influence Jewish lobby

Jerusalem Post 'We have a duty to tell the truth' Nazi hunter Zuroff: Armenian massacre must be recognized as genocide.

Soykırım siyasete alet edilmemeli Evan R. Goldstein

David Harris Armenians, Turks and Jews

Turkey's Gul Set to Win Presidency Next Week

Turkish parliament deadlocked over president

ADL geri adım atmıyor, aksine ileri adıma hazırlanıyor

ADL Başkanı'ndan Erdoğan'a mektup

Lobiden özür mektubu

Bryza 'Karını sustur' demezler herhalde

AKP'nin Zaferi Ortadoğu'da Nasıl Yorumlanıyor

'Bir daha asla' sloganı ne kadar samimi? Jeff Jacoby

ADL corrects ‘genocide’ mistake in letter, Erdoğan says

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Kürtçe seçmeli ders olabilecek

Jerusalem Post Iranian Kurdish guerrilla seeking secular democracy
[ JAMES MARTIN, SPECIAL TO THE JERUSALEM POST

Lunch with Komala Jerusalem Post

İran'ın 'top ateşi'ne tepki
Kuzey Iraklı Kürtler, Kandil dağı yakınlarında sınır bölgesini top ateşine tutmakla suçladıkları İran'ın, yüzlerce insanı evinden kaçmak zorunda bıraktığını söylüyor. İran'dan yorum gelmedi.

Baydemir'e genel başkanlık teklifi

Iraqi Kurdish Article Explores Background to Article 140 Impasse

Turkish Moves on PKK Rebels in Iraq Tied to US-Al-Qa'Idah War - Kurdish Writer

If Kurdistan is the new front for al-Qaeda Journal Chrétien

İran’dan Kandil'e büyük operasyon

Gül'den Talabani'ye ilk sinyal: Irak Cumhurbaşkanı muhataptır

Türkiye ve Iran, Dicle ve Fırat sularının adil dağıtımını engelliyor

Öcalan: Barzani PKK'yi yem olarak kullanmaktan vazgeçmelidir

Gül lends support to Iran’s anti-PEJAK operation in Iraq

Gül Talabani'ye kapıyı açacak

ABD: Türkiye ve Irak'la beraber çalışıyoruz

Kuzey Irak'ta İran operasyonundan kaçış

DTP'den arabulucuk istedi

DTP’den IKDP’ye ziyaret

Ankara fails to convince Sunni leader to join gov’t

Talabani’ye davete şartlı evet

Iraq's Kurdish region struggles with power shortages

Cengiz Candar: I can’t rule out a military incursion into Iraq ... - Turquie Européenne

İlnur Çevik Turkey wants Iraq to remain united

Ankara: Irak'ın bölünmesi çözüm değil, felaket getirir

Washington frustration on Baghdad that leads to nowhere...
Cengiz ÇANDAR

''İran ile Türkiye, Irak Kürdlerinin kendi Kürdlerine saldırmasını istiyor''

Kurdistan setting own course on oil; Not waiting for Baghdad to ...

[Yorum - Prof. Dr. John L. Esposito] İslam'ın terörü reddettiğini Batı görmüyor

Güleryüz: ADL does not speak for entire Jewish lobby in US

Yahudi toplumunda destek de var eleştiri de

Şırnak'ta 2 güvenlik görevlisi şehit

Teröristler askeri kurumlara saldıracaklardı

ABD: "Türkiye çıkarları için önlem alacak"

Subay kızı, Kürt gencine aşkının romanını yazdı

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

The way forward in Cyprus Semih İDİZ

Mensur Akgün Friedrich Ebert Vakfının iyi editörlere ihtiyacı var

Talat:Türk ve Rum halkının birbirine güveni dibe vurdu

US Undersecretary of State to visit Cyprus

Ata Atun Talat-Papadopoulos meeting has no future

Greek Orthodox patriarch testifies before court

Türk senatör ölüm tehditleri alıyor

Anti-Defamation League extends support to Turkey's proposal to convene a joint commission

Independent Top US Jewish group recognises genocide of 1.5 million Armenians

Türk senatöre tehdit yağıyor

Bianet :: Mesrob II isnt French, a Turkish Citizen

Ege Cansen Otogarlar

Zaman’a yeni dönem makyajı

Küresel ısınma bahane Türkiye'nin ambarını şekerpancarı kuruttu

'Denizden de eksik kalsınlar yani'
Perihan Mağden

İstanbul’un 10 ilçesinde 2 gün su yok

"Gökçek'e yanlış bilgi" gerekçesi iki bürokratı yaktı

'Denizcilikteki görev ve yetki çatışması kaldırılmalı'

Meral TAMER Kaldırımlar işportacıya yasak, otolara serbest!

Bir grup partili CHP Antalya il başkanını dövdü

Şirin: Asılsız ihbar Kasımpaşa'dan

Yaman TÖRÜNER Jak Kamhi

Hayrünnisa Gül için 'Atıl' imzalı dört kreasyon

[Faruk Saraç] Başörtüsünü magazinleştirmenin bir anlamı yok

Four years of war that aged the world Allan Massie reviews World War One: a Short History by Norman Stone

Washington Post Pirates of the Mediterranean : Sailing the Coast of Turkey Can Seduce the Most Serious

The irony of work permits in Turkey - Turkish Daily News Aug 24, 2007

Baltacı, Rusların yenildiğini fark etmemiş

H3 Sosyal projelere öncelik Başbakan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan başkanlığında kurulacak olan 60’ıncı hükümetin programı netleşmeye başladı. Sosyal projeleri öne çıkaran bir anlayışya hazırlanan program, demokrasiyi, bireysel hak ve özgürlükleri geliştirmeyi hedefliyor.

Seçim sonrası en kapsamlı anket

Taha AKYOL Paşam, sizi alkışlıyorum

Fikret BİLA Erdoğan'dan Peres'e: Ödüllerini geri veririm

Enis Berberoğlu Bahçeli: Sürekli gerginlik olmaz

Gül oldu gibi

Türbanlı öğrenciye üniversite yolu açılıyor

Türban formülü

İbadete yeni düzen Yeni anayasada 'laikliğe uygunluk' yerine 'kamu düzeni ve genel ahlak' koşulu öngörülüyor

Taslakta türban rötuşu

Türbana ilk adım

Gül'ün ilk konuğu Talabani olabilir mi? Murat Yetkin

Serdar Turgut Türkiye-İsrail ve İran

İkinci turun ardından akılda kalan 7 soru

Hasan CEMAL Yetti, kabak tadı verdi!

Türkiye yine hata yapıyor İsmet Berkan

Kamhi: 'Soykırım' kararı büyük haksızlık

Aydınlık 'Jak Kamhi Cumhuriyeti'

Sami KOHEN Gene şu soykırım sorunu...

Sencer AYATA CHP, geçmişte değiştiği için ayakta kalabildi

Baykal: AKP’nin yargıya müdahale planı ortaya çıktı

Dışişleri töhmet altında M.Ali Kışlalı

The secularization of the AKP?
BARÇIN YİNANÇ

Gül’ü Anayasal zırhla koruyacaklar

AK Party seeks consensus on new constitution

Cengiz Çandar

Türbanı komutanlara soracak

Baykal ‘Türkiye üzerinde hesabı olanlar için fırsat doğacak’

Can Ataklı Skandal büyüyor muhalefet korkuyor

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ

M. Ali BİRAND Ya değiş veya kabul et...

Semih İDİZ AKP hükümeti antisemitizm ile mücadele etmek zorunda

Barçın Yinanç Perez, Musevilerle ilişkileri düzeltebilir

Ahmet Taşgetiren 100 binlik liste ve ötesi...

Son 'sirkat' konusu Murat Belge

Şahin Alpay Halaçoğlu "maalesef" ırkçılık yapıyor

‘Dönme listesi’ çıkışı tesadüf mü?

'Dönme listesi imha edilsin'

Arslan Bulut Hain Kanco'nun torunu, hangi siyasi partinin genel başkanı?

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 Değişen tavır

Fehmi Koru İkinci turun ardından...

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Peki bu feryat niye? Nedir bu hazımsızlık?

HAKAN ALBAYRAK Siyonistler, Yahudi Soykırımı'na hizmet etti!

President of moderate Islamby MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE

Can Dündar Liste

AKP yanlısı basının toplu linç korosu

Ertuğrul Özkök Biat farz mıdır sünnet mi

Ahmet Hakan

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt Ülsever

Oktay Ekşi Son bir kale daha gitti

Tufan Türenç Yüz yıl önce bir genç subayın ortaya attığı tez

Mehmet Yılmaz Sezer’in oluşturduğu gelenek sürecek mi?

Özdemirİnce Laiklik nedir?

Yılmaz Özdil Sezer’den kurtulmaya 4 gün falan kaldı...

Yalçın bayer AKP nasıl başardı?

Pure, honest, 100% Tayyip Erdoğan
Burak BEKDİL

Yusuf KANLI Fears and the Pollyanna game

İsmail Küçükkaya Gül’den Türkçe mesajı...

[HABER İZLENİM] Gül'e 'Sayın cumhurbaşkanım' diye hitap ettiler

ERDAL ŞAFAK Sezer'in veda turları

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Attila İlhan casus muydu?..

NAZLI ILICAK "Özde" laik, "sözde" demokrat

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Anavatan'lı başkanlar DSP'ye mi geçiyor?

YAVUZ DONAT Çölaşan'ın duygu dünyası

Bahçeli: CHP bizi ilgilendirmez, yemin törenine katılacağız

Demokrasiyi hazmedememek
Erol Katırcıoğlu

'Gül tam zamanında Köşk'e çıkıyor'
Funda Özkan

Nabi Yağcı Küresel düşün, yerel davran

Mahir Kaynak Strateji

Ayşe Önal Stratejizm

Baykal: Gül'ü içime sindiremiyorum

Yukiko'nun milyonları 60 yaşındaki Japon ev kadını Yukiko İkebe, 'carry trade' sayesinde kazandığı servetle, dünya para piyasasına parmak ısırttı.

Erdal Sağlam Merkez Bankası iki çapayı geri istiyor

Güven Sak Ölüm bonoları ve bebek patlaması kuşağı

Turkish investment in innovation lags well behind its global competitors

Metin MÜNİR Subprime: Bir açgözlülük, çakallık ve korku öyküsü

Deniz Gökçe Bursa da değişimden payını aldı!

MELİHA OKUR Sat seneti al likiditeyi!

In Air Attack, U.S. Soldiers Kill 18 Gunmen

H5 Washington Post No Major Shifts Planned on Iraq White House unlikely to change course after mid-Sept. report from U.S. commanders in region.

General Warns Against Pullout Move Would Be 'Step Backwards' for Central Iraq, He Says

Waste Mars Iraq Reconstruction U.S. military effort to rebuild country is marked by inefficiency and vulnerable to corruption.

U.S. Terror Suspect List Produces Few Arrests New details about database that flags Americans and foreigners as potential terrorists raise concerns about its efficacy and impact on privacy

A New Intelligence Network With a Consumer Feel Government agents may soon find valuable information through an online-recommendation system like the one on Amazon.com: Spies who read this report, it might say, also found these reports useful.

The Work Behind Our Iraq Views By Michael O'Hanlon Information from a war zone is difficult to attain and interpretation is open to many views.

3 Secular Iraqis in Cabinet to Formally Resign Although the announcement was widely expected, the move further damages any chance of reconciliation among Iraq's rival political factions in the near future

Swiss Supreme Court: Yukos Case Is 'Political'

Ruling undermines Russia's efforts to portray the case against Yukos, whose assets were auctioned off and largely bought by state oil firm

Editorial Eye on the Homeland A plan to use spy satellites for domestic purposes needs to be carefully managed.

Editorial Justice for an 'Enemy Combatant'

The case of a legal U.S. resident held without charge returns to federal court

Clinton's Democratic Rivals Denounce Terrorism Remark

Brzezinski Backs Obama

Three British Soldiers Killed by Friendly Fire U.S. Bomb in Afghanistan Injures Two Others

H6 Guardian Three British troops killed by US jet Urgent investigation under way into why a US fighter plane dropped a 500lb bomb onto soldiers from the Royal Anglian Regiment, killing three and seriously wounding two.

Blue on blue deaths raise tough questions for MoD

Strategy that fails to win hearts and minds

Moscow flexes military muscle Bombers and tanks too old to worry cold war rivals.

Leader Sarkozy supreme France: For all his energy, Mr Sarkozy has not yet convinced the French of the wisdom of his reforms..

Sarkozy's test is yet to come

Jonathan Fenby The first 100 days in office have been all too easy for the French president. But having made it through the foothills, he still has a mountain to climb.

Iranian police enforce Islamic dress code · Hairdressers closed in latest phase of crackdown · Arrested men forced to get acceptable styles

What's wrong with TV? When Blair called the media 'feral beasts', the industry ignored him. But television faces a crisis, argues Jeremy Paxman, and must recover a sense of purpose.

H7 France Knocks Heads Over Its Iran Diplomacy By: Kaveh L. Afrasiabi | Asia Times French President Nicolas Sarkozy's anti-Iran stance and his own country's nuclear-arms modernization push are a contradiction that could backfire

From Asia Times, 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.

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

Seizing American supremacy: Throughout history, rising powers have overtaken superpowers. The United States will not prove an exception

From The Globalist, an article on U.S. foreign policy and the Arab world: Why is it in the United States' interest to fundamentally re-evaluate its engagement with the Arab world?

How have U.S. missteps in the Arab world augmented anti-Americanism?

Will the United States learn from its mistakes in the Arab world?

Al Hayat The Coming Change in Iraq Raghida Dergham - A change is coming through measures within the government and via the four-party alliance that supports the government and is working with it to give it more time.

A Nuclear-Armed Iran Would Not Be Good - Greg Sheridan (The Australian)

Al Awsat A Crisis in Pan-Arabism's Beating Heart : Mshari Al-Zaydi
The recent Saudi-Syrian ‘dispute’ has reshuffled the cards; scattering some,

Syria Attacks Saudi Arabia to Reaffirm Its Control of Lebanon : Huda al Husseini

Daily Star Why does Egypt choose to stoop so low?
By Rami G. Khouri

Time to put away the conspiracy theories and assume responsibility
By The Daily Star

OxAn IRAN: Conventional military forces rely on deterrence

CFR Religion and Foreign Policy

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

US Papers Sat: Generals Debate Troop Cuts

BBC Iraq exit strategy
Key options for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq

US Iraq withdrawal 'a step back'

A US commander in Iraq warns against early troop withdrawals, despite growing calls for a pullout.

Gen. Pace 'Won't Urge Troop Cut'

Baghdad Embassy-Fortress Nearly Built

Warner's Iraq Proposal Roils White House

Intelligence Report at Odds With US Policies on Iraq

General: Iran Operatives Step Up Flow of Weapons and Training to Iraq

Gen. Lynch 'Actively Targeting' Iranian Forces in Iraq

Lobe AEI Sets Launch for All-or-Nothing Campaign on Iraq

Iraqi trial rekindles Shiite anger toward U.S.

Al Awsat A Crisis in Pan-Arabism's Beating Heart : Mshari Al-Zaydi
The recent Saudi-Syrian ‘dispute’ has reshuffled the cards; scattering some,

Syria Attacks Saudi Arabia to Reaffirm Its Control of Lebanon : Huda al Husseini

Daily Star Why does Egypt choose to stoop so low?
By Rami G. Khouri

Time to put away the conspiracy theories and assume responsibility
By The Daily Star

Aug 24 SD# 1696 - Jordanian Parliamentary Speaker: Iran's Intervention in Iraq – Product of Historical Conflict Between Arabs and Persians

Report: US trains Saudi oil security

Saudi intellectuals appeal to king to release activists
Intellectuals make rare public appeal to release reformists said to have been falsely accused of financing terrorism.

Growing Pains for Democracy in Yemen By: Martin Fuchs | ISN Security Watch
The view of Yemen as a safe-haven for terrorists has overshadowed recent moves in that country's struggle in the search for democracy.

Economic Performance Of the Arabic Book Translation Industry in Arab Countries (PDF; 287 KB)

H9 Ha’aretz – Bradley Burston: Let Arabs tell the truth

IDF Prepares for Future Threats - Amir Oren

Rosner: The war over the American pro-Israel lobby, redux

Ex-Arab Israeli lawmaker: Now Hezbollah is stronger than ever

UN votes to extend UNIFIL mandate in southern Lebanon

Hamas cracks down on Fatah, detains journalists in Gaza rally

Jerusalem Post Security and Defense: Peace and disquiet By YAAKOV KATZ
Tensions are high in the defense establishment about the imminence of all-out war.

Column One: The rise of the fantasists
[ CAROLINE GLICK ,

First Word: Can the new peace push work? [ EFRAIM HALEVY

Planning Israel 60th: Two anti-Zionists
[ MATTHEW WAGNER

Haniyeh's spokesman quits citing Hamas policy

Local Jihad leader killed

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

Forward GENETICS: In the Forward’s special section on Genetics: a look at new research that shows that Jews around the world really are family; an interview with the author of a book who is taking a politically incorrect look at the nexus of genes and Jewish identity; and the latest on Jewish genetic diseases and the search for cures. Read More

Bush Administration Ignores Mossad-Al Qaeda Terrorist Link

Washington Post A Crisis of Conscience Over Refugees in Israel Decision to Refuse Sudanese Asylum-Seekers Raises Difficult Questions of National Identity

The Gaza Dilemma By: Frida Ghitis | Miami Herald Just when life looked like it could not get any worse for the people of Gaza, the lights went out. As occurs with just about everything else in the Middle East, the problem boiled down to politics.

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Boston Globe Challenging the UN's darker side

(By Hillel C. Neuer)

GENEVA UNITED NATIONS Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, now eight months in office, is proving that his courteous manner should not be mistaken for lack of resolve. The Korean diplomat's administration has spoken out for the victims of Darfur, confronted Sri Lanka over the killings of aid workers, and acted to establish the international tribunal on the assassination of former prime ...

ASIA

IHT China: The pretend superpower
By WILLIAM PFAFF / TMS How can China dream of rivaling the West without its lost creativity?

Guardian 'A holocaust, one where millions disappeared ...'
Indian author says that British reprisals involved the killing of 10 million people, spread over 10 years.

WSJ On the Silk Road AgainNew drivers in China are embracing the road trip and traveling one of the country's ancient routes. Map | Video | Photos

Boston Globe Editorial Beijing's hazy spotlight

WHEN THE world fixes its gaze upon China next August, it will probably be through a smoggy lens. With the 2008 summer Olympics less than a year away, China is just starting to deal with the heavy pollution in its host city, Beijing.

Musharraf Down, But Far From Out By: Syed Saleem Shahzad | Asia Times
With former prime minister Nawaz Sharif being allowed to return to Pakistan after seven years in exile, many see a renewed threat to the military rule of President General Pervez Musharraf. It's not that simple.

INDIA AND JAPAN REACH OUT
'Confluence of the two seas'
Taking full advantage this week of the rare honor of being allowed to address both houses of the Indian Parliament, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe waxed lyrical about the potential of the relationship between the countries. His words were not merely sweet on the ear, the momentum has been established for both sides to take full advantage of strategic and business opportunities. - Purnendra Jain

What are friends for ... ? Delhi needs Tokyo's support in the international community before the nuclear agreement between India and the United States can fly. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, despite pressure from his hosts during his trip to India, is hedging his bets. Japanese business people are not as coy; their checkbooks are ready to help India with its nuclear energy program. - Sudha Ramachandran

H11 IHT China: The pretend superpower
By WILLIAM PFAFF / TMS How can China dream of rivaling the West without its lost creativity?

Ahead of trip to Asia, Germany's Merkel rated most popular midterm chancellor ever

EUROPE European press review

Sarkozy as American manqué: in the normal run of things, his family – Greek Jews, minor Hungarian nobility – would have kept going west to New York... more»

Fires prompt Greek appeal to EU Greece asks the European Union for assistance as wildfires, which have killed 19, blaze out of control.

Greek forest fires rage leaving 15 dead Amongst those killed were two French tourists and three hotel staff who went onto a mountainside to look for them

H12 RFE/RL Life At The End Of The Line For 14 years, railway cars have served as homes for Azerbaijanis displaced by Nagorno-Karabakh

Government Threatens To Halt Major Oil Venture Analysts do not exclude that the Eni-led consortium could lose control of the Kashagan oil-field project. ... more

BBC Georgia fires at 'Russian plane' Georgia opens fire on an aircraft believed to be Russian after it violates its airspace, officials say.

Asia Times The new 'NATO of the East' takes shapeThe recent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization moved the grouping a few steps closer to becoming a "supra-regional alliance". That was underscored by Russia's simultaneous flexing of its dormant air power. Washington still believes that the SCO is some way from becoming a strategic alliance and that there is still time to weaken it before an opposition bloc actually takes shape. - M K Bhadrakumar

Central Asian military exercises highlight rising great-power tensions
World Socialist Web

EurasiaNet Iran-Azerbaijan Summit: "Brotherly" Feelings, Without Results

Google News Azerbaijan

Democracy With a Kazakh Twist By: Nikolai Petrov | The Moscow Times
With the recent parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan, which President Nursultan Nazarbayev called "the final act of constitutional reform and a reference point for the new political history of Kazakhstan," any distinctions between Kazakhstan's political system and those of its neighbors have become a thing of the past.

Despite Turmoil, Ukrainian Economy Roars By: Jason Bush | Der Spiegel
Despite a major power struggle among its top politicians, economic growth in Ukraine is roaring. Foreign investments are pouring in and the economy grew by 8 percent in the first half of 2007.

EurasiaNet Uzbekistan: Potential Turmoil Lurks Behind a Stable Facade BY DEIRDRE TYNAN
A newly issued report prepared by the Brussels-based International Crisis Group contends that Uzbekistan is vulnerable to political turmoil, adding that instability in Central Asia’s most populous state could create a region-wide humanitarian crisis

H13 The Times US kills British troops in Afghanistan blunder A single 500lb bomb killed three soldiers from the Royal Anglian Regiment in the worst 'friendly-fire' incident since 1991

'They fire first and think later,' say British soldiers

Friendly fire - a reality, not just a euphemism

US friendly fire: a long history

Baghdad out of energy amid scorching heat

The citizens of Baghdad face another horror this summer: temperatures regularly exceeding 52C with no electricity or water

Leader Brainpower

Biofuels won’t break our addiction to oil, but they are a start

Wall Street Journal Georgia on His Mind The former Soviet republic is becoming a shining star. But will Russia drag it back into darkness?
By MELIK KAYLAN

A Fatwa Against Violence
Top Sunni and Shia clerics look toward reconciliation.
By ROBERT MCFARLANE

'To Old Times' Peggy Noonan on the impressions made by our soldiers on the Iraqi people as compared to the impressions the U.S. soldiers left in France following the Normandy invasion. By PEGGY NOONAN

FairTax, Flawed Tax Does adding 30% to the price of every house sold sound like a good idea to you? By BRUCE BARTLETT

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: Iraq's would-be champion The Islamist Shia leader is positioning himself for power but is he ready for it yet, asks David Gardner

LEADER: Markets need a bit more backbone For healthy returns in the long run, and to avoid a bigger crash in the future, investors need to feel some pain rather than calling for the nearest ambulance

Markets seek break from volatility Humanity trumps economic principles

General warns on risks of early pull-out ‘Giant step backwards’ in Iraq

WORLD NEWS: Observers puzzle over comparison to Vietnam

WORLD NEWS: Islamists under fire draft first political programme The Muslim Brotherhood says more than 500 members are now held after a fresh crackdown by the Egyptian government against the main opposition

Russia cuts oil supplies to Germany

Russia has made significant cuts to oil supplies sent to German refineries recently, rekindling concerns in Germany over the reliability of Russian energy supplies

Undercover Economist: Price fighters

WORLD NEWS: Pakistan power-sharing threatened

WORLD NEWS: Self-absorbed Sarkozy revealed by embedded celebrity author

Doubts over French growth optimism

Prospect of slower than expected economic growth is raising serious doubts over the ambitious reform programme being planned by President Nicolas Sarkozy

Eurozone feels effects of turmoil The eurozone’s economic recovery show signs of losing momentum while global financial turmoil is already taking its toll on the services sector, a closely watched survey has suggested

Russia warns on Strauss-Kahn skills IMF candidate’s qualifications attacked

Sharif threatens Musharraf power deal Military leader calls for ‘forgiving’

Green focus in Merkel’s policy package

The German government unveils a hefty, and potentially costly, programme of measures that focus on the environment and social windfalls of economic recovery

MARKET NEWS AND COMMENT: Gloom lifts from carry trades

MARKETS AND INVESTING: Reasoning not best-suited to a looming crisis

It has become apparent that reasoning is not best suited to a looming crisis, writes Francesco Guerrera

LEADER: Monolingual UK

Educationalists should resist the temptation to lecture businesses on the skills they require and trust industry to make rational economic decisions for themselves

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial The cold rush The Bush administration's hostility to treaties has backfired in the Arctic. Who will control the North Pole?

Six years later, we're still vulnerable By Amy Zegart The CIA's desclassified report on the 9/11 breakdown shouldn't fool anyone: Our intelligence agencies still need a lot of fixing

Next invasion: Vietnam? Rosa Brooks: Following the president's logic, our best move is to repeat a huge mistake.

In Iran, living in the moment Vacationing families put a dent in their gas rations, raising fears of chaos when the initial six-month allotments are depleted.

Major Jewish group recognizes Armenian genocide

No thanks, and keep your farm aid

Joel Stein Taking a stand against U.S. subsidies that help cripple Third World economies.

No easy solutions in Mideast documentary 'Blood and Tears'

H16 American Politics

Janine Zacharia / Bloomberg:

Brzezinski Embraces Obama Over Clinton for President

HILL: TERROR WOULD BE GOP BOOST — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday raised the prospect of a terror attack before next year's election, warning that it could boost the GOP's efforts to hold on to the White House.

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

H17 Daily Telegraph Leader Our Boys are not fighting clean wars Gordon Brown appears to want our troops out of the dirty war in Iraq and into the clean war in Afghanistan. Vicki Woods does not believe either of Blair's wars are clean.

Strategists back Bush in Iraq

Democrat figures now demonised for speaking out.

Our Boys are not fighting clean wars

Gordon Brown appears to want our troops out of the dirty war in Iraq and into the clean war in Afghanistan. Vicki Woods does not believe either of Blair's wars are clean.

Basque militants attack holiday homes

Outsiders have had their houses burned down and their vehicles' tyres slashed.

H18 Independent Robert Fisk: Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11

Tensions rise after three UK soldiers killed in US airstrike

Three British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in a "friendly fire" attack by American aircraft while involved in a clash with the Taliban

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

The Terrorism Index
Source: Foreign Policy and the Center for American Progress Report with full graphs (PDF; 1.7 MB)
+ Complete survey results (PDF; 530 KB)
+ Timeseries: view results across the three surveys (PDF; 14 KB)
+ Methodology
+ Survey participants

The Changing Challenges of US Defense Spending: An Update
Source: Center for Strategic & International StudiesFull Report (PDF; 574 KB)

Amitai Etzioni on why terrorists are neither criminals nor soldiers.

A review of The Al Qaeda Reader, ed. Raymond Ibrahim.

No Checks for Bombs in Certified Air Cargo By: Charlie Savage | The Boston Globe
The Bush administration is planning to allow cargo packed by approved shippers to be loaded onto passenger airplanes without any further inspection for bombs, despite a new law requiring freight shipments to receive the same level of scrutiny as checked suitcases

The Raw Story | Author claims US invasion of Iraq 'fulfilled Osama ...

Govt Agencies See Ammo Shortages as Military Goes Through Estimated Billion Bullets a Year

Hey, you never hear about the planes that didn't crash into the World Trade Center...
Bonnie Goldstein

U.S. Administration Pushes UNCLOS By: Peter Buxbaum | ISN Security Watch
Washington says that signing on to the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea will give the US more power in the war on terror, but some question at what expense.

World Faces Threat From New Deadly Diseases Say Experts By: Polly Curtis | The Guardian
The world will face a new deadly threat on the scale of Aids, Sars and Ebola within a decade, the world's leading authority on health said yesterday, as it warned that diseases were spreading more quickly than at any time in history.

From Darfur to Sinai to Kashmir: Legalization and Ethno-Religious Conflicts
Source: Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

H21 Four years of war that aged the world Allan Massie reviews World War One: a Short History by Norman Stone

The genius of humanity is to establish an identity which lies at an ever-increasing distance from our organic nature. Technology can help us in this. Be not afraid... more»

Paxman takes aim at BBC and 24-hour news culture

24-hour television news culture prizes emotion over reasoned argument and live reportage over uncovering stories, claims presenter.

Full text of the speech (pdf)

From TLS, a review of Diary of a Bad Year and Inner Workings: Essays 2000–2005 by J. M. Coetzee

COMMENT: How the Stones get a bigger bang from your buck

WSJ Hard Rock on 'Distressed' Guitars

As the market for real vintage guitars has skyrocketed far beyond the reach of average collectors, sales of "relic" models -- new instruments deliberately aged to simulate rock-and-roll wear and tear -- have taken off.

BOB HERBERT Jammin’ With Gabriel Jazz no longer commands the attention it once did, and many of its greatest practitioners have slipped into the realm of the forgotten.

New Machine Prints Books on Demand for $3

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