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30 August 2007
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H1 New York Times White House Is Gaining Confidence It Can Win Fight in Congress Over Iraq Policy

Washington Post Report Finds Little Progress On Iraq Goals GAO Draft at Odds With White House

Sadr Orders 'Freeze' on Militia Actions Iraqi Cleric's Edict Comes After Killings At Shiite Festival

Bush's Lost Iraqi Election By David Ignatius, The CIA had a plan to counter Iran's meddling in the 2005 vote, but Washington blinked.

NYT Sadr Suspends Militia’s Military Operations The surprise declaration was widely taken as a tacit acknowledgment of the damage done to the Mahdi Army’s reputation by two days of Shiite in-fighting.

MCClatchy Maliki: I won't resign, can't be forced out In a 50-minute interview Maliki strongly defended his tenure and said that he doesn't expect to be forced out. He said his efforts at national reconciliation, not the surge of additional U.S. troops or actions by Iraqi security forces, are responsible for improved security

WP Musharraf Agrees to Resign as Army Chief Step by Pakistani President Is Part of Deal With Political Rival Benazir Bhutto

Asia Times New steps in the war dance over Iran In an almost choreographed tango Bush and Sarkozy have lashed out at Iran, both warning of dire consequences over its supposed pursuit of nuclear weapons. The International Atomic Energy Association, meanwhile, is much more sanguine over Tehran's nuclear progress, but it is not the one calling the shots in what Sarkozy labels a looming clash between Islam and the West. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

The Times Despite the rhetoric, Iran is amenable The puzzle is why the US imagines that Iranian involvement in Iraq will melt away if it protests angrily Bronwen Maddox

Leader Iran’s Choice Tehran’s meddling is a threat to the region

RFE/RL Putin May Go, But Can 'Putinism' Survive? Analysts say there is a question even more important than who is president after Vladimir Putin -- and that's what comes after him.

Slate Should We Be Worried About Russia and China Ganging Up on the West? Probably not. Here's why. Ian Bremmer

Sorry, Mr. President, You're All Out of Troops But maybe France can help solve the Iraq mess. Fred Kaplan

NYT Editorial Abu Ghraib Swept Under the Carpet The need to be honest about Abu Ghraib and correct the abuses at military and C.I.A. prisons is not only about upholding the law and American values

Study: Troops Could Leave With Little Risk

CAP How to Redeploy: Implementing a Responsible Drawdown of U.S. Forces from Iraq Read the full report (PDF)

IHT A November deadline for Mideast peace The Bush end game is going to see a push for a resolution of the mother of all conflicts. By Roger Cohen

Christian Science Monitor Opinion: Four views on Islam and the state Can Islam support a secular, democratic government?

GAO: Little progress on Iraq goals 13 of 18 benchmarks to measure surge of troops are unfulfilled.

Financial Times Editorial LEADER: European muscle More bang for Europe’s buck Nicolas Sarkozy should be applauded for making a coherent foreign and security policy one of the main purposes of the French EU presidency

COMMENT: Sarkozy can bring us 'la strategic revolution' Others think we French are arrogant, but we are barely aware of our economic potential, writes Laurence Parisot

Wall Street Journal BERNANKE IS SHOWING signs of a break with Greenspan by distinguishing between the Fed's two main roles of maintaining financial and economic stability

Mahdi Militia Stymies U.S. Security PushU.S. commanders say the Mahdi Army increasingly is interfering with their effort to build a capable Iraqi security force and government

American Conservative Can We Win the Ideological War? - America has ideals; bin Laden has goals.Pat Buchanan

Why We Need a Draft - Cpl. Mark Finelli, Newsweek

NY Sun Walt/Mearsheimer Review 2 Professors Fail To Clean Up Their Act By IRA STOLL

stratfor geopolitical diary Move and Countermove: Ahmadinejad and Bush Duel

Geopolitical Diary: Iraq's Fractional Step

US Analysts See Sadr Move Aimed at Mahdi Army Rogues

UPI Commentary: The next war? After a brief interruption of his New Hampshire vacation to meet President Bush in the family compound at Kennebunkport, Maine, French President Nicolas Sarkozy came away convinced his U.S. counterpart is serious about bombing Iran's secret nuclear facilities. That's the reading as it filtered back to Europe's foreign ministries. By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE

Asia Times Bush's brand-new poodle With former British prime minister Tony Blair put out to new pastures, US President George W Bush has a newer, leaner, meaner, adrenaline-packed "Made in France" version of his favorite ally in all things "war on terror". President Nicolas Sarkozy has wasted no time in joining the demonize-Iran campaign, and is taking trans-Atlantic entente to new levels. - Pepe Escobar

Israel urged US to attack Iran - not Iraq Once US intentions to invade Iraq became clear, alarmed Israeli officials made it abundantly clear to the Bush administration that Iraq was not the enemy - Iran was. The neo-conservatives would not hear of it, despite also being warned of severe destabilization of the region should Iraq be attacked. - Gareth Porter

Congressional Research Service "Diplomacy for the 21st Century: Transformational Diplomacy," August 23, 2007.

BBC Squaring up
Will US and Iranian brinkmanship lead to military strikes?

Guardian Beyond the bravado Martin Woollacott It would be foolish to discount the dangers of a clash between the US and Iran, but they are more remote than the words of their leaders would suggest.

Wrong-footed at every turn

Dilip Hiro George Bush's policy on Iraq and the Middle East is full of contradictions, particularly where Iran is concerned.

Ha’aretz Editorial A realist at the Elysee Palace Sarkozy's election stirred expectations in Israel for a change in French foreign policy, one that would be characterized by closer ties with Washington and a lessening in the tensions between Israel and the European Union.

Hass: Israel, PA agree impoverishing Gaza will topple Hamas

Rosner's Mailbox: In favour of Prof. Walt's earlier thesis

Yedioth Ahronoth Tension with Syria gone? Level of tension with Damascus has dropped; how did this happen? Ron Ben YIshai asks

Countering Iranian threat Shlomo Ben-Ami

EurasiaNet Analysts: Chances Slim for US-Russian Radar Station BY ROVSHAN ISMAYILOV Over two months have passed since Moscow’s surprise proposal for joint use of Azerbaijan’s Gabala radar station with the United States. Trilateral talks are scheduled for Baku in early September, with follow-up discussions between Russia and the US to be held in Moscow. But despite the activity, some local Azerbaijani analysts now contend that the chances are slim that Gabala will ever be used as part of a shared US-Russian missile defense system.

Geopolitical Diary: Russia Attempts to Redefine Regional Relationships
Stratfor

Justin Raimondo 8/29/2007 War With Iran

Daily Telegraph Leader Cool the war of words over Iran

The potential consequences of a war between the Islamic Republic and America are so daunting as to make diplomacy, backed by military action inside Iraq and sanctions at the UN, the most likely course.

Don't Toy Around With Sino-U.S. Relations By: Tom Plate | The Japan Times Overly ambitious U.S. politicians seem bent on destroying what the Bush and Clinton administrations have achieved in relations with China.

The Chips Are Down By Claude Salhani China takes warfare to the final frontier.

CFR The IMF’s Leadership Search

Helena Cobban Bush fiddles, world warms, China 'rises'

Kevin Drum Preempting Petraeus

William Arkin Keeping a Low Political Profile at the Pentagon

Josef Joffe If Iraq Falls

Time Behind the Karbala Clashes

The Iran Dossier (pdf) - Kimberly Kagan, Weekly Standard

H2 FT Erdogan limits ministerial shake-up Turkey’s PM confounded expectations by naming a new cabinet with few significant changes beyond those he was obliged to make due to resignations and Gul’s elevation

PBS Newshour Soner Çağaptay and Bülent Alirıza on Gul’s Election text audio

Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-22 Michael Llewellyn Smith

stratfor geopolitical diary Envisioning an Islamist Turkey

NYT U.S. Weapons, Given to Iraqis, Move to Turkey Serial numbers on pistols and other weapons in Turkey match those originally given to Iraqi security forces.

Turkey's politics | Sliding from the secular | Economist.com

BBC Treading carefully
Turkey's president seeks to allay secularist fears

UPI Walker's World: Turkey's big surprise It may be time for Europeans and Americans to forget what they though they knew about Turkey, since it appears that the conventional wisdom -- and the fears of the Turkish military that the country was lurching towards Islamism -- may have been wrong.

UPI Analysis: Turkey's EU bid strengthened?

Taking Ataturk's Chair By SOLI OZEL

El Kadı ile Erdoğan Wall Street'te manşet

WSJ Separating Friend From Foe The difficulties that Washington and the West face in separating friend from foe in the Islamic world are highlighted by the case of Yassin Qadi, a well-known multimillionaire, founder of a large Turkish supermarket chain and a close friend of Turkey's premier.

Pinhas Avivi AK Parti İsrail ile aynı zamanda Araplarla da iyi geçinebileceğini anladı

Robert Fisk’in soykırım mektubu sahte çıktı

Le Monde Abdullah Gül, nouvelle ère en Turquie, par Sophie Shihab

Ha’aretz - Jerusalem Post Turkey leads toward democracy Turkish elections bring Arab silence [ SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM & MENSUR AKGUN In the medium and the longer term, the AKP has managed not only to become solidly mainstream in Turkish politics but also, through its own example, it paved the way for other Muslim Democrats, in a manner akin to Christian Democrats in the West.

Testing Israel's diplomacy
Ynetnews The ADL's recognition of the Armenian genocide raises questions on relations between Israel and Diaspora Jewish organizations

Let Turkey Be Times of India

Guardian Gul sworn in as Turkey's president Muslim democrat vows to remain neutral in his new role.

Independent Turkey's new President renews campaign for EU membership

WSJ Editorial President Gül Ankara may finally be able to resume politics as usual.

Gul's election consolidates Turkey's transformation Daily Star - By Soli Ozel

Asia Times New president has Turkey holding its breath

BBC Turkish leader approves cabinet Turkish President Abdullah Gul approves a cabinet led by his former boss in the Islamist-rooted AK Party.

Profile: Abdullah Gul

Q&A: Turkey's presidency battle

AP New president of Turkey approves cabinet of Islamists and secularists

Turkey Gets a Pro-EU, Reform Cabinet

'Seccade ilk kez Köşk'te'

Laik yapının tekeli sona erdi

Dünya Gül’ü konuşuyor
Rice’dan Gül’e kutlama telefonu

US Congratulates President Gul read statement...

Alman basını Gül'ün cumhurbaşkanı seçilmesiyle ilgili yorumlarda bulundu

Leaders from East to West queue up to congratulate Gül

Türkiye'nin Ortadoğu'daki rolü daha da artacak

Dünya liderleri Gül'ü kutladı: Türkiye'nin bölgedeki rolü artacak

A new Turkish Parliament, a new security agendaby ÖZGE GENÇ & LAURIE FREEMAN

Türkiye demokratik dengesini nihayet buldu
HÜSAM EDDAVİ
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Laik vizyonda büyük değişim Bronwen Maddox

Laiklik ve İslam'ın kesişiminde bir cumhurbaşkanı

Türkiye'de kültür devrimi gerçekleşti

DT Laik Türkler ve Batı Gül'e bir şans vermeli

Der Spiegel Gül, AKP ve Türkler olgunluk sınavında

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Iraqi Kurdish Paper Urges Turkey's Kurds to Be Wise As Gul Elected

Iraqi President Denies Attempt on His Life By Turkey

Orduevi önünde canlı bomba yakalandı

Davetiyesiz DTP'den tepki

Bölücülüğü yapan ortada

Kürtleri korumak için 8 bin asker

'ABD, K. Irak'ta 8 bin asker bıraksın'

Pentagon, PKK'daki ABD silahlarını doğruladı

ABD'den itiraf: PKK'daki silahlar bizim

Siirt'te çatışma: 8 PKK'lı öldürüldü

Saudi King, Turkish PM Discuss Cooperation on Telephone

Talabani'den Gül'e: Mutluluk duydum

Palestinian Hamas Says New Turkish President Reflects "Trend Toward Islam"

"PKK üyesi bir kadın Elazığ'da yakalandı"

Iranian President Congratulates Turkish President on Election

Jordan's King Telephones, Congratulates New Turkish President

Saudi King Congratulates New Turkish President

Egyptian Leader Congratulates New Turkish President

Kuwaiti Speaker Congratulates New Turkish President

Turkish Military Do Not Invite Pro-Kurdish MPs to Victory Day Reception

Kazakhstan Deprives 12 People of Citizenship for Involvement in Kurdish Group

Iraqi Kurds warn of cholera

Iraqi Kurdistan Official Reacts to Turkish, Iranian "Shelling"

Iraqi Kurdish MP Defends Kurdish Political Leaders After US Criticism

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 28 Aug 07

Turkish Foreign Ministry Says Iraqi Leaders' Meeting a "Step Forward"

Pakistani Leader Congratulates Turkish President, Hopes for Stronger Relations

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL

“Nükleer soykırım” ve uçuk senaryolar

Zebarî: 'Sorunu Bağdat’ın çözmesi, Kürdistan Bölge Hükümeti’nin çıkarına olacak'

Kuzey Irak’ta kolera 4 bin kişiyi vurdu

Lost without translation
Ha'aretz - By Zvi Bar'el

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Fransa: "Türkiye ile 30 fasıl ele alınsın"

Türkiye ile 30 faslın açılması konusunu destekliyor

Şensoy: Ermeni Tasarısı geçerse ABD ile ilişkimiz etkilenir

"Armenian Genocide Crisis Tests Tight Ties Between Turkey and Israel - Forward.com"

Almanya'da yargı, anadil ayıbına onay verdi

Kaleağası: Article 301 poisons Turkey-EU ties

Erdoğan Eylül sonunda ABD'ye gidecek

'ADL Ermenilere 'cici' görünme derdinde'

Abraham Foxman's "Turkey-Hunting season"
C. Cem OĞUZ

Yüzde 10'luk baraj yeniden AİHM'de

AB Irkçılığı izleme raporu: Türklere ayrımcılık var

Kızılay: Yunanistan bizden yardım almalıydı

STELYO BERBERAKİS
Yangınların komşuya faturası çok ağır oldu

Turkish Parliament Speaker to Visit Northern Cyprus

Halaçoğlu: Tartışmak isteyenler buyursun

Halaçoğlu: Fotoğraflar soykırımı kanıtlamaz

Bazı işaretler almaya başladık bile

Ortaklık fikri en hayırlısı

Can Dündar
Ankara'yı da, İstanbul'u da gördüğünde 19 yaşındaydı

Genelkurmay sitesinde Sezer hâlâ cumhurbaşkanı

Deniz suyunu arıtma hazırlığı

Yavuz Semerci Su tüketimini düşürmenin radikal yolu...

Su Kaynakları ve Küresel Isınma

Okullardaki ilk ders küresel ısınma

BM'den Türkiye'ye 'nükleer enerjiye yönelin' tavsiyesi

'Ekümen Bartholomew 1' ibaresine takipsizlik kararı

Türk Telekom ve Havelsan'dan stratejik işbirliği

Gülen Tebrik ilanı verdi

30 Ağustos 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 İşte 60. Hükümet

22 Temmuz karması

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Askere açık mektup: Peki siz kim oluyorsunuz?

Serdar Turgut Asker uzlaşmalı

Büyükanıt cephe selamı vermedi

Fikret BİLA Gül'ün dikkati ve TSK'nın tutumu

SOLİ ÖZEL Yeni dönem

Yeni değil takviye kabine Murat Yetkin

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ "Muhafazakâr" kabine

Ruşen Çakır Arınç kabine dışında ama parti ona emanet

Uzmanlar, Gül'ün laiklik tanımını tartışmaya açtı

Askerin töreninde Gül’e ince tavır

Genelkurmay'dan Gül'e yazılı tebrik

Asker ilk temasta soğuk

Muhtıra mı, halka karşı direniş mi?

Atalay sürprizi

İlk tören ilk tavır

NTV Siyaset Danışmanı Ruşen Çakır’ın yorumu

Cengiz Çandar “Ayaklar baş olunca”... “Sembolizmler”...

Taha Kıvanç Gazetecilik güdüsü

Fehmi Koru Türkiye'nin seçimi

Şamil Tayyar 60. Hükümet’in röntgeni

Seyfettin Gürsel Demokrasi deklarasyonu

El Kadı ile Erdoğan Wall Street'te manşet

DTP'den Büyükanıt'a çok ağır sözler

Nuray Başaran Köşk koltuğu ne kadar rahat olur

Ertuğrul Özkök Kayseri şövalyeleri

Ahmet Hakan Yeni kabineden çizgiler

Gül ekibini topluyor

M Ali Birand “2’inci Cumhuriyet’in 1’inci Cumhurbaşkanı"

Cüneyt Ülsever Cumhurbaşkanı ve atamalar

Milliyet 11. Cumhurbaşkanı'nı bekleyen sınav

İsmail Küçükkaya
Bakanlar Kurulu’nun analizi....

Mehmet Şimşek 'Uzun Soluklu Çözümler'

Bakanlığın ışıkları gece 4'e kadar yanacak

Yeni hükümet programı Tarhan Erdem

Ekrem Dumanlı Ya Gül seçilemeseydi?

'Gül devri' ve yeni dönem Hasan Celal Güzel

Şahin Alpay "Sosyal Demokrasi, Kemalizm ve CHP"

Semih İDİZ Karamsarlığın ülkeye hayrı yok

ERDAL ŞAFAK Yine o tartışma

ERGUN BABAHAN Galip takım bozulmaz

EMRE AKÖZ Abdullah Gül'den taleplerimiz var

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Taşlar ve kurbağalar

NAZLI ILICAK Yeni hükümet

MAHMUT ÖVÜR 1'inci Cumhuriyet'in 'son' cumhurbaşkanı...

Hasan CEMAL Haydi Türkiye!

Cumhurbaşkanı Gül’le komutanların ilk teması

KKTC’nin tanınması için AB’de ilk adım !

Ahmet Taşgetiren Kadın ve siyaset: derinden akan sorun

Gül'ün damga vuracağı atamalar

Burak Bekdil Everything comes up roses for 'Uncle Tayyip'

Büyük Zafer'i anlamak İsmet Berkan

[HABER ANALİZ] Erdoğan 'istikrar' dedi

DSP - CHP'nin boykotunu eleştirdi: Seçilmiş cumhurbaşkanına saygı gösterin

[HABER YORUM] Erdoğan, mavi boncuk dağıtmadı

Takımı bozmadı

Aksu ve Arınç yok flaş transferler var

Özgürlük ve refah hükümeti

Atatürk'ün gizli kalan röpörtajı

Taha AKYOL Cepheden anneye ve sevgiliye

Ekrem Dumanlı Abdullah Gül’s election: a new message to the world

'Çok ama çok zor bir dönem'
Nuray Mert

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Çankaya galerisi

Bakanların özgeçmişleri

Can Ataklı Genelkurmay Başkanı’nı görevden alma gücüne kavuşan ilk hükümet

Bilal Çetin Gül ilk gün hangi Türkiye ile kucaklaştı?

Mehmet Tezkan Başbakan Erdoğan tek adam, Arınç bakan değil gören oldu..

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

Enis Berberoğlu

Oktay Ekşi

Cumhurbaşkanımız Abdullah Gül!
Perihan Mağden

Nabi Yağcı İlk kez sivil anayasa heyecanı

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

YAVUZ DONAT Abdullah Gül: "Zorluğun bilincindeyim"

Mehmet BARLAS Geçmişteki ziyan edilmiş yıllarımız bize yetmiyor mu?

Güngör Mengi Bu vatan hepimizin

Necati Doğru Zenciler, beyaz oldu!

Asaf Savaş Akat Cumhurbaşkanı Gül

Mehmet Şimşek 'Uzun Soluklu Çözümler'

Ekonomi Ekren ve Şimşek'e emanet
Ekonominin koordinatörü uluslararası iktisat profesörü Nazım Ekren oldu. Şener'in yerine geçen Ekren gibi yine uluslararası bir uzman Mehmet Şimşek, Babacan'ın koltuğuna oturdu. İş dünyası mali disiplinden vazgeçilmeden mikro reformlarla istihdamda artış istiyor

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
Zaten gölge ekonomi bakanı gibi çalışıyordu

Ekonomiyi onlar yönetecek

Hükümet ve memurlar uzlaşamadı

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Nitelikli sanayi göçünü durdurmak yeni hükümetin misyonu mu?

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam

Servet Yıldırım IMF’li mi, IMF’siz mi

ÇERKEZLİK KRİTERİ BOZULMADI

Hurşit GÜNEŞ 2006 Mayıs ve 2007 Ağustos dalgalanmaları farklı

Ekonomi kabinesi iş dünyasından güvenoyu aldı

Ekonominin yeni bakanları Uğur Gürses

Sağlık harcamaları, ekonomik büyüme ve körebe oyunu

18 Eylül'e dikkat Mahfi Eğilmez

'Bu satırların yazarının' tedirginliği
Fatih Özatay

İSO, yeni hükemetten memnun

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN
Piyasalarda dalgalanma ve Türkiye için fırsatlar

Dalgalanma devam eder, ama...
Korkmaz İlkorur

Hasan Ersel Son krizde sıramızı savdık mı

Yiğit Bulut Bırakın 'onu, bunu', bu gerçeklere biz göz atın

Hisarcıklıoğlu: 2007'yi kaybettik, 2008'i bekliyoruz Funda Özkan

H4 New York Times White House Is Gaining Confidence It Can Win Fight in Congress Over Iraq Policy

Sadr Suspends His Militia’s Military Operations

Iranians Seized in Baghdad Freed by U.S. After a Day

Qum Journal: For Iran’s Shiites, a Celebration of Faith and Waiting

Editorial Abu Ghraib Swept Under the Carpet The need to be honest about Abu Ghraib and correct the abuses at military and C.I.A. prisons is not only about upholding the law and American values

Editorial No Time for Threats

The United States and its allies need to be stepping up their efforts to resolve the serious dangers posed by Iran through comprehensive negotiations

POLITICAL MEMO; A Polarizing Bush Despite a New Cast

ROGER COHEN A Return to the Mother of Conflicts

The Bush administration’s refusal to get serious about the Israel-Palestine conflict has ranked high as a source of global frustration.

Musharraf Said to Agree to End His Army Role Gen. Pervez Musharraf would resign as army chief and serve another term as president and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto would return to Pakistan.

Marines’ Trials in Iraq Killings Are Withering If prosecutors’ past legal problems are repeated, none of the marines charged with killing civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005 will be convicted.

Clinton Donor Under a Cloud in Fraud Case Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign said it would give away thousands that it received from a Democratic donor who is considered a fugitive in California.

Terror’s Purse Strings By DANA THOMAS

Most people think that buying a fake luxury bag is harmless. But the counterfeiting rackets are run by crime syndicates that also deal in narcotics and weapons.

H5 Washington Post Report Finds Little Progress On Iraq Goals GAO Draft at Odds With White House

Sadr Orders 'Freeze' on Militia Actions Iraqi Cleric's Edict Comes After Killings At Shiite Festival

Bush's Lost Iraqi Election By David Ignatius, The CIA had a plan to counter Iran's meddling in the 2005 vote, but Washington blinked.

Musharraf Agrees to Resign as Army Chief Step by Pakistani President Is Part of Deal With Political Rival Benazir Bhutto

Report Accuses Hezbollah of Indiscriminate Attacks on Civilians in '06 War

Terrorism Policies Split Democrats Anger Mounts Within Party Over Inaction on Bush Tactics

Reprimand Is Sentence For Officer at Abu Ghraib

A Deregulator in Paris By George F. Will, PARIS -- "We," the finance minister says, "have a terrible past." She also says: "In a way, we've had it too easy." Christine Lagarde is correct on both counts.

The Washington Clock Runs Down By Kyle Teamey In early 2005, Americans still seemed interested in the war in Iraq. If I mentioned that I had been a soldier there, they wanted to learn more about the country and how our troops were faring. By the end of 2005, as the violence continued to rise, they began to seem less interested, and by mid-20...

Victories Come Slowly in Cleanup Of Soviet Bloc Nuclear Materials

Small Shoes at Justice By Robert D. Novak,

H6 Guardian Mahdi army calls six-month truce Iraqi militia leader calls truce after fighting with rival Shia Muslim group in Kerbala left more than 50 dead.

Beyond the bravado Martin Woollacott It would be foolish to discount the dangers of a clash between the US and Iran, but they are more remote than the words of their leaders would suggest.

Wrong-footed at every turn

Dilip Hiro George Bush's policy on Iraq and the Middle East is full of contradictions, particularly where Iran is concerned.

Bhutto close to deal with Musharraf

President agrees to quit army and drop graft charges against exiled leaders.

Deals and dangers for three rivals

Leader Power without the people Pakistan: Pakistan's fundamental problem is that it is dominated by a military establishment that combines unrealistic and expensive strategic ambitions in its region with a vice-like hold on the extensive privileges it has built up at home.

A Marshall plan for the Middle East? Nicolaus Mills George Bush could salvage something for his reputation if he used the rest of his term to encourage co-operation in the Middle East, by using George Marshall as a model.

Another militant bites the dust

Brian Whitaker The burgeoning literary genre of political/religious recantations has a new, internet-based addition: welcome to the world of The Islamicist.

The great global coal rush puts us on the fast track to irreversible disaster John Harris: The dirtiest fossil fuel of all is on the resurgent, dressed in climate-friendly garb. We'd be wise not to flirt with it.

The need for an old foe Basil Markesinis: If chaos is to be averted in the Middle East, Washington must give Russia a more active role.

The threat of a threat

Naomi Wolf: Hillary Clinton is right to warn that a new terrorist attack on the US would help Republicans. Fear and trumped-up threats can be used to gain power.

Now we see what the return of Tory Britain would be like
Seumas Milne: David Cameron's support for Boris Johnson, tax cuts and longer jail terms shows that the real Conservative party is reasserting itself.

No milk, no madeleines
Agnès Poirier: Asia's new taste for dairy could seriously threaten our remembrance of things pasteurised.

H7 Congressional Research Service "Diplomacy for the 21st Century: Transformational Diplomacy," August 23, 2007.

BBC Squaring up
Will US and Iranian brinkmanship lead to military strikes?

The reconquest of America Sergio Aguayo QuezadaChina, Iran, Spain - and Islam - are arriving in Latin America as the US pays for its Iraq folly

Iran Nuke Pact May Be a Breakthrough By: Dominic Moran | ISN Security Watch With the upcoming IAEA meeting, speculation abounds on the details of an agreement with Iran and the impact it will have on the UN Security Council in its quest to convince the Islamic Republic to forego its nuclear plans.

The Role of Broadcasting in U.S. Public Diplomacy toward Iranians 28 pages; PDF.
Summary via MIPT:

The Future of Iraq - Michael Totten

BBC ICRC highlights world's 'missing' The Red Cross says not enough is done to locate those missing as a result of conflicts and other violence

Al Hayat Will Sarkozy Get a Syrian Response? Elias Harfouch - A transformation in the Syrian attitude will turn the tables on those in Lebanon, Syrian allies or otherwise, who are looking forward to an open confrontation. Political realism characterizes Sarkozy’s prescription for Lebanon: a president who represents all Lebanese.

Opium Licensing in Afghanistan: Its Desirability and Feasibility
Source: Brookings Institution

IsraPundit Back to the future in the Middle East?

Foreign Policy Seven Questions: How to Deal with Irrational Exuberance

Commentary: An Israeli perspective on the Second Lebanon War

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Global Warming and the Political Economy of Cities

“The uneven pattern of liberalisation in Syria’s key services sectors,” by Oxford Analytica

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

US Papers Thu: GAO Iraq Report Harshest Yet

Iraq/Arab Papers Thur: Mahdi Army "on Hold"

Cleric suspends his Mahdi Army militia after day of mayhem

Upbeat Bush Hints at More Iraq Troops

US Military: Capture of Iranian Delegation 'Regrettable'

Iran's Oil revenues hit USD 51bn

Shi'ite leader declares cease-fire

Anti-American Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr yesterday ordered a six-month "freeze" of activities by his Mahdi Army militia, a force accused of attacking U.S.-led coalition forces and operating "death squads" targeting the country's Sunni Arab minority.

BBC Iraq welcomes Mehdi Army 'freeze' Iraq welcomes Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr's freeze on the activities of his Mehdi Army militia for six months.

Sadr makes risky move

Who are Iraq's Mehdi Army

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Middle East Arabic Press for 29 Aug 07

Saudi Arabia Might Attend Mideast Peace Conference Israeli Paper

Saudi Extremist in Iraq Linked to Wahhabi Clerics - Salah Nasrawi

UN: Cholera outbreak in Iraq
More than 2k in north affected, thought to be the result of poor water quality

Al-Jazeera Reports Arrest, Release of Iranian Delegates By US Forces in Iraq

For $12,000 a book, few works of literature are translated into Arabic and Kurdish.

Aug 30 SD# 1701 - Saudi Columnist: Saudi Arabia Must Be Culturally Open, or It Will Turn into a Taliban State

Karbala Fighting Raises Specter Of Broader Shi'ite Clashes

Violence is on the rise in southern Iraq just as the British forces there are implementing a pullback.

Iran: Campaign Against Discriminatory Laws Marks First Year

Baghdad, Iraqi Kurds Protest Alleged Iranian Shelling

H9 Ha’aretz Editorial A realist at the Elysee Palace Sarkozy's election stirred expectations in Israel for a change in French foreign policy, one that would be characterized by closer ties with Washington and a lessening in the tensions between Israel and the European Union.

Hass: Israel, PA agree impoverishing Gaza will topple Hamas

Rosner's Mailbox: In favour of Prof. Walt's earlier thesis

U.S. coordinator plans five new West Bank battalions

Hezbollah to file lawsuits against Israel for war damage

Daily Alert.orgMiddle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review Google News Israel - Palestine

NY Sun Walt/Mearsheimer Review 2 Professors Fail To Clean Up Their Act By IRA STOLL

Zealous for Zion by Michael Brendan Dougherty Jerusalem’s most pious defenders aren’t Israeli—they’re not even Jewish.

IMF increases Israel's per capita GDP to $31,767

Yedioth Ahronoth Tension with Syria gone? Level of tension with Damascus has dropped; how did this happen? Ron Ben YIshai asks

Countering Iranian threat Shlomo Ben-Ami

Jerusalem Post Exclusive: Abbas's new Jerusalem adviser wants to reopen Orient House Appointment of Adnan Husseini is evidence that Jerusalem is 'back on the table' in bilateral negotiations, PA official says.

Breeding the dogs of war

It's generally considered that Ahmadinejad hasn't done well to confront the nation's internal challenges.

Arab daily: Hamas offered Abbas renewal of unity gov't

Analysis: Where did this summer's war go? [ HERB KEINON

Full Gas in Neutral? - Herb Keinon (Jerusalem Post)

Independent Kosovo seen as threat to Israel

Israeli Army Ends "War Readiness" on Syrian Border - Paper

Missing the Point - Ben Fishman
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt consistently misrepresents U.S. decision-making in the Middle East.

Religious vandals?
Cable laying at holy Jerusalem shrine sparks Jewish anger

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Opinion: Four views on Islam and the state Can Islam support a secular, democratic government?

Iraq's 'Chemical Ali' tribunal overshadowed by Shiite infighting

Clashes at a pilgrimage in Karbala distract from a tribunal for killings of Shiites in a 1991 uprising.

Colombians buy state oil shares

Colombia this week put 10 percent of Ecopetrol on sale in a move counter to the Latin American trend toward state control.

ASIA

Don't Toy Around With Sino-U.S. Relations By: Tom Plate | The Japan Times Overly ambitious U.S. politicians seem bent on destroying what the Bush and Clinton administrations have achieved in relations with China.

The Chips Are Down By Claude Salhani China takes warfare to the final frontier.

CSM To China's migrants: Stay west, young man Rising wages on China's more prosperous eastern coast are pushing some factories inland where labor is cheap.

UPI Analysis: India plans counterintelligence
India has directed all its states governments to put in place a result-oriented counter-intelligence mechanism to avert growing terror strikes.

India to hold army exercises in Russia
India says it would for the first time hold joint army exercises from Sep 15 to 19 in Russia to promote better ties between two armies.

FT COMMENT: If you are Chinese, try very hard not to be ill A country can still prosper and indeed become a superpower without a fair health system, as the US shows, writes Richard McGregor

Japan and India: The Making of a New Alliance? By: C. Raja Mohan | RSIS
After decades of mutual neglect, Japan and India are well set to build a new alliance that has the potential to transform Asian geopolitics. As they draw closer to cope with the rise of China, traditional definitions of the region are yielding place to the notion of a "broader Asia."

Malaysia at 50: So Far, So Good By: Philip Bowring | International Herald Tribune There is much celebration in Malaysia this month to mark the day 50 years ago when the new nation was born out of the British-ruled states of the Malay peninsula. But was it?

"U.S. Foreign Aid to East and South Asia: Selected Recipients," updated August 22, 2007.

"The Role of National Oil Companies in the International Oil Market," August 21, 2007.

Chinese official steps down over sex scandal

Man who has overseen China’s economic boom quits following an affair with the mistress of another Communist Party official

Stock market seen as insiders' playground
China's stock markets, ignoring the subprime crisis in the US, are on an exciting bull run, but that cannot hide the fact that China's market regulators are still in their infancy and often ineffective in curbing false disclosure, insider trading and market manipulation. Unless this changes, these practices will undermine the health of the markets. - Zhou Jiangong

Rivalries split Indian coalition (By Martin Arostegui)

China's Slipping Happy Mask By: Giles Merritt | The Guardian
China's emphasis on saving face may prove to be its achilles heel -- in order to gain respect it needs to admit to its mistakes.

U.S. optimistic on Rice meeting this fall Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice could meet with her North Korean counterpart and other regional foreign ministers as early as October if talks to end the Korean nuclear crisis make progress in the coming weeks, a top State Department official said yesterday

H11 IHT A November deadline for Mideast peace The Bush end game is going to see a push for a resolution of the mother of all conflicts. By Roger Cohen

EUROPE European press review

At Last, Some Leadership In Europe - Investor's Business Daily

Greek Police Drop Arson Charges Against Two Albanian Children

Greeks protest over fire response

Thousands of Greeks protest against the political response to recent wildfires, which have killed 63 people.

Europe's Jackboot Progressives By: Paul Belien | The Washington Times
Many European countries are introducing elements of Shariah law, such as granting welfare benefits to polygamous families, prohibiting private soup kitchens from distributing pork, banning Muhammad cartoons and organizing separate swimming hours for Muslim women in public pools

Kosovo's Grim Future By: David Binder | The Washington Times
The near-term outlook for Kosovo is unalterably grim: An economy stuck in misery; a bursting population of young people with "criminality as the sole career choice;" an insupportably high birthrate; a society imbued with corruption and a state dominated by organized crime figures.

Is the French left ready to be led by an openly gay politician?

Statisics: Biotechnology in Europe - Patents and R&D investments
8 pages; PDF.

Kosovo: Albanian Writer Says 'Every Nation Has A Right To Ask For Its Freedom'

H12 RFE/RL Putin May Go, But Can 'Putinism' Survive? Analysts say there is a question even more important than who is president after Vladimir Putin -- and that's what comes after him.

Google News Azerbaijan

EurasiaNet Analysts: Chances Slim for US-Russian Radar Station BY ROVSHAN ISMAYILOV
Over two months have passed since Moscow’s surprise proposal for joint use of Azerbaijan’s Gabala radar station with the United States. Trilateral talks are scheduled for Baku in early September, with follow-up discussions between Russia and the US to be held in Moscow. But despite the activity, some local Azerbaijani analysts now contend that the chances are slim that Gabala will ever be used as part of a shared US-Russian missile defense system.

The West Lost Russia By: Gordon M. Hahn | The Moscow Times
In contrast to the purported global warming, Russian-Western relations are undergoing a real cooling. The mounting frigidity in the relationship was symbolized in Moscow's surprise rush to the Arctic.

Ahmadinejad Visits Baku as Azerbaijan Attempts to Balance U.S.-Iran Relations By: Shain Abbasov | World Politics Review Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad paid his first official visit to northern neighbor Azerbaijan last week (Aug.21-22), aiming to counter growing U.S. influence in the oil-rich country and forestall further advances on a move to allow American use of the Russian-operated Gabala Radar Station in Azerbaijan.

Geopolitical Diary: Russia Attempts to Redefine Regional Relationships
Stratfor

Another Putin opponent may have fled to London Billionaire oligarch Mikhail Gutseriyev wanted by the Kremlin for tax evasion.

Putin the Terrible - Charlie Gillis, Macleans

It's Not the West That Should Worry About Putin By: Andrei Piontkovsky | The Japan Times
Although many in the Kremlin appear blind to it as they rattle sabers at America, China poses the greatest strategic threat to Russia.

H13 The Times Despite the rhetoric, Iran is amenable

The puzzle is why the US imagines that Iranian involvement in Iraq will melt away if it protests angrily

Bronwen Maddox

Leader Iran’s Choice Tehran’s meddling is a threat to the region

Musharraf agrees to quit army and share power Pakistani President strikes a deal with Benazir Bhutto that paves way for his political rival to return from her exile in London

Iraq warns of bloodbath if British leave Basra

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told The Times Britain must not 'run away' from its responsibilities to his country

Time to forget the war on drugs

To tackle crime on British streets we must do something bold and previously unthinkable Anatole Kaletsky

Disasters, not Masters, of the Universe I don’t know much about high finance. But I am beginning to fear that nor do some of its high priests

Camilla Cavendish

Wall Street Journal BERNANKE IS SHOWING signs of a break with Greenspan by distinguishing between the Fed's two main roles of maintaining financial and economic stability

There Is Only One Executive
The next attorney general must resist congressional assault on the power of the presidency.
By DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. and LEE A. CASEY

Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:

Slouching Towards Utopia?

H14 Financial Times Editorial LEADER: European muscle More bang for Europe’s buck Nicolas Sarkozy should be applauded for making a coherent foreign and security policy one of the main purposes of the French EU presidency

COMMENT: Sarkozy can bring us 'la strategic revolution' Others think we French are arrogant, but we are barely aware of our economic potential, writes Laurence Parisot

WORLD NEWS: Sadr calls on Mahdi Army to stop fighting

COMMENT: If you are Chinese, try very hard not to be ill A country can still prosper and indeed become a superpower without a fair health system, as the US shows, writes Richard McGregor

Russian energy faces EU barriers

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Greece steps up aid effort ahead of elections

The conservative government, which has faced criticism over the slow response to the fires, is pouring funds into the two hardest hit regions in an attempt to rally voters

Iraq seeks joint ventures

Iraq’s ministry of industry and minerals plans to open up all 65 of its state-owned enterprises to joint ventures with international investors by the end of the year

US steps up probe of EU banks The US justice department and other authorities have stepped up investigations into several large European banks for violating US sanctions against Iran, Libya, Cuba and Sudan

Saudi Arabia continues ban on newspaper

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Wall St rallies after Bernanke pledge

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Bankers try to piece together subprime puzzle

Leading central bankers gather for the Federal Reserve's annual Jackson Hole symposium to discuss financial markets turmoil and what this means for monetary policy

European and US stocks bounce back New subprime fears fail to dent rebound

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Justice is not blind obedience Six years after the attacks of 2001, the US has no real consensus or legal policy on fighting the ‘war on terror’, writes Clive Crook

FRONT PAGE - COMPANIES AND MARKETS: THE SHORT VIEW The bursting of China’s bubble would not have the negative fallout some once feared, writes John Authers

MARKETS AND INVESTING: There can be no return to 'normality' of a freakish bubble The change in mortgage markets can hardly fail to prompt an economic slowdown, writes John Plender

COMMENT: Why balance sheets are not in good shape

H15 Los Angeles Times Shiite cleric orders his army to stand down

Shiite militias clash in Iraq, killing 50

Editorial

Death penalty system faces staggering backlog The average wait for execution in the state is 17.2 years. One jurist has called capital punishment an "illusion."

H16 American Politics

Washington Times Defense vision MIA?

Not enough attention has been paid to whether any of the major Democratic candidates offers a vision of U.S. foreign policy substantially different from that set out by the Bush administration.

Lame-duck lesson from the Gipper Ronald Brownstein: Reagan salvaged the last years of his presidency by finding common ground with Democrats.

realclearpoliticsABC’s The Note US News Political Bulletin

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

Bush greeted by anger in New Orleans Two years after Hurricane Katrina disaster triggered a plunge in his approval ratings, President Bush returned to New Orleans

The legacy of Katrina Michael Tomasky: The events in New Orleans exposed the Bush administration as callous and incompetent. And neither the city nor the administration have recovered in the two years' since.

Clinton proves favourite across the Atlantic Europeans overwhelmingly support Hillary Clinton in her bid to become the next US president, according to a poll.


Edwards tells Americans to give up SUVs

Conservatives shun Craig after men's room affair

Hands off my bathroom!

By Nick Gillespie

The GOP should abandon the culture war that makes conservative Sen. Larry Craig a hypocrite.

H17 Daily Telegraph Leader Cool the war of words over Iran

The potential consequences of a war between the Islamic Republic and America are so daunting as to make diplomacy, backed by military action inside Iraq and sanctions at the UN, the most likely course.

Bhutto charges 'to be dropped' Gen Musharraf allows exiled PM to return to Islamabad.

Sadr announces ceasefire in Iraq British commanders in Basra reacted cautiously to claims by radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr that he has ordered his militia to suspend operations for six months.

Teheran fury as US soldiers arrest Iranians

H18 Independent Sadr calls six-month ceasefire to prevent civil war

Adrian Hamilton: Bush's increasingly tenuous hold on reality

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Pentagon: Officers May Disagree With Bush on Iraq

Limit Troops Abroad, 8-Nation Poll Says

Desperados By: Mario Loyola | The Weekly Standard
Al Qaeda is no longer master of events in Iraq. Since the surge in operations -- and particularly since the start of Phantom Strike -- they have lost the initiative. They attacked when and where they did because they are on the run and getting no local support.

Why We Need a Draft - Cpl. Mark Finelli, Newsweek

One-Child Foreign Policy By James Kurth Declining birth rates will result in smaller armies, but fewer wars won’t necessarily mean a safer world

The Chips Are Down By Claude Salhani China takes warfare to the final frontier.

P.L. 110-55, the Protect America Act of 2007: Modifications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act," August 23, 2007.

"The War Crimes Act: Current Issues," updated July 23, 2007.

Bombs Away, For Good By: Linton Brooks | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
Are the plans to upgrade our nuclear arsenal with a Reliable Replacement Warhead consistent with America's interests in opposing the proliferation of nuclear weapons? Some reasonable critics of the program have expressed doubts.

Defending Nationals Abroad: Assessing the Lawfulness of Forcible Hostage Rescues
Source: Yale Law School Student Prize Paper Series

H20 Slate Should We Be Worried About Russia and China Ganging Up on the West? Probably not. Here's why.
Ian Bremmer

Sorry, Mr. President, You're All Out of Troops But maybe France can help solve the Iraq mess. Fred Kaplan

Understanding Government Spying.

What's the Big Secret?

Is wiretapping at embassies off limits now?

Congressional Research Service "Diplomacy for the 21st Century: Transformational Diplomacy," August 23, 2007.

"Manipulating Molecules: Federal Support for Nanotechnology Research," updated August 2, 2007.

Thriving in a Global Economy: The Truth about U.S. Manufacturing and Trade
Source: Center for Trade Policy Analysis (Cato Institute)

Sameer Lalwani / The Washington Note:
The US's Afghan Opium Strategy: Eradicating Any Chance of Stability

H21 Treating each patient as a unique case will increase errors. Jerome Groopman fails to grasp that medicine needs more science and less art... more»

Bergman and Antonioni are cast down together into purgatory. “Karma is truly a bitch,” Antonioni says, “much like yourself, Herr Bergman”... more»

James Wood’s immensely learned, barbed essays, utterly unbowed by conventional wisdom, have earned him ardent followers – and the ire of some novelists... more»

Leo Strauss, “an exotic plant” and maybe “an acquired taste.” But he was friend of liberal democracy – at least at the end... more»

Triumph or Travesty? Golden Ohuruogu is a true heroine for our time

Christine Ohuruogu is a world athletics champion today after a long struggle with adversity. Yet the one-year ban she recently served for repeatedly missing drug tests casts another shadow over the credibility of international sport

A saint's dark night

Mother Teresa, the woman widely known in her lifetime as a "living saint," apparently didn't even believe in God.

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