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H1 Newsweek:Bob Gates's Victory To little notice, the Defense secretary has gotten his way on Iraq, and possibly on Iran. Now, Gates is about to appoint a former top Clinton official to prove he means business.

Byting Back — Regaining Information Superiority Against 21st-Century Insurgents
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New York Times Official Calls Kurd Oil Deal at Odds With Baghdad

France Flips, Congress Shifts - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

ANALYSIS: With Legacy in Mind, Bush Reassesses His Agenda

» Karim Sadjadpour| Labeling Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization would be a serious mistake

Slate Learning From Bush's Mistakes How a prewar conversation can help us pick the next president. Fred Kaplan

Juan Cole: Transcript Reveals Impeachable Offenses by Bush Re: Iraq War

Bush-Aznar Transcript: The War Crime of the Century

Independent Blackwater 'mistakes' led to surge of Iraqi violence

Al Awsat America's Diplomatic Fig Leaf : Amir Taheri

Forward Congress Throws Covert Israeli Attack on Syria Out Into the Open

Daily Star Sarkozy is pretty much a Gaullist on the Middle East
By Eric Rouleau

Financial Times COMMENT: Sarkozy and the prize of a grand transatlantic bargain The condition of Franco-American ties determines the cohesion of the west, writes Philip Stephens

New light cast on Bush’s Iraq plans A leaked transcript of talks between President George W. Bush and José Maria Aznar, former Spanish prime minister, has cast fresh light on the diplomatic wrangling that preceded the Iraq war

Reidar Visser The US Senate Votes to Partition Iraq. Softly

IHT The future of American multilateralism By PHILIP GORDON AND EDWARD JOSEPH European reluctance to take risks for common interests bolsters American unilateralists.

Top Dems See 10-Year Iraq War Even if They Win

The Economist America's pro-Israel lobby Powerful, but not that powerful

FIRST CHAPTER; ‘The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy’

Washington Institute Rice's Obstacles on the Road to an Israeli-Palestinian Breakthrough - David Makovsky

U.S., China Must Overcome Current Friction - Ian Bremmer, RCP

Vital Energy Questions for America - Senator John McCain, NRO

Daily Telegraph Will the 12th Imam cause war with Iran?

A clash with Western civilisation that the Iranian president so obviously desires will hasten, or so he believes, the arrival of the 12th Imam, writes Con Coughlin.

The Times Bomb attacks bring pleas for British Basra return

British troops are being urged to return to the front line and help Iraqi counterparts after eight are killed by insurgents

Guardian War, who is it good for? Daphna Baram: Far from promoting peace, the US seems to be cajoling Israel's damaged political leadership towards a manufactured confrontation with Syria.

Stand firm on Kosovo Jonathan Steele: The EU must not relent to the siren voices who oppose the territory's path to independence

A confederation for Kosovo
Compromise between Kosovo and Serbia is still possible, but only by resuscitating an old institution of the international community.

NBC: Bin Laden may have just escaped U.S. forces...

Dollar Hits Another Low Against Euro...

The Economist World economy Stronger China

Democratic Debate Transcript, New Hampshire

Washington Institute What Israel Really Gained by Bombing Syria

Similar Threats, Similar Approaches: Improving Transatlantic Counterterrorism Ties

Weekly Standard Population Wars
Why Europe's demography is more complicated than you may think.
by Duncan Currie

CSIS The Islamic World and the West Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

CFR A Conversation with Bernard Kouchner (Audio)

Jim Lobe Anti-Iran Hawks Win Partial Victory in Congress

H2 The Economist Turkey and Islam Secularists' lament

Economist: Laiklerin matemi

''Sıcak takip'' sorunu ertelendi

ABD'li 8 eski bakandan Türkiye'ye destek

Turkey Would Consider US Using Border for Iraq Exit

Gates Erdoğan'ın tavrını olumlu buldu

Anti-terror talks with Iraq hit further snags

ABD'de konuşan Erdoğan'dan çarpıcı mesajlar

CSIS The Islamic World and the West Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

Erdoğan: PKK kamplarında Amerika'ya ait top ve tank var

Erdoğan: ABD Türkiye üzerinden çekilebilir

'Türkiye üzerinden Irak'tan çekilmeye Erdoğan olumlu bakıyor'

'Şu anda ABD için Türkiye kadar stratejik önemi sahip başka ülke yok'

Seçenekler azalıyor sabrımız zorlanıyor

"İslam ülkesi değil, laik ülkenin başbakanıyım"

Takibe Barzani freni
PKK'ya karşı 'sıcak takip' Barzani devreye girince sıkı koşullara bağlandı

Sıcak takip ortada kaldı

Sıcak takip kilitledi

"Sıcak takip" konusu imza sonrasına kaldı

Irak’la anlaşmada ‘sıcak takip’ yok

Anlaşma bugüne kaldı

Nasuhi Güngör Sıcak takip konusu

Serdar Turgut Çatışmaya doğru

Kürt engeli

Batı medyası nasıl görüyor BBC’de medya standartlarını belirleyen 30 yıllık gazeteci Kevin Marsh, batı medyasının Türkiye’ye son dönemdeki bakışını VATAN’a anlattı

Anlaşmada kafa karışıklığı Türkiye ile Irak arasında terörle mücadele anlaşmasının bugün imzalanması bekleniyor. Ancak Irak tarafının "Anlaşma sağlandı, ama müzakereler sürüyor" açıklaması kafaları karıştırdı.

Swiss Otel'de 11 saatlik diplomasi

ABD'ye Ermeni iddiaları ve PKK uyarısı

Erdoğan - Babacan Temaslarını Sürdürüyor

Oktay Ekşi Laf-ü güzaf

Emin Pazarcı Böyle terörle mücadele olur mu? -

New US bill on Iran sanctions may hit Turkey - Turkish Daily News Sep 27, 2007

İran doğal gazına ihtiyacımız var

ABD ile Türkiye arasında ''gaz sancısı''

Habur’dan ABD silahı çekilmesi ertelendi

ABD’li müfettişler kayıp silahlar için Türkiye’de

Babacan urges Rice to stop PKK terrorism at once

Erdoğan dismisses concerns over constitution, criticizes allies for inaction against PKK

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Irak'lı Kürt milletvekili: PKK'yı Kuzey Irak'tan çıkaran anlaşma yapılamaz

Aksiyon Doğuya yeni yatırım modeli - Zafer Özcan

PKK’nın ‘kan gölü’ planı - Gamze Polat

Terör eylemlerini yerli jammer'lar bitirecek

[SOUTHEAST’S BASIC ISSUE: ECONOMY-3] IN-DEPTH NEWS - Tigris River runs red: Irrigation practices in southeastern Turkey

Osman: PKK’nin çıkarılmasına yönelik hiç bir anlaşma imzalanmadı

Deniz Gökçe Fırat-Dicle suyu kimleri ilgilendiriyor?

Mahmur Kampı'nın kapatılması başka bahara kaldı

PKK plans to murder DTP mayors

Amerika'ya Türkmen tepkisi: Biz de ayrılırız

TALABANI'NIN ITC DÜŞMANLIĞI

Iran 'shelling targets deeper inside northern Iraq'...

Rice: Irak'ın toprak bütünlüğü korunacak

Turkey-Iraq 'Kurd' deal held up

Kurdish Source Reports 29 Rebels Killed in Clashes With Turkish Forces 13-25 Sep

Rebels to Boycott Any Turkish Constitution Which Does Not Recognize Kurds

Ahmedinejad’dan Erdoğan’a doğalgaz teklifi

Türkiye ile İran ‘enerji’ imzasına hazır

New York Times Official Calls Kurd Oil Deal at Odds With Baghdad

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL PKK'ya terörist diyen kaybeder!

Mayına 2 şehit

Mehmet Metiner Siz demokrasinin neresindesiniz? -

Şırnak'taki çatışmada 4 terörist öldürüldü

Kerkük'ten Göç Edenlere Tazminat Ödenecek

Ethinic cleansing of Kirkuk under way

Kurds turn to Capitol Hill to open up travel, get more aid

Iraq Kurdistan asks part in Turkish talks

Why partition in Iraq is a terrible idea

US causes Kurdistan to be cut off, prices soar

Two Iraqi Kurdish Islamic Parties Sign "Strategic Agreement"

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 27 Sep 07

Turkey-Iraq Talks Said Deadlocked Over "Hot Pursuit" Article

The Great Jump of The Gulf Investments in Turkey [Voltaire]

Kurdish TV Reports Three Iranian Soldiers Killed in Clashes With Rebels

Iran Shells Iraqi Kurdish Border Areas

Gül'den şehit ailelerine bugün Köşk'te iftar

The situation of the Christians of Kurdistan discussed in Italy.

Ali Bulaç Arabs and democracy

Turkish FM Babacan in US: PKK and Genocide Claims Strain Turkey-US ...

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Turkey not seen meeting EU reform targets

Rehn, sürecin canlı tutulması gerek

Cumhurbaşkanı Gül Avrupa'ya açılıyor

Cyprus Says Syria Dispute Smoothed Over

Epoch Times | EU's Rehn Resigned to Turkish Reform Delay

DefenseNews.com - Turkey’s EU Reform Process Fading - 09/27/07 13:27

ŞELALE KADAK TÜSİAD desteği aldı: İspanya, Kralı ve hükümetiyle arkamızda!

AB Türkiye ile müzakerelerde yeni fasıl açacak

The Daily Dish Alienating The Turks

EU aid to Turkish Cypriots hampered by island's division — EUbusiness - EU business, legal and financial news and information - EUbusiness.com

TODAY'S ZAMAN Ankara, Paris to establish working group on EU

Top level bilateral talks on Turkey's EU bid

Rauf Denktaş Nereye kadar?

US Urges New Diplomatic Push for Cyprus Settlement

Reformlar kasıma yetişmez

Cumhuriyetçi Başkan Adayı, Ermeni tasarısından desteğini çekti

İtalyan bakan: Müslüman kadına başörtüsü yasağı söz konusu olamaz

Lozan'da mülklerin iadesi konusu YUSUF HALAÇOĞLU

Tufan Türenç Erdoğan’ın Sarkozy’ye yanıtı çok yetersiz

Armenia refuses to shut atomic power plant

Foxman Bazen dostlar arasında anlaşmazlık olabilir

ADL: Ermeni sorunu Kongre'nin işi değil

A Turkish media outlet owned by a Greek entrepreneur: wow! - Turkish Daily News Sep 27, 2007

What Should the Ecumenical Patriarchate do? (III) (Orhan Kemal Cengiz)

Cartoons of Muhammad and clash of civilizations (Mustafa AKYOL )

Hollanda’da Hz. Muhammed’e Hitler benzetmesi

Actress contributes to Turkish-Greek friendship

Emekli bir albayın itirafları

'Çılgınlık yaptık' diyen albay TBMM gündeminde

Mundar bardak operasyonu

100 kadından 61’i kapalı

Ankara-İstanbul hızlı tren rüyası 2008'e kaldı...

Enerji Bakanlığı’nda yolsuzluk operasyonu

Vahap Munyar Sabah-ATV ihalesinde dünyanın dev fonlarına kapılar kapalı görünüyor

Cartoons of Muhammad and clash of civilizations (Mustafa AKYOL )

FIFA'dan KKTC'ye izin gündemde

KKTC'ye uygulanan futbol ambargosu Le Monde'de haber oldu

Fatih Akın'la Yeni Filmi Hakkında Söyleşi

"15 Ekim'den sonra yağmur bekleniyor"

Koç, Erdil'i ziyaret etti

Çömez AKP'yi niye bıraktı?

Boğaziçi'nden Kaboğlu ve Oran kararına karşı bildiri

Gül'den Doğramacı'ya jet kabul

28 Eylül 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 Ankara'da Kürt devleti gerilimi
Murat Yetkin

Fikret BİLA Sıcak takip mi, soğuk takip mi?

Turkish-American relations – Time for reckoning - Turkish Daily News Sep 27, 2007 O. Faruk LOĞOĞLU

Örtülü kadın azaldı Malezya olmuyoruz! Türkiye'de her 100 kadından 61'i başörtülü. Örtünen sayısı artmıyor, ama örtülü kadınlar toplumsal hayata eskisinden daha fazla katılıyor

Halkın yüzde 74'ü başörtüsü yasağına karşı

Türkiye, İran ve Malezya..

Malezya tartışmasının başlamasına neden olan Holbrook, Erdoğan'dan özür diledi

Kaynaktan yalanlama Türkiye Malezya olur mu? tartışmasına son noktayı ‘başlatan’ koydu. Hoolbrooke ‘Benim benzetmem ‘başarı’ ile ilgili’ dedi

Bu ne biçim sıcak takip?
Hasan Celal Güzel

Serdar Akinan “Asker ne yapıyor?” diye soranlara...

Bu okul çok tartışılır

Ruşen Çakır| TÜRKİYE MALEZYA OLUR MU?/5

Eser Karakaş İkinci cumhuriyet karşıtlarına somut sorular

Şamil Tayyar Darbe bekleyen o gazeteci

MÜMTAZ'ER TÜRKÖNE - Malezya yerine Mısır

Cengiz Çandar 'Suikast hedefleri' ile...

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ

Bürokraside atamalar sürüyor

İlnur Çevik Are we heading for a clash with US on Iran?

YAVUZ DONAT Demirel: 'Derin bir konu...'

Gül, Org. Büyükanıt'ı kabul etti

Cemil Çiçek "Anayasa yazmak petrol bulmaktan zor"

‘Yeni anayasa yapıyoruz kereste kanunu değil’

Anayasayı tartışan partiler yaklaşan referandumu unuttu

MHP’ye göre iptal edilebilir
SİYASİ partilerin radyo-televizyon konuşmaları için sadece iki hafta süre kalmasına rağmen, 21 Ekim’deki anayasa referandumu henüz partilerin gündemine girmedi.

Sebahattin Önkibar TSK-ABD restleşmesi ve AKP?

Hasan CEMAL İki yakın sınav!

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 Kafalara asma kilit

Fehmi Koru Bir öyle, bir böyle yapana 'aydın' diyorlar

KORAY DÜZGÖREN Sanki 'paralel' bir hükümet konuşuyor

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Bu maskaralığa artık bir son verin…

[Yorum - Etyen Mahçupyan] Bürokratik yürütmenin demokrasi korkusu

Ali H Aslan With an enemy like Ahmadinejad

Türban mı? Nerede? Namık Kemal Zeybek

Taha AKYOL
Yeni ‘Şeytan’ Malezya

Ertuğrul Özkök Bir gazetecinin psikiyatrik halleri

Bilal Çetin Baykal’dan uzlaşma çağrısı...

Mehmet Yılmaz Emeğe ve uzmanlığa saygı duymayı öğrenelim

Ahmet Hakan Hayır Leyla Alaton, her şey para değildir

M Ali Birand Çok şaşırtıcı bir anket

Toplum baskısı Türker Alkan

Mehmet Barlas Türkiye’de devrim ve karşı-devrim enflasyonu var…

Kendini cüce sanan dev
İsmet Berkan

Ferai Tınç 11’lerini kurdular türbanı tartışıyorlar

Bu da global 'ikinci cumhuriyet'
H. Gökhan Özgün

MUSTAFA ÜNAL - 'Tartışmalardan yararlanıyoruz'

Burada ve dünyada demokrasi Murat Belge

Kıpırdayan toplum M.Ali Kışlalı

Gülay Göktürk Zorunlu din dersi - 28.Eylül.2007

Bülent Keneş Fear scenarios and the truth

TAMER KORKMAZ - Peruk bile yasak: Üniversiteye kafa ile girmek de yasaklansın!

Mehmet Tezkan İkinci Cumhuriyetçiler’le Birinci Cumhuriyetçiler maç etse hakem kim olur?

Serdar Turgut Medyadan da gına geldi

Can Dündar Ilımlı İslam ve ABD (2)

Ali Bayramoğlu Demokrasiye doğru yol almanın da yolları var…

Güler Kömürcü
Gündemden 2 önemli başlık...

Hakam Aygün 2. cumhuriyetçilik palavra, hepsi medya kavgası!

Yalçın Doğan CHP’de Politbüro iş başında

Özdemir İnce Müslümanca yaşamak ve Malezya korkusu

İki dev anketin sonucu Türkiye Malezya olur mu?

Ahmet Taşgetiren İslam’dan korku üretmek

Erdoğan "Türkiye Malezya olmaz"

Türban yok, eğitim hakkını tartışacağız

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERDAL ŞAFAK Silahsızlanma

ERGUN BABAHAN

EMRE AKÖZ Kemalist savunma refleksi

Umur Talu Malezya Hilton'a benzemek

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK Bienal'de Kemalizm'e eleştiri

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Baykal karşıtları "Koç" gibi...

YAVUZ DONAT Demirel: 'Derin bir konu...'

[HABER İNCELEME] Avrupa'da devlet okullarında din dersinin okutulmadığı tek ülke Fransa

Evren Anayasa'yı değiştirmenin zamanı geldi, Türkiye Malezya olmaz

Türkiye'nin sorunu düşük kur, rezerv çapası işe yaramaz

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Halka arzlar oldu yabancıya arz

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam

Volkan Akı
2. Nesil Reform Programı

ABD’deki gibi bankacıların maaşlarını açıklayabili

IMF: Türkiye’ye yeni çıpa önermedik

JTI, Tekel'e 1.5 milyar dolar vermeye hazır

İBRAHİM KAHVECİ Dövizini euro olarak biriktirenler 5.8 milyar dolar kazandı

Kyoto could be Turkey’s chance to speak up for poor countries

H4 New York Times Official Calls Kurd Oil Deal at Odds With Baghdad

I.M.F. Faces a Question of Identity

U.S. Courts the Visiting President of Turkmenistan

H5 Washington Post The French Flip Charles Krauthammer | France can define European policy and Nicolas Sarkozy intends to.

ANALYSIS: With Legacy in Mind, Bush Reassesses His Agenda

U.S. to Let Key Detainees Request Lawyers Move could allow 14 "high-value" terrorism suspects at Guantanamo to join other detainees in challenging status as enemy combatants in court

Editorial

Report: Blackwater Saw Bedlam Initial U.S. Embassy findings raise new questions about what led to shootings, standoff.

Judge Orders Release Of Musharraf's Foes

Pakistani activists were arrested as part of a government crackdown on political parties that are trying to block Musharraf's quest for another five years as president.

H6 Guardian War, who is it good for? Daphna Baram: Far from promoting peace, the US seems to be cajoling Israel's damaged political leadership towards a manufactured confrontation with Syria.

Stand firm on Kosovo
Jonathan Steele: The EU must not relent to the siren voices who oppose the territory's path to independence

Leader Talking lots, settling little
Climate change: No matter how seriously President Bush now talks about global warming, his economy depends on consumption of natural resources

Rice defends Bush's UN climate talks
US secretary of state defends conference against accusations that it intended to undermine UN efforts.

Preying on the poor Jean-Roger Kaseki If the international community is serious about combating global poverty, it must stop vulture funds targeting vulnerable countries.

Musharraf 'must free opponents'
President awaits key court ruling.
Profile: Pervez Musharraf

Ahmadinejad seeks to strengthen South America ties
On the heels of his UN general assembly appearance, Iran's president heads to Latin America.

H7 From NYRB, Peter Galbraith reviews Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States by Trita Parsi.

A review of The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy (and more and more).

FPIF The Theology of American Empire

Washington Times Defiance in Damascus (By Nir Boms)

'Hegemonistic' Iran worries Arab states (By Nicholas Kralev)

Boston Globe Chaos and unity in a fragmented Iraq

(By Roger Owen)

A Mideast real estate deal

A TINY, disputed parcel of land called Shebaa Farms, located where Israel, Syria, and Lebanon converge, has long been used as a pretext for armed confrontation. But Israel may now have a chance to remove this sliver of real estate as a source of conflict. This is an opportunity that should not be missed.

A Majority That Refuses to Act Like One By: Michael Young | The Daily Star Lebanese Parliament was called into session to find a successor to Emile Lahoud. Instead, the speaker, Nabih Berri, bought an extra month to haggle over a consensus candidate. That may be what many Lebanese want, but the result will not be stability

No More Cat-and-Mouse Games By: Mesbah Ahdab | The Guardian
This week's boycott of presidential elections by the Lebanese opposition was a huge setback for the country's democratic aspirations.

Is attacking Iran on the agenda? Immanuel Wallerstein investigates, and a review of Alternatives: The United States Confronts the World.

Take Tehran next Al-Ahram Weekly

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

Sunnis May Stop Work With US in Diyala

BBC Iraqi Sunni leader meets Sistani Iraqi Sunni leader Tariq al-Hashemi holds talks with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most senior Shia cleric

Lebanon stalemate
Political deadlock recalls country's violent polling history

Judge who refused to swear oath is Musharraf's rival in elections

Iran in $1bn Bolivia oil pledge
Iran's leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad promise $1bn (£493m) to help Bolivia exploit oil and gas reserves

National Journal Squeezing Iran - Julie Kosterlitz

Al-Arabiya TV Reports Views on Draft Law on Iraq Division

The Economist Lebanon Who's for president?

Israel The land of Zion

H9 Ha’aretz – Russia: New sanctions must await IAEA probe

ANALYSIS: Is Barghouti the answer for Abbas's woes?

IAF dispatches jets in response to Syrian helicopter activity

Livni, Syrian Foreign Minister deny reports they met at UN

Recommendation: Seven Megawatt-Hours Penalty for Each Palestinian Rocket - Yaakov Katz and Herb Keinon

Washington Institute Rice's Obstacles on the Road to an Israeli-Palestinian Breakthrough - David Makovsky

Economic Aspects of Peace in the Middle East

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

Israel won't halt fence work to get Saudis to int'l conference

'We'll help Syria in war'

Senior Hizbullah, PFLP members vow to stand by Damascus if Israel launches an offensive

BBC Israeli strike hits 'rocket crew'

An Israeli air strike in Gaza kills two Palestinian militants, bringing the death toll in the territory to at least 11.

Israel's limited options in Gaza

Chilling images
Newly found photos show how SS officers relaxed at Auschwitz

How Nixon showed pity for 'the world's loneliest man' Former US president was prepared to support the release of Rudolf Hess from Spandau prison in 1974.

Syrian Foreign Minister denies meeting Israeli counterpart

Middle East Times Commentary: Just how powerful is the US' Jewish lobby?

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Nuclear plant surge coming In the next 15 months, US regulators expect applications for up to 28 new plants.

ASIA

The Economist China's economy How fit is the panda?

Revolution in Myanmar The saffron revolution

PCs for peasant farmers? China targets digital divide. China's computermakers tap vast rural market with simple tools and local officials' support.

Drama Hits Beijing Politics By: Willy Lam | Asia Sentinel
Suddenly, a whiff of drama and suspense has suffused top-level Chinese Communist Party (CCP) politics, which is still run largely along monolithic, Leninist lines. Shanghai Party Secretary Xi Jinping has emerged as a possible successor to General Secretary and President Hu Jintao.

Spies 'stole secrets' to arm China army

The Rise of Middle-Ranking Powers By: Hideaki Kaneda | The Japan Times
Japan and other mid-level powers should build an antiterror coalition tantamount to a permanent "sixth" member of the U.N. Security Council

FT COMMENT: Fukuda, the other side of Koizumi's magic

Guardian Paranoid, insular and inept, the junta has no plan B
Kerry Brown: The roots of the violence in Burma lie neither in corruption nor sanctions, but in an endemic, self-imposed isolationism.

The Burmese blame game Simon Tisdall: China, Russia and India do indeed bear some responsibility, but no one in the international community's hands are clean.

BBC Bush on Burma
Matt Frei on why Burma's troubles should interest the US

Chávez's 21st Century Socialism Is Hopeless By: Marifeli Perez-Stable | Miami Herald
Hugo Chávez doesn't want one, Evo Morales may disband his and Rafael Correa threatens to resign if he doesn't control it. ''Constituent assembly'' is the right answer, a crucial instrument in the political reconstitution of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador.

H11 IHT The future of American multilateralism By PHILIP GORDON AND EDWARD JOSEPH
European reluctance to take risks for common interests bolsters American unilateralists.

The wrong question By SAMUEL CHARAP The West failed to see that Ukraine's political battles were just a sideshow to the real revolution.

A soldier in Iraq By GIAN P. GENTILE As the commander of an armor recon unit in Iraq, I found that my efforts to instill initiative in my troops became less and less effective the more casualties we took.

We can combat climate change By BAN KI MOON
Climate change has become a matter of strategic consequence for every government.

The 'crazies' and Iran
Mohamed ElBaradei should drop his foray into diplomacy and insist that Iran do what the UN Security Council has ordered: Suspend enrichment and answer all questions.

EUROPE European press review

The Economist France and the European Central Bank

Faulty Sarkonomics

Gordon Brown

History? What history?

BBC In the balance
Divisions over Kosovo come to the boil as talks deadline looms

Greek recovery 'to take decades'
It will take at least 20 years for Greek forests ravaged by forest fires to recover, the WWF says.

Wartime Demands Force NATO to Scale Back Ambitions for Response Force By: Adam Herbert | World Politics Review
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization last week announced that it is contemplating scaling back its highly publicized NATO Response Force, the Alliance's rapid reaction military force and its catalyst for military transformation. As is often the case for NATO, the real world intruded on its military ambitions.

H12 RFE/RL Russia: Imperial Anniversary Challenged In North Caucasus

Ukraine: New Polls Hold No Promise Of Change

Ukraine: Playing The Populist Card

Georgia: The Ally Who Turned On Saakashvili

Georgia: President Silent, While Key Opposition Party Takes Shape

An Economy at Risk By: Marshal I. Goldman | The Moscow Times
While most Russians have nothing but praise for what President Vladimir Putin has accomplished, the way he has handled the recent Cabinet shuffle raises the question as to who benefits more from this exercise, Putin or Russia?

Hawks and Liberals The Economist
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s cabinet reshuffle was not particularly dramatic, but it does somewhat bolster the position of liberals within the government. This could mean, paradoxically, that the stage is set for a hawk to become Russia’s next president. The identity of the successor, however, depends on Mr Putin’s own plans after his current term expires: retirement, influence from outside the Kremlin, or a return to the Kremlin within a few years?

Google News Azerbaijan

The Economist Ukraine's election Preparing for the next drama

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Spitting Image By: Adrian Karatnycky | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
With parliamentary elections looming in Ukraine on Sunday and in Poland next month, the political campaigns in these countries are remarkably alike. Both races are making it clear that such issues as corruption and morality have become the prism through which many voters are judging the dynamic post-communist world of rapid, market-driven growth.

Ukraine Votes By: Bruce P. Jackson | The Weekly Standard
This Sunday's parliamentary election in Ukraine shares at least one thing in common with next year's Presidential election in the United States. During overlong campaigns, in the parade of political personalities and the blizzard of distortions

CSM Will Sunday's Ukraine vote break political deadlock?

Ukraine's orange-blue divide

Why Crimea remains strongly Russian

BBC Georgia holds president's ex-ally A Georgian politician is arrested for corruption after alleging the president ordered him to plan assassinations.

Russia issues warning on space-based weapons
Russia's space forces chief, Colonel General Vladimir Popovkin, said Thursday that the nation would have to retaliate if others deploy weapons in space - a stern warning to the United States, whose plans for such weapons the Kremlin vociferously opposes.

EDM ESTONIA WILL NOT ALLOW THE NORD STREAM PIPELINE ON ITS SEABED
- NORD STREAM PROJECT: BILATERAL RUSSO-GERMAN, NOT EUROPEAN
- PARTIES MOBILIZE FOR PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN KYRGYZSTAN
- TURKISH OFFICIALS ANNOUNCE ANTI-PKK AGREEMENT WITH IRAQ

H13 The Times Bomb attacks bring pleas for British Basra return

British troops are being urged to return to the front line and help Iraqi counterparts after eight are killed by insurgents

Starbucked: how politics is changing Political conventions feel like high street coffee shops, serving up the same formulas James Harding

I adored you once. Now we must part Naked Opportunism and Sheer Expediency will take over from dear Prudence at No 10 Gerard Baker

Wall Street Journal RISING PRICES AND SURGING DEMAND for the crops that supply half of the world's calories are altering the economic landscape. The run-up could last as long as a decade.

Split Widens Among Evangelicals

A debate over the environment has been roiling America's potent but often fractious community of evangelicals. The most charged issue of all is climate change.

Democrats and Iran
Hillary outsmarts her dovish competition.

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: Sarkozy and the prize of a grand transatlantic bargain The condition of Franco-American ties determines the cohesion of the west, writes Philip Stephens

New light cast on Bush’s Iraq plans A leaked transcript of talks between President George W. Bush and José Maria Aznar, former Spanish prime minister, has cast fresh light on the diplomatic wrangling that preceded the Iraq war

Washington changes its tune on climate The world must cut emissions or sacrifice the planet, Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, told a meeting of governments, in the most strongly worded statement on global warming yet made by the US administration

Iraq's top Shia cleric meets Sunni leader

If the CAP fits . . . Recent rises in global food prices should encourage further reform of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy

Influential promoter of Islamic revolution Hossein Shariatmadari’s views have clout. The stinging editorials of the incendiary Tehran editor advocates positions that exert pressure on decision-makers

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: From symptom to system

WORLD NEWS: UN assembly heightens sense of impotence

Call for clarity on wealth funds Sovereign wealth funds’ investments will be restricted in Europe unless they are more transparent says the European Union’s top economic official

Serbia hits at US over Kosovo Boris Tadic, the Serbian president, says US support for Kosovan independence is undermining efforts for a compromise solution on the province’s future

Clinton brings shades of Davos to Manhattan

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Europe's carbon market needs a policeman The lack of a strong central authority to administer the scheme and short time frames are big flaws, writes Simon Tilford

COMMENT: How to revitalise the credit market in one step Lenders must assure investors that the quality of the securitised loan portfolios will be maintained, writes Jan Krahnen

Driving lessons from GM dispute The 41-hour wonder that was the GM national strike raises issues for businesses and unions that should resonate far beyond Detroit

COMMENT: A fixed term would be a fairer way Brown’s options are far wider than to wait or risk being remembered as a ‘few months’ prime minister, writes Samuel Brittan

US shipping plan attacked

European shipowners, port operators and retailers rounded on a US plan to scan all containers entering the country, saying it would have “disastrous effects” on trade

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial The Ahmadinejad show The Iranian president's views are as disturbing as ever. But how much does he really matter?

Giuliani criticizes Clinton's debate comments on Iran

Gates moves to rein in contractors in Iraq

H16 American Politics

The Economist Lexington Can Hillary be stopped?

CSM For voters, 'tough' now trumps 'nice' The front-runners for each party's nomination are also perceived by voters as the 'toughest' in their lineups.

New Hampshire promises a rocky ride Hillary Clinton’s lead in the polls is no guarantee of victory in New Hampshire, where they want a contest not a coronation

Rise of the Have-Nots Why More Americans Are Feeling Shut Out of Good Times By Harold Meyerson

Democrats remain united on key issues

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

H17 Daily Telegraph Will the 12th Imam cause war with Iran?

A clash with Western civilisation that the Iranian president so obviously desires will hasten, or so he believes, the arrival of the 12th Imam, writes Con Coughlin.

Leader Pakistan in turmoil

Western allies face the dilemma of General Pervez Musharraf as a head of state who, after eight years in office in Pakistan, is leaching power by the hour.

H18 Independent Blackwater 'mistakes' led to surge of Iraqi violence

Saudis urge Hamas and Fatah to form new coalition

Brown prepares Labour troops for snap election

Labour stepped up its preparations for a snap general election after the party's annual conference in Bournemouth ended on a high note

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Newsweek:Bob Gates's Victory

To little notice, the Defense secretary has gotten his way on Iraq, and possibly on Iran. Now, Gates is about to appoint a former top Clinton official to prove he means business.

Access the Largest Counter-Terrorism Data Base in the World (Investigative Project on Terrorism)

Wartime Demands Force NATO to Scale Back Ambitions for Response Force By: Adam Herbert | World Politics Review
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization last week announced that it is contemplating scaling back its highly publicized NATO Response Force, the Alliance's rapid reaction military force and its catalyst for military transformation. As is often the case for NATO, the real world intruded on its military ambitions.

Byting Back — Regaining Information Superiority Against 21st-Century Insurgents
Source: RAND Corporation Summary (PDF; 197 KB)
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Defense: FY2008 Authorization and Appropriations, updated September 17,
2007 (PDF; 472 KB)

Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (PDF; 552 KB)

The Law of the Sea Treaty: Impeding American Entrepreneurship and Investment Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute

The hi-tech battlefield , Paul Rogers

US Spies Prep Reporters on Protecting Secrets

H20 Slate

The Economist Climate change

As the waters rise

Civil liberties: surveillance and privacy Learning to live with Big Brother

A review of Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation: A Theory of Discourse Failure by Guido Pincione and Fernando R. Teson. Bryan Caplan on the 4 boneheaded biases of stupid voters (and we're all stupid voters).

From Slate, a series of articles that examine the unavoidable presence of sex in science and culture. From Commonweal, Charles Taylor on Sex and Christianity: How has the moral landscape changed.

International Comparisons Of Manufacturing Productivity And Unit Labor Cost Trends 2006 PDF Version Also Available (16 pages; PDF)

H21 From NYRB, Colin McGinn reviews Steven Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (and more and more and more and more and interview).

As happy as Larry?

Open Thread: Two new studies by American economists have revealed that men are happier than women. Is it true?

“The Bible,” sighed Voltaire, “is what fools have written, imbeciles command, and rogues teach.” Was he being too rude?... more»

'Acting is the most natural thing'

He may be a late bloomer, but Morgan Freeman gets all the best parts: God, the president, a jailbird, a gumshoe. John Patterson meets him.

You can take the human being out of the savannah, but you can’t take the savannah out of the human being... more»

Jorge Luis Borges knew the risks of perfect memory. He wrote of a man paralyzed by it. Google’s memory is perfect... more»

Critics should make readers feel uneasy about their ignorance of art, music, or literature. Alex Ross is such a critic... more»

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