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| H1 Worldview | Why a plan for Iraq's soft partition would backfire Guardian Conquer and divide Voters want Putin to carry on Opposition fears outgoing president may create 30-year rule WSJ Taking the Lead on Iraqi Oil Three Iraqs Worse Than One? by Khody Akhavi NYT Magazine Democratosis By NOAH FELDMAN Why can’t we stop our (sometimes hypocritical) preaching to the world about democracy? Regrets Only? By DEXTER FILKINS Kanan Makiya spent years in exile advocating the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. The war he supported brought about an Iraq he never imagined. Financial Times Winners of God’s lottery From American wheat farmers to Siberian oil oligarchs, the globalisation boom is also being harvested by a commodity elite, writes Chrystia Freeland Iran Could Strike U.S. by 2015, U.S. Officials Say (FOX News) A Nuclear-Free World By: Ivo Daalder and John Holum | The Boston Globe Should the United States aim to achieve a world free of all nuclear weapons? In one sense, the question is trivial - nuclear disarmament has been a stated aim of the United States since the dawn of the nuclear age Why Syria's Air Defenses Failed to Detect Israelis - David A. Fulghum (Aviation Week) IHT Dealing with Putin Russian power rests on a fragile base. Name dropping, Russian style A great number of indicators describe the movement of a society from freedom to authoritarianism. One of these is the number of politicians, scientists and writers that the authorities bar from various media and publications. FT Editorial Breathing easier but still wheezing The danger to the US economy is a loss of trust in the Fed’s will to fight inflation, leading to higher wages, higher prices, further falls in the dollar and sales of US assets by foreign investors Christian Science Monitor The Guards Run the Show in Iran By: Abbas William Samii | The Christian Science Monitor In recent weeks, as Washington ratcheted up pressure to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, officials throughout Iran sprang to its defense. Independent Why? Six years on from the invasion of Afghanistan As another British soldier is killed in Afghanistan, Patrick Cockburn asks what is the point of the mission Leading article: Ignominy in Afghanistan U.S. policy paper calls for Hamas to be a participant in final status talks Daniel Levy Time to weigh in on the Israel lobby debate Milton Viorst on 'Israel Lobby' Commentary: Topic A on the Net Asia Times Reaping what is sown The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan CBS In Iraq, Blackwater Is Old News Max Boot - The Tehran-Damascus Axis So Who's Afraid of the Israel Lobby? by Ray McGovern Global Attitudes: Challenges for the Next Administration LA Times Editorial Prime Minister Putin? The Russian president makes a farce of his nascent democracy, and the U.S. has no choice but to deal with him This just in: 'diplomacy' works Rosa Brooks The administration discovers a time-tested method in international negotiations Lowy Institute Despots, democrats and discontents CEPS Kosovo merits special status as part of the EU I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher, is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth. | H2 McClatchy Turkish envoy warns against U.S. genocide resolution Washington Post Turkish Premier Tells Bush Genocide Bill Would Hurt Ties Tasarıdan 'PKK eki' çıkarıldı ABD Temsilciler Meclisi Dış İlişkiler Komitesi'nde 10 Ekim'de oylanacak olan Ermeni tasarısının ardından oylanacağı açıklanan ve terör örgütü PKK'yı kınayarak Türkiye'ye destek veren tasarı gündemden çıkarıldı Turkey, Bush work to bar House bill on Armenian genocide Bush Adminisration says the passage of the nonbinding bill would hurt strategic U.S. interests in region. Turkey: Izmir Attacks Stratfor Reuters Turk PM Tells Bush Genocide Bill Would Harm Ties CFR Turks at Europe’s Gates - Council on Foreign Relations Lee Hudson Teslik Turkish, US anti-PKK envoy mechanism effectively over The Economist Soykırım tasarısı neye yarar? - Economist: Tasarı geçerse Türkiye, İncirlik'i kapatabilir Erdoğan, Bush'u arayınca Beyaz Saray açıklama yaptı: Soykırım meclisin değil tarihçilerin işi Bush: Ermeni iddiaları tarihçilerin işi Babacan Ermeni tasarısı geçerse ABD'nin imajını düzeltemeyiz Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring WSJ Taking the Lead on Iraqi Oil Teröristlerin 12 ferdini öldürdüğü Beşağaç Köyü'nde AK Parti DTP'yi üçe katlamış Beşağaç Katliamı PKK'yı Karıştırdı Org. Başbuğ: PKK’ya katılımlar engellenemedi Avrupalı Kürdler ve Dernekleri "PKK'ya katılımı önlemede devlet başarısız oldu" ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Kürt sorunu alev alev… HAKAN ALBAYRAK PKK neyin peşinde? Turkey struggling to weed out the PKK terrorists at home before winter sets in Kurds make their move ISN With Kurds using the opportunity afforded by central government paralysis to assert their authority over northern gas and oil reserves, the US is increasingly in a quandary as to how to proceed. Turkish commander urges continued efforts to crack down on PKK Bush: Irak'ın bölünmesine karşıyım Egyptian Writer Regrets Arab 'Silence' Over Plan to Divide Iraq Kurdish Oil Deals Draw Warning From Baghdad 4 New Contracts Grant Exploration Rights Pentagon'a teslim edilen silahlar Türkiye'de çıktı 'Terör örgütüne katılımı engellemede başarısız olduk' Irak'ı bölmek bizim işimiz değil David Ignatius "DTP'ye yönelik linç kampanyası yürütülüyor" DTP'li Selma Irmak'ın sözlerine soruşturma Öcalan’ın başkan yeğeni gözaltında Meclis heyetinden ortak kanaat: PKK Çiçek DTP aklını başına toplasın 'Terörist' demeyen partiye gözaltı Her çeşit terör kınanmalıdır Sebahattin Önkibar DTP, toplumu PKK'nın resmen siyaset yapmasına hazırlıyor! Babacan Yangına gidiyor Kurdistan working aside from Iraq government Beytushebab Massacre: Lies and Crimes of Turkish Militarists Let's Try Partitioning The US - By Linda S. Heard PKK'nın elinde tank var mı? TURKEY'S KURDISH POLICY İslami hareketlerin yükseliş dönemi bitiyor AKP, Fas'ta tutmadı M.Ali Kışlalı MELİHA OKUR Kim bu Teksaslı kovboylar? Kurtlar Vadisi bombalı minibüsü çözdü Beril Dedeoğlu The second best Iraq Kurds need nod from Baghdad, Turkey for oil exports Meclis İnsan Hakları Komisyonu katliamı araştırmak için Şırnak'ta Statement from the Kurdistan Democratic Confederation (KCK) Iraq Struggles With Cholera Outbreak Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber Taha AKYOL Kıbrıs ve AB yolunda iyimserlik Abdülhamit Bilici Attention! ‘We can live without a solution’ growingly popular among Turkish Cypriots French foreign minister seeks to mend ties with Turkey "POSITIONS OF TURKEY'S NEGATIONISM ARE SHATTERED," ASSURES EXPERT ... US should not talk of Armenian 'genocide': Bush American-Turkish Council warns on genocide bill ABD Dışişleri: Ermeni tasarısı geçerse Irak'ta zarar görürüz CFR Turks at Europe’s Gates - Council on Foreign Relations Lee Hudson Teslik Turkish businessmen complain of visa restrictions - Turkish Daily News Oct 05, 2007 TBMM Ermeni tasarısına karşı harekete geçti Avrupa Konseyi, Bıçak'ın başvurusu üzerine Türkiye'nin listesini reddetmiş Fransa ile diyalog kapısı açıldı 'Türkler, Sarkozy'den nefret ediyor' BM'de konuşan İhsanoğlu: Müslümanlar zulüm ve ayrımcılığa uğruyor Can Dündar Tarihin dikenini ayıklamak... Rauf Denktaş Markullis'in derdi AB sürecinde Madrid-Ankara ekseni ERDAL ŞAFAK İspanya-AB-Türkiye Yaman TÖRÜNER Avrupa Birliği ve sağlık Ermeni iddialarına ilanla cevap Fransa�ya üç uyarı Diyanet and German Church promise better cooperation Mösyö hangisi doğuda Kıbrıs mı, Türkiye mi Kouchner "Türkiye ile soğuyan ilişkiler"e dikkat çekti Gül "AB Türkiye'ye verdiği bazı sözleri tutmadı" Will it Still Be (Turkish) Business as Usual for Foxman and the ... Suspicious villagers reject EU funding KKTC ile Suriye arası feribot seferleri başlıyor Genelkurmay’dan kaçak göçmen uyarısı Babacan Kouchner’e endişelerini iletti Ermeni tasarısından PKK eki çıkarıldı Turkish Weekly Comment - Turkey's Booming Economy and the European Union , AB’den reform anlaşması taslağı JTW News - Syria recognizes Turkish Cyprus State passports as traveling documents Ata Atun Turkish Armed Forces: The real peacekeeping force in Cyprus Tufan Türenç Kadın kotasına Başbakan öfkesi 'Asker köpek taşımaz'a üsteğmen dayağı Başsavcılık 216 yıl istedi Yüce Divan beraat verdi Ersümer: AKP'nin devri sabık çabası boşa çıktı Yüce Divan'da hakkındaki bütün davalardan beraat etti Devletin sevgili çocukları... Güngör URAS Sayın Sarıgül İletişim Fakültesi'ni çadıra mahkûm etti Cem Yılmaz 'Tarikatçı' iddialarına gülmüş Anayasa ekibinde ‘yasak aşk’ iddiası Fener'de başarılı bir diktatörlük sistemi var HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Çıldırtıcı müziğin dekoru Mehmet Kamış Turkish universities mired in ideology Can Ataklı SABAH - ATV için fiyat 1.8 milyar dolara çıkabilir We Are All Bob Dylan: Turkish Dylan -- Vulture -- Entertainment & Culture Blog -- New York Magazine | H3 Erdoğan'ın başını ağrıtan iki konu Murat Yetkin Cengiz Çandar Diyarbakır’da Gerry Adams’ı anımsamak... İlter Türkmen Irak politikamız üzerinde tartışmalar Sami KOHEN Ankara'nın Irak'ta federasyona bakışı M Ali Birand Baykal haklı, referandum iptal olmalı Ergun Özbudun Halkoylaması kaos yaratır mı? Fikret BİLA 1 Mart tezkeresiyle ilgili tartışma Sadi Somuncuoğlu Bölücü terörün kökü niçin kazınamıyor? İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri - Dış Basında Güncel Türkiye Bülteni Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700 VOA Dış Basında Türkiye Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey Turquie Türkei TurcoPundit Taha Kıvanç 'Tık' deyip geçmeyin Fehmi Koru İnatlaşarak buraya kadar Baykal Referandum saçmalık, tümden kaldıralım Şandır Sopa değiliz MHP�nin tavrı belirleyici Ege Cansen Yenilik düşkünlüğü Gelişme, yenilik düşkünlerinin değil; yenilikçilerin eseridir. Nuh Gönültaş Polat Alemdar bombalı minibüs olayını çözdü Hasan CEMAL Davanın peşini bırakma! MHP, 'anayasa' kampına giriyor Enis Berberoğlu 301 meclisi kurulsun Oktay Ekşi İlk koşul bağımsız yargıdır Özdemir İnce Ergun Özbudun mantığı Yılmaz Özdil Yes be annem... EMRE AKÖZ Hilmi Özkök'e sosyolojik eleştiri İsmail Küçükkaya Engin Ardıç Kafam karıştı Serdar Turgut Rauf Tamer Baykal'ın tarihi misyonu bitti mi? NAZLI ILICAKKorkularımızın esiriyiz MAHMUT ÖVÜR 'Bu yapıdan yeni bir lider çıkmaz' YAVUZ DONAT "Özalcılar"ın buluşması Başbakan'ın zihniyet dünyası 'Kolektif' suç Murat Belge Re-electing the 11th President by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE Gül: Eksantrik fikir korunmalı Tan Gül'ü övdü: Performansı göz dolduruyor Şahin Alpay Kemal Karpat'ın anıları yolda Hadi Uluengin Ulus devleti düşünmek Zeynep Göğüş Malezya modelini ABD’ye sor Zorunlu 'din öğretimi' ve 'din eğitimi' Mehmet Barlas Abdullah Gül meğerse artık siyasetçi değilmiş Nedim Hazar Demokrasi ve medya (1) Erdal Sağlam Ekonomide güçlü bir çıkış planı bekleniyor Snow: IMF'siz yola devam edebilirsiniz Snow: Türkiye fırtınalı denizlerde güvenle ilerliyor Hisarcıklıoğlu’ndan yerli IMF önerisi Dolar ve hâkim para sorunu Ömrünün kısa olduğunu düşünen, verimli çalışmaz, tasarruf yapmaz Metin MÜNİR Sahibi belli değil şirketler çemberinde Petkim Deniz Gökçe Software exports can exceed $2 bln, help with growing deficit Emekli sayısı 100 ülkenin nüfusunu geçti Sosyal güvenlikte radikal önlemler geliyor |
| H4 New York Times State Dept. Plans Tighter Control of Security Firm The State Department said it would now send its own personnel as monitors on all of Blackwater USA’s security convoys in and around Baghdad. Bush Defends Interrogations, Saying Methods Aren’t Torture The president championed a once-secret program to detain and interrogate high-profile terror suspects, provoking recriminations on Capital Hill. Democratosis By NOAH FELDMAN Why can’t we stop our (sometimes hypocritical) preaching to the world about democracy? Regrets Only? By DEXTER FILKINS Kanan Makiya spent years in exile advocating the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. The war he supported brought about an Iraq he never imagined. Editorial Questions About the India Deal, Finally President Bush is right on that the U.S. needs to develop strong ties with India. But he erred in making a nuclear deal the centerpiece of that relationship Christian Split in Lebanon Raises Specter of Civil War Basque Leaders Arrested in Spain Care of Dying Is Outlined by W.H.O. Joining Trend, Bulgaria Won’t Allow Prostitution Bill Clinton, in Paris, Praises Sarkozy The Erosion of a Murder Case Against Marines in the Killing of 24 Iraqi Civilians Accounts Differ Sharply on U.S. Attack in Iraq | H5 Washington Post State Department to Monitor Blackwater As criticism escalates, Pentagon report depicts a troubling lack of coordination between private security contractors, U.S. military ANALYSIS The Pakistani Election For months, the United States has quietly brokered secret talks between Musharraf and Bhutto Editorial Pakistan's Tainted Election Gen. Pervez Musharraf is likely to be reelected as president today; whether he can maintain power is another question. Putin Cements His Grip By Masha Lipman Putin extends his authority. But the Russians don't mind. Syria Plans Disruption In Lebanon, Hariri Says | H6 Guardian Conquer and divide Voters want Putin to carry on Opposition fears outgoing president may create 30-year rule Paras to lead spring offensive Protests after Spanish police arrest banned party leaders Basque nationalists protest after police arrested alleged leaders of a political party banned for its links to Eta. Court blocks Musharraf's path to re-election Judges delay result declaration, with the possibility that the Pakistani president may be disqualified. Leader Just say no Gordon Brown has got himself into an unnecessary mess over the timing of the election and only Gordon Brown can get himself out of it. The scandal of Blackwater Two cheers for Gordon Amitai Etzioni: If a country wants to change its social-moral values, it must consult its people, as Brown seems to understand. Speech marks Anthony Giddens Nicholas Noe |
| H7 Iran Could Strike U.S. by 2015, U.S. Officials Say (FOX News) A Nuclear-Free World By: Ivo Daalder and John Holum | The Boston Globe A New Phase of the Global Warming Debate - Bryan Walsh, Time Commentary: Topic A on the Net In rare interview to al-Arabiya TV, US president Bush denys reports of planned attack on Iran Daily Star Saudi judicial reforms could augur well for the entire region NY Sun The Arab World's Steady March Backward - Youssef Ibrahim Outlook Cloudy in the Climate Change Debate By: Roland Flamini | World Politics Review Upcoming Peace Talks Will Not Solve the Complex Darfur Problem By: Adam Wolfe | The Power and Interest News Report Outside View: Are we safer yet? By CHARLES V. PENA Memories of monarchies revived | H8 IraqSlogger Google News Iraq Iran Syria Mideastwire.com - NPR Iraq stratfor US Papers Saturday: Bringing Blackwater to Heel Iraq Papers Sat: The "National Contract" Iraqi groups help secure triangle of death A U.S. military commander in Iraq says local citizens groups have been the turning point for securing an area once referred to as the triangle of death. BBC Monitoring Quotes From Middle East Arabic Press for 5 Oct 07 Iranians Chant "Death to Israel" in Mass Protest US kills '25 militants' in Iraq US forces kill at least 25 suspected militants in a raid against an Iran-linked militia leader, the US military says. Iraq Kurds urge Iranian's release Saudis to overhaul legal system Saudi Arabia announces an overhaul of its judicial system, including the creation of a supreme court. Iran defiant over nuclear issue Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes a defiant speech defending Iran's nuclear programme. BBC Pakistan ready for controversial vote President Pervez Musharraf seeks re-election in Pakistan, despite concerns over the legality of his bid. Iran's Crackdown Victimizes Baha'is – Mark Hizbullah Regains Strength in Lebanon – Iran Foreign Minister: Israel Very Vulnerable Now French Envoy to Egypt Comments on Developments in Middle East Lebanon: Fatah Al-Islam Reportedly Tried to Ally With Future Movement - Paper Expansion of Ties With Arab States a Priority - Iran Deputy Foreign Minister | H9 Ha’aretz - Nasrallah blames Israel for killings in Lebanon Editorial: Olmert and Abbas' mission much harder than that of Barak and Arafat Why Syria's Air Defenses Failed to Detect Israelis - David A. Fulghum (Aviation Week) Daily Alert.org – Middle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review – Google News Israel - Palestine Did a liberal hero really make this statement? Jews told to stop calling Jesus a bastard 'Transfer Israel to Europe'... BBC Monitoring Quotes From Israel's Hebrew Press 5 Oct 07 Daily Star Abbas should listen to his refugees By Rami G. Khouri Nasrallah: Invade Palestine Iran Key to Israeli-Palestinian Peace By: Robert Zelnick | Foreign Policy Research Institute Israel Should Become a Member of the Council of Europe - Interview with Robbie Sabel As Abbas Fiddles with Dead-End Diplomacy, Hamas Builds an Integrated War Machine The Ideology of Peace Studies - Gerald M. Steinberg Google Earth Turns Unwelcome Eye Towards Israel Linking the Gaza Strip with the West Bank: Implications of a Palestinian Corridor Across Israel - Justus Reid Weiner and Diane Morrison (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Palestinians Divided Over Future Under Hamas Compartmentalization: Palestine Policy Hamas: Fatah using 'insurgency' tactics Rice's rabbit hole [ CAROLINE GLICK Either treat them as equals, or... A Priest Methodically Reveals Ukrainian Jews’ Fate Patrick Desbois roams Ukraine’s back roads and forgotten fields to document the Nazis’ murder of 1.5 million Jews. Another Tack: Post-modernist plasticine |
| H10 Christian Science Monitor The Guards Run the Show in Iran By: Abbas William Samii | The Christian Science Monitor In recent weeks, as Washington ratcheted up pressure to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, officials throughout Iran sprang to its defense. ASIA WSJ Toward an America-Free Korea The South would be making a risky bet if it decides to go it alone in relations with the North. By NICHOLAS EBERSTADT and AARON L. FRIEDBERG AND CHRISTOPHER GRIFFIN China’s party congress: getting serious, Kerry Brown Boston Globe Big deal with North Korea IT HAS BEEN a long time coming, but President Bush has finally begun to cut the deals with North Korea that were always required to eliminate the world's most dangerous weapons from the Korean peninsula. Asia Times India holds the key in NATO's world view The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's agenda is centered on its further enlargement as well as lengthening its reach to undertake missions with new partners in every corner of the world. Many of its main challenges are in the Indian Ocean region, which makes a friendly India a priority. Washington fully backs a NATO-India partnership, while Delhi has some critical decisions to make. - M K Bhadrakumar Time The Man to See (The Well / World) As the Communist Party prepares to meet, China's Hu Jintao consolidates power Gvosdev Power Sharing for Pakistan? BBC Cold thaw? Opposition rejects Burmese leader's negotiation offer The party of the detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday dismissed the military junta's purported offer of talks Burma rebels: 'We will fight regime to the death’ Two activists who spoke to The Times denounced the UN and its special envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, for 'cosying' up to the junta | H11 IHT Dealing with Putin Name dropping, Russian style A great number of indicators describe the movement of a society from freedom to authoritarianism. One of these is the number of politicians, scientists and writers that the authorities bar from various media and publications. Bulgaria moves away from legalizing prostitutionThe move is part of a broader trend in Europe to make prostitution illegal as a way to combat sexual trafficking. Poland threatens to reject EU treatyWarsaw wants the treaty to contain a voting mechanism that would allow a country like Poland to delay a decision, even if it did not have enough votes to block one. EUROPE European press review Time Kosovo: Separation Anxiety By ANDREW PURVIS The Balkan ghosts are back: Kosovo is heading for independence, and Moscow doesn't like it Belgrade Against December Deadline on Kosovo By: Elitsa Vucheva | EU Observer Basque protest urged over arrests Spotlight on Sarkozy's wife as separation rumours fly Renewed speculation in France over the relationship between President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Cécilia. | H12 RFE/RL Google News Azerbaijan Democrary's Facade By: Robert Orttung and Christopher Walker | The Moscow Times One could have hoped that Anna Politkovskaya's brutal murder and the international condemnation that followed would have set Russia's besieged press environment on a different course. Orange bloc 'wins Ukraine ballot' Ukraine's Orange Revolution parties win enough votes for a parliamentary majority, unofficial results indicate. Russia can have any leader it wants, as long as it's Putin |
| H13 The Times Now or 2009 Whatever the date, Brown must recognise the new mood on state influence Court decision sets Musharraf on path to power President Musharraf is expected to win another term after the Supreme Court rejected an attempt to delay the election Britain should be as generous as possible to Iraqis who have risked their lives Richard Dawkins debates in the Bible Belt Atheist author of The God Delusion takes on Christian apologist in America's Christian fundamentalist heartland Victory for interpreters who risked everything Iraqi interpreters who have worked with the British Army are to be allowed to settle in the UK after a campaign by The Times Wall Street Journal Crude oil is disappearing from Cushing, Okla. The variety of surprisingly complex reasons shed light on the growing involvement of speculators in the global oil market. China Can Do More on Darfur By: Mia Farrow | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) | H14 Financial Times Winners of God’s lottery From American wheat farmers to Siberian oil oligarchs, the globalisation boom is also being harvested by a commodity elite, writes Chrystia Freeland Credit squeeze costs banks $18bn The toll of big bank losses from the credit squeeze topped $18bn after Merrill Lynch and Washington Mutual revealed heavy damage inflicted by financial market turmoil Breathing easier but still wheezing The danger to the US economy is a loss of trust in the Fed’s will to fight inflation, leading to higher wages, higher prices, further falls in the dollar and sales of US assets by foreign investors Kosovo: Tug-of-war over the province endures Serbia’s brinkmanship with Brussels over Kosovo means the risk of turning away from the western world for the long term Bush accused of ‘games’ over torture Spotlight on controversial interrogation Iran accuses Israel of ‘genocide’ Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad accused Israel of using the Holocaust as a pretext for ”genocide” against Palestinians FT MAGAZINE - BOOK REVIEW: Look who's talking From Chamberlain and Hitler to Reagan and Gorbachev, a masterly account tells of six historic meetings between world leaders. By Vernon Bogdanor COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Le monde according to Garp (and Blic) Nicolas Sarkozy has set about slashing away at the thicket of horrific French acronyms, writes Adam Jones Jobs data boost US economic hopes 110,000 jobs added in September | H15 Los Angeles Times White House defends interrogation methods Bush endorses the legality of an array of tough tactics, ranging from sleep deprivation to simulated drowning. Editorial Prime Minister Putin? The Russian president makes a farce of his nascent democracy, and the U.S. has no choice but to deal with him This just in: 'diplomacy' works Rosa Brooks The administration discovers a time-tested method in international negotiations. What will Bill do as first lady? By Andrew Malcolm TOP OF THE TICKET: The next President Clinton will send her husband abroad to repair the nation's image. Ramadi sheiks unfazed by slaying Gitmo: America's Black Hole By: Clive Stafford Smith | Los Angeles Times |
| H16 American Politics GEORGE P. SHULTZ, HENRY A. KISSINGER, ALEXANDER M. HAIG JR., LAWRENCE S. EAGLEBURGER, JAMES R. SCHLESINGER, JOHN F. LEHMAN JR., R. JAMES WOOLSEY JR. & ROBERT C. MCFARLANE: We strongly endorse the candidacy of Senator McCain and as a matter of deep personal conviction, call upon all Americans to join us in that judgment. “Being John McCain” The Space In The Center - Clive Crook, National Journal Bush's combination of strident social conservatism and dismal record of achievement has created a wide space in the center of American politics. Do Democrats Need a Big Idea? - Kevin Drum, Washington Monthly Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal: The Trance — Bush . . . Clinton . . . Bush . . . Clinton . . . Getting very sleepy . . . Barack Obama has a great thinking look. I mean the look he gets on his face when he's thinking, not the look he presents in debate, where they all control their faces knowing they may be in the reaction shot … Lists & Rankings: PAC Activity Continues Climb In 2006; Top 50 PACS Washington Post Looking Past the Elephant in The Room GOP Contenders Keep Distance From Bush Legacy Gallup: Americans Back White House Plan for Iraq Drawdown realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note – US News Political Bulletin Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp Giuliani points to tax cuts, welfare record to woo conservatives GAIL COLLINS Rudy Finds a New Topic To his credit, sort of, Rudy Giuliani has finally figured out that he cannot simply keep muttering “9/11 ... 9/11.” BOB HERBERT Send in the Clowns The nation’s failure to deal constructively with the new realities of employment, education, health care and so on has taken a toll. McCain Wants Greenspan, Dead Or Alive... Muttering at Hillary Clinton's coronation Rival political operatives are awestruck by the efficiency of Hillary's campaign., says Toby Harnden. But not everybody is convinced. Charge-it America President Bush's current approval ratings are about 32 percent. Only 1 in 4 Americans approves of the Democratic-controlled Congress. | H17 Daily Telegraph Tide is turning in transformed Basra Early withdrawal of British troops would be "a big mistake". | H18 Independent Why? Six years on from the invasion of Afghanistan As another British soldier is killed in Afghanistan, Patrick Cockburn asks what is the point of the mission Leading article: Ignominy in Afghanistan The daunting task of bringing peace to this bleak landscape Leading article: Volatile voters, resurgent Tories and the decision to call an election Robert Fisk: My Cold War nights, twiddling the dial |
| H19Military Intelligence Terrorism War, peace and anthropologists (Austin Bay) Boston Globe Black marks for Blackwater A MILITARY that has barely enough ground troops to handle the counterinsurgency wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has had to turn to private contractors to provide many of the services that have historically been the responsibility of the Marine Corps, including the protection of US diplomats. Blackwater, the company guarding US Embassy officials in Iraq, has succeeded in keeping all ... Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday banned Blackwater USA contractors from protecting U.S. Embassy convoys in Iraq unless they are accompanied by State Department security Bush denies US torture use claims President Bush rejects new claims his administration secretly authorised torture of terror suspects overseas. | H20 Slate Down the Drain The New York Times Magazine profiles an Iraqi intellectual whose goal in life was to topple Saddam. A Political Scientist in China Olympic jitters and brewing troubles with Taiwan. FT Call to limit foreign footballers Fifa says European football clubs should restrict the number of non-nationals on the pitch as it urges the EU to exempt the sport from laws on free movement of workers German journalism's grande dame gets gaudy The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper has hurtled into the 1980s with its first ever front page colour picture Some Aspects of Human Nature as Viewed by Cardinal John Henry Newman; and a roundtable on Harold Bloom's Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine. Nurture strikes back: Some sex differences that look biological are really cultural. Number of Obese Growing on Global Scale It is a truism that men and women do not communicate in the same way. But is there really any evidence to support this Mars-and-Venus theory? (and part 2 and part 3). Free Food? The rise of food blogs has chefs using freebies. How Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) Has Affected World Poultry-Meat Trade Fatherhood 2.0 (Life: Society - Health - Environment / Society) 10 Questions for George Clooney What is intelligence? One of history's longest-running controversies has been that between those who believe intelligence is inherited and those who see it as determined by environment. Guardian, Saturday Interventions, by Noam Chomsky (Hamish Hamilton, £12.99) The Problems of Mass Digitization | H21 I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher, is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth. Gene genie: Craig Venter interviewed The inflation of scientific claims based on feeble evidence is an embarrassment to materialism. But the claims of the soulists... more» When the concept of progress is is given too much importance in music history, we lose of sense of music’s most lasting values... more» Is human existence worth its consequent harm? “If we can’t arrange our own happiness,” Alexander Herzen might have said, “it’s a conceit beyond vulgarity to arrange the happiness of those who come after us.” So much for utopia... more» Blatter's foreign quota plan would kill Premier League, warns Wenger Football: Arsenal boss comes out against plan to stop clubs fielding more than five foreign players. Transhumans in space What role will genetic engineering and modification of human beings play in long-term space exploration? Japanese workers 'shirked duties to edit Wikipedia' Government reprimands group of civil servants for spending hours contributing to online encyclopedia. Creationism should be tackled in science lessons, schools told Eagleton vs Amis, a very literary spat Michael Henderson marvels at intellectual heights one must scale these days to become a professor of cultural theory. BT plans to create free wi-fi communities Whole towns could become free wi-fi hotspots after BT launches the world's largest network of free wireless internet. FT COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Soccer, business and the problem of meddling owners FT MAGAZINE: Dame Helen Mirren - By royal appointment This is Not a Bob Dylan Movie By ROBERT SULLIVAN Todd Haynes is known for films that are daring and arty and don’t always make sense. Inside the making of his weirdest, most audacious work yet. Questions for Mario Vargas Llosa The Storyteller Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON The Peruvian novelist talks about where to find bad girls, how much he and Ronald Reagan had in common and what he has against psychoanalysis. The Fakebook Generation By ALICE MATHIAS For young people, Facebook is yet another form of escapism; we can turn our lives into stage dramas and relationships into comedy routines. |
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