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| H1 NYT Editorial Iraqi Oil Spoils The oil contracts between Kurdish regional leaders and foreign companies are a dangerous attempt to establish facts on the ground. NYRB 2-State Solution a Must - 'Failure Risks Devastating Consequences' By Zbigniew Brzezinski, Lee Hamilton, Carla Hills, Nancy Kassebaum-Baker, Thomas R. Pickering, Brent Scowcroft, Theodore C. Sorensen, and Paul Volcker
The "Brzezinski-Hamilton Report"
Washington Post Editorial It's Getting Better in Iraq The evidence of a drop in violence in Iraq is becoming hard to dispute.
Al Awsat Putin's Highwire Diplomacy in Tehran : Amir Taheri
New York Times Analysts Find Israel Struck a Nuclear Project Inside Syria A site attacked last month by Israel was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, according to Israeli and American intelligence
News Analysis: Pre-emptive Caution: The Case of Syria
With Tight Grip on Ballot, Putin Is Forcing Foes Out Putin is poised to extinguish the last embers of opposition in Russia’s Parliament.
Clinton’s Iran Vote: The FalloutBy HELENE COOPER The Revolutionary Guards are terrorists. Let the Democratic debate begin.
PINR "Israel's Strike on Syria Reduces Chances for Peace Deal"
Sunday Times Biggest threat to the West lies within Our leaders would suspend the freedoms of democracy at the bang of a bomb Simon Jenkins
Top Shi'ite Seeks Total US Pullout
Iraq's Shi'ite Leaders Lock Horns on Federalism
Seeing Blue: American Visions of the EU ISS-EU
Syria's Role in the Region: Media, Peacemaker or Aggressor
The Observer Will China's next leader be its Gorbachev? Will Hutton: The country's top political figures gather this week to choose a new President. Their decision will affect us all.
Israel's strike against Syria...
Walt, Mearsheimer respond...
Christian Science Monitor Moderate Muslims speak – to Christians A 'historic' letter from 138 prominent Muslims speaks to a desire to defuse tensions between the faiths
Is the Foreign Policy Process Working? CIS – MIT
CFR Leverett: A ‘Formula’ for Lifting America’s Standing in the Middle East
Turning on the DIME: Diplomacy’s Role in National Security Source: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College Full Paper (PDF; 214 KB)
The Reserve Policies of Nations: A Comparative Analysis
Financial Times COMMENT: A more competitive dollar is good for America The dollar’s fall will correct global imbalances without higher US inflation or decreased growth in the rest of the world, says Martin Feldstein. , COMMENT: Not lawless, Mr Bush, just brainless The administration has left no time to ask what is wise, feasible
Independent Tories surge to 5-point lead over Labour, says poll of polls
Muslim Integration: Challenging Conventional Wisdom in Europe and the United States
Time America's Future Middle East Policy (2)
CFR Deciding China’s Political Future
'Current Contents' of journals | H2 Washington Post Armenians Who Need Help Today By Fred Hiatt, Imagine what the Armenian diaspora might have accomplished had it worked as hard for democracy in Armenia as it did for congressional recognition of the genocide Armenians suffered nearly a century ago. It's even possible that modern Armenia would be as democratic as modern Turkey.
FT Editorial Comment: US-Turkey on collision course Collisions between allies rarely come much bigger than the current spat between the US and Turkey: Ankara has recalled its ambassador to Washington
FRONT PAGE - FIRST SECTION: Turkey's top soldier warns US of damageto relations
NYT –IHT Pelosi Says Bush Hasn’t Phoned Her About Turkey and Genocide
Who Lost Turkey? By Juan Cole
Gvosdev Caution, Turkey
Rice: "Ralston görevi sürdürmek istemiyor"
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Congress committee vote on Turkey demonstrates arrogance of US policy
WORLD NEWS: Turkey fears send oil to record high
IHT U.S. House speaker vows debate on Armenian genocide resolution The speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, vowed to bring to the full chamber a resolution condemning the killings of Armenians nearly a century ago as genocide, even as a Turkish general warned that this could damage a military relationship crucial to U.S. forces in Iraq.
NYT Turk Warns Against House Genocide Motion Washington Post U.S. Urges Turkish Restraint On Kurds U.S. officials work to defuse Turkish threats to launch a cross-border attack on Kurdish rebels in N. Iraq and to limit access to critical air and land routes that have become a lifeline for U.S. troops. Turkish General Sees U.S. Ties at Risk Commander Warns Against Passage of Genocide Resolution
The Dignity Agenda By David Ignatius, Dignity, not democracy, is the issue that vexes billions of people around the world.
Genocide and Diplomatic Policy Michael Abramowitz And Peter Baker
Playing Politics With Genocide Turks are jerks, but so's Pelosi - Ralph Peters, New York Post
'2008 Sonrası Türkiye' Ertelendi DEIK ve TAIK New York’ta 16 Ekim’de yapacakları '2008 Sonrası Türkiye' konulu toplantıyı ertelediklerini duyurdu
What Next for Turkey? FRIDE
The Turkish/US Crisis Patrick Lang
Türkiye sınır ötesi harekâtın içerdiği tehlikenin farkında –
Senato Iraklı Kürtlere çalıştı TAHA HALİFE
Senato Iraklı Kürtlere çalıştı TAHA HALİFE
'Tasarı 16 Kasım'dan Önce Genel Kurul'da'
Witnesses: Turkey Shells Iraqi Village
Kurdish Lawmaker Urges Baghdad to Cancel Agreement With Turkey
PKK Has No Intention of Leaving Iraq
Kurdish Dreams Find a Foothold in Iraq
Kaplan: En büyük sivil eylemi yaparız
Guardian Genocide vote will damage US-Turkey relations
Attacks cross Iraq-Turkey border
Why inflame the Turks?
WHY THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION IS A BAD IDEA.
Ermeni tasarısı, 16 Kasım'dan önce Genel Kurul'da
Türkiye'nin tepkilerini Pelosi önemsemiyor
Barzani: Askeri çözümden yana değiliz
Tasarı 16 Kasım’dan önce genel kurulda
Tasarı ve PKK çakışması dikkat çekici
EDM - HOUSE GENOCIDE VOTE COULD DAMAGE U.S. INTERESTS IN SOUTH CAUCASUS
Mesrob II: Erdoğan önemli teklif yapmıştı
AKP'S KURDISH POLICY
TURKEY-ARMENIA-KURDISTAN: THE GREAT UNRAVELING
Inside Report: Turkey's Lobbyist - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
The Observer US tells Turks to back off Diplomats fly to Ankara to stop attack on Iraqi Kurds and rebuild ties after 'genocide' resolution.
Charles / Mercury Rising: An unwise moment for the Armenian genocide resolution?
Independent Robert Fisk: A reign of terror history has chosen to neglect
Press Divided Over Armenia Resolution
Gen. Joe Ralston: Lies and Lockheed Behind Bush PKK Turkey Crisis
Political and Infrastructure Maps of Iraqi Kurdistan
Who to blame for the 'genocide' resolution? Armenians or Americans? Vural CENGİZ
Ermeni tasarısı mizah malzemesi
Rice: Ermeni tasarısı can sıkıcı
Sunday Times Rebels vow to step up Turkey raidsKurdish separatists have vowed to step up their attacks on Turkish government targets, raising fears of a punitive strike
The Observer US tries to halt Turkey attack US Uses Recognition of Armenian Genocide to Calm Down Turkey
Inside Story: Caught between an Armenian anvil and Jerusalem Post
The American Case Against a Turkish Invasion
Barzani: Askeri değil siyasal çözümden yanayız
ABD Konsolosu Tam bir DTP dostu!
Turkish General Warns US Over Ties
Armenia genocide measure to advance: U.S. lawmakers
Crude Oil Trades Near $84 After Rising on Turkey-Iraq Tensions
Büyük tatbikat öncesi Sakarya'da hareketlilik
Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring NYT Editorial Iraqi Oil Spoils The oil contracts between Kurdish regional leaders and foreign companies are a dangerous attempt to establish facts on the ground. DTP'li vekilden "sınırı geçmeyin" çağrısı The Kurdish center periphery and white Kurds ’Sen sultan değilsin biz de kölen değiliz’ ABD’li işadamları devrede Sınır FM ile destek çağrısı Havadan geçit yok Türkiye, Avrupa’nın çeşitli kentlerinden farklı isimler altında Erbil’e uçuş yapan charter uçak seferlerine hava sahasını kapattı. Türkiye’nin bu tutumu üzerine, charter uçak şirketleri rotalarını Kıbrıs Rum Kesimi ve Suriye üzerine kaydırmak zorunda kaldı. Bu da Kuzey Irak’a yolcu sayısında ciddi düşüşe neden oldu PKK terörist ailesine ayda 200 Euro ödüyor "Türkiye Kuzey Irak'ı top ateşine tuttu" Kurds don't fear Turks
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IraqSlogger US Papers Sun: Turks Gearing up for War in Iraq
The American case against Turkish invasion. By Martin Zehr
KRG says it supports Iraqi oil unions
Kurdish TV Reports Turkish Shelling of Iraqi Kurdistan Villages
YASİN AKTAY PKK kimin mesajını taşıyor?
Gerçeğe ulaşmak için önce onu istemek lazım
Turkey Shells Iraqi Kurdish Border Areas - Website
Iraqi Kurdish Official Expresses Confidence on Article 140 Implementation
WORLD NEWS: The city where Iraqi forces aim to stand firm
Iraqi Kurdish Article on Difficulties in Implementing Article 140
LA Times A Bastion of Kurdish Hopes in Iraq
Mehmed Uzun, 54; Novelist Was Prosecuted for Fighting Turkey's Ban on Use of Kurdish Language
Azeri Analyst Sees Pro-Armenian US Move As Assault on Islam
Iraqi Kurdish Islamists Say US Senate Resolution Favours Kurds
Islamist Mullah in Norway Views Conditions in Kurdistan, Deportation Attempts
[Yorum - Ord. Prof. Dr. Richard Falk] Ortadoğu'da iki demokratikleşme modeli
Syrian families visit Turkish relatives during Bayram
The Assassination of the Spiritual Guide
Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber
EurasiaNet Pacing Turkish Reform Properly BY DIDEM CAKMAKLI
Özbudun, anayasa taslağını Avrupa'ya anlatacak
EU should inform Turkey of defence plans - France
Ata Atun Somebody is pushing Turkey to disorder New Trans-Caucasus Railway Project Gets the Go-Ahead
Talat heads to New York for talks with Ban EDM WHITE STREAM: ADDITIONAL OUTLET PROPOSED FOR CASPIAN GAS TO EUROPE ECHR RULING HIGHLIGHTS DISCRIMINATION SUFFERED BY TURKEY’S ALEVI MINORITY
Mustaf Erdoğan Bir adaylık hikayesi
AB fonlarıyla beyin göçü tersine döndü
Almanya'dan İslam'la ilgili önyargıları kırma atağı
"301'inci maddeden ilk beraat onansın"
Greek Cyprus unhappy over ferry link to KKTC
Yılın düğününe geniş katılım; nikah hediyeleri şehit ailelerine
Mahkeme korsan isme onay verdi Şehitler Caddesi, Buluşmalar oldu
FT MAGAZINE - BOOKS: The refuge of reality A year after winning the Nobel prize, Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk has published his first collection of occasional writings.
Armenians Express Gratitude for US Panel's Genocide Vote
Yabancı turiste alkollü içki var, yerliye ise yok
TSK'dan 190 milyon YTL'lik tasarruf
Desertification in Konya Plain becomes critical
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Çetin Altan Babamla ölüm döşeğinde barıştım
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Gece Kuşu Operasyonu Köşk’e tayini engelledi
‘Paşalar sermaye neferi’ sözü düşünce özgürlüğü
Mehmet Altan Çete Yargıtay’a mı sızdı?
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Elif Şafak 'Aşk her şeyi değiştirdi' | H3 "300 kişilik treni havaya uçuracaktık"
Cep telefonu çekmedi, 300 kişi kurtuldu
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Terörle mücadele mi?
Ali H Aslan [WASHINGTON] Türkiye'den tepki beklerken
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Semih İDİZ ABD ile ip hızla kopma noktasına ilerliyor
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Erdal Sağlam Sınır ötesi harekát ve ekonomik dengeler
Bakanlar Kurulu tezkereyi görüşecek
PKK'nın tuzağına düşmek üzereyiz ÖMER TAŞPINAR
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Henri Barkey, tasarıyı ABD'nin iç dinamikleri açısından yorumladı
Şahin Alpay What has the House Committee achieved?
Ömer Taşpınar The perfect storm
Bülent Keneş Damage control
Kıbrıs Türkiye'yi engellememeli Henri J. Barkey
Fatih Çekirge CIA bağlantısı PKK’ya soruyor Kayıp silahlarınızı bulduk, bizi öldürüyor
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Türkiye ne kadar kararacak? Acil Eylem Planı’na göre genel aydınlatma tüketiminde tasarrufa gidilecek. Buna göre şu kısıtlamalar yapılacak
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| H4 New York Times Analysts Find Israel Struck a Nuclear Project Inside Syria A site attacked last month by Israel was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, according to Israeli and American intelligence
News Analysis: Pre-emptive Caution: The Case of Syria
Israel Silent on Reports of Bombing Within Syria
With Tight Grip on Ballot, Putin Is Forcing Foes Out Putin is poised to extinguish the last embers of opposition in Russia’s Parliament.
Clinton’s Iran Vote: The FalloutBy HELENE COOPER The Revolutionary Guards are terrorists. Let the Democratic debate begin.
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Who Will Succeed Al Gore? We need a vision, a strategy, an army and a commander in the White House who can make America a better, stronger and more productive nation.
White House Is Leaning on Interim Appointments With only 15 months left in office, President Bush has left whole agencies of the executive branch to be run largely by acting or interim appointees.
An Internet Jihad Aims at U.S. Viewers A loose network of independent media operators are broadcasting the message of Al Qaeda and others to a Western audience
FRANK RICH The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in the Iraq war. The longer we stand idly by, the more we resemble the “good Germans.”
At an Army School for Officers, Blunt Talk About Iraq Fort Leavenworth, Kan., the intellectual center of the U.S. Army, has become a front line in the military’s soul-searching over Iraq
PAUL KRUGMAN Gore Derangement SyndromeWhat is it about Al Gore that drives right-wingers insane? The worst thing about him, from the conservative point of view, is that he keeps being right. ROGER COHEN Coalition of the Reluctant A United States administration casting around for soldiering scraps in Moldova should be careful about saber-rattling toward Iran.
Portable Halls of Justice Rise in Guantánamo
Book Faults Israeli Air War in Lebanon
Iran’s Top Cleric Calls for Boycott of Peace Talks
Could Afghan Poppies Be Painkillers for the Poor? It is estimated that more than 6.2 million of the world’s poor are dying of cancer, AIDS, burns and wounds without adequate pain relief, so why not harness the poppy harvest for much-needed morphine
Peacekeepers Without a Peace to Keep Darfur is not a Kosovo, an East Timor, or a Cyprus — all places where the United Nations has stepped in and stopped the bloodshed. Darfur is experiencing a different, messier kind of war
Ex-Phone Chief Says N.S.A. Sought Data Earlier
Persecuted Sect in Iraq Avoids Its Shrine
After Rebuff, U.S. Visitors Reach Out to Russians
G.O.P. Lawmakers Voice Their Unease Editorial Spies, Lies and FISA We have watched Republican lawmakers help President Bush shred the Constitution in the name of fighting terrorism. It is time for that to stop. Party Mix By MICHAEL BARONE Someone listening to Democratic and Republican debates may wonder whether the candidates of the two parties are living in the same country.
No Need for a Warrant, You’re an Immigrant When it comes to immigration law enforcement, the Constitution is noticeably silent on the rights of noncitizens, legal or not.
| H5 Washington Post Editorial It's Getting Better in Iraq The evidence of a drop in violence in Iraq is becoming hard to dispute.
The Dignity Agenda By David Ignatius, Dignity, not democracy, is the issue that vexes billions of people around the world.
Genocide and Diplomatic Policy By Michael Abramowitz And Peter Baker, P resident Bush has found himself in a morally and politically ambiguous position on what may be one of the most vexing questions that can face an occupant of the White House: When does carnage rise to the level of "genocide"?
Al-Qaeda In Iraq Reported Crippled Many Officials, However, Warn Of Its Resilience
Hu Outlines Goals for China as Party Congress Convenes
Party to Support Hu's Vision Hu's "scientific development" to be added in China charter as contribution to Marxist ideology.
Editorial Surveillance Update The House considers a balanced bill on collecting foreign intelligence.
Rice Avoids Criticizing Putin as U.S. Seeks Russia's Cooperation
Can the Market Cure Us? A Business Group Offers a Starting Point for Debate By David S. Broder, Support is growing for a shift from employer-based financing of health care to publicly subsidized individual health insurance
We're Carboholics. Make Us Stop. By David Crane We are not running out of time; we have run out of time. Decisions we make today in the U.S. power industry will have affect the size of the problem we bequeath to our children
Britain's Lost Sunshine By Jim Hoagland, The honeymoon may be over for Gordon Brown, President Bush's most important foreign ally
By Sebastian Mallaby
U.S. Military Technology Being Exported Illegally Is a Growing Concern
Getting Iraq To Work By Jim Golby, I'm sick of hearing about all the horrible things that happen in Iraq. Here are a few good ones.
Lobbyists Play Old Game With a New Set of Rules Lobbyists find ways to bypass ethics law passed by Congress limiting campaign contributions, meals, travel and gifts to lawmakers and staffers.
Suburban Legends By Joel Kotkin and Ali Modarres, Hot world? Blame cities.
Going to See a Ghost Majid Khan and the Abuses of the 'War on Terror' By Gitanjali S. Gutierrez, Today at Guantanamo Bay, I am supposed to meet a ghost
The Republican Churchgoer's Candidate? By Robert D. Novak
| H6 Guardian The land of optimism is in the dumps, but refuses to accept how it got there Gary Younge: Not since Watergate has such pessimism afflicted Americans. They want politicians to lift them without facing the cause.
Our rulers rely more on impulse than reason when they take us into war Max Hastings: A new book provides a check list for leaders considering military action, but the rest of us must make them heed it.
Israeli air strike was aimed at Syrian reactor · Nuclear plant in early stages of construction · Concern in US over pre-emptive assault
Taliban set demands to Karzai
UK backs plan to split Taliban Government supports Afghan strategy to split group from within by securing defection of senior members
Extinction of the engineers
No change at China Inc Isabel Hilton: For all the much vaunted modernisation, as the party congress begins, political reform is stuck.
Anthony Giddens Rather than making vain attempts to pin down the idea of Britishness, we should focus firmly on what kind of Britain we want
John Schmitt and Dean Baker The sharp drop in US productivity growth constitutes a serious threat to US living standards - and should serve as a warning for Europe
Thomas Palley Europe and the US must address the problem of under-valued currencies - especially the Chinese currency
Bhutto's return sparks assassination fears Benazir Bhutto fears that retired army officers may be plotting to assassinate her after her return to Pakistan.
The Observer Will China's next leader be its Gorbachev? Will Hutton: The country's top political figures gather this week to choose a new President. Their decision will affect us all.
The new Taliban In a swath of territory across Afghanistan and Pakistan, a wild and lawless new state is being born. As warlords struggle for control and Islamic militants pour in, Jason Burke travels deep into the region to reveal hidden forces fuelling a growing conflict in the front line of the 'War on Terror'.
Al deserves to be spared the curse of the Nobel Jasper Gerard: If there is a curse of Nobel, we should fear for Al Gore. American and British climate-change deniers heckle and tell us just to look at earlier recipients. Aung San Suu Kyi banged up under house arrest. David Trimble, FW de Klerk et al could feature in that column 'Where are they now? |
| H7 PINR "Israel's Strike on Syria Reduces Chances for Peace Deal"
Seeing Blue: American Visions of the EU ISS-EU
Syria's Role in the Region: Media, Peacemaker or Aggressor
Middle east Times Commentary: Changing course with Syria
CFR God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (Audio)
Daily Star Hizbullah becomes just another movement
Damascus understands that it needs peace with Israel By Shlomo Ben-Ami
Al Gore deserves a Nobel Prize for misleading us By Bjorn Lomborg | H8 IraqSlogger Google News Iraq Iran Syria Mideastwire.com - NPR Iraq stratfor
BBC Legal loophole
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| H9 Ha’aretz – J'lem sources: Rice won't place conditions on Israel
New Poll: Is Rice's effort brave, pathetic, realistic, dangerous?
Eldar Only Bush can Since the outbreak of the second intifada seven years ago Israelis and Palestinians have not been this close to a peace agreement. The failure of the violence and the disappointment with unilateralism have brought the two sides back to the negotiating table.
Inside Intel / The story of Iranian oil and Israeli pipes
Bradley Burston: Ann Coulter's dream of a Jew-free America
Report: Abducted IDF soldiers transferred to Iran after capture
New Guest: How to stop Hamas from spoiling the peace process?
Japan asks to participate in Annapolis peace conference
Constitution draft won't answer 'Who is a Jew?'
Jerusalem Post Sneh: Iran could destroy Zionist dream
The Region: And what do we get?
Jews and Power [ CALEV BEN-DAVID
Yedioth Ahronoth A sober analysis of Iran
By focusing on most extreme notions coming from Iran, we let radicals win, Trita Parsi says
BBC Rice pushes for Mid-East progress US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Israel to push forward a key peace conference.
Rice warns Israel on peace talks
Middle East diary
Olmert faces new corruption probe Daily Alert.org – Middle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review – Google News Israel - Palestine
The Sy EmpireBy ZEV CHAFETS The Syrian Jews of Gravesend, Brooklyn, rear their children to marry other Syrian Jews and make a fortune (the boys, anyway).
Jewish Foundations Give Generously to America’s Charities |
| H10 Christian Science Monitor Moderate Muslims speak – to Christians A 'historic' letter from 138 prominent Muslims speaks to a desire to defuse tensions between the faiths
Opinion: The Muslim Brotherhood shows its true colors The group's latest thinking reveals a troubling agenda.
Why Kosovo is central to Serb national epic
Prisoner swap: Marwan for Gilad? The fate of Marwan Barghouthi and Cpl. Gilad Shalit could factor into Israeli-Palestinian negotiations before a Middle East peace conference scheduled for next month.
Where the '08 contenders stand on global warming Their positions range from enacting a corporate carbon tax to dismissing the threat.
ASIA
BBC China's leader targets corruption President Hu Jintao delivers a tough speech to open the five-yearly Chinese Communist Party congress.
Guardian High stakes for China party congress Politburo promotions to give clues to Hu successor with children of elite families in running for presidency. Jonathan Watts: Plotting China's future In pictures: who's who in the Communist party
WP Party to Support Hu's Vision Hu's "scientific development" to be added in China charter as contribution to Marxist ideology.
No end for China's long march to equality Income disparity in China is greater than in America, the leading capitalist power.
CRS China-U.S. Relations: Current Issues and Implications for U.S. Policy (PDF; 265 KB)
Life and soul for the party: Hu Jintao’s fixation on the communist party as the sole institution with the standing, the ability and the right to govern China remains unshakeable. Can traditional Chinese religions help contemporary China clean up its environmental mess? A top Chinese official seems to think so. Even if Seoul is willing to spend a fortune to revive North Korea’s economy, the cult of Kim Jong Il may make it impossible. Look who’s Mr. Fixit for a fraught age: China helped George W. Bush on North Korea. Can it do the same on Iran?
Briefing: Chinese Communists gather for power-broking Party Congress
All change as Chinese face game of their life The Communist Party Congress this week has global significance as a pubescent superpower flexes its muscles ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
WORLD NEWS: Singh hints at delay for US nuclear deal
Corruption Threatens China's Future CEIP
East Asia Community Building: Time for the United States to Get on Board CSIS
Distracted at the Creation: Washington's China Policy
China can no longer deny the environmental disaster at Three Gorges.
| H11 IHT Putin on (and off) Iran Putin should tell the Iranians to halt enrichment and accept Europe's and Washington's offers of economic and diplomatic payoffs.
Hurdles remain on Kosovo question
Roger Cohen: Now recruiting: coalition of the reluctant Seven years into the Bush administration, America is stretched to the limit.
Keeping the momentum on Burma By BERNARD KOUCHNER AND DAVID MILIBAND EU sanctions can only be part of a wider process aimed at creating genuine reconciliation in Burma.
EUROPE European press review
BBC Mardell's Euroblog The Observer Barroso tries to cure Europhobia The EU leader stresses the benefits Britain enjoys as a member, in an interview with The Observer. EU slams Brown on terrorism President rebukes British 'double standards' on treaty opt-outs that 'put Europe at risk'. Hard right's hero shakes up cosy world of Swiss politics
Sweden top for migrant integration Sweden tops a new study that exposes wide variations in the integration of migrants in European countries.
A country is breaking apart - but who cares?According to the The Economist, today, no one would invent a country such as Belgium, which was established in 1830 for religious and political reasons that are no longer relevant. It should cease to exist - and if it did, that would not bother anyone, the magazine opined.
| H12 RFE/RLTycoon With Murky Past At Center Of Political Drama The unfolding scandal that began with former Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili has focused on a new key figure -- Badri Patarkatsishvili, one of the richest men in Georgia and a onetime associate of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky New Trans-Caucasus Railway Project Gets the Go-Ahead Gates: Russia is saying, "We are back"
Google News Azerbaijan
White House struggles with Putin, the Russian leader who won't go away
Threat to kill Putin on Iran trip
BBC Putin told of 'assassination bid' Putin has been warned of a plot to kill him during a visit to Iran next week, officials say.
Iran leader urges summit boycott
Flawed Elections in Kazakhstan: How Will the International Community React? Threat to kill Putin during trip to Iran Security agencies say they uncovered bomb plot but Tehran insists allegations are invention of 'enemies'
In his prime
Lukewarm war
Kazakhstan PM steps up oil fight with Western companies
EDM VILNIUS ENERGY SUMMIT INSTITUTIONALIZING A PROCESS
Relations in the Russia-Ukraine-EU Triangle: 'Zero-Sum Game or Not? |
H13 The Times The Party’s Party Much to crow about, and more to worry about. The five-yearly congresses of the Chinese Communist Party reveal, unintentionally, the tensions between China’s increasingly sophisticated society and its fossilised politics.
Hired guns set to stay despite fury at deathsUS and UK officials say that much of their work would grind to a halt in Iraq without the help of private security expertise
Rice warns Israelis over land grabIsraeli confiscation of Arab land east of Jerusalem has cast a shadow over Condoleezza Rice's negotiations in the region
Analysis: Putin raises stakes on missiles
Sunday Times Biggest threat to the West lies within Our leaders would suspend the freedoms of democracy at the bang of a bomb Simon Jenkins
Putin threatens to scrap US arms pactVladimir Putin threatened to scrap a key arms treaty unless it was turned into a global agreement to constrain other states
India's nuclear deal with US in jeopardy India’s US nuclear deal is unstable after Government hesitation to sacrifice the ruling coalition and force early elections
The inconvenient truth about Al Gore
Wall Street Journal
Harold James on the perils of financial historicism.
Commentary: New global paradigm | H14 Financial Times COMMENT: A more competitive dollar is good for America The dollar’s fall will correct global imbalances without higher US inflation or decreased growth in the rest of the world, says Martin Feldstein. , COMMENT: Not lawless, Mr Bush, just brainless The administration has left no time to ask what is wise, feasible
COMMENT: Boring central bankers got us into this mess ,
COMMENT: A tough choice - shame Britain must wait The most important attribute in electoral politics is not communication or even competence. It is timing.
Drafting Gore Losing the election of 2000 may be the best thing that ever happened to Al Gore. Had he become president, his standing now would be lower. To govern is to disappoint
Kouchner urges EU for fresh Iran sanctions France’s foreign minister hopes for ‘more powerful’ measures against Iran’s nuclear programme as he meets with colleagues in the European Union to discuss unilateral sanctions
Rice treads carefully towards peace deal Condoleezza Rice arrived in the Middle East to lay the ground for a showpiece meeting to be held this year in the US that is designed to advance Palestinian statehood and lift the fortunes of the beleaguered US administration
Putin will warn on EU protectionism Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, is expected to use a meeting with Angela Merkel, German chancellor, to issue a warning over what Moscow sees as growing protectionism in the European Union
WORLD NEWS: Ex-US officials warn of 'devastating consequences' if Mideast summit fails
Hard to decouple from the US train With the US economic train slowing down, policymakers from Europe, Asia and Latin America want to show they can detach their regions from the US locomotive
Banks line up $75bn mortgage debt fund Citigroup, Bank of America and JPMorgan are expected to announce plans for a fund to buy mortgage-linked securities in an attempt to allay fears of a downward price-spiral that would hit the balance sheets of big banks
WORLD NEWS: Russia could harm its interests in Europe, says Gates
Tsang in 'Cultural Revolution' gaffe
Markets on alert for G7 shift on currency Currencies and the regulatory response to the credit crisis will top the agenda when world finance ministers, central bank governors and bank executives meet this week
BACK PAGE - FIRST SECTION: Free trade or protectionism?
| H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial
Preemption, Israeli-Style - Joshua Muravchik, Los Angeles Times
Is the war worth another $190 billion? Opinion: Four national security specialists on the Bush administration's plan to spend $190 billion next year on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Arab allies skeptical of U.S. peace effort
Terrorists groomed in Pakistan Cases in Denmark and Germany illustrate a dangerous emerging pattern
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| H16 American Politics
Republicans Are Too Gloomy - William Kristol, Weekly Standard
Are the Wealthy Abandoning Republicans? - Daniel Gross, Slate
realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note – US News Political Bulletin Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp
A review of The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development is Bringing Down Western Civilization by Diana West.
WORLD NEWS: Giuliani in search of backing in Bible Belt
Dems: We've come a long way, baby! By Matt Stearns and Margaret Talev | McClatchy Newspapers Twenty years ago, when a black man was running for president and a woman was considering it, Jesse Jackson and Pat Schroeder were viewed mainly through the prism of identity politics. Neither really expected to win. Now, the two top candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination are a woman, Hillary Clinton, and a black man, Barack Obama. Both fully expect to win.
| H17 Daily Telegraph
Sunday Telegraph Tories take record 7pt lead over Brown
Israel strike 'targeted Syrian reactor' Israel's mysterious air strike in the Syrian desert last month was aimed as destroying a partially-constructed nuclear reactor, according to reports in the US.
Brown thinks to fool us with Euro-spin The PM will this week sign up to the European reform treaty, breaking a manifesto promise and exposing a lack of vision for UK's future, says David Cameron
Labour to U-turn on road pricing plans Ministers are to shelve plans for a national road pricing scheme that would have cost motorists up to £1.30 a mile.
| H18 Independent Tories surge to 5-point lead over Labour, says poll of polls The Conservatives have opened up a five-point lead over Labour, according to the latest "poll of polls" for The Independent.
China will not bring in 'Western' democracy
Independent on Sunday Toby Dodge: What happened to our obligation to Iraq?
Putin on the attack over US missile defence
Private US military contractors move into Helmand
Former commander attacks Bush over 'endless nightmare' in Iraq
An Oscar. The Nobel Peace Prize. Now, can Al Gore win the presidency?
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| H19Military Intelligence Terrorism Cracks in the Foundation: Leadership Schisms in al-Qa’ida from 1989-2006
Al-Qa’ida’s (mis)Adventures in the Horn of Africa
Outside View: U.S. AFRICOM not welcome By DINA LYAKHOVICH
CRS Saudi Arabia: Terrorist Financing Issues (PDF; 196 KB)
Countering the Terrorist Mentality
The Reserve Policies of Nations: A Comparative Analysis
Six Years Later: Assessing Long-Term Threats, Risks and the U.S. Strategy for Security in a Post-9/11 World
Anti-Gang Strategies and Interventions
| H20 Slate
NYRB The Queen of the Quagmire By Rory Stewart
An informational cascade is what you get when one expert after another assumes that the rest can’t all be wrong. Scientists form their “expert opinion”... more»
NYT Magazine The Capital of Capital No More? New York has reigned for years as the world’s financial center. But now it had better get used to sharing the wealth.
'The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World' By ALAN GREENSPAN | H21 Is there life on a moon of Saturn?
War of nutrition Healthy diets for children are a new form of parental one-upmanship. But are the control freaks playing a dangerous game
Google 'ready to take on Apple iPhone next year'
The odyssey generation just won’t grow upThe odyssey years cover the ever-widening transition period between student life and adulthood, say American researchers
Vatican reveals Templar secretsThe Knights Templar will soon be rehabilitated when the Vatican publishes trial documents it has guarded for 700 years
Half of us will be overweight by 2022 Nine out of 10 men will be overweight - half of them obese - within 15 years, a leaked Government report reveals.
From Le Monde diplomatique, how to pay for a free press: In a media world with one eye on the bottom line and the other on the official line, it’s getting harder to publish or broadcast anything that doesn’t promise huge sales and attendant profits, and that doesn’t say or show what is approved. But it’s still possible (and more).
An interview with The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg on Bush, blogging, and what's wrong with The Washington Post.
Google, Random House Close To Book Search Deal
The conservative betrayed: Russell Baker reviews The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years of Reporting in Washington by Robert D. Novak.
Rupert Murdoch, closet liberal: Fox News President Roger Ailes outs his boss as a Republican-hater
A longer life without dignity is a living hell, not a blessing Mary Riddell: Medical advances have increased life expectancy, but the quality of life enjoyed by the elderly has not kept pace Doris Lessing, Persian-born, Rhodesian-raised, London-residing novelist, wins the Nobel Prize in Literature... NY Times ... AP ... London Times ... Guardian ... Telegraph ... LA Times ... WP ... Nation ... Open Democracy ... NY Sun ... The Valve
The Collective Bargaining Effects of NBA Player Productivity Dynamics (PDF; 300 KB)
German publishers challenge Google Book Search with "Libreka" |
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communism as reactionary casuistry opposing Napoleon's
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