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| H1 Foreign Affairs – Presidential Candidates on Foreign Policy
Security & Opportunity for the 21st Century - H. Clinton, Foreign Affairs
An Enduring Peace Built on Freedom - John McCain, Foreign Affairs
Washington Post Rice Pushes Mideast Parties On Plan to Revive Peace Talks
Abizaid on Iraq War: Of Course It's About Oil
Guardian Clinton would use force against Iran
CSIS Envisioning Tomorrow’s Embassies The Embassy of the Future Commission at CSIS has released The Embassy of the Future, a new report that provides key recommendations for making the diplomatic pursuit of U.S. interests abroad more effective in the 21st century. The commission — chaired by George L. Argyros, Marc Grossman, and Felix G. Rohatyn, all former ambassadors — includes distinguished former senior government officials, former career and non-career ambassadors, retired military officers, private-sector representatives, and academic experts. READ MORE
NYT Book Faults Israeli Air War in Lebanon - Steven Erlanger Divining Victory: Airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hizbullah War by William M. Arkin, to be published this month, concludes that by bombing too many targets of questionable importance for its aims, and not explaining why it bombed what it did, Israel lost the war for public opinion
Der Spiegel 'Many in the US Military Think Bush and Cheney Are Out of Control'
FPIF Support for Iraq Partition: Cynical and Dangerous
Hizbollah and the Lebanese Crisis, International Crisis Group
CFR Global Attitudes: Challenges For The Next Administration? [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]
From The Economist, Brussels rules OK: A look at how the European Union is becoming the world's chief regulator.
From Der Spiegel, an interview with Timothy Garton Ash: "A clear European voice is missing in the world".
What Iraqis want
How Osama beat Bush
Asia Times Masters of war plan for next 100 years
Independent Olmert hints Israel may be willing to split up Jerusalem
Mary Dejevsky: Russia would be more dangerous without Putin
Financial Times EU seeks to step up pressure on Tehran Union starts to examine the possibility of beefing up sanctions, seeking to put renewed pressure on Tehran to suspend key aspects of its nuclear programme DT US Commanders Prepare to Declare Victory Over al-Qaeda Again H10 Christian Science Monitor Opinion: The folly of war with Iran It's instructive to recall a comment President Lincoln once made: "One war at a time...." By Walter RodgersIHT Differences narrow on European Union treaty Preparing for a summit meeting in Lisbon on Thursday and Friday, foreign ministers from the European Union voiced optimism that a deal could be reached on a replacement for the defunct constitution
Questions you should never ask a writer By DORIS LESSING Some strong thoughts about political correctness.
Washington Times Editorial Al Qaeda in trouble There is some very good news coming from the battlefield in Iraq: The changes in U.S. military strategy instituted earlier this year by Gen. David Petraeus have been achieving remarkable success against al Qaeda in Iraq.
Iran's choice: planes or bombs? (By Michael B. Kraft and Brett Wallace)
Brookings Upgrading Authoritarianism in the Arab World Steven Heydemann, Saban Center Analysis Paper
How the Arab Regimes Defeated the Liberalization Challenge
Foreign Policy Seven Questions: The Hired Guns of Iraq
US National Strategy for Homeland Security CFR Can Sanctions Be Effective in Halting Iran's Nuclear Program? Campaign 2008’s Foreign Policy Divide Putin's High-Risk Mission In Tehran Is A Make It Or Break It
| H2 CSIS - Cordesman The Armenian Genocide Bill and the Turkish Reaction in Iraq (pdf)
İşte Türkiye'nin ABD'ye karşı stratejik kozları
Cordesman "Tasarı bölgesel kriz yarattı" FT Turkish cabinet backs Iraq foray Prospects of a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq moved a step closer after the cabinet agreed to seek parliamentary approval for a military response to attacks by PKK separatists
Financial Times: Erdoğan'ın en zor sınavı
WORLD NEWS: Modern nation's horror at genocide tag on its past
WSJ Editorial Secretary of State Pelosi
Brzezinski: Orası meclis mi okul mu Washington Post Turkey's War on the Truth Richard Cohen,
Turkey Requests Authority to Attack Raids on Kurdish Rebels in Iraq Not Imminent, Officials Indicate, as Parliament Is Asked to Act
NYT Turkey Moves Closer to an Incursion Into Iraq
Washington Times Armenian crime amnesia? A historically supportable resolution would have condemned massacres against Armenians with the same vigor, as it should have condemned massacres by Armenians against the innocent Muslim populations of the crumbling Ottoman Empire.
LA Times Genocide, yes; HR 106, no Niall Ferguson: Historically, there's no question that Ottoman Turkey committed genocide against the Armenians. But that's no reason to pass a resolution now.
Soykırım tasarısı dış politika fiyaskosu Niall Ferguson
Sabotage in Wartime - Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics With all the problems facing this country, both in Iraq and at home, why is Congress spending time trying to pass a resolution condemning the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago?
'Pelosi, Ermeni tasarısını siyasi çıkarı için kullanıyor'
From the Archive "Divided They Conquer: The Success of Armenian Ethnic Lobbies in the United States"
Asia Times Turkey fears Kurds, not Armenians "We did not exterminate the Armenians," Ankara says in effect, "and, by the way, we're going to not exterminate the Kurds, too." Turkey's threat to invade northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels is linked to its outrage over a US Congressional resolution recognizing that Turkey committed genocide against its Armenian population in 1915. Why the Turks should take out their rancour at the US on the Kurds might seem anomalous until we consider that the issue of Armenian genocide has become a proxy for Turkey's future disposition towards the Kurds
General Petraeus in his labyrinth
Time In A Kurdish Funk
Washington Post ADAM SCHIFF Two Standards on 20th-Century Atrocities
PostGlobal : Isolation Wont Heal Turkeys Wounds Leon Krauze
PostGlobal : Turkey's Past Victories Spawn Todays Defeats Nikos Konstandaras
Rice "Türkiye ile ilişkilerimiz zarar görür"
Washington'dan 'itidal' çağrısı US Appeals for Turkish Restraint Over Iraq Raid Turkey to Give Diplomacy a Last Chance Before Iraq Move Turkish Parliament to Vote on Iraq Action
Turkmen Town Refuses to Join Kurdistan, Suffers Terror
Jerusalem Post Are the United States and Turkey on a collision course? [ GALLIA LINDENSTRAUSS,
Are the US and Turkey on a collision course? INSS An Israeli insight considering the connection between the potential Turkish intervention in Northern Iraq and the US resolution to recognise the mass killing of Armenians during WWI as genocide
WSJ The Pentagon plans to route supplies for Iraq through other countries, likely Jordan or Kuwait, should Turkey close airspace to the U.S.
Guardian Dangerous waters Alan Wolfe: US foreign policy should not be made by symbols. Passing a resolution declaring the fact of the Armenian genocide would do just that.
Perils of the moral high ground Khaled Diab The US Congress's cynical manipulation of the Armenian genocide is hypocritical and a slur on the memories of those who perished.
Oil price reaches new highs on fears of Kurdish conflict
Admiration for Turkey, except when it evades truth about Armenians (Daily Herald)
Europe's World: Why Turkey's “Islamists” are the West's best friends (October 2007) by Grenville Byford
Richard Falk on Turkey's finest hour: The sick man of Europe gets a jolt of life, but will it last?
Ali Ettefagh at PostGlobal: PostGlobal on washingtonpost.com
Amar Bakshi | Our intrepid blogger sets off again to take the world's pulse on America. First stop, Turkey. Tell him what to ask when he gets there.
Rice şaşkın: Umarım Kongre üyeleri ne yaptıklarının farkındadır
Grandstanding Has Consequences - Middle East Forum by Michael Rubin
The 2007 general election in Turkey, as much a triumph for democracy as it was for the AKP, may one day be seen as a turning point.
Philip Giraldi: Nancy Pelosi and the Armenians - Politics on The Huffington Post
AP Turkey Takes Step Toward Iraq Operation...
The Times Turkey moves to send its troops on Iraq raids Turkey move towards deployment of troops in northern Iraq in pursuit of rebel Turkish Kurds, despite US diplomatic pressure
Kürt bakan: Bombalanan yerlerde tek PKK'lı yok! Villagers Tell of Terror After Turkey Launches Rocket Attack Across Border Iraqi Kurdish Villagers Protest Against Seizure of Land
Washington Times Editorial Turkey in the crosshairs
FT Tarihle yüzleşme gecikecek -
Ermeni lobisi keşke Ermenistan için çalışsa...
Osmanlı'nın izleri silinmek bilmiyor
Bush doesn't plan to block Armenian genocide resolution | Jerusalem Post
Armenian debacle (By Tulin Daloglu)
Kürt sorununu fark etmek için büyütece ihtiyaç yok MUHAMMED NUREDDİN
Türk firmalarının Kuzey Irak'tan dönüşü başladı
Ankara, ABD'nin sınır ötesi ricasını görmezden gelebilir
Al Awsat The Kurds: Between Construction and War : Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed
Bush, Pelosi, And Congress: Dumb and Dumber
Der Spiegel Armenian Lobby's Triumph: Genocide Resolution Risks Shattering Relations with Turkey
Armenian Allegations | Sources (PDF)
Steve Clemons Legislating History: Considering the Armenian Genocide Resolution
World Politics Review | After PKK Attacks on Soldiers, Turks Clamor for Incursion into Iraq
Siz Erivan’a bakın
Ermeni tarihçiden Kongre'ye eleştiri: Konunun siyasallaşması sorunu çözmeyecek
Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring
İlnur Çevik Turkey has to prove that it is not bluffing
Türk ordusu Hezil'e seyyar tank köprüsü kurdu
World Politics Review | After PKK Attacks on Soldiers, Turks Clamor for Incursion into Iraq
Genelkurmay: Kar kış tanımayız
Büyükanıt: Gücümüzün farkında olalım Kurdish MP Urges Government to Adopt Official Position on Turkish Shelling Turkey Forms Alliance With Iran Against Kurds
10. K.Irak’taki PKK kamplarının yer aldığı bölgeler ve isimleri Ali Babacan, ikinci Ortadoğu turuna çıkıyor 'PKK, Türkiye'yi Kuzey Irak'a çekmek için eylemlerini artırıyor' Irak’tan jet hızıyla tezkere ziyareti 'Arkamızda Cudi var' tartışması Kurds Talk Contracts with Big Oil: 'It's Now or Never' Tarık Haşimi bugün Türkiye'ye geldi Suriye Devlet Başkanı Esad Türkiye'ye geliyor
Iraq warns Turkey against raids
PKK tries to draw Turkey into northern Iraq
Al-Sharqiyah Reports on Turkish Shelling of Iraqi Villages, Other Developments
İsrail’e sızmaya çalışan iki Türk genci vuruldu
PKK tuzağına dikkat uyarısı
DTP artık PKK’ya ‘silah bırak’ demeli
DTP'li Hasip Kaplan: Sözlerim çarpıtıldı
ÖZAY ŞENDİR
Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber
Dışişleri'nden Ermeni tasarısına karşı eylem planı
Avrupa Parlamentosu'da Ermeni Toplantısı
Onur Öymen'den, AB'ye ''Reform antlaşması'' tepkisi
Sarkozy: No 'wise men', no green light As Turkey’s bid for European Union accession is already moving in slow motion, France posses an added threat to the pace of Turkey’s EU talks with its proposal to further discuss the future of the EU and Turkey’s place in the bloc
Saadet Oruç AB-Türkiye: Hava kurşun gibi ağır!
Who's behind the Armenian genocide resolution?
Faruk Şen "Turkey is in the Limelight"
Is it still valid to speak of communal rights in EU Cyprus?
The integration capacity of the EU
Note to Limbaugh, Boehner & Friends: Republicans Pushed Turkish ... Frattini: "Ermeni iddiaları Türkiye'ye önkoşul olamaz"
Frattini: Türkiye soykırımı tanımalı
Hadi Uluengin Paranoyaya giriş
Bu kanunla Kaz Dağları kurtulamaz
Dünyaya yön verenlerin yarısından fazlası Yahudi
Cumhuriyet’in İlya Araf’ına İslami cenaze
Yargıtay’ın dinlemeye takılan müdürü emekliliğini istedi
Esrarengiz kaza; Alay komutanı işadamıyla yemek dönüşü kazada öldü
Başkenti hiç izlememişler TBMM, Cumhurbaşkanlığı, Başbakanlık, Genelkurmay Başkanlığı, kuvvet komutanlıkları, bakanlıklar ve yüksek yargı orgarları gibi devletin en önemli kurumlarının bulunduğu Ankara'da ihmal edilen önemli bir
| H3 İşte TBMM'ye gönderilen tezkere...
PKK'ya karşı bir yıl sınır ötesi yetkisi
Görev verilirse mevsime bakarız Tezkere Meclis'e gitti Irak'a son uyarı yapıldı
Fikret BİLA Sınır ötesiyle ilgili çelişkiler
K.Irak’taki PKK kamplarının yer aldığı bölgeler ve isimleri
Tezkere ve ABD Ermeni kararı üzerine tavsiyeler Hasan Celal Güzel
Gitmek mi zor, kalmak mı zor?
Wilson 'Türkiye ne yapacağını söylemedi'
Ertuğrul Özkök Kürtlere tavsiyem
Cüneyt Ülsever Tezkere oylanırken
Enis Berberoğlu Barzani’nin Şii kartı
İlnur Çevik Turkey has to prove that it is not bluffing
YSK’dan referandumu erteleme sürprizi
Kuzey Irak'ı işgal etsek ne olur?
ABD'de 7 üye tasarıdan desteğini çekti
Cengiz Çandar Bayram ve akla takılan sorular...
Güler Kömürcü Hangi operasyon önce olacak?
Hüsnü Mahalli Türkiye, Suriye ve İsrail
Sami KOHEN Türkiye için ABD kaybedildi mi?
Çankaya Köşkü’nde ‘Dışişleri zirvesi’
Irak’a harekat öncesi hükümetin beklentisi
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Tezkere TBMM Başkanlığı'na sunuldu
İlter Türkmen Hırslı adamlar
Büyükanıt'ın sözleri yankı buldu
Saygun Herkes ayağını denk alsın
İç Basında Türk Dış PolitikasıDış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri -Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700VOA Dış Basında Türkiye Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey Turquie Türkei TurcoPundit
Taha Kıvanç Mutluluk paylaşmaktır
Fehmi Koru Huzursuz ruhlar
Nabi Yağcı Türkiye eteğindeki taşlarla sıçrama yapamaz
HAKAN ALBAYRAK 'Varlığım 1915'e armağan olsun!'
Ertuğrul Özkök Kürtlere tavsiyem
Yalçın Doğan Bahçeli kendini arıyor
M Ali Birand Gelin, yepyeni bur sayfa açalım
Oktay Ekşi Anlatamıyoruz ki...
Özdemir İnce Mahçupyan mantığı
Nerdesiniz ey liberaller?
Mehmet Barlas İnançlar insanı rahatlatır, teknoloji de bunu kolaylaştırır…
Ahlaki zeminde konuşmak
Mustafa Karaalioğlu Cumhurbaşkanı bir anayasadır
MUHARREM SARIKAYA MHP'den "sandığa gitmeyin" çağrısı
ERGUN BABAHAN Emperyalizm ve ahlak
EMRE AKÖZ PKK diye bir hedef var mı?
HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Aman dikkat!
Berat Özipek PKK’ya rağmen kürt sorununa demokratik çözüm
Bilim fanatizmi Nuray Mert
NAZLI ILICAK Niçin halk seçsin?
MAHMUT ÖVÜR DP 'kimliğini' arıyor!
Can Dündar "Emperyalizmin alçak hakemliği"ne direnen kimdi?
Güneri CIVAOĞLU
Bilal Çetin AKP’nin referandum ısrarı...
'Yüzde 47' başka türlü konuşturmalı
Nuray Başaran Bayram sonrası Ankara manzaraları
Yusuf KANLI Good for Turkish democracy?
Savaş Süzal İki bayram arası tezkere olmaz
Tamer Korkmaz Washington'a Posta Koymak
Ekrem Dumanlı İşte buna provokasyon denir
Mümtazer Türköne Tarihsizlik
Şahin Alpay Komite kararı ne anlama geliyor?
AK Parti ve CHP dışındaki partiler renk vermiyorlar
Leyla İpekçi Türkiye'yi birlikte sevmemiz imkânsız mı?
[Yorum - M. Naci Bostancı] Terörün acısı aklımız olmamalı
Serdar Turgut Rusya imparatorluğu Yavuz Semerci Türkiye’yi uçuran seçimi kazandı!
Hasan Ersel Anayasa değişikliği mi anayasayı yenilemek mi
Soysal Referandum hukuken sakat yapılırsa AİHM’ye gider
[Yorum - Prof. Dr. Ali Al Halil] Aklından geçirenlere: Türkiye ne ilk yemektir, ne de akşam yemeği
Hillary'nin beyi Murat Belge
Mustafa Kemal ağlıyor
[HABER YORUM] Referanduma karşı çıkanlar halktan korkuyor
ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Seyfettin Gürsel Dalgalı kuru yönetemiyoruz
IMF Başkanı Rato'tan Türk ekonomisi değerlendirmesi...
Ercan Kumcu Bütçe açığına odaklanmalıyız
Yaman TÖRÜNER
Güngör URAS
Erdal Sağlam ’Önden beslemeli faiz indirimi’ söylentisi
Turkish investment in Africa to hit $1 billion
Hurşit GÜNEŞ
9. K. Irak’a giriyoruz diye ekonomi uçtu!
Sosyal güvenlikte geri adım atılmadı emeklilik yaşı 60
İlanlı faiz isyanı: Yeter artık indirin!
MELİHA OKUR
170 milyar avroluk pazar
[NEWS ANALYSIS] Economy at ease despite US-Turkish political strains
Salih Neftçi Faiz indirme spekülasyonları
Eser Karakaş Faizde şok indirim ekonomide şok yaratabilir
İşadamları soykırım tasarısının peşine düştü Funda Özkan |
| H4 New York Times Big U.S. Banks Try to Restore Confidence in Credit Markets The plan calls for the banks to create a new financing vehicle to try to restore confidence and reduce the risk of a market meltdown by propping up an important part of the debt markets
DAVID BROOKS A Still, Small Voice There are two kinds of politicians: those who become creatures of the process, and those who resist and retain the capacity to be appalled by what they must do. Editorial On Bonuses and Leaving Iraq Big cash bonuses are another desperate reminder of how little planning was done for the Iraq war, and how much damage it has done to America’s forces Putin Plans to Go to Iran Even as Plot Is Reported
Orange Revolution Parties Will Share Power in Ukraine
Memo From Egypt: On Human Rights, U.S. Seems to Give Egypt a Pass
Rice Hints at Timing of Mideast Talks
Israel Returns Bodies in Swap With Militia
Slightly Off Religious Path, Iranian TV Finds Viewers
European Union Members Near Pact on Treaty
In France, Whispers of Trouble for the Sarkozys
| H5 Washington Post Rice Pushes Mideast Parties On Plan to Revive Peace Talks Editorial
Nuclear Deal With India May Be Near Collapse Premier Cites Internal Opposition To Agreement Pushed by Bush
Verizon Released Data Without Court Orders Company tells lawmakers it provided customers' telephone records to federal authorities in emergency cases hundreds of times since 2005
3 From Iraqi Newspaper Killed in Ambush Near Kirkuk Editor, Two Guards Shot After Taking Colleague to Airport
A Journalist's Sacrifice The Post's Salih Saif Aldin was committed to reporting the truth from Iraq.
Our Newest Veterans Need Help Now By Bob Dole and Donna E. Shalala, Page A19 Our newest veterans need help now.
Pentagon Submits Budget, And Services Ask for More Air Force Lobbying for C-17s Raises Questions
| H6 Guardian US presses Israel and Palestinians Condoleezza Rice tells Abbas and Olmert to find common ground ahead of conference.
Clinton would use force against Iran
Now he tells us Michael Boyle A top US general has criticised his country's failures in Iraq. But surely he had a moral responsibility to speak out sooner?
Iraq to crack down on foreign guards Minister pledges that foreign firms will be made liable under Baghdad law following civilian shootings
All addictions start as pleasure Anthony Giddens: The state can only deal with our compulsive behaviours by recognising their similarities.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: One of the most childish retorts has become a setpiece of diplomatic repartee.
Growth not our only goal, says Hu |
H7 Washington Times Editorial Al Qaeda in trouble There is some very good news coming from the battlefield in Iraq: The changes in U.S. military strategy instituted earlier this year by Gen. David Petraeus have been achieving remarkable success against al Qaeda in Iraq.
Iran's choice: planes or bombs? (By Michael B. Kraft and Brett Wallace)
How the Arab Regimes Defeated the Liberalization Challenge
Foreign Policy Seven Questions: The Hired Guns of Iraq
BBC Economic estimate Al Awsat Washington and Tehran: Negotiating Over What?
Iraq, Iraq, Partitioning Iraq for a Nomination
Henry Kissinger Says Goodbye to the Man He Calls “My Conscience” | H8 IraqSlogger Google News Iraq Iran Syria Mideastwire.com - NPR Iraq stratfor
UPI Analysis: The Baghdad follies By CLAUDE SALHANI Statements that the situation in Iraq seems to be improving, despite daily car bombs, attacks against coalition forces and continued slaughter of innocent civilians caught in the crossfire, are reminiscent of the “Five o’clock follies,” the daily briefings given by the U.S. military command in Saigon during the Vietnam War.
Putin set for historic Iran trip Russia's president is due to make a historic visit to Tehran for talks set to focus on Iran's nuclear ambitions
Uneasy allies
French FM fails to sway European Union counterparts on new Iran sanctions strategy
BBC Monitoring Pan-Arab TV Headlines 16 Oct 07 Daily Star If Hizbullah and Israel can make a deal, why can't Lebanon's Christians?
An unsentimental foreign education By Ellen Laipson Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, elected with no foreign policy experience and apparently no first-hand knowledge of any of Iran's immediate neighbors or any of the great powers, has been making up for lost time. In his two years in office, he has been to the United States three times
Too good a chance to miss for Middle East peace
Analysis: Iran, Syria in gas deal | H9 Ha’aretz – Olmert hints Israel willing to part with Arab areas of J'lem
Amira Hass: Israel has turned the Gaza Strip into a zoo
Report: Hezbollah hands over papers written by Arad
Rice's visit / In the shadow of MLK
Eldar Rice's visit / In the shadow of MLK
Rice "understand risks to announcing a meeting" (WTR)
McClatchy Rice works to win support for fall Mideast summit U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, engaging in one of her longest forays in Middle East diplomacy this year, said Monday that she's optimistic that Palestinian and Israeli leaders can reach a "serious and substantive" agreement that could be presented to a Middle East peace conference later this fall.
BBc Palestinian state 'wanted now' The US secretary of state offers strong backing for the quick establishment of a Palestinian state
'Deaf ears'
Book Faults Israeli Air War in Lebanon - Steven Erlanger (New York Times)
Yedioth Ahronoth Beilin Jerusalem solution not complex
Swap with Hizbullah may be prelude to more significant exchange, says Ron Ben-Yishai
Jerusalem Post War is inevitable, Lieberman tells Rice
Rethinking the core issues
Daily Alert.org – Middle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review – Google News Israel - Palestine
The Times More on Dawkins and the Jews A response to his controversial statement
Israel Campus Beat - October 14, 2007 |
H10 Christian Science Monitor Opinion: The folly of war with Iran It's instructive to recall a comment President Lincoln once made: "One war at a time...."By Walter Rodgers
Banks move to rescue debt market To shield the US economy, they'll create a fund to shore up mortgage investments
In Iraq, a veteran Marine gunner sees a winnable war Chief warrant officer says that the US mission in Iraq will be 'revolutionary' for the Mideast
Gore as peacemaker in Congress
ASIA
FT Beyond the grasp of the party bosses The Chinese public are kept well away from the proceedings, but that does not mean Hu Jintao and his allies are in control of the congress, let alone the country
Guardian China's faltering leadership Jonathan Fenby: Five years after becoming party leader, Hu Jintao is shackled by factionalism and unable to assert himself as the job demands BBC Scandalous boom | H11 IHT Differences narrow on European Union treaty
Questions you should never ask a writer By DORIS LESSING Some strong thoughts about political correctness.
Putin dismisses threat of assassination in Iran
Politicus: Dominique de Villepin is re-emerging as a political force in France
By DEAN KLECKNER Congress can change the farm bill to meet global rules while serving America's public interests of a secure food supply and rural economic development.
EUROPE European press review
Half of Europe's bank robberies happen in Italy
From The Economist, Brussels rules OK: A look at how the European Union is becoming the world's chief regulator.
From Der Spiegel, an interview with Timothy Garton Ash: "A clear European voice is missing in the world".
Here are 5 myths about sick Old Europe. Archipelago Europe: Instead of two homogeneous European regions — "the East" and "the West" — there are now fragments, enclaves, and islands. Origins and elements of imitated democracies:
Throughout the territory of the former Soviet Union, regimes have established themselves behind a democratic facade while concentrating power in the hands of a president, and contrary to their purported stability, all contain the seeds of their own downfall.
Despot dilemma: The European Union seems unable to decide how to deal with dictators.
Promises countries make to gain entry into NATO or the EU are similar to Mary Poppins’s description of pie crust: Easily made, easily broken.
Poll victory sets up Mayor of Rome as Italy's PM in waiting
Le Figaro After honeymoon, Sarkozy method poses three risks
Berlin Plans Measures to Protect Strategic Industries Economic experts in Berlin are preparing measures that would allow the German government to intervene should foreign investors try to buy up strategically important German firms. Politicians insist the new rules are not protectionist. By Christian Reiermann more...
THE WORLD FROM BERLIN A 'Strategic Partnership' for Germany and Russia? German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who met Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks in Germany on Monday, has described the relationship between their two countries as a "strategic partnership." But German papers wonder how she can balance her chilly criticism of Moscow with the need for international cooperation. more...
| H12 RFE/RL Politicians Stake Out Territory Ahead Of Caspian Summit Leaders of Iran and the four other Caspian states are meeting in Tehran this week to try to hammer out a legal framework for use of the sea and its rich resources.
Russia: As Elections Near, Rivalries In Putin Circle Heat Up
Inside The Corporation: Russia's Power Elite
Putin's Meeting With Merkel Shows Strains In EU-Russia Ties Top NATO Official Defends Alliance's Record One of NATO's highest-ranking officers in Afghanistan says the alliance's troops won't be able to secure the country before the Afghan National Army achieves full strength "in three to four" years' time.
The Times Comment: Putin and the mysterious bomb plot
Azeri Leader Off to Iran for Caspian Sea Summit
McClatchy Bush, aides 'grossly misjudged Putin'
Geopolitical Diary: An Odd Threat Against Putin
Washington Times The failed Moscow talks (Ariel Cohen)
Kremlinology redux (Paul Gregory)
Walker's World: Inflating Russian reality By MARTIN WALKER
Google News Azerbaijan
FT Yushchenko hurries allies into power Ukraine’s president reaffirmed his backing for a western-leaning coalition government led by his Orange Revolution ally Yulia Tymoshenko, after poll results were officially declared
Putin shrugs off murder threat Russian president presses ahead with a visit to Tehran in spite of an alleged assassination plot which Iranian authorities dismissed as attempts to strain their relations
Putin hits at efforts to ‘intimidate’ Iran Russian president Vladimir Putin criticised what he said were international efforts to ‘intimidate’ Iran into abandoning its nuclear programme, arguing that Tehran would not respond to such pressure
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| H13 The Times Assassination threats fail to deter Putin from Iran
Clinton strikes a hawkish note on Iran
Off to Baghdad: that’ ll teach ’emWhen America’s railroad workers went on strike in 1946, Harry Truman drafted them into the Army
Wall Street Journal Solidarity With Iran Don't believe it when people say Iran's democracy activists don't want U.S. help. By AKBAR ATRI
Thinking Big on Global Warming
Tangling With the Taliban
BERNANKE SAID THE HOUSING DOWNTURN is likely to remain "a significant drag" on economic growth through early 2008.
Big oil producers' profits are expected to drop as surging crude prices failed to offset weaker refining margins. Oil closed at a record of $86.13 | H14 Financial Times EU seeks to step up pressure on Tehran Union starts to examine the possibility of beefing up sanctions, seeking to put renewed pressure on Tehran to suspend key aspects of its nuclear programme
FRONT PAGE - FIRST SECTION: Crude oil jumps to all-time high above $86 amid fears on supplies
WORLD NEWS - ENGAGING IRAN: Moscow says Iran will resist enrichment pressure
Let Britain speak on Europe’s treaty The French and Dutch were not thrown out of the EU because their voters rejected the constitution. Now the UK should hold a referendum on European reform and risk the odium of being the naysayers, writes Gideon Rachman
Concern rises over Qatari gas reserves There are fears in industry circles that the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas may not be able to increase its levels of daily gas exports beyond 2011
Israel and Hizbollah exchange bodies The exchange – the first such transaction between the two sides since the war last year – is seen as a confidence building measure in negotiations for more prisoner swaps
WORLD NEWS: IMF chief's warning of tighter times ahead
Clinton summit pledge on climate Hillary Clinton said that as president of the US she would set up an annual “E8” summit including India and China that would aim to tackle global warming and work towards energy security
Cleaning up after credit innovation The credit squeeze is not yet over, to judge by the US government’s involvement in an effort to unfreeze the commercial paper market
OBSERVER: Sanchez points his finger on Iraq
Le rugby, rivalry and reformsDominique Moïsi on sporting defeat and French introspection
Middle Britain wants value for money Philip Stephens weighs Tory tax plans
| H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial
Putin on closely watched Iran trip Speculation rages about whether Moscow will join the West in criticism of Iran.
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realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note – US News Political Bulletin Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp
Guardian Giuliani's Napoleon complex Ian Williams Oct 15 07, 09:30pm: The Republican presidential candidate overcompensates for his lack of military experience by talking tough on national security and scorning the law.
Hillary Clinton tops fundraising as would-be nominees for the US presidential race file their latest campaign figures
| H17 Daily Telegraph How to get the best out of Europe Ruth Lea argues for Britain's relationship with the EU to be based on mutually beneficial co-operative agreements, while opting out of political and economic union
Al-Qa'eda 'fatally wounded' in Iraq US commanders say terrorist organisation has been crippled.
Gordon Brown's position on an EU referendum is so lacking in logic and basic honesty that it constitutes an insult to the intelligence of the electorate.
| H18 Independent Olmert hints Israel may be willing to split up Jerusalem The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, hinted that he might be willing to split Jerusalem, by asking whether some Palestinian areas needed to be part of the capital
Mary Dejevsky: Russia would be more dangerous without Putin
US 'delayed' British withdrawal from Basra
Supply fears drive oil to record prices
Putin shrugs off 'death plot' reports to visit Iran
Chinese President promises greater accountability
Hopes of prisoner exchanges after Israeli civilian's body returned home |
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US National Strategy for Homeland Security
Asia Times Masters of war plan for next 100 years
Law is clear: Blackwater is not above it
Radical Islam Is at War with the West - Robert Baer
Gang accused of recruiting Europe's first female suicide bomber go on trial Maryam El-Shall on Salafi Utopia: The Making of the Islamic State.
LA Times How to spend $190 bln Four foreign policy specialists debate how they'd spend the money we currently devote to Iran and Afghanistan.
Analysis: New homeland security strategy UPI Homeland and National Security Editor President Bush’s homeland security adviser Fran Townsend says there will be no major changes to the administration’s controversial border and identity programs as a result of the White House’s new National Strategy for Homeland Security.
NSA Spying: What Did Pelosi Know? by Ray McGovern
Counterterror Head Says US Not 'Tactically' Safer Following Invasion of Iraq USIP Report: Developing Media in Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations
William Arkin Blackwater and War Crimes: A Dangerous Equation | · H20 Slate Prizing Doris Lessing The Nobel committee finally gets it right.
Globalization and Inequality--Posner's Comment
Globalization and Inequality-Becker
The Tiger That Isn't Mathematics scares or depresses most of us, but politicians, journalists and everyone in power use numbers all the time to bamboozle us. Most maths is really simple - as easy as 2 + 2 in fact. Better still it can be understood without any jargon, any formulas - and in fact not even any numbers. Most of it is commonsense, and by using a few basic principles one can quickly see when maths, statistics and numbers are being abused to play tricks - or create policies – which "can waste millions of pounds
Boston Globe News flash(By Drake Bennett) The past two decades have seen a marked shift in local television news across the country, away from in-depth coverage and toward speed and spectacle. While many in the industry have grimly accepted this, a study published earlier this year suggests that the industry has severely underestimated its audience
| H21 Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages: A Review of Theory, Research, and Programs |
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