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H1 ABCNews EXCLUSIVE: The Case for Israel's Strike on Syria

RawStory Exclusive: Cheney hand seen in leaked Syria stories

Ha’aretz - Report: Israeli mole took pictures of Syrian facility ABC: U.S. urged Israel against strike; Washington Post: Syria dismantling site, possibly to hide evidence

DT For the first time in modern history, China will next year contribute more to global economic growth than the United States.

IHT Sarkozy and Brown push Blair for EU presidency
By DAN BILEFSKY The leaders of France and Britain endorsed Tony Blair to be the EU's first permanent president, even as critics questioned how a leader from a nation skeptical of the EU could take over the post

Al Awsat Ahamdinejad: The Winner : Amir Taheri

BBC Airmen punished for nuclear error The US Air Force disciplines 70 airmen after a B-52 flew across the US loaded with nuclear missiles

Good Magazine The New Nostradamus Can a fringe branch of mathematics forecast the future? A special adviser to the CIA, Fortune 500 companies, and the U.S. Department of Defense certainly thinks so.

"What Do You Tell the President in Three Minutes about Iraq?" “The President listened far more than he spoke and when he did it was to make simple points that many critics dodge, such as: We had to do something after 19 young people blew up 3,000 Americans.”

Islam, says Mark Lilla, does not lack concepts of justice, tolerance, or separation of religion from politics. But the basis for these ideas is revelation... more»

The Civil-Military Gap in the United States: Does It Exist, Why, and Does It Matter?
Source: RAND Corporation Summary (PDF; 129 KB)
+ Full Document (PDF; 999 KB)

Slate Who Will Rule Us After the Next 9/11? The reality of NSPD-51 is almost as bad as the paranoia.
Ron Rosenbaum

Govt Report: Iraqi Surge Gained Little

Guardian Riven by class and no social mobility - Britain in 2007

Poll shows no change in 10 years of Labour rule and deep North-South divide as 89% say they are judged by class. Middle class influence has never been greater

Daily Star The global economy is exposed to America's houses of cards By Joseph E. Stiglitz

Ha’aretz Aluf Benn: Iran nuclear threat seems far more frightening from Israel The Iranian threat is perceived as intolerable. Anyone who thinks otherwise does not dare speak out openly, at least not until it emerges that either there is a way to stop them or it is already too late.

Israel's fear: Will Rice put a bridging proposal on the table?

Wall Street Journal What Happened in Syria?
Congress deserves our best intelligence on alleged nuclear proliferation.
By PETER HOEKSTRA and ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN

H2 NCAFP - DISARMING, DEMOBILIZING, AND REINTEGRATING THE KURDISTAN WORKER’S PARTY David L. Phillips PDF Version

The Spectator What has this ‘genocide’ to do with Congress? Public bodies have no role in historical disputes By Norman Stone

LA Times Our fraying alliance with Turkey By Graham E. Fuller Ankara's animosity toward the U.S. has its roots in much more than a genocide bill. We had better get used to the fact that Turkey, strengthened by its popular democracy, is going to pursue its own national interests, regardless of Washington's pressure. Few Turks want it any other way.

Daily Press Briefing US Department of State -

Cooperation with Turkey, Iraq on PKK Problem PKK a Terrorist Organization

IHT Too much success

By IAN BREMMER If Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan moves too far too fast, trouble won't be far behind.

WSJ Editorial The Turkish Front
The path to a better Middle East goes through Ankara.

Kurd Rebels Say They May Hit Turk Pipelines if Attacked

Winter limits Turkish army options against PKK
Reuters

Turkey: We are More than Serious [About an Invasion] Barzani: Iraqi Kurdsistan will Defend Itself (Informed Comment)

WSJ Congress and Armenia Turkey's prime minister on improving relations with Armenia without living in the past. By RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN

Heritage Foundation Armenian Genocide Resolution Bad for U.S. Middle East Policy by Ariel Cohen

Inside the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
By Council on Foreign Relations

ASIA TIMES Who's bluffing on the Turkish-Iraqi border? Turkey has had enough of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) harassment and is preparing to invade Iraq to attempt to stamp it out, despite the protests of Washington, which has labeled the PKK a terrorist group but uses it as an ally in its "war on terror" in Iraq. Turkey doesn't seem to be bluffing or backing down, which puts the US and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in an even tighter spot. - Sami Moubayed

Guardian Iraqis who fled in fear face new terror as Turkey targets PKK rebels Refugees found peace in the Kurdish north, but are now threatened by shelling and cross-border raids

EurasiaNet US-Turkish Relations: In a Critical Phase
BY YIGAL SCHLEIFER After taking a nosedive, US-Turkish relations seem to have entered a holding pattern, as policymakers ponder ways to revive the strategic partnership. Many analysts in both the United States and Turkey say that a major rethinking is needed if bilateral ties are to be sustainable

Washington Post Turkey Rebukes Congress, Threatens Northern Iraq

Turkey Set to Invade Iraq? (Updated) (Outside the Beltway)

Krauthammer's Razor (Power Line)

FT WORLD NEWS: Kurdistan president hints of resistance

McClatchy A tough week for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Pelosi's reversal on Armenian Genocide; 'biggest political misstep of her speakership'...

Ha’aretz Genocide? The Turkish attribute the 'lie' about the Armenian massacre to two Jews.

Analysis: Oil price not only due to Turkey

Washington Times Undermining U.S. abroad Victor Davis Hanson Recently hundreds in Congress have decided they're better suited to handle international affairs than the State Department

Los Angeles Times Serzh speaks Armenia's prime minister visits The Times' editorial board and answers reader questions.

Congress may overcook an important Turkey

California's Armenians Unhappy with Congress (NPR Politics & Society)

Armenian Eyes, Ears on US Genocide Vote

The Congressman’s Burden
National Review Online

Taking Off to Turkey Washington Post

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Kurdish Govt Vows to Retaliate if Turkey Attacks

Kurds 'will fight Turkish raids'
Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdish area of Iraq, says Kurds will defend themselves in the event of a Turkish raid

Kurds demand U.S. defense (By Sharon Behn)

NYT Pipeline Attack in Northern Iraq

Islamic Party in Kurdish Iraq Growing in Popularity Voice of America

Saving Kurdistan
By Andrew Sullivan

Turkey Gobbles Kurdistan?ü

The Case for Kurdistan
By michaeltotten001

Turkey in Short Supply of Positive Image
Kurdish Aspect

An `incubator' for the Kurds
Toronto Star

Babacan stresses dialogue as key to solving Lebanese crisis

Prime minister of Turkey calls on Iraq to shut camps of Kurdish PKK rebels

AP Kurdish leader vows to fight Turks

LA Times Iraqi downplays Turkey's intentions

Turkish man shot on Egypt's border dies

Iraq Kurdish Leader Vows to Fight Strike

AZERBAIJAN MAY BE INVOLVED IN TURKISH OPERATIONS IN IRAQ - PAPER EurasiaNet

Diplomatic offensive needed, not offensive diplomacy
San Francisco Chronicle

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

"EU says ‘terrorists,’ European press says ‘freedom fighters’

Turkish father wins fight to get girl out of religious class

Paul means Tarsus means Turkey means... What? - Turkish Daily News Oct 20, 2007

Hasan and the barber

Guardian, John Mullan

Other Colours by Orhan Pamuk,

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Cengiz Çandar

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası

Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri -

Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700

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Taha Kıvanç

Fehmi Koru

Main Reasons of the Mistrust between Turkey and the US

How Barzani clan came to change roles with Assad family
Turkish Daily News

Ertuğrul Özkök

Ahmet Hakan

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt Ülsever

Enis Berberoğlu

Oktay Ekşi

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

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ERGUN BABAHAN

EMRE AKÖZ

Umur Talu

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NAZLI ILICAK

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

YAVUZ DONAT

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam

Pipeline Attack in Northern Iraq

H5 Washington Post IEDs Seen As Rising Threat in The U.S. As Preparedness Is Criticized, Bush Works on a Plan

Editorial: China's Empty Rhetoric Marching in Place China's Communist leader plans another five years without political reform.

Scientist's Remarks on Blacks Cause Furor Watson Suspended After Suggesting Whites Are Smarter

4 Colonels Lose Their Air Force Commands 65 Others Also Pay For Nuclear Error

Pakistan's Bhutto Vows to Persevere Despite Deaths of 140, New Threats

Ex-Prosecutor Alleges Pentagon Plays Politics Pressure for 'Sexy' Guantanamo Hearings

In Memoir, Ex-Spy Tells Her Side of CIA Leak Case Wilson Writes of Shock at War Rationale

Poland's Powerful Twins Face Key Test Sunday Despite Long List of Foes, Leaders' Party Is Resilient Going Into Early Elections

H6 Guardian Riven by class and no social mobility - Britain in 2007

Poll shows no change in 10 years of Labour rule and deep North-South divide as 89% say they are judged by class. Middle class influence has never been greater

EU deal will last a decade, says Brown

PM promises debate but not referendum amid relief as leaders reach agreement after six years.

Sarkozy backs Blair - but would he be interested?

Blair's war of words Inayat Bunglawala Oct 19 07, 10:00pm: In a speech last night Britain's ex-prime minister launched an attack on Iran that should cause all of us to shudder.

Bhutto: 'military linked to blasts'
Government given list of names before attack that killed 138.

Outside powers have turned Pakistan into a powder keg
Ziauddin Sardar: The slaughter in Karachi is a brutal symbol of a nation blighted by political opportunism and western interference.

Jaw-jawing to war-war David Cox Tony Blair's incontinent rhetoric in New York, comparing militant Islamism with 1920s fascism, only takes us closer to the abyss of war with Iran.

Stopping the press barons

Robert McChesney The US media system is at a critical juncture. What we as citizens do - or don't do - now will make all the difference.

Leader Bhutto must fight on
Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto's return to the political stage represents a force that so threatens some elements of Pakistani society that they are prepared to blow her up - along with the entire leadership of her Pakistan People's party

Pakistan holds its breath

Simon Tisdall It seems likely there will be more violence after yesterday's suicide bombings: this is a crucial moment in Pakistan.

H7 Exclusive: Cheney hand seen in leaked Syria stories

Daily Star The global economy is exposed to America's houses of cards By Joseph E. Stiglitz

Oil prices fall from record highs Oil prices fall in the US after breaking through the $90 barrier as investors seek to realise their profits.

Effectiveness of the Provincial Reconstruction Team Program in Iraq (PDF; 541 KB)
Source: Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)

Crossroads of Diplomacy: New Challenges, New Solutions
Clingendael
A 50-page Dutch paper describing how the nature of international relations has changed in recent decades

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

Daily Star There's a better - and cheaper - way that Washington can help Lebanon

The new center of gravity of Arab stability By Rami G. Khouri

The value of electoral administration in the Gulf states
By David Mikosz

Blackwater Attempted to Take Iraqi Military Aircraft Out of Iraq

Ex-Top Envoy: Functionally 'There Is No Iraqi Government'

Pentagon Announces Iraq Deployments

H9 Ha’aretz - Report: Israeli mole took pictures of Syrian facility ABC: U.S. urged Israel against strike; Washington Post: Syria dismantling site, possibly to hide evidence

Aluf Benn: Iran nuclear threat seems far more frightening from Israel The Iranian threat is perceived as intolerable. Anyone who thinks otherwise does not dare speak out openly, at least not until it emerges that either there is a way to stop them or it is already too late.

Israel's fear: Will Rice put a bridging proposal on the table?

WTR: 75% of Americans don't believe in peace process

UN chief to Beilin: Peace summit decisions must get UN approval

Hezbollah slams U.S. call for 'partnership' with Lebanon army

Religion and real estate Israel refuses to recognize the Greek Orthodox patriarch, amid a battle over Jerusalem real estate.

Guest: Should the Saudis attend Annapolis?

Striking Iran's Nuclear Facilities: A Complex, But Not Impossible Mission - Amir Oren

Jerusalem Post Report: Israel had mole inside Syrian facility prior to strike
US official tells ABC: CIA helped Israel pinpoint coordinates for strike, White House discouraged attack because 'there was no proof.'

Column One: Idle talk, reckless talk
[ CAROLINE GLICK

The nuclear watchdog is checking US spy satellite images of Syrian site hit by Israeli warplanes on Sept. 6 for signs of secret nuclear activity

Yedioth 'Syrian site photos examined'
Diplomatic sources say UN experts scrutinizing satellite photos of site attacked by Israel in September; no conclusive results yet. Earlier, Washington Post reported Syria eliminating evidence at site of attack

Hizbullah: US could turn Lebanon into 2nd Iraq

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

Outside View: Olmert visits Moscow

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Poland's vote: More nationalism or closer ties to Europe? For the leading opposition party, Sunday's election in Poland is the most important event since 1989.

ASIA

IHT China's economic puzzle

The Chinese leadership realized the need to "re-balance" growth in 2004. But they have been too timid to push hard toward a new strategy.

Benazir Bhutto returns

Letting Bhutto back to lead her party's ticket in the soon-to-be-held parliamentary elections is an important step forward for Pakistan

For the first time in modern history, China will next year contribute more to global economic growth than the United States.

What Korean Unification Means to China Nautilus Institute

Boston Globe Editorial After the Karachi bombing

THE SUICIDE bombing directed against Pakistan's former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, on her return home Thursday after eight years in exile illuminates the destructive forces threatening to tear that country apart. In the aftermath of the atrocity, it falls to Bhutto and other temperate political leaders in Pakistan to rally all democratic forces against the violence of Islamist militants and ...

Youth fight election lethargy in Poland
By NICHOLAS KULISH
In the last election, in 2005, Law and Justice benefited from low voter turnout, but now, as opponents are counting on a strong turnout by younger voters, the latest opinion polls show Civic Platform, a free-market, pro-European rival party, poised to win the election Sunday

EUROPE European press review

Le Monde Europe, une étape

BBC EU eyes new priorities after deal EU leaders say they should turn to new priorities now that they have agreed on institutional reforms.

Q&A: The Reform Treaty

Mardell's Euroblog
The new treaty is agreed, but can the EU now move on?

From NPR, an interview with Bernard Kouchner (and more from Der Spiegel). He talks a good talk, but it is harder to say what the policies of France's new foreign minister will add up to. It used to be that France would respond with a predictable "non" to any saber-rattling coming out of the US. Now, though, Paris seems eager to lead the way and has taken clear aim at Iran (more). From Le Figaro, Andre Glucksmann: "You said 'war', Mr Kouchner, and you were not mistaken". From Mute, why the endo-colonial guerrilla warfare in the peripheries of French society is a dangerous piece of political myth making. Ready or not, France opens museum on immigration. Parisian attitudes toward the sporting life turn up in politics, philosophy, and what fashionable joggers choose to wear for "le running". Here are 30 reasons why we hate the French

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

Al Hayat Putin Won't Toss Away His Relationship with the US to Satisfy Iran and Syria Raghida Dergham

Peace Strategies in "Frozen" Ethno-Territorial Conflicts
MZES
This 57-page German working paper argues the need for a re-conceptualization of the peacebuilding process in the South Caucasus

Spies key to functioning Russia, says Putin

H13 The Times A history of trouble in the NW Frontier Events in Pakistan have taken a turn for the worse with the suicide bomb attacks on Benazir Bhutto’s homecoming rally Graham Stewart

Leader Pakistan’s Peril Democracy and free elections are the only appropriate response to an atrocity

Wanted: a national culture

We have lost the basis of morality as a shared set of values holding society together Jonathan Sacks

Leader Bite the Ballot The case for a referendum on the EU treaty is now absolute

Don't underestimate British honour

We don't take Europe seriously and the referendum is another example of Brown’s evasiveness Matthew Parris

Wall Street Journal What Happened in Syria?
Congress deserves our best intelligence on alleged nuclear proliferation.
By PETER HOEKSTRA and ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN

Victory Is Within Reach in Iraq
Once an al Qaeda stronghold, Fallujah is now one of the safer cities. By MICHAEL A. LEDEEN

H14 Financial Times Lunch with the FT: John Bolton

These welcoming shores The US must not take the love of the world and its immigrants for granted, writes Chrystia Freeland

Washington, avoid doing favours for Wall Street

Hank Paulson made a mistake. Given the moral hazard risk, governments should get involved in rescue plans very rarely, writes John Gapper

No easy answers on immigration

Christopher Caldwell on wishful thinking and hard facts

1987 and all that: lessons for today

By the early 1990s inflation required drastic monetary medicine, which led to recession. Central bankers risk repeating the mistake

Pakistan enters a bloody transition

Its rulers and institutions need restored popular legitimacy that can now only emerge from an open and fair electoral process

The profits of doom Naomi Klein argues that ideologues use crises to further the capitalist agenda. Is she right or just scaremongering?

Maternal power helps propel McCain comeback

Rethinking development policy From the Washington Concensus to a Beijing-Seoul-Tokyo Consensus

EU troika calls for market clarity Britain, France and Germany have issued a joint call for greater market transparency and better risk management to prevent future world financial crises

FT MAGAZINE: Ask more of your newspaper

H15 Los Angeles Times Serzh speaks Armenia's prime minister visits The Times' editorial board and answers reader questions.

Neoconservatism's heirs By Jacob Heilbrunn The movement isn't dead, it's regrouping under the sons of its founders.

Her vision or his? Ronald Brownstein Proposal by proposal, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are constructing policy agendas that present their party with mirror-image choices.

Editorial Is Iran's military 'terrorist'? Congress wants the administration to officially deem Iran's Revolutionary Guard terrorists.

Outsourcing government

By Naomi Klein The administration's overuse of contractors -- abroad and at home -- is leaving the public sector unable to perform its most basic functions.

H16 American Politics

The two Democratic parties

By Ronald Brownstein Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are targeting different groups.

Fast Facts: Election 2008: New Interactive Side-by-Side Comparisons of Presidential Candidate

Values voters
Why religious right in the US faces a dilemma in 2008

WSJ Sex and the Presidency
Being a woman is Mrs. Clinton's biggest asset, writes Peggy Noonan. And now she's finally trying to seem like one.
By PEGGY NOONAN

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

H17 Daily Telegraph We can attack Iran, says US commander

America's top military officer said it has the resources to attack Iran, despite the strain of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Leader Pakistan on the edge

Armed with popular support, a Musharraf-Bhutto government could purge Pakistan of al-Qa'eda's core leadership. Clever if it works. But the flaws in this plan are legion.

Bhutto blames rogue officials for blast

No more EU changes, says Gordon Brown The Prime Minister has issued a high-risk pledge to block any further extension of Europe's power for at least a decade.

Day of reckoning for Brussels dictatorship The EU tries wherever possible to avoid the democratic judgment of the people it rules. When that judgment does come, it will be merciless, writes Charles Moore.

Time for some fresh thinking on Europe Britain has a great future whatever happens to the Reform Treaty, but the issue of our relationship with the EU must be grasped, argues David Trimble.

H18 Independent Leading article: Yet more bloodshed on a country's chequered passage to democracy

Robert Fisk: Executed at dawn. But who was he?

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

The Civil-Military Gap in the United States: Does It Exist, Why, and Does It Matter?
Source: RAND Corporation Summary (PDF; 129 KB)
+ Full Document (PDF; 999 KB)

The Dark Art of Interrogation

Airmen punished for nuclear error The US Air Force disciplines 70 airmen after a B-52 flew across the US loaded with nuclear missiles.

Absorbing and Developing Qualified Fighter Pilots: The Role of the Advanced Simulator
Source: RAND Corporation Summary (PDF; 139 KB)
+ Full Document (PDF; 486 KB)

Hundreds of New Documents Reveal Expanded Military Role in Domestic Surveillance
Source: American Civil Liberties Union

Two marines to face Haditha trial

WSJ Was Iraq Whistleblower Tainted by Corruption?

Lt. Col. Marshall Gutierrez blew the whistle in 2005 when he discovered signs of rampant overcharging by the Army's main food supplier for the Iraq war. But investigators now allege that he wound up tainted by the very same corruption.

Science and Security in a Post 9/11 World: A Report Based on Regional Discussions Between the Science and Security Communities
Source: National Research Council, Committee on a New Government-University Partnership for Science and Security (National Academies Press)
From press release:

Effectiveness of the Provincial Reconstruction Team Program in Iraq (PDF; 541 KB)
Source: Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)

Secretary Michael Chertoff Speaks at CSIS

H20 Slate Who Will Rule Us After the Next 9/11?

The reality of NSPD-51 is almost as bad as the paranoia. Ron Rosenbaum

A review of -30-: The Collapse of the Great American Newspaper. As struggling newspapers across the country cut back on investigative reporting, Paul E. Steiger and a pair of wealthy Californians are assembling a group of investigative journalists who will give away their work to media outlets. What do Herbert and Marion Sandler want? Investigating the funders of ProPublica, the new investigative journalism outfit. Is this the end of news? Even a guy burned by one failed Internet start-up can't resist the idea that this latest technology—like Linotype, TV, and cable before it—could remake the news. So here goes Newser.com, the author's attempt to rescue a common narrative of public life. There is no truth: An article on the problem with Jon Stewart's media criticism. News flash: New research concludes that the sensationalism sweeping local news is bad for ratings

Third U.S. Climate Change Science Program Report Issued
Source: U.S. Department of Energy

H21 Live fast, love hard, die young. You might as well face it, guys: chasing females can take years off your life... more»

The New York Times' Employee Entrance Exam

An Edge special question: What is your formula? Your equation? Your algorithm? Formulae for the 21st century.

That pathetically neurotic, self-centered, wanly wisecracking pseudo-intellectual. It can only be Woody Allen... more»

IQ differences are real, but do they matter?

Watson's remarks on race and intelligence may not be wrong but tests can't measure individual worth

The Porn Age's unsexiness Meghan Daum: Explicit images and shows are so common that watching scripted sex just isn't what it used to be.

Amusing ourselves to death – or maybe achieving real depth. Is The Onion our most intelligent newspaper?... more»

Arthur Schlesinger passes anecdotes around like canapés. What did Truman say to Picasso, or Al Gore think about “finding our place in the universe”?... more»

Research libraries close their books to Google and Microsoft

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