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H1 Guardian Warning over oil production decline The steep decline in oil production brings risk of war and social unrest, according to a report. Production peaked in 2006 and will fall 7% a year, says study.

Washington Post The Next Challenge In Iraq By David Ignatius, How to seize the moment rather than maintain the status quo.

Militias Deemed a Rising Threat Shiite extremist groups are labelled a rising threat to the U.S. effort in Iraq, as the relative influence of Sunni insurgents diminishes.

Deploying for 'The New Normal' By Jim Hoagland, Nation-building and democracy promotion? The U.S. will settle for stability where it can be found

Christian Science Monitor Opinion: Cause of Iraq's chaos: bad borders People, including Iraqis, like to live among their own. So let them.

With new nuclear chief, Iran signals harder line

Iran's abrupt change of nuclear negotiators spotlights internal power struggles, too

Ha’aretz Melman Walking a nuclear tightrope Russia's message to Iran is: You have a right to enrich uranium for civilian needs, but you don't have to do it now. Russia supports you, but you are liable to lose our support if you are too stubborn.

Independent Iran's new hardline nuclear envoy causes jitters in West

Stephen King: G7 club must invite new members or die

The Times UK Troops Infiltrate Iran to Kill 'Gunrunners'

Military: Iran Could Fire 11,000 Rockets at Enemy Bases if Attacked

Los Angeles Times Making peace with Americans by Charles A. Kupchan and Peter L. Trubowitz For the U.S., the next great foreign policy challenge is building consensus at home

Vice-President Cheney, in a speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy:

Kristol: Iran Is 'The Only Real Threat' To Success In Iraq —

Al Hayat Letter of Joseph R. Biden On Federalism in Iraq Joseph R. Biden - Iraqis already have made the decision for federalism - not division - in their Constitution. A federal Iraq is a united Iraq. It is one in which municipal, provincial and regional governments make decisions so that security and services can be improved at the local level.

American Prospect Bush's Neo- Imperialist War John B. Judis From our new issue: Our Iraqi occupation not only rejects American foreign policy since Wilson, it's a throwback to the great power imperialism that led to
World War I.

In Iraq Forever Spencer Ackerman
Despite the Bush administration's assurances to the contrary, plans for a long-term U.S. presence in Iraq continue apace.

Into Year Seven (PDF; 152 KB)
Source: Oxford Research Group

Boston Globe Bug bomb

Why our next terrorist attack could come on six legs

Newsweek COVER STORY: PAKISTAN Where the Jihad Lives Now Islamic militants have spread beyond their tribal bases, and have the run of an unstable, nuclear-armed nation.

CFR Haass: In Pakistan, Radicalism Is 'Spreading'

Weekly Standard While Pakistan Burns Al Qaeda regroups in the tribal areas, the government falters. What is to be done? by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Lobe Cheney Raises the Rhetoric Against Iran

The Secret History of the Impending War With Iran
by John H. Richardson

IHT NATO chief pleads again for troop increases By JUDY DEMPSEY
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, secretary general of NATO, again urged the alliance's members to step up their commitments, saying it was now entering the most difficult phases of the Afghan campaign

Role reversal at IMF as the rich come under fire The theme of the meeting of the International Monetary Fund this year has not been fear of protesters but of the global impact of the collapse in the American housing sector, which many delegates blame on lax regulations and sleepy regulators in Europe and the United States.

Financial Times COMMENT: End global inequality: be a Luddite Instead of critics of globalisation the world needs critics of technological progress. If we can only stop or slow that, we can have more equal societies. The world has put up with progress and its consequences for too long, says Clive Crook

Dismay as Iran nuclear chief quits The sudden departure of Iran’s leading nuclear and security official was greeted with dismay in Tehran political circles

WORLD NEWS: New role for trusted adviser

Nato chiefs urge nations to pool resources The alliance’s secretary general wants to intensify discussion on defence spending at the informal meeting as several member states struggle with military overstretch

The Region: Persistent illusions
Jerusalem Post By BARRY RUBIN

THE BEST OF FRENEMIES
New York Post - By AMIR TAHERI

Washington Institute The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Lebanon

SPIEGEL ONLINE Interview With Pakistan Expert Ahmed Rashid: 'After This Attack, There Won't Be Any Election Campaign'

H2 New York Times Iraq and Turkey See Tensions Rise After Ambush Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice intervened to ward off a strike by Turkey on northern Iraq after an ambush by Kurdish rebels left at least 12 Turkish soldiers dead.

The Times Leader Danger Signs

Turkey, a friend and ally, is becoming perilously estranged from the West

Interview with Recep Tayyip Erdogan in full PM: Turkey Will Invade Northern Iraq Despite US Objections

Independent Leading Article: Turkey should not be left to go it alone

Al Awsat Interview Iraqi President Talabani on the PKK-Turkey Crisis

Wikipedia - Tet Offensive

[NEWS ANALYSIS] Turkey’s military procurement priorities receive criticism as terror heightens

IraqSlogger US Papers Monday: Turkey's Game of Chicken

Washington Post Kurds Cross From Iraq, Kill 17 Turkish Troops Pre-dawn attack ratchets up pressure on Turkish government to launch offensive into Iraq as U.S. says its troops killed 49 fighters in Sadr City

FT Turkey will ‘pay any price’ to defeat rebels

WORLD NEWS: Turks plan response to deadly Kurdish attack

LEX COLUMN: Banking on Turkey

Investment banks in Turkey

Guardian Turkey bombards northern Iraq Fears of incursion grow after clashes leave at least 12 Turkish soldiers and 23 PKK guerillas dead.

Bush Says PKK Attacks In Turkey Must Stop

Talabani ve Barzani'den açıklama

Bush Demands Iraqi Govt, Kurds Deal With PKK

Gates Sees No Imminent Turkish Attack

Independent Turks mull invasion of Iraq after PKK ambush

The Times Turkish Prime Minister warns US

DT Scores killed in Turkey border clash

The Times PKK pushes Turkey to brink with fresh attacks

BBC Turkey vows to defeat PKK rebels

Miami Herald The Kurdish rebellion

Djerejian Knife's Edge

Turks Back Direct President Poll

Al Awsat Why Stand Against the Turks? : Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed I refuse to defend the right of the Kurdish rebels to carry out their military operations against the Turkish state, since their practices are no different than those undertaken by violent armed groups in Iraq and the region.

Partisan Politics & Dems' Turkey Problem - Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Cal

LA Times Kurdish ambush kills 12 Turks

Talabani: PKK'yla görüştüm, düşünecekler

NYT Iraq President Assails Syria’s Support for Turkish Cross-Border Threat

Iraq Says Taking "Important Steps" Against PKK

Turkey's foreign minister arrives unexpectedly in Jiddah, met by ...

Talabani: PKK Could Announce Cease-Fire Monday

Tahran, Türkiye'nin sınır ötesi operasyon planlarına soğuk

Iraq Cannot Hand Over Rebels to Turkey: Talabani

Talabani: "Türkiye kendini bataklığa atmaya hazır değil"

Despite Advances Kurdistan Still in Sits in Shaky Neighborhood

Bütün dertleri petrol mü? Talabani ve Barzani petrol fiyatları artsın diye operasyonu tahrik mi ediyor?

Turkey in Iraq: Economic implications

Iran, Syria Urge Diplomatic Means Instead of Military Incursion Into Iraq

Pelosi's Judgment Questioned Over Armenia Issue

"Diplomacy" Best Solution for Crisis in Northern Iraq Iran Spokesman

Comparative Note on Iraqi Kurdish Government's Statements on Turkish Incursion

Defending Southern Kurdistan
Kurdish Aspect

Iraqi President Says Handing Kurdish Leaders to Turkey "Unattainable Dream"

Iraqi Kurdistan Minister Defends PKK Actions, Says Turkey Rejected Talks

Iraqi Leaders, Figures Comment on "Potential Turkish Invasion"

Sunday Times Analysis: invasion would be a disaster

Negotiating Around a Turkish Incursion Into Iraq

BBC Your views on Turkish crisis

Irak meclisi Türkiye’yi kınadı

Syria Denies Assad Backing for Turkish Action in Iraq

Turkey set to display harsh reaction against US

Here's Hoping Pelosi Peeves the Turks by Charley Reese

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Sunday Times PKK pushes Turkey to brink with fresh attacks

Talabani refuses to deliver PKK leaders to Turkey amid protests against incursion

Turkey-Kurdistan Trigger
By Walid Phares

Juan Cole Iraq/ Turkey Tensions in Streets, Halls of Parliament Turkish Economy Imperilled Istrabadi Resigns, Slams Iraqi Government

NPR Kurdish Strike on Turkish Forces Raises Stakes

Behind the Turkey-Kurdish Conflict
Kurdish Aspect

Posted by Reza Zarabi Jerusalem Post

PRO-CON: Does Turkey have reasons to attack Kurdish rebels in Iraq ...

Iraqi TV Interviews Officials, Figures on Threat of War With Turkey

Iraqi Turkoman Tribes Urge Parties' Distance From Turkey-Kurdish Problem

Kurdish Analyst Says Turkish Ground Attack Against PKK Unlikely

Iraqi Kurd Friday Prayers Dedicated to Turkish Threats

Iraqi President Discusses PKK-Turkey Standoff, Oil Law, US Presence

Iraqi Kurdistan Minister Interviewed on Crisis With Turkey

PKK Source Says Turkish Army Crossed Iraqi Border - Al-Jazeera

Cartoon Implies Turkey's Incursion into Iraq Faces Restrictions Set By USA

Turk-Kurd Border…The Emerging New Front

Kurdish Paper Analyses Reactions to Threat of Turkish Incursion

PKK sorunu ancak af ve siyasetle çözülür

DTP: Büyük acı çekiyoruz

Gül'den Suudi Kralı'na Türkiye daveti

Iraqi Kurds to "Fight PKK" If Oil Pipelines Attacked - Website

Turkish Shelling of Iraq Border Leaves "Uncontrolled" Fires

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 21 Oct 07

Iraqi List, Kurdistan Alliance MPs Discuss Turkish "Threats"

Opposing Turkish Threats
Kurdish Aspect -

Iraq, US, Turkey Agree Solution to Contain "Crisis" - Al-Arabiya

Iraq Kurds Welcome Turkey's Call for PKK Disarmament

Iraqi Kurdish Article Argues for Disclosure of Missing Budget Money

Iraqi Kurdistan PM Asks UN for More Active Role in Region

Iraqi Christians Call on Turkey to Engage in Dialogue Over PKK - Kurdish Paper

Ernie Pellegrino: Kurdistan-Texas oil deal makes sense

Turkish "Intelligence Source" Says Incursion into Iraq in November - Italian Paper

Türkçe bilmediği için sınıfta ağladı

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

AKPM’de PKK’ya karşı yasa hazırlığı

Salhani Two ways of looking at the Armenian genocide

Ata Atun Talat vs. Papadopulos

AİHM'nin zorunlu kararı
Erdal Güven

Sarkozy: Türkiye akil adamları beklemeli

Rumların seferleri engelleme girişimleri sürüyor

Papadopulos'tan Şam'a 'feribot elçisi'

Komşuda "tarih asparagası" krizi

İç sorunlar bitti, sıra genişlemede

Türkiye AB'ye girmezse medeniyet kırılması olur

Owning up to a past Chicago Tribune

The challenges of confronting the Armenian genocide U.S. News & World Report

Fighting Over a Word U.S. News & World Report, By Danielle Knight

Leave Turkey alone
Salt Lake Tribune

Kızılderili Soykırımı Kararı
Hasan Celal Güzel

Alevi Enstitüsü’nü himayesine aldı

BOTAŞ'ın ihalelerinde başorganizatör Selçuk

Bakanlık'tan Kaz Dağları'nda inceleme

Hrant Dink’s assassin hospitalized

22 Ekim 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 12 askeri şehit eden PKK'lıların 32'si öldürüldü Irak'ta sıcak takip

Gereken bedel neyse ödemekten çekinmeyiz

% 69 EVET, % 31 HAYIR

Sınırdaki terör yuvalarına bomba yağıyor, ABD süre istedi

PKK büyük çaplı eyleme dönüyor

Bu köprüyü havaya uçurdular

Rice zirve öncesi telefon etti, süre istedi:Bize birkaç gün verin

Pamukoğlu 48 saat içinde müdahale şart

Ali H Aslan [WASHINGTON] Kamuoyunun ipi ve dış politika kuyusu

Ertuğrul Özkök 3-5 F-16; 30-40 sorti

Fikret BİLA Org. Büyükanıt sabaha kadar telefondan ayrılmadı

Ruşen Çakır| / PKK'yı anlamak-4

PKK dönüşü olmayan bir noktada mı?

Gülen cemaatinin sırları

Gülen cemaatinin sırları-2 On yıl süren araştırmadan ilginç sonuçlar... Ruşen Çakır yazıyor

Cengiz Çandar PKK’nın oyunu; Hükümet'in zorunluluğu

PKK'nın oyununa gelmeden yanıt vermek Murat Yetkin

Taha AKYOL Bu sınır savunulamaz

Fatih Çekirge Sınır ötesi resmen başladı

Şamil Tayyar 200 terörist sınırdan nasıl sızdı?

Cevdet Aşkın PKK tasfiye olmamak için Ankara'yı 'erken doğum'a zorluyor

Askeri istihbarata uydu engeli mi?

Ekrem Dumanlı PKK ne yapmak istiyor?

MONDAY TALK] ‘Israel likely to lose Turkey if Armenian resolution ... Bülent Aras Today's Zaman

Bedel ne ise öderiz

Dağlıca'yı bilmek İsmet Berkan

Ahmet Hakan Zor zamanda zor sorular

Operasyon yarar sağlamaz
Tarhan Erdem

Şahin Alpay Historic opportunity for Iraqi Kurds

Malatya'da PKK sempatizanlarına linç girişimi

Fikret BİLA Elekdağ'ın önerileri

Semih İDİZ PKK ile mücadele sadece silahla olmaz

Kadri GÜRSEL Dış politikadaki rejim değişikliği

Ömer Taşpınar A pyrrhic victory

Barzani'ye göre PKK terörist örgüt değil

TSK Basın Açıklaması / 23 / 24

Bush: PKK saldırıları durmalı

Bir tarafta acı, diğer tarafta tuzak var

Mehmet Tezkan PKK, Türk askerini K. Irak’a çekmek istiyor

'Türkiye'nin ciddi istihbarat eksiği var'

Serdar Turgut Akıllı tepki

Süleyman Yaşar Çember daralırken

Nabi Yağcı Türkiye pimi çekilmiş bomba üstünde

Ali Bulaç İnisiyatifler savaşı

Gönül: PKK’nın elinde Türk askeri yok

En düşük katılımlı referandum

Harekata şartlı vize

[HABER ANALİZ] 'Cumhur' krize geçit vermedi

Heinous attack stretches Turkey’s patience to limits

Wilson Dehşetle izledim

Türkiye ayakta

Edip Başer ‘Tuzağa düşmeyelim’

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası

Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri -

Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700

VOA TSİ 06:30 Dış Basında Türkiye Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey Turquie Türkei TurcoPundit

Taha Kıvanç Her yerde birşeyler oluyor, olacak

Fehmi Koru Sabrımızı deniyorlar

A cheat with a noble cause

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Türkiye'ye karşı açık bir savaş başlatıldı

KÜRŞAT BUMİN Bitmeyen bir 'asimetrik harekât'

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Hakkari kan gölü…

KORAY DÜZGÖREN Uluslararası hesaplar ve şiddete dayalı politika

Why Turkey’s army will stay home by IAN BREMMER*

• Toptan: "Terörü cesaretlendiriyorlar" Toptan, "Tezkerenin ardından yaşananları ibretle takip ediyoruz. Son günlerde özellikle Kuzey Irak'tan, Bağdat'tan, ABD'den ve Avrupa Birliği'nden gelen sesler, terörü cesaretlendirmektedir" dedi.

Başbakan harekât kararı için kritik tarihi açıkladı:5 Kasım ültimatomu

Mehmet Yılmaz Harekát artık kaçınılmaz

Ferai Tınç Türkiye yolunu kendi çizmeli

Şükrü Küçükşahin Rolün gereğini yapmak

Hilmi Özkök Muhabere kaybedilebilir ama harp kazanılmalıdır

Nabi Şensoy Talimat gelirse gereğini yaparım

Ahmet Hakan Marksist yazar cepçilik mi yaptı

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt Ülsever

Bülent Keneş Turkish democracy on the right track

İhsan Dağı Is the PKK trying to provoke a cross-border operation?

Enis Berberoğlu ’PKK’ya af’ diye anlamayın

Oktay Ekşi Yeni bir kırmızı çizgi

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERDAL ŞAFAK 301 ısınıyor mu?

ERGUN BABAHAN

EMRE AKÖZ 'İspatla da görelim'

Umur Talu

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

YAVUZ DONAT

Can Ataklı Bu cesaret beni şüphelendiriyor

KÜRŞAT BUMİN Tezkereli günler...

[Yorum - TÜRKİYE SAVAŞTA - 2] Sınır ötesinde 'sessiz savaş'

Route of the happy minority and Turkeyby Dr. ATİLLA YAYLA *

[YORUM - M. Şükrü Hanioğlu] Türkiye, Malezya olacak mı? (1)

Yiğit Bulut ‘Küresel sermaye’ için ‘Kürt sorunu’ yok

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Dışarıya Irak eklendi, piyasanın durumu kritikleşti

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam Yüksek faiz için bazı sorular

Haftanın özeti Mahfi Eğilmez

Ekonomi dalında Nobel sahiplerini buldu Baran Tuncer

Yüzde 5.5 faiz dışı fazla yeterli mi?
Fatih Özatay

Orta vadeli görünüm
Uğur Gürses

Büyük bir fırsatı kaçırmak üzereyiz
Fatih Özatay

Yaman TÖRÜNER Bankaların karnesi

Güngör URAS
Fakir olduğumuz için başımız dertten kurtulamıyor

IMF’den 6.4 milyar dolar aldık, zamsız elektrik 15 milyar dolar sağladı

Ertuğ Yaşar En büyük başkan bizim başkan

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
"Bazı işadamları BOTAŞ'a dadanmış!"

Asım Erdilek Turkey’s globalization through foreign direct investment

H5 Washington Post The Next Challenge In Iraq By David Ignatius, How to seize the moment rather than maintain the status quo.

Militias Deemed a Rising Threat Shiite extremist groups are labelled a rising threat to the U.S. effort in Iraq, as the relative influence of Sunni insurgents diminishes.

Deploying for 'The New Normal' By Jim Hoagland, Nation-building and democracy promotion? The U.S. will settle for stability where it can be found

The Deal on the Table By Jackson Diehl An enduring paradox of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that the outline of a two-state peace settlement -- that is, the points Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is pressing the two sides to write down in time for a November conference -- is readily apparent to anyone with a commitment to pr...

Outed Spy Tells Inside Story After memoir, one remaining question is whether Plame was behind husband's famed trip to Niger

Melting Occurs at Alarming Rate For scientists, global warming is a disaster movie come to life with first scenes set at Earth's poles.

Iran's Nuclear Negotiator Resigns Ahmadinejad Seen Asserting Control

The New Third World By Paul Collier Will the world's Bottom Billion ever catch up?

NATO Conflicted Over Afghanistan As War-Torn Country Backslides, Allies Differ on How to Stabilize It

Cheney: U.S., Other Nations Won't Let Iran Get Nuclear Arms

Bolton Book Cites Effort to Halt Powell's Iran Initiative

Bombing Shakes Pakistan's Political Culture Mass Rallies Used by Bhutto Become Perilous Endeavors

Editorial Climate Change on Capitol Hill With Sens. Lieberman and Warner on board, maybe Congress will try something new: action.

Iraqi Police Tied to Attack on U.S. Base 8 Officers Arrested in Rocket Strike That Killed 2 American Soldiers in Baghdad

State Department Struggles To Oversee Private Army The State Department Turned to Contractors Such as Blackwater Amid a Fight With the Pentagon Over Personal Security in Iraq

Contract Tightens Rules of Engagement A new contract proposal put forward last week by the Joint Contracting Command-Iraq shows that the U.S. military believes there is going to be a continuing need for private, armed, security services such as Blackwater USA in that country for years to come

the ideas primary A Difference on Iran? Barack Obama's unconvincing attack on Hillary Clinton's 'saber-rattling.'

Pressure Alleged in Detainees' Hearings Ex-Prosecutor Says Pentagon Pushing 'Sexy' Cases in '08

Targeted By Bassam Sebti, I made it out of Iraq alive. My colleague Salih Saif Aldin did not. Here's what we risked as Iraqi journalists.

H6 Guardian Warning over oil production decline The steep decline in oil production brings risk of war and social unrest, according to a report. Production peaked in 2006 and will fall 7% a year, says study.

Iran's president moves to tighten grip on nuclear policy · Chief negotiator resigns after rift on strategy
· Doubts surround future of foreign minister

The decline of Ahmadinejad

Mehdi Khalaji Oct 21 07, 02:00pm: A military confrontation with the west would strengthen the Iranian president at a time when his power inside the country is waning.

From payer to player

El Hassan bin Talal Oct 21 07, 11:00am: The EU has long supported the Middle East financially but it must now move to influence events thereby helping devise a model of stability.

Bhutto wants international experts to help attack inquiry· Three men questioned by police over bombing
· Campaign to continue despite threats

Opposition triumph in Polish election

Liberal opposition party score a stunning election victory over nationalist PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski

The Observer Hardliners gain as Iran's nuclear negotiator quits
Revolutionary Guard has thousands of rockets to return fire on 'enemy'

Israel shaken by troops' tales of brutality against Palestinians
A psychologist blames assaults on civilians in the 1990s on soldiers' bad training, boredom and poor supervision

Bhutto defiant as bombing suspects held by police The terror outrage could strengthen ties between Benazir and General Pervez Musharraf, reports Declan Walsh in Karachi

Fear of global slowdown as oil price soars Opec under fire as US crude nears $100 a barrel.

H7 Al Hayat Letter of Joseph R. Biden On Federalism in Iraq Joseph R. Biden - Iraqis already have made the decision for federalism - not division - in their Constitution. A federal Iraq is a united Iraq. It is one in which municipal, provincial and regional governments make decisions so that security and services can be improved at the local level.

Into Year Seven (PDF; 152 KB)
Source: Oxford Research Group

Time Iran's Crisis Deepens As Larijani Resigns

Boston Globe Bug bomb

Why our next terrorist attack could come on six legs

Fixing Iraq, without us

The key to the crisis may lie in Northern Ireland and South Africa

CFR A Hazy Outlook for Private Oil Firms

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

BBC Tough stance
Departure of Iran negotiator removes a force for compromise

Iraqi PM 'Outraged' Over Civilian Casualties

Iran FM: US Will Not Be Able to Use Afghanistan to Attack

US Raid Kills 49, Including Women and Children

19 Tons of Explosives Found in Iraq

Syria pushes out 1.5M Iraqi refugees
Millions to be booted; 49 Iraqis killed in Baghdad; Blackwater leaving Iraq

Hezbollah Warns US Not to Set Up Military Base

H9 Ha’aretz - Fayad: Suspects in plot to kill Olmert are back in jail

ANALYSIS: Olmert assassination plot leaves PA caught unaware

Melman Walking a nuclear tightrope Russia's message to Iran is: You have a right to enrich uranium for civilian needs, but you don't have to do it now. Russia supports you, but you are liable to lose our support if you are too stubborn.

Intra-Palestinian bargaining / Hamas is waiting for Annapolis too

Pre-summit diplomacy / On the up in Paris and London

Report: Lebanon Druze head to ask Barak to help topple Assad

Editorial It's time to shout it outIsrael must clarify its concerns in a loud voice, as well as its determination not to live under the shadow of an Iranian nuclear threat.

No thanks, Mr. President The interests of Israel will be seriously damaged if it is depicted as the source of the international imbroglio stemming from the Iranian nuclear effort.

Yedioth 'Israel fabricated report'
Despite confirmation by Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Fatah's spokesman says Israel falsified reports of Palestinian plan to hit Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's convoy during visit to Jericho in August

Way to Syrian conversion

Getting Damascus to abandon its current alliances vital for peace, Shlomo Ben-Ami says

'US won't let Iran go nuclear'

US vice president says Iran 'continues to practice delay and deceit in effort to buy time'

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

Washington Post Fence Cuts West Bank Lifeline, Economies

Once-thriving businesses along Route 505 in West Bank have all but collapsed since arrival of a $2.5 billion, 456-mile separation barrier.

CFR C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics: The Israeli Economy: Thriving in a Complicated Environment (Audio)

H10 Christian Science Monitor Opinion: Cause of Iraq's chaos: bad borders People, including Iraqis, like to live among their own. So let them.

With new nuclear chief, Iran signals harder line Iran's abrupt change of nuclear negotiators spotlights internal power struggles, too

US targeted Iran-tied group in raid

In a Sunday attack in Baghdad, US forces sought members of 'Special Groups,' its name for Mahdi Army offshoots it says have Iranian ties. At least 49 Iraqis were killed

Pakistan's Army: Unprepared to tackle terrorism?

In her first statements since her return, former Prime Minister Bhutto says the bloody attack last week has hardened her resolve.

Latest tech ideas for solving world's problems Pop!Tech conference in Camden, Maine, aims to harness synergy to tackle issues.

THE MONITOR'S VIEW

Who belongs at Darfur talks?

ASIA

BBC Chinese party unveils new leaders China's Communist Party unveils its new leadership line-up, with new faces joining its top decision-making body.

New standing committee four

Leadership race veiled in secrecy

Q&A: China's Party Congress

FT COMMENT: The rural roots of China's economic miracle

LA Times China: A future nation of bachelors? By Joshua Kurlantzick The country's love of male children may create a dangerous underclass and prematurely gray the population.

Sunday Times China’s rich spark dissent from below The new rich appear heedless of the party’s rhetorical calls for redistribution, fairness and socialist morality

WP Three Chinese Communist Party Leaders Step Down

China Opens Path for New Generation Of Leaders

Capitalists welcomed into China party fold

Washington Times 'Oil for the lamps of China' (George H. Lesser)

Old leaders step aside in China, reshuffling in favor of youth

China's vice-president loses post in reshuffle
President Hu Jintao's most powerful rival in the politburo, Zeng Qinghong, has been pushed into retirement

China's Hu Set to Emerge Stronger From Congress

by Andrew Moravcsik

BBC Identity crisis
China's economic boom is raising difficult questions

Chasing the Chinese Dream

A Growing Number of the World's Emigrants Are Heading East, Rather Than West, in Search of Safety, Tolerance and Opportunity

Washington Times Troubling times in Pakistan

The New U.S.-India Partnership - Nicholas Burns, Foreign Affairs

H11 IHT NATO chief pleads again for troop increases By JUDY DEMPSEY
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, secretary general of NATO, again urged the alliance's members to step up their commitments, saying it was now entering the most difficult phases of the Afghan campaign

Role reversal at IMF as the rich come under fire The theme of the meeting of the International Monetary Fund this year has not been fear of protesters but of the global impact of the collapse in the American housing sector, which many delegates blame on lax regulations and sleepy regulators in Europe and the United States.

Trade talks that were meant to help the poorest Doha: What 'development round'?

Roger Cohen: An Afghan tale

Winning wars one irrigation ditch at a time.

EUROPE European press review

FT Far right gains in Swiss election The ultraconservative Swiss People’s party improved its already dominant position as the country’s biggest political group, exit polls showed

Newsweek Calculating to A Fault Angela Merkel once promised to rescue Germany from its torpor. But the country has had a change of heart about her reforms—and so has she.

BBC Power struggle
How Serbia and Kosovo pin hopes on their big backers

Changing course
European Union likely to welcome Polish election result

Seeing Blue: American Visions of the EU (PDF; 404 KB) Source: Institute for Security Studies

CEPS The EU Budget - Is this the moment for reform?

CER A grand bargain with Russia?

Twins fear the verdict of angry youth
Hardliners fixated on the past face a backlash in Poland's election

French fall out of love with marriage habit Sarkozy's divorce is in step with a nation ready to break old conventions.

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

Russian Defence Procurement in 2007 CAST

New Research Working Paper on Russian Military Expenditure
by Julian Cooper

The boob tube in Putin's Russia

MOSCOW YOU MIGHT get the impression from western media reports that the airwaves in today's "increasingly authoritarian" Russia are little but warmed-over Soviet propaganda. The truth isn't that convenient. As Russia continues its bumpy rise in world affairs, what happens in the nation's kitchens and living rooms is a mosaic of the concerns and contradictions of this peculiar moment.

H13 The Times

Sunday Times You’re better safe than free Britain is the most surveilled nation in the world - but is it doing any good? Simon Jenkins

Toppled in Baghdad, clueless in Whitehall The British general at the heart of postwar planning for Iraq describes the chaos in London and Washington

Brown just isn’t bothered about Europe Although Gordon Brown claims to be pro-European, his anti-Euro habits are a funny way of showing it Guest contributors

Lessons of history: pt 1 Tony Blair has warned us that Iran is a hotbed of Islamic extremism and the world would do well to remember it

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

Wall Street Journal Michael A. Ledeen / Wall Street Journal:

Victory Is Within Reach in Iraq

The Wiretap Deal
An intelligence victory, but a defeat for Presidential power.

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: End global inequality: be a Luddite Instead of critics of globalisation the world needs critics of technological progress. If we can only stop or slow that, we can have more equal societies. The world has put up with progress and its consequences for too long, says Clive Crook

Dismay as Iran nuclear chief quits The sudden departure of Iran’s leading nuclear and security official was greeted with dismay in Tehran political circles

WORLD NEWS: New role for trusted adviser

Nato chiefs urge nations to pool resources The alliance’s secretary general wants to intensify discussion on defence spending at the informal meeting as several member states struggle with military overstretch

Australian army to debate switch in Iraq role Australian military commanders to begin discussions about changing the role of the country’s troops in Iraq from combat to training

COMMENT: Interest rate cuts will not solve the crisis Even a small rise in inflation could be toxic, writes Wolfgang Münchau

Call for transparency in $75bn superfund A committee of top international bankers warned that the proposed $75bn mortgage securities superfund must be transparent in its pricing of assets if it is to help restore market confidence

US-India fallout India needs access to foreign nuclear fuel and equipment to address its chronic energy shortages. Better terms than those granted in this US-India agreement are difficult to imagine

Energy liberalisation leads to higher pricesEurope must resist the plan, says Philip Wright

How to deal with sovereign funds Difficulties arise where their activities are non-transparent and where the fund seeks a large or even a controlling influence in target companies

ANALYSIS: Corporates largely untouched by credit panic Structured finance was once the most mysterious and arcane branch of banking, but now is falling apart.

COMMENT: The rural roots of China's economic miracle

COMMENT: Only democracy can save Pakistan from the extremists The attack on me was an attack on all the political forces in Pakistan that want democracy, says Benazir Bhutto

Technology worsens inequality by driving up the wages of the skilled relative to the wages of the unskilled

H15 Los Angeles Times Making peace with Americans by Charles A. Kupchan and Peter L. Trubowitz For the U.S., the next great foreign policy challenge is building consensus at home

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator resigns

China: A future nation of bachelors? By Joshua Kurlantzick The country's love of male children may create a dangerous underclass and prematurely gray the population.

Editorial Avoiding WWIII Threatening Iran is poor strategy.

H16 American Politics

Independent The most expensive US election ever?

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

WP Giuliani Works to Win Over Religious and Social Conservatives But Huckabee and Romney Are Winners in Straw Poll

Election 2008: Religious Right's tough call on GOP candidates

If not Giuliani, who? Christian conservatives remain unsettled on a GOP champion for '08 race.

Poll: Half of Americans would never vote for Clinton

Republican Debate

Attacks Sharpen Among Party's Principal Rivals

FT Schwarzenegger urges Republicans to seize centre The governor of California, has urged Republican presidential candidates to capture the political centre ground ahead of next year’s election by focusing on healthcare reform and education

Giuliani woos Christian vote The Republican presidential hopeful admits to mistakes in his personal life but insists disagreements over abortion and other issues are not as great as often portrayed

Is the US just tired of Bush, or have conservatives had it?
Michael Tomasky: The next presidential election may mark the end of an era if voters associate all Republicans with the present leaders.

H17 Daily Telegraph More troops may go to Afghanistan

The Government is considering sending more troops to Afghanistan to make up for the expected withdrawal of other Nato forces.

Iran's nuclear policy row

Al-Qa'eda targets Horn of Africa Arid plains become base for militants to launch attacks.

Sunday Telegraph

Iran's top nuclear negotiator resigns Tehran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, has resigned in a move that brings military confrontation with the West over Iran's nuclear ambitions dangerously closer.

Leader A slim chance, but it's all Pakistan has Whatever Bhutto's personal merits, the deal she has struck with Musharraf offers at least the hope that the nightmare scenario for that country will be averted.

We must have a say on the EU treatyThe Conservatives must commit to giving the people a say on the EU treaty if they take power. Anything else would be to treat the people like fools.

Benazir Bhutto has only herself to blame President Musharraf was sinking and isolated, observes Imran Khan. Just when it looked as if he had no lifelines left, Benazir Bhutto came back and bailed him out.

Bhutto, a kleptocrat in a Hermes scarf Make no mistake, Benazir Bhutto may look the part, but she's as ruthless and conniving as they come, warns Jemima Khan

This could be Gordon Brown's Maastricht

If John Major's experience in 1992-3 taught us anything, says Matthew d'Ancona, it is that a prime minister can win, and still lose

H18 Independent Iran's new hardline nuclear envoy causes jitters in West

Stephen King: G7 club must invite new members or die

Leading Article: The PM must stop justifying the treaty and start to sell it

Bruce Anderson: There is no constitutional requirement to hold a referendum, but there is a moral one

Independent on Sunday Hamish McRae: Poised on the brink of a downturn, the world needs an action plan to come out of Washington this weekend

Leading Article The European disunion

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Suicide Terrorism on the Rise Worldwide, Experts Say

TRANSCRIPT; Interview With New Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

US Army to Keep Forcibly Reenlisting Soldiers

New Information and Key Trends Regarding Islamic Extremist Groups in the Balkans

Mossad breaks silence on life of a real spy

Forget jaunty James Bond - the life of a real spy comes at a huge emotional cost to agents, according to a documentary

H20 Slate

In many countries, cement is crucial for growth but an enemy of green Some 80 percent of cement is made in and used by emerging economies. But making cement creates pollution, in the form of carbon dioxide emissions.

Weighing Anchors The incestuous relationship between network anchorpersons and the politicians they cover. By Reviewed by Marvin Kalb, REALITY SHOW Inside the Last Great Television News War By Howard Kurtz

From empire to oblivion

Observer, Robert McCrum

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire by Piers Brendon Cape £25, pp794

Webcast: 45th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis Recorded: October 17, 2007. Presenters: Prof. Graham T. Allison Jr., The Hon. Jim Leach, Mr. Theodore C. Sorensen Cold War, Cuba, History/Democracy, National Security, Nuclear Weapons, Soviet Union

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Quicktime Video Source: Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Publishers in War and Peace battle

US bookshops see salvoes exchanged between new versions of Tolstoy's epic.

Scientists have a new way to reshape nature, but none can predict the cost

Madeleine Bunting: Synthetic biologists say their technology could tackle climate change and feed the hungry, but its dangers are terrifying.

Lifespan gene could help slow disease

Scientists have found a gene that regulates lifespan which could lead to treatments to hold off ageing.

Murdoch's NEWS CORP surpasses TIMEWARNER as world's most valuable media company...

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