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Stephen Walt BBC HARDtalk discusses whether the Israel Lobby in America have too much power? Click here to watch the interview

Signs of Détente? by Jim Lobe

CSIS – Chuck Hagel on Iran policy - Full video, audio and transcript are available at this CSIS.org link.

Senator Hagel's Speech Should be Retitled "Who in Washington Lost the World?!" (The Washington Note)

Guardian Washington tells EU firms: quit Iran now UK, French and German companies begin pullout as US piles on pressure due to Tehran's nuclear programme.

US claims al-Qaida out of Baghdad

Number of murders cut by 80% US commander says but European analysts cast doubt on assessment

Pinning blame on Russia Guardian Simon Tisdall

We can best stop terror by civil, not military, means Amartya Sen: Initiatives that nurture all our human relationships defeat the appeal of those who cultivate hatred and violence between groups.

Daily Star Time for modesty in the Middle East peace process
By Richard N. Haass

Washington Post Marcos . . . Pinochet . . . Musharraf? By Charles Krauthammer, The only thing we know for sure about Pakistan is that there will be no happy ending.

Georgia's President Moves Up Election Date Statement Defuses Week-Long Crisis, Follows Crackdown

RFE/RL Georgia: The End Of Rosy Democratic Outlook?

Syria to Let U.S. In to Screen Iraqis Seeking Resettlement

ABC The Blotter: Exclusive: FBI: Al Qaeda May Strike U.S. Shopping Malls in LA, Chicago

NSA monitors all web traffic: ex-AT&T tech

US Debt Tops $9 Trillion for First Time

The Times Dollar Wise

The sliding US currency should be met with vigilance, not despondency

The Economist Time's up, Mr Musharraf No longer the potential solution, General Pervez Musharraf has become a big part of Pakistan's problem

The Economist Charlemagne Post-enlargement stress Support for European Union expansion is under new threat

Transatlantic relations Life in the old European dogs yet A renewed friendship between America and its once-tricky partners may prove to be longer on style than substance

Guardian The French Berlusconi
Jonathan Steele: Nicolas Sarkozy may fast make a name for himself on the world stage. Just not the one he wants.

Ha’aretz – A twin nuclear crisis in 2008? Iran's nuclear program, and its president's vitriol, are certainly cause for concern, but they may have served to draw our attention away from a much more immediate danger - in Pakistan.

Harel When Assad blinked

IHT Western myths and Pakistani realities By ANATOL LIEVEN

Musharraf's coup is a move on a chessboard, not an attempt to kick over the whole table.

Reverse Musharraf's coup

By CHRIS PATTEN, GARETH EVANS AND JOSCHKA FISCHER The U.S. and Europe must unite behind the message that this coup will not stand.

Squaring off for the wrong fight

By HUMPHREY HAWKSLEY

The legitimacy of Serbia and Kosovo won't come from protecting historical legends.

Christian Science Monitor Pakistan's final arbiter: the Army The military is Musharraf's chief remaining constituency.

An India-U.S. alliance?

Austin Bay A militarily capable India with a record for defense cooperation with the United States would give an aggressive, hegemonic China — should that rogue elephant ever emerge — great pause

FT COMMENT: To avert disaster in Lebanon, rivals must co-operate Presidential compromise key, says Roula Khalaf

Balanced Bernanke The Fed will have to say it is uncomfortable with the market’s expectations. The less desirable alternative is to disappoint the markets

Jim Lobe POLITICS-US: New Crises Sap Bush's War on Terror

Le Monde La mondialisation ou le déclin ?, par Thomas Ferenczi

Time What Hillary Stands For ( Her opponents say she tries to have it both ways. Pundits charge that she's slippery. Joe Klein sits down with the New York Senator to hear her side

Parameters “Strategic Communication” by Richard Halloran (.htm format) (.pdf format)

CFR The Future of Radical Islam in Europe (Audio)

Wanted: a new global paradigm, Paul Rogers

H2 The Economist Iraqi Kurdistan Iraq's Kurdish leader in a bind What can Masoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurds' leader, actually do?

'Barzani PKK ile Türkiye arasında sıkıştı'

Pro-Kurdish party calls for autonomy in SE Turkey

Iran Becomes the Trade-Off for Northern Iraq

Iraqi Kurdistan Premier Holds News Conference on Turkish-US Talks, PKK Issue

EDM ANKARA WILLING TO RISK U.S. SANCTIONS FOR CHEAP IRANIAN ELECTRICITY

In Focus: America, Ankara and the Kurds Al-Ahram Weekly

Yet another invasion of Iraq?
Al-Ahram Weekly

Who wants another Israel?
Al-Ahram Weekly

Turkey's Leadership: Between a Rock and a Hard Place Moscow News

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

In Turkey's Kurdish Southeast, Pock-Marked Hope

Iraqi Kurdistan Premier Holds News Conference on Turkish-US Talks, PKK Issue

Kurds Struggle to Generate Own Supplies Institute for War and Peace Reporting

Turkey’s Kurdish challenge, Gunes Murat Tezcur

DTP’de Nurettin Demirtaş genel başkan

PKK operasyonu: 10 kişi yakalandı

Korucu eleştirisi

'Hepimiz Kürt'üz!' Türker Alkan

Diyarbakır kararları Ankara’da uygulandı

Oil Company Paid Over $15 Million 'Signing Bonus' for Iraqi Kurdistan Oil Contract

Kuzey Irak krizinden İran da eksik kalmıyor HAZIM MUBİDAYN

Şiddet Kürt sorununun çözümüne engel ENVER SEZGİN

Mosul Vilayet: A pathway out of the Mid-Eastern gridlock by ANTON KELLER*

Turkish ultimatum to Washington by JOSHUA W. WALKER*

Analysis: Kurds say Kirkuk is Turkey's aim
United Press International

Iraq Sees Smaller Chance of Big Turkish Offensive

US Intelligence Will Help Rid Northern Iraq of PKK: Erdogan

Kirkuk Blast Casualties Up to 17

Kurdish TV Says Soldiers Killed in Clashes in Southeastern Turkey

No Specific Plans on Military Cooperation With Iran - Armenian Defence Minister

The Kurdish issue gains ground
Kurdish Aspect

F-16'lar hava sahasını boş bırakmıyor

PKK’yı operasyon korkusu sardı

5 korucu 4 DTP’liye PKK davası

KRG: Two more Iraq oil deals soon

Kral Abdullah geliyor

DTP strives to contain ‘terrorist husband' crisis

DTP'li Kurtulan nüfus kayıtlarına göre evli

DTP lideri: Çözüm yeri Meclis

Iran kills three Kurdish rebels - report

Iraq Kurd veterans predict Turkish defeat against PKK

"Kürt kökenli vatandaşlar her açıdan eşit"

Erdoğan'a damat sorusu

Ertuğ Yaşar Leyla Zana vebalı mıdır

Saudi King Abdullah to receive state medal in Ankara visit

Ermenistan-İran işbirliği protokolü

[YORUM - Alev Alatlı] Yorumsuz (3)

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Avrupa ve Türkiye orta yolu bulabilir mi? Yves ThÈard

Penaltının kuralı maç oynanırken değişmez

Asia Times EU identity needs help from Turkey The question of European identity has been brought to the fore by Pope Benedict XVI's recent remark that common European identity should be shaped by the necessity of defending itself from invading Islamic forces. But if Europe is to be truly integrated, it need secular, Muslim Turkey as much as Turkey needs it. - Mirsad Krijestorac (

AKI - Adnkronos international EU: Turkish premier urges clear membership rules

'301, raporu olumsuz etkiledi'

Ankara, AİHM için yargıç arıyor

Ferai Tınç İlerleme raporunda dikkat çekmeyenler

Ali Bulaç What the progress report fails to appreciate

Eser Karakaş 301, Avrupa Birliği ve biz

D’Alema: PKK terörist bir harekettir

Avusturya'dan ABD'ye Glock ambargosu

Zeynel Lüle Artık bu tavır sıktı

WHO CREATED THE CYPRUS PROBLEM

Turkish Women Demanding End To Physical Violence

Turkey to ease curbs on free speech

What the progress report fails to appreciate (Today's Zaman)

Article 301 continues to haunt Turkey's EU bid (Today's Zaman)

9 Kasım 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 Baykal'dan Kürt açılımı Güneydoğu için yeni konsept...

Baykal Kavga dövüş yerine dostluk kuralım

'Sınır ötesi' için yol temizliği

İstihbarat Mekanizması

Oval Ofis’te Başkan Bush ’istediğini aldı’ iddiası

PKK bilgisi EUCOM'dan gelecek

Baykal'dan sürpriz Kürt açılımı

Diyarbakır kararları Ankara’da uygulandı

DTP'de '3 başlı yönetim' dönemi başladı

DTP yönetimi Şahinler’e geçti

DTP’de Demirtaş dönemi

Derya SAZAK Demokratik özerklik

Taha AKYOL Ekonomi ve bölücülük

Serdar Akinan Kürdistan’ı kabul keşke bu kadar kolay olsaydı

Nagehan Alçı Artık Kürtler konuşmalı

Sami KOHEN Kuzey Irak için yeni yaklaşım...

Cengiz Çandar Erdoğan-Bush ve PKK’nın istikbali

Önemli olan sadece PKK terörü değildir Hasan Celal Güzel

Gül, Demirel'in izinden yürüyor
Murat Yetkin

Karasar: 'Gül'ün Ziyareti Çok Önemli'

Fikret BİLA Gül'ün Türk dünyası atağı

Hasan CEMAL 'Emret komutanım' tavrı yerine...

Şam'ın caydırılmasında ana rolü basın oynadı

Ali H Aslan Impressed upon

Turko-American consensus: Operation, not war, on PKK
Mustafa AKYOL

Vekilin eşi Karayılan'ın sağ kolu

Bülent Keneş Transnational public diplomacy

Loğoğlu: 'PKK Ortak Düşman'

Serdar Turgut Aslında ne oldu?

Özdemir İnce Türkiye büyük bir devlet midir?

Nükleer santral kanununa onay çıktı

Orgeneral Büyükanıt bugün basınla buluşuyor

TSK eli görece serbest M.Ali Kışlalı

Mustafa Karaalioğlu O çok önemli zirveler nasıl yapılıyordu

Şamil Tayyar Aba altından sopa göstermek

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Yeni sorun: DTP meselesi…

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL ABD'ye karşı trilyonlarca dolarlık savaş başlatıldı!

YASİN DOĞAN Tezkereyle giden, tezkereyle gelir

KORAY DÜZGÖREN Zirve Türkiye'yi gerçeğe döndürür mü?

Nuh Yılmaz İstihbarat paylaşımı diplomatik başarı

Güneri CIVAOĞLU 3 mühendis neden öldü? (2)

İlnur Çevik Tehran putting more pressure with Kirkuk

Gül'den Asya atağı

12 Eylül tutukevleri, dil yasakları ve PKK
Namık Kemal Zeybek

Güler Kömürcü İşte bize yapılan son kirli bilgilendirme operasyonu

Cevdet Aşkın PKK, harekâtı bekliyor ancak cüretine şaşırır

Ölüm ticareti Murat Belge

Samsun’daki enkaz insansız uçağın mı

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 Medya ve ölüm

Fehmi Koru Hatasız kul olmaz

Erdoğan: 1915 olayları olumlu sürece girecek

Ertuğrul Özkök

Ahmet Hakan Bir kılavuz arıyorum

M Ali Birand Avrupa’nın Türkiye Raporu, dengeli ve yapıcı

Cüneyt Ülsever

Enis Berberoğlu

Oktay Ekşi Keşke kolay olsa...

Yalçın Doğan DTP artık Kürtlerin partisi değil

Yılmaz Özdil Aydınlar, lütfen aydınlatın bizi

ERDAL ŞAFAK

ERGUN BABAHAN Aydın Doğan'a açık mektup

EMRE AKÖZ

Umur Talu

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

YAVUZ DONAT

Necati Doğru

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIMPetrolde Türkiye'nin riski

Ercan Kumcu Kurallar krizlerin derinleşmesine davetiye çıkarmamalı

Hasan Ersel Merkez Bankası'nın araştırmaları ışığında faiz indirimi isteği

Güven Sak 2008: Kontrolsüz yorgunluklar yılına hazır mısınız

Erdal Sağlam

Türkiye'nin dev firmaları enerji için yabancı ile flörtte

Deniz Gökçe Bu sorunlar acil!

Deloitte: Turkey can leave India behind in software

Cari açık yüzde 18.2 oranında arttı

Cari açık 26 milyar doları aştı

Enflasyon beklentisi yüzde 7.77'ye yükseldi

Yavaşlamaya razı mısınız? Uğur Gürses

İlk dokuz ayda Türkiye'ye döviz aktı

Vergi yüzsüzleri devlete faizle 5 milyar YTL borç vermiş

Editorial

H5 Washington Post Marcos . . . Pinochet . . . Musharraf? By Charles Krauthammer, The only thing we know for sure about Pakistan is that there will be no happy ending.

Pakistan Strife Threatens Anti-Insurgent Plan U.S. Effort Moves Ahead, but Officials Fear Losing Aid and Momentum

Georgia's President Moves Up Election Date Statement Defuses Week-Long Crisis, Follows Crackdown

Fed Chairman Forecasts Slowdown in U.S. Economy

The Real Musharraf By Asma Jahangir Why Pakistanis must reclaim freedom now.

Musharraf Promises Elections by Feb. 15 Bhutto, Defying Warnings, Pushes On With Rally

Rage of Reason By Eugene Robinson, George W. Bush apparently has reduced more of his fellow citizens to frustrated, sputtering rage than any president since Richard Nixon.

Robert Samuelson reviews Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (and more).

Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:

Bush's Disastrous Dollar Policy

The Huckabee Difference By Michael Gerson, On domestic policy, Mike Huckabee has the strongest general election message of any Republican.

Senate Confirms Mukasey By 53-40

Historically Low Tally for New Attorney General

H6 Guardian Washington tells EU firms: quit Iran now UK, French and German companies begin pullout as US piles on pressure due to Tehran's nuclear programme.

US claims al-Qaida out of Baghdad

Number of murders cut by 80% US commander says but European analysts cast doubt on assessment

Pinning blame on Russia Guardian Simon Tisdall

We can best stop terror by civil, not military, means Amartya Sen: Initiatives that nurture all our human relationships defeat the appeal of those who cultivate hatred and violence between groups.

Georgian president announces election to quell protests Saakashvili agrees to opposition demand, a pledge that follows western criticism of clampdown.

The French Berlusconi Jonathan Steele: Nicolas Sarkozy may fast make a name for himself on the world stage. Just not the one he wants.

The pain of globalisation

Jared Bernstein and Josh Bivens Nov 08 07, 09:30pm: For years Americans have been told that they all benefit from trade with poorer countries - yet many now find they are worse off

Bhutto to defy ban with mass rally

A crunch moment in Pakistan's emergency rule crisis looms as opposition prepare to stage a mass rally.

Be bold, Gordon: show us the red thread running through your policies

Polly Toynbee: Brown's agenda is a leap forward, but the caution that stops him vaunting it plays into the hands of his political opponents.

H7

Iran Becomes the Trade-Off for Northern Iraq

Sleep-Walking to War
by Iason Athanasiadis

Last chance for public diplomacy
Scripps News

Oil Nears $100 Mark Pushing Up Gas Prices

Pakistanis Say No By: Husain Haqqani | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) Musharraf appears to have badly miscalculated. Pakistan's burgeoning civil society, led by lawyers and encouraged by judges ousted from the Supreme Court, is refusing to be cowed. Protests are spreading despite thousands of arrests and the use of tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators.

Pakistan, Prince of Denmark By: Ali Eteraz | The Guardian
The uncritical support of Musharraf is a slowly unfolding tragedy. It shows the United States has not learned the lessons from the Shah in Iran.

Pervez W. Busharraf By: Michael Currie Schaffer | The New Republic
The language Musharraf uses to justify his state of emergency seems lifted from Republican talking points.

In Today's Pakistan, Echoes of Revolutionary Iran By: David Ignatius | The Daily Star
As we struggle to make sense of the current political crisis in Pakistan, it's useful to think back nearly 30 years to the wave of protests that toppled the shah of Iran and culminated in the Islamic Republic - a revolutionary earthquake whose tremors are still shaking the Middle East.

Democracy in America, Still By: Mark Hemingway | National Review
When Sarkozy declared in the U.S. House chamber that a nuclear Iran was unacceptable — a significant number (though by no means a majority) of Democrats did not rise with the rest of the audience for the standing ovation that ensued. That’s right, a couple dozen members of Congress are more dovish than the president of France on a pressing matter of international security.

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

General: US Forces Routed al-Qaeda in Iraq

Military Mulls How to Reduce Forces in Iraq

US: Iran Attack Plans Ready if Needed

Richardson Says He'd Get Out of Iraq in 90 Days

Speaker For Pro-Reform Student Group Detained In Iran

Iranian Defence Chief in Armenia Against Foreign Forces in Region

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Iranian Press 8 Nov 07

Iraq Plans to Raid Security Firms' HQs Over Guns

Envoy Says Iran Playing Key Role in Regional Equations

Bush Defends World War Three Comments on Iran

Iran Reaches Key Nuclear Target: Ahmadinejad

Musharraf: Pakistan to Vote by Mid-February

Iran "Could Have Atom Bomb in a Year" -

Negroponte: Pakistan's Musharraf 'Indispensable' US Ally

Iran Postpones Parliament Speaker's Visit to Azerbaijan

Sunni States' Fears of Iran Trigger Middle East Nuclear Race By: Peter C. Glover | World Politics Review
As the United States turns up the sanctions heat yet again on Iran's nuclear pretensions, the specter of a Middle East bristling with atomic warheads, fueled by mutual suspicion and ancient hatred, has been created by the Shia-Sunni divide

BBC Bhutto house surrounded by police

Police cordon off the house of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, ahead of a planned rally.

Who's winning power game?

On the run with Imran Khan

Q&A: Pakistan's political crisis

H9 Ha’aretz – A twin nuclear crisis in 2008? Iran's nuclear program, and its president's vitriol, are certainly cause for concern, but they may have served to draw our attention away from a much more immediate danger - in Pakistan.

Harel When Assad blinked

Benn The skeptic and the believer

Shifting scenarios

Israel, PA agree: Future deal must be based on first stage of road map

The Economist The Palestinian territories Has Hamas split? Reports of discord within Hamas may be exaggerated

Jerusalem Post The Missing Arab Psychological Shift – Editorial

Israel minister: Sack ElBaradei

Hamas and Fatah
Palestinians describe life under the separate administrations

Yedioth Iran still far from bomb/ Bergman

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

Israeli DM: Attacking Iran a 'Viable' Option

Israel calls for IAEA chief's sacking

The Anti-Americanism of the Israel-Firsters by Michael Scheuer

The Economist Israel and the Palestinians Remembering Yitzhak Rabin The inner price Israel pays for its continuing occupation of the West Bank

Playing Fast and Loose with the Facts When It Comes to Israel - Ian O'Doherty (Independent-Ireland)

Daily Star Israel still fails to understand that strongarm tactics won't win it secrurity

Confound the skeptics at Annapolis By Ziad Asali

Washington holds the key to Israel-Syria progress
Jane's

Why are Western officials hesitant to talk to moderate Islamists?
By Ibrahim El Houdaiby

H10 Christian Science Monitor Pakistan's final arbiter: the Army The military is Musharraf's chief remaining constituency.

Border issue vexes Congress

Facing a tight budget, lawmakers are struggling to pass even popular issues like a border fence

ASIA

An India-U.S. alliance?

Austin Bay A militarily capable India with a record for defense cooperation with the United States would give an aggressive, hegemonic China — should that rogue elephant ever emerge — great pause

Asia Times Democracy with one-party characteristics Since last month's important Chinese Communist Party congress, there has been a lot of loose, contradictory talk from the leadership and state media about expanding democracy. Broadly it boils down to the same old song and dance - trust the party and it will take care of the rest. This cannot be confused with democracy, but it does qualify as reform. - Kent Ewing

Time Pakistan's State of Emergency Pervez Musharraf infuriates his people--and embarrasses Washington--by cracking down on democracy. Will that help him fight the war on terrorism? Probably not

Seoul Split By: Jongryn Mo | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) South Korea's presidential race is suddenly an open contest. Lee Hoi-chang, a two-time presidential candidate of the conservative Grand National Party, formally announced his candidacy yesterday as an independent -- a move that could split the conservative vote and breathe new life into the left.

Asia's Space Tigers Bare Their Teeth By: Nicola Casarini | Asia Times
Asia's space tigers bare their teeth From China and Taiwan to Japan, South Korea and India, Asian nations are gearing up for a space race. But in a region riddled with competing nationalisms, the development of indigenous space programs could well turn the race into serious disputes.

SPECIAL REPORT: Technology in India and China Running fast China and India have much to offer the world of technology, argues Simon Cox, but more still to gain from it

FT A grand coalition for Japan was a very bad idea The people deserve better, says Gerald Curtis

N. Korea Shows Signs of Opening Up, After Decades of Self-Imposed Isolation

H11 IHT Western myths and Pakistani realities By ANATOL LIEVEN Musharraf's coup is a move on a chessboard, not an attempt to kick over the whole table.

Reverse Musharraf's coup

By CHRIS PATTEN, GARETH EVANS AND JOSCHKA FISCHER

The U.S. and Europe must unite behind the message that this coup will not stand.

Squaring off for the wrong fight

By HUMPHREY HAWKSLEY

The legitimacy of Serbia and Kosovo won't come from protecting historical legends.

Pakistan braces for a gathering storm

Washington must make it clear that a blood bath against protesters would be intolerable.

In Eastern Germany, an exodus of young women
By JUDY DEMPSEY
A small mining town in Eastern Germany is struggling with problems common to the region. It has an unemployment rate of at least 25 percent and is rapidly losing its population

EUROPE European press review

Guardian The French Berlusconi
Jonathan Steele: Nicolas Sarkozy may fast make a name for himself on the world stage. Just not the one he wants.

America, Mon Amour! By: Gregor Peter Schmitz | Der Spiegel
The Bush administration long seemed to see the French as cynical cowards. But that has changed now that Nicolas Sarkozy, an avowed fan of the United States, is at the helm in France. Washington's policies toward Iran could pivot on Sarkozy's US visit this week.

The Economist Charlemagne Post-enlargement stress Support for European Union expansion is under new threat

Transatlantic relations Life in the old European dogs yet A renewed friendship between America and its once-tricky partners may prove to be longer on style than substance

The Declining Relevance of European Military Power By: Stuart Koehl | The Weekly Standard
One of the most common complaints made against the Bush administration's war policies is it's alleged "unilateralism," an unwillingness to bring in our allies or fight as a coalition. This view overlooks the participation of many countries alongside U.S. forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan

Resisting a New Cold War By: Kate Hudson | The Guardian
Efforts to draw the Czech Republic into America's missile defence system are meeting local opposition.

Let History Judge Russia's Revolutions By: Roy Medvedev | The Japan Times
Ninety years after the October Revolution, the historical obfuscations are clearing and a definitive, impartial account may yet be written.

Boston Globe Editorial French twist

Sarkozy: I'm No US Lapdog

Belgium on the Brink As Talks Collapse By: John Lichfield | The Independent
Belgium tottered closer to the constitutional abyss yesterday. After five months of failed efforts to create a coalition national government – a Belgian record – Dutch and French-speaking politicians lit the fuse on a new linguistic quarrel.

Poles Flood Britain, Take New Ideas Back Home By: Robert Marquand | The Christian Science Monitor
Almost overnight, Poles have become England’s third-largest ethnic group, and a quiet migrant success story.

EU Split Into Several Camps on Russia Strategy, Says Report By: Honor Mahony | EU Observer
Within the European Union there are a least five camps when it comes to dealing with Russia, ranging from the 'Trojan horse' countries to the 'new Cold warriors', says a new study analysing the bloc's divided approach to its giant neighbour to the east.

H12 RFE/RL Georgia: The End Of Rosy Democratic Outlook?

PINR "Intelligence Brief: Russia Reasserts Power with Thermobaric Weapons and Bomber Runs" Full text of report

Georgia: President Offers to Hold Early Election to Defuse Crisis, Opposition Leaders Missing

The Economist Georgia's protests

People power

Google News Azerbaijan

Close US Ally Georgia Descends Into Chaos

With Rupert Murdoch as an Ally, Georgian Billionaire Pledges Big Bucks for Opposition

Dissent and satire still alive in Russia In Putin's Russia, where there are sometimes surprising outlets for contrary opinion, well-targeted satire and plain speaking, the question is whether the debate has any bearing on the exercise of power in a country traditionally dominated by one authority - the Kremlin.

Bush rates poorly in survey while Putin gains status President George W. Bush is widely unpopular, President Vladimir Putin is gaining admirers, and Iran should be penalized if it does not cease its uranium enrichment programs, according to an international survey

WSJ Less Than Rosy
But Georgia's democracy can emerge stronger from this crisis.

H13 The Times Dollar Wise

The sliding US currency should be met with vigilance, not despondency

Bhutto rally takes the fight to Musharraf Pakistan is braced for a showdown as Benazir Bhutto's supporters stage a rally in defiance of emergency rule

Georgia president calls poll to take on protesters Mikheil Saakashvili stunned his political opponents by calling a snap election a day after he imposed emergency rule

Wall Street Journal Adam Smith Growls
The 1970s saw the world's last great dollar crisis. Are we watching another such period today?

A Failure to Lead
The Democratic Congress is more interested in acting out than in taking positive action.
By KARL ROVE

Two Weeks That Shook Wall Street

The dual dramas at Citigroup and Merrill underscore how unprepared much of Wall Street has been for the management shakeups that have accompanied the credit-market turmoil.

The Economist The dollar Ready for a rout?

Safe as houses?
Housing meltdown and frozen credit markets threaten US economy

Deutsche CEO: World can live with $100 oil...

Paul vs. Bernanke on Value of the Dollar —

H14 Financial Times Obama and Edwards battle against the inevitable COMMENT: The danger for Clinton is the sense of inevitability Mrs Clinton has prospered because she has presented herself as a serious candidate in command of the issues. Her prospectus defies the lazy assumption that positioning always trumps substance. Yet none of this means she will win the White House, says Philip Stephens

COMMENT: To avert disaster in Lebanon, rivals must co-operate Presidential compromise key, says Roula Khalaf

Balanced Bernanke The Fed will have to say it is uncomfortable with the market’s expectations. The less desirable alternative is to disappoint the markets

Are the imbalances on the mend? Problems are not so much solved as replaced by other problems Slowdown a possibility, says Samuel Brittan

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial

H16 American Politics

Social conservatives fracture as Robertson endorses Giuliani

The Times Rudy, the chosen one

God, through his principal representative on earth, has chosen the next US president Gerard Baker

Voter doubts over Clinton multiply

Opinion polls suggest Hillary Clinton's support among Democratic voters has ebbed from over 50 per cent to the low 40s

FT Obama and Edwards battle against the inevitable Mrs Clinton has prospered because she has presented herself as a serious candidate in command of the issues. Her prospectus defies the lazy assumption that positioning always trumps substance. Yet none of this means she will win the White House, says Philip Stephens

Glenn Greenwald / Salon: GLENN GREENWALD: Democrats in big trouble because of the Great Iraq War

Giuliani leaves trail of doubt amid Republican applause
Rivals are focusing on what they see as the pro-choice, pro-gay candidate's soft lead.

Can she win? Guardian, Suzanne Goldenberg

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

The comeback of a war president: He may be America's most unpopular politician, but George W. Bush is no lame duck.

From Back of G.O.P. Pack, Huckabee Is Stirring

H17 Daily Telegraph Super-Sarko offers President big smiles Con Coughlin says it's au revoir to all those cheese-eating surrender monkeys, and bienvenue to the new meilleur ami.

Bankrupt relationship

Despite George W Bush's rhetoric about freedom, the struggle against terrorism is provoking a familiar Cold War reaction and nowhere is that clearer than over Pakistan.

H18 Independent

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

NSA monitors all web traffic: ex-AT&T tech

What Are Nuclear Weapons For? Recommendations for Restructuring U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces (PDF; 2.3 MB)
Source: Arms Control Association

ABC The Blotter: Exclusive: FBI: Al Qaeda May Strike U.S. Shopping Malls in LA, Chicago —

Is the US Government Reading Your Email?

'Lyrical Terrorist' guilty

A Heathrow shop assistant who dubbed herself the "Lyrical Terrorist" has became the first Muslim woman in Britain to be found guilty of terrorism offences.

This time, veterans return home to warm welcome

With lessons from Vietnam in mind, community groups, local businesses, and faith groups are helping soldiers shift back to civilian life.

One mafia fading, Italy faces another

Police nabbed the Cosa Nostra's chief Monday, but the strongest organized crime group is the 'Ndrangheta - an organization responsible for 80 percent of Europe's cocaine imports.

Colin Kahl has a review essay on counterinsurgency in the November/December issue of Foreign Affairs. One of the books he reviews is the Army's new counterinsurgency manual, which was authored by General David Petraeus, who became the supreme commander of Iraq operations in 2007.

H20 Slate

World Publics Welcome Global Trade — But Not Immigration
Source: Pew Global Attitudes Project Full Report (PDF; 1.9 MB)
+ Trend Topline (PDF; 1.2 MB)

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: Job Quality in the United States over the Three Most Recent Business Cycles
Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research

Briefing: Assessing Indices of Peace, Conflict and Instability

H21 An excerpt from A Brief History of the Future by Jacques Attali

More on A Secular Age by Charles Taylor.

Stanley Fish on suffering, evil and the existence of God.

Happy ever after? Does the fact romantic comedies often close with a wedding encourage women to stay single?

A cure to swear by

Everyone gets back pain at some time. It's no joke. But it is something that science has proved unable to get to grips with and cure. Now, as we report, scientists have proved that lower-back pain does not benefit from spinal manipulation

Resistance is Surrender: Slavoj Zizek on what to do about capitalism.

Criminal profiling is easy. James Brussel predicted it all, down to the criminal’s double-breasted suit. Well, kind of... more»

From HNN, an article on the politics of history: How “exceptional” is America?

GM foods are safe, healthy, and essential for a decent living for the world’s poor. Moralizing about them is costing millions of lives... more»

And the publishers spake, “Let us commission and publish many books sort of like Freakonomics, which hath so much money made”... more»

Makin’ Bacon: Anybody can talk about a book they haven’t read — Scott McLemee copes with a tougher problem.

Being extremely intelligent is rather like fucking sheep — once you've got a reputation for either, it's extremely difficult to get rid of it.

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