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23 November 2007
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H1 The Economist The Middle East summit Mr Palestine George Bush is the only man who can bring an independent Palestine closer

The Annapolis summit Cinderella at Annapolis Muddled expectations and mismanaged diplomacy may mean that the Annapolis peace summit achieves far less than its backers once hoped

Financial Times COMMENT: The west must resist Putin's claim on the old Soviet space The president’s strategy is clear: to push the west out of Russia’s near-abroad. The tactics are equally transparent. Russia cannot reclaim the Soviet empire but it can, in Mr Putin’s mind, re-establish informal hegemony, writes Philip Stephens

COMMENT: America holds the key to Middle East peace The greatest hope lies in US patriotism and the extent to which the establishment takes the Islamist threat seriously, writes Anatol Lieven

COMMENT: Where the dollar's decline is taking the world Foreign policies have hit currency, says David Hale

Arab states confront conference dilemma Having so feverishly argued for US engagement, leading Arab states are loath to appear unsupportive of the Annapolis talks, which many feel are too little too late

Ha’aretz Report: Syria decided not to attend Mideast peace conference

Editorial Don't knock AnnapolisIsrael?s clear and urgent interest is to accept and indeed to encourage international assistance at all levels, including the presence on the ground of policing and training forces, that can contribute to the establishment of a Palestinian state and help it stand on its own two feet

Guardian We fret over Europe, but the real threat to sovereignty has long been the US Linda Colley: Britain's biggest foreign influence is the one politicians don't dare debate: not immigration, not Brussels, but America

Annapolis, as seen from Gaza

Laila El-Haddad: If history has taught the people of Gaza anything, it's that they never have much of a say in their destiny

The great divide Anita Inder Singh The near-certainty of an independent Kosovo raises the prospect of partition, but can it be divided amicably?

Washington Post On Iraq, a State of DenialBy Charles Krauthammer The war in Iraq has taken a turn for the better, but don't try to tell that to Nancy Pelosi.

Lebanon Enters a New Crisis

As term of current president nears end, factions seem unlikely to reach consensus on replacement

Plan Increases Role of G.I.’s in Iraq Training Commanders hope to shift more of the security burden in Iraq to the Iraqis without giving up gains U.S. troops have made, officials said.

Editorial Digging in Deeper in Pakistan Before plunging American forces deep into Pakistan’s borderlands, Washington needs to deal with the political crisis threatening that country’s very core.

Asked for his “core moral principles, the ones you would not violate,” Henry Kissinger was “not prepared to share that yet”... “Henry Kissinger’s realpolitik, with its moral relativism and easy acceptance of American limits, is often contrasted with the neocon evangelism that took off after the attacks of 9/11. Kissinger had long served as a foil for the New Right. The secretary of state ‘sounds like Churchill’ but ‘acts like Chamberlain’, Norman Podhoretz wrote in 1976. “ more»

Washington Times Talking to ourselves on China

Talking about an imaginary world of cooperation between the United States and China is not an effective substitute for acting in the real world of strategic rivalry

From Foreign Policy, here are five reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving: From Baghdad to Islamabad, doom and gloom dominate today’s headlines — and yet, a peek beneath the daily drumbeat reveals a world that may never have been better.

The Economist Iran They think they have right on their side Why the Iranians see themselves in a very different light

McClatchy Maliki's public feud with Sunni official highlights Iraq's divisions The sniping is incessant, the skirmishes bruising. For months, the verbal warfare between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite Muslim, and his Sunni vice-president, Tariq al-Hashemi, has been escalating.

DEBKAfile Exclusive: By pumping up the Lebanese crisis to explosion level, Tehran and Damascus steal Middle East interest away from Annapolis conference

The Times Annapolis peace talks raise hopes for Middle East

No one had been sure that a meeting to attempt to restart the Middle East peace process would actually happen Bronwen Maddox

The dollar's in decline. Great news!

Critics think it's in a crisis, but in reality America is in decent health

Gerard Baker

Lebanon stares into the abyss

Beirut centre to be sealed off as MPs gather to elect a new president in an attempt to prevent Lebanon from plunging into chaos

Al Awsat Iran: Hope is No Substitute for Policy : Amir Taheri

Time Peak Possibilities ( Signs abound that oil production may be topping out. Is this the end of the world as we know it?

Is World Oil Production Peaking? Earth Policy Institute

Time Peak Possibilities ( Signs abound that oil production may be topping out. Is this the end of the world as we know it?

With Iraq Improving, Will Neocons Return? - Victor Davis Hanson, RCP

endgame for iraqi oil? Middle East Online

Helena Cobban Annapolis guessing game, prospects

Jerusalem Post Analysis: Does Syria want peace? Syria, not Iran, has provided the most important support for Hizbullah's terrorism.

Independent Identity theft: Millions warned of dangers of social networking sites

One of the mysteries of the universe is that it speaks the language of mathematics – in exactly 248 dimensions?... more»

Time What Makes Us Moral Morality and empathy are writ deep in our genes. Alas, so are savagery and bloodlust. Science is now learning what makes us both noble and terrible--and perhaps what can make us better

H2

Turkey now a major player in the Mideast, says Morton Abramowitz

Türkiye, bir asır sonra Ortadoğu'da oyuncu oldu

FT Q&A: Iraq, Turkey and military force

OP-ED: Turkey's foreign policy tug of war - METimes.com By GüRCAN KOçAN and JASON J. NASH

FT.com / Reports / Turkey Download a click and carry PDF of this special report - -"

CSIS: Turkish leaders pondering ‘Eurasian option’

Russia: Convergences and fractures in Russian-Turkish relations
Equilibri.net

officials: turk incursion into iraq unlikely
DefenseNews.com by umit enginsoy and burak ege bekdil

A sudden rush of awareness on Kurdish rights - Turquie Européenne - t

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Avrupa Konseyi, yerel yönetimlerde Kürtçe'ye izin istedi

Terör örgütü değil, siyasi organizasyon!

İsrafil Kumbasar 'Sınır içi' psikolojik operasyonda Cemil Bayık'a biçilen rol

PKK, KDP'yi kızdırdı

Terörist çiftin kanlı planı

Suikast timi ölüm listesiyle yakalandı

Kurtulan ile Bayındır birlikte gidip gelmiş

PKK nasıl bitirilecek?

Why is the AKP reasonable on Kurds? - Turkish Daily News Nov 22, 2007 Mustafa AKYOL

Şu DTP'nin inadı Murat Belge

İzmir'de PKK'ya yönelik operasyon: 9 gözaltı

2. PKK’lı Pakize asker avında

Iraq: Status of Kirkuk
UNPO –

Davada ilk inceleme bugün

Gov’t reform envisages including X, Q, W in Turkish alphabets

GAP'a 8 milyar dolar kredi için Avrupa bankaları sırada

Irak'ta altı Türk terörist 'çatışıyor'

PKK'nın dağ ve şehir bağlantısı kesildi

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 22 Nov 07

Syrian President, Turkish PM Discuss Annapolis Over Phone

'Kürdistan' sözüne 10 ay ceza

Rebel Kurds Defy Turks, US - Newser

Aidatlar yetmedi, DTP mali krizde

'İttifakla' kınamaya DTP'li sessiz kaldı

DTP'li Yıldız'dan yeni tanım

[Yorum - Alev Alatlı] Ben bir Kürt aydını olsaydım...

DTP, PKK'yla arasına mesafe koymalı

3 bin kişi silahını bıraksa projeniz yok

Türkler bizim kardeşimizdir

Kuzey Irak’a giden DTP’li üç vekilin fezlekesi tamam

İsrail Türkiye sınırında Suriye radarını vurdu

Liel Hamas ile El Fetih çatıştığı sürece Annapolis savaş konferansı olur

Başbakan Erdoğan Ahmedinejad ile görüştü

İsrail Lobisi
Efsane mi gerçek mi? Amerikan dış politikasını ne kadar etkiliyor?

İsrail savaş uçakları, Türkiye sınırındaki Suriye radarını vurmuş

Özdemir İnce Mersin’de Türkiye Suriye ortaklık konseyi

Yalçın Bayer AKP iktidarının ricatı

USA Today: ‘Tango için üç kişi lazım’

PKK’yı tasfiye için ön koşul Barzani

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Fransa da kaybediyor Murat Yetkin

Ferai Tınç İtalyan bakanlarda on yılda büyük değişim

Nagehan Alçı Kuzey Kıbrıs Kumar Cumhuriyeti (KKKC)

Turkish reservations about EU relations Orhan KİLERCİOĞLU

Rauf Denktaş Görüşmelere hazırız

PKK'ya ortak kınama

Merkel'e mektup yazacak

Sami KOHEN Farklı bir D'Alema...

Courage? You need it Mr Karamanlis!
Barçin Yinanç

Italy backs Turkey’s self-defense right, urges EU to honor pledges

'Bilge olun'çağrısı

DerSpiegel A German Teen's Turkish Nightmare: EU Officials Criticize Teens Imprisonment

Güngör URAS Ordulular AB fonlarını bekliyor

Asia Europe Affairs : 80% of Screening reports for Turkey accession already sent to Council

Turkish Minister Says Turkey's Accession Will Turn EU into "Real Global Power"

Turkey Should Help Establish An Economic Union Of Turkic States, Vasillopulos

Turkish analyst advises Armenia to refrain from discussions of Genocide problem

Armenian-Turkish relations should be given publicity

Hearings on relations with Turkey to be held in Armenian parliament

Saakashvili: Turkey Plays Positive Role In Resolution Of Abkhazian Conflict

Subaya konuşma ve yazma yasağı
KAZIM ÖZOK

Emekli askerler RTÜK'e başvurdu

Polisin öldüren tekmesi

MÜMTAZ'ER TÜRKÖNE - Bediüzzaman Said Nursî

HÜSEYİN GÜLERCE - Kerpetenli adamları dinlemeyin

Yeni TRT Genel Müdürü
Haluk Şahin

Mehmet Barlas TRT’de iktidarla hem iyi geçinmek hem de teslim olmamak gerekiyor…

'Malatya davası'na Birleşmiş Milletler takibi

Üniversiteler için 5 bin araştırma görevlisi

Siyaset dışındakiler daha doğru iş yapmaz

5. İnternette sansür başlıyor. Soru-Analiz

Zaman 1 milyon baskıya ulaştı

Saakaşvili'den Gül'e: Ülkemdeki Türk üniversitesi ile gurur duyuyorum

Batılı aydınlar, Gülen'in fikirlerini konuşuyor

[Kürsü] Mü'min, zengin de olsa mütevazi olmalı

Nihai karar: Uzanlar Motorola'ya bir milyar dolar tazminat ödeyecek

What is going on in the Malatya massacre case?
Orhan Kemal Cengiz

23 Kasım 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 Terörle mücadele yenileniyor

Karayılan ve Bayık her an paketlenebilir

Üç bakan 'Karayılan'ı doğrulamadı

Pamukoğlu Terör bitti diye halkı kandırdılar

Cengiz Çandar Kürt sorunu, terör ve yol işaretleri

Serdar Akinan Kürdistan’ı kabul et... PKK bitsin!

Ruşen Çakır Baykal güvercin mi şahin mi?

PKK'nın son kozu Serhildan

Durmuş Hocaoğlu Büyük Manevra: ( I )

Güler Kömürcü PKK’ya karşılık ne verildi?

Şamil Tayyar Erdoğan ve Büyükanıt ne konuştular?

Nuh Yılmaz Yeni istihbarat sistemi krizi aştı

[NEWS ANALYSIS] Security concerns boost military expenditure

'Gönülleri Birleştirme Operasyonu'
Hasan Celal Güzel

Sebahattin Önkibar MİT Başkanından dehşet açıklama?

M. Ali BİRAND
Türkiye, PKK'nın rahatını bozdu...

Lagendijk 10 yıl önce saçmalıyorduk

Serdar Turgut ABD’nin kafası karışık

ERDAL ŞAFAK Kuzey Irak'a açılım

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU

Önemli bir eşik atlanıyor…

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL PKK için yolun sonu: Sürprize hazır olmak!

KORAY DÜZGÖREN 'Silah bıraktırma' planı ve bölücü harfler!..

Mehmet Tezkan PKK’nın iki hedefi vardı..

Nasuhi Güngör PKK sonrası döneme hazır mıyız?

Asker de konuşur M.Ali Kışlalı

Irak'ta 'Türkmeneli Devleti'
Namık Kemal Zeybek

[Yorum - M. Şükrü Hanioğlu] Osmanlı çöküşü ve günümüz Kürt sorunu

Ali Bulaç Should Turkey annex Mosul?

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Rota ve rüzgâr

Metin MÜNİR Erdoğan'a şapkamı çıkarıyorum

PKK’ya karşı ÖKK

Taha AKYOL AKP'nin Alevi açılımı

Fikret BİLA DSP'nin önerisi sadece 'kürsü dokunulmazlığı'

Abbas GÜÇLÜ Çiçek: PKK'ya 300 milyar dolar harcandı

Derya SAZAK CHP ve Çözüm

CHP'li Öktem'e göre, mart ayındaki kongrede Baykal gidecek

Elif Çakır Irak-Kuzey Irak-Kürdistan

Ahmet Taşgetiren Zamanlama

Mehmet Metiner Gül'ün mesajları

Başörtüsü yasağında son söz siyasilerin!

Emine Hanım'a GATA'da türban engeli

CHP: AKP yargı için düğmeye bastı

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

Fehmi Koru ABD kalıcı mı, yoksa gidiyor mu?

YUSUF KAPLAN Türkiye'yi bölenler: Laik Kürtler ve laikçi Türkler

İlnur Çevik Turkey starts to exploit its strategic advantages

Ertuğrul Özkök Sorduğunuz soruya cevabım

Ahmet Hakan İki sofra arasındaki farklar

Cüneyt Ülsever

Enis Berberoğlu

Oktay Ekşi Ordu’daki Avrupa toplantısı

MUHARREM SARIKAYA D'Alema'yı değiştirenler

ERDAL ŞAFAK Kuzey Irak'a açılım

ERGUN BABAHAN

EMRE AKÖZ Hacettepeli hocalar yanılıyor

Umur Talu Pilin bittiği yer

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Ağar'dan Erdoğan'a 'düz ovada siyaset'

YAVUZ DONAT Çankaya gözlemleri

Bülent Keneş Overflowing Turkey

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Yenilerle borsanın talihi değişir mi?

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam

Güven Sak Büyümedeki yavaşlama bütçeyi bozuyor

Hasan Ersel Teşvik vermek için kendine çekidüzen vermek gereki...

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Gelişmekte olan ülkeler artık daha sağlammış!

Kendimizi anlama kılavuzu!
Uğur Gürses

Eser Karakaş Kayıt dışılığın dev boyutları

H4 New York Times

Plan Increases Role of G.I.’s in Iraq Training Commanders hope to shift more of the security burden in Iraq to the Iraqis without giving up gains U.S. troops have made, officials said.

Editorial Digging in Deeper in Pakistan Before plunging American forces deep into Pakistan’s borderlands, Washington needs to deal with the political crisis threatening that country’s very core.

Eni of Italy Signs a Pipeline Deal With Gazprom

Editorial The Immigration Wilderness

America is waiting for a leader to show a little backbone and courage, and risk saying that the best answer on immigration is not the simplest one.

New Numbers on AIDS

Even with revised estimates, the AIDS epidemic remains one of the world’s greatest scourges, requiring a strong campaign to bring it under control.

PAUL KRUGMAN Banks Gone Wild The subprime crisis and the credit crunch are the result of our failure to effectively reform corporate governance after the last set of scandals

H5 Washington Post On Iraq, a State of DenialBy Charles Krauthammer The war in Iraq has taken a turn for the better, but don't try to tell that to Nancy Pelosi.

Needed: a Cease-Fire With Hamas, Now By Yossi Beilin

Editorial The 'Omnipresident's' Crucible France's Nicolas Sarkozy, stiffening his spine against street protests

Back to Baghdad Returnees Find a Capital Transformed Security Is Better, But Freedoms Are Tempered by Fear

Lebanon Enters a New Crisis

As term of current president nears end, factions seem unlikely to reach consensus on replacement

From Hopeful To Helpless At a Protest In Lebanon

10 U.S.-Backed Fighters Killed in Iraq

Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request

Secret Warrants Granted Without Probable Cause Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges and industry lawyers.

Tattered Dream Who'll Tackle the Issue Of Upward Mobility? By Eugene Robinson, Three new studies suggest the American Dream is nothing but false hope.

Stem Cells, the Right Way By Michael Gerson,

Science has demonstrated the power of morally responsible technology to serve the cause of human dignity instead of undermining it

H6 Guardian We fret over Europe, but the real threat to sovereignty has long been the US Linda Colley: Britain's biggest foreign influence is the one politicians don't dare debate: not immigration, not Brussels, but America

Annapolis, as seen from Gaza

Laila El-Haddad: If history has taught the people of Gaza anything, it's that they never have much of a say in their destiny

The great divide Anita Inder Singh The near-certainty of an independent Kosovo raises the prospect of partition, but can it be divided amicably?

Leader Court politics Pakistan: The supreme court of Pakistan yesterday threw out the final challenge to General Pervez Musharraf's re-election as president

Saudis make up 41% of foreign fighters in Iraq
US raid on insurgent camp finds treasure trove of data, but bombings and border crossings fall after seizure

H7 From Foreign Policy, here are five reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving: From Baghdad to Islamabad, doom and gloom dominate today’s headlines — and yet, a peek beneath the daily drumbeat reveals a world that may never have been better.

The Economist Iran They think they have right on their side Why the Iranians see themselves in a very different light

Iran's nuclear dossier Spinning on regardless Diplomacy, like inspections, grinds ever more slowly

Saudi Arabia Double indemnity

Al Awsat Iran: Hope is No Substitute for Policy : Amir Taheri

The Dividends of Peace in the Middle East : Javier Solana

Is World Oil Production Peaking?
Earth Policy Institute

Iran Strengthens its Role in the Caspian Sea and Central Asian Regions
PINR

Chris Hedges / The Nation:
Hands Off Iran

Iran's expanding influence
Al-Ahram Weekly –

The age of Western decline
Al-Ahram Weekly

OpenDemocracy Climate change: a window to act , Paul Rogers

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

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

McClatchy Maliki's public feud with Sunni official highlights Iraq's divisions The sniping is incessant, the skirmishes bruising. For months, the verbal warfare between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite Muslim, and his Sunni vice-president, Tariq al-Hashemi, has been escalating.

DEBKAfile Exclusive: By pumping up the Lebanese crisis to explosion level, Tehran and Damascus steal Middle East interest away from Annapolis conference

BBC

Lebanon president deadline looms
Lebanon's political crisis looks set to deepen unless MPs can reach a last-minute deal on a new president.

Arabs mull peace summit stance

Mahmoud Abbas is to brief Arab foreign ministers as they decide whether to attend next week's US peace summit

UN uncertainty over nuclear Iran

Iran's history of hiding nuclear activities means it is unclear if its intentions are peaceful, the UN watchdog chief says.

Lobby power
Debate rages over the influence of pro-Israel groups on US policy

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Middle East Arabic Press for 22 November 07

Saudi Arabia Refuses "to Deal With" Iraqi PM - Senior Officials

Syrian President, Turkish PM Discuss Annapolis Over Phone

Italian Premier Urges Syrian President to Attend Annapolis Talks

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Iranian Press 22 Nov 07

Iraqi Interior Minister Says Al-Qa'Idah's Threat Diminishing

King Hussein of Jordan

From the desert he rose

H9 Ha’aretz Report: Syria decided not to attend Mideast peace conference

Editorial Don't knock AnnapolisIsrael?s clear and urgent interest is to accept and indeed to encourage international assistance at all levels, including the presence on the ground of policing and training forces, that can contribute to the establishment of a Palestinian state and help it stand on its own two feet

Marcus Where have all the leaders gone?l puns predicts that the summit will ultimately conclude with a ?binding signature on a Memo of Non-Understandings? that is liable to bury Fatah and lead to our military reinvolvement in Gaza

PM: Keeping status quo with PA endangers Israel Israeli, Palestinian negotiators fail to reach agreement on joint document ahead of Annapolis summit

ANALYSIS: PA should have set the bar higher at the outset Even the Palestinian draft of the joint accord for Annapolis does not insist on settlement freeze and Gaza relief

Benn If we've come this far

Survey: Only 20% of Israelis consider themselves secular Number halved since 1970s; claim of religious affiliation significantly higher among Mizrahim

Sharansky Strengthening them againA look back over the years since the Oslo Accords shows clearly that the direction in which Palestinian society has marched is not the direction of peace.

The Condoleezza storyThis is the real story of Annapolis: a story of fierce personal emotions, disappointment, affront and desperation.

Jerusalem Post Analysis: Does Syria want peace?
Syria, not Iran, has provided the most important support for Hizbullah's terrorism.

'Syrian radar destroyed before strike'

'If Syria comes to summit, serious peace talks can follow'

Barak tells the 'Post' there is 'high chance' summit will succeed; defense minister due to meet with Gates on regional security issues.

J'lem: PA doesn't want a joint document

Officials say Palestinians fear that a joint statement of principles will incur Hamas's wrath.

Yedioth Ahronoth

Daily Alert.orgMiddle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review Google News Israel - Palestine

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Text: Mearsheimer and Walt interview

Europe Is Not Impressed by Walt and Mearsheimer Forward

Annapolis Conference Fails to Inspire Mideast Media

Israeli Official Says Israel Has "a Lot to Discuss" With Syria at Annapolis

Yedioth 'World accepts Israeli stance'
Foreign Minister Livni to leave for US on Saturday evening ahead of Annapolis peace conference; tells Ynet summit's success is fact that it will jumpstart move in which State of Israel's security is inseparable part of agreement

Hamas massacre in Gaza brings us step closer to demise of radical Islam

Jerusalem divided TIME photo essay.

Caroline Glick the results of brilliant theories

H10 Christian Science Monitor

ASIA

Ming Wan (George Mason): Engaging China: The Political Economy and Geopolitical Approaches of the United States, Japan and the European Union Li.

Washington Times Talking to ourselves on China

Talking about an imaginary world of cooperation between the United States and China is not an effective substitute for acting in the real world of strategic rivalry.

Beijing's C-student mentality (By Amjad Atallah and Isaac Shapiro)

Careful wishing on Pakistan

Abandoning Gen. Musharraf would not necessarily unlock democracy but would nourish prospects of Islamists making the rules.

FT Chinese bluster on Tibet and Taiwan Contrary to expectations, China is not doing much to soften its image before the Beijing Olympics but is defending authoritarian rule

EU issues threat to China over trade gap‘Unsustainable’ deficit rises €15m an hour

Wall Street Journal

Uighur Warning China's broken promises are clear.
By REBIYA KADEER

Admiral 'Perplexed' by Snub at Hong Kong...

IHT Beijing, Hong Kong & Macau

By PHILIP BOWRING

If top Communist Party officials are not themselves getting rich, they have plenty of relatives who are.

Sarkozy heading to China Human rights is notably missing from a list of five priority areas that Sarkozy wants to discuss on his first presidential visit to China at the end of this week

Bangladesh's poor have lost everything Appeals for aid as country tries to recover from storm that has left 2m destitute

A review of Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century by Giovanni Arrighi.

Russia to Build Space Complex Near Chinese Border, Ivanov Says By: Michael Heath | Bloomberg News
Russia will build a space complex near the border with China capable of launching military and civilian rockets, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said, as the country moves to revive its Soviet-era space program.

China furious at Dalai Lama plan to name successor

H11 IHT Defending Europe's interests

By PETER MANDELSON AND MANUEL PINHO Europe's response to trade barriers should not be to automatically erect barriers of its own.

Gazprom deal with Eni drives new wedge into hopes for EU energy unityGazprom, the Russian state-owned energy giant strengthened its grip on the European natural gas market Thursday by signing a €10 billion deal with Eni of Italy.

French transport strike begins to wane after nine days

Danes vote again on the euroThe prime minister of Denmark said Thursday that the country would hold a second referendum on whether to join the euro, which Danes rejected seven years ago

Czech drug epidemic threatens to spread through Europe

EUROPE European press review

The Economist Strikes in France The street fights back

Europe and immigration The trouble with migrants

Jacques Chirac A president on trial

Italy's opposition Subtle Silvio strikes again

Kosovo's future The day after independence

Charlemagne In defence of national interests There is a good case for a smaller European Commission—but also some counter-arguments

Forgetting Franco

David Cesarani: Why, over 30 years after the death of General Franco, is the government removing all traces of Spain's fascist past?

The Treaty of Lisbon: Implementing the International Innovations CEPS
A 150-page collaborative report aiming to highlight potential problems in implementing the Treaty of Lisbon and to mitigate possible negative effects

European Islam: Challenges for Public Policy and Society
CEPS

Kosovo: then what?

Denmark to vote on joining the euro

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

Vladimir Putin's Political Future Remains a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery By: Roland Flamini | World Politics Review
It is easy to understand why Putin is so popular. The Russians credit his leadership with their country's emergence from the economic problems and political uncertainties of the 1990s.

geopolitical diary: great bashi's ghost
Stratfor

H13 The Times Annapolis peace talks raise hopes for Middle East

No one had been sure that a meeting to attempt to restart the Middle East peace process would actually happen

Bronwen Maddox

The dollar's in decline. Great news!

Critics think it's in a crisis, but in reality America is in decent health

Gerard Baker

Lebanon stares into the abyss

Beirut centre to be sealed off as MPs gather to elect a new president in an attempt to prevent Lebanon from plunging into chaos

Cold War rivals begin to dream of unity Peace in Korea, which has eluded nine presidents before him, would certainly guarantee Bush's place in history

West ‘pressing to dismember Serbia’ The Serbian Prime Minister says powerful Western nations have asked his country to give up the province of Kosovo voluntarily

Arrested Development

Despite the emergency, Musharraf and Bhutto must work together

Wall Street Journal Pakistan Warned U.S. of Plan Musharraf aides warned the U.S. he would declare emergency rule before the Nov. 3 announcement, according to officials. Pakistan's top court validated Musharraf's re-election to another term as president. 12:24 a.m.

Uighur Warning China's broken promises are clear.
By REBIYA KADEER

Nuclear Winter
Atomic energy may not be the answer this time around.
By BRUNO BRUNETTI

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: The west must resist Putin's claim on the old Soviet space The president’s strategy is clear: to push the west out of Russia’s near-abroad. The tactics are equally transparent. Russia cannot reclaim the Soviet empire but it can, in Mr Putin’s mind, re-establish informal hegemony, writes Philip Stephens

COMMENT: America holds the key to Middle East peace The greatest hope lies in US patriotism and the extent to which the establishment takes the Islamist threat seriously, writes Anatol Lieven

COMMENT: Where the dollar's decline is taking the world Foreign policies have hit currency, says David Hale Wall Street has produced a credit crisis for banks by securitising more than $900bn of subprime mortgage loans

Arab states confront conference dilemma Having so feverishly argued for US engagement, leading Arab states are loath to appear unsupportive of the Annapolis talks, which many feel are too little too late

Net cast wide for figures to support initiative The ‘internationalising’ of the Annapolis talks, where more than 40 countries and organisations have been invited, is seen by some as a potentially positive development

The falling dollarGideon Rachman: What political consequences of a falling dollar should we be thinking about? And what should I be reading?

Dollar safe from challenge of the euro Even as the European currency heads to $1.50 and has notched up several successes few economists expect it to threaten the dollar’s global role in the foreseeable future

Is the US heading for recession? Forum: Stocks have tumbled, so will growth in the US economy just slow, or go into reverse? What will be the knock-on effects around the world?

COMMENT: Please spare us this 'vision thing' Security is priority, writes Samuel Brittan

Chinese bluster on Tibet and Taiwan Contrary to expectations, China is not doing much to soften its image before the Beijing Olympics but is defending authoritarian rule

Denmark to hold new referendum on euro Denmark is to hold a new referendum on whether to adopt the euro and also ditch its other opt-outs from the core aspects of European Union integration, the country’s newly re-elected prime minister announced

Wave of banking consolidations predicted

The global credit squeeze will trigger fresh cross-border mergers and force change at financial services companies dependent on loan securitisation, says Italian bank chief

BETWEEN THE LINES - QUENTIN PEEL: Semi-detached Denmark has chance to opt in

Big bank, big task for the new leader The new head of Citigroup needs to know about investment and retail banking in the US and other countries, clear up the mess and make the shareholders happy

Low dollar ‘threatens the life’ of Airbus Tom Enders, chief executive of the European aircraft maker Airbus, has detailed the consequences to Airbus’s future development plans of the sharp decline in the dollar, which this week hit fresh lows against the euro -

H15 Los Angeles Times

Editorial

Iraq Budget Stresses Public Works By: Doug Smith and Saif Hameed | Los Angeles Times
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki is proposing a $7.4-billion boost in public spending next year in an aggressive budget designed to stimulate industry and speed up repairs of this country's tattered roads, sewers and utilities.

H16 American Politics

US primary brought forward
Democratic candidates face busy Christmas as New Hampshire sets primary for January 8

Time The Tone-Deaf Democrats Too many of them--in Congress and the presidential campaign--still don't get national security

Nominations may be decided in one quick blitz

Clinton Hits Rough Patch Hillary Clinton has hit a bumpy stretch as the opening Iowa contest nears and she seeks to court her party's left-leaning voters while maintaining a centrist course.

realclearpoliticsABC’s The Note US News Political Bulletin

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

Joe and Valerie Wilson: Treason is Not Old News

Lexington The greasy ladder

Middle-income blacks are downwardly mobile. Why?

Charlie Rose asks Rove, 'Why are you so evil?'

H17 Daily Telegraph Bahrain feels the heat from Iran

Even though Bahrainis remain proud of their close association with Britain and America, their bold approach has attracted much resentment, not least from the other side of the Gulf, observes Con Coughlin

Split widens over Iran's nuclear plans

International divisions over Iran's nuclear ambitions have deepened after the world's nuclear watchdog pleaded for more time.

French strikes crumble

A transport strike that has crippled France appears to be in its death throes, handing Nicolas Sarkozy a crucial victory in his efforts to push through economic reforms.

Pakistan suspended from Commonwealth

The Commonwealth suspended Pakistan's membership last night after saying that President Pervez Musharraf had failed to meet a deadline to lift emergency rule and resign as army chief.

Army crisis as leaving troops soar

The Army is facing a major shortfall in manpower after latest figures released showed that the number of troops leaving had increased by 50 per cent in last year.

The Army needs more money

In the space of little more than a week, three of the country's most distinguished soldiers have spoken of an impending crisis.

H18 Independent Identity theft: Millions warned of dangers of social networking sites

Millions of young people have made themselves vulnerable to identity theft as well as putting their future academic and professional prospects at risk by recklessly posting personal information on the internet, Britain's privacy watchdog warns in a report published today.

UN official says Israel's siege of Gaza breeds extremism and human suffering

Most Iraqi recruits 'are Saudi or Libyan'

Dominic Lawson: Fight climate change? Or stay competitive? I'm afraid these two aims are incompatible

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

'I believe in the war, but being here sucks' In the latest installment of his embed diary, David Smith recalls a few of the sentiments expressed by US troops

ICBM Crews' Work Largely Unchanged Since Cold War Air Force Capt. Elizabeth Buss will spend 72 hours this week -- including Thanksgiving -- sitting day and night in eight-hour shifts before a console and computer screens 65 feet underground in a blast-proof, launch-control capsule under a facility in a field miles from Malmstrom Air Force Base in...

Russia to Build Space Complex Near Chinese Border, Ivanov Says By: Michael Heath | Bloomberg News
Russia will build a space complex near the border with China capable of launching military and civilian rockets, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said, as the country moves to revive its Soviet-era space program.

H20 Slate

Strategic Petroleum Reserve Annual Report for 2006
45 pages; PDF.
Source: U.S. Department of Energy

The Media as Junkyard Dog: One Journalist's Journey From Secret CIA Prisons to the Walter Reed Scand

H21 One of the mysteries of the universe is that it speaks the language of mathematics – in exactly 248 dimensions?... more»

Time What Makes Us Moral Morality and empathy are writ deep in our genes. Alas, so are savagery and bloodlust. Science is now learning what makes us both noble and terrible--and perhaps what can make us better

Asked for his “core moral principles, the ones you would not violate,” Henry Kissinger was “not prepared to share that yet”... more»

Is modern art left wing? By sneering at ideas of meaning and truth it seems to be against any viable politics, argues Munira Mirza... more»

France plans to cut off internet pirates Users who download music and films without paying could find their web access shut down by a government body, under a ground-breaking industry agreement

Made in China on the Sly By DANA THOMAS Luxury brand executives are not selling “dreams,” as they like to suggest; they are hawking low-cost, high-profit items wrapped in logos.

IQ has been rising for the last hundred years: that’s the Flynn Effect. But IQ is not quite the same as intelligence... more»

The Joneses are college grads and have ten books at home. The Smiths only went to high school but own 100. Whose kids have the edge?... more» ... NEA report (pdf)

Leading Causes of Death in the U.S., 2004:New report ranks major killers by age, sex, and race/ethnicity

Pages of history?

Alex Stein Amazon's wireless reading device is antithetical to the literary ideal. It should never be allowed to replace books

All work and no play for today's pupils Children are being forced to work harder than ever with little to show for the extra effort, according to a major Cambridge University inquiry.

Vatican to bring in performance-related pay Benedict XVI's new secretary of state brings performance-related pay to the Vatican

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