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H1 McClatchy Iran hints it could halt nuclear enrichment for a quid pro quo Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday that his country could suspend uranium enrichment if the United States and Western Europe agreed to acknowledge that its nuclear program was peaceful

Iran Hints It Could Halt Enrichment for Quid Pro Quo

Washington Post Eyes Will Be on Bush At Talks on Mideast Delegates to Gauge President's Support For Rice's Efforts

Lebanon Fails to Elect New President Capital Peaceful As Army Deploys

In the Middle East, It's the Tribes, Stupid! - Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic

At Mideast Talks, US and Israel Seek to Isolate Iran by Wooing Syria The U.S. and Israel are courting Syria in a bid to weaken Iran's strongest alliance in the region. Syria suggested it would attend the Annapolis meeting that is expected to launch a new round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
Wall Street Journal

New York Times Editorial Thinking Beyond Annapolis The American-led conference in Annapolis to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict needs to begin serious, detailed and sustained talks on the core issues.

Saudis to Join Mideast Talks; Syria Wavers At least 15 Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, said they would attend a U.S.-sponsored Middle East conference

Guardian Leader Deja vu, again Annapolis talks: Will any of the noble declarations that we will get at next week's Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland mean anything?

Win, win? Martin Woollacott Annapolis: Saudi Arabia's decision to attend next week's conference is to make sure Arab states cannot be blamed for failure

Chicago Tribune New boss turns the tables on Al Qaeda — Ex-Sunni insurgent becomes U.S. ally

'Al Qaeda rolodex' found in Iraq

Israeli: Hit Syrian Site Was Nuclear Bomb Plant, Not Reactor

A Plan to Attack Iran Swiftly and From Above

A bombing campaign has been in the works for months - a blistering air war that would last anywhere from one day to two weeks

Towards Annapolis: Is U.S. Policy Changing on Israel's Rights in a Peace Settlement? - Dore Gold (Institute for Contemporary Affairs/Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Robert Fisk: Darkness falls on the Middle East

The Times Lebanese President calls out army and quits Emile Lahoud has charged the army with maintaining security in the country after Parliament failed to elect his successor

IHT Just when things were looking up By BARNETT R. RUBIN

Taliban fighters are now less than an hour's drive from Kabul

Busy Saudi Diplomacy

H2 Strategic Studies Institute The Evolution of U.S.-Turkish Relations in a Transatlantic Context

ABD-PKK İlişkisi Üzerine Notlar Şanlı Bahadır Koç

PKK: ABD'yi hedef alırız

Mending Turkish-American relations
İlter TÜRKMEN

Kurdish Rivalries Play Out on Cellphones
Wall Street Journal

Barzani'nin danışmanı: Askeri seçenek tek yol değil, bunu Türk ordusu da söylüyor

The Not-So-Sick Man of Europe Does Matter
Truthdig

Guardian Turks accused of killing Christians go on trial · Three died in brutal attack during Bible study group · Case begins amid growing intolerance to minorities

Independent Five on trial in Turkey for missionary murders

Government considers allocating budget to Alevis

Kuzey Irak eğlence merkezi olmak istiyor

Fitzgerald: Turkey and the Straw

Will Erdogan Take the Enormous Gamble ?
cafebabel.com -

Yabancı basına sıkı yönetim

The Headscarf Debate (NRO: The Corner)

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

DTP'nin yedek partisi yok

Dizayi 'PKK'ya askeri seçenek tek yol değil'

[NEWS ANALYSIS] Back to square one in anti-terror fight if DTP closed

Başbakan Erdoğan, 'PKK liderleri yakalandı' iddiasını yalanlamadı

Karda operasyon

Constitutional Court to consider shutting down pro-Kurdish DTP

Barzani warns Kurdish media not to report against Turkey

Barzani sır oldu Kandil'deki terör yuvalarının ikmal yollarını kesen Barzani 3 gün önce ortadan kayboldu. 'Bilinmeyen bir ülkeye gittiği' iddia edilen Barzani'nin ABD'ye uçtuğu ve Bush'tan teröristlerin Türkiye'ye iadesi için talimat aldığı öne sürüldü

Güneydoğu'ya aş ve iş için 5 formül

Anayasa Mahkemesi DTP dosyasını açtı

DTP'li Ayla Akat Ata: "Toptan istifa ederiz"

PKK bizi hedef gösteriyor

DTP hakkındaki iddianame kabul edildi

Straw: K. Irak PKK kampı olmamalı

PKK destekçisi şirketleri durduracağız

HAKAN ALBAYRAK

Murat Çelik DTP'li Yıldız ile açık açık -

Dizai, uyardı: Umarız PKK, bu dönemde provokatif bir davranış içine girmez

‘Kürtlerin umudu AKP oldu’

Mehmet'ini Kürtçe ağıtla uğurladı

Sınır köyleri boşaltılıyor

‘Efforts underway to block PKK’s financial support’

Kürt basınını uyardı: Türkiye aleyhine yayın yapmayın

PKK annoys Iraqi Kurds

DTP'lilere 301'den dava

Eker'e göre PKK olağanüstü hal istiyor

Iraqi Oil Minister Says Contracts Signed By Kurdistan Government Cancelled

Iraqi Kurds Deny President Injured in "Terrorist "Attack

Iraq boosts oil exports after re-opening Kirkuk pipeline (AFP)

Nation at stake Al-Ahram Weekly Kirkuk tops the agenda in Iraq as political forces vie for and against de facto national partition, writes Nermeen Al-Mufti

Turkey's losses reach $300 bln over Kurdish conflict

Iraqi Kurdish Delegation Visit to Turkey Means Change in Turkey's Stance

Iraqi Kurdistan schools will teach religions other than Islam

Turkey: Pro-Kurdish Party Leader Wants Project to Get Militants to Give Up Arms

Mahmur Camp in Northern Iraq Surrounded by Iraqi Soldiers

Kuzey Irak eğlence merkezi olmak istiyor

Iraqi Kurds Rally to Demand 'Chemical Ali' Hanging

Top Turkish court to consider shutting Kurd party | Reuters

Turkey’s energy minister underlines cooperation with Iran

Mensur Akgün İki kişilik barış ordusu

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Semih İDİZ Sıkışan Sarkozy zamanla değişebilir!

AİHM'ye yeni liste

Gül Paris yolcusu

Yunan adalarına Türk elektriği

German minister criticized over migration law - Turkish Daily News Nov 23, 2007

Beril Dedeoğlu TGI and more

Two Years after Leyla Şahin: the Headscarf, Secularism, and Gender Equality Amy GRUPP

Olay Rum'un Türk aşkı

Ata Atun Who is lying: Hristofias or AKEL?

Serdar Turgut
Bir mahvoluş hikâyesi

H. Şükür Gerçeği

Bu makale tartışılır!

Banks fail to identify funding for terrorists

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Sokaktan 'mall'a

Derya Sazak Muhbir değil, gazeteci

Ödenekte aslan payı Erdoğan'ın ilçesine

'Notlarımız düşer diye konuşmadık'

Malatya baskını davası: Sanıklar savunma yapmadı

İmam nikâhı geçerli ve yeterlidir

Eski özel harekatçılara gözaltı

Enerji Bakanı'ndan tuhaf sözler
Haluk Şahin

Abdülhamit Bilici Gülen’s difference from Suruş, similarity to Mevlana

YÖK ne dedi, ne olacak?
R. ÖMÜR AKYÜZ

Eyüp Can Zapsu’nun evinde aşk siyaset ve futbol sohbeti

H3 Serdar Turgut Neden olmasın ki

Ruşen Çakır – Demirtaş Ankara’ya baktığımız için hırpalanıyoruz

EMRE AKÖZ Peki, biz ne verdik?

Mustafa Karaalioğlu Kritik operasyon soruları

Fırsat kaçıran bir DTP'mi?
Murat Yetkin

Taha Kıvanç Bir başkadır benim memleketim

İlter Türkmen Türk-Amerikan ilişkilerinin onarımı

Türkiye-ABD ortak istihbarat merkezi

Gül, bu kez YAŞ'ta şerh koyamayacak

Gül may opt to approve YAŞ decisions with reservations

Fikret BİLA DTP işindeki terslikler

Enis Berberoğlu 2 vakte kadar 2 paket

İsmail Küçükkaya
Kürt sorununu doğru anlamak...

Asker-diplomat değerlendirmesi
M.Ali Kışlalı

Taha AKYOL Aleviler ve Sünniler

Çamuroğlu, AK Parti’nin Alevi açılımını anlattı

AKP’nin açılımı Alevileri böldü

Şahin Alpay PKK'nın öyküsü: "Kan ve İnanç"

Hadi Uluengin PKK: Tecritten tasfiyeye

Yeni doğu politikası Kızılcahamam’da

Ege Cansen Cumhuriyet ve demokrasi

Ali Bulaç Anayasa yapmak!

Bölükbaşı 'Hükümetin bir planı var'

Anlık istihbaratta ilk adım

Halaçoğlu "Bölünmeyle Musul-Kerkük'te hakkımız olur"

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Legal Kürt siyaseti

M. Ali BİRAND Siz yine uyumaya devam edin

Mehmet BARLAS Başbakan'ın eşinin hastane ziyaretini yasaklamak doğru mudur?

PKK bizi hedef gösteriyor

Cengiz Çandar

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU

Yazıcıoğlu'na göre Dağlıca'da 'ikinci çuval olayı' yaşandı

Hasan CEMAL İşkence!

Different nationalisms by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE

Barçın Yinanç Nükleer enerji stratejisi ABD takibinde

Mensur Akgün İki kişilik barış ordusu

Yalçın Bayer İngiltere’de 5 eski Genelkurmay Başkanı, Başbakan’a ne dedi

Öğretmenim, canım benim

Yes, Muslims are indeed 'Christians'
Mustafa AKYOL

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 Bir başkadır benim memleketim

Fehmi Koru Erken bir soru

Cevdet Aşkın Başbuğ'un ziyareti Barzani'nin gizemi

Sadi Somuncuoğlu Taşgetiren, ne getiriyor?

Sebahattin Önkibar Sabah-ATV satışında sürpriz gelişmeler?

Nuh Gönültaş “Hesap veren” Türkiye’den “hesap soran” Türkiye’ye.... -

PKK’nın lider kadrosu özel tüfekle vurulacak

Nabi Yağcı Dervişvari tarz yeni siyaset için de gerekli

Ertuğrul Özkök Siz bu haberi verir miydiniz

Ahmet Hakan

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt Ülsever

Oktay Ekşi Bilmeyen bakan

Yalın Doğan Gazeteciye ajanlık önerisi

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERDAL ŞAFAK Bir kararın perde arkası

ERGUN BABAHAN Güneydoğu kıpır kıpır

Umur Talu

NAZLI ILICAK Statüko ve değişim

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

YAVUZ DONAT Antalya sempozyumu

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam Bölge için örnek yatırım: Kurtalan Çimento

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
Kriz ne zaman biter asla tarih veremem!

Metin MÜNİR
Neden dış politikada basiret, ekonomide zaaf?

Doların halleri Taner Berksoy

H4 New York Times Editorial Thinking Beyond Annapolis The American-led conference in Annapolis to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict needs to begin serious, detailed and sustained talks on the core issues.

Saudis to Join Mideast Talks; Syria Wavers At least 15 Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, said they would attend a U.S.-sponsored Middle East conference.

Market Bomb Ends Lull for Baghdad

Vote Is Postponed as Lebanese President Leaves

Transit Strike Across France Winds Down

Former Pakistani Premier to Try Again to Return

Loss of Tax Data Rocks British Government

BOB HERBERT Lost in a Flood of Debt While the media coverage has focused on the high rollers who created the subprime frenzy, the hapless victims have remained in the shadows, condemned to economic ruin.

H5 Washington Post Eyes Will Be on Bush At Talks on Mideast Delegates to Gauge President's Support For Rice's Efforts

Lebanon Fails to Elect New President Capital Peaceful As Army Deploys

Arabs to Send Top Ministers to Annapolis Decision Gives a Boost to U.S.-Backed Peace Forum

Syria says Golan Heights is on Annapolis agenda (

In Russia, Putin's Ratings High Mere propaganda does not explain appeal of leader, who is seen as restoring prosperity, national pride In a Russian City, Clues to Putin's Abiding Appeal

15 Killed in Baghdad, Shattering Growing Calm

Blast Is Deadliest In City in Months; Nine Die in Mosul

McClellan Pens All Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood | Scott McClellan's upcoming book compels us to ask, did the President order his press secretary to lie?

French Transit Workers End Strike; Sarkozy Vows to Press On With His Agenda

Editorial Decency on Immigration

Apart from John McCain, it's hard to find that quality in the Republican presidential contest

Railroading A Journalist In Iraq By Tom Curley,

The U.S. military sends an Associated Press photographer to court -- and makes a mockery of justice.

Who Needs Experience? By Michael Kinsley,

How the candidates stack up based on the jobs they've worked and the lives they've lived.

Clinton Team Is Quick to Bat Down Rumors

Giuliani's Critics Point to Cronyism

Appointments While Mayor Are Said to Tarnish His Leadership Credentials

H6 Guardian Black November - Labour back to last days of Blair

Poll rating slumps to 31% but Tories fail to exploit bank crisis and data blunder

Lebanese army handed power Country plunged into uncertainty as former president Emile Lahoud declares state of emergency

Leader Deja vu, again Annapolis talks: Will any of the noble declarations that we will get at next week's Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland mean anything?

Win, win? Martin Woollacott Annapolis: Saudi Arabia's decision to attend next week's conference is to make sure Arab states cannot be blamed for failure.

Deja-vu in the Middle East

Joschka Fischer Annapolis: Like Clinton before him, Bush is racing to resolve one of the world's most dangerous conflicts before his presidency ends

The 'new' Iraq James Denselow November 23, 2007 9:30 AM

Despite American and British self-congratulation on the situation, in reality the country doesn't look all that different

The best deal on offer

Seth Freedman When inhabitants of the Middle East can live together in harmony a one-state solution may work. Until then, two states is the only way

Bush wins Saudi support for talks

Israeli-Palestinian peace conference given boost with Syria also likely to attend Annapolis meeting

$100 oil: the terrible truth
David Strahan: Nearing the price barrier is a pointer to the peak of output, and the crisis the powerful want to ignore

The coolest continent Paul MacInnes: A rapper, a comedian and a model have shown our politicians how to make the case for Europe

Rich nations fail on climate pledge

Group including Britain breaking promise to pay more than a billion dollars to help developing world

Cautious Sarkozy survives round one of fight for change
French unions may find president's concessions hard to resist in return for new work ethic and pension reforms

New Polish prime minister to loosen ties with US Questions over US missile defence site come with announcement of Polish troop withdrawal from Iraq next year

Leaving home for the homeland
Jewish Iranians are increasingly leaving for Israel because of growing tensions at home. Rory McCarthy reports

Iranian irony Nasrin Alavi

Never mind Ahmadinejad - take a look at the ordinary people of Tehran, as seen through an underground video

Mistaken identity

Ali Eteraz Without being consulted, I am now defined by my religion. This is perplexing, problematic and annoying

H7 Esquire Why Gal Luft Is the Most Hated Man in Riyadh, Detroit, and Des Moines

A Plan to Attack Iran Swiftly and From Above A bombing campaign has been in the works for months - a blistering air war that would last anywhere from one day to two weeks

Likelihood of Iran Attack Gains Credence by Dave Lindorff

Islam and Civil Society: Case Studies from Jordan and Egypt DIIS A 116-page Danish study examining the role in played by Islam in civil societies in Jordan and Egypt

Reform in Jordan: The Role of Political Islamists IPPR A 19-page UK report identifying four areas in which Western policymakers could improve their current efforts to support reform processes in Jordan

The withering away of several enemies in Iraq
Globe and Mail

US, Allies: Wait and See Not an Option, More Sanctions Needed Against Iran

Interest Group Foreign Policy - by Doug Bandow

GOP report: U.S. lacks strategy for aid The U.S. government has no strategy or common purpose to guide its distribution of billions of dollars worth of foreign aid every year, says a Senate report.

Conflict in the Islamic World

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

Chicago Tribune New boss turns the tables on Al Qaeda — Ex-Sunni insurgent becomes U.S. ally

'Al Qaeda rolodex' found in Iraq

Israeli: Hit Syrian Site Was Nuclear Bomb Plant, Not Reactor

Iraqi Party Warns Government of Excessive Force Against Al-Sadr Movement

15 killed in Baghdad's worst attack in weeks

Analysis: Iraqi refugees forced into sex
From the sharp decline in civilian and U.S. soldier deaths to the notable drop in rocket and mortar attacks, the good news coming out of Iraq has left many optimistic about the improved security conditions inside the country.

Feature: Marines build ties in Anbar,

Ahmadinejad Slammed at Home for Accusing Rivals

Bombing shatters Baghdad's calm

Executions Not Leading to Iraqi Reconciliation

BBC Lebanon faces power vacuum
Lebanon is in limbo as the president leaves office and rival factions argue over who now takes control.

Beirut voices
Views on the difficulty of selecting a new Lebanese president

Political crisis deepens in Lebanon

President leaves office without successor

Skeptical Arab leaders agree to attend Mideast peace conference

BBC Twin blasts kill 15 in Pakistan Two suspected suicide blasts in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi kill at least 15 people, officials say.

Pakistan army's tribal quagmire

Iraq boosts oil exports after re-opening Kirkuk pipeline (AFP)

Nation at stake Al-Ahram Weekly Kirkuk tops the agenda in Iraq as political forces vie for and against de facto national partition, writes Nermeen Al-Mufti

H9 Ha’aretz –

US: No Role in Attack on Syria, Except to Consult on Potential Targets

Jerusalem Post

Yedioth Ahronoth

Israeli 'tried to spy for Iran'
An reserve officer in the Israeli army, David Shamir, is charged with offering to spy for Iran, Russia and Hamas

DEBKAfile Reports: Arab League states will attend next week’s Middle East peace conference at ministerial level – but Syria wants both Golan and Lebanon on agenda

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

The Joke in Annapolis: How to Get Out? by Uri Avnery

Tony Karon The Grinch Who Stole Anapolis

Vanity Fair sued over neo-Nazi interview — An interview with one of Germany's most notorious neo-Nazis has landed Vanity Fair magazine in a heap of trouble

Towards Annapolis: Is U.S. Policy Changing on Israel's Rights in a Peace Settlement? - Dore Gold (Institute for Contemporary Affairs/Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Britain's Respect Party: The Leftist-Islamist Alliance and Its Attitude toward Israel - Eran Benedek

H10 Christian Science Monitor

ASIA

Exit Poll: Howard Loses Aussie Election

Boston Globe A world without nukes A NEW era in US-India cooperation was unveiled at the White House in July 2005 when President Bush told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that he would work to achieve full civil nuclear energy cooperation and trade with India, despite over a quarter-century of disagreements between the two countries over nuclear issues. The overwhelming bipartisan support for the US-India Civilian Nuclear ... (By Karl F. Inderfurth and Bruce Riedel, Boston Globe)

China's snub of U.S. vessel sends murky message

H11 IHT Just when things were looking up

By BARNETT R. RUBIN

Taliban fighters are now less than an hour's drive from Kabul

Rethinking the missiles

The Poles are taking a wise second look at the U.S. missile defenses.

Is Bush Hitler? I don't think so.

By ALEX BEAM

I'm not wild about Bush, but I wouldn't mention him in the same breath as a genocidal tyrant.

EUROPE European press review

Guardian Cautious Sarkozy survives round one of fight for change
French unions may find president's concessions hard to resist in return for new work ethic and pension reforms

New Polish prime minister to loosen ties with US
Questions over US missile defence site come with announcement of Polish troop withdrawal from Iraq next year

>BBC Mardell's Euroblog
Is the Lisbon Treaty 'a smokescreen' for the EU constitution?

Denmark convicts men in bomb plot

A court in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, sentences three men convicted of planning bomb attacks.

No EU rights charter for Poland

Poland's new PM says he will honour a deal exempting the country from the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

H12 RFE/RL

Building a Constructive U.S.-Russian Relationship
Brookings Institution

Google News Azerbaijan

US, Russia at Impasse on Radar

Russian minister on fraud charges

A Russian finance minister has been charged with fraud and attempted embezzlement, his lawyer says.

H13 The Times Lebanese President calls out army and quits Emile Lahoud has charged the army with maintaining security in the country after Parliament failed to elect his successor

Can US broker Middle East peace this time? Nearly 50 countries have been invited to lay the foundation for a Palestinian state before President Bush leaves office

Mr Brown's doomed, I tell you!

Unlike his predecessor who could repel misfortune, the Prime Minister seems fated to attract it

Matthew Parris

Litvinenko’s widow goes to court to hunt assassin Marina Litvinenko filed a lawsuit in the EU Court of Human Rights to try to force Russia to find out who was behind his death

Arms and the Man Brown must think again about the military

Pakistan suspended from Commonwealth over Musharraf emergency rule

Wall Street Journal Will It Be Sadat or Arafat at Annapolis? - Kenneth J. Bialkin

Ethanol's Bottom Line
The costs of subsidies far outweigh the benefits. By ROBERT HAHN

People Before Prophets
No one cared that Richard Nixon was a Quaker or George Romney was Mormon. Now we debate presidential candidates' faith -- a change that doesn't seem like progress, Peggy Noonan writes.
By PEGGY NOONAN

H14 Financial Times Lebanon fails to resolve presidential deadlock Lebanon’s divided politicians have agreed to delay presidential elections beyond a midnight deadline, amid fears that the crisis could overshadow the Annapolis peace conference.

WORLD NEWS: Palestinian leader goes more in hope than expectation

WORLD NEWS: Saudis add weight to Annapolis peace talks

Arab nations to attend Mideast talks Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations reached a general agreement to attend the US-sponsored Middle East peace conference in Annapolis next week

Oil: Key players and movements

Interactive map: The implications of record-high oil prices for the health of the world economy are troubling. Our map examines how oil flows around the world.

Turkmenistan calls for gas hike Turkmenistan is calling for a 30 percent hike in the price of natural gas it exports to Russia, Gazprom said on Friday, in a move that could imperil tricky talks with Ukraine over gas supplies as a New Year deadline looms

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Hard to gain, a reputation for competence is easily lost Geoffrey Wheatcroft on a grim week for Britain’s Labour party

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: The radical compromiser Nicolas Sarkozy As he faces the first big confrontation of his presidency, France’s leader is accused of giving too much ground to protesters

Survivor’s guide to a slowdown For those investors worried about tougher times there are a few simple rules: avoid leverage, keep cash to hand and remember that lower asset prices are an opportunity as well as a cost

Putin’s flawed democracy fuels apathy As ‘administrative resources’ are mobilised behind the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, campaigners struggle to excite voters who perceive the lack of real competition

At the cutting edgeFive works look at the formation of Hizbollah and Hamas, and what they bode for the Arab world’s future

FT MAGAZINE - BOOK REVIEW: A history of violence

When the flag came down A provocative and impressive new history explores the end of the British empire and its complex cultural legacy

H15 Los Angeles Times

Editorial

Bush's economic challenge

Airtime for Israel's Arabs

U.N. prods Iran on nuclear disclosure

A green idea for saving lives in Iraq

H16 American Politics

Weekly Standard Read, Weep, and Vote by Andrew Ferguson

Dems' Iraq Bill Wouldn't End Occupation

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

Democrats party of rich, study finds — Democrats like to define themselves as the party of poor and middle-income Americans, but a new study says they now represent the majority of the nation's wealthiest congressional districts.

Bloomberg prepping for White House run?

Through Iraq's cloud cover Victor Davis Hanson A year from now, without the familiar bogeymen George Bush or Iraq, Democrats will to have to state what they are for, rather than what they are against

H17 Daily Telegraph

Leader Faint hopes of peace in the Middle East If ever there was a moment to call a halt to the deepening polarisation between the Israeli and Palestinian communities, it is now

State of emergency declared in Lebanon Country braced for violence as pro-Syrian president declares a state of emergency and hands power to the army.

Iran Warns of Domino Effect of Nuclear Attack

H18 Independent Lebanon in crisis as Lahoud leaves army in charge

Robert Fisk: Darkness falls on the Middle East

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Unconnected Dots: Why the FBI Failed to Stop 9/11
by Jeff Taylor

European versus American Liberty: A Comparative Privacy Analysis of Antiterrorism Data Mining
Source: Boston College Law Review

Israeli 'tried to spy for Iran'
An reserve officer in the Israeli army, David Shamir, is charged with offering to spy for Iran, Russia and Hamas

Privacy and Law Enforcement in the European Union: The Data Retention Directive
Source: Chicago Journal of International Law

New York murder rate plunges
No more mean streets as level of killings hits 40-year low

Towards a Right to Privacy in Transnational Intelligence Networks
Source: Michigan Journal of International Law, forthcoming Full Paper (PDF; 163 KB)

New Evidence on the Origins of Overkill
Source: National Security Archive

Deployment of National Guard and Reserve in the Global War on Terrorism (PDF; 2.7 MB)
Source: Defense Science Board

Afghanistan: All Private Security Firms Must Close

US allowing feds to track Americans
by cell phones without proof of crime

The Pentagon and Global Development: Making Sense of DoD's Expanding Role CGD
This 19-page working paper examines the surging role of the US Department of Defense in US foreign aid

Military Probe Focuses on Iraq Contracts

Homeland Security Technologies

H20 Slate

Human Security in 21st Century World Politics

Freedom from Oil

Invest in science or risk the economy

Think Globally, Act Globally: The Limits of Local Climate Policies
Source: University of Pennsylvania Law Review

From New Left Review, on current projections, a fifth of the world’s population will be over 60 by 2050. With old-age poverty set to increase across the planet, Robin Blackburn presents a plan for funding a universal pension of a dollar a day.

Dani Rodrik on economic growth’s many recipes, and more on One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions and Economic Growth.

New evidence suggests that this works by worsening corporate transparency, capital allocation and growth.

An interview with Richard B. Freeman on globalization and its complex consequences for inequality in national and global contexts.

A look at how big governments and globalisation are complementary.

An excerpt from The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier

Energy Strategy for the Future

From The Nation, a review of The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman and The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics by Jonathan Chait (and more).

An interview with Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.

Sovereign wealth world: James Surowiecki on why there’s too much anxiety over foreign investment. S

overeign wealth funds are in the news these days mainly because of the possibilities of strategic behavior that they offer their owners.

H21 Foreign Policy: A Suggestion J

The middle child is difficult, the eldest bossy, the youngest wild. But are the clichés of birth order true?... more»

Happy to be unhappy Some very important life pursuits probably make us discontented, writes Chrystia Freeland

The death penalty's deterrence Twelve studies authored by professors from a number of renowned universities suggest that the death penalty saves lives by deterring criminals from committing more homicides.

Is democracy making us stupid? Democracy is a form of mob rule that is incapable of acting in the mob’s best interests.

Voting as a Rational Choice: Why and How People Vote to Improve the Well-Being of Others.

Mankind 'shortening the universe's life'...

The Theory of Moral Neuroscience: A look at how modern brain science is confirming Adam Smith's moral theories.

Our seedlings need hothousing

The knowledge we want our children to absorb is being frozen out by television and misguided educationists

Roger Scruton

From Prospect, do we need a literary canon? Jonathan Sacks is right that we need a common culture, but wrong to think it should be based on a canon.

Caffeine was first isolated in 1819, when Goethe handed some Arabian coffee beans to the chemist Friedlieb Runge and asked him to analyze them... more»

What’s so special about the “late” work of a composer? Melacholy? Awareness? Abstraction? Consider Brahms... more»

It's stupid and useless. I must have it

The Amazon Kindle, a wireless electronic book-reader, is flying off the shelves for Christmas. Hello?

· Natalie Haynes

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