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13 December 2007
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H1 Henry Kissinger Misreading the Iran NIE Why spying and policymaking don't mix.

Guardian This treaty is a mess, but it will free Europe to do more important things Timothy Garton Ash: Compared with the US's inspiring constitution, the Lisbon reform treaty reads more like a manual for a forklift truck

WSJ Group Says Iran Resumed Weapon Program - Marc Champion and Jay Solomon The National Council for Resistance in Iran (NCRI), the Iranian opposition group that first exposed Iran's nuclear-fuel program, said a U.S. intelligence analysis is correct that Tehran shut down its weaponization program in 2003, but claims that the program was relocated and restarted in 2004.

New York Times Fed Leads Drive to Strengthen Bank System Central banks in Europe and North America moved to increase the amount of money they could lend to banks in an attempt to ease the strain of the world credit crunch.

Independent Only One Thing Unites Iraq: Hatred of the US by Patrick Cockburn

The Dunderheaded Public Roll-Out of the NIE - Dennis Ross (New Republic) Though almost certainly the product of rigorous assessment and questioning, it may actually leave us less secure over time

Geopolitical Diary: Iran Responds to the NIE Stratfor

The "Surge" Is Precursor to What?
Center for Defense Information

WP Iraq's Youthful Militiamen Build Power Through Fear Schoolgirls Told to Wear Scarves, Under Threat of Death

Walker's World: Russia's modern czar By MARTIN WALKER Russia's next president likes heavy metal rock and the Orthodox Church and looks like the last Czar Nicholas. Welcome to the new old Russia.

Guardian Thanks, but no thanks Ahmad Samih Khalidi: Statehood does not offer the equitable and fair solution the Palestinian people deserve

Ha’aretz Document reveals details of Camp David summit Paper obtained by Haaretz reveals agreements reached on refugees, borders, J'lem at 2000 summit

Israel-PA talks resume under shadow of Camp David lessons Document states that prominence of Syrian track in 2000 led to serious crisis of confidence with PA

Rosner Who believes in intelligence reports? The failures of U.S. intelligence are too numerous to cite in a short column - or a long one

Avineri On America's strength and weakness When no war is raging, when the sides do not have the political desire to reach an agreement and when there is an attempt to arrive at an agreement that will be spread over several years - America merely draws a blank

Forward Is the Outline of a Peace Deal Really All That Clear? The Strategic Interest

US Jews Tilt Rightwards on Israel: Jim Lobe

Cobban Lobe on NIE-sparked fissures in Neocon Central

WSJ Stitching up Bosnia Let's offer the Serbs a package deal to heal this festering sore. By MORTON ABRAMOWITZ and EDWARD P. JOSEPH

FT LEADER: Murder in Beirut Lebanon, with international support led by France and the US, has a last chance to rediscover some residual unity and regroup around a new president

Independent Robert Fisk: Syria denies killing General in car-bomb attack

Adrian Hamilton: The UN has come to be seen as a tool of the West

Christian Science Monitor

Opinion: Here's the surge Iraq needs The US can still stabilize Iraq – if it steps up its efforts. By Christopher Kojm

UN chief: World risks 'oblivion' without deal to battle global warming...

New Republic How Bush Made Lemons Out of NIE Lemonade
by Dennis Ross

Farideh FarhiAn Update on the NIE Spin in Washington and Tehran

Asia Times British pullout stokes Iraq's southern fire British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in effectively ending a three-year military operation in Basra in southern Iraq, talked of the job being done, but he stopped short of declaring success. And therein lines the rub. The city the British troops will leave is already a hotbed for militants and Islamic fundamentalists, and the situation can only deteriorate. It's also controlled by ambitious Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army in which Iran is taking more than a passing interest. - Sami Moubayed

Protection and Punishment By: Ramesh Thakur | The Japan Times
It is wrong to insist that the world needs a permission slip from the U.S. or NATO on what force they may use internally, but Westerners need no slip from the U.N. to use force internationally

The Storm Over Pakistan By: Fouad Ajami | U.S. News and World Report There is an American problem in Pakistan, and there is a Pakistani problem in Pakistan. In our narcissism, in our obsession with America's investment in President Pervez Musharraf, we must not lose sight of the enduring truths of Pakistan's political life.

All Mixed Up Over Iran - Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics

FTBeijing lectures US on weak dollar Warns of serious global implications Beijing turned the tables on the US after years of criticism from Washington of its handling of the Chinese economy, warning of the serious global implications of the weak dollar, recent US interest rate cuts and the subprime crisis

CEPS The Priorities of the Slovenian Presidency of the EU

Jerusalem Post The case against Kosovo independence

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Costs and Benefits of Euro Membership: A Counterfactual Analysis CEPII This 50-page French paper calculates the costs or gains of EMU membership

CSIS Virtual Agreement, Virtual Negotiations Getting Israeli and Palestinian leaders to sit down together at Annapolis was an impressive show of support and hope, but negotiations need more than hope to succeed

The Israel Lobby and the War Party: Justin Raimondo

CFR Tehran’s Mood Swing

Rebuilding Iraq

Disarmament: the forgotten issue, Dan Plesch

Dani Rodrik Joe (Stiglitz) and I

H2 Stratfor Turkey: Seeking an Outlet for Expansion Turkish power continues to rise, and it is only a matter of time before it seeks an outlet. Its economy has stabilized after a 2001 crash, and has grown strongly ever since. The government is consolidated under a single party to a degree absent since the time of Kemal Ataturk. The military is strong, flexible and deployable. This broad-spectrum strength allows Turkey to have its fingers in a lot of different pots. The only thing lacking is a strategic decision by the Turks about which direction is most important to Turkey. Once that decision is made, there are no internal barriers to Turkish movement.

'PKK'ya karşı siyasi çözümden yanayız'

Turkish Exceptionalism: Interview with Serif Mardin Asharq Alawsat

OpenDemocracy Turkey and a new vision for Europe, openDemocracy The relationship between Turkey and the European Union needs a fresh debate based on reason, evidence, and understanding not fear and prejudice. A group of leading European intellectuals and analysts introduces this initiative and invites responses.

The Transformation of Kurdish and Kurdistan Society to ‘Civic Loyalties’ By Karim Hasan Abdullah

EDM TURKISH MILITARY ADMITS LOSING PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR, TARGETS KURDISH MPS

Ankara welcomes troops returning from Afghanistan

Turkish Troops Return Home From Mission in Afghanistan

Turkish Chief of Staff Meets Chinese Deputy Chief of Staff

Turkish Family Tree

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

The Transformation of Kurdish and Kurdistan Society to ‘Civic Loyalties’ By Karim Hasan Abdullah

MÜMTAZ'ER TÜRKÖNE - Kürtlerin onuru

'Kürt-Türk Kardeşliği' ve Millet Olma

'PKK yılda 100 milyon dolara ihtiyaç duyuyor'

Iraqi Kurdistan Region Deputy PM News Conference on USA Visit

Hiçbir ordu zamanı gelmiş düşünceye karşı duramaz

Ekonomik ve sosyal paket Doğu'da yaraları sarıyor

Consulates in Irbil are interesting, but deals with 20 oil companies more so

ABD'nin tercihi siyasi çözüm

Yeni 'pişmanlık' yok 'PKK'yı dağdan indirme' planı mevcut 'pişmanlık' yasasıyla uygulanacakmış

Prof. Sancar: 221. madde eve dönüşe yetmez

TCK 221 esnetilebilir

'Eve Dönüş'ü esnetebiliriz

DTP'nin farkı mı var? Tarhan Erdem

Öcalan posterine örtü

DTP konusunda yargı kararı beklenmeli

DTP: Büyükanıt’ın sözleri en azından talihsizlik

Büyükanıt’ın sözleri yargıyı etkiler mi?

America is a threat, Iran is not!
Burak BEKDİL

Iran, Syria: Pipeline Repairs and Diplomatic Deals Iraq and Syria will speed up repairs on an oil pipeline connecting the northern Iraqi oil field of Kirkuk and the Syrian port of Banias

The Transformation of Kurdish and Kurdistan Society to 'Civic ...

MELİHA OKUR Bu KEPCO ne iş yapar?

PKK'lılar kıskaca alındı: 16 terörist öldürüldü

Can Ataklı Irak’taki Türkmenler korku içinde

Fırat: Meclis’te PKK’lıya rastlamadım

Pelinsu’nun babası karakolda kayboldu

Tabip Üsteğmen'den 12 gündür haber yok

New Group Found in Iranian Kurd City

Jordan Paper Reports King's Talks in Turkey, France

Öldürülen bir PKK'lı kadın komutan çıktı

DTP, IRA'nın siyasi kanadı ile görüşecek

Terörle mücadelede, netice için ne gerekiyorsa yaparız

Mahir Kaynak Barzani seçimi kaybedecek

Iraqi, Kurdish PMs Discuss Oil, 2008 Budget

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 12 Dec 07

Turkish President to Visit Kazakhstan

İslami oto ortaklığı

A Talibanized Pakistan with nuclear weapons: A credible nightmare?
C. Cem OĞUZ

Window on Eurasia: Armenia's Kurds Get in the Way of Any Karabakh ...
By Paul Goble

Baghdad vs. Irbil begins ... Lukoil getting itchy for W. Qurna ... The ...
Iraq Oil Report

A Call to Action: Kurdistan Press freedom in danger

Honor Killing Epidemic in Kurdistan

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

M. Ali BİRAND Sarkozy, Türkiye'yi dışladıkça...

SOLİ ÖZEL Kavşak

Sami KOHEN Adres AB mi, Fransa mı?

Bakan Babacan: "AB süreci rayında"

Hadi Uluengin Bizim deniz mi Sarkozy’nin denizi mi?

Bekir Coşkun Akılsız başım...

NİÇİN AB’ye kızdınız?

Rusya, AKKA'dan çekildi silahlanma yarışı kapıda

Rusya AKKA'yı askıya aldı

Ergin Yıldızoğlu Bir Nefret Nesnesi olarak Putin

Rumlardan İsrail'e diplomatik atak Adar Primor

Russia upsets northern Cyprus

Kostas Karamanlis sonunda geliyor

Erdoğan: Sarkozy’nin iki farklı yüzü var

Armenian Official Blames Turkey for Lack of Neighbourly Relations

Macedonian Premier to Visit Turkey on 17 December

Avrupa Konseyi'nden Türkiye'ye uyarı

France 'cannot stop' Turkey's EU bid

Yunanistan’da genel grev yaşamı felç etti

Kosova: Sorular ve Cevaplar

Kosova bağımsızlık ilan ederse neler olabilir?

Germany releases DHKP-C member on bail

Emniyet müdürleri atandı

Turkish Airlines Want to Increase Number of Flights Between Turkey, China

6 kilometrelik okul yolunu silahlı korumalarla aşındırıyorlar

Kanadalı uzmana göre uçakta teknik arıza vardı

TÜBİTAK ödül törenine türbanlı öğrenci damgasını vurdu

Bilerek mi yapıyorsunuz

Al Gore'un Barış Nobel'i Nuray Mert

Metrobüs'ten sonra Harembüs

Tataristan'da Nurculara operasyon

Yamanlar, Fatih and Samanyolu make their mark in science olympics

Dramın değeri yılda 7 milyar dolar

13 Aralık 2007 Basın Özeti

H3Anayasa için sivil toplumdan 36 ilke

MHP'den 'istifa' çağrısı MHP'li milletvekilleri, Genelkurmay Başkanı'nın 'terörün siyasallaştığı ve legalleştiği' yolundaki açıklamasına, 'Bu sözler başarısızlığının itirafı. İstifa etmeli' şeklinde tepki gösterdi

Oktay Ekşi AKP devleti

Fikret BİLA Etkin pişmanlık dağdan indirir mi?

Pişmanlık yasası çözüm getirir mi?
Murat Yetkin

Seyfettin Gürsel Avrupa Birliği için yeni strateji

ABD’den K. Irak’ı istedik vermediler

Judiciary ‘second most corrupt sector’

’Eve dönüş’ esnetilebilir

Cüneyt Ülsever Yol haritası var mı?

Taha AKYOL Hangi türban?

Cengiz Çandar 2007’nin en önemli beş olayı

ERDAL ŞAFAK Dağ kadrolarını çözmek

M. Ali BİRAND Sarkozy, Türkiye'yi dışladıkça...

SOLİ ÖZEL Kavşak

AB İLE İLİŞKİLERDE DURAKLAMA DÖNEMİ

Sami KOHEN Adres AB mi, Fransa mı?

Hasan CEMAL Başbakan Erdoğan ne düşünüyor?

Semih İDİZ Yaşar Paşa'dan düşündürücü sözler

Üzülme Paşam, değerleri kaptırmadık Hasan Celal Güzel

Ahmet Taşgetiren Göbels olsa ne yazar! -

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Isolated analysis does not make sense

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EKREM DUMANLI - Burası Anadolu, burdan kaçış yok

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ŞAHİN ALPAY - Medya adam olmadan...

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HÜSEYİN GÜLERCE - Gülen yaşar, onlar unutulur...

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Alevi raporu AKP'yi böldü

NGOs call for individual-oriented constitution

Babacan İlk 100 gününün yarısını yurtdışı seyahatleriyle geçirdi

BBC Monitoring Quotes From the Turkish Press 12 December 07

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 Shut your eyes and think of Turkey

YÖK Başkanı'na ilk hediye!
İsmet Berkan

İbrahim Kalın A new chapter in Turkish higher education

12 Eylül sonrası camileri araştırdı

[Yorum] Yeni YÖK başkanından beklentiler

Ertuğrul Özkök Asansördeki İtalyan

Ahmet Hakan Nur Serter’e sorular

Yalçın Bayer ’Kuvvetler ayrılığı’ gitti, tarih oldu

Alevis in my childhood by M. NACİ BOSTANCI*

Yürütme, yargı işleri ve yeni anayasa

Yalçın Doğan Şeriat iyi para edecek

Mehmet Altan Paşa’nın itirafı...

Bilal Çetin

“Sağlam formülü” ne kadar sağlam?

Mehmet Tezkan

Hükümetin ilk 100 günü: sıfıra sıfır elde var sıfır

Mustafa Erdoğan ‘Hukuk mukuk dinlemeyen’ hakimler

Baykal: Türkiye dini hegemonya altına giriyor

'HSYK'ya siyasi müdahale olmamalı'

Enis Berberoğlu

Derya SAZAK Eve dönüş

Nedir komutanların amacı?
Hakkı Devrim

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERGUN BABAHAN 2008 ve sıkıntılar

EMRE AKÖZErtuğrul Günay?

Umur Talu Haydaaa!

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK Özgür bir üniversite

MAHMUT ÖVÜR AK Parti İstanbul'da 'derin' hesap!

YAVUZ DONATYargı üzerinden siyaset

'Anayasa başörtü sorununu çözecek'

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Düşük büyüme cari açığa yansıyacak mı?

Kötü gidişatın nedenleri Fatih Özatay

Ercan KumcuDüşen büyüme yükselen enflasyon

Erdal Sağlam Anayasa’ya ekonomik maddeler şart oldu

İktidar tercih aşamasında Mahfi Eğilmez

Salih Neftçi Merkez Bankası faizi en az yarım puan indirmeli

TÜİK'te kadro değişimi!

Güngör URAS Üretimde yavaşlama işsizlik ve fakirlik demektir

AKP'nin işsizliği kadınları daha çok vurdu
Funda Özkan

Şükrü Kızılot Oran indirilince kurumlar vergisi geliri arttı

2007 yılı bütçesinin, 11 aylık sonuçları belli oldu

Fitch'ten Türkiye'ye sürpriz

Meclis’te IMF tartışması

Asaf Savaş Akat

Dış kaynak ve büyüme

Hisarcıklıoğlu: Ayakta olmak için hızlı olacağız, hızlı büyüyeceğiz

'Merkez Bankası için teklif gelmedi gelirse hizmet etmekten onur duyarım'

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Küresel etkiler sonucu büyümenin motorları yavaşlıyor

H4 New York Times Fed Leads Drive to Strengthen Bank System Central banks in Europe and North America moved to increase the amount of money they could lend to banks in an attempt to ease the strain of the world credit crunch. Federal Reserve Press Release

News Analysis: C.I.A. Agents Sense Shifting Support for Methods

ROGER COHEN Secular Europe’s Merits Mitt Romney’s speech and the emergence of the anti-Darwin Baptist minister Mike Huckabee suggest how estranged the American zeitgeist is from the European.

Lebanese General Killed in Bomb Blast

Aiming to Translate Politics Into Hope for Palestinians

Mideast Teams Begin Peace Talks

In a Funk, Italy Sings an Aria of Disappointment For all of Italy’s outside adoration, the country finds itself in an economic, political and social funk

It is astonishing that President Bush would think of vetoing, by almost any measure, the most important energy bill that Congress has entertained in years.

H5 Washington Post Henry Kissinger Misreading the Iran NIE Why spying and policymaking don't mix.

Intelligence Oversight In Free Fall By David Ignatius Whatever else one might say about America's accident-prone intelligence agencies, it seems clear that the system of congressional oversight that was established in the mid-1970s to supervise them isn't working

Iraq's Youthful Militiamen Build Power Through Fear Schoolgirls Told to Wear Scarves, Under Threat of Death

Did Torture Work?

Algiers Attack Shows Maturing of Al-Qaeda Unit Analysts See Bid for Notice

William Arkin In Defense of Air Power

PostGlobal The Arab World’s Nuclear Envy

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Nuclear Power the World's New Reality

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Car Bombing Kills Army General in Increasingly Tense Lebanon

Triple Car Bombing Kills 46 in S. Iraq Attack in Usually Quiet Amarah Is Country's Worst Since August

A Dud From Team Clinton By Robert D. Novak, The failure of a stepped-up whisper campaign against Barack Obama doesn't portend well for Hillary Clinton.

Democrats Blaming Each Other For Failures

CIA Chief: Hill Should Have Been Told More Probe of Videotapes May Be Drawn Out

Survey Finds Friction Among Minority Groups Despite Stereotypes and Distrust, Poll Shows Shared Values and Hope for Closing Rifts

U.S. Strategy Succeeds in Bali Climate Talks Turn to Efforts Other Than Emissions Targets

Russia Orders 2 British Offices Closed

Move Against Cultural Agency Tied to Dispute in Litvinenko Case

U.S. to Cut 10 Percent of Diplomatic Posts Next Year

H6 Guardian This treaty is a mess, but it will free Europe to do more important things Timothy Garton Ash: Compared with the US's inspiring constitution, the Lisbon reform treaty reads more like a manual for a forklift truck

Thanks, but no thanks Ahmad Samih Khalidi: Statehood does not offer the equitable and fair solution the Palestinian people deserve

Women victim of war in Iraq
Rapes, burnings and murders now a daily occurrence

General's murder deepens crisis
Chief of operations dies in Beirut explosion

Banks act on meltdown fear UK, US, Swiss, Europeans and Canadians take unprecedented action to ease credit crisis

This crisis spells the end of the free market consensus Seumas Milne: The credit squeeze is set to trigger the end of the boom that has shaped our times. Politics is going to change with it

Leader It is polite to turn up on time European treaty: If all goes well, the new Europe of cooperating nation states may finally stop looking inwards and at last seek to play the constructive role in the global economy, politics and environment of the 21st century that Europeans - including the British - want it to

Al-Qaida's expanding franchise

Paul Cruickshank The Iraq war transformed the local Algerian terrorist group responsible for yesterday's attacks into a larger international threat

Blow for Clinton as Obama takes lead

Rival ahead for first time in New Hampshire as campaign team plans to step up attacks on rival

Benn: we may not get carbon deal

US criticised by Germany and China but minister says emissions wrangle 'should not overshadow progress'

Suspicious minds Nicholas Blincoe Russia's crackdown on the British Council reflects a fear that foreign-backed NGOs can be used to spread disaffection

The business of giving

Kurt Hoffman Multinational companies can provide the supply chains, investment, accountability and brand leverage needed to tackle global poverty

Actions speak louder Stephen Humphreys The Bali Summit: If climate change is a human rights problem, why is no stepping forward to suggest a solution?

Paving the way for partition

Ian Bancroft It is misleading to use the issue of national security to justify support for Kosovo's independence, as David Cameron suggests

Serb general gets 33 years' jail for siege of Sarajevo Commander who staged the longest siege of a European city in modern times sentenced to 33 years in jail for war crimes

H7 UN chief: World risks 'oblivion' without deal to battle global warming...

New Republic How Bush Made Lemons Out of NIE Lemonade
by Dennis Ross

Asia Times British pullout stokes Iraq's southern fire British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in effectively ending a three-year military operation in Basra in southern Iraq, talked of the job being done, but he stopped short of declaring success. And therein lines the rub. The city the British troops will leave is already a hotbed for militants and Islamic fundamentalists, and the situation can only deteriorate. It's also controlled by ambitious Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army in which Iran is taking more than a passing interest. - Sami Moubayed

Protection and Punishment By: Ramesh Thakur | The Japan Times
It is wrong to insist that the world needs a permission slip from the U.S. or NATO on what force they may use internally, but Westerners need no slip from the U.N. to use force internationally

The Storm Over Pakistan By: Fouad Ajami | U.S. News and World Report There is an American problem in Pakistan, and there is a Pakistani problem in Pakistan. In our narcissism, in our obsession with America's investment in President Pervez Musharraf, we must not lose sight of the enduring truths of Pakistan's political life.

FoxNews Iran's Top Commanders Are Nuclear Weapons Scientists; Iran Nuclear Weapons Program Dispersed, Not Halted - Sharon Kehnemui Liss

Opinion: Key question is what happens, if Russia does not deliver nuclear fuel to Bushehr

Book Says Bush Privately Sought Rice's Approval Before Iraq War

Uri Avnery An Inconvenient Truth for Israel

Der Spiegel US at the Bali Climate Change Conference: The American Gap between Words and Deeds

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

US Military Command in Iraq Shifts

Big Military Changes in a Still Shaky Iraq

IRAQ: Local governance gains may not be sustainable

BBC Destabilisation fear
Assassination draws military into Lebanon's political violence

Attack in Algeria Reopens Country's War Wounds, Stirs Terror Fears

Le Monde Djihad à l'algérienne

Hezbollah: Signs of a Sophisticated Intelligence Apparatus
Stratfor

Jordan's Benign, Stable Authoritarianism By: Rami G. Khouri | The Daily Star It is hard to know what is significant about the Jordanian parliamentary elections that were held in Amman last month, given that pro-government deputies won 104 of the 110 seats in the elected lower house -- a body that in any case is balanced, or complemented, by the upper house appointed by the king.

Saudis Battle Bin Laden's Jihad With 150 Clerics, Art Classes By: Glen Carey | Bloomberg News
The detention center is on the front line of Saudi Arabia's battle to assimilate 3,200 militants returning from Iraq and the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or who were caught trying to leave the country to fight.

US Papers Thurs: Young Guns of the Mahdi Army

U.S. troops get to know Anbar

Three car bombs kill 41 in southern city

Syrian Vice-President Discusses Regional Issues, Urges Arab Solidarity

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Middle East Arabic Press for 12 Dec 07

Farouk al-Sharaa: “The Worst is Over in Lebanon - Syria Army will Never be Back”

“Lebanon’s Exodus” by Rana Fil: Newsweek

From behind the wheel, a frank view of Cairo A bestselling novel offers surprising critiques of Egyptian society and government through the voices of taxi drivers.

Ex-President in Iran Plugs Democracy

Illiteracy increasing among Iraq's refugee children

Ahmadinejad Invited to Saudi Hajj

H9 Ha’aretz Document reveals details of Camp David summit Paper obtained by Haaretz reveals agreements reached on refugees, borders, J'lem at 2000 summit

Israel-PA talks resume under shadow of Camp David lessons Document states that prominence of Syrian track in 2000 led to serious crisis of confidence with PA

Israeli official: U.S. is not doing enough on Iran

Inside Intel / How Iran was sold a lemon

Rosner Who believes in intelligence reports? The failures of U.S. intelligence are too numerous to cite in a short column - or a long one

Avineri On America's strength and weakness When no war is raging, when the sides do not have the political desire to reach an agreement and when there is an attempt to arrive at an agreement that will be spread over several years - America merely draws a blank

Hamas Tightens Control on PA Institutions in Gaza

The educational tower of PISAYears of neglect, failed management and lack of leadership have become an Israeli default that invites myriad localized solutions, a sort of informal privatization beckoning outside parties with money to enter the abandoned sovereign realm and do what they want with the children

BBC Difficult start to Mid-East talks Israelis and Palestinians trade recriminations in their first detailed peace talks in almost seven years.

Jerusalem Post Danger averted


A nuclear-armed Iran will not incinerate Israel, conquer the Gulf or dominate the supply of oil

Bush to take 'hands-on' peace talk role Rice says US president to get involved during January visit, maintains broader Arab backing vital.

Their own worst nightmare

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Iran test-fires new 2,000-km ballistic missile...

IDF Border Operations Having an Effect on Hamas -

Michael Freund / Jerusalem Post:
Fundamentally Freund: Condi hangs a 'No Jews Allowed' sign

Yedioth Ahronoth

'We will defeat Qassams'
'Defense Minister Barak pledges defense establishment will find solution to Gaza rocket attacks, says he hopes Israel won't be forced to launch operation. IDF Chief of Staff Ashkenazi warns military action may be unavoidable

The Israel Lobby and the War Party: Justin Raimondo

US Jews Tilt Rightwards on Israel: Jim Lobe

Salon The right wing's Jerusalem gambit

Hamas Is Here to Stay By: Azzam Tamimi | The Guardian
Post-Annapolis, those interested in resolving the conflict have no option but to knock on its door

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

IDF Operates to Distance Terrorists from Security Fence and Prevent Rocket Fire

Building momentum for peace (By Ziad Asali)

Israeli-Palestinian talks go nowhere (By Steven Gutkin)

US Report: North Korea May Have Aided Hezbollah

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Opinion: Here's the surge Iraq needs The US can still stabilize Iraq – if it steps up its efforts.

By Christopher Kojm

In Europe, Gates to push for NATO help in Afghanistan Defense Secretary Robert Gates heads to Scotland to ask for more European troops

Fed acts, but a dip still looms

Its rate cuts haven't been aggressive enough to boost the economy, say some analysts

Is waterboarding torture? Key question in furor over CIA tapes

Probes by Attorney General Mukasey and others could help determine how far the controversy reaches.

Qaddafi visit roils France

Critics say President Sarkozy ignored Libya's dismal human rights record while pursuing $17.6 billion in business deals.

'I love you' trumps Iraqi sectarian divide At mass wedding, 70 couples are feted by a media magnate promoting Iraqi reconciliation.

Beirut bombing kills Lebanese general, deepens political crisis

The assassination of Brig. Gen. Francois Hajj may have been revenge for a summertime campaign against Islamic militants

ASIA

China Outwits the EU in Africa By: Bernt Berger | Asia Times
On the back of a business-first foreign policy, China is rapidly supplanting Europe as Africa's major trade and development partner.

FTBeijing lectures US on weak dollar Warns of serious global implications Beijing turned the tables on the US after years of criticism from Washington of its handling of the Chinese economy, warning of the serious global implications of the weak dollar, recent US interest rate cuts and the subprime crisis

COMMENT: Abductees cast a shadow on the future of Japan The US has its hands full in the Middle East. Besides, if Beijing can live with a nuclear N Korea, then so can Washington, writes David Pilling

WT China's currency defiance

China's refuses to significantly revalue its currency, the yuan, despite widespread agreement among economists and G-8 officials that its substantial undervaluation is suppressing imports.

Chinese Are Expecting a New Baby Boom

Gates: US Should Act in Pakistan if Needed

Most Pakistanis want Musharraf out: poll

Analysis: India intel fails to halt terror (UPI) -- India says its state intelligence departments are not equipped to take on terrorism following failures that have put their efficiency in doubt.

Al-Qaeda fights for its mark in Pakistan
With militants in the Swat Valley in Pakistan on the run from government troops, al-Qaeda has sent in its fighters to conduct a guerrilla war. The aim is not so much to inflict casualties as to prevent the flag-bearers of the "war on terror" from turning the struggle in the valley from that of a jihad for the establishment of a caliphate into a local conflict. - Syed Saleem Shahzad

Taliban regroup after losing cityRumors of brutality by Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters spurred Afghan President Hamid Karzai to order the attack that led to the recapture of the key southern town of Musa Qala. But even as the Taliban, reported to be 2,000-strong in the area, fled into the mountains, counterattacks were mounted just south of the newly secured area near a key dam reconstruction project

China outwits the EU in AfricaOn the back of a business-first foreign policy, China is rapidly supplanting Europe as Africa's major trade and development partner. It is an intriguing geopolitical alliance between the world's fastest-expanding economy and the most impoverished continent. Meanwhile, the EU squirms as Beijing's non-interference policy ignores its lofty plans for good governance and sustainability. - Bernt Berger

H11 IHT Roger Cohen: The Euro-American religious divide

In charting his vision of a faith-based presidency, Mitt Romney essentially pitted the faithful against the faithless.

A summit of EU-African discontent

The recent meeting of European and African leaders in Lisbon was billed as the start of a new "strategic partnership." The talk was rough, but trade and human rights were the right issues.

Russia's revolving door: Back to you, Vladimir Putin outgrew his patron. Let's hope Medvedev can outgrow his.

France's hidden discrimination By HAMID SENNI France must learn how to include all of its people in the country's social, economic and political life. Diversity is no longer one option, but the only option.

In Italy, a winter of discontent A recent poll show that Italians, despite their claim to have mastered the art of living, report themselves the least happy people in Western Europe.

EUROPE European press review

BBC EU reform treaty goes under pen European Union leaders gather in Lisbon to sign the reform treaty drafted to replace the ill-fated EU constitution.

Q&A: The Lisbon Treaty

Viewpoints: The Lisbon Treaty

CEPS The Priorities of the Slovenian Presidency of the EU

Jerusalem Post The case against Kosovo independence

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Costs and Benefits of Euro Membership: A Counterfactual Analysis CEPII This 50-page French paper calculates the costs or gains of EMU membership

Kosovo to Shun Violence Against Serbs, Use Politics, Ceku Says By: Aleksandra Nenadovic | Bloomberg News The breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo will shun violence and use political means to control the ethnic Serb minority, said Agim Ceku, Kosovo's outgoing Prime Minister

Old Tensions Revive in Northern Ireland By: Kim Murphy | Los Angeles Times A brutal killing blamed on the IRA is a reminder of the British province's legacy of paramilitary violence.

Swiss ambush ousts Blocher Nation’s leading rightwing politician is ejected from government in a shock parliamentary vote that calls into question the country’s system of consensus politics

WSJ Some in Europe Cling to Revolution Dreams

The arrest of an underground group in Italy demonstrates how left-wing political terrorism retains a romantic appeal for some Europeans, even though the movements that fed the political violence of the 1970s have long vanished.

H12 RFE/RLRussia: Former German Leader Staunchly Defends Moscow's Priorities

EDM MEDVEDEV – A FACELESS FUTURE RUSSIAN PRESIDENT


- KAZAKHSTAN NOTES AFGHANISTAN’S EMERGING SECURITY AGENDA

- BAKU SAYS TIME NEEDED TO DISCUSS NEW MINSK GROUP PROPOSAL

Google News Azerbaijan

Walker's World: Russia's modern czar By MARTIN WALKER Russia's next president likes heavy metal rock and the Orthodox Church and looks like the last Czar Nicholas. Welcome to the new old Russia.

It's Orange, But Is it Bright? By: Tomas Valasek | The Guardian
The political haggling in Ukraine seems to be coming to an end. Can the country now look forward to some stable government?

Putinomics Peterson Institute

Gvosdev Medvedev, Putin, the Prime Minister and the Napoleonic Precedent

Weekly Standard The Law of Succession Why Putin picked Medvedev.

Keeping Medvedev on a Short Leash By: Yulia Latynina | The Moscow Times Keeping Medvedev on a Short Leash Russia's presidential election was held Monday. President Vladimir Putin voted for First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to become the new president.

Deckchairs on the Titanic By: David Hearst | The Guardian
Given Russia's economic woes, Vladimir Putin's choice of successor heralds neither democracy nor stability.

U.S. Proposal Tolerates Russian Military Presence in Moldova By: Vladimir Socor | Eurasia Daily Monitor
According to a new U.S. proposal regarding Moldova, “Russia would resume withdrawal/disposal of munitions when possible.” Pending that, the OSCE would conduct periodic observation visits at the munitions stockpiles.

Russia orders British Council offices to stop operationsMoscow ordered the British government's cultural arm to halt work at its regional offices, in the latest round of a bitter dispute over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a Kremlin critic.

Putin's hold on Russia

FOR AMERICAN liberals who like to compare the rise of authoritarianism in Vladimir Putin's Russia to the "imperial presidency" of George W. Bush, this month's political events in Russia - the rigged "elections" in a de facto one-party system, and the emergence of Putin's handpicked heir, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, as the next president with Putin himself the likely ... (By Cathy Young, Boston Globe)

Putin Goes to Belarus for Talks on Union

H13 The Times Don't blame America for our woes US sub prime is no more to blame for our housing pain than an owl's hoot is for nightfall Anatole Kaletsky

Knocking it off the ‘worry list’ may take decades Rather than proposing a solution, Gordon Brown has reasserted that Britain's role in Afghanistan will last for decades Bronwen Maddox

Divide and conquer plan to beat the Taleban Officials say 5,000 Taleban, fighting for as little as £5 a day, have already agreed to renounce violence to rejoin society

The Central Bank Cavalry

Europe's political leaders now need to concentrate on global institutional reform

US rejects Bali climate change guidelines Proposal would have set out an ambition to cut industrialised nations' emissions by up to two fifths in the next 13 years

Army now a target after bomb kills general Lebanon's crisis deepens after General François Hajj, the army’s director of military operations, is murdered

British forces to hand over Basra on Sunday Deadline of December 16 set for Iraqi authorities to take control of province, as deadly car bomb kills 40 in Amara

Minister Reveals Doubts on Blair's Iraq Weapons Dossier

Wall Street Journal Harvard for Free
The world of higher education is about to change as elite universities decide what to do with their multibillion dollar endowments.
By FAY VINCENT

ARTICLE: "Rising Global Demand for Oil Provoking New Energy Crisis," by Jad Mouawad, New York Times, 9 November 2007, p. A1.

ARTICLE: "High-Priced Oil Scrambles Race For World's Wealth and Power," by Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 November 2007, p. A1.

THE ECONOMY: "Cash Hoarders: The governments of developing nations are aggressively investing globally," by David Cho and Thomas Heath, Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 5-11 November 2007, p. 23.

THINK AGAIN: "Oil," by Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, Foreign Policy, December 2007, p. 24.

H14 Financial Times

Central banks make joint assault The world’s central banks unleashed a co-ordinated assault on the credit squeeze in global financial markets, setting off a wild day of trading as investors tried to make sense of a barrage of measures to increase market liquidity

COMMENT: Sarkozy's mercantilism could hurt France If there is a guiding thread in France’s diplomatic moves, from Sarkozy’s trip to Washington to phoning Putin, it is an economic one, says Dominique Moïsi

COMMENT: Workers of the New World unite! The US has a low rate of union membership. How, then, to account for the upsurge in labour militancy in the TV and film industries, asks John Gapper

The charge of the central banks
A wide range of institutions will be able to borrow against a wide range of collateral but, more importantly, the minimum rate in the auctions will carry no penalty

Absent friend The British prime minister’s half-in, half-out appearance in the Portuguese capital is an apt metaphor for the government’s approach to the EU

LEADER: Murder in Beirut Lebanon, with international support led by France and the US, has a last chance to rediscover some residual unity and regroup around a new president

Russia pulls out of arms treaty Vladimir Putin has suspended Russia’s participation in a landmark arms control treaty in another example of Moscow’s assertive new foreign policy

Triple car bomb kills 40 in Iraq Forty people were killed and more than 125 wounded when three car bombs exploded in the Shi’ite city of Amara, southern Iraq, in one of the deadliest attacks in months

Beijing lectures US on weak dollar Warns of serious global implications Beijing turned the tables on the US after years of criticism from Washington of its handling of the Chinese economy, warning of the serious global implications of the weak dollar, recent US interest rate cuts and the subprime crisis

Sarkozy’s 100 steps to slimmer government President unveils measures to streamline France’s cumbersome public administration, cut costs and provide more consumer-friendly services

WORLD NEWS DIGEST: Iran wheels out 'Islamic car'

ECB warns of danger of a wider squeeze The eurozone’s 21 largest banks hold €244bn (£175bn, $359bn) in off-balance sheet assets that may have to be brought back on to their balance sheets and could trigger a credit squeeze in the wider economy, the European Central Bank warned

How distrust mired Europe’s trade talks with former coloniesWith preferential terms for exports about to expire, many developing countries accuse the EU of acting primarily in its own interests

Hopes dim for closure of Guantánamo The prospects of closing Guantánamo Bay before the end of the Bush administration are dimming as the Pentagon struggles to find a solution on shutting the controversial prison, according to former and current ­officials

Ex-CIA chiefs to testify over tape scandalThe House intelligence committee plans to call George Tenet and Porter Goss, former Central Intelligence Agency chiefs, to ­testify over the scandal surrounding the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogations of two al-Qaeda members

COMMENT: Abductees cast a shadow on the future of Japan The US has its hands full in the Middle East. Besides, if Beijing can live with a nuclear N Korea, then so can Washington, writes David Pilling

Transcript: Peter Sutherland A transcript of the FT’s interview with Peter Sutherland, chairman of BP, conducted by Charles Pretzlik

H15 Los Angeles Times

Displaced Iraqis return
to face uncertain lives
Thousands who fled the violence are flooding back to a country still fraught with problems.

Global warming beyond control? Environmental experts question whether yielding a reduction in greenhouse gases exceeds what the world can achieve.

3 car bombs kill 42, shattering Iraqi city's calm

Murder of top Lebanese official adds to anxiety

Editorial

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Ahmadinejad Lowers the Volume By: Ramin Mostaghim and Borzou Daragahi | Los Angeles Times
The Iranian leader, in his first news conference since a U.S. report concluded that Tehran had halted its nuclear weapons program, takes a conciliatory tone.

H16 American Politics

Barack Obama / Boston Globe:
Have the baby boomers got it wrong?

CNN N.H. Poll: Obama, Clinton tied; Romney remains strong

CSM Beyond the presidential résumé Modern presidential history shows that experience does not guarantee policy success.

Poll shows rifts among minority groups, but hope for future

Zev Chafets / New York Times:

The Huckabee Factor

realclearpoliticsABC’s The Note US News Political Bulletin

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

Race & Ethnicity in America: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice
Source: American Civil Liberties Union

Fred Thompson: a maverick conservative who loves the law

The GOP presidential hopeful has often defied his party and colleagues to chart his own course.

LA Times 'Life'Editorial: The second in a series of editorials examining American values and the candidates for president.

Deal would give Bush victory on war funding

H17 Daily Telegraph Banks pump billions into crisis-hit markets Home owners and borrowers were given fresh hope after an unprecedented intervention in the faltering financial markets by the world's largest central banks

Mid East peace talks off to a rocky start

The first peace negotiations in seven years between Israelis and Palestinians began amid tension over Palestinian militant activities and a fresh land dispute in Jerusalem.

Leader Defeating the Taliban

But the patience required to prevent Afghanistan from again becoming a base for terror - this could take decades - is enough to make any Western politician nervous

More recruits needed for Afghan battles Gordon Brown admits more recruit needed as he outlined a new long-term strategy to "isolate and eradicate" the Taliban

Islamo-Communist Cult Member Says Iran Restarted Weapons Program

UK children 'still trapped by poverty' Gap between rich and poor has not narrowed under Labour as class barriers remain as rigid as in the 1970s, according to new research

Don't be fooled - Britain's not finished Are we drifting towards break-up, carried along by currents we cannot conquer? Iain Martin considers there to be grounds for optimism about Britain's survival prospects

H18 Independent Robert Fisk: Syria denies killing General in car-bomb attack

Adrian Hamilton: The UN has come to be seen as a tool of the West

Russian ban on British Council strains relations The strained relations between Britain and Russia took another turn for the worse yesterday when the Russian authorities ordered the British Council to curtail its activities

Karzai 'already in talks with allies of former Taliban leader'

Brown keeps distance on Europe by refusing to back EU symbols

The Big Question: What is the British Council, and does it still serve a useful purpose?

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

U.S. intelligence: Quo vadis? There is no consensus as to the “best practices” intelligence strategies required to protect the country"s interests, both at home and abroad.

Windows into the Jihadist Mindset

Washington Institute Islamist Terrorism in Northwestern Africa: A 'Thorn in the Neck' of the United States?

US military in denial over 'pain ray'

Guardian Crowd control always presents a problem for the military and police. How do you keep people away from a site without direct physical confrontation, when someone is almost sure to get hurt? Tear gas has variable effects and depends on wind; rubber bullets have killed. But what about a system that inflicts pain at a distance, without contact?

Is the CIA getting a bad rap? The agency is imperfect, but we need it—now more than ever.

Webcast: The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence

A FISA Fix By: U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey | Los Angeles Times
Intercepting the communications of terrorists and other intelligence targets has given the U.S. crucial insights into the intentions of its adversaries and has helped to detect and prevent terrorist attacks.

To Weaken al Qaeda, Strengthen U.S. Humanitarian Role By: Ken Ballen | Miami Herald
Six years after 9/11, the working assumption of U.S. intelligence is that Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda have regrouped in Pakistan inspiring, if not executing, terrorist attacks around the world. Despite the American, NATO and Pakistani military campaign, how has al Qaeda managed to successfully reassert itself?

WP Did Torture Work?

Algiers Attack Shows Maturing of Al-Qaeda Unit Analysts See Bid for Notice

CFR Private Security Contractors

Newsweek: Paper Trail — Who authorized the CIA to destroy interrogation videos?

From PUP, the introduction to Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali (and an interview).

Watching torture: A reporter's reflections on "the pornography of violence".

A review of The Guantanamo Files: the Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison by Andy Worthington.

Think the Guantanamo detainees are all innocent? Think again.

Alexander Cockburn reviews The Nuclear Jihadist by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins; Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons by Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark; America and the Islamic Bomb: The Deadly Compromise by David Armstrong and Joseph J. Trento; and Iran and the Bomb: The Abdication of International Responsibility by Therese Delpech.

H20 Slate Dispatch From Bali

Will the negotiations fall apart over the idea of "climate justice"?
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff

Concerns Over Food Inflation As Harvests Fail By: Javier Blas and Chris Flood | Financial Times
The global economy is facing a second wave of food inflation after the US agriculture department on Tuesday warned of significant falls in stocks of corn, wheat and soyabean and heavy demand.

Some Progress, but a Tough Week Remains at Bali Climate Conference By: Fabio Scarpello | World Politics Review
Most UNFCCC observers would agree with Emil Salim, head of the host Indonesian delegation, who reported "no deadlocks" and said "the political climate is better than expected," it is fair to say that, on crucial issues, positions between the various blocks remain very distant

The World Economy and the Outlook for the United States
Peterson Institute

The End of Globalization? By: Gabor Steingart | Der Spiegel
Great political change often begins with the smallest of doubts. Such a doubt is beginning to make itself heard in the US presidential campaign. Free trade, Hillary Clinton is saying, may not be so great after all. Could it signal the beginning of the end for globalization?

America Must Resist Protectionism By: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg | Financial Times
It is easy to say that times have changed and take a more protectionist viewpoint. In fact, times have changed. Dramatic advances in technology and increased global trade are creating enormous economic opportunities, but also challenges.

How Remote is the Offshoring Threat? CEPII A 34-page French working paper examining the impact of distance effects on offshoring services jobs

H21

Why Do We Make Bad Decisions? Findings From a New Science (PDF; 68 KB)
Source: Today’s Research on Aging (Population Reference Bureau)

Once upon a time, childhood was a phase, and adulthood fulfilled youths promise. But who wants to be adult these days?... more»

A decadent society is one that prizes pleasure and convenience above all else. Such nations like to imagine they will never have to go to war... more»

Philosophers dont observe, they sit in their armchairs, lost in thought. This traditional view is changing... more»

In Italy, a winter of discontent A recent poll show that Italians, despite their claim to have mastered the art of living, report themselves the least happy people in Western Europe.

Remaking the Journal Rupert Murdoch's influence on The Wall Street Journal is already apparent

Capello for England after flying visit

The FA is expected to confirm Fabio Capello will be the new England manager, with a salary of £4m

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Türkiye, ABD ve Irak Harekâtı: Hayır Diyebilen Türkiye? - Şubat 2003
Değişim, ‘Sense of Proportion’ ve Tarihin Yararları ile Sınırları Üzerine Nisan 2003
ABD Güvenlik Politikalarında Güç Kullanımı ve Caydırıcılık Ağustos 2002
“Yalnız Kovboy” ya da “Eşit Olmayanlar Arasında Birinci”: ABD Dış Politikasında Tektaraflılık-Çoktaraflılık Tartışmaları Mart 2002
İyi, Kötü ve Çirkin: ABD'nin Orta Doğu Politikaları Ocak 2002
Unilateralism corrupts, absolute unilateralism corrupts absolutely Turkish News, May 21, 2002
ABD ve Afganistan: Çıkış Var mı? Kasım 2001
Realism and Change
Crime and Punishment - Deterrence and its Failure in Theory and Practice 2001
“Tüketebileceğimizden Daha Fazla Değişim” ya da Eskimeyen Dünya Düzeni Ekim 2001
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It never rains circa. 1991.
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