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24 December 2007
  December 24, 2007

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H1 CER Preparing for the multipolar world: European foreign and security policy in 2020 essay by Charles Grant with Tomas Valasek

Iraq Trip After Action Report by General Barry R McCaffrey, U.S. Army (retired)

THOMAS PM BARNETT: The white man's burden revisited

Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq: Quarterly Report (December 2007) (PDF; 768 KB) Source: U.S. Department of Defense

Progress in Iraq: The December Report on Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies

Newsweek -What Will Israel Do? A unilateral military strike against Iran is much more likely following the latest intel report about Tehran's nuke program.

Washington Post Iran Cited In Iraq's Decline in Violence Iran's government has decided to rein in the Shiite militias it supports in Iraq, a move reflected in a recent sharp decrease in sophisticated attacks, U.S. official says.

Bush's 'Axis,' Six Years Later By: Charles Krauthammer Contrary to current public opinion, Bush will have succeeded on Iraq, failed on Iran and fought North Korea to a draw.

Paradox for Petraeus By: David Ignatius The Catch-22 is that the more successful that Gen. Petraeus is on the ground in Iraq, the more pressure he will encounter for troop cuts that might reverse his hard-won gains

New York Times In a Force for Iraqi Calm, Seeds of Conflict Sunni “Awakening” groups, paid by the U.S. to fight extremists, have become a success story in Iraq, but there are growing concerns about what will happen to them after a U.S. handoff.

Central Asia on Front Line in Energy Battle Russia is trouncing the West in the race to gain access to the enormous oil and gas reserves of its neighbors

Al Hayat The Future of the Syrian-Iranian Alliance Bilal Y. Saab and Bruce O. Riedel -The Syrian-Iranian alliance is not and has never been perfect, but the two nations' ability to withstand serious setbacks proved that the Syrian-Iranian nexus is more than a marriage of convenience; it has indeed become a mature and institutionalized alliance which is not likely to be broken by virtual carrots and empty promises by Washington and now Moscow.

Christian Science Monitor

War strain in Iraq may speed troop cuts

To ease the Army's burden, Gates said Friday he hopes 10 brigades could leave Iraq by the end of 2008.

Transcript: Gen. Petraeus Says Militias Will Be Incorporated Into Army

'Sunni Awakening': Insurgents Are Now Allies

Gen. Petraeus Warns Against Pullout From 'Fragile' Iraq

UPI Analysis: U.S. military & Iran -- Part 6 What would be the consequences of a U.S. military attack against Iran's nuclear program?

Commentary: CHIMEA no chimera y ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE
Below Washington's geopolitical radar screen, where Iraq and Iran tend to blur out the rest of the world, momentous events are in the making.

Jerusalem Post The Region: 2007 - The year that was [ BARRY RUBIN ,

Qaeda: is it anarchism? No. Walter Laqueur, MESH.

From the Archive Iran proposal to the US - 2003

China: A Fierce Yet Fragile Superpower - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek

Newsweek Where a Future President Learned About the World In the wake of Watergate, George H.W. Bush became America's man in Beijing. Insights from his diaries.

CFR Should the United States Recognize Kosovo?

The World Next Year

McKinsey Executive Roundtable Series in International Economics: The Falling Dollar: Should We Worry? (Audio)

The Small Wars Journal Magazine The current issue is volume 9. Volumes 1-8 are available in the back issues area

The NSA Controls Popular Firewalls and 'Secure' Email Services See Cryptome

Dollars and Bullets: The Role of US Aid in a Strategy for Iraq Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies

American Consrvative Declaring Forever War
by Michael C. Desch
Giuliani has surrounded himself with advisors who think the Bush Doctrine didn’t go nearly far enough.

Unmanned Systems Roadmap, 2007-2032 (PDF; 12 MB) Source: Office of the Secretary of Defense

ISN Security Watch 2008 Prognosis

Georgia: Sliding towards Authoritarianism? International Crisis Group - The West must press Georgia to adopt genuine reforms and democratic openness, to stop creeping authoritarianism.

Governing Diversity: Democratic Solutions in Multicultural Societies EDG A 100-page collection of 10 essays discussing how to govern multicultural societies in a democratic manner

Washington Institute The Palestinians: Between State Failure and Civil War Michael Eisenstadt

Inside Gaza: The Challenge of Clans and Families,* the latest report from the International Crisis Group

The State of Iraq: An UpdateNew York Times op-chart

Bush’s Game of Chess in Iraq – Andy Zelleke, Boston Globe


General Petraeus: Man of the Year – William Kristol, Weekly Standard

European Ado About Nothing in Palestine - Rami Khouri, Daily Star


Russia's Choice on M.E. Peace Equation - Jerusalem Post editorial

Bush Backs Moscow’s Fueling of Bushehr – Henry Sokolski, Weekly Standard

USIP Briefing: Coming Soon to a Country Near You: Kosova Sovereignty

Policy Options Paper: Pakistan
CFR

After NIE, More BMD – Charlie Szrom, Weekly Standard


Exposing Iran's Ruthlessness - David Horovitz, Jerusalem Post

The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2007

The Observer The new world order that threatens Uncle Sam Henry Porter: America's next President faces the daunting task of countering Russia and China as they aggressively challenge struggling Western liberal democracies

Five bright ideas that illuminated 2007 Will Hutton: There's much to celebrate in the moves towards greater tolerance of others and understanding of ourselves and the world around us

Tony Karon Notes on the Post-Bush Mideast

The Seven Pillars of Terrorism.

H2 Release of Foreign Relations, Volume XXX, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey. US Department of State frus/nixon/xxx. Download the entire volume in PDF (3.3 MB – 898 pp.) The volume provides documentation on, among other things, the restoration of democracy in Greece, the problem of Turkish opium, the potential conflict between Greece and Turkey over oil exploration rights in the Aegean Sea, and U.S. policymakers’ efforts to develop a solution to the problem caused by the increasing tensions in the region. Taken as a whole, this volume highlights a significant shift in U.S. policymakers’ goals toward the region and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s unique role in U.S. foreign policy.

Chatham House The Kurdish Policy Imperative - New Paper Now, for the first time, some Kurdish interests are converging with the regional designs of prominent members of the international community. Kurdish political demands remain limited, but there has been a notable strengthening of Kurdish self-perception and aspirations at a mass level. The intricate web of relationships between Kurds and regional states means that the future of the Middle East is closely tied to Kurdish futures. (download pdf)

From the Archive - CIA - THE KURDISH PROBLEM IN PERSPECTIVE [EST PUB DATE: AUGUST 1979]

U.S., Turkey Bond Over Iraq Raids Newsweek.com U.S. support for Turkey's raids against rebel Kurds have improved relations between Washington and Ankara. Can the entente last?

MERIA "U.S.-Kurdish Relations in Post-Invasion Iraq" Aram Rafaat

Pamuk: prophet or poseur? CLAIRE BERLINSKI The prosecution of poor Orhan Pamuk was like camembert in a mousetrap to the Nobel committee. He has talent, sure, but... more»

'Türkiye'yi Destekliyoruz'

Washington Post Turkish Planes Bomb Northern Iraq for Second Consecutive Day

NYT Turkey Bombs Kurds in Iraq; 2 Sides Differ on Casualties

Turkey Bombs Kurdish Rebels in Iraq for 2nd Day, Kurds Say

The Voice of the Kurds: Q&A with Osman Baydemir Asharq Alawsat

Jamestown Foundation Is the “Politicization” of the Kurdish Struggle in Turkey a Security Threat? By Burak Bekdil

Reviving a Forgotten Threat: The PKK in Nagorno-Karabakh By Anar Valiyev

CSIS Turkish Airstrikes in Northern Iraq

PolicyWatch Perspectives from Turkey by Soner CagaptayWatch and enjoy streaming audio of this event

International Intelligence Sharing for Global Security Fatih Beren

Turkey Bombs Rebel Positions In Iraq

BBC Turkey 'in new Iraq air strikes'

Turkish warplanes again bomb Kurdish rebels across the border in northern Iraq, according to local officials.

Turkey defends incursions in Iraq

Turkey's pin-point tactic in Iraq

Profile: The PKK

US: Turkey Has Right to Defend Itself

Turkish aircraft in fresh raid in Iraq, says Kurdish official

The World Today The Kurdish Question: Raising the Stakes

Robert Lowe and Gareth Stansfield,

Worldview | Turkish leaders and Iraqi Kurds need to mend fences ...
Philadelphia Inquirer By Trudy Rubin

Untangling the Turkey - Iraqi Kurdistan - PKK triangle Marko Attila Hoare

Ozdem Sanberk interview “THERE IS NO POINT IN SETTING UP A HOUSE WHICH WILL THEN BLOW DOWN IN THE FIRST WIND“

Counterterrorism Blog Turkey's Carrot & Stick Approach to the PKK This isn’t the end, but it is the beginning of the end - the diehard generation now ruling the PKK has had no alternate existence and has no possibility of an alternate existence in the future except to be hunted until captured or killed. Future military strikes, conducted with the precision demonstrated on the 16th will force the PKK to disperse, reducing the effectiveness of their training and rest areas between attacks as has been the case. … Younger PKK members, no longer subjected to the harsh training regimen (including death) and seeing the possibility of another life beginning with the Repentance Law, will begin falling away or never joining. … Finally, “attacking” the PKK in other than military ways - publicizing the PKK’s drug operations and human trafficking operations, working against the PKK diplomatically in W. Europe, going after PKK financing, will bring about the end of the PKK much faster than trying to do it with military force alone

Mesud Barzani: "Sorun Kürt halkıyla ilgili"

'Barzani muhatabımız değil'

'Sanki Süleymaniye ve Erbil bombalandı'

Washington'dan desteğe devam

Boston Globe Iraq's forgotten population By Anna Husarska,

Turkey's Terror Problem
Wall Street Journal

Russia Wants to Sell Greece Weapons As Well As Gas By: John C. K. Daly | Eurasia Daily Monitor Quite aside from the issue of energy dependency, the Russian Federation is in discussions with Greece to sell it significant amounts of military equipment, a first for a NATO ally

For an Arab-Kurdish Federation in Iraq ZNet - Fawwaz Traboulsi

Yedioth Ahronoth Gaza in Turkey Turkish struggle against Kurds reminiscent of Israel’s fight against Palestinians

Comment on Rocking the Steady: Iraqi Kurdistan by Jonathan Roberts

William Arkin Refining the Preemption Doctrine

American Chronicle: The U.S. Support of Turkish Islamists

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Eve dönmek isteyen PKK'lılara tanık koruma desteği

PKK'dan taksi uçakla zehir transferi

Kurds, Kurdistan and the Kurdish Question 1800s-1989 and After By Karim Hasan Abdullah

Yalçın Küçük Öcalan'sız bir tedbir hiç bir sonuç vermez

Okay Gönensin

Kuzey Irakta iç politika

ABD’yle pazarlık yok amaç çamur atmak

1. Kürtleri Türkiye�ye karşı tahrik etmeye çalışıyor

Kürtçe bilen tercüman edinin

Komandolar kritik noktaları tuttu

Nasuhi Güngör Kerkük referandumu nasıl iptal edildi?

Türk uçakları Kandil'i bugün iki kez vurdu

K.Irak'ta PKK'ya ikinci darbe

İtirafçıya estetik darbesi

Sortilere Yol Yapan Yanlışlarımız!

Göktürk, yeni yılda PKK'nın ensesinde

PKK’nın Türkiye’ye sızdığı yer

Barzani'den operasyon yorumu

Barzaniler’in kafası karışık

United States’ Undeclared War Against Kurds

Kişisel fikir yürütme

Göktürk üç aya hazır

Fırsatını bulan teslim oluyor

Beyaz Saray’da tek mutabakat ’ortak düşman’

The $20 Million Sheep Hunt

Türk jetleri Kandil'e bomba yağdırdı

’Roj’u susturdular 300’ünü öldürdüler

İlk operasyonda yüzlerce PKK’lı terörist öldürüldü

Iraqi Minister Interviewed on Visit to Syria, US-Iraqi Declaration, Kirkuk

Offer to repair Kirkuk-Banias pipeline (21/12/07)

Kürtleri Türkiye’ye karşı tahrik etmeye çalışıyor

Kundaklamalarda PKK parmağı

Turkey: Brothers in arms? The Muslim News

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 23 Dec 07

Top Iraqi Kurd Leader Visits Hit Border Villages

Çiller, DEP'lilerin iddiasını yalanladı

Ben bir Türk aydını olsaydım !

DTP’den ABD’ye siyah çelenk

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Barzanî: Qendil'deki bombardımanlar, Hewlêr ve Silêmanî’nin bombalanması gibidir!

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

ABD: Hedef PKK olmalı, sivil kayıplara yol açılmamalı

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Chatham House’daki ‘Kürd Konferansı -1-

Uçak sesinden bile korkuyorlar

Turkey Bombs Iraq Again; Massive Bombing in Pakistan
By Juan Cole

Peshmerga Spokesman Says Turkish Planes Bomb Northern Iraqi Region

Iraq's Envoy to Turkey Comments on Operation Against PKK, Relations

[Fbis] OSC: Turkey: Kurdish Media Allege Turkish Air Force Used Phosphor, Chemical Bombs

[Fbis] OSC: Turkey: 'Kurdish Revenge Teams' Distribute Threatening Pamphlets in Diyarbakir

Kurdish Conflict: U.S. Nods and WinksPittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial

DTP’li vekil: Kürtçe bilen tercüman edinin

Göktürk, teröristleri gözleyecek

Turkey to rely on own satellite system to gather intelligence

Hakkari'de astsubayların araçları yakıldı

İzmir'de DTP mitingine izin verilmemesi protesto edildi

PKK üyesi altı kişi tutuklandı

Eve dönüş çağrısı bu kez karşılık bulacak

US supports Turkey's military acts against PKK

Iraqi Kurd Reporter Says Turkish Planes Intensify Flights Over North Iraq

Iraq's Other Kurdish Rebel Group

US Was Warned Before Latest Turkish Airstrike in Iraq

Turkey, US, and the PKK Kurdish Aspect

Deputy Governor of Iraq's Mosul Talks About Clause 140, Tribes, Security

Scott Sullivan: Turkey must escalate in Northern Iraq

Al-Sharqiyah Interviews Three Iraqi Officials on Rice's Visit to Kirkuk

War on the Kurds Michigan Citizen

Romania Arrests "PKK Fundraisers"

Turkey-Iran energy cooperation a must - Turkish Energy Minister | Indian Muslims

The Kurdish Armenian congress 1909

Kirkuk is Kurdish despite bids to undermine Article 140

What honour in killing? New Statesman For decades women in Kurdistan have been subjected to all kinds of discrimination and suppression.

Scott Sullivan: Turkey must escalate in Northern Iraq

İhsan Yılmaz Enhanced role for the OIC

Ömer Taşpınar Afghanistan: the forgotten war

Ferai Tınç İdamın dondurulması Müslümanlığa hakaret mi?

Taha AKYOL Dubai mucizesi

[MONDAY TALK]
Dr. Halit Eren: Scholars call Islamic research center ‘dream of Orientalists’

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Fransa, 2009'da yapılacak 'Türk Yılı'nı erteleme peşinde

Papadopulos'un Kıbrıs için yeni önerileri hazır

Papadopulos'un Kıbrıs için yeni önerileri hazır

KKTC, AB'ye uyum sağlayacak

40% of Greek Cypriots support Turkey's EU bid

Durmuş Hocaloğlu Lizbon Antlaşması ve Gerçek Bir "Avrupa Birliği" Binâ Etmenin Güçlükleri: I

Türk sularında Kardak dalaşı

· Sarkozy’nin tezi gayri meşrudur

AİHM'den ağır Türkiye kararı

From the mountains of Ararat Ha'aretz

Why we shouldn’t put the referendum behind us Cyprus Mail

Yiğit Bulut Olmayan AB yolumuzda hangi noktadayız?

Andrew Finkel İstanbul in Brussels

Tufan Türenç Avrupa ile aramıza demirperde çekildi

Eser Karakaş Kaçıyor mu?

Ahiret sorgusu gibi vatandaşlık sınavı

Matsakis: Masal anlatmayalım, adada Türk varlığını anlayalım

Rum Meclis Başkanı'nın Girne özlemi

Vize ve kotanın yıllık maliyeti 5 milyar dolar

The Enemy of My Friend is My Enemy? The Jewish Diaspora and ...
Die Jüdische

Sarkozy, laikliği tartışmaya açtı

Ata Atun Cyprus: The complete history from 1960 to 1974 (2)

As Sarkozy pushes Turkey away...
Turquie Européenne

MİT'te üç Mason patronluk yaptı... Bugüne kadar hakkında birçok spekülasyon üretilen MİT'in hangi başkanları masondu? İşte çarpıcı iddialar

Imperial Japan's Islamic policies
Cemal Aydin interviewed.

Rusya: Fetullah Gülen okulları tehlikeli

Trenini kapan gelsin, TCDD özelleşiyor

Soner Yalçın Bir avuç tayyarecinin destanı

ASELSAN mühendisinin ölümüne 3 cinayet şerhi

Türkler ve scientology
Murat Belge

Osmanlı'nın batışı ve bilim tarihi
İsmet Berkan

2040’a su derdi kalmaz

İstanbul'da çeşme suyu içiyorum, Ankara'da damacana

Suçu azaltan proje

Yavuz Baydar Intolerance

FT The Bridge of the Golden Horn

[CAFE CAPITAL]
Traffic system to be overhauled

Sabırlı ol ey insanlık 'Erke' biraz gecikiyor!

İnternette biri sizi izliyor...

American Chronicle: Turkey, Kurds, Anglo-French Freemasonry, Islam, and Orientalism

Turkey no Friend to US
The Conservative Voice

24 Aralık 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 Ali H Aslan Surda bir gedik açtık...

Türkiye vuruyor dünya destekliyor

2007 yılında dış politika gelişmeleri ÖZDEM SANBERK

Uçaklar bu kez iç bölgeleri vurdu

Dağdan inenlere yeni yüz, yeni kimlik

Son operasyonda F-16'lar, PKK'nın 40 yöneticisini hedef aldı

Kürdoloji Enstitüsü kurulmalı

'Kandil'in vurulması, Erbil ve Süleymaniye'nin bombalanması gibidir'

’Roj’u susturdular 300’ünü öldürdüler

Erdoğan'dan sınır ötesi operasyon değerlendirmesi: Hakkımızı kullanıyoruz

Why can’t the DTP produce its own Gerry Adams? by BEJAN MATUR*

A 19 years old PKK penitent’s view of Article 221

National satellite system to offer intelligence on PKK

Mehmet Metiner PKK bitiyor mu?

PKK'nın 250 bombacısı 'eve döndü'

Türk jetleri Kandil'e bomba yağdırdı

Hava operasyonu sürüyor

[Yorum - Erik-Jan Zürcher] Cumhuriyet'i kuran kadro Anadolu'yu tanımıyordu

Zürcher 'Türkiye'de yaşasaydım ben de oyumu AK Parti'ye verirdim'

Kürt denklemi enerji denklemi
Murat Yetkin

Ruşen Çakır DTP'yi anlamak 4

Güneydoğu’da DTP ve AKP dışında Gülen cemaati ve Hizbullah da var. Ruşen Çakır yazıyor

'Milliyetçi çatışma çok şey kaybettirir'

Mustafa Karaalioğlu DTP nedir, ne istiyor?

Plan var, eylem yok
Hükümet, 'kayıp yıl' 2007'nin son üç ayına dair vaatleri tutamadı

Cengiz Çandar

Kadri GÜRSEL 'Keşke Öcalan yakalanmasaydı' diye başlayan cümle

Şükrü Küçükşahin Barzani’ye bir yıl uyarısı

Bilanço: Yüzlerce PKK'lı

MÜMTAZ'ER TÜRKÖNE - Kürt Kemâlizmi

Mümtazer Türköne Diyarbakır adı Amed olabilir

Ekrem Dumanlı Kürt sorununda yeni tehlikeler, yeni umutlar

Güngör URAS Bağış alan kuruluşlar gelirlerini giderlerini açıklamalı

İlter Türkmen MİT sadece lastik patlattı

Şamil Tayyar MİT’in genleri bozuk

Siz, Hitit, Frig, Urartu ya da İyonyalı mısınız? Hasan Celal Güzel

How terrorism affects Turkish diplomacyby BEKİR ÇINAR*

Şahin Alpay A new chapter in Turkey-US relations?

HİLMİ YAVUZ - Nedensellik ve Olasılık: 'Çıkabülür de, Çıkmayabülür de!'

Sami Selçuk Karşılaştırma doğru, genelleme haksız, çıkarsama sakat

Mustafa Akyol Kürt sorununun İslam’la ilgisi

Fatih Çekirge Türkiye için Avrupa’ya baskı yapalım

Jöntürklerden bugüne 'hariçte muhalefet' AVNİ ÖZGÜREL

Why Turks love conspiracy theories (II) Mustafa AKYOL

Can Dündar
Sivil operasyonun tam sırası

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 Ignorance breeds arrogance

İsmail Küçükkaya
2007’den 2008’e geçerken...

Serdar Akinan Kâbus

Sedat Sertoğlu
Aklın yolu kaç tane?

[Yorum - Etyen Mahçupyan] Yani başörtüsü hiç mi sınırlanmayacak?

[Yorum - Prof. Dr. Eser Karakaş]Ulusalcılığın ekonomik ve teknik sınırları

21 Aralık 2007
2007'de Türkiye ve 2. AKP hükümetinin insan hakları sicili

Devlet, bir film yaptı ki...

Ertuğrul Özkök

Ahmet Hakan Sosyalist Tayyip Çelik: Fazıl Say’a dava açmayacağız

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt Ülsever DP’de eskiler dikiş tutturamaz

Enis Berberoğlu Halk değil siyasetin ateş ettiği piyanist

Oktay Ekşi

Ferai Tınç Şık olmadı

Mehmet Barlas Tarihsiz bir toplum olabilmemiz mümkün değil ki…

Özdemir İnce Fazıl Say’ın meydan okuması

11 Eylül için 'iyi oldu' diyebilmek
H. Gökhan Özgün

Derya SAZAK Pamuk, Say, Akın

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERDAL ŞAFAK Yeni Anayasa'ya doğru

ERGUN BABAHAN

EMRE AKÖZ

Umur Talu

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Altın üçgende laiklik

İhsan Dağı Do Westerners understand the Kemalists?

Mehmet Tezkan

Kuzey Irak BBG evi oldu PKK�nın işi artık çok zor!

NAZLI ILICAK "Yeşil sermayenin" Godiva başarısı

Mensur Akgün Devlete güvenmemek

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

YAVUZ DONAT Bir fotoğrafın öyküsü

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam 2008’de Arapları çok konuşacağız

50 yıllık Türk Ticaret Kanunu değişiyor

Yaman TÖRÜNER
Batı cephesinde yeni bir şey yok

Güngör URAS
ABD ekonomisi belini doğrultuyor (Bizde ise doların değeri eriyip gidiyor)

DPT: "Teşvikler yerini bulmuyor"

Yüksek rezerv 'IMF dayatması mı'?
Fatih Özatay

Yeni bir tüketim endeksi geliyor!
Uğur Gürses

Gönderin IMF'yi gitsin! Mahfi Eğilmez

Ergin Yıldızoğlu Mali piyasalarda “akılcı bir panik”

Merkez neden bu kadar döviz tutuyor? Fatih Özatay

Asım Erdilek Turkey’s embattled central bank

CHP'de Kesici'nin yıldızı parlıyor

Osman ULAGAY Türkiye milli gelirde 20'nci, fert başına gelirde 68'inci sırada

Deniz Gökçe
Merkezden selam, politikaya aynen devam!

İBRAHİM KAHVECİ

2008'de dolarda ürküten senaryo

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
Ara malında yerliyi tercih eden ihracatçıya vergi avantajı

Asaf Savaş Akat

Merkez Bankası’nın döviz alımları

Emekli nüfusunda 100 ülkeyi geçtik

07:10 Asgari ücrtte yüzde 6.5'lik artış bekleniyor

H4 New York Times In a Force for Iraqi Calm, Seeds of Conflict Sunni “Awakening” groups, paid by the U.S. to fight extremists, have become a success story in Iraq, but there are growing concerns about what will happen to them after a U.S. handoff.

Central Asia on Front Line in Energy Battle Russia is trouncing the West in the race to gain access to the enormous oil and gas reserves of its neighbors

Billions in Aid to Pakistan Was Wasted, Officials Assert The money the U.S. spent to bolster the Pakistani military effort against militants has been diverted to help finance weapons systems designed to counter India, not Al Qaeda or the Taliban, officials said.

Serbia Enlists Some Unlikely Faces As the dispute over Kosovo’s future nears a climax, the Serbian government has enlisted the support of some the world’s best known statesmen — all of them dead.

‘Ode to Joy,’ Followed by Chaos and Despair By SLAVOJ ZIZEK While Beethoven’s work may seem an innocuous choice for the official anthem of the European Union, it actually tells much more than one would expect about Europe’s predicament today.

Editorial Trade and Prosperity

A protectionist agenda would do little to protect American workers from the disruptions wrought by trade, technology and other economic forces.

FRANK RICH A Résumé Can’t Buy You Love No matter how much Hillary Clinton, John McCain or Rudy Giuliani brag about being tested and vetted, it’s not experience that will be decisive in determining the next president.

MAUREEN DOWD Savior or Saboteur? If voting for Barack Obama is a roll of the dice, as Bill Clinton suggests, voting for Billary is a sure bet: an endless soap opera.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

In the Age of Noah We may be the first generation in human history that literally has to act like Noah — to save the last pairs of a wide range of species that are threatened with extinction.

Pakistan’s Tyranny Continues By AITZAZ AHSAN How long can the chief justice of Pakistan’s Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, and his colleagues be kept in confinement

As the World Warms

By MORT ROSENBLUM, JON CHRISTENSEN, ANTONIO SKÁRMETA and JEN LIN-LIU The Op-Ed page asked four writers to report on the weather in their part of the world. Here are their dispatches.

H5 Washington Post Iran Cited In Iraq's Decline in Violence Iran's government has decided to rein in the Shiite militias it supports in Iraq, a move reflected in a recent sharp decrease in sophisticated attacks, U.S. official says.

Dollar's Fall Is Felt Around The Globe

Weakening U.S. Currency Harms Overseas Markets

Editorial

Bush's 'Axis,' Six Years Later By: Charles Krauthammer Contrary to current public opinion, Bush will have succeeded on Iraq, failed on Iran and fought North Korea to a draw.

Paradox for Petraeus By: David Ignatius The Catch-22 is that the more successful that Gen. Petraeus is on the ground in Iraq, the more pressure he will encounter for troop cuts that might reverse his hard-won gains.

Editorial Is It War? The presidential candidates on terrorism

Myth of the Strongman By Fred Hiatt, Page A15

So Time magazine is the latest to swoon at Vladimir Putin's "steely confidence and strength," his "chiseled facial features and those penetrating eyes." The Russian president is a man of "contained power," Time finds, whose gaze says: "I'm in charge."

Subverting Bush at Langley By Robert D. Novak

Outrage over the CIA's destruction of interrogation tapes is but one element of the distress Republican intelligence watchdogs in Congress feel about the agency. "It is acting as though it is autonomous, not accountable to anyone,"

Iraqi Volunteers Angry Over Bomb Blast Security Force Threatens to Leave U.S. Alliance After Four Men Die in Baghdad

Pakistan's Islamic Parties Struggle for Support 5 Years After Sweep In NW Province, Backers Frustrated

Dispatch: London By Walter Russell Mead, British politics are boring no longer. Neither is British life.

Obama Finds His Voice By David S. Broder, Barack Obama has become a one-trick pony. But what a trick it is!

CIA Tapes Were Kept From 9/11 Panel, Report Says Agency Defends Its Role as Information Provider in Commission's Investigation of Terrorist Plots

Poppies vs. Power By Jim Hoagland, Even a 'successful' eradication program in Afghanistan would do no great harm to the illegal drug trade -- but it would do great damage to the government.

Death Penalty in Review Capital punishment loses ground, for good reasons.

Warnings Unheeded On Guards In Iraq

Despite Shootings, Security Companies Expanded Presence

A Talent Contest We're Losing By Craig Barrett With Congress gridlocked on immigration, it's clear that the next Silicon Valley will not be in the United States.

Climate Change Malpractice The Bush administration won't lead. And now it won't get out of California's way, either.

H6 Guardian Iraq cover-up claims: MPs call for inquiry UK security firm accused of failing to pass on intelligence to army in Basra

'Bosses didn't want to expose Iraqi police corruption'

Olmert rules out ceasefire Peace talks threatened by plans for new settlements

Strikes on Hamas in Gaza continue

Israeli prime minister rules out ceasefire saying his military is fighting 'true war' with militants

When the powerful live beyond the law Max Hastings: In Russia a lack of transparency feeds a gangster culture that hamstrings social and economic progress

The Putin succession

Irina Filatova: There may be factional struggle behind the scenes but, by backing Dmitry Medvedev for president, Vladimir Putin is keeping his options open

Of conviction and calculation
Faith and politics: If there was an occasion for someone to argue against the death penalty, I think Jesus could have done so

Tax lunacyTim Watkin Dec 22 07, 05:00pm: US elections 2008: America's tax system may be complex. But Mike Huckabee's plan to institute a flat tax is sheer madness

Uzbek president wins election 'farce'

Dissidents condemn EU inaction over regime after law is flouted as leader prolongs rule yet again

Race for presidential nomination tightens as first primaries near

Blair looks to Rome as Catholic Sunday worshippers outstrip Anglicans

FBI chief Hoover planned to suspend habeas corpus · Outbreak of Korean war brought letter to Truman · List of potential detainees compiled over many years More US news

Georgian oligarch claims he is assassination target Billionaire seeking to become president of the former Soviet republic of Georgia claims he is being targeted

The Observer Spy who came in from the cold Profile: Vladimir Putin was named Person of the Year by Time magazine, the former head of Russia's secret service is reluctant to relinquish power. But as dissent grows, can he maintain his influence?

The new world order that threatens Uncle Sam Henry Porter: America's next President faces the daunting task of countering Russia and China as they aggressively challenge struggling Western liberal democracies

Five bright ideas that illuminated 2007
Will Hutton: There's much to celebrate in the moves towards greater tolerance of others and understanding of ourselves and the world around us

The withdrawal of troops from Iraq begins

Jason Burke

Blairite or 'blaireau' - the choice is Sarkozy's When Nicholas Sarkozy was campaigning to be elected as France's President, he made a point of praising Britain for its 'vitality'. He has also extolled the virtues of the US

Blair's faith fuelled his drive to join in the invasion of Iraq

Anthony Seldon

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Al Hayat The Future of the Syrian-Iranian Alliance Bilal Y. Saab and Bruce O. Riedel -The Syrian-Iranian alliance is not and has never been perfect, but the two nations' ability to withstand serious setbacks proved that the Syrian-Iranian nexus is more than a marriage of convenience; it has indeed become a mature and institutionalized alliance which is not likely to be broken by virtual carrots and empty promises by Washington and now Moscow.

UPI Analysis: U.S. military & Iran -- Part 6 What would be the consequences of a U.S. military attack against Iran's nuclear program?

Commentary: CHIMEA no chimera y ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE
Below Washington's geopolitical radar screen, where Iraq and Iran tend to blur out the rest of the world, momentous events are in the making.


In Defense of Waterboarding - Mark Bowden, Philadelphia Inquirer

The Islamist War on Muslim Women - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe

Deborah Boucoyannis (Harvard): The International Wanderings of a Liberal Idea, or Why Liberals Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Balance of Power.

Flaw at core of Iran NIE Mark T. Clark, MESH.

The Case for Talking to Tehran
Trita Parsi

Al Awsat American Withdrawal from Iraq and the Indian Scenario : Sayyed Wild Abah

Noah Feldman's next book: Islamic state. Interview.

The "Great Game": Eurasia and the History of War

A Step Forward in Iraq - New York Post

CRS "Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses," updated December 5, 2007.

"Iraq and Al Qaeda," updated December 7, 2007.

DEBKAfile: Rice offers Iran more carrot than stick - better relations for suspending uranium enrichment and abandoning “confrontation”

Asia Times Cautious hope for peaceful Middle East Change is the only constant, it seems, in the volatile Middle East, but a calmer, even peaceful, 2008 is possible if President George W Bush embraces a last-minute "peace legacy"; if Hamas and Fatah can mend fences in Palestine and if Israel is serious about reducing tensions. Turkey and its incursion into northern Iraq is another wild card, and there's always Iran. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Lebanon is a Good Example for Removing the Impression of Suspicious Deals from the Bush Administration Raghida Dergham - If Syria facilitates the Lebanese election, France will give it what has been promised in the way of an opening-up in relations, a dismantlement of Syria’s isolation, and European rehabilitation, which will signal the beginning a new chapter in relations. If Syria continues to obstruct things, it will lose the possible benefits of these “good intentions.”

Monroe Doctrine Under Siege by Iranians

Krauthammer Joins Frum and Kristol

Reflections on the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran
Source: On the Issues (American Enterprise Institute)

What went wrong? , Paul Rogers

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Climate security: the new determinism, Mike Hulme

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

The end of postmodernism: on the “new atheists”, Tina Beattie

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

Disaffected Iraqis Spurn Dominant Shiite Clerics Two years after helping to bring to power a government led by Shiite religious parties, Iraq's paramount Shiite clerics find their influence diminished as their followers criticize them for backing a political alliance that has failed to pass crucial legislation, improve basic services or boost the economy.

Analysts: Sunni Fighters Need Political Role

US Military 'Deprogramming' Iraqi Detainees

US Praises Iran Curbs on Sadr Militia in Iraq

General Petraeus On "Fox News Sunday"

USIP Report: Higher Education and the Future of Iraq

Al-Qaeda Adapts its Methods in Iraq as Part of a Global Strategy

Shiite leaders oppose expansion of U.S.-backed citizens groups

The British are going (By Claude Salhani)

Iraq: Kirkuk Referendum Delayed By Six Months

'Bushehr to be ready by March 2008'

Ruthless, Shadowy – and a US Ally

Iranian Ex-President Attacks Hardliners

Iran Conservatives Slam Ahmadinejad on Economy

Al Sadr extends freeze of Mehdi Army action

Iraq: Sunni Militias Won't Become Separate Army

Arms Cache Found Southwest of Kirkuk

Syria: Officers Arrested In Al-Hariri Case Stratfor

Delay of Lebanese Election Will Be Setback for US-Syria Relations
New York Sun

Hogasapian: 'There is no US/ Syria deal at Lebanon's expense

Syrian Paper Says Bush Accuses Damascus to Cover His "Failure", "Crises"

US Envoy: Iraq Successes Mean New Challenges

Iran to Tender Construction of 19 Nuclear Power Plants

Iraq plans to disband Sunni patrols

Iran, Italy's Edison close to gas deal: minister

Lebanon's new low as leader talks fail
Lebanon's political crisis deepened this weekend after the failure for the 10th time by rival parties to agree on a way to elect a President

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Iranian Press 22 Dec 07

Beijing builds up business with Arab world Asia Times

European Envoy: US Democratic Effort in Iran Will Backfire

H9 Ha’aretz Israel fears clash with U.S. over impasse in negotiations

U.S. plans confidential appraisal of Israeli and PA peace moves

Think tank: Israeli Arabs should take part in negotiations with PA

Editorial Between genuine and false threatsAs the occupation and settlements continue, the link between settlers and the Israel Defense Forces becomes more symbiotic and twisted.

Bar’el A vital Palestinian discussionThere is only one formula likely to address the Qassams: dialogue between Abbas and Hamas, reestablishing the national unity government and recognizing it as the executive branch

Jerusalem Post 'Israel will ultimately decide to attack Iran on its own'

Hamas wants Schalit release to be part of cease-fire package

'Israel has infiltrated Izzadin Kassam' PA security officials say members of Hamas's armed wing have been recruited by IDF as "collaborators."

The Region: 2007 - The year that was

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· Security and Defense: Confronting axes of evil

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A Ceasefire from Hamas?Boston Globe editorial


Hamas's 'Offer' - Jerusalem Post editorial

Former Mossad director Uzi Arad questioned Iran’s need to enrich ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Yedioth Ahronoth Force does work Latest events in Gaza show that capitulation to terror not the only way

'Outpost removal deal sealed'
Ynet learns government officials, settler leaders agree on peaceful evacuation of several illegal outposts ahead of US president's visit in country in two weeks' time, in bid to allay American pressure, criticism

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

Close down Dimona - the risks are just not worth it
By Bennett Ramberg

Holy War Among Jihadis - New York Daily News editorial


The Islamist War on Muslim Women – Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe

U.N. Bankrolled Hatred of Israel and U.S. – Claudia Rosett, National Review

US Plans Assessment of MidEast Peace Moves - Reuters

Inside Gaza: The Challenge of Clans and Families,* the latest report from the International Crisis Group As Hamas seeks to consolidate its rule and restore stability to Gaza, it must deal with powerful clans and families with which it has been at loggerheads since its June 2007 seizure of power.

Underwriting the Conflict in Hebron By: Matthew Duss | The American Prospect When it comes to U.S. fundraising for Israeli settlements, donating to the Hebron Fund is not merely an expression of support for Israel, it's a perpetuation of the systematic oppression of Palestinians.

Israel confirms settlement plans

An Israeli minister defends plans to build 740 homes in two disputed settlements in East Jerusalem

Israel okays short-range missile defence shield...

Outside View: Will Paris cash help Gaza?
The aid pledged to Palestinians by donor nations in Paris this week puts the international community's money where its mouth was in Annapolis. But the status of Gaza is a big stumbling block to any solution.

As Torture Debate Heats Up, Jewish Groups Stay Mum Marc Perelman

The American Jewish Committee last week became the first, and to date only, mainstream Jewish group to give strong public backing to proposed legislation that would ban the use of torture by American military, intelligence and law-enforcement personnel.

'Bad for the Jews' by Eric Alterman American Jewish political behavior. No, it's not that hoary old cliché that they "earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans." Rather, it's that they think like enlightened liberals yet allow belligerent right-wingers and neocons who frequently demonize, distort and denounce their values to speak for them in the US political arena.

Cobban Israel: a ceasefire with Hamas, or more militarism?

H10 Christian Science Monitor

War strain in Iraq may speed troop cuts

To ease the Army's burden, Gates said Friday he hopes 10 brigades could leave Iraq by the end of 2008.

In quieter Baghdad, perils still lurk

Many Iraqis who fled Baghdad are beginning to return, however the dangers from bombing remain.

Opinion: Washington's phobia of global treaties Why reject pacts to help the disabled or ban land mines?

By Karl F. Inderfurth

Thaksin party win may continue Thailand's political uncertainty

The People Power Party roared to victory Sunday, but their projected share of votes fell short of an absolute majority, making a coalition government anecessity.

ASIA

China: A Fierce Yet Fragile Superpower - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek

Election could herald Thaksin return

First election since the military coup 15 months ago fuels fears of further political uncertainty in Thailand

Weakening Pakistan

President Pervez Musharraf's authoritarian maneuvers only weaken Pakistan's already feeble political institutions and fuel political turmoil.

Afghanistan War Needs FocusBoston Herald editorial

Failure Blooms in AfghanistanBoston Globe editorial

Poppies vs. Power in Afghanistan – Jim Hoagland, Washington Post

Poor Backroom Boys in Afghanistan – Jeremy Clarkson, London Times

Pakistan’s Tyranny Continues – Aitzaz Ashan, New York Post


Questions for Bush and Musharraf – Tierney and Ahsan, Miami Herald

Billions wasted in Pakistan: Officials
US appears to be funding efforts against India rather than al-Qaeda, Taliban.

China Taps Into U.S. Spy Operations By: Bill Gertz | The Washington Times
China's intelligence service gained access to a secret National Security Agency listening post in Hawaii through a Chinese-language translation service, according to U.S. intelligence officials

India Still Reeling Over U.S. Deal By: Siddharth Srivastava | Asia Times In coalition politics, "allies" can often be a bigger headache than the opposition, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has found out over India's stalled civilian nuclear deal with the United States.

Beijing's Dictatorship Diplomacy By: Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt and Andrew Small | International Herald Tribune China is often accused of supporting despots, nuclear proliferators and genocidal regimes, shielding them from international pressure and thus reversing progress on human rights. But over the last two years, Beijing has been quietly overhauling its policies toward pariah states.

Japan, an essay on Japan as a plutonium superpower, and a look at why Japan must prepare for war between US and North Korea.

Imperial Japan's Islamic policies
Cemal Aydin interviewed.

Thaksin ally wins Thai election

The party allied to ousted PM Thaksin wins Thailand's election but falls short of a majority, initial results show.

Q&A: Thai election

Hindu Nationalists Win Key Vote in India

Local Elections in Restive, Wealthy Gujarat State Go Against Ruling Party for Fourth Straight Time

CFR Bhattacharji: Tackling Afghanistan’s Opium Trade with Legalization

An article on Japan's foreign policy and the return of the Fukuda doctrine.

From The Economist, a special report on business in Japan: After 15 years of gloom, Japan's companies have emerged with a new, hybrid model a bit closer to America's.

Domo arigato, Mr Roboto: Will Japan build rather than import new citizens?

Indira’s need as Kissinger saw it
The Statesman

China Flexes Its New Muscle By: Willy Lam | International Herald Tribune Beijing's decision to cancel a port visit to Hong Kong by the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk last month could go down in diplomatic history as a watershed in China's foreign policy.

An article on the Malthusian energy-trap, old Europe, and new China: The world's energy crisis may lead China to save as well as shake the world.

Chinese Whispers By: Jill Treanor | The Guardian That the biggest names on Wall Street are staying afloat thanks to huge injections of cash from China reveals how hard the credit crunch has hit.

In China, Tension and Triumph By: Kent Ewing | Asia Times
In China, tension and triumph China has weathered an overheating economy, increasing inflation, environmental ruin, corruption and trade tensions with the US, all of which will temporarily take a back seat as the Summer Olympics approach.

For Sino-US ties, tentative progress The maturing relationship between China and the United States has cemented military ties and helped the countries inch closer on the touchy topics of trade, North Korea and Taiwan. But unanswered questions loom, such as how the US will accommodate China's rise to superpowerdom and how well Beijing will accept the existing international order. - Jing-dong Yuan

There's Method in China's Peace Push By: Rebecca Jackson | Asia Times There's method in China's peace push Beijing's new eagerness to join high-profile UN peacekeeping missions is a surprising shift from its hardline noninterference stance to humanitarianism. But along with troops, China is exporting an alternative diplomacy it hopes will serve its agenda as an ascending superpower.

CRS "China's Space Program: Options for U.S.-China Cooperation," December 14, 2007.

"U.S.-China Military Contacts: Issues for Congress," updated December 12, 2007.

South Korea’s Election: What to Expect from President Lee,* the latest briefing from the International Crisis Group

Democratic Transitions: Case Studies from Asia FPRI

Japanese regain appetite for Christmas
Christmas in Japan is big business even though only 1-2% of the population calls itself Christian

H11 IHT Europe's east-west border is at last wide open In Eastern Germany on a frontier that forks into Poland and the Czech Republic, four European leaders dismantled a passport-control point that symbolized the Cold War divide

ROGER COHEN

Italy’s Man From God

The story of Raffaello Follieri serves as a cautionary tale on what happens when business, charity, fund-raising and politics blur.

EUROPE European press review

CER Preparing for the multipolar world: European foreign and security policy in 2020 essay by Charles Grant with Tomas Valasek

USIP Briefing: Coming Soon to a Country Near You: Kosova Sovereignty

Defining Moment for the Balkans By: Anes Alic | ISN Security Watch
The year 2008 will be a decisive one for the Balkans, particularly for Kosovo, Serbia proper, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. And as the international community dangles carrots and offers up unearned rewards in an attempt to appease the perceived losers in the Kosovo status game, regardless of the outcome, bloodshed is likely.

Averting the Third Kosovo War By: Alan J. Kuperman | The American Interest (subscription required)
Recognition of a unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo -- expected in early 2008 -- would violate a standing United Nations Security Council resolution and defy the will of virtually all Serbs in Kosovo and the rest of Serbia.

Der Spiegel The World From Berlin: Muslim Report Has 'Very Little Substance'

Do Europeans Speak With One Another in Time of War? Results of a Media Analysis on the 2003 Iraq War (PDF; 330 KB) Source: RECON Online Working Paper Series

Divided Belgians draw line at divorce
Despite the cultural gap and a government crisis, most of the country is desperate to stay together

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

Vladimir Putin is named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" of 2007, with runners-up and people who mattered

WSJ Man of the Year? Vladimir Putin will now use Time magazine's honor to enhance his own power. By GARRY KASPAROV

Russia Seals Caspian Gas Pipeline Deal By: Isabel Gorst | Financial Times Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan finalised a landmark agreement on Thursday to build a pipeline to transport gas to Russia, tightening Moscow’s control over Central Asian gas exports.

A review of The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea by Steve LeVine.

A Game of Musical Chairs in Russia : Amir Taheri

Asia Times Russia, Iran tighten the energy noose It has been a triumphant year for Moscow in its energy rivalry with the US, trumping at every turn Washington's efforts to promote Western interests from the Caspian to Central Asia. At the heart of the struggle in 2008 will be Iran, Europe's only serious option for diversifying its energy imports. But already, Moscow is drawing Tehran more tightly into its embrace. A successful union would give the couple control of roughly 20% of world's oil reserves and close to half of the world's gas reserves. - M K Bhadrakumar

In pictures
Russia's ageing bombers spread their wings again

Russian Army to Get New Battle Tank in 2009, Says Deputy Defence Minister

EDM WHAT ROLE FOR SILOVIKI IN THE PUTIN-MEDVEDEV MARRIAGE?
- CHINA SECURES NEW ACCESS TO KAZAKH OIL

Russia's December 2007 Legislative Election: Outcome and Implications CRS

Reports Slam Georgian Government for Use of Force, Authoritarian Tendencies
In a stinging appraisal of former President Mikheil Saakashvili’s administration, two international reports released this week charge that the Georgian government has recently shown increasing tendencies toward strong-arm tactics that put at risk its reputation as a democratic turnaround state. The government of Acting President Nino Burjanadze has not yet responded to the criticism.

Russia Wants to Sell Greece Weapons As Well As Gas By: John C. K. Daly | Eurasia Daily Monitor Quite aside from the issue of energy dependency, the Russian Federation is in discussions with Greece to sell it significant amounts of military equipment, a first for a NATO ally.

Putin, the Kremlin Power Struggle and the $40bn Fortune By: Luke Harding | The Guardian An unprecedented battle is taking place inside the Kremlin in advance of Vladimir Putin's departure from office, the Guardian has learned, with claims that the president presides over a secret multibillion-dollar fortune

Russia Seeks Role in Israel-Syria Talks

The Art of Reading Russia's Future By: Andrew C. Kuchins | The Moscow Times With Vladimir Putin's presidency winding down, this is a good time to think about his legacy and the future of Russia. The Putin presidency will be remembered for the country's economic resurgence, political stabilization and increasingly assertive foreign policy.

Ukraine's Second Chance By: Adrian Karatnycky and Jane Neutze | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) Travel south from Kiev along the arbored R-12 highway and you will see perhaps the most public symbols of Ukraine's rampant corruption: a wide array of luxurious estates that have sprung up in Koncha-Zaspa, a leafy suburb of the capital.

Winner Takes All By: David Shariatmadari | The Guardian
The collapse of the Soviet Union raised hopes for democracy in the central Asian republics but now they are drifiting to authoritarianism.

High Stakes in the High North IFRI
This 26-page French paper analyses the developing Russo-Norwegian energy relationship

H13 The Times The stable door is open. Come in Christmas gives us a sense that what matters most deeply to us matters to God too

Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

Sunday Times Pro-Thaksin party heads for Thai victory Party allied to the deposed, exiled and allegedly corrupt former Prime Minister has won election, exit polls suggest

Iraqi villagers battle to hold off Al-Qaeda Marie Colvin reports from Diyala province, frontline of the war with al-Qaeda, on the battle against an extremist surge

The torture tape fingering Bush as a war criminal The US president concedes the CIA used 'an alternative set of of procedures' on Al-Qaeda collaborator Zubaydah

Wall Street Journal

H14 Financial Times

Sanction Iran Now - Matthew Levitt (Financial Times Deutschland/ ashington Institute for Near East Policy)

Person of the Year: Jean-Claude Trichet The European Central Bank’s president has steered a confident path through the choppy waters of 2007’s credit crisis, becoming one of the few to emerge from the turmoil with his reputation enhanced, writes Ralph Atkins

Iraqi minister allays fears over Sunni groups

Abd al-Qader al-Ubaidi has said the Awakening Councils – mostly paramilitaries credited with rolling back the al-Qaeda network – will not become a permanent military force

Clinton tied with Obama going into Iowa

US presidential hopefuls raced to consolidate their support and win over wavering voters before the Christmas and new year holidays, with both the Republican and Democratic contests looking increasingly unpredictable as voting nears

WORLD NEWS: Prodi sidesteps Afghan troops plea

Democrats’ big ideas yielded small results Their record has been dismal, writes Clive Crook

Why we must have faith in America’s votersIt is OK to ask about a candidate’s beliefs, says Christopher Caldwell

Ukraine PM’s goodwill message for Moscow

Yulia Tymoshenko, the newly appointed prime ­minister of Ukraine, has pledged that her pro-western governing coalition will seek to “harmonise” relations with Moscow

Eurofighter drops Norway and Denmark tenders

The Eurofighter consortium has pulled out of tenders in Norway and Denmark for more than 100 fighter jets, complaining it is ’ill at ease’ with changes in procurement

Gulf states next target of nuclear diplomacy

Nicolas Sarkozy is to widen his influence by pledging French help for the Gulf states to acquire atomic energy for civil use, but critics see the risk of proliferation

NATIONAL NEWS: More Catholics than Anglicans go to church

H15 Los Angeles Times CIA circles wagons over tapes

The clandestine branch is known for defending the agency, even if it means undermining directors.

Ambassador skeptical of Iran's plan for Iraq

Editorial

CIA needs more taping, experts say The videos could have given analysts valuable information about terrorism interrogations, according to some observers

Rehabbing Militants in Saudi Arabia By: Jeffrey Fleishman | Los Angeles Times A government center aims to turn accused terrorists away from radicalism. Its inmates have included more than 100 released from Guantanamo.

H16 American Politics

NYT The Clinton Referendum By MATT BAI How Democratic voters judge the Clinton era may well decide the race for the party’s presidential nomination.

Giuliani Hits Rocky Stretch as Vote Nears Rudolph Giuliani’s presidential campaign has been damaged by missteps, sharp shifts in strategy and reports about his personal life

US election issues
Where presidential candidates stand on the hot topics

WP Get Ready for a Democratic Era By John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira, The Donkey is back. And it's just the beginning.

Petraeus says he's not interested in presidency

As voting nears, Democratic voters wrestle with their choices

The struggle for the Democratic presidential nomination is becoming a volatile, unpredictable brawl. No lead is secure, and voters remain torn between a yen for decisive change and a desire for an experienced hand

“Jacob Heilbrunn, author of the soon-to-be-released They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons, has a devastating critique of the mutually exploitive relationship between co-czar of the neocon establishment, Norman Podhoretz, and former New York mayor and presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani titled "Norman's Conquest."”

Over 60 Foreign Policy Experts Endorse of Barack Obama for President

LA Times GOP candidates pitch post-Bush foreign policy Presidential hopefuls distance themselves from the president but try not to alienate Bush loyalists.

Newsweek Where a Future President Learned About the World In the wake of Watergate, George H.W. Bush became America's man in Beijing. Insights from his diaries.

The Closing Of The American Mind - Evan Thomas, Newsweek Partisan warriors may love our polarized political culture. Everyone else is turned off, and tuning out.

Why conservatives love Barack Obama

American Conservative Declaring Forever War By Michael C. Desch
Giuliani chose the most hawkish team of foreign-policy advisors possible. His election would ensure neoconservative hegemony for years to come.

McCain closing gap with Romney

realclearpoliticsABC’s The Note US News Political Bulletin

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

Bill's magic touch bolsters Hillary
The ex-President has seized the reins to get his wife's faltering bandwagon back on track

H17 Daily Telegraph

MoD to open top secret UFO files

160 files dating back to 1950 to be released to public

H18 Independent Poll shock for Brown as voters say it's time for change

Voters believe it is "time for change" and that the next government should be a Conservative one, according to an opinion poll for The Independent.

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

• CTC (West Point) Sentinel, inaugural issue of new terrorism journal

The NSA Controls Popular Firewalls and 'Secure' Email Services

Analysis: Saudis aim to reform jihadis The Saudi program of rehabilitation for violent Islamic extremists, under which more than 1,500 have been released from jail in the kingdom, is drawing praise from U.S. officials, but some observers remain skeptical

National Nuclear Security Administration, Draft Plan To Transform Nuclear Weapons Complex

CIA needs more taping, experts say The videos could have given analysts valuable information about terrorism interrogations, according to some observers

Unmanned Systems Roadmap, 2007-2032 (PDF; 12 MB) Source: Office of the Secretary of Defense

Planning for Stability Operations: The Use of Capabilities-Based Approaches
Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies

Senior Qaeda Theologian Urges Followers to End Jihad - Eli Lake (New York Sun)

Al Qaeda in 2008: The Struggle for Relevance Stratfor

Who Owns the Vietnam War? - Arthur Herman, Commentary

Operation Stop Talking by Laura Rozen

Al-Qaeda Adapts its Methods in Iraq as Part of a Global Strategy

FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics; $1 Billion Project to Include Images of Irises and Faces...

Assurances over US biometric data Strict safeguards will prevent the world's biggest biometric database from being abused, US authorities say.

The African Front

By JOSHUA HAMMER Kenya’s remote north has become a battleground for rising Islamism and its pro-American opponents. Have aggressive post-9/11 policies fomented the very sectarianism they were meant to fight?

FBI Sought Authority To Detain Thousands Declassified Papers Detail Hoover Plan During Korean War

FBI Building World's Biggest ID Database

Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War

H20 Slate Remember Iraq?

Why the Democrats aren't ending the war. Fred Kaplan

the undercover economist Rationalizing Resolutions Can economics make you a better person? Tim Harford

CEPS Beyond the Bali Roadmap: The New International Climate Change Agenda Encompasses Trade

From Post-Autistic Economics Review, Dani Rodrik (Harvard): World Too Complex For One-Size-Fits-All Models.

as eugenics: Philip Jenkins reviews Gregory Clark’s A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World.

What pendulums do: A review of The Mind and the Market: Capitalism and Modern European Thought by Jerry Muller.

From TLS, more on Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence.

Human resources assumes a more strategic role, says Economist Intelligence Unit report

U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007 Source: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

The Great Divide By: Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein | The New Republic The key lesson to be drawn from the recently concluded U.N. climate conference in Bali is that the central issue for climate change is no longer the science. It is how rich and poor countries will divide the burden of solving the problem.

From Scientific American, a solar grand plan by 2050: Solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions.

Statistically, the global temps in 2007 come out to be the same as 2006 and every year since 2001. Has global warming stopped?... more»

The Portrait from Iraq - How the Press Has Covered Events on the Ground Source: Project for Excellent in Journalism

Investing in Social Entrepreneurship and Fostering Social Innovation

H21 Matthew Gentzkow, Edward L. Glaeser, and Claudia Goldin (NBER): The Rise of the Fourth Estate: How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered.

In the early 1900s Walter Lippman laid the groundrules for public debate in America — have the US media followed his prescriptions? A review of Liberty and the News by Walter Lippmann.

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