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TurcoPundit
4 February 2008
  February 04, 2008

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H1 Washington Post In Iraq, Three Wars Engage United States Separate but related wars include one against Shiite extremists, which is considered the most worrisome, according to senior staff of the Army division patrolling Baghdad

NYT Cross-Border Chases From Iraq OK, Document Says

McClatchy Clinton, McCain lead in bellwether Super Tuesday states Republican John McCain leads in all four corners of the country heading into a rush of primaries on Tuesday, while Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were locked in a close struggle for delegates coast to coast, according to a new series of McClatchy-MSNBC polls

Newsweek Clinton or Obama: Who's Best for the World?

by Fareed Zakaria Clinton has immense experience and is an attractive candidate. But she is terrified to act on her beliefs.

Guardian Pro-west incumbent wins Serbia poll Boris Tadic re-elected in Serbia's presidential election, beating nationalist Tomislav Nikolic

Washington PostNo Time for NATO Cold Feet A Chance to Cement the Peace In the Balkans -- and Beyond By Bruce P. Jackson

Democratic Stalemate By Robert D. Novak Don't expect a winner to emerge tomorrow -- or any time soon

NYT McCain Looks Confident; Democratic Race Tightens John McCain was striving to end the Republican race on Tuesday, while polls showed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s lead over Barack Obama was narrowing.

A Frail Economy Raises Pressure on Iran’s Rulers From fundamentalists to reformists, Iranians are talking more loudly about the need for a pragmatic approach.

Seeking a Path in Democracy’s Dead End The Bush administration has quietly come to terms with the police states in Central Asia.

Los Angeles Times Al Qaeda and WMD again linked A key operative who was reported slain is alive and leading the effort, officials say

Former Hussein supporters live in fear in Iraq Those who belonged to the dictator's party watch in horror as fellow ex-Baathists are killed, even beheaded.

McClatchy Iraqi de-Baathification law may force some key officials out A new law intended to reverse the firing of thousands of former Saddam Hussein-era officials during the U.S-led occupation of Iraq has taken effect, Iraq's presidency council announced Sunday in a statement. But it was uncertain whether the law would promote reconciliation between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, as the Bush administration hopes, or make matters worse

The Observer Culture is no excuse for China denying its people democracy Ian Buruma: Repressive regimes are playing on our colonial guilt, but we must stand up for those values to which oppressed people aspire

Ha’aretz Who will rebuild the IDF?In order to rehabilitate the IDF, Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi must put together the most professional and ethically minded team

IAEA chief brushes off concern over Arab nuclear development ElBaradei says all Arab nuclear activities under agency safeguard, adds progress made on Iran inquiry

• 'Winograd: Implications for US-Israeli Relations' by David Makovsky, The Washington Institute

From the Archive Looking Back, In Anger Time Magazine Apr 15, 1974

Al Awsat The Al-Qaeda/Israel Riddle : Mamoun Fandy, Ph.D. Why hasn't Al-Qaeda launched a single operation against Israel despite all the ...

The Times US plan for Afghan troop surge Push seen as only way of ensuring that elections next year go ahead without Taliban intimidation

Independent Revealed: British plan to build Taliban training camp

Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in Afghanistan as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides, intelligence sources have revealed

McClatchy Insurgencies Spread in Afghanistan and Pakistan

BBC Iraqi Baath law comes into effect A new law allowing former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to return to public life in Iraq is enacted

Financial Times For once, it is all about electability While bipartisan overtures have disappointed many Democrats and Republicans, activists put winning first, says Clive Crook

Jim Lobe McCain is Now the Neo-Con Candidate

9/11 Commissioner: 'We Had to Go Through Karl Rove'

Sy Hersh Confirms: Syrian Facility Bombed by Israel Was Not Nuclear

Carnegie Pakistan's Iranian Shadow

By Karim Sadjadpour

Woodrow Wilson Center The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the West: Confrontation or Cooperation in Eurasia?

Obama's Super Ad

US Energy Policy FAQ: The US Energy Mix, National Security and the Myths of Energy Independence

Tom Barnett KnoxNews Better days, just not right now



H2 Ömer TaşpınarBilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

America and the headscarf

ALİ H. ASLAN - [WASHINGTON] Tarihin yanlış tarafında olmak

Turkish Rebel PKK Accuses Israel of Spying for Turkey

ABD, Iraklı Kürtleri yine yarı yolda bırakacak gibi

PRESS DIGEST - Turkey - Feb 4

ABD, uydudan PKK kamplarını çekip Türkiye'ye veriyor

'Amerika Elinden Geleni Yapıyor'

EurasiaNet TURKEY: FREEDOM OF SPEECH AGAIN AN ISSUE

Turks Protest Plan to End Scarf Ban

''Türban'' protestosu dış basında

Mensur Akgün Türkiye'yi nasıl bilirsiniz

Google News Fırat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

PKK fed up with war, but not ready to ‘return home’

'Kerkûk Irak'ta bağımsız bir bölge olmalıdır'

Racon bozuldu...

Kürdistan’ı insansızlaştırma planı

Scotsman US embarrassed by Kurdish grab for oil-rich Kirkuk

Ahmet Altan Kandil Kampın'da

Dağlıca komutanı Dirik’e şok iddialar

Türkiye’nin tepkisini çeken PKK’nın İngiltere’deki faaliyetleri

PKK paralyzed, facing hard times in N. Iraq

AKP'nin Güneydoğu stratejisi

04:00 10 PKK'lı öldürüldü

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Dağlıca'da şok iddia

PKK is in shock

İtirafcı çiftten şok iddialar

Bingöl’de operasyon:10 terörist öldürüldü

PKK’ya İngiliz kıskacı

Sınıra güvenlik duvarı örülsün

Iraqi Turkoman Front Wants Ethnic Force in Kirkuk

Hasan Celal Güzel - Kürtlerin Lozan Konferansı'na gönderdiği mesaj

Mehmet Barlas PKK konusunda ‘çözüm’ hiç de yakın görünmüyor...

Fransa Kuzey Irak’a yerleşiyor

PKK'ya büyük darbe

Dağlıca saldırısına 400 PKK'lı katıldı

No regional conflicts over Kirkuk – Talabani

Should Turkey attack the PKK in Iraq?

Bingöl'de, 10 terörist öldürüldü

TURKEY, ISRAEL, REALPOLITIK

Kurds cry out against corruption (4): Are people greedy and ...

Kurds cry out against corruption: (5) Interview with head of ...

Shop-Owners Demonstrate in Iraqi Kurdish Duhok

Mısır-Türkiye gaz hattı yeniden gündemde

Fransa yarın Erbil'de temsilcilik açıyor

Two Iraqi Kurdish PUK Officials Relegated

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 2 February 2008

DTP mitinginde 'muz' izdihamı

Iraqi Kurd Official Calls on Kirkuk Kurds to Block Awakening Council

CPJ: Iraqi President Launches Lawsuit Against Kurdish Weekly

DTP'den başörtüsü çelişkisi

İçişleri Bakanlığı: DTP'ye izin vermedik

Kurdish representatives didn't attend conference on Kirkuk

Kurdish Women Hit Glass Ceiling
Institute for War and Peace Reporting

09:15 Akarcalı: Amerikan sigarasına verilen 1 doların 25 senti PKK'ya gidiyor

Talabani: Kerkük'te çatışma olmaz

TBMM'ye 'Sayın Öcalan'lı mektup

Media and Alliance Kurdish Aspect –

Kirkuk Tensions Hold Key to Iraqi Oil Production

Yavuz Donat Güneydoğu'dan bir başarı öyküsü

KIRKUK: US base comes under mortar fire AM/AE, Voices of Iraq ...

UN envoy meets local officials in Kerkuk

Turkish court releases 8 soldiers kidnapped by Kurdish rebels

Tahliye olan askerlerin birlikleri değişti

PKK'ya büyük darbe

PKK'ya karşı güvenlik duvarı

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Babacan: Gazze'de yaşananlar insanlık dramı

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İKT toplantısından İsrail'e kınama kararı çıktı

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DTP eyleminde polis muz dağıttı

Gül'ün Orta Asya seferinde sıra Kırgızistan ve Özbekistan'da

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Gül'den Denktaş'ı şoke eden ültimatom

Fera Tınç Avrupa ile birbirini dinleme zamanı

Bakoyyani: Hedefimiz, Türk-Yunan ilişkilerini tamamen iyileştirmek

Turkey says launches oil exploration in Aegean | International | Reuters

"Stratejik hedefimiz ilişkileri iyileştirmek"

İşte Türkiye’nin Lahey planı

Rauf Denktaş Esas ve ruh baki ise...

Erdal Şafak Işık sönerse

Lagendijk: Türban üniversitede serbest olmalı

Türklerin oturduğu binada yangın: 9 ölü

Avrupa’daki Türk imajı!

Turkey must lift headscarf ban for EU: formin Reuters

'2007 reformlar için kayıp bir yıl oldu'

Haluk Özdalga Türkiye'nin ekümenik açmazı

04:00 'Timvios davasında' Rumlar AIHM'den bilgi saklamış

Avusturya Türkiye'nin AB üyeliğine duygusal yaklaşıyor

Babacan: 2008 AB yılı olacak

Ermenilerin, 1,2 milyon dolarlık tehdidi susturamadı

Yiğit Bulut ‘AB süreci’, ‘Türban bölünmesi’ kadar tehlikeli

Behind the scenes of US policy in 1974
Cyprus Mail

Reformlar geliyor 2008 AB yılı olacak

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Taçi: Bağımsızlık sürecinde Türkiye yanımızda olsun

Atina’da Kardak dayağı

KKTC açıklarında görülmemiş korsanlık

04:00 AB'den Genelkurmay'a 12 milyon euro hibe

Schröder'den KKTC'ye enerji işbirliği önerisi

10:15 Rehn'den, Türkiye'yi şikayet eden Italyan üyeye yanıt...

Karamanlis’ Ankara visit highly symbolic, but symbols matter

Detectives look to Cyprus for Securitas millions Police believe suspect is on northern coast in area known as criminal haven

[M. Fethullah Gülen] Bizim de kendimiz olduğumuz günler vardı

Serpil YILMAZ
Sabah-atv'de geri sayım başladı

The writer as a nomad

İfadesine bakılırsa serveti de ’küçük’

Saros'da doğalgaz sondajı başladı

AK Parti'de yerel seçim parolası: Akademiye kayıt ol, adaylığın kolaylaşsın

Kanatlı kâbus geri döndü

İTÜ’nün ilk Türk uydusu hazır

Teknoloji parkı gibi!

Hızlı tren mi demiştiniz!

10 milyon öğrenci 'kitap kurdu' oldu

Karadeniz’den Nazi filosu çıktı

Türkiye'nin nüfusunu en iyi CIA tahmin etti!

MİT, çalık grubu için olumlu görüş bildirdi

Türkler Marlboro deneme tahtası mı?

Genelkurmay’ın prestij kitabı çıktı

3 Şubat 2008 Basın Özeti

4 Şubat 2008 Basın Özeti

H3 PKK'lıların en büyük korkusu kara harekâtı

PKK'lıların en büyük korkusu kara harekâtı

Kritik hafta

AKP o gömleği hálá çıkarmadı

Mevzubahis türbansa mutabakat teferruattır!

ANITKABİR'E SIĞMADILAR

En büyük kitlesel tepki

Başörtüsü yasağı bu hafta kalkıyor

Mustafa Akyol Üniversitede ateist dikta çağrısı

Bülent Kenes Which ‘people’s will’? The one in the squares or the one in the ballot box?

Soli Özel Yorgunluk

Birlikte dağa çıktılar

AKP'nin mazlum edebiyatı bitti

Taha AKYOL Çoğulcu Türkiye

Fikret BİLA Baykal: Başbakan İslam'a şart ekliyor

MHP'den "16 büyükşehir" hedefi

Yazık ki, ne yazık! Tarhan Erdem

Faruk Loğoğlu Is it just a dream? Is it a trap?

Cengiz Çandar

Cevdet Aşkın

Ahmet Taşgetiren

'AKP'nin istediği gibi olmayız'

AKP kongresinde Ata posteri indirildi

Tufan Türenç Tarih, Bahçeli hakkında şaşmaz hükmünü verecek

MHP'nin siyasal doğruları

AK Parti kongresinde Atatürk posteri krizi

Sanat dünyası yasağa tepkili: Saçmalık bitsin

AKP-MHP gizli protokolü yok

'Sürekli laiklik elden gidiyor dersek, sağlıklı bir tartışma yapılamaz'

Mustafa Akyol How Atatürk's Church Became an Ultra-Nationalist Base

AKP ve MHP'den üniversitelere: Derdiniz ne?

Ardan Zentürk ‘Enerji savaşı’nda kritik dönem...

Hasan CEMAL Atatürk'ü rahat bırakmak, darbecilerden kurtarmak!

Ekümeniklik uyarısı

Semih İDİZ Babacan'ın türbana AB kılıfı uydurması samimi olamaz

Alevilerden AKP karşıtı miting

Baykal'a kızan 630 kişi CHP'den istifa etti

Değişiklik türbanı serbest bırakmaz

Türban, siyaseti raydan çıkardı

Şamil Tayyar Dağlıca’daki şehit babasına cezaevi yolu

Darbe söylentileri 40 milyar $ kaçırdı

Serdar AkinanTuzağa düştünüz...

İsmail Küçükkaya Kim ne demişti?

Kanadoğlu: Türban yasağı kaldırılamaz

Müsaitseniz oy istiyoruz

Mısır'da işçilik maliyeti 150 dolar, Türkiye'de 800 dolar

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası

Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri Günlük Haftalık - Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700 VOA TSİ 06:30 Dış Basında Türkiye Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey Turquie Türkei TurcoPundit

Taha Kıvanç: Çabalama kaptan

Yusuf Ziya Cömert: Meğer 'annelerimiz'in başörtüsü de sorunmuş

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Kürşat Bumin: Öğrenciler ne diyor?

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Tamer Korkmaz: Faşizmin dört atlısı

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Hakan Albayrak: 'İsrail askerlerine gerçek savaş da öğretiliyor mu?'

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Kürşat Bumin: Ali Nesin'in imzası 'Türbana sürpriz destek' mi?

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Tamer Korkmaz: Yüzleşmeye hazır mısınız?

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Hayrettin Karaman: Bilim ve din

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Nazif Gürdoğan: Brüksel yeni Kızıl Elma'dır

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Cevdet Akçalı: Türban yasağının anatomisi

İsmet Berkan - Ben sapık mıyım?

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Altan Öymen - Bugün mazeret var mı?

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Haluk Şahin - Bu gidiş iyi değil

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Murat Yetkin - Türban meselesi, kadın meselesi

Yavuz Baydar Tempest in a headscarf

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Hakkı Devrim - Bir Molla Kasım çıktı, beni sigaya çekti. Cevap vermeye çalıştım. Konu türban'dı

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H. Gökhan Özgün - Bu tişört siyasi bir simgedir!

Fikret BİLA Atatürk'ün huzurunda türban tepkisi

Güneri CIVAOĞLU 'Son durak' listesi

Kadri GÜRSEL Japonlarda 'wa', bizde yok

Derya SAZAK Ağca komplosu

Ece TEMELKURAN Başörtüsünün trajedisi/komedisi

Ömer Lütfi Mete Yavrusunu boğan laik

Gülay Göktürk Artık tek "üniversite" yok

Hakan Aygün TÜSİAD türban özgürlüğünden neden vazgeç...

Fatih Çekirge Kurtar onu Hikmet Abi

Mehmet Altan Sesli eleştiriler...

Academics raise voices in support of headscarf freedom

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15:35 AKP kongresinde Atatürk posteri krizi

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15:30 MHP'li Toskay, ÜAK'ın bildirisini ''Mini 28 Şubat süreci''ne benzetti

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14:55 Kanadoğlu: Yapılan değişiklik türbanı serbest bırakmaz

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10:40 Bülent Arınç, sessizliğini türban konusuyla bozdu

Üniversitede zulüm bitecek

Hasat krizi çıktı açıklama geldi

Başörtüsü yasağı bu hafta kalkıyor

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MHP: Siyasî rant peşinde değiliz

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'Yasakçı eylemler ülkeye zarar verir'

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Arif Sağ, diline hâkim olamadı

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Alevilerle CHP'nin arasına Milli Marş girdi

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MHP'nin 'Nevruz teklifi'ne DTP desteği

Yasakçı rektörlere tepki: Üniversiteler milletin, birilerinin ideolojik merkezi değil

Siyaset üstü uyarı

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Asıl bölücü ’laiklik yıkılıyor’ diyendir

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İrticai faaliyetten MEB müsteşarlığına

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Dağlıca sanığı 8 ere tahliye

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Türban Türkiye’yi dışarıda zayıflatıyor

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Süreç, uzlaşıncaya kadar durdurulmalı

Diyanet-Sen: Başörtüsü Allah emridir

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Yerel yönetimlerin kaderi belli oluyor

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Ak Parti'ye büyük katılım

AKP’nin memuruna ‘Sezer gitti’ ataması

Bağış: Asıl beyni örtülülerden korkalım

Can Dündar 210 kişi din değiştirdi

Babamın kitabını oku

Türbana ’Evet’çiler AKP’yle temasta

Mini bir 28 Şubat görüyorum

Mümtazer Türköne Science of the church

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Declaring freedom in universities

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Cyprus’ history from 1960 to 2008

Türban fay hattı gibi!

İki din dersi geliyor

İlhan Selçuk MHP'ye yönelik övgülerini geri aldı

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AK Parti'ye provokasyon girişimi mi?

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Oy oranımız yüzde 52'ye çıktı

Türban karşıtlarına Masonluk suçlaması

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Başörtüsüne özgürlük bu hafta Meclis'te

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'Baykal istifa' sesleri yükseliyor

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CHP'den büyük istifalar başladı

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'Başörtüsü bireysel hak'

MHP'li Toskay'dan 'türban' sözlerine düzeltme

Türbana ’Evet’çiler AKP’yle temasta

'Başörtülüye iyi not veremem diyen rektör, çağ dışında kalmıştır'

Ertuğrul Özkök

Ahmet HakanGözyaşlarımızı bitti mi sandın? Tanrım! Acayip bölündük

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt ÜlseverEski liberallere sitem

Ferai Tınç Eğer bunlar olmasaydı yasağa karşı çıkmak daha kolaydı

Enis BerberoğluÇete tanığı sanık

Soner Yalçın ’Şulebaş türban’ tasarımından kara çarşafa uzanan sıradışı bir hayat

Takiye Murat Belge

Atatürk yaşasaydı hangi konuda ne yapardı bilemeyiz

Oktay Ekşi Tuzağa dikkat

Özdemir İnce

Mehmet Barlas

Mehmet Y YılmazKimsenin korkmasına gerek yok

MUHARREM SARIKAYATürban düğümü...

ERDAL ŞAFAKSınırları değiştirmek

ERGUN BABAHANÖldüğüyle kalmak

Başörtüsünde 'sanal yasak'tan 'gerçek yasak'a gerileme (mi?)

Mehmet Tezkan

Orhan Kemal 1941 yılında 2000’i nasıl hayal etmişti!

EMRE AKÖZDoğa bilimcileri tanrıtanımaz mı?

İhsan Yılmaz Anti-modern kemalist

Doğu Ergil The headscarf debate

Kapıyı gösterdi!

AKP Genel Başkan Yardımcısı Fırat'tan, "Türbanlıya ders vermem" diyen öğretim üyelerine gözdağı!

Fikri Sağlar: It’s us or the gangs

Experts discuss why Turks unable to eliminate gangs?

Sociological portrait of the Gülen movement

Umur Talu

Arslan Bulut ABD'nin Türkiye’deki çeteleri ve Fehmi Koru!

Can Ataklı Anayasa çalışmaları durdu galiba

Mehmet Tezkan Türbanı laikliğe aykırı bulan AKPCİ yazarın dâhiyane formülü

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Türbancılık ve otoriter muhafazakârlık

NAZLI ILICAKBaşörtüsü konusunda önemli uyarı Eski çamlar bardak oldu

MAHMUT ÖVÜRİstanbul'la 'maytap' geçiliyor!

YAVUZ DONATBir ihtilal masalı

New channel being opened between civil society, lawmakers

How we lost Turkey and how we may recuperate it? Cengiz AKTAR

Şükrü Küçükşahin Batı’dan almadığımız ahlaksızlıklar!

HAMDULLAH ÖZTÜRK - Türban ve Cumhuriyet'in temelleri

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MUSTAFA ÜNAL - Özgürlük korkusu

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MÜMTAZ'ER TÜRKÖNE - Kilisenin bilimi

Tuncay Özkan'dan parti kurma sinyali

DSP: Türban süreci durdurulsun

MHP: Siyasi rant peşinde değiliz

MHP'ye en büyük destek DTP'den

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Vakit CHP'lileri suçüstü yakaladı

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Rektörler 'türban'a niçin karşı çıkıyor?

13:35 Karadeniz'de çok zengin petrol ve doğalgaz rezervleri müjdesi

[ANALYSIS] Turkey’s long-winded quest for oil

12:50 ATO'dan 'Paranın Efendileri' araştırması...

22 bin ’süper zengin’in 100 milyar doları var, 8 milyar doları bizde

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Borsa yerdeyse faiz ve döviz neden ayakta?

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
Ankara 'orta ölçekli dalga' diyor, iyimserliğini koruyor

Deniz Gökçe Resesyon olasılığı aslında düştü!

Banka ile kavga pahalıya mal oluyor!
Uğur Gürses

Ercan KumcuBorsa endeksi neden önemli Eskiye dönüş dünya ekonomilerini kurtarır mı

04:00 S&P: Mali disiplin önemli hale geliyor

04:00 Türkiye'nin 'diş' açığı bir türlü kapanmıyor

Asım Erdilek Can we decouple and be happy?

Ertuğ Yaşar Merkez Bankası faiz indirmemeli

Hasan Ersel Piyasa sisteminin son kurtarıcısı

Erdal Sağlamİş dünyası gündemden çok rahatsız

Turkey as an emerging knowledge-based economy

Osman ULAGAY Türkiye de kendi düzeltmesini yaşayacak

Dışarısı enflasyonu ne kadar yükseltir? Fatih Özatay

Aydın Ayaydın Piyasaların yeni senaryoları

Male executives, female staff dominate Turkish financial scene

Türban tartışması ve ekonomi
Baran Tuncer

Devlet bütçede frene bastı

Deniz Gökçe ABD’de felaket işsizlik mi var?

H4 New York Times McCain Looks Confident; Democratic Race Tightens John McCain was striving to end the Republican race on Tuesday, while polls showed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s lead over Barack Obama was narrowing.

Cross-Border Chases From Iraq OK, Document Says

Pro-West Incumbent Wins Serbia’s Presidential Runoff

A Frail Economy Raises Pressure on Iran’s Rulers From fundamentalists to reformists, Iranians are talking more loudly about the need for a pragmatic approach.

Seeking a Path in Democracy’s Dead End The Bush administration has quietly come to terms with the police states in Central Asia.

Yahoo Deal Is Big, but Is It the Next Big Thing? In Silicon Valley, buying rather than building from the bottom up is seen as counter to the reinvention culture.

A Statesman Without Borders By JAMES TRAUB Can Bernard Kouchner, a 60-something, high-energy, danger-loving doctor turned foreign minister, make France a global player again?

Sunnis Say Law to Aid Ex-Baathists May Backfire

FRANK RICH

Ask Not What J.F.K. Can Do for Obama What has often been forgotten is that Barack Obama’s weaknesses resemble John F. Kennedy’s at least as much as his strengths.

Democrats Flood States With Ads as Tuesday Nears A concentrated burst of advertising is putting the candidates’ strategies out in the open and is highlighting the diverging financial fortunes of the two parties

Google Works to Torpedo Microsoft Bid for Yahoo Google is making an unusually aggressive effort to block Microsoft’s $44.6 billion hostile bid for Yahoo.

In Democratic Families, Politics Makes for Estranged Bedfellows Political dynasties and ordinary people alike have found their houses divided between support for Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

Blunt Critic of Musharraf Is Held Again

French President and Ex-Model Wed, Quietly

Hamas and Egypt to Work on Sealing Gaza Border

How Democracy Produced a Monster - Ian Kershaw, New York Times What happened in Germany in 1933 reminds us of the need for cooperation to restrain potential “mad dogs” in world politics before they are dangerous enough to bite.

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Evangelicals a Liberal Can Love Bleeding-heart liberals could accomplish far more if they reached out to build common cause with bleeding-heart conservatives

Speaking Truth Without Power

By RON KLAIN The blogosphere has been effective in changing the political debate, but less successful in promoting its preferred candidate

Listening to the Jobs Report As the economic slowdown continues, Congress should provide relief by extending unemployment benefits in the stimulus package.

To Resist Hitler and Survive By SUSAN NEIMAN Isn’t it time to send a message to Germany’s children — and everyone else’s — that will help them to stand up against present evils as well as mourning past ones?

'Forgotten Continent' Why doesn’t the U.S. pay more attention to Latin America?

PAUL KRUGMAN Clinton, Obama, Insurance The difference between the health care plans of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could well be the difference between achieving universal health coverage and falling far short.

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WILLIAM KRISTOL Dyspepsia on the Right Will conservatives sulk if John McCain is the Republican presidential nominee?

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ROGER COHEN The Cold War as Ancient History The subject of communism seems about as riveting and relevant to post-wall German high school students as the Holy Roman Empire

Late and Lame on Warming President Bush’s brief discussion of climate change in his final State of the Union address seemed especially disconnected from reality

Empty Olympic Promises China appears determined to silence anyone who dares to tell the truth about its abuses

H5 Washington PostNo Time for NATO Cold Feet A Chance to Cement the Peace In the Balkans -- and Beyond By Bruce P. Jackson

Democratic Stalemate By Robert D. Novak Don't expect a winner to emerge tomorrow -- or any time soon

Serbians Reelect Pro-Western President Turnout High as Kosovo Prepares to Declare Independence

Editorial Mr. Clinton and the Tycoon

Their joint visit to a Central Asian dictator raises questions about the former president's fundraising -- and free-lancing.

Iraqi Leaders Allow Controversial Baathist Law to Take Effect

In Iraq, Three Wars Engage United States Separate but related wars include one against Shiite extremists, which is considered the most worrisome, according to senior staff of the Army division patrolling Baghdad

Obama, Clinton Are Even in Poll

Race for Democratic nomination nearly tied; McCain leads his GOP rivals, Post-ABC poll shows. Poll Data | GRAPHIC

The Boom Was a Bust For Ordinary People By Barbara Ehrenreich

Far removed from Wall Street, most Americans have been living in their own personal recession for years.

Investors We Need Not Fear

By George F. Will Why no one needs to worry about large foreign investments in the U.S.

Obama, Clinton Are Even In Poll

McCain Now Clearly GOP's Front-Runner After Primary Wins

Washington Post-ABC News poll

U.S. Concern Over Economy Is Highest in Years

Al-Qaeda Figure Moved Freely in Pakistan Commander Killed Last Week Had Lived in Northwest for Years

9/11 Panel Chief's Contacts With White House Cited Calls From Rove Came During Probe

On Campaign Trail, Lobbies Spend Big but Gain Little As Presidential Candidates Focus on Economy and Terrorism, Other Issues Fade to the Background

Huckabee Rejects Spoiler Role, Vows to Continue Race Facing heat from backers of Mitt Romney, who say his continued presence in the race for the GOP nomination will hand that prize to Sen. John McCain, Mike Huckabee is not standing down.

The Economy Primary Addressing concerns about the economy has been key to winning Republican contests. So far, no candidate has dominated the issue.

Romney, McCain Battle for Right

Rivals Question Each Other's Credentials

Egyptians Reseal Border, Cutting Access From Gaza Hamas, in Turnabout, Aids With Closure

I'm for: Obama | Clinton

Michael Chabon: A vote for Obama is a vote against the phobocracy. | Erica Jong: A vote for Hillary is a vote against the patriarchy.

Critics Take the Lead in Defining Bush's Legacy

Defense Bill Aids Pakistani Paramilitary Group

A Pair of Allies, Self-Destructing

By Jim Hoagland, Hamid Karzai and Pervez Musharraf face extremists at home and skeptics abroad.

Why Republicans Like Obama

By Peter Wehner Many conservatives who would battle Hillary Clinton would find it hard to oppose Barack Obama

5 Myths About Earth-Friendly Energy

By Lisa Margonelli We need to treat green energy like a real energy industry -- with a vigorous mix of diplomacy, laws and incentives -- and dispelling some key myths.

Iraqis Say Death Toll In 2 Blasts Is Near 100 Female Bombers May Have Had Mental Handicaps

Editorial Help Wanted in Darfur

The Bush administration should put some muscle behind deploying a peacekeeping force.

Super Tuesday's Shallowness By David S. Broder Too many elections on one day are bad for voters and the candidates.

For Japan, a Long, Slow Slide

Declines in Productivity, Population Combining to Stifle Economic Growth

Bill Clinton's Legacy How Former President Is Viewed Could Affect Vote

Pentagon Disputes Report on National Guard, Reserves

Contenders Highlight GOP's Ideological Struggle

The Boomers Had Their Day. Make Way for the Millennials. Unlike the young baby boomers, Millennials want to strengthen the political system, not tear it down.

Pakistan Kicked Me Out. Others Were Less Lucky. If journalism is the 'first rough draft of history,' then Pakistan's history is suffering.

Getting Past the '60s? It's Not Going to Happen.Getting Past the '60s? It's Not Going to Happen. By Rick Perlstein

The fact is, the '60s are still with us, and will remain so for the imaginable future.

We'll Never See Another Lincoln-Douglas By Allen C. Guelzo It's unlikely that a candidate like Abraham Lincoln would survive the first click of the remote.

The Case for Disunity By Susan Dunn

GOP Senators Reassess Views About McCain His Old Foes Still Wary Of His Pugnacious Style

Why Voters Play Follow-the-Leader

What do you think is more dangerous? Terrorists getting their hands on a biological weapon that can be smuggled into the country or another hurricane like Katrina? Which is the smarter way to keep social security solvent? Raise the retirement age or raise taxes? How can the current economic crisis...

Bush Aims To Hire More Diplomats

Foreign Service Would Gain 1,100 Positions

H6 Guardian Pro-west incumbent wins Serbia poll Boris Tadic re-elected in Serbia's presidential election, beating nationalist Tomislav Nikolic

Clinton attacks as Obama closes gap

Clinton attempts to halt Obama's poll momentum ahead of Super Tuesday contest

Our media have become mass producers of distortion Nick Davies: An industry whose task should be to filter out falsehood has become a conduit for propaganda and second hand news

In this great meritocracy, only one thing matters: who is your daddy?
Gary Younge: To change the political sclerosis gripping their country, Americans need a president distinguished by his lack of pedigree

A Middle East free of WMD
Manouchehr Mottaki: Iran is a responsible nation and wants to see stability in the region. The west should support us

Whitehall draws up new rules on language of terror Phrasebook designed to avoid blaming Muslims for extremism

Calls for statement on bugged MP

Questions over why police bugged Muslim Labour MP as he was visiting terror suspect in jail

Egyptian soldiers seal Gaza border after two weeks Egyptian security forces close border with Gaza Strip nearly two weeks after the wall was first breached

Obama: the transatlantic president?

Who's listening? State surveillance: Which official bodies in this country have the power to look into your private mail, your telephone records, or your internet communications - and in what circumstances can they do it?

With a friend like Pervez

Adrian Levy Please stop giving the Pakistani president the benefit of the doubt. He doesn't deserve it

We're the Obama dads

Terry Mancour US elections 2008: Why do middle-aged, apolitical men like us back Obama? Because he's the kind of father we try to be every day

Rough enough for you?

Richard Adams President Bush says the American economy is 'just in a rough patch' - while US manufacturing jobs disappear at an alarming rate

Google fears Microsoft's Yahoo bid

Microsoft purchase of Yahoo would create an unacceptably dominant online business, says Google

Law lords to rule whether decision to invade Iraq warrants inquiry

The Observer Culture is no excuse for China denying its people democracy
Ian Buruma: Repressive regimes are playing on our colonial guilt, but we must stand up for those values to which oppressed people aspire

Leader Europe should put a brake on Beijing's excesses Beijing feels secure in the belief that domestic repression bears no relationship to successful global economic integration

H7 US no longer world's only economic giant Houston Chronicle

Newsweek Enough Blame for All New book reveals clashes behind the 9/11 probe

A Question of Arab Unity
Aljazeera.net,

OxAN IRAN/GULF STATES: Warming ties represent US setback

Al Awsat The Role of the Parliament in Iran

More for less
An ex-oil giant boss outlines his vision for a low-carbon economy

Al Hayat An Opportunity for an Arab Role to Restore the Lost Balance in the Region Raghida Dergham - The opportunity is ripe now for a distinguished Arab role in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon and with both the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. There is also an urgent need to formulate and develop this role both for defensive and offensive purposes

The Rafah Crossing: A New Intifada or an Invasion?

Elias Harfouch - There is nothing new in Hamass position on the border agreement concluded in 2005 following the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip since this rejection is in keeping with behavior that has become natural in Hamass political activity as it rejects any agreement that is not to its liking or that is not in harmony with its interests

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

Iraqi Baath law comes into effect
A new law allowing former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to return to public life in Iraq is enacted

US Accidentally Kills 9 Iraqi Civilians

Iraq Oil Rush Delivers $15B - Martin Fletcher, New York Post

Were Baghdad bombers willing suicides or victims?

Patrolling Iraq
Watch US troops as they tackle Iraqi insurgents

[Fbis] OSC: Iraq -- AMS Says US Air Bombardment Kills 20 in Al-Mada'in Area, Blames US, Govt

Iranian envoy warns Dutch not to show film Dutch soldiers serving with NATO in Afghanistan will face new threats if their country allows the broadcast of an anti-Islamic film, Iran's ambassador to the Netherlands has said.

Iraq ends cooperation with Austria OMV over its Kurdish oil deals

Iraq president says will sign Baath party law

A Desperate Act of Terrorism in Iraq - Sydney Daily Telegraph editorial

Lebanese man 'killed by Israelis'

US 'accidentally' bombs contractors
Condolences meted out as Sunni guards taken to American hospitals.

Report: Iran tests satellite rocket launcher

The lot of women in the Middle East

BBC Monitoring Headlines, Quotes From Iraqi Press 3 Feb 08

BBC Monitoring Headlines, Quotes From Iraqi Press 3 Feb 08 - Package B

H9 Ha’aretz Who will rebuild the IDF?In order to rehabilitate the IDF, Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi must put together the most professional and ethically minded team

Barak: We urgently need a fence along Egyptian border

IAEA chief brushes off concern over Arab nuclear development ElBaradei says all Arab nuclear activities under agency safeguard, adds progress made on Iran inquiry

U.S. Methodist Church renews drive for divestment from Israel

Shin Bet: Militants smuggled advanced arms into Gaza Strip

Obama, Clinton and Iran: The vote that made the difference

Bar’el Since he does not intend to resign If Olmert scares us with the right, it would be better for him not to be the first to surrender to it

Counter-strike IDF using computer simulation to train troops for Gaza.

A moral flawOlmert believes he can continue determining the fate of the country, and the public is willing to allow him to do this.

Jerusalem Post PM: Winograd not a source of joy

Olmert says war report is an opportunity to fix flaws, rebuild where necessary and lead Israel forward.

US anti-missile ship to dock in Haifa

AEGIS defense system could be used in the event of an Iranian missile attack against Israel

Jews could be key to 'Tsunami Tuesday' Jewish voters tend to vote at higher levels than the general public, could make decisive contribution

Trust Obama on Israel


He understands that no one yet knows whether Palestinians are really ready for peace

Reckless reckoning


Whose country is Pat Buchanan writing about?

Winograd: 'Lack of clear policy weakens Israel'

Analysis: Lebanon - a return to civil war?
Recent violence offers latest evidence that political stalemate could turn into renewed civil conflict.

Why blame it all on the neocons?

[ JONATHAN TOBIN

Give the Diaspora a phone number

[ PIERRE BESNAINOU

Yedioth Ahronoth 'This won't happen again'

Mubarak's spokesman says Egypt will not tolerate another breach of its border with Gaza

Justifiable but late

Decision to launch ground operation was right; timing was terribly wrong, Martin Sherman says

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

From the Archive Looking Back, In Anger Time Magazine Apr 15, 1974

DEBKAfile Reports: Hamas lengthens its border with Israel by 220 km and gains Egyptian de facto recognition

DEBKAfile: Barak rescues Olmert from free-fall over damning Lebanon War report

'Jews in America' reviewed...

by Joseph Epstein.

Israel and Hamas appear to be nearing a deal for the return of captive soldier Gilad Shalit.

Winograd: Wartime Failure, Political Survivor - Washington Times editorial

Israelis told to prepare 'rocket rooms' for war...

Al Hayat The Fallout from the Gaza Earthquake Patrick Seale - The mass break-out of some 700,000 Palestinians from Israel’s open-air prison at Gaza has profoundly changed the political landscape of the Middle East. In magnitude, it can be compared to the impact on Europe of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Nothing will be the same again. There can be no return to the past

Shin Bet chief reports: Masses of high-quality weaponry, such as long-range rockets, roll into Gaza through the breached Sinai border

H10 Christian Science Monitor Market bombings: Baghdad locals want security, not Iraqi police The Monitor accompanied a high-level militia member on a walk through an area near Friday's bombing.

The world can't ignore the Al Qaeda and Taliban threat in Afghanistan A surge by the US and its allies is needed in the country.

How to untangle the politics of Super Tuesday primaries Clinton, Obama, McCain and Romney compete for 42 percent of all delegates.

Will Huckabee's campaign encourage evangelicals to vote for a Democrat? The former Arkansas governor's positions on "liberal" social issues may herald a political realignment of evangelicals.

Latino vote critical for Clinton on Super Tuesday With stepped up campaigning, Obama seeks to make inroads into Clinton's Hispanic support.

U.S. job losses raise recession worries In the first such loss in four years, 17,000 jobs were shed in January

Cut undersea Internet cables slow India's connectivity Three vital undersea cables were cut last week, but India's IT sector coped well.

In Kosovo, Serbs vote in pivotal presidential election The breakaway province is expected to declare independence from Serbia imminently.

If Chad coup succeeds, Darfur crisis could deepen Rebels stormed Chad's capital, delaying arrival of EU troops to help refugees.

ASIA

WP For Japan, a Long, Slow Slide Declines in Productivity, Population Combining to Stifle Economic Growth

BBC Nuclear fears
US concerned about internal threat to Pakistan's bomb

The Observer Culture is no excuse for China denying its people democracy Ian Buruma: Repressive regimes are playing on our colonial guilt, but we must stand up for those values to which oppressed people aspire

Leader Europe should put a brake on Beijing's excesses
Beijing feels secure in the belief that domestic repression bears no relationship to successful global economic integration

LOWY Institute India should play its part

Hudson Musharraf Muddies Pakistan's Image

NYT Great Firewall of China Faces Online Rebels The Chinese government’s censorship of Web sites with no discernible political content has fostered a backlash.

Afghanistan Study Group Report - General James Jones, USMC (Ret), and Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering, The Center for the Study of the Presidency

Khalilzad for Afghan President? - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times


Afghanistan a Nasty War We Can Never Win - Simon Jenkins, London Times

More in Afghanistan - Max Boot, Commentary


Way Open for Hope in Helmand - James Holland, London Daily Telegraph


Heart of the Afghan Struggle - The Independent editorial

Taiwan Stakes Its Claim on Disputed Isle

Philippines Raises Protest

This time, Beijing's disaster response is open, sensitive

Going beyond deploying troops to manage crowds, officials have fanned out across snowstorm-hit areas to reassure residents

H11 IHT

EUROPE European press review

BBC Serbia election victory for Tadic President Boris Tadic wins Serbia's run-off presidential poll, beating challenger Tomislav Nikolic.

In pictures: Tadic victorious

Q&A: Serbian presidential election

Kosovo issue hangs over vote

EU 'should ban inefficient cars'

The EU should ban the sale of cars that do under 35 miles to the gallon, the ex-chairman of oil giant Shell says.

[Fbis] OSC: Serbia: Analysts Predict Difficult Time Ahead for Kostunica's Cabinet

Serbia's choice: the EU or Russia

Serbs are voting in a knife-edge presidential election that has effectively become a referendum on whether to choose the European Union or Russia as its closest ally.

Europe’s forgotten neighbor

H12 RFE/RL

Woodrow Wilson Center The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the West: Confrontation or Cooperation in Eurasia?

NYT Seeking a Path in Democracy’s Dead End The Bush administration has quietly come to terms with the police states in Central Asia.

Google News Azerbaijan

Just Putin Being Putin - New York Post editorial


Putin Behind the Curtain - Oliver North, Washington Times


Losing Belgrade, Russia's Gain - Jason Epstein, National Review


A Tense Run-off in Serbia - Ian Bancroft, Guardian

H13 The Times Tadic claims victory amid tension over Kosovo The pro-European Boris Tadic beat off a tough challenge from ultranationalist Tomislav Nikolic to keep Serbia facing West

East or West? The moment of truth for Serbia

Surge of support puts Obama level with Clinton Support for Barack Obama gains momentum in California, Arizona, New Jersey and Missouri before key primaries on Tuesday

Will the roof fall in this year?

One Conservative commitment does not match the reality of the world's economic outlook

William Rees-Mogg

Europe lacks scope to revive economy When politicians, like the EU's Barroso, start assuring that 'the economic fundamentals are sound', start to worryRosemary Righter

Winds of warThe interests of wind power and national security must be squared

Wedding fails to impress French voters Nicolas Sarkozy's secret marriage to the Italian model Carla Bruni seems to have done little to help the French President

US plan for Afghan troop surge

Push seen as only way of ensuring that elections next year go ahead without Taliban intimidation

Sunday Times Police bugged Muslim MPScotland Yard's anti-terrorist squad bugged a high-profile Labour Muslim MP during meetings with one of his constituents

Polls show Obama surge in key Super Tuesday statesSupport for Barack Obama gains momentum in California, Arizona, New Jersey and Missouri before key primaries on Tuesday

Afghanistan is a war we can never win Britain’s commanders ignored every warning that the Taliban were the toughest fighters on earth

Simon Jenkins

Don’t screw up, Democrats, Barack Obama is your man If you’re the next generation of Democrat, trying to appeal to the centre of the country, Obama is your candidate

Wall Street Journal

Cost of Iraq War May Reignite Debate

The cost of U.S. military operations in Iraq is rising rapidly, and could reignite the national debate about the war, which has taken a back seat to the economy as an issue for most voters this election year.

Obama Closes In on Clinton

Clinton has lost most of her polling lead over Obama. McCain has surged ahead in Republican polls, and a big win could seal his nomination. The close Democratic race is likely to remain up in the air

Sarkozy's Vows
The brief courtship of singer and ex-model Carla Bruni Tedeschi might have got him off track. But only the French President can get himself back on course.
Review & Outlook

The Color of Charity
To each according to his race and gender. Review & Outlook

My Plan for Shared Prosperity
By Hillary Clinton Of all the candidates in either party, I have the most aggressive strategy to lower health-care costs.

The Obama Opportunity
By Janet Napolitano, Kathleen Sebelius and Claire McCaskill
Democrats should force Republicans into a fight about the future.

McCain and the Supreme Court
By Steven G. Calabresi and John O. McGinnis
Six of nine justices will be 70 or older in January of next year.

The Maastricht Criteria for Banking

Crisis Comparisons

The End of Gentlemen-Club Banking

H14 Financial Times For once, it is all about electability While bipartisan overtures have disappointed many Democrats and Republicans, activists put winning first, says Clive Crook

Google weighs in against Microsoft oogle raised a red flag over Microsoft’s unsolicited takeover offer for Yahoo, arguing it could open the way for the software developer to extend its PC monopoly to the internet

Short-term pain for long-term gain Why would a smart leader such as Steve Ballmer sacrifice so much of Microsoft’s, and his own, share value, asks Frank Partnoy.

Nato’s Afghan test Nato is not winning in Afghanistan, which risks becoming a failed state and haven for global jihadism. A recent report argues that Nato’s future as a credible alliance is at stake

China learns the lessons of Unocal In 2005, the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Company tried to gatecrash a merger between US oil producers, and failed. State-owned companies are opting now to build stakes

Tough guys Gordon Brown and David Cameron are trying to outbid each other over new police crime-fighting powers. Both have made it clear they want to relax stop and search laws

Pro-west Tadic wins Serbia poll Boris Tadic, Serbia’s pro-western president, defeated Tomislav Nikolic, his nationalist rival, in a bitterly contested election fought under the shadow of the imminent loss of the disputed territory of Kosovo

Little appetite for battle over EU treaty French parliamentarians will gather in a special session to approve the Lisbon treaty without a public vote, a move aimed at putting Paris back at the heart of the bloc

Reprieve for Olmert from coalition ally Israel’s prime minister survives the latest threat to his embattled tenure as the Labour party stays in spite of a scathing report into its handling of the 2006 Lebanon war

Lebanon arrests soldiers over riots Authorities have taken in three officers and eight soldiers over the army’s handling of unrest in Beirut’s Shia neighbourhoods, in which seven people died

Sanctions likely to backfire, warns Iran business Efforts to discourage commercial ties with Tehran will likely lead to missed opportunities for the west, including investment of up to $200bn in the country’s energy sector

Clinton braced for marathon struggle The former first lady’s campaign officials have conceded that the results of Super Tuesday’s 22 primaries are unlikely to resolve the race for the Democratic presidential nomination

McCain looks for Triumphant Tuesday Mitt Romney sought to foment rebellion among grassroots conservatives against John McCain in a last-ditch effort to prevent the moderate Arizona senator winning the Republican presidential nomination

FT REPORT - FUND MANAGEMENT: Ethanol a long-term fuel, not a passing fad

The power of cash John Gapper: Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo shows how, amidst a credit crisis, it’s a very good time to have cash in hand

Italy’s chance for change The current political turmoil may turn out to be the best thing that has happened to the country in years, writes Wolfgang Munchau

H15 Los Angeles Times Al Qaeda and WMD again linked A key operative who was reported slain is alive and leading the effort, officials say

Former Hussein supporters live in fear in Iraq Those who belonged to the dictator's party watch in horror as fellow ex-Baathists are killed, even beheaded.

Can a woman or a black man win?

By Mark Mellman Polls and statistics point to several possibilities, but at the end of the day, people vote for individuals, not races or genders.

Who's who of endorsements Politicians, social activists and, of course, celebrities highlight that old chestnut of political traditions: endorsements. Really, who does Scarlett back?

Romney-McCain tension began with '02 Olympics The two Republicans clashed over funds for the Winter Games — expenses McCain called pork.

H16 American Politics

Once a Thorn, McCain Now Courts a Wary Party

The Party Animal Either Plays Well or Fights Well On the eve of Super Tuesday, pulling apart consensus and orthodoxy, two perennial styles of politics and government in the United States.

16 Ways of Looking at a Female Voter By LINDA HIRSHMAN Or what we do and don’t know about gender and politics.
Back-Room Choices By MATT BAI If there isn’t a clear Democratic winner on Tuesday, the decision may fall into the hands of so-called superdelegates. So much for change.

Newsweek Becoming McCain

He's endured the unendurable, and survived. Inside the mind and heart of John McCain.

THE FUTURE OF ENERGY
A Marine's New Mission

Fareed Zakaria

Vietnam vet and FedEx founder Frederick Smith wants to craft an energy policy for America.

$3 trillion Bush budget is record-breaking

Latinos may hold key to Super Tuesday for Democrats

Jed Babbin / Human Events:
John McCain: The Anti-Conservative

Six states at “high” risk for voting machine mishaps on Super Tuesday

realclearpoliticsABC’s The Note US News Political Bulletin

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

GOP stronger or broader?

Conservative Republicans must understand that when you insist on all or nothing, you get nothing.

Vote hypocrite In times like these, America needs a politician who isn't afraid to fake it. (By David Runciman)

CBS Poll: Clinton, Obama Tied (CBS News)

H17 Daily Telegraph Sickness thins ranks of front line troops Almost 7,000 infantrymen are unfit to fight, leaving front-line troops "dangerously exposed," figures show today.

Straw orders Muslim MP 'bugging' inquiry Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, has launched a formal inquiry into claims a senior Labour Muslim MP had been bugged during private meetings with a constituent.

US Democrat battle 'is nearly too close to call' Barack Obama surged to within striking distance of Hillary Clinton in several polls as the rivals prepared for Super Tuesday.

Kennedy's kiss of death for Obama

For Barack Obama to be endorsed by Senator Edward "Teddy" Kennedy, writes Janet Daley, is a bit like a prospective Labour leader being endorsed by Tony Benn

'Honour' crimes bring nothing but shame A new report on the rise of "honour-based" violence against women from immigrant communities in the UK reveals the complicity of some "community leaders" in killings, attempted murder and beatings

Reason to listen With the breach of the so-called Wilson Doctrine, by anti-terrorist police who monitored conversations between a prisoner and his MP, it is worth asking whether the rules need to be changed.

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Sunday Telegraph Can Sarkozy re-engage the French? Marrying Carla Bruni seemed the best possible conclusion to a rollercoaster that had cost Nicolas Sarkozy 24 points in the opinion polls, says Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Way open for hope in Helmand

Reports that Afghanistan is in danger of slipping into chaos suggest little has changed, but these claims conflicted with much that James Holland saw in Helmand

No 10 'ignored MP bugging warning'

Tories claim PM was warned MP was being bugged as Jack Straw announces inquiry

H18 Independent Revealed: British plan to build Taliban training camp

Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in Afghanistan as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides, intelligence sources have revealed

Andreas Whittam Smith: If the Afghans don't want us, why should we stay?

McCain scents Super Tuesday victory

John McCain has allowed himself to look beyond the suspense of tomorrow's Super Tuesday primary contests by predicting that he would win his party's nomination – and even the presidency in November – but he quickly stepped back, lest he be accused of overconfidence.

Independent on Sunday A week in Iraq: 'People say things are better, but it's still terrible here'

Geoffrey Lean: John McCain, father of right-on, green Republicanism

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Conflict in the 21st Century: The Rise of Hybrid Wars, by Research Fellow Frank Hoffman

Major Management Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security (PDF; 377 KB) Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General

What to Know Before You Go

The CNGR Final Report: The Best Shot for a Stronger, Sustainable Reserve Component
Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies

Tet +40 - James Robbins, National Review

British Defense Ministry Warns That Wind Power Is a Threat to National Security

Wal-Mart: The New Washington Look who’s governmentizing the private sector


Staying Sensible on 'Torture' - New York Post editorial


UK Government's Indifference to Troops' Hardships - Catherine Bennett, Guardian

H20 Slate Amazing Racism

A study that shows the true stupidity of discrimination.
Tim Harford

What are Human Rights? Human Rights as Membership Rights in the Global Order Source: Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Faculty Research Working Paper Series Full Paper (PDF; 296 KB)

Fact Sheet Explains the New UNAIDS Estimates on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic

On the Morality of Immigration
Source: Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Faculty Research Working Paper Series Full Paper (PDF; 119 KB)

America’s Fastest-Growing Metros

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