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14 March 2008
  March 14, 2008

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H1Financial Times Dollar plunges to record low The dollar plummeted to a record low and the price of gold touched $1,000 as retail sales figures confirmed that the US is in recession and concern intensified about spreading distress in the hedge fund sector

EU opens door to Croatia membership Croatia’s bid for early membership of the European Union received a boost when the European Commission said it should be possible to complete accession negotiations by the end of 2009

Guardian Germany pours cold water on Sarkozy union Sarkozy forced to back away from an ambitious scheme to launch a French-led 'Mediterranean Union'

Christian Science Monitor

Young Iranians, once avid reformers, leave politics behind Many who once called for change have turned away from politics altogether and won't be voting in Friday's election.

Russia's Gazprom settles Ukraine gas row, but profits could dip The energy giant agreed Tuesday to pay 'European prices' for Central Asian gas, where it has long enjoyed below-market rates

Israel Raises the Ante Against Iran By: Kaveh L Afrasiabi | Asia Times Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's "charm" offensive against Iran in the United States is ominously reminiscent of the sabre-rattling before the invasion of Iraq. This time, however, the stakes are higher as the way is being opened for another disastrous war in the Middle East, since Israel is incapable of peace with the Palestinians

IHT Iran's orchestrated elections By RAY TAKEYH Ali Khamenei is a master at undermining reformers and keeping conservatives in power.

Seizing the Medvedev Moment

By NICOLAI N. PETRO

The watchwords of Medvedev's approach are flexibility and pragmatism

Washington Post Editorial A Failing Campaign By swearing off military action, a U.S. commander weakens the diplomatic offensive against Iran.

Adventures In Identity Politics By Charles Krauthammer With no substantive policy differences left, the Obama-Clinton campaign hs been reduced to personality and identity.

Petraeus: Iraqi Leaders Not Making 'Sufficient Progress'

Editorial Food Crisis Soaring prices are causing hunger around the world

William Arkin Petraeus Wins in Iraq Battle, Kills Iran War

The Economist The new colonialists China's hunger for natural resources is causing more problems at home than abroad

The Franco-German relationship The awkward partners

Economics and the rule of law

Order in the jungle

The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran and Its Aftermath - Maj.-Gen. (res.) Aharon Ze'evi Farkash, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, and Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser (Institute for Contemporary Affairs/Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

New Statesman After they go The US invasion unleashed chaos in a fragile region; the withdrawal of troops could prove equally destabilising.

From Al-Ahram, Europe, with its history of conflict, has embraced unity while the Arab world, despite its cultural homogeneity, remains divided — why?

New York Times White House Offers Plan to Ward Off Credit Crises The Bush administration on Thursday outlined a plan that officials emphasized is meant more to prevent future crises than to address the current one.

PAUL KRUGMAN Betting the Bank Monetary policy can have magical effects; but sometimes the magic doesn’t work. And this is one of those times

From a Lame Duck to Dead Ducks in the Middle East By: David Ignatius | The Daily Star
Syria is playing that waiting game with Lebanon, using its proxies to prevent the election of a consensus presidential candidate, General Michel Suleiman, who only a few months ago was thought to be Damascus' favorite

The Fall of Admiral McFallon - Mackubin Thomas Owens, Weekly Standard


Vice President Fallon? - Frank Gaffney Jr., National Review


How the Press Failed on Iraq - Greg Mitchell, Salon

Demagoguing Adm. Fallon's Departure - Washington Times editorial

Guardian Slowly Strangled By: Laila El-Haddad | Today, Gaza is being subjected to a slow, purposeful killing, cloaked in state-sanctioned legitimacy and 'security concerns.

The Times Iran's choice: military or military Today's election may see the wings of Ahmadinejad and his dangerous foreign policy clipped Amir Taheri

Iran hope as challenger reaches out to the West Rival to President opposes Ahmadinejad's confrontation with the West and hopes a new 'third force' will gain influence

Time Iran's Election: A Reformist Dilemma

Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq (March 2008) (PDF; 576 KB) Source: U.S. Department of Defense The security environment in Iraq continues to improve, supported by limited but important gains on the political, economic and diplomatic fronts. Violence levels have declined since the last report and Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) are gradually assuming responsibility for maintain- ing law and order and promoting stability. New strides have been taken in reconciliation at the national, provincial and local levels, and the Iraqi economy is growing. However, recent security gains remain fragile, and sustained progress over the long term will depend on Iraq’s ability to address a complex set of issues associated with key political and economic objectives.

American Enterprise Institute What Lies "Beyond Goldwater-Nichols"? By Thomas Donnelly The question of how best to organize the U.S. military is a perennial one. Recent experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan have raised the issue of whether the centralizing tendency of the last reorganization, the Goldwater-Nichols Act in 1986, is the best approach for the "Long War."

Independent Robert Fisk: The cult of the suicide bomber

Few players in the 'war on terror' are more chilling, or misunderstood, than suicide bombers. Yet the true scale of their grisly activities has never been properly calculated. Five years after the invasion of Iraq, Robert Fisk details the shocking extent of the most widespread campaign of self-liquidation in human history

Iraq: teachers told to rewrite history Britain's biggest teachers' union has accused the Ministry of Defence of breaking the law over a lesson plan drawn up to teach pupils about the Iraq war.

Heritage Questions on Iraq for the Petraeus-Crocker Hearing

CFR Five Years of War in Iraq

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CER Dmitry Medvedev – Putin clone or the new man?

Jerusalem Post Aksa Brigades tell Abbas to fire Fayad, band with Hamas Fatah's armed wing distributes leaflets in Ramallah calling to "form a new government that would not abandon the armed struggle."

Dershowitz seeks to redefine int'l laws of war
Harvard law professor to advise Israeli leaders on legality of terror-fighting tactics

Syrian silence on Mughniyeh fazes J'lem

Iraqs Three Civil Wars MIT CIS

The Road Out of Gaza CEIP An 18-page US policy paper focusing on the need to rebuild Palestinian institutions if peace is to be achieved

China-U.S.: A report from a Brookings scholar examines how rising oil prices might affect U.S.-Chinese energy relations

Arming the Panda By: Daniel Freedman | National Review
There is no perfect translation of the word chutzpah into Chinese, but Beijing does provide the perfect example: They have duped the West into giving them billions in development aid, so that they can instead spend their own money on building a military that could beat America’s

FT Kuwait finds it is not devoid of sectarianism The death of a Hizbollah leader in a car bombing stirs up worrying emotions among citizens, illustrating that the Gulf state is not immune to the tensions dogging the Middle East

Iran’s elite paper over the economic cracks Inflation and unemployment remain problems but the new generation of nouveaux riches are flourishing thanks to a sharp rise in house prices and record oil prices

Iraq’s Mehdi army attacks US base near Kut US soldiers and Iraqi militants exchanged fire after a rocket attack from a Shi’ite Mehdi Army militia stronghold on a US base southeast of Baghdad, Iraqi police said

European leaders need a president, not a nonentity At issue now is whether the European Union wants to exercise political as well as economic clout. Looking at the names being floated as putative contenders, the answer seems to be a resounding no, writes Philip Stephens

Serbia’s choice Serbs must put Kosovo aside and focus on the EU. The alternative is isolation from the west and a position among Moscow’s client states

Intervene to slow the dollar’s decline If the right conditions can be met, action to stabilise the US currency would be a sensible part of the response to global financial turmoil

WSJ House Party

By Peggy Noonan Declarations: He's got the nomination. But does John McCain want to be President?

Carnegie The Effectiveness of the “Surge”

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Nuclear Power in a Warming World: Solution or Illusion?

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Iranian Elections

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H2 Stratfor Geopolitical Diary: Turkey Tries to Tame its Kurdish Southeast Turkey plans to invest as much as $12 billion in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast in an attempt to secure its internal stability and begin expanding its regional prowess.

Daily Star Iraqi Kurds timidly tiptoe toward independence By Gunes Murat Tezcur

Iran wants joint action with Iraq,Turkey against PKK

NYT Turkey and the Kurds: Some Positive Signs

[NEWS ANALYSIS]
Turkey seeks to be covered by NATO's missile umbrella

Barçın Yinanç Nabucco'da Türkiye hem AB'yi hem Bakü'yü kızdırdı

Pakistan seeks clarification of intent

Where's the Welcome Mat?: Turks Feel Unwanted in Germany - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

Turkey and Iraq take a step at a time Asia Times

SETA The Headscarf Ban: A Quest for Solutions

Google News Fırat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect Dış Basında Irak BBC Monitoring Inter national

Gülay Göktürk Kürt sorunu ve iki liste

Mehmet Metiner Neçirvan Barzani

Güneri Civaoğlu Erdoğan ve DTP

Durmuş Hocaoğlu "Siyâsî Çözüm", savaş ve siyâsetçimizin çapsızlığı

Nasuhi Güngör Kürt meselesinde kritik eşik

Altemur Kılıç ABD çalıyor, Kürtler oynuyor, Türkiye tempo tutuyor

PKK’nın kasasına kilit!

DTP'lilerin korktuğu soru

Talabani notified of Turkmen demands in Ankara

Turkey-Iraq-Syria to form a water institution

Cevdet Aşkın Erdoğan'ın PKK şartı, AKP'nin siyasi şifresi

Babası tanıdı parmak izi uydu

Bilal Çetin “PKK terör örgütüdür” demek niye zor?

Derya Sazak Erdoğan, Türk, Baykal

Terörle Mücadele Yüksek Kurulu toplanıyor

İran liderinden Türkiye'nin operasyonuna destek

Kadri Gürsel ‘İslam BM’si kuruluyor

Federasyondan kimse korkmasın!

Savaş Süzal Plan Amerikan planı, Erdoğan'ın değil

Bu iktidar bu düğümü çözebilir
Namık Kemal Zeybek

2. Ordu Komutanı sınırda

Iran destroys 'terrorist' cells on Iraqi border: report

Şırnak'ta çatışma

Necati Doğru

Syrian Kurdish Politician Says Armed Struggle Harmful to Kurds

Zirvede Kosova çatışması

İKÖ yolunda 3 önemli mesaj

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İşte GAP paketindeki yatırımlar

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İran'da seçim, aşırı ile ılımlı muhafazakarlar arasında geçecek

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'El Kaide ile PKK, ittifak için görüşme yapıyor'

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Perinçek: Veli Küçük şerefli bir Türk Generalidir

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Ersoy: Ölüm yerine çözüm istemek her medeni insanın bir istemidir

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Ahmet Türk: Başbakan doğru bir şey yapmıyor

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Türkiye'den bir heyetle Bağdat’ta görüşecek misiniz?

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Apoculardan Abant platformu’na açık tehdit!

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Fallon'un istifası İran savaşının habercisi

Sandığa giderken

İran seçime giderken Devrim Muhafızları siyasetteki etkilerini artırıyor mu?

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri Günlük Haftalık

Barçın Yinanç Nabucco'da Türkiye hem AB'yi hem Bakü'yü kızdırdı

İşte Sarkozy'nin Akdeniz Birliği Projesi'nin belgesi

Rauf Denktaş Kırmızı Çizgimiz?

Zeynel Lüle Türk kökenli AB milletvekillerinin ağırlığı

İKV president: Government, opposition should revitalize EU accession process

FAZ: Erdoğan Merkel’i Almanya’ya davet etti

Meclis Komisyonu: "Yangının çıkış nedeni ırkçılık"

Hristofyas: "Annan Planı'nda ısrar görüşmeleri kilitler"

Türkler’den McCain’e 2 saatte 2 milyon $

Where's the Welcome Mat?: Turks Feel Unwanted in Germany - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

Cyprus leader warns Turks not to stick to U.N. plan - International Herald Tribune

Germany's State-Run Schools to Teach Islam | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 13.03.2008

Pierre-Jean Luizard: Türkiye'de sömürge modeli laiklik uygulanıyor

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Berlin, İslam dersine yeşil ışık yaktı

Sarkozy'ye bir darbe de AP'den

Rusya; Abhazya ve Güney Osetya'yı tanımak için NATO zirvesini bekliyor

Erdogan says German Turks scared, knocks Merkel | International | Reuters

USA to deploy another radar system in Turkey in addition to Poland ...
Pravda

Cypriots may soon erase symbol of division | International | Reuters

Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders meet to consider reopening a symbolic crossing that has separated their communities

US report: Religious orders influential in Turkey - Turkish Daily News Mar 13, 2008

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

Velileri Yeni Şafak ve Star almaya teşvik edin

Hablemitoğlu suikastında Ergenekon şüphesi

Hrant Dink Komisyonu’na sürpriz final

Büyük deprem İstanbul'dan uzaklaşıyor

Atatürk büstünü kaideden söküp Türk bayrağını indirdiler

Dink raporu yazılıyor

Turkey's Survival of the Fittest By: Dorian L. Jones | ISN Security Watch War makes strange bed fellows, especially in Turkey, where a dispute over creationism vs Darwinism has created an unusual alliance between the country's Islamists and conservative Christians in the US

Turkey Blocks Access to YouTube Again

Bookstore finds in Istanbul

Financial Times küllerinden yeniden doğdu

Uzmanlar birbirine girdi

Yalova’da meydana gelen 4.8’lik deprem yeni bir tartışma başlattı

'Telekulak'a karşı casus avcıları

Arcayürek'e Gülen'e hakaretten 2 yıl istendi

Fethullah Gülen'e köşe yazısında hakarette bulunduğu iddia edilen yazar hakkında dava açıldı

"Kıvrıkoğlu Küçük'e ne görevi verdi?

En zengin Türk Karamehmet vergi kaçırdı mı?

New library waits for the bookworms

Paşalar da ağlar

AKP, gecekonduya elektrik affı getiriyor

Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu'nda düzenleme

Dokunulmazlık fezlekesi sayısı 141'e ulaştı

Ali H Aslan Sins and elections

Mehmet Gül yaşamını yitirdi

MHP eski milletvekili Mehmet Gül, önceki gece kaldırıldığı hastanede hayatını kaybetti

Mor isyan Diyanet’e geri adım attırdı

’Narkotikçi keş arı’ projesi

Yüzyılın 'Zihni Sinir' projesi

Fulbolda ihracat ithalatımız Galeri

Oray Eğin Emine Erdoğan’a Türkiye adına büyük bir görev düşüyor

Tony Blair de aynı şeyleri söylüyordu

14 Mart 2008 Basın Özeti

H3 Murat Yetkin Gül'ün, Talabani ve Türk'le görüşmesi MGK siyaseti

Gülay Göktürk Kürt sorunu ve iki liste

Yalçın Doğan Paket hikáye, ille siyasal çözüm

KORAY DÜZGÖREN

Milliyet Son Dakika

Cengiz Çandar Kürt sorununa çözüm cephesinde yeni bir şey var mı

Ahmet Taşgetiren Türkiye'nin rehabilitasyonu ( 14.03.2008 )

Ruşen - Çakır Abant Diyarbakır’da toplanabilecek mi?

Taha Akyol Sevgili Oktay Ağabey... Bir de Karabekir’i okumak

Fikret Bila Erdoğan’ın beklentisi ve Demirtaş’ın teşhisi

Ali Bayramoğlu: Siyasi iktidar ve yeni hamleler

İş bırakma eylemi başladı

Cinayetin bombası Ergenekon'dan

Velileri Yeni Şafak ve Star almaya teşvik edin

Kimse silahla biter demiyor

Gül, “Kimi terör sorunu, kimi Güneydoğu sorunu, kimi Kürt sorunu diyebilir. Kim ne derse desin, bu hepimizin sorunudur.” dedi

Serdar Akinan Alma mazlumun ahını...!

Hasan Cemal Kimse silahla biter demiyor

Şamil Tayyar AK Parti’ye uyarı

Modernleşmenin engeli İslam değil

Kadının adı sosyal güvenlikte de yok

Önce Emniyet sonra CHP

Perinçek: Kıvrıkoğlu, Küçük'e özel kuvvet kurma görevi verdi

Cumhurbaşkanı Gül'den Senegal yolunda üç önemli mesaj

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası Dış Basında Türkiye - BBC Turkish 0700 VOA TSİ 06:30 Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey TurcoPundit

Fehmi Koru: Akreditasyon ve Genelkurmay Başkanlığı

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Ali Bayramoğlu: Siyasi iktidar ve yeni hamleler

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Taha Kıvanç: Org. Hilmi Özkök'ten yararlanmalıyız

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Hayrettin Karaman: Kısas (2)

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Tamer Korkmaz: İşte İtiraf: “Aldo Moro'yu Biz Öldürdük!”

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İsmet Berkan - Almadan vermek

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Türker Alkan - Dilekçe

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Hasan Celal Güzel - Sosyal Güvenlik Reformu ve gerçekler

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Hakkı Devrim - Aysel kızım, Sait'i sever misin?

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H. Gökhan Özgün - Milli Perihan Mağden birliği

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Haluk Şahin - 'Ötekiler'den Obama

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Murat Yetkin - Gül'ün, Talabani ve Türk'le görüşmesi MGK siyaseti

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BÜLENT KORUCU - 'Biz terörist değiliz'

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MUSTAFA ÜNAL - Reform

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İHSAN DAĞI - Laikçilerin endişesi: 'Modern' dindarlar

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MÜMTAZ'ER TÜRKÖNE - 'Toplumun din algısı'

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Ertuğrul Özkök Bana o sözü söyletemezsiniz

Ahmet Hakan Türbanlıya hoşgörülü eşcinsele tahammülsüz

Yalçın Bayer Gülen’in Özkök’e mektubu üzerine

Ferai Tınç Açlığın yeni yüzü ve füze kalkanı

M Ali Birand Günlük yaşamı kimler islamileştiriyor ? (2)

Ece Temelkuran AKP’nin yeni Türkiye’si

Cüneyt Ülsever

Enis Berberoğlu

Oktay Ekşi Bir okuyucunun sesi

Tufan Türenç AKP’nin belediyeleri bölme, yapıştırma oyunu

Özdemir İnce Peygambercilik oyunu

Mehmet Y Yılmaz

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Silah bırakma süreci

ERDAL ŞAFAK Gül: Bağdat'a gitmeye hazırım

ENGİN ARDIÇ Hükümet yanlısı yalaka yazı

ERGUN BABAHAN Güniz Sokak Kadısı

EMRE AKÖZ Omurgasız, ben-merkezci ve oportünist

Umur Talu Siz hiç kelebek gördünüz mü?

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN İşçi eylemi ve sol

NAZLI ILICAK DTP kapatılmamalı

MEHMET BARLAS Siyasetimizde artık tebessüme hiç mi yer kalmadı?

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Başkanlardan kim kalıyor kim gidiyor?

YAVUZ DONAT

Emin Pazarcı Reforma muhalefet desteği

İki farklı mantık Murat Belge

Eser Karakaş Anayasa’dan ilginç bir karar daha

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AK Parti, Mehmetçik ve Anzakların torunlarını buluşturuyor

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AKP'de farklı ses

Sebahattin Önkibar İcazet için ABD'ye postu seren Çiller'e Süleyman Soylu rest çekti!

Cengiz Aktar Devlet büyüklerinden inciler

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Açık artıyor gelen para artmıyor

Sosyal güvenlik
İktisatçı Gaye Yılmaz ve Prof. Alpaslan Işıklı'ya sorduk

Cari açık ocakta 3.9 milyar dolar

Yabancıyı şok eden mülk kararı

Ercan Kumcu Merkez bankaları ne yapmaya çalışıyorlar

Erdal Sağlam

Hurşit Güneş Sosyal güvenlik reformunda hükümet yanlış tavır içinde

Metin Münir Grev mi? Hadi git oradan!!

Güven Sak Düşünülmeyenleri düşünmenin zamanı artık geliyor mu

İBRAHİM KAHVECİ

Güngör Uras Ayşe Hanım soruyor: Gelirimiz artmış, farkı ne zaman verecekler?

Deniz Gökçe Verileri doğru yorumlayalım!

Salih Neftçi Okurlara olası bir ‘kötü’ haberin ön duyurusu

'Not' talebinin anatomisi
Uğur Gürses

Gıda fiyatları

Küresel fiyat artışının nedenleri ve bölgesel etkileri

Şimşek'ten TÜSİAD'a: Sağır duymaz uydurur

H4 New York Times White House Offers Plan to Ward Off Credit Crises The Bush administration on Thursday outlined a plan that officials emphasized is meant more to prevent future crises than to address the current one.

PAUL KRUGMAN Betting the Bank Monetary policy can have magical effects; but sometimes the magic doesn’t work. And this is one of those times

Campaign Stops: What Foreign Policy Agenda? The Iraq war has fed an isolationism comparable to that after the Vietnam War, writes Andrew Kohut

Editorial Not Too Early? Until the Treasury secretary and the White House develop a sense of urgency they are not going to rebuild confidence that today’s problems are not repeated in the future.

Palestinians Unite in Anger Against Israeli Attack

In This Election, Ahmadinejad Ally Is Now a Critic

Kidnapped Iraqi Archbishop Is Dead

Study Finds No Qaeda-Hussein Tie

Civilians Died in a Strike by Americans, Pakistan Says

Bomber Kills 8 Afghan Civilians in Attack on U.S. Forces

DAVID BROOKS The Rank-Link Imbalance Those of us in the business of covering the great and the powerful know they have an almost limitless capacity for self-pity.

A Free-Spirited Wanderer Who Set Obama’s Path People who knew Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro well say they see her influence unmistakably in her son, Senator Barack Obama

Preventing Another Genocide The international community must find more effective ways to pressure Khartoum. Beijing and Russia must suspend arms sales; the U.S. must keep sanctions in place.

H5 Washington Post Editorial A Failing Campaign By swearing off military action, a U.S. commander weakens the diplomatic offensive against Iran.

Adventures In Identity Politics By Charles Krauthammer With no substantive policy differences left, the Obama-Clinton campaign hs been reduced to personality and identity.

Plan Aims to Restore Faith in the Economy Government Proposal Would Tighten Reins on Lenders, Credit-Rating Firms

Petraeus: Iraqi Leaders Not Making 'Sufficient Progress'

Editorial Food Crisis Soaring prices are causing hunger around the world.

Pressure and the Prophet By Michael Gerson, Barack Obama's stance on the Iraq war shifted with campaign tides; John McCain's didn't.

Florida Democrats Urge A 2nd Primary, in June Ballots Would Be Sent Out 2 Weeks Before

H6 Guardian Germany pours cold water on Sarkozy union Sarkozy forced to back away from an ambitious scheme to launch a French-led 'Mediterranean Union'

The Iraq Legacy: Legality By: Richard Norton-Taylor The United Nations' authority has yet to recover from the decision to invade Iraq -- but it was not the only institution undermined by British and United States actions

Slowly Strangled By: Laila El-Haddad | Today, Gaza is being subjected to a slow, purposeful killing, cloaked in state-sanctioned legitimacy and 'security concerns.'

Party invitations Faisal al Yafai

The Arab leaders are having their annual get-together - but why has no one invited Lebanon?

Colour bind Michael Tomasky US elections 2008: It's not politically correct to say so, but Barack Obama's race is a legitimate reason to support him

There is nothing dull about a budget that rescues thousands from poverty

Polly Toynbee: This is no time to despair of Labour. The brave commitment to children in need underlines just what the party is for

The man behind the prophet

Khaled Diab Muhammad was one of the most influential figures in human history. But who was the man behind the icon?

War costs and costs and costs

Joseph Stiglitz The war in Iraq has cost trillions. But the US - and the world - will be paying the price of the conflict for decades to come

Scientists and soldiers can no longer keep these paradises to themselves Simon JenkinsIt is wrong to ban tourists and prospectors from the Arctic and Antarctic. The poles must be governed for the benefit of all

Rising prices and anxiety cause surprise drop in US retail sales

Treasury secretary berates banks and demands changes in market practices

US succeeds in splitting EU over visa rules US refuses to bow to EU demands to deal only with Brussels on controversial transatlantic security measures

For real excitement, the 1976 Ford takes some beating Jonathan Steele: The Obama-Clinton duel is certainly gripping, but it has yet to match the even tighter Republican race of 32 years ago

Blair to lead campaign on climate change Former PM to lead new international team aiming to secure deal on global warming

Pastor's sermons could harm Obama Accusations of racism against government could damage Democratic frontrunner's message of unity

H7

From a Lame Duck to Dead Ducks in the Middle East By: David Ignatius | The Daily Star
Syria is playing that waiting game with Lebanon, using its proxies to prevent the election of a consensus presidential candidate, General Michel Suleiman, who only a few months ago was thought to be Damascus' favorite

The Fall of Admiral McFallon - Mackubin Thomas Owens, Weekly Standard


Vice President Fallon? - Frank Gaffney Jr., National Review


How the Press Failed on Iraq - Greg Mitchell, Salon

Demagoguing Adm. Fallon's Departure - Washington Times editorial


Fired for Speaking the Truth - Boston Globe editorial

A new partner in the Mideast

IF THE next American president wisely applies time-honored techniques of diplomacy, the United States may within a few years have a new long-term strategic partner in the Middle East: Iran. (By Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe)

In search of a Mideast cease-fire

Good Capitalism and Bad Capitalism By: William Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl Schramm | The Japan Times
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 may have marked capitalism's triumph over communism, but there are many differences among the nearly 200 countries that now practice some form of this prevailing ideology

Bernard Lewis Whitewashes Jihad--3/14/2008 12:00:00

Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement: Beyond the Crisis International Crisis Group

ExxonMobil's spending habits While ExxonMobil's annual profit increased by more than 250 percent between 2002 and 2007 and while its cash flow increased by 133 percent between 2002 and 2007, its stock-dividend payments increased by less than 25 percent, rising from $6.2 billion in 2002 to $7.6 billion last year. Where did all the cash go?

The fight for Lebanon's freedom (By Farid Ghadry and Sami El-Khoury)

Syria invites Lebanon to Arab summit in Damascus

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

Iranians vote in general election
Voting begins in Iran's polls with many opponents of President Ahmadinejad barred from running.

Iran vote foretold
Candidate bans and a flat campaign leave voters disillusioned

Petraeus: Iraqis Not Making 'Sufficient Progress'

Prospects Uncertain as Reformists Unite in Iran

Can the International Tribunal Change Syrian Policy?

Iraqi Troops May Move to Reclaim Basra’s Port By: James Glanz | The New York Times Several senior Iraqi officials said on Wednesday that the government might soon deploy Iraqi Army troops to seize control of this city’s decrepit but vital port from politically connected militias known more for corruption and inciting terrorism than for their skill in moving freight

Jailed Iraqi "Resistance" Leader Explains US Contacts, Urges Iraq National Unity

Lebanese Government Asks Saudi Arabia for "New Deposit of 1bn Dollars"

Kidnapped Archbishop found dead in Iraq

Iraq's Christians
Where does the death of an archbishop leave this minority?

New U.S. Middle East envoy will find peace initiative stalled

Al Hayat Israeli Estimates for Undermining Peace Abdullah Iskandar - On the morning following the presentation of the annual intelligence report on the dangers surrounding Israel, the Israeli newspapers reported that a few ministers were unable to get any sleep.

Dividing the Arabs Once Again Mohammad Salah - Whatever the obstacles facing the Arab Summit, the question “Will the summit take place on time and in Syria?” is no longer relevant. At the recent ministerial meeting in Cairo, the Arabs overcame this question, as there were no objections by any state to the location and date of the summit

H9 Ha’aretz IDF says week-long lull in fighting appears over

Israel and France have a second honeymoon as Peres visits Paris

State Dept. notes rise in global anti-Semitism over last decade

Harel Where do we go from here?

Israel: Hamas Accountable for Every Rocket Fired from Gaza -

Major setback for Hamas? (WTR)

Marcus 6 comments on the situation

The German-Israeli tango

Hezbollah becomes more visible in W. Bank

Jerusalem Post Aksa Brigades tell Abbas to fire Fayad, band with Hamas Fatah's armed wing distributes leaflets in Ramallah calling to "form a new government that would not abandon the armed struggle."

Dershowitz seeks to redefine int'l laws of war
Harvard law professor to advise Israeli leaders on legality of terror-fighting tactics

Israel makes another bid on F-22 jets

Jets meant to help face Iranian threat; funding sought from Pentagon for continued development of Arrow.

Israel Rattling the Cage - Larry Derfner, Jerusalem Post

Fear and Gullibility as Weapons - Barry Rubin

Syrian silence on Mughniyeh fazes J'lem

Yedioth Ahronoth

Daily Alert.orgHebrew Press Editorials (2008) - Middle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review Google News Israel - Palestine

Stop trying to keep non-Jews out of our civilization [ GARY TOBIN

Tired Gaza Two-Step By: Victor Davis Hanson | National Review
Gaza erupted in celebration last week to the news that a Palestinian had murdered Jewish religious students in Jerusalem. And almost daily terrorists send rockets from Gaza into nearby Israeli cities, hoping to kill civilians and provoke Israeli counter-responses -- and perhaps start another Middle East war.

Slowly Strangled By: Laila El-Haddad | The Guardian Today, Gaza is being subjected to a slow, purposeful killing, cloaked in state-sanctioned legitimacy and 'security concerns.'

WINEP Fayad's Reform Plan: Difficulties and Political Implications

The Road Out of Gaza CEIP An 18-page US policy paper focusing on the need to rebuild Palestinian institutions if peace is to be achieved

Follow the Sequence of Mideast Violence - Ofer Bavly (Tampa Tribune)

Islamic Jihad resumes rocket attacks Ceasefire ends as Palestinian militants launch volley of rockets and Israel responds with air raid on Gaza

10 Jewish Messiah Moments

H10 Christian Science Monitor Young Iranians, once avid reformers, leave politics behind Many who once called for change have turned away from politics altogether and won't be voting in Friday's election.

Russia's Gazprom settles Ukraine gas row, but profits could dip The energy giant agreed Tuesday to pay 'European prices' for Central Asian gas, where it has long enjoyed below-market rates

Paulson outlines fix-it plan for credit crisis Treasury secretary calls for tighter reins on financial markets as mortgage turmoil continues.

At E.U. summit, climate change billed as major security risk EU foreign affairs chief Javier Solana warns in a new report that detrimental climatic changes could drive millions of migrants to Europe from developing countries.

Why Tibetan monks are protesting now The Olympics in China offer Tibetans a chance to draw world attention to human rights issues.

What Bush can win while at the Olympics in China He can persuade China not to trade with an Iran racing to make weapons-grade uranium.

Practical steps to end poverty Provided we have the will, where would we begin? How can you help?

ASIA

China-U.S.: A report from a Brookings scholar examines how rising oil prices might affect U.S.-Chinese energy relations

Arming the Panda By: Daniel Freedman | National Review
There is no perfect translation of the word chutzpah into Chinese, but Beijing does provide the perfect example: They have duped the West into giving them billions in development aid, so that they can instead spend their own money on building a military that could beat America’s

Hayden Takes China to Task By: Bill Gertz | The Washington Times China is "strangling" emerging island democracies in the Pacific in pursuit of narrow goals such as friendly votes at the United Nations, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said in an interview in which he criticized Beijing's failure to act as a responsible global power.

China hands security to president-in-waiting

China plays down Tibetan protests Tibetan monks on hunger strike as China struggles to prevent protests from overshadowing Olympics

An Olympian test

Leader: Tibetan monks demand the return of their leader in run up to Beijing games

'Terror' Attack a Warning Shot for Beijing By: Fong Tak-ho | Asia Times Chinese authorities have linked the foiled hijacking of a plane bound for Beijing to independence fighters in the remote northwestern Uyghur autonomous region of Xinjiang, causing much concern about security for the Summer Olympics

Malaysia: A Tale of Two Countries - Greg Sheridan, The Australian

Taliban Exploit Religious Sentiment - Waliullah Rahmani, Jamestown Foundation


Afghanistan's Drug Trade Hits Home - Anand Gopal, Christian Science Monitor

Afghanistan: A paper from Knowledge, the journal of INSEAD business school, examines the success of Islamic microfinance across impoverished parts of Afghanistan.

H11 IHT Iran's orchestrated elections By RAY TAKEYH

Ali Khamenei is a master at undermining reformers and keeping conservatives in power.

Seizing the Medvedev Moment

By NICOLAI N. PETRO

The watchwords of Medvedev's approach are flexibility and pragmatism

Brain drains and blame games

By JONATHAN ZIMMERMAN

Does any human being have a greater duty to his or her "own kind" than to humanity as a whole? I think not.

Surf, sand and shipwrecks

By JAMES CARROLL To behold a shipwreck in the company of fellow humans is to stand with the only other creatures who know what it means.

Barroso warns EU leaders against backing off emissions cutsThe European Commission president, José Manuel Barroso, warned Thursday that the bloc would be left with "zero credibility" if its leaders yielded to pressure to water down commitments to combat global warming.

New poll reveals a bleak view of retirement systemsPeople in five major European countries and the United States all say their national retirement systems are broken and that they will have to work 5 to 10 years longer than they would like, a recent poll shows

EUROPE European press review

Der Spiegel The World from Berlin: 'Voters Are Turning Away in Horror' from the SPD

EU set to agree emission cut plan

EU leaders meeting in Brussels are poised to agree on a plan for further cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

EU warns of climate change threat

Ministers support EU climate plan

Ozone has 'strong climate effect'

Reluctant workers
French students in no hurry to join real world of work

Serbian leader calls snap polls

Serbia's president dissolves parliament and calls early polls after a cabinet split over EU membership and Kosovo

Sins of Emission By: Dieter Helm | The Wall Street Journal EU leaders will gather today and tomorrow in Brussels to sign off on the European Commission's proposals to cut carbon emissions by 20% by 2020 -- with the added bait of a 30% reduction if the U.S. and other countries make meaningful commitments.

Barriers Going Up All Over Europe By: Nikolaus von Twickel | The Moscow Times Despite booming investment, lawmakers both in Russia and Europe are preparing to raise barriers for foreign investors.

A new report from a German think tank examines what policy options work best for countries dealing with conflicts over valuable natural resources (PDF).

Future Consequences of Kosovo's Independence
Newropeans Magazine

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

Stratfor Russia, Ukraine: Natural Gas Deal, but No EU Energy Security Ukraine and Russia reached a new natural gas deal March 13. The deal is no guarantee of European energy security in 2008.

Russia must use nuclear deterrent to protect allies - analyst

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Russian Press Friday 14 March 2008

Deeper Friendship, Cooperation With Islamic World is Russia's Strategic Course - Putin

Nato Fears Georgia Seeks Alliance Entry to Resolve Its Conflicts - Rogozin

Primakov Opposes Possible Recognition of Abkhazia, South Ossetia

No Internet Thaw Under Dima By: Georgy Bovt | The Moscow Times
The Russian blogosphere showed a lot of activity during the presidential election campaign. The only part of the pre-election televised debates to generate universal interest among bloggers was when Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky scuffled with a representative of rival candidate Andrei Bogdanov

Moscow's Missile Gambit By: Robert Joseph and J.D. Crouch II | The Washington Post
Six years ago, President Bush announced the U.S. withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and our intention to deploy defenses against emerging threats from countries such as North Korea and Iran. Contrary to prevailing expectations, the sky did not fall

H13 The Times Iran's choice: military or military Today's election may see the wings of Ahmadinejad and his dangerous foreign policy clipped Amir Taheri

Iran hope as challenger reaches out to the West Rival to President opposes Ahmadinejad's confrontation with the West and hopes a new 'third force' will gain influence

Obama and Clinton play race issue blame game Presidential candidates accuse each other of playing race card as Democrats increasingly divide along racial lines

EU signals retreat over green pledges EU leaders meeting in Brussels clash over how to cut greenhouse gases a year after making climate change their top priority

Join the Iraq War debate? Don't bother The case is closed: invasion was the greatest foreign policy mistake since 1945

Martin Samuel

Crunch to Contagion Financial markets are in turmoil, but all is not yet lost

Gold soars as panicking investors seek safety The price of gold has risen to more than $1,000 per ounce for the first time amid escalating fears of the global credit crisis

It's time to take a stand against Islam and Sharia Maryam Namazie on why rights are for individuals, not religions or beliefs

Whatever next: a map of Utopia?

Thanks to the internet we are living in a golden age of cartography Ben Macintyre

Wall Street Journal

Our Uncertain Economy
By Edmund S. Phelps
Animal spirits can't be modelled

Recession Is Inevitable
By David Roche
Fed liquidity can't stop the falling tide.

House Party

By Peggy Noonan
Declarations:
He's got the nomination. But does John McCain want to be President?

Human Rights Roll Call
State's annual report on human-rights abuses makes for stiff reading. Review & Outlook

The Veep Calculus
By Kimberley A. Strassel
Potomac Watch:
Should Barack consider Hillary's offer?

Obama and the Minister
By Ronald Kessler
In 2006, the Senator's longtime minister and friend called America "the No. 1 killer in the world."

Japan's Exporters Face Risks as Dollar Slides

The dollar's dive deepened, as it touched a low against the euro and, for the first time in over 12 years, fell below the 100-yen level. The stronger yen threatens Japanese exporters and makes a slowdown or recession more likely

Nervous Banks Drain Carlyle Fund

A fund affiliated with Carlyle Group all but collapsed as banks rushed to sell assets backing the fund. Carlyle Group isn't expected to suffer much financially, but it's a severe blow to the reputation of the asset-management company.

H14 Financial Times Dollar plunges to record low The dollar plummeted to a record low and the price of gold touched $1,000 as retail sales figures confirmed that the US is in recession and concern intensified about spreading distress in the hedge fund sector

EU opens door to Croatia membership Croatia’s bid for early membership of the European Union received a boost when the European Commission said it should be possible to complete accession negotiations by the end of 2009

Kuwait finds it is not devoid of sectarianism The death of a Hizbollah leader in a car bombing stirs up worrying emotions among citizens, illustrating that the Gulf state is not immune to the tensions dogging the Middle East

Iran’s elite paper over the economic cracks Inflation and unemployment remain problems but the new generation of nouveaux riches are flourishing thanks to a sharp rise in house prices and record oil prices

Iraq’s Mehdi army attacks US base near Kut US soldiers and Iraqi militants exchanged fire after a rocket attack from a Shi’ite Mehdi Army militia stronghold on a US base southeast of Baghdad, Iraqi police said

European leaders need a president, not a nonentity At issue now is whether the European Union wants to exercise political as well as economic clout. Looking at the names being floated as putative contenders, the answer seems to be a resounding no, writes Philip Stephens

Serbia’s choice Serbs must put Kosovo aside and focus on the EU. The alternative is isolation from the west and a position among Moscow’s client states

Intervene to slow the dollar’s decline If the right conditions can be met, action to stabilise the US currency would be a sensible part of the response to global financial turmoil

Halt the political hara-kiri In this, the most fascinating and longest-running Democratic primary process of our time, we were presented with a silly moment that is all too reflective of American culture, writes James Carville

EU’s move on emissions targets European Union leaders, seeking to set the pace for the world, plan to announce on Friday they will convert their bold promises to fight global warming into law within 12 months

Russia and Ukraine end gas stand-off Gazprom announced it had reached an agreement on natural gas with Ukraine, putting an end to last week’s tense standoff in which supplies to Ukraine were cut by about half

Serbian president dissolves parliamentSerbia’s president Boris Tadic has dissolved parliament and called an early general election for May 11 after the country’s divided government broke down amid differences over relations with the European Union

Lobbyists on McCain team draw questionsAny perception of unethical behaviour could prove particularly damaging for John McCain because his reputation for integrity is among his strongest electoral assets

Budget’s diminished role Samuel Brittan on rebalancing the economy

Africa’s greatest challenge is to reduce fertility John May and Jean-Pierre Guengant on the benefits

Why the Dutch must win hearts and minds Jan Melissen on cultural diplomacy’s benefits

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial Fallon vs. Petraeus The tension between the military brass reflects a broader national security dilemma.

The importance of being British

Brown's government fears citizens don't know what that means. But the people say they don't need any help

Thou shalt honor thy Mother Earth Vatican tells Catholics that pollution is a modern-day sin requiring urgent attention

Decriminalize prostitution

By Patty Kelly Paying for sex is common. The U.S. should follow Mexico's lead and accept that.

H16 American Politics

Opposition from all quarters to Florida's primary plan What had been pitched as the "only option" to avoid a bitter convention battle over whether to seat Florida's delegates at the Democratic National Convention seems destined for rejection

Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11

13 Percent of Registered Voters Think Obama Is a Muslim

Details of a possible delegate plan under discussion:

Clinton strategist says Obama 'can't win the general election'

Gallup Daily: Obama, Clinton Equally Matched vs. McCain

Pew Research Center:
Awareness of Iraq War Fatalities Plummets

Rendell: Isn't Popular Vote As Important As Pledged Del Count?

realclearpolitics memeorandum ABC’s The Note US News Political Bulletin Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

Support for War Effort Highest Since 2006 - David Paul Kuhn, The Politico

In a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday, Clinton called for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the resignation of Admiral William Fallon as Commander of U.S. Central Command. She called Fallon "a voice of reason in an administration which has used inflammatory rhetoric with respect to Iran," and expressed concern that Fallon's decision to resign "may not have been his own."

H17 Daily Telegraph

McCain: Iraq pull-out will cause genocide

Iran can only wait and pray

To grasp the sense of stagnation and despair in Iran, you have only to learn the essential economics of a household budget in the country, writes David Blair

Ben Bernanke flies to the rescue

Profile: Fed chairman tries to free up credit markets.

China's losing game over Olympics

China is increasingly finding that the Olympic Games are a double-edged sword.

H18 Independent Robert Fisk: The cult of the suicide bomber

Few players in the 'war on terror' are more chilling, or misunderstood, than suicide bombers. Yet the true scale of their grisly activities has never been properly calculated. Five years after the invasion of Iraq, Robert Fisk details the shocking extent of the most widespread campaign of self-liquidation in human history

Iraq: teachers told to rewrite history

Britain's biggest teachers' union has accused the Ministry of Defence of breaking the law over a lesson plan drawn up to teach pupils about the Iraq war.

China admits sending in troops to quell Tibetan monk demos

Chinese troops and police have been deployed at important monasteries in Tibet to quell the biggest protests by Tibetan Buddhist monks in the Himalayan region for nearly 20 years.

EU presses ahead with substantial cuts in emissions EU leaders are likely to push ahead with plans for substantial cuts in "greenhouse" emissions in Europe over the next 12 years at the end of their summit in Brussels today.

Gold hits $1,000 as recession fears grow US retail sales and jobless data shock markets; Falling dollar pushes gold and oil to record highs

Death of the hedge fund?

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

Charlie Rose: CJCS Admiral Mike Mullen

American Enterprise Institute What Lies "Beyond Goldwater-Nichols"? By Thomas Donnelly The question of how best to organize the U.S. military is a perennial one. Recent experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan have raised the issue of whether the centralizing tendency of the last reorganization, the Goldwater-Nichols Act in 1986, is the best approach for the "Long War."

When Generals Wage Politics
Wall Street Journal

Al Qaeda's fading victory (By Austin Bay)

Progress in Iraq Doesn't Mean We're Winning the War on Terror By: Bernard I. Finel | World Politics Review
The recent decline in violence in Iraq is not synonymous with progress in the war on terror. Four-and-a-half years ago, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld used the phrase "long, hard slog" to refer to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in a notorious 2003 memo titled "Global War on Terror."

Drug Intoxicated Irregular Fighters: Complications, Dangers, and Responses The presence of drugged fighters is not unknown in the history of warfare. Irregular fighters have found a ready supply of narcotics for a variety of combat purposes. Such consumption has led to unpredictable fighting, the commission of atrocities, and to the prolongation of internal violence. March 2008, by Dr. Paul Rexton Kan Strategic Studies Institute

Yemeni describes CIA secret jails

How do you make a terrorist talk? An interview with Jack Cloonan on how to break a terrorist.

Senate Appropriations Committee Examines Waste, Fraus and Abuse of American Tax Dollars in Iraq (PDF; 82 KB)
Source: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Testimonies (PDFs) and archived webcast

H20 Slate

Does space belt need traffic control?

As more countries race to launch satellites and manned craft, some warn of a space jam.

Salon The rise of the superclass

H21 Rising use of Internet challenges its capacity While there has there has been a rising chorus of alarm about the surging growth in online traffic, the surge does not necessarily represent an impending catastrophe.

In praise of ... sparkling wine

Leader: Champagne makers consider plans to allow a further 40 villages to grow the lucrative grape

Goggles to find missing keys

Glasses will recognise objects and play back video

EU paves way for rival to Google

Wave goodbye to the nine to five

Executives predict exodus from traditional workplace to more home-working

Iraq, the director's cut

Sarfraz Manzoor Brian De Palma's new film, Redacted, brings us face to face with some unpalatable, unreported realities of war

Though the rational mind knows what a picture is, it’s hard to hit a baby’s photo on a dartboard: our aim falls prey to deep intuitions... more»

If professors of literature go about denying the value of the very books they teach, is it any surprise that English departments are in trouble?... more»

The current employment rate is 95.3%. Better still, out of 300 million Americans, roughly 299.999954 million were not murdered today. But if you just watch TV... more»

The Vision Thing

By STEPHEN KUUSISTO To gain a keen sense for what others are talking about, blind people need to develop an equally sharp curiosity about human beings.

PhDs in Germany Find Use of 'Doktor' Verboten

Americans with PhDs beware: Under a little-known law, only people who earn PhDs or medical degrees in Germany are allowed to use "Dr." as a courtesy title.

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The biggest football event of the year is undoubtedly the UEFA European Football Championship. Also referred to as Euro 2008, it is going to take place in Austria and Switzerland from 7th to 29th June 2008. There are total sixteen European teams to be take part in this mega football event. Austria and Poland will be competing in the tournament for the first time.
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ABD Irak’tan Çekilirken Riskler ve Hesaplar 1 Mayıs 2010
ABD-İsrail İlişkilerinde “Normalleşme” Sancıları 22 Nisan 2010
Obama’nın Nükleer Cazibe Taarruzu: Bardağın Üçte Biri Dolu 9 Nisan 2010
ABD-İsrail İlişkilerinde “Tektonik Kayma” mı? 5 Nisan 2010
Irak Seçimleri: Sonun Başlangıcı, Başlangıcın Sonu 19 Mart 2010
Ermeni Karar Tasarısı Üzerine Notlar, Yorumlar ve Öneriler 8 Mart 2010
Ermeni Karar Tasarısı Üzerine Notlar, Yorumlar ve Öneriler 8 Mart 2010 (word)
Bütçe Açığı ve Amerikan Gerilemesinin Ekonomi Politiği 19 Şubat 2010
Cemaat-skeptic 6 Ocak 2010
AKP bir seçim daha kazanırsa burası FC olur 4 Ocak 2010
ABD bu işin neresinde? 29 Aralık 2009
Türkiye-Ermenistan Protokolü Üzerine Düşünceler 3 Eylül 2009
"Obama’nın Savaşı":AfPak Üzerine Notlar 20 Nisan 2009
Obama’nın Ardından 17 Nisan 2009
Obama’nın Türkiye Gezisi ve Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri 19 Mart 2009
ABD ve Orta Doğu Barış Süreci Mart 2009
Obama’nın “Kırkı Çıkarken” Mart 2009

ABD-PKK “İlişkisi” Üzerine Notlar Şubat 2009
Mahşerin Üç Atlısı: Ross, Holbrooke ve Mitchell 5 Şubat 2009
SOFA ABD için Irak’ta “Sonun Başlangıcı” mı? Ocak 2009
Obama Döneminde ABD ve Asya 15 Ocak 2009
Obama’nın Güvenlik Kabinesi Üzerine Notlar 4 Aralık 2008
Yeni ABD Başkanı Obama ve Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri 6 Kasım 2008
ABD Başkanlık Seçimlerinin Türk-Amerikan İlişkilerine Muhtemel Etkileri 30 Ekim 2008
ABD Başkanlık Seçimleri Ekim 2008
Obama’nın Biden’ı Tercihinin Bir Tahlili 26 Ağustos 2008
Amerikan Sağı Üzerine Notlar Ağustos 2008
Gürcistan Krizi, ABD ve Türkiye 11 Ağustos 2008
Obama'nın Dış Gezisi 29 Temmuz 2008
Başkan Bush’un Avrupa Gezisi ve Transatlantik İlişkileri 18 Haziran 2008
ABD Seçimleri (ppt) - 10 Haziran 2008
"Sessiz Tsunami": Global Gıda Krizi (ppt) - 29 Nisan 2008
Amiral Fallon'un İstifası 13 Mart 2008
ABD ve PKK İlişkisi Üzerine Notlar 22 Kasım 2007
“İçeride Liberal, Dışarıda Şahin”: K. Irak’a Harekat Üzerine Notlar 25 Ekimy 2007
K.Irak'a Ekonomik Müeyyideler Üzerine Sorular 25 Ekimy 2007
Irak "Hamle"sinin Muhasebesi Eylül 2007
Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri - Yeni Dönemin Gündemi Eylül 2007
ABD, K. Irak ve Türkiye Üzerine Notlar ve Sorular Haziran 2007
ABD ve Orta Doğu: "Müflis mirasyedi" mi "stratejik deha" mı? Mayıs 2007
Recommendations for Strengthening U.S.-Turkish Relations February 26, 2007
ABD'nin Irak'taki Seçenekleri Ocak 2007
'Topal Ördek'le İki Yıl Daha: 2006 Kongre Seçimleri Aralık 2006
U.S.: Empire, Gulliver or the “First Among Unequals” (ppt) - ASAM 2023 Conference - October 2006
Türk-Amerikan İlişkilerinde “İkinci Bahar” mı, “Sonun Başlangıcı” mı? Stratejik Analiz - Haziran 2006 -
Irak’ta Direnişin ve İşgalin Gölgesinde Demokrasi Deneyi Avrasya Dosyası - İslam ve Demokrasi Özel Sayısı
Gurur ve Önyargı: ABD İran Gerginliği ve Türkiye Stratejik Analiz Nisan 2006 - (pdf)
Arzın Merkezine Seyahat: ABD Ulusal Güvenlik Konseyi - Journey to the Center of the World: U.S. National Security Council Avrasya Dosyası 2005
Dört Tarz-ı Siyaset: Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri ve Başbakan Erdoğan’ın Washington Ziyareti Temmuz 2005
11 Eylül’den Sonra Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri: Eski Dostlar mı Eskimeyen Dostlar mı? Avrasya Dosyası - 2005
“Dört Yıl Daha”: Yeni Bush Yönetimi ve Dünya Aralık 2004
2004’ten 2005’e Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Aralık 2004
Türkiye, Iraklı Kürtler ve Statükonun Meşruiyeti Nisan 2004 - eksik
Askerî Alanda Devrim: Askerî Bir Senfoni Ocak 2004
Çirkin Amerikalı’ ile ‘Güven Bunalımı’: ‘Süleymaniye Krizi ve Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Temmuz 2003 - ( pdf )
The Middle East: A Land of Opportunity and Peril for Turkey - May 2003
Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Üzerine Notlar: Ataerkil Yapıdan Tüccar Mantığına mı? Mayıs 2003
Türkiye, ABD ve Irak Harekâtı: Hayır Diyebilen Türkiye? - Şubat 2003
Değişim, ‘Sense of Proportion’ ve Tarihin Yararları ile Sınırları Üzerine Nisan 2003
ABD Güvenlik Politikalarında Güç Kullanımı ve Caydırıcılık Ağustos 2002
“Yalnız Kovboy” ya da “Eşit Olmayanlar Arasında Birinci”: ABD Dış Politikasında Tektaraflılık-Çoktaraflılık Tartışmaları Mart 2002
İyi, Kötü ve Çirkin: ABD'nin Orta Doğu Politikaları Ocak 2002
Unilateralism corrupts, absolute unilateralism corrupts absolutely Turkish News, May 21, 2002
ABD ve Afganistan: Çıkış Var mı? Kasım 2001
Realism and Change
Crime and Punishment - Deterrence and its Failure in Theory and Practice 2001
“Tüketebileceğimizden Daha Fazla Değişim” ya da Eskimeyen Dünya Düzeni Ekim 2001
“ABD-AB İlişkilerinde Metal Yorgunluğu” Haziran 2001
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