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17 March 2008
  March 17, 2008

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H1 NYT Reflections on the Invasion of Iraq To mark this week’s fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the Op-Ed page asked nine experts on military and foreign affairs to assess their previous and current outlook. Bremer, Perle, Slaughter, Pollack, Pletka, Fick, Eaton, Kagan, Cordesman

Fateful Choice on Iraq Army Bypassed Debate By MICHAEL R. GORDON The decision by L. Paul Bremer III to dissolve Iraq’s Army was a reversal from a plan the White House had approved.

War Torn Five Years By JOHN F. BURNS Looking back on the Iraq war at its fifth anniversary — and reckoning with its staggering costs

FAREED ZAKARIA Stuck in the Iraq Loop We have achieved some security in Iraq. But we have not built a sustainable security architecture.

Jane's on Iranian Weaponization [1] Documents shown exclusively to Jane’s indicate that Iran is continuing its pursuit of the advanced technologies necessary to develop a nuclear weapon, regardless of Tehran’s claims that its nuclear programme is purely peaceful. Jane’s was shown the information by a source connected to a Western intelligence service, and the documents were verified by a number of reliable independent sources in Vien

William Arkin Six Signs the US Is Not Headed for War in Iran

Seven of 10 Iraqis want foreign forces leave

Iraq By the Numbers

Financial Times Alan Greenspan: We will never have a perfect risk model The essential problem is that our models – both risk models and econometric models – as complex as they have become, are still too simple to capture the full array of governing variables that drive global economic reality, writes Alan Greenspan

Christian Science Monitor

On Iraq policy, next U.S. president will have to adapt Despite their rhetoric, '08 candidates try to keep their options open

Iran election: hard-liners hold on, despite high inflation Conservatives win 70 percent of parliament. But reformers gain, too

Is the Mahdi Army's 'cease-fire' over? Recent clashes between the militia and Iraqi forces threaten to undo a lull in the group's activities.

Bernanke and Paulson: economy's two key crisis managers The Fed chairman and the Treasury secretary face tough scrutiny as policymakers


Mistakes in Iraq, But War Was Just – Richard Perle, Sunday Telegraph

McClatchy Iraq war's cost: Loss of U.S. power, prestige, influence

5 years after Iraq's 'liberation,' there are worms in the water Five years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Iraqis still swelter in the summer and freeze in the winter because of a lack of electricity. Government rations are inevitably late, incomplete or expired. Garbage piles up for days, sometimes weeks, emanating toxic fumes

Why Shariah? - Noah Feldman, New York Times Magazine Millions of Muslims think Shariah means the rule of law. Could they be right?

Paul Kennedy Measuring American Power in Today`s Fractured World

Kissinger: "Talk to Iran"

Washington Post Waiting Games in the Middle East By David Ignatius, Syria, Iran and Iraq hope they'll get a better deal with the next president

Needed: Honesty on Iraq By Jim Hoagland Without tying their hands, the candidates need to answer hard questions.

A Crude Case for War? Steven Mufson | We did not invade Iraq to make it safe for Big Oil, but oil was a major factor in the decision to go to war

Fed Takes Broad Action To Avert Financial Crisis Central bank backs the acquisition of Bear Stearns by J.P. Morgan for $2 a share, cuts key interest rate and increases flow of money to other banks

New Task for a Budget Straight-Talker By David S. Broder, David Walker warns that the country is courting disaster by not paying its bills.

Mideast Players Differ On Approach to Hamas

Moving Forward in Armenia By Serzh Sargsyan and Arthur Baghdasaryan, Why the international community should support our coalition government

WINEP Cheney's Middle East Trip: Iran Tops a Weighty Agenda

CFR Serwer: Iraqis Beginning to Show Signs of Political Compromise

New York Times Fed Acts to Rescue Financial Markets The Fed approved a $30 billion loan for the takeover of Bear Stearns and announced a new lending tool for investment firms

PAUL KRUGMAN The B Word When the feds do bail out the financial system, what will they do to ensure that they aren’t also bailing out the people who got us into this mess?

For Democrats, Increased Fears of a Long Fight Many superdelegates cite the will of the voters as a guiding principle, a boon to Senator Barack Obama

Reformers Gain in Iran Vote Despite Being Barred

WILLIAM KRISTOL Generation Obama? Perhaps Not. In Barack Obama’s political career, there is the calculation of ambition, and the construction of artifice, mixed in with a dash of deceit.

GuardianThe Iraq experience has laid bare the limits of raw military power Max Hastings: The next US president must reject the juvenile Bush vision, reach out to Iran and seek justice for the Palestinian people

We talked to the IRA, so why can't we talk to al-Qaida?Jackie Ashley: A former adviser to Blair says we should keep lines open to terrorists. It was rubbished by No 10, but he's right

Spotlight on grievance Martin Jacques: Events in Tibet expose China's achilles heel: its inability to recognise and respect ethnic difference

Revealed: Blair's offer to meet masked IRA leaders Former PM was willing to hold secret meetings in desperate bid to save Northern Ireland peace process

Death, destruction and fear on the streets - Iraq: five years on

Award-winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad returns to the city where he was born and lived for 30 years

Ha’aretz American intervention now Pressure to put an end to the bloodshed and guarantee the Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic country is welcome pressure

FT JPMorgan to buy Bear Stearns for $236m JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $2 a share for the stricken US investment bank in a deal that puts an end to Bear’s 85 years of independence and highlights the risks faced by banks during the credit crunch

Bill’s trap of Clinton-Obama ticketObama will have other chances to be president and in low moments he may feel there are worse things in the meantime than being vice-president, writes Clive Crook

Macedonia ready to bend on name dispute The country says it will bend as far as necessary in its protracted ‘name dispute’ with Greece in return for a Nato membership invitation

Quentin Peel: Russia on a game of diplomatic chicken Quentin Peel writes about Russia’s dangerous moves to demonstrate its displeasure over the precedent Kosovo might set for other declarations of independence closer to home

Fed cuts bank rate to boost confidence The US Federal Reserve made a surprise 25-basis-point cut in the discount rate and created a new lending facility in an effort to ‘promote liquid, well-functioning financial markets’

Sarkozy must reform furtherFrance is still full of absurd restrictive practices for which the president’s party has a great deal to answer, writes Wolfgang Münchau

Trouble in Tibet Beijing should stop hiding behind its accusations that ‘splittists’ are behind the bloodshed and start dealing seriously with Tibetan grievances

Iran’s conservatives claim poll victory The government can claim victory but analysts said how much support Ahmadi-Nejad enjoys in the next parliament will depend on whether he takes decisive action to fix Iran’s economic woes

Oil tops Cheney's Middle East tour agenda

Ahmadi-Nejad will face big challenges The much diminished prospect of a US attack on Iran has opened up debate in Iran, and gives Washington a chance to offer Tehran a bargain

Newsweek COVER STORY: IRAQ Scions of the Surge

Tom Barnett Scripps Howard. Losing America's middle ground means losing our way

Juan Cole Reflections on Petraeus's Comments On lack of Political Progress

The Surge in Iraq: One Year Later by Lieutenant General Ray Odierno, Heritage Foundation - 13 March lecture transcript (pdf).

Dollar Doomsayers Draw Signs From Bernanke Rate Cuts (Update2) Bloomberg

Guardian Glaciers melt faster than ever before World's glaciers are melting faster than at any time since records began, says new report

Independent Brown: There will be a public inquiry into Iraq Gordon Brown has promised that the Government will hold a full-scale inquiry into the mistakes made in Iraq before and since the invasion.

Where are they now? The faces of the Iraq war five years on

Partick Cockburn: A gross failure that ignored history and ended with a humiliating retreat

The Observer Five years on, the hard lessons that we must learn from Iraq Leader: The war was a blow to the idea of 'liberal intervention' but not necessarily a fatal one

NYT After Elections Setback, a Chastened Sarkozy Presses On

Los Angeles Times ,McCain, both pragmatist and hawk The presidential nominee has taken diverse foreign policy positions over his 25 years in Congress.

Iraqi feel-good stories prove elusive Some American readers clamor for upbeat reports, but positive news is not easy to find

Foreign fighters in Iraq seek recognition, U.S. says Interrogations of 48 detainees to understand their motivations provide a picture of typically young, lonely recruits.

Boston Globe Another year, another $300 billion THE SIXTH year of the Iraq war begins this week. The war is now the second-longest in US history - longer than any except Vietnam. So far, 1.6 million US troops have served, more than a third of them for two or more tours of duty. Almost 4,000 US service personnel have been killed, and 60,000 wounded, injured or contracted ... (By Linda Bilmes, Boston Globe)

Boston Globe State Inc. The most important new forces in global business are aggressive, wealthy, and entrepreneurial. But they aren't corporations: they're authoritarian governments. (By Joshua Kurlantzick, Boston Globe)

Jerusalem Post The Region: What to do about Gaza: The realistic... [ BARRY RUBIN

Ha’aretz Bar’el Until we reach the End of Days Israel could conduct two-headed talks: one with Hamas, over the important issues such as security, and the second with the PA - over nothing.

• 'How Will the IDF Confront Regional Threats? A Strategic Overview' by Maj.-Gen. Ido Nehushtan, Commander of Israeli Air Force, for Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Drezner Good gossip from Brussels

Sunday Times Imperialism lite prolongs Iraqi horror Today’s imperialism lite, by debating its departure, induces instability, foments rebellion and undermines its mission. A nation was alienated and nation-building turned from mission improbable to mission impossible Simon Jenkins

Be bold, Gordon, trust the people

Politics is struggling with assertive citizens, diverse societies and globalised economies. They all call for new ideas

Diplomatic 'surge' to boost Middle East peace

Neocons and supporters have lost the argument The Great Divide: Times writers continue the debate that still splits the country. Matthew Parris is against the war

NYRB Condi and the Boys
By Russell Baker
On Condoleezza Rice: An American Life by Elisabeth Bumiller, Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush by Robert Draper, and The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy by Glenn Kessler.

A New Deal in Pakistan
By William Dalrymple
Over the last few years there has been something of an existential crisis in Pakistan, at the heart of which lay the question: What sort of country did Pakistanis want? Did they want a Western-style liberal democracy, as envisaged by the poet Iqbal, who first dreamed up the idea of Pakistan, and by the country's eventual founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah? An Islamic republic like Mullah Omar's Afghanistan? Or a military-ruled junta of the sort created by Generals Ayyub Khan, Zia, and Musharraf, who, among them, have ruled Pakistan for thirty-four of its sixty years of existence?

The Volunteer Army: Who Fights and Why?
By Michael Massing

The Troubled Birth of Kosovo By Charles Simic

H2 NYT Suit Seeks to Bar Party of Premier in Turkey

Washington Post Iraqi Kurds Need Turkey Soner Cagaptay | The Iraqi Kurds' biggest worry isn't Turkey - it's Iran.

MESH Tough times for Turkey’s generals Malik Mufti


Domanic: Post Wrong on PKK

Reporting on the PKK - Deborah Howell, Washington Post

Lawsuit puts Turkey's stability, reforms at risk

LA Times Turkey changes, by the numbers By Soner Cagaptay

Washington Times Islamic politics weigh on Erdogan (By Andrew Borowiec)

Cüneyt Ülsever Cheney ne isteyecek?

FT’s Gardner: Political will, not economic convergence, required ...

Istanbul's Galata Bridge...
as window on Turkey.

Ferai Tınç Dış politikada baskı dönemi başlarken

ABD: Seçmen iradesine saygı duyun

Eski ABD Dışişleri Bakanı Albright: Dehşete kapıldım

Press Briefing by a Senior Administration Official on the Vice President Cheney’s Trip to the Middle East . Whitehouse.gov

Court Asked to Ban Turkey's Government TIME

N Barzani Fedakarlığımızın kıymeti bilinmedi

Iraq Kurdistan under Turkish-Iranian grip Alsumaria

Turkey's EU Bid Undeterred by Constitutional Crisis, Rehn Says

Seçmen iradesine saygı gösterilmeli

Editorial: Dangerous Move
Arab News

Democracy and Cola Dilemma in Turkey cafebabel.com

Turkey's pains of modernisation
Khaleej Times

Power Race in Asia and Turkey's Asian Policy FPI A Turkish essay examining geopolitical trends in respect of Asia

Cheney çantasındaki füze kalkanı planı için geliyor

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

Aysel Tuğluk Neo-ittihatçı projeler iflas etti

Öcalandan DTP'ye tehdit

Soft power vs. hard in trying to reconcile with Turkey’s Kurds

The operation: What’s all the fuss about?

Zana davası beni hem üzdü hem de sevindirdi

Cevdet Aşkın Cheney'den Ankara ziyareti, ABD'den ikiz demir leblebi

130 kişinin katili Türk bu mu?

Kadınlara selam, DTP'ye yehdit

N Barzani Fedakarlığımızın kıymeti bilinmedi

Norwegian Oil Company DNO revises agreement with Kurdish Authorities

Kurdish Rebels Meet the Payroll

'Türkiye ilişkilerinde yeni sayfa açıldı' Celal Talabani ve Mesut Barzani, Türkiye ile ilişkileri görüştü

Ürperten itiraf: Bomba koyduğumuz yere ailem de gidiyordu

‘Annemin gittiği marketi havaya uçuracaktım!’

Halepçe Katliamı Kurbanları Anıldı

Kurdistan and the map-makers

Kouchner to go to Kurdistan

Keldaniler kimdir?
Irak'ın kadim dini cemaatlerinden olan Keldanilerin dini inanışları

PKK internetten saldırıyor!

Dizai, ''DTP şiddet karşısındaki durumunu netleştirmeli“

PKK kendini ihbar etti

Bayrak altında oturdu 'Türkiye Kürdistanı' dedi

PKK’lı baba 12 yaşındaki çocuğunu bombacı yaptı!

Deniz Gökçe Güneydoğu ve Doğu Anadolu’da yatırım

Let's look forward on the Kurdish issue İlter TÜRKMEN

Bu fotoğraf mizansenmiş

Asker medya’nın son övünç kaynağı…

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AKP İddianamesi, Perinçek'in başvurusundan alıntılanmış

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KCK'den Ankara'ya diyalog çağrısı
NATO orduları küçülüyor

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İkinci skandal da otopside

Almanya'da 2 Türk evi kundaklandı

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

New chapter in fight against drought: seawater desalination

Mehmetçiğe süper silahlar geliyor

Ali Kemal’in torunu Türk desteği istedi

Genç Siviller: Tek parti olsun, temiz olsun

Rüstem Paşa rüşveti tarifeye bağladı AVNİ ÖZGÜREL

Soner Yalçın ’Komutan, siz nasıl Müslüman’sınız?’

Tuzla işçisine Rambo eğitimi

Recep İvedik neden tuttu?
Yıldırım Türker

16 Mart 2008 Basın Özeti

17 Mart 2008 Basın Özeti

H3 İddianamenin tam metni (word)

Hedef dinselleşme

AKP'nin elindeki koz: Anayasa değişikliği

Başsavcının yetkisi alınacak dava açma şarta bağlanacak

'Darbeci Kemalizm devletten kazınacak' Ahmet Altan: Bir iki hafta içinde “korkunç” bir olayla karşılaşacağız

Kapatmaya Japon modeli

AKP’YE AĞIR SUÇLAMALAR

‘Olmazsa cihad ilan edecekler’ Milliyet’in ulaştığı 162 sayfalık iddianamede, AKP’yi kuranların geçmişte aynı gerekçelerle kapatılan partilerle bağlarına dikkat çekildi

11 başlıkta AKP ve odak suçlaması

İsmet Berkan - İddianameyi okurken...

Başsavcı’nın başı beş ayrı suçlamayla dertte

Gerekçe: Savaş'tan Küpür: Perinçek'ten Talimat: Selçuk'tan

İddianameyi kim sızdırdı

Mahkemenin seçenekleri

AKP'nin 3 seçeneği

Metehan Demir Bu davanın bir yıllık sırrı

Milliyet Son Dakika

Kapatılsa bile AKP iktidarda kalacak

Bahçeli'den anayasa değişikliği önerisi

Serdar Turgut Derin devlet nerede Türkiye’nin sorunu, aklın hâkim olduğu bir derin devletin ortada bulunmamasıdır.

ALİ H. ASLAN - [WASHINGTON] Oh boy!

Cengiz Çandar

Ahmet Taşgetiren

Ruşen - Çakır Yedi soruda kapatma davası Erdoğan boş kaleye gol atmaya devam ediyor

Taha Akyol Türkiye’de ‘hukukçu’ sorunu

Fikret Bila

Murat Yetkin Murat Yetkin - Kapatma talebi siyasette çok tartışılacak

Ferai Tınç Bir muhalefet yöntemi olarak parti kapatma

Soli Özel| Adaletin 28 Şubat'ı

Osman Ulagay AKP’den kurtulma umudu mu? AKP’yi kurtarma operasyonu mu?

Tufan Türenç AKP’yi aşmanın tek yolu: SANDIK

Ahmet Hakan Bence kapatılacak

Fatih Çekirge Erken seçim şifreleri

Bahçeli'nin önerisine sert tepki!

[HABER ANALİZ] Erdoğan'ın 'geçmiş olsun' telefonu bile kapatma sebebi

Toplumun tüm kesimlerinden tepki yağdı, Baykal sessizliğini koruyor

Meclis’te sınırötesi için kapalı oturum

Mustafa Karaalioğlu Hukuk, demokrasi, ekonomi, itibar...

Dağlıca komutanına baskın sonrası ödül

İddianameyi kim sızdırdı?

Dağlıca'da yeni iddialar

Hasan Cemal Anayasa Mahkemesi, kapatma davasını reddetmeli!

MÜMTAZ'ER TÜRKÖNE - Ergenekon'dan çıkış

Aysel Tuğluk Neo-ittihatçı projeler iflas etti

'Darbe olmaz diyemem'

Siyaset bilimci, yazar Nuray Mert, Mine Şenocaklı'ya konuştu

Şamil Tayyar Ergenekon’daki o soru

TÜSİAD: Parti kapatmak çare olamaz

Gözler artık bu 11’de!

Savcı Yalçınkaya'ya şok

Dava oyumuzu yüzde 50'nin üzerine çıkarır

Semih İdiz Demokrasi, AKP’yi göndermenin tek yolu

Newspaper demands trial of chief prosecutor

Randevudaki mesaj

CHP: Bırakalım hukuk işlesin

Kapatmaya karşıyım hukuka saygılıyım

Murat Yılmaz Cunta, Ergenekon ve dava

Süreç başlıyor

Anayasa Mahkemesi üyelerine AKP hakkında açılan kapatma davasının iddianamesi bugün dağıtılacak

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

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MUSTAFA ÜNAL - Demokrasiye darbe

Fehmi Koru: Yine, yeni, yeniden...

No country for odd men

Şahin Alpay Status quo fights back

İhsan Dağı Old Turkey vs. new Turkey

Ömer Taşpınar The ‘slow’ coup

Yavuz Baydar Future of democracy is at stake from today

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Kürşat Bumin: Adriana'nın dönüşü

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Hayrettin Karaman: Kısas (3)

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Tamer Korkmaz: Türkiye, Taş Devri'ne döndürülemez: Eski hal, muhaldir!

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Cevdet Akçalı: Sıfır kilometre anayasa özlemi


Türker Alkan - Dava

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İsmet Berkan - Gel de AKP'yi eleştir şimdi

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Hasan Celal Güzel - Nüfus planlaması hikâyeleri

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Haluk Şahin - Amerikan rüyasının sonu mu?

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H. Gökhan Özgün - Abdurrahman

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Hakkı Devrim - «Bana arkadaşını söyle, sana kim olduğunu söyleyeyim» deriz amma...

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Altan Öymen - Sorunlar parti kapatmakla da çözülmüyor, yargıya saldırmakla da...

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Tarhan Erdem - Kutuplaşma sadece zararlıdır

EKREM DUMANLI - Şimdi tam sağduyu zamanı!

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ALİ BULAÇ - "Yeni AK Parti": % 57

İsmail Küçükkaya Kapatma davasına dair

Oray Eğin Diğer partiler kapatılırken Erdoğan ne yapıyordu?

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A. TURAN ALKAN - Mülkiyeliyim, yakışıklıyım, üstelik Cumhuriyet okuruyum!

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M. NEDİM HAZAR - Hoşaf!

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MEHMET YILMAZ - Yurtta İslamofobi cihanda İslamofobi

Kürşat Bumin: Diyarbakır'dan getirdiğim en zor soru

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Yusuf Ziya Cömert: Çocuklara anlatamayız çünkü ayıp

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Taha Kıvanç: Rütbeler benden

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Tamer Korkmaz: Velev ki “Yargıtay Cumhuriyeti” Başsavcısı'na selam verdin: Penaltı!

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Hakan Albayrak: Bu dava iyi oldu

Mehmet Tezkan

Belki de bu süreçte Erdoğan demokrasi kültürü kazanır..

Yiğit Bulut PKK’dan sonra sıra “irticada” dedik ama...

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Yusuf Kaplan: Türkiye bağımsızsa, Türkiye'yi bağlayan şey ne öyleyse?

Ertuğrul Özkök İyi bir kötü gün dostu

Ahmet Hakan Mahkemede değil sandıkta hesaplaş

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt Ülsever

Enis Berberoğlu Dava hangi Tayyip’e

Oktay Ekşi Oy mu büyük hukuk mu?

Yalçın Bayer AKP’nin demokratik hukuk anlayışı

Nüfus planlaması hikâyeleri
Hasan Celal Güzel

Ne denir? Murat Belge Türkiye'de hukuk, siyasetin bir aracı haline geldi. Demokrasi yerine yargıkrasi kurduk.

Sorunlar parti kapatmakla da çözülmüyor, yargıya saldırmakla da... Altan Öymen

'Islamization' of Turkey: Not what you would think Mustafa AKYOL

Who rules Turkey: A ghost?
Orhan Kemal Cengiz

TÜSİAD: Kapatma davası sorunlara çözüm olmaz

Özdemir İnce

Mehmet Y Yılmaz

Bekir Coşkun Şikáyetçiyiz...

Mehmet Altan Kemalizm’den demokrasiye...

Mahir Kaynak Kapatma

Eser Karakaş Ha bu diyar, Anadayar

Gülay Göktürk Yargı yoluyla darbe teşebbüsü (ama pek naif bir teşebbüs)

Nasuhi Güngör Erdoğan’ı cezalandırmak isteyen kim?

Eser Karakaş Gerilim nereden kaynaklanıyor?

Mehmet Altan Haydin imzaya...

Ahmet Kekeç Latif abi heveslenme, sana ekmek yok...

Nuh Gönültaş AK Parti’yi kapatmak youtube’u kapatmaya

Doğu Perinçek'ten çarpıcı iddialar

Mehmet Tezkan

Bu süreç iyi yönetilmezse bedeli çok ağır olur!

Nuran Yıldız Velev ki kapatılmadı...

Ömer Lütfi Mete Benim oğlum bina okur

Bülent Keneş Enraged ‘judiciocracy’ shaking people’s confidence in justice

Hakan Aygün AKP kapatılır mı?

Güngör Uras Kapatmayı unutalım (Ama laikliği ve bütünlüğü de unutmakta olduğumuzu bilelim.)

MUHARREM SARIKAYA İşte Başsavcı'nın gerekçesi: Dikta rejimi kuracaklar

[Yorum - Dr. Murat Yılmaz] AK Parti'yi kapatma davası siyasetin önünü açabilir mi?

[Yorum - Yard.Doç.Dr. Adnan Küçük] Yargı "odak" tadı verdi

ERDAL ŞAFAK Demokrasi kazanacak AK Parti'ye

ENGİN ARDIÇ Sarı saçlı, mavi gözlü kimse var mı elinizde? İttihatçı kafası

ERGUN BABAHAN Siyaseti yargı yolu ile düzenlemek

EMRE AKÖZ Kapatma öyküsü

Umur Talu16 Mart'tan 16 Mart'a Esas odak şudur

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Bir davanın görünmeyen yüzü

NAZLI ILICAK AK Parti'yi iktidarsızlaştırma girişimi Başörtüsü, don ve laiklik

MEHMET BARLAS Erdoğan "Ankara Kriterleri"ni artık anlamış olsa bari... Kapatma iddianamesini keşke Deniz Baykal yazsaymış...

MAHMUT ÖVÜR 'Savcılar devleti' mi 'hukuk devleti' mi?

YAVUZ DONAT Kapatma davası AK Parti'ye yarar Günün fıkrası

Can Dündar İflas

Siyasileşme kutuplaşmaya dönüşüyor BEKİR AĞIRDIR

İhsan Yılmaz The end of Lausannian Islam

Nabi Yağcı Demokrasimiz değil, demokratlığımız sınavda

Yiğit Bulut Devlet, hükümete 'Hop' dedi

Deniz Gökçe Uzlaşamayan toplum?

[Yorum - Etyen Mahçupyan] Demokrasi ve demokratlık

[Yorum - Dr. Murat Yılmaz] AK Parti'yi kapatma davası siyasetin önünü açabilir mi?

Metin Münir Beni kim itti?

Mustafa Akyol The Attempt For a Judiciary Coup D'état

Ece Temelkuran Demokrasi “davası”

Hüseyin Hatemi: Onaltı Mart yazısı

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Nazif Gürdoğan: Zamana adanmış şehirler

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Mustafa Özel: Modernliğin örtüyle imtihanı

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Abdullah Muradoğlu: Keskin virajlara dikkat..

'Dincilik ile AKP akla kara gibi'

Anti-indictment reactions mount

AK Party vows to remain calm in face of closure threat

Milliyetçilik bizimle güçlendi Tunca Toskay gibilerle değil

Köşelerde dava yorumu

Mahkemenin 3 seçeneği

MHP’den sürpriz teklif

İddianamedeki 71 isim

AKP mağdur rolüne bürünür

İddianamedeki suçlamalar, yalan haberlere dayanıyor

Ak kapatılırsa Pak gelir

23 Nisan'da ne söyleyeceğim?

Hükümetin icraatları şaibeli hale gelecek

İhsan Yılmaz Send the nation into exile in Syria

AndrewFinkel TGIF -- I don’t think so

Bu milleti zorla AKP’li yapacaklar

Rauf Tamer Cevabı ne?

Serdar Akinan
Kaygılıyım

Vahap Coşkun AK Parti'ye kapatma davası

Murat Aksoy AK Parti'yi kim kapatmak istiyor

Mustafa Akyol ‘Rejim’i iyice tanımış olduk

Mensur Akgün Yeni bir anlayış, yeni bir anayasa gerek

Faik Akçay Türban sorununu insan hakları temelinde çözmeli

[Analyzing tension between military and opposition]Dire necessity to learn institutional communicationby Orhan Gökçe

Kritik süreç başlıyor

Davaya tepki büyüyor

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
Kriz, AK Parti'yi büyütür

Sedat Sertoğlu
Başbakan kusura bakmasın ama İstanbul’un imamı benim

Baykal susuyor vekilleri konuşuyor

Medyadan ortak tavır: Dava, millete açıldı

Siyasette hiçbir planım yok; kader planlıyor

Milletin ahını almaktan kurtulamazsınız

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Başsavcı'nın memleketi Şanlıurfa Erdoğan'ı bağrına bastı

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[HUKUKÇULAR TEDİRGİN]

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Başsavcı'ya göre bayramlaşma da suç

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Sanat dünyası da kapatma davasına tepkili

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İddianame, Perinçek'in başvurusundan alıntılanmış

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Sanki 16’ncı yüzyılı anlatan bir film gibi

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YÖK Yürütme Kurulu'nda çatlak var

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Borsa ABD'ye, kur yerliye bakar

Ercan Kumcu İthalatın önlenemez yükselişi Sıkıntılar ne zaman biter

Erdal Sağlam Piyasalar kötüleşirse kapatma davası ile ilgili olmayacak

İBRAHİM KAHVECİ

İstikrarı kapatmak kriz davetcisidir

Dış açığın finansman kalitesi bozuluyor Taner Berksoy

Başbakan ne söylemek istedi?
Baran Tuncer

Krize doğru Mahfi Eğilmez

Güngör Uras Artık dolar bozdurmanın zamanı geldi mi?

Fatih Özatay - Bu nasıl yüksek faiz politikası?

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Yaman Törüner Bizim çocuklarımız

Bir kez daha dikkat: Risk alma iştahı giderek azalıyor Fatih Özatay

Serpil Yılmaz Yabancılar bu ihalelerden niye kaçıyor?

Ertuğ Yaşar Kara pazartesi

Hasan Ersel Gelişen ülkelerin ABD ile göbek bağı kopmadı, resesyona önlem şart

Salih Neftçi İki başlı ‘Kara Pazartesi’ ve iki dramatik karar

H4 New York Times Fateful Choice on Iraq Army Bypassed Debate By MICHAEL R. GORDON The decision by L. Paul Bremer III to dissolve Iraq’s Army was a reversal from a plan the White House had approved.

Fed Acts to Rescue Financial Markets The Fed approved a $30 billion loan for the takeover of Bear Stearns and announced a new lending tool for investment firms

PAUL KRUGMAN The B Word When the feds do bail out the financial system, what will they do to ensure that they aren’t also bailing out the people who got us into this mess?

For Democrats, Increased Fears of a Long Fight Many superdelegates cite the will of the voters as a guiding principle, a boon to Senator Barack Obama

Reformers Gain in Iran Vote Despite Being Barred

WILLIAM KRISTOL Generation Obama? Perhaps Not. In Barack Obama’s political career, there is the calculation of ambition, and the construction of artifice, mixed in with a dash of deceit.

ROGER COHEN Obama’s Brother in China More needs to be written about Barack Obama’s family because, if he gets the Democratic nomination, you know the Republican attack machine will go after his identity

JP Morgan Pays $2 a Share for Bear Stearns The $270 million deal was about one-tenth the firm’s market price on Friday.

U.N. Urges Iraq to Address Human Rights During Lull

'Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq' By MICHAEL SCHEUER
Reviewed by DAVID RIEFF
Fight the Islamists and forget the rest, Michael Scheuer says.First Chapter

Tibetans Clash With Chinese Police in Second City

Curbs on Protest in Tibet Lashed by Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama accused China of waging “cultural genocide” against his followers in Tibet.

Spain’s Many Muslims Face Dearth of Mosques

Pakistani Discord Undercuts Vow to U.S. to Fight Militants

Blasts at Albania Base Kill at Least 5

Israeli Missiles Kill 3 Militants in Gaza

Fed Chief Shifts Path, Inventing Policy in Crisis Ben S. Bernanke, who has long argued that a central bank should act on consistent principles, now has to improvise

Iraq Insurgency Runs on Stolen Oil Profits The sea of oil under Iraq is supposed to rebuild the nation, but fuel shipments often get diverted to the black market.

Supreme Court Inc. By JEFFREY ROSEN How the nation’s highest court became increasingly receptive to the arguments of American business.
Editorial Through Bush-Colored Glasses President Bush’s denial of the economic reality underscores the need for Congress to push forward with solutions to the mortgage crisis.

NATO Expansion, and a Bush Legacy, Are in Doubt Internal political divisions, new tensions with Russia and a combat mission in Afghanistan have exposed disparities of might and will among current members.

The Intelligence Cover-Up A good law — like the House bill on electronic spying — would allow Americans to finally see the breathtaking extent of President Bush’s lawless behavior.

MAUREEN DOWD Soft Shoe in Hard Times George W. Bush crashed the family station wagon into the globe and now the global economy. Yet the more terrified Americans get, the more bizarrely carefree he seems.

Stanley Fish: Superdelegates—No Principles, Please What should the super- delegates do in the present situation? By definition, Stanley Fish writes, they can do what they like

H5 Washington Post Waiting Games in the Middle East By David Ignatius, Syria, Iran and Iraq hope they'll get a better deal with the next president

Needed: Honesty on Iraq By Jim Hoagland Without tying their hands, the candidates need to answer hard questions.

A Crude Case for War? Steven Mufson | We did not invade Iraq to make it safe for Big Oil, but oil was a major factor in the decision to go to war

Fed Takes Broad Action To Avert Financial Crisis Central bank backs the acquisition of Bear Stearns by J.P. Morgan for $2 a share, cuts key interest rate and increases flow of money to other banks

OPINION: Grant: Bear Stearns' Fallout Hits the Fed

New Task for a Budget Straight-Talker By David S. Broder, David Walker warns that the country is courting disaster by not paying its bills.

Mideast Players Differ On Approach to Hamas

Moving Forward in Armenia By Serzh Sargsyan and Arthur Baghdasaryan, Why the international community should support our coalition government.

A Bear Stearns Market By James Grant, While helping Wall St., the Fed is further diminishing world faith in the dollar

For Ex-Communists, a Comeback in Germany Polls show political group known simply as the Left with increased support due to Germans' anxieties over globalization, distribution of wealth and unemployment benefits

VP Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq Cheney will push political unity in Iraq, ahead of the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion

Split Conservatives Hold Iran Parliament

Bombing Hits Popular Islamabad Restaurant U.S. Embassy Workers Among Dozen Casualties

OMBUDSMAN A Reporting Coup and Its Critics

Editorial A New Pakistan Agreement on a more democratic system is close, but Pervez Musharraf must let it happen.

Rules for Spying A House bill moves toward a compromise -- but not far enough.

Allies of Iran's President Heading for a Majority in Parliament

4 FBI Agents Hurt in Islamabad Blast American Team A Possible Target In Saturday Attack

30 Big French Cities Fall to the Opposition For Sarkozy, Vote Is 'Evening of Defeat'

'Take Back America' Conference Is a Chance for Democrats to Highlight Progressive Politics

White Male Vote Could Be Key In a battle dominated by race and gender, white men have emerged as a major swing constituency

Don't Blame Her By Robert D. Novak, Geraldine Ferraro is only repeating what Clinton supporters have often told her about Barack Obama.

Beijing's Crackdown Gets Strong Domestic Support Ethnic Pride Stoked by Government Propaganda

McCain Arrives in Iraq, Plans to Meet Maliki Presidential Hopeful, on a Congressional Tour, Stays Largely Out of View

H6 GuardianThe Iraq experience has laid bare the limits of raw military power Max Hastings: The next US president must reject the juvenile Bush vision, reach out to Iran and seek justice for the Palestinian people

We talked to the IRA, so why can't we talk to al-Qaida?Jackie Ashley: A former adviser to Blair says we should keep lines open to terrorists. It was rubbished by No 10, but he's right

Revealed: Blair's offer to meet masked IRA leaders Former PM was willing to hold secret meetings in desperate bid to save Northern Ireland peace process

Death, destruction and fear on the streets - Iraq: five years on

Award-winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad returns to the city where he was born and lived for 30 years

Millions still lack clean water and healthcare

Baghdad visit kicks off McCain's week of talks

Spotlight on grievance Martin Jacques: Events in Tibet expose China's achilles heel: its inability to recognise and respect ethnic difference

Lessons to be learned Leader: The Northern Ireland peace process has brought peace, but not political stability

America was conned - who will pay? Larry Elliott

The Iraq legacy: human rights

Richard Norton-Taylor: Time and again, the explanation for instances of abuse and brutality is that personnel did not know the rules. Is ignorance an excuse?

Conservatives claim victory in Iranian election Leadership portrays vote as act of popular defiance in face of international sanctions over its nuclear programme

Bear Stearns saved by JP Morgan bid Troubled investment bank worth $140bn last week is sold to rival JP Morgan Chase for just $2 a share

Ranking race against gender is the first step towards fundamentalism

Gary Younge: Pitting identities against each other undermines the potential for building the progressive coalitions that the Democrats need

Suspected US missiles kill 20 in Pakistan Attack on tribal area house kills at least 20 people, including several al-Qaida militants

French voters give verdict on Sarkozy President's party suffers significant losses in local elections

Tibet unrest spreads into provinces

Dalai Lama accuses China as dozens are reported dead after riot police crack down on spreading protests Q&A: Tibet and China

Island mentality Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Since Fidel Castro left office, Cuba has been carrying off a transition with minimal fuss - a sign that the regime enjoys more support than the US will admit

The Observer Five years on, the hard lessons that we must learn from Iraq Leader: The war was a blow to the idea of 'liberal intervention' but not necessarily a fatal one

Spy chiefs warn of new al-Qaeda plots Millions of commuters could have private movements secretly monitored under new powers

Glaciers melt faster than ever before World's glaciers are melting faster than at any time since records began, says new report

Iran's women find path to freedom

Challenge to hardline clerics taking place in the bars and cafes, not the polling booths

Hardline critics scoop up votes as rivals are barred

Whatever China does, Tibet will still demand its freedom Ed Douglas: Beijing can be benevolent or brutal, but it will find that national identity lies at the heart of Tibetan demands for self-determination

How many jobs does an ex-PM need? Andrew Rawnsley: Tony Blair is accumulating jobs all around the world. He runs the risk of making him look like a global butterfly

A deluded Wall Street threatens the world economy Will Hutton: Britain is much more vulnerable than even the Americans to the impact of falling house prices and contracting credit

Lhasa locked down as crisis grows

At least 10, possibly dozens, killed in Tibet as violence spreads and international protests mount

Pilgrims pray while batons are wielded

Comment: Tibet will always demand freedom

Q&A: Tibet and China

10,000 face axe as City panic spreads Thousands of jobs expected to disappear this year amid signs that the US is already in recession

Can we survive the coming storm?

How the credit crunch bit the banks

Put young children on DNA list, urge police Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life

H7 Cheney's Mideast mission Cheney yesterday departed on a Middle East trip that will take him to Israel, the West Bank, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Oman. The top issue the vice president will face is Iran, which has come to dominate virtually everything else in the region

Time What Iran's Poll Results Mean


Why Shariah? - Noah Feldman, New York Times Magazine


The Iraq War and Its Lessons - Jules Crittenden, Weekly Standard


Five Years of War - John Burns, New York Times

Boston Globe Another year, another $300 billion THE SIXTH year of the Iraq war begins this week. The war is now the second-longest in US history - longer than any except Vietnam. So far, 1.6 million US troops have served, more than a third of them for two or more tours of duty. Almost 4,000 US service personnel have been killed, and 60,000 wounded, injured or contracted ... (By Linda Bilmes, Boston Globe)

Boston Globe State Inc. The most important new forces in global business are aggressive, wealthy, and entrepreneurial. But they aren't corporations: they're authoritarian governments. (By Joshua Kurlantzick, Boston Globe)

Iraq: Where Was the Plan? - L. Paul Bremer III, New York Times

Iraq: Too Heavy a Hand - Richard Perle, New York Times

Iraq: Das Loot - Anne-Marie Slaughter, New York Times

Iraq: So Much for Good Intentions - Kenneth Pollack, New York Times

Iraq: There’s No Freedom Gene - Danielle Pletka, New York Times

Iraq: Worries Over Being ‘Slimed’ - Nathaniel Fick, New York Times

Iraq: Congress in Recess - Paul Eaton, New York Times

Iraq: The Army Grew Into the Job - Frederick Kagan, New York Times

Iraq: Worse Than Lyndon Johnson’s Team? - Anthony Cordesman, New York Times

Iraq: A Crude Case for War? - Steven Mufson, Washington Post

Iraq: War's Price a Burden for Decades - Joseph Stiglitz, Philadelphia Inquirer

Iraq: Public Suffers War Fatigue - Dick Polman, Philadelphia Inquirer

Iraq: Mess will Snare Next President - Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer

Iraq: Mistakes, but Just War - Richard Perle, London Daily Telegraph

Iraq: Prolonging the Horror - Simon Jenkins, London Times

Iraq: War's Price Tag - Los Angeles Times editorial

Iraq: Five Years Later - Philadelphia Inquirer editorial

Patton, Iraq, and the 2008 Vote - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe


IDF in Lebanon, Lessons for the Future - Tom Ricks, Washington Post

Hard-Won Progress In Baghdad - Anthony Diaz, Washington Post


The War for Iraq and its Lessons - Jules Crittenden, Weekly Standard

Looking at Iraq - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review

IDA Report Gunsmoke - William Kristol, Weekly Standard

Hussein’s Horrific 1988 Genocide - Carter Andress, National Review

Saddam's Dangerous Friends - Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard

Al Hayat United States Ambassador to Baghdad Tells Al-Hayat about her Memories with The Syrian and Iraqi Baathist Leaders April Glaspie: "Hafez Assad Was So Smart in Many Ways … Iran Built Hezbollah with The "Minister of Dirty Tricks" Since 1984" by Randa Takieddine (Part II of II)

US Ambassador to Baghdad Tells Al-Hayat The Story of Her Famous Meeting With Late Iraqi President (Part I of II)

Bush's Afghanistan Envy - Fred Kaplan, Slate

Leaving Musharraf Behind - New York Times editorial

Israel's Fear of World Opinion - Edward Bernard Glick, Washington Times

Tired Gaza Two-step - Victor Davis Hanson, Washington Times

Facing Mideast Facts - Mona Charen, National Review

Commentary: Fox Fallon's fall
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE


Outside View: Iran upstages U.S. in Iraq By LEON HADAR (UPI) -- They say a picture is worth a thousand words. And the image of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad glowing -- radiating a Bush-like smugness, some might say -- during a red-carpet welcome in the American-occupied "Green Zone" in Baghdad last week was no exception. That picture was more powerful than a thousand pages in illuminating who has emerged as the big winner after the United States ousted Saddam Hussein.

Washington Times Energy security

Harper officials freeze out U.N. rights chief Canada's Conservative government pressed former Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour to leave a top U.N. human rights post because she criticized the U.S. treatment of detainees in the war on terror and openly targeted abuses by Canadian and U.S. allies, diplomatic sources said.

The West vs. Iran: A Simple Story of Good vs. Evil? by Karel Beckman

Barnett Rubin A Commentary on Iran’s Parliamentary Elections

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From Conflict to Regional Stability: Linking Security and Development DGAP This report contains the papers presented at the 10th New Faces Conference, held to offer perspectives for better integrating development and security policy in the world's regions

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

Seven of 10 Iraqis want foreign forces leave

BBC Conservatives win Iran election Conservative candidates in Iran's general election retain control of parliament, while reformists do marginally well

Changing guards
Why the rise of the military may mean a more hardline Iran

New challenges
Election outcome could spell problems for Iran's president

Bleak picture of Iraq conditions Millions of Iraqis lack clean water and healthcare, five years after the US-led invasion, the Red Cross says

Was it worth it?
The diplomatic fallout five years on from the US-led Iraq invasion

The Iraq decision
The men who argued for - and against - war, five years ago

Kissinger Backs Direct US Negotiations With Iran (Update4)

McCain pays surprise Iraq visit

Iraqis Unmoved by McCain Visit

Back to Baghdad: Hell Reassessed

Cheney to Mideast With "Rich Agenda" on Oil, Peace

Iraq: A Three-Trillion-Dollar War?

Iran Says to Attend Arab Summit in Syria

News Analysis: Cheney's Mideast trip not necessarily optimistic

Report: Assad's Brother-in-Law Behind Mughniyeh Death

Iraq Insurgency Runs on Stolen Oil Profits

Reformers Gain in Iran Vote, Despite Being Barred

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

U.N. picks Iraqi electoral directors (UPI) -- The U.N. mission in Iraq said it completed screening applications for director positions with the provincial electoral offices.

Talabani calls for foreign investments (UPI) -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani addressed a delegation of Arab leaders on the final day of a summit in Erbil, calling for increased foreign investment.

POPE: ENOUGH WITH THE SLAUGHTERS IN IRAQ...

Iraqi judges set to return to duty UPI) -- The security situation and progress on the reconstruction front allowed a group of Iraqi judges to review a new government center in Salman Pak.

H9 Ha’aretz American intervention now Pressure to put an end to the bloodshed and guarantee the Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic country is welcome pressure

Bar’el Until we reach the End of Days Israel could conduct two-headed talks: one with Hamas, over the important issues such as security, and the second with the PA - over nothing.

Next IAF chief: IDF's entry into Gaza will stop rocket manufacture Nehushtan: IDF must have control on ground; Barak reviewing substitutes for Iron Dome to counter Qassams

Adviser: Obama Is Pro-Israel, Willing to Go to War

Chancellor Merkel opens 'new chapter' in Israel-German ties

Harel Where do we go from here?

Gideon Levy: Barak trying his best to ruin peace process

Neocons and the cultural proclivity of Jews (WTR)

Jerusalem Post The Region: What to do about Gaza: The realistic...

[ BARRY RUBIN

The right answer on Farrakhan

When it comes to anti-Semites, Jews don't want to hear about good deeds

Yedioth Ahronoth

Police 'surprised by riots'
Despite extreme right-wing activists' repeated threats to avenge Jerusalem terror attack, destroy terrorist's home in Arab neighborhood, senior police officials admit they were surprised by rioters' determination, use of stones

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

Integrating Israel into the Middle East - Masri Feki

U.S. Report: New Anti-Semitism Disguised by Hatred of Israel

Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism (PDF; 7.4 PDF) Source: U.S. Department of State

Adolf Eichmann's list

More than 800 Jews based in a hospital in the middle of Nazi Berlin survived the war, seemingly protected by Adolf Eichmann

Israel's fear of world opinion (By Edward Bernard Glick)

Merkel’s Israel visit highlights defense commitment, but no support for showdown with Iran

Merkel Recognizes Israel’s Capital – But Opposes Military Steps against Iran

Exclusive: Serious falling-out between Israel’s Barak and Washington over peace track

H10 Christian Science Monitor On Iraq policy, next U.S. president will have to adapt Despite their rhetoric, '08 candidates try to keep their options open

Iran election: hard-liners hold on, despite high inflation Conservatives win 70 percent of parliament. But reformers gain, too

Is the Mahdi Army's 'cease-fire' over? Recent clashes between the militia and Iraqi forces threaten to undo a lull in the group's activities.

Bernanke and Paulson: economy's two key crisis managers The Fed chairman and the Treasury secretary face tough scrutiny as policymakers

Sleepily eyeing a peak in world oil output Some analysts cite a lack of preparation for a looming economic event.

High-level talks keep North Korea nuclear deal alive Last week's meeting generated talk of a secret side deal to end an 11-week impasse.

China's crackdown reaches beyond Tibet At Repkong monastery in central China, monks see more

Tibet's nonviolent path Both China and followers of the Dalai Lama in Tibet need to return to peaceful means.

What the Middle East needs most

American schools have worked wonders for the region's elites. Now we must raise the standard of education for all.

ASIA

The dictatorial capitalism of China carries the seeds of its own demise. In the short term, such countries are forces to be reckoned with, but... more»

BBC Tibet unrest spreads beyond Lhasa Protests against Chinese rule spread beyond Tibet's main city of Lhasa, with deaths reported in Sichuan province. Q&A: China and Tibet

Troops 'did not shoot Tibetans' A top Chinese official denies troops used lethal force on Tibetans, as a deadline for protesters to surrender nears

Tibet and China: A History of Conflict
Wall Street Journal

Washington Times Going Foggy on Beijing Communist China's human-rights situation has not changed appreciably in the last year. Dissidents remain imprisoned, a clique of Communist Party overlords still rules, there is no freedom of speech or press and no real elections. And yet the State Department has managed to upgrade China in this year's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.

Tibetans Clash With Chinese Police in 2nd City

Tibet protests spread to other provinces

Trouble in Tibet - Washington Post editorial

China's Contradiction in Tibet - Boston Globe editorial

Tibet: Fire on the Roof - London Times editorial

Free Tibet Campaign: Tiananmen Revisited - London Daily Telegraph editorial

Malaysia's opposition reborn

Tion Kwa Anwar Ibrahim could transform the Malaysian opposition into a credible check on the ruling coalition

The Domestic Governance of Nuclear Weapons: The Case of Pakistan DCAF
This 26-page Swiss case study examines Pakistani decision-making in the command and control of nuclear weapons and phases in the nuclear weapons cycle

India and the FMCT: Issues and Concerns
IPCS
A 4-page commentary providing an Indian perspective on the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty

India and Russia: Revisiting the Defense Relations
IPCS
A 9-page Indian report on Russia's inadequacies in meeting India's defence equipment procurement needs

South Asian Integration Prospects and Lessons from East Asia
ICRIER
This 39-page Indian working paper assesses the prospects for cooperation among South Asian economies and draws lessons from East Asian experiments in regionalisation

H11 IHT Help Pakistan to help itself Pakistan's new civilian leaders are undeniably flawed, but they deserve Washington's support as they try to set their country on a new course.

Roger Cohen: Globe-spanning Obama siblings Obama's China-Indonesia-Kenya-Britain-Hawaii web mirrors a world in flux.

Sarkozy retooling after setback at pollsPresident Nicolas Sarkozy plans to focus on restoring his popularity with low-income voters after his center-right party suffered a setback in local elections Sunday.

Spain's Muslims face dearth of mosques A shortage of mosques faced by Spanish Muslims stems partly from the lack of resources, but in several places there is resistance from communities wary of an alien culture or fearful they will foster violent radicals.

EUROPE European press review

Sarkozy's party suffers at polls
President Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing UMP party suffers a serious setback in French local elections.

Sarkozy's UMP suffers poll rebuke Voters in France's local polls hand key power bases to the left, in a punishing blow to President Sarkozy.

Bordeaux resists Sarkozy

Poll setback for Sarkozy's party

Profile: Nicolas Sarkozy

Sarkozy reform agenda reborn The party of French President Nicolas Sarkozy did better than expected in the second round of municipal elections yesterday, signaling to officials in Mr. Sarkozy's government that many voters want him to follow through with economic reforms

'Storm weathered'
EU passes a reality test, says Commission President Barroso

Electoral Slap at Sarkozy Less Than Forceful By: Geraldine Baum and Achrene Sicakyuz | Los Angeles Times If last weekend's first round of local elections was supposed to serve as a slap at President Nicolas Sarkozy and his center-right government, it didn't deliver quite the sting that had been predicted by his opponents.

EU Leaders Agree to Weakened Mediterranean Union Plan By: Elitsa Vucheva | EU Observer EU leaders on Thursday approved a watered-down version of a plan put forward by French President Nicolas Sarkozy for a grand Mediterranean Union stretching from Morocco to Turkey and aiming to foster cooperation with the EU's southern neighbours

Europe Does Sex Scandals Better - Theodore Dalrymple, Los Angeles Times

Merkel's NATO Criteria -- And Craddock's Concern

Newsweek GEORGE F. WILL Kosovo's Dark Meaning The United States, which quickly recognized Kosovo's independence, has not always been so tolerant of the principle of secession.

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

Washington Times Model Azerbaijan (By S. Rob Sobhani)

Just not democratic

James Marson Foreign calls for democracy in Russia sometimes fall on deaf ears. We should try to understand why

To Placate Moscow, US Would Keep Missile-Defense System Off for Now

review of The Age of Assassins: the Rise and Rise of Vladimir Putin by Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky

Wilson Center The Current Situation in the Northern Caucasus

H13 The Times

Sunday Times Imperialism lite prolongs Iraqi horror Today’s imperialism lite, by debating its departure, induces instability, foments rebellion and undermines its mission. A nation was alienated and nation-building turned from mission improbable to mission impossible Simon Jenkins

Be bold, Gordon, trust the people

Politics is struggling with assertive citizens, diverse societies and globalised economies. They all call for new ideas

Neocons and supporters have lost the argument The Great Divide: Times writers continue the debate that still splits the country. Matthew Parris is against the war

Bear Necessities The collapse of Bear Stearns may herald worse to come in financial markets

PAPER: Wall Street bankers may have caused Spitzer downfall...

Iraq’s forgotten refugee children

Living in squalor and fearful of sectarian attack, plight of 2.5m homeless people is at heart of the nation’s ills

McCain in bid to heal rifts with Europe The Republican presidential candidate arrives in Britain as he begins the job of presenting a new face of America to Europe

Aides plot to bling down flash Nicolas Sarkozy Under attack for his volatile temperament, French head of state to recast himself as a more 'presidential' figure

'It was clear we had run out of ideas' We had no strategy and one aim: to get out of Basra city before it looked as though we had been driven out

Listen up, you pols

Labour support hits 25-year low

Tip: don't buy shares in Labour

The Government will not be able to stabilise opinion polls unless it can stabilise the economy William Rees-Mogg

China’s shame

Dalai Lama: China deserves to host Olympics Exiled spiritual leader complains of 'cultural genocide" in Tibet, but says that Beijing Games should go ahead

Long-suffering pawn at mercy of the great powers The origins of Tibet’s modern aspirations to nationhood go back to its role as a prize in the Great Game

Fears of another Tiananmen as Tibet explodes

Brothel shame of moral enforcer

Brigadier General Ali Reza Zarei, known as the Iranian president’s 'moral enforcer', has been arrested for being with prostitutes

Wall Street Journal The Buck Stops Where?
A dollar rout could turn financial panic into a crash.

Iraq, 5 Years on, a Nation of Refugees An estimated four million Iraqis -- over 14% of the country's population -- have been displaced inside Iraq or to neighboring countries, largely due to the chaotic aftermath of the American-led invasion that began on March 19, 2003

Mr. Hu's Tibet Replay
Despite China's economic liberalization, the authoritarian instincts of the country's leadership haven't changed.

Tragedy in Tibet
By Robert Barnett
It's time for China to admit that its hardline policies haven't worked.

Salvaging Our North Korea Policy By John R. Bolton
For starters, make public what we know about Pyongyang's nuclear project in Syria.

The Divided Democrats
By Michael A. Cohen
The party shouldn't risk letting this race drag on to the convention.

Bernanke's BEAR STEARNS Bailout Breaks With Four Decades of Fed Policies...

J.P. Morgan to Buy Bear Stearns

J.P. Morgan agreed to buy Bear Stearns for $2 a share in a stock-swap transaction. The deal values Bear Stearns at just $236 million. At the end of Friday, Bear's stock-market value was about $3.54 billion

Fed Cuts Discount Rate

The Fed expanded its discount-window lending to securities dealers and cut its rate to 3.25% from 3.5% as the steepening credit crunch threatens the economy.

H14 Financial Times Alan Greenspan: We will never have a perfect risk model The essential problem is that our models – both risk models and econometric models – as complex as they have become, are still too simple to capture the full array of governing variables that drive global economic reality, writes Alan Greenspan

JPMorgan to buy Bear Stearns for $236m JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $2 a share for the stricken US investment bank in a deal that puts an end to Bear’s 85 years of independence and highlights the risks faced by banks during the credit crunch

Bill’s trap of Clinton-Obama ticketObama will have other chances to be president and in low moments he may feel there are worse things in the meantime than being vice-president, writes Clive Crook

Macedonia ready to bend on name dispute The country says it will bend as far as necessary in its protracted ‘name dispute’ with Greece in return for a Nato membership invitation

Quentin Peel: Russia on a game of diplomatic chicken Quentin Peel writes about Russia’s dangerous moves to demonstrate its displeasure over the precedent Kosovo might set for other declarations of independence closer to home

Fed cuts bank rate to boost confidence The US Federal Reserve made a surprise 25-basis-point cut in the discount rate and created a new lending facility in an effort to ‘promote liquid, well-functioning financial markets’

Sarkozy must reform furtherFrance is still full of absurd restrictive practices for which the president’s party has a great deal to answer, writes Wolfgang Münchau

Trouble in Tibet Beijing should stop hiding behind its accusations that ‘splittists’ are behind the bloodshed and start dealing seriously with Tibetan grievances

Iran’s conservatives claim poll victory The government can claim victory but analysts said how much support Ahmadi-Nejad enjoys in the next parliament will depend on whether he takes decisive action to fix Iran’s economic woes

Oil tops Cheney's Middle East tour agenda

Ahmadi-Nejad will face big challenges The much diminished prospect of a US attack on Iran has opened up debate in Iran, and gives Washington a chance to offer Tehran a bargain

Climate protection If Europe’s leaders are serious about setting an example when it comes to tackling global warming, they will have to be bolder

Local poll results deal blow to Sarkozy The opposition socialists won a string of cities from the UMP party, including the key battleground of Toulouse, which fell to the left for the first time in 30 years

Italy dreaming of a new political class Business people have a short but sweeping wish list for the country’s new government, which will be elected in just under a month: a completely new set of politicians

Paulson ready for further stability measures The US Treasury secretary defended the Federal Reserve’s decision to rescue Bear Stearns and said the government would take whatever action was necessary to ensure the stability of the financial system

Lunch with the FT: Irene Khan Amnesty International’s head explains their new policies to Michael Skapinker

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: The philandering sheriff

EU citizens want top figure for president The EU must choose a high-profile figure as its first president rather than one of the less well-known politicians being touted for the job, according to a poll for the FT

Outright purchases of private securities, pleaseMaverecon blog: My guess is that somewhere between $1,500bn and $2,000bn of further liquidity provision will be required in the US before this crisis is over

China’s state-owned champions Corporate giants that were struggling a decade ago are now challenging the notion that government control is a drag on performance, write Geoff Dyer and Richard McGregor

Poles get warning on Lisbon treaty Poland’s governing party warns that the growing crisis over parliament’s ratification of the treaty could lead to early elections if the opposition fails to compromise

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Sarkozy: heir to the spirit of 1968

COMMENT - JOHN GAPPER: The intervention that should worry the world

BOOK REVIEW: The passing of a pragmatic idealist

FT MAGAZINE - BOOK ESSAY: Don*t mention the F word

FT MAGAZINE - BOOK REVIEW: Fatal errors The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi

Democrats wary of counting out Clinton Conventional wisdom says Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are locked in a no-holds barred contest that could result in a ‘train wreck’ at the Democratic presidential convention in late August

US court to review ‘right to bear arms’ The US Supreme Court will this week step into a politically explosive case over gun rights that could influence some voters in the forth­coming general election

H15 Los Angeles Times ,McCain, both pragmatist and hawk The presidential nominee has taken diverse foreign policy positions over his 25 years in Congress.

Iraqi feel-good stories prove elusive Some American readers clamor for upbeat reports, but positive news is not easy to find

Foreign fighters in Iraq seek recognition, U.S. says Interrogations of 48 detainees to understand their motivations provide a picture of typically young, lonely recruits.

Petraeus shouldn't be a solo act

By Lawrence J. Korb and Sean E. Duggan So long as he is allowed to testify in Congress without his superior officers, we will never receive the complete picture of Iraq.

U.N. envoy urges Iraq to seize moment The drop in violence in the last year is an opportunity for reconciliation, he says as the U.N. releases a human rights report.

War's price tag The Iraq conflict will raid our wallets for years to come, with California taking a huge hit.

Europe does it better By Theodore Dalrymple Compared with British and French sex scandals, the Spitzer mess is a bit of a disappointment.

Editorial Colombian crisis averted, for now Colombia's moves to crush FARC rebels has created a regional crisis. The OAS or U.N. should step in.

H16 American Politics

NYT SUNDAY: Superdelegates 'growing increasingly concerned'...

Does Clinton Have a Delegate Loophole? - Michael Isikoff, Newsweek

Republican fragments

Like its Whig predecessor the Grand Old Party may fade quickly. This, just as Democrats offer mainly New Deal doctrines with New Age rhetoric.

Obama expands delegate lead over Clinton

Republicans See Storm Clouds Gathering

Zogby Poll: McCain Bests Both Obama, Clinton in 3-Way General Election Tests

The Conservative Case for McCain
By Mark Sanford
Why I'm backing the Arizona senator.

In the Clinton-Obama Race, It’s the Pollster vs. the Ad Man By MATT BAI Referring to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s chief campaign strategists generically as “consultants” obscures important differences in how they got to where they are.

Thinking Twice About the No. 2 Memo to voters: Of the 46 vice presidents of the United States, 14 — nearly one out of three — have become president. Nine got the job without being elected.

Gallup Daily: Obama Maintains Slight Edge Over Clinton

Dems Enter WWI Phase - Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen, The Politico


The Deep Blue Divide - Julia Baird, Newsweek


Like Patton, McCain Wants to Win - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe


Obama Opens Up on Rezko - John Kass, Chicago Tribune

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

'Why We’re Liberals' Eric Alterman sets out to reclaim the term “liberal” with a set of rebuttals to the conservative commentariat.

Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite

H17 Daily Telegraph Iraq is the measure of McCain's stature

Whatever the eventual result of the US elections, the victor should take one thing from Mr McCain's approach to Iraq: that we still have the power to improve lives.

Dalai Lama condemns 'cultural genocide' Tibet's exiled spiritual leader has condemned China's "rule of terror" and called for an investigation into the crackdown on demonstrators

Iran elections leave parliament split

Sarkozy to shed 'King of Bling' image

Sunday Telegraph Mistakes in Iraq, but war was just Richard Perle says for a government fighting an unpopular war, five years is an eternity.

'Only Saddam could run Iraq' Aide to the US says Iraq would be better off under Saddam.

Iran ends nuclear talks after election Hardliners in the Iranian regime celebrated victory in parliamentary elections by toughening their stance against the West

The Iraq invasion five years on

Putin assassination attempt 'foiled'

McCain wants rethink on Afghanistan John McCain has criticised British policy in Afghanistan, saying efforts to slow Taliban poppy production are failing, allowing heroin to flood into Europe.

EU helps China to cripple Dalai charity After China and Europe became 'strategic partners', the EU suspended ApTibet's operations because of its link to the Dalai Lama, writes Christopher Booker.

200 casualties in Albanian explosion Explosions at an army base near the Albanian capital Tirana have killed or injured more than 200, including Nato troops.

Rowan Williams: Struggle with science Society is ill-prepared to handle scientific breakthroughs because it lacks understanding of human life, the Archbishop of Canterbury has claimed.

H18 Independent Brown: There will be a public inquiry into Iraq Gordon Brown has promised that the Government will hold a full-scale inquiry into the mistakes made in Iraq before and since the invasion.

Where are they now? The faces of the Iraq war five years on

Nick Clegg: There are so many questions over this inept intervention

Partick Cockburn: A gross failure that ignored history and ended with a humiliating retreat

Dalai Lama attacks 'cultural genocide' China was last night struggling to contain the threat to its international reputation, as angry protests against its rule in Tibet left at least 100 people dead.

Iran poll delivers challenger to president

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has suffered a setback with the election to parliament of the former nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, a personal enemy who challenged him in 2005's presidential election.

EU boycotts China oil firm over funding of Darfur regime

Independent on Sunday Patrick Cockburn: Iraq is a country no more. Like much else, that was not the plan

Poll defeat launches Sarko II

Iranian elections: 'We have no hopes for the future' Anne Penketh in Tehran meets students who have no faith in democracy

Iraq: Who won the war? Not the 90,000 Iraqi civilians or the 4,200 US and UK troops killed since 2003. The big winners are the money men who have made billions. Raymond Whitaker and Stephen Foley report

Five years on: Baghdad remembers 'shock and awe'...

Leading article: Iraq: doomed from the start

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

100 years war?
Anti-terror experts grapple with fight against militancy

C.I.A. Secretly Held Qaeda Suspect, Officials Say

Conducting Counterinsurgency Operations: Lessons from Iraq (2003-2006) Source: RAND Corporation Full Document (PDF; 176 KB)

Globalizing Private Military Training By: Patrick Cullen | ISN Security Watch Ten years ago any discussion of a global market for private military training would have been premature. Today, however, an increasingly consolidated and professionalized sector of the private security industry is changing the way states train their armed forces

Long, Hard Road: NCO Experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq (PDF; 3.1 MB) Source: US Army Sergeants Major Academy

Evaluating Novel Threats to the Homeland: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Cruise Missiles
Source: RAND Corporation Summary (PDF; 154 KB)
+ Full Document (PDF; 867 KB)

How much Homeland $ecurity? (By Charles V. Pena)

US Military Growing Weary in Iraq

The US Military's Assassination Problem

Software like "Bugsplat" is supposed to keep decapitation attacks precise. So why do we keep blowing up Iraqi wedding parties?

The Intelligence Cover-Up - New York Times editorial


Dim-bulb Intelligence Bill - Terence Jeffrey, Washington Times

Wiretapping's True Danger - Julian Sanchez, Los Angeles Times

America Must Not Justify Torture - Dennis Jett, Miami Herald

Assessing Terrorism - Claude Salhani, Washington Times,

The Effectiveness of Foreign Military Assets in Natural Disaster Response
A report by SIPRI
Supported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Dogs of War: Employees, what employees? By DAVID ISENBERG (UPI) -- Blackwater's response to charges that it has tried to avoid taxes and reap small-business benefits by wrongfully labeling its employees as contractors has seemingly confirmed every self-appointed critic's worst fears

H20 Slate The Rise of American Incompetence We used to be the world's most skillful entrepreneurs and managers. Now we're laughingstocks. What happened?
Daniel Gross

Whose Responsibility? Source: Professional Ethics Report (via RAND Corporation) Full Document (PDF; 206 KB)

The Woman Behind the Camera at Abu Ghraib by Philip Gourevitch & Errol Morris

H21

The Logic of Life

Are you happy? Sure, we all are. Maasai herders, Scarsdale soccer moms, Amish, Inughuits in Greenland, Croatian shoe salesmen... more»

Not so long ago, religion was viewed as a relic of superstition whose social role in was steadily declining. Now it is demonized as the cause of many of the world’s worst evils... more»

The internet has introduced a glut of critics — how do we find the best ones? Intelligent Life asks a group of writers and editors to choose their favourites.

Jean-Paul Fitoussi on John Maynard Keynes and the end of (economic) history; and Brad DeLong on the end of the Age of Friedman.

can a thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer?

A review of Gertrude Himmelfarb's The Roads to Modernity

The professional way to protect a marriage A man may be doing a far better thing in using prostitutes than in having torrid affairs with his wife’s best friends

Bill Gates Predicts Big Technological Leaps...

The Bard as pundit What would Shakespeare think of our cast of presidential characters?

'Against Happiness' A melancholic frets that Americans are addicted to happiness.

It’s always a shock when firebrands of the left abandon their old politcs and turn right. But this sort of thing has a history... more» ... David Mamet is the latest

Academic literary criticism is not just dying as a scholarly profession: it has lost its very will to live... more»

Beer drinkers have bellies, while wine, port, and brandy drinkers display a labyrinth of tiny red blood vessels around the nose. Kingsley Amis drank it all... more»

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