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24 April 2008
  April 24, 2008

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H1 Washington Post N. Koreans Taped At Syrian Reactor Video Played a Role in Israeli Raid

Israelis Claim Secret Agreement With U.S. Americans Insist No Deal Made on Settlement Growth

NYT New Jobs Set for 2 Generals With Iraq Role The two commanders most closely associated with President Bush’s current strategy in Iraq would be elevated into new posts extending into the next administration.

POLITICS-US: Petraeus Promotion Frees Cheney to Threaten Iran

Anthony Cordesman, CSIS "The Shi’ite Gamble: Rolling the Dice for Iraq’s Future."

Jerusalem Post 'Israel will return Golan if Syria cuts ties with terror' Diplomatic officials to 'Post': Damascus must end support for Hamas, expel Mashaal, distance itself from Iran, and cut Hizbullah ties.

Concerns mount over IAF strike briefing Officials: Revelations could "embarrass" Assad, create pressure to attack Israel, postpone talks.

Rattling the Cage: Not one inch Israel's stance is - first give us 100% peace, and then we'll decide how much land to give you

Ha’aretz ANALYSIS: New espionage affair may be old story, but will greatly damage Israel

Don't be afraid of peace with Syria

Syrian leak / Talking through the press

Repressing the Iranian Threat By: Yuval Steinitz | Haaretz
The underestimation of Iran's nuclear program undermines the effort to save the world from a situation in which a fundamentalist regime holds nuclear arms

Lessons From Dayton for Iraq By: Richard Holbrooke | The Washington Post Twelve

Newsweek Army Spy Arrest Has Ties to Pollard Case

Israel: No Spying on US Since 1985

New York Times For Democrats, Questions Over Race and Electability As Barack Obama struggles to wrap up the nomination, Democrats are wondering, if not worrying, about what role race may be playing

Assessing Strength of Contenders in Swing States Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is best positioned to win in the fall, but exit polling shows that Barack Obama could do just as well.

Groups With Iran’s Backing Blamed for Baghdad Attacks

CIA to Describe North Korea-Syria Nuclear Ties By: Paul Richter and Greg Miller | Los Angeles Times CIA officials will tell Congress on Thursday that North Korea had been helping Syria build a plutonium-based nuclear reactor, a U.S. official said, a disclosure that could touch off new resistance to the administration's plan to ease sanctions on Pyongyang.

Iraq's Political Refugees in Limbo By: Saleh al-Mutlaq | The Boston Globe The MEK has a controversial image in the Middle East and in the West.

Shot by Both Sides By: Fred Kaplan | Slate Which is it: Are the Iranians extraordinarily clever, or are we extraordinarily dim? Certainly, when it comes to pursuing our respective interests in Iraq, they seem to be thinking and acting strategically, while we seem not to be

Climate Change 'May Put World at War' By: Charles Clover | The Telegraph Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading defence think tank has warned.

FT Iraqi offensive draws extra forces to Basra The US military presence in Basra has grown to 800 troops as its soldiers provide increased support to an Iraqi government offensive against militias

Is Social Europe Fit for Globalization?European Commission This 223-page study examines whether the European social model is fit to rise to the challenges of globalization

Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam’s Global Gathering
Source: Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Faculty Research Working Paper Series Full Paper (PDF; 4.4 MB)

WINEP Winning the War on Terror: Marking Success and Confronting Challenges On April 23, 2008, Deputy National Security Advisor Juan Zarate addressed The Washington Institute where he laid out the administration's strategy, successess and issues requiring an ongoing and long term commitment. His full comments are available here.

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Louis René Beres and Isaac Ben-Israel on Too late to dissuade Iran?

Guardian Win gives Clinton fresh momentum Democrat candidate claims 'tide is turning' in her favour following win in Pennsylvania primary

Whoever wins, prepare for a letdown Timothy Garton Ash: None of the presidential candidates can deliver what the world wants

Pentagon wants 'surge' general for top job Bush administration wants the leader of US war effort in Iraq to become Middle East commander

Rand Good Morning, Syria! – Time to Revisit Our Axis of Evil List?

Wall Street Journal Plutonium on the Euphrates
The North Koreans, Syria, and the U.S.

Battlefield Promotions
At last, Bush sticks with the right war-time generals.

Eastern Solidarity
Timely support at NATO for Georgia and Ukraine. Review & Outlook

Is Obama Ready for Prime Time?
By Karl Rove The Illinois senator is still the favorite, but his November problems grow

Foreign Policy Seven Questions: The Silent Tsunami

Can democracy save the planet?, John Elkington John Lotherington

Washington Times Syria's nuke facility was nearly finished

Russia accused of 'creeping annexation' Russia is engaged in a "creeping annexation" of two separatist enclaves inside Georgia, Foreign Minister David Bakradze charged this week, saying the Kremlin had escalated its hostile policy toward its neighbor by shooting down an unmanned Georgian surveillance plane over the weekend.

Is Social Europe Fit for Globalization?European Commission This 223-page study examines whether the European social model is fit to rise to the challenges of globalization

Is Europe turning right?
GulfNews - By Amir Taheri

Will the Real Serbia Please Stand up?,* the latest policy briefing from the International Crisis Group

Gvosdev Global NATO Once Again

MESH Jordanian option

H2 FT Secular Strains: Turkish Political Islam Comes Under New Fire By: Vincent Boland and John Thornhill

AKP, tabanının dar gündemine dönüyor...

Laiklik vurgusu Condi’nin kararı

SOLİ ÖZEL Irak, Kerkük ve PKK

Daily Star Editorial Lebanon could gain by recognizing - and enlisting - the new Turkey

Northern Iraq Is Fragile, So Turkey Should Be Careful By: Steven A. Cook | The Daily Star With all the attention in Iraq over the last five years focused on the fate of Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the conflict between Sunnis and Shiites, the role of Iran, the security of Anbar Province, the "surge" and, most recently, the further deterioration of Basra, the situation in northern Iraq has only received sporadic attention.

Guardian Leader In praise of ... Arat Dink

Tensions remain high along Iraq's borders with Turkey and Iran

Turkey Seeks Bigger Pipeline Role, Roils Europe It Aims to Join By: Celestine Bohlen | Bloomberg News
Turkey is playing hardball in the geopolitical struggle over an $8 billion pipeline at the center of Europe's efforts to cut dependence on Russian natural gas

The Paradoxes of Turkish Democracy

'Türkiye İsrail'le Suriye Arasında Arabulucu'

Türkiye, Golan Tepeleri için devrede

BM: 'Türkiye Gıda Krizinden Etkilenebilir'

One Step Closer: EU Wants to Speed up Membership Talks with Turkey - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

US reporter fires back at Öymen, releases tape records

McClatchy Turkish court threatens to oust government that lifted head scarf ban

PDF | Dion Nissenbaum transcript of his interview in Turkey on head scarves

DAR AL ISLAM-TURKEY: THE REIMERGING ISLAM IN TURKEY

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

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

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu As the PKK strength wanes political solution becomes vital

Report: Turkey warplanes hit Kurd rebel targets

Iraq, Turkey and US reaffirm commitment against PKK

F-16'lar Hakurk'a bomba yağdırdı

Üç ayda 452 PKK'lı etkisiz kaldı

Cevdet Aşkın

Erdoğan�dan barış atağı

Elektronik toplar mağaralarda PKK�lıları arıyor

Tarsus'ta canlı bomba yakalandı

Irak'ta, Petraeus yerine 'Çuvalcı General' geliyor

The Kurdish press since its emergence

Sevkıyat hız kesmiyor

Türk jetleri Harkuk'ta hedefleri vurdu

Karabük'te terör örgütü operasyonu: 2'si kız 12 öğrenci gözaltına alındı

Mehmetçiği terörist baskınından yerli robot silah koruyacak

PKK'nın hain tuzağı ihma edildi

PKK üyesi 12 kişi gözaltına alındı

Bir Kürd devleti kurmak, Kürdlerin rüyası olsa da...

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İlk Kürt gazetesi Kürdistan’ın yayınlanmaya başlamasının 110. yılı anısına büyük bir çalışma

Exploring Kurdistan newspaper, decades later

Iraq: Kurd leader wants prosecution of weapons suppliers

Kurdistan Region: Invest in the Future

Ahmet Türk'ün sözleri savaş sebebi!

Ardan Zentürk Amerika’dan İsrail’e nükleer takip!

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

“Globalleşen AB’nin Türkiye’ye ihtiyacı var”

EU needs Turkey to become global player, says Turk

ŞAHİN ALPAY - "Reformlar AB üyeliğini getirir"

Semih İdiz Empati yoksa sempati de yok

[HABER ANALİZ] Fransa'daki soykırım yasası derin dondurucuda

[Yurtdışındaki Türkler ve Ermeni soykırımı iddiaları] Neden sadece Ali Babacan'ın sorunu değil?

European Pressure: Turkey Must Fight Drug War, or Else

Ermenistan, işgal ettiği Azeri topraklarında tatbikat yapıyor

Baku hosts roundtable on “So-called Armenian genocide: today’s realities”

France to drop referendum block on EU enlargement

Rus TV�sinde garip iddialar

EU calls on Turkey to help find Cyprus solution

TURKEY SEEKS TO INCREASE TRADE WITH LATIN AMERICA - Eurasia Daily Monitor

Dink'e Guardian ödülü

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

Guardian 7,000 years older than Stonehenge: the site that stunned archaeologists

Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo by Murat Kurnaz (part 1)

Nuri Bilge Ceylan Cannes'da yarışacak

Karakol basan PKK’lı karşısında robot bulacak

Türkiye kaçak silah cenneti oldu

Hoca’ya ’ikiz villa’

Danıştay Başkanı Çörtoğlu, emekli oluyor

Democrats in Turkey favor Obama over Clinton

Kıyafetleri açık diye gösteriyi kesti

24 Nisan 2008 Basın Özeti

H3 Erken seçime soğuk

Parayı aldı, muhalefete başladı

'Erken seçim çare değil'

Hahamlığı da sahte!

'Yahudi'ye mi yedireceğiz burayı!' öfkesi

MGK, bugün toplanacak

Savunmamız manifesto gibi olacak 5 dile çevirip dünyaya dağıtacağız

AK Party ready for early elections, says deputy group leader

Tarihin en büyük parti usulsüzlüğü raportörde

Askersiz ve türbansız sönük resepsiyon

CHP kapatılır mı Kılıç: Ne alaka

Kılıç: Yurt dışından para alma kapatma sebebidir

Kapatma davasında Sezer şüphesi

Yargıtay'ın çifte standardı

Seçim kazanmak yetmez

Kılıç'tan CHP yorumu

Bahçeli'den bayram dersi

Derin fotoğrafa tehdit

Avrupa'ya bildiri ısmarlayan AKP'liye şok rüşvet suçmalası

Milliyet Son Dakika

Cengiz Çandar CHP ve Kurultay’ı; öncesi ve sonrası

Ahmet Taşgetiren Kapatma davası ve tarihin tanıklığı

Ruşen - Çakır Erdoğan ile Baykal arasındaki “saadet zinciri” koptu ,

Midi demokratikleşme paketi gündemde!..

Taha Akyol Milli hâkimiyet

Fikret Bila Baykal: Sabah-atv satışından iyi kokular gelmiyor

Hasan Cemal AKP kapatılırsa, yeni hükümet nasıl kurulur?

Murat Yetkin

İsmet BerkanHer Türk elitist doğar!

Fehmi Koru CHP'ye uygun bir Türkiye tablosu It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world

Taha Kıvanç

Şamil Tayyar

Ali BayramoğluYazı ve yazar takibinde bir bakanlık…

Yasemin Çongar

Ertuğrul ÖzkökHoş geldiniz Sayın Çalık

Bilal ÇetinAKP anayasa değişikliği için türban kararını mı bekliyor?

İsmail Küçükkaya Nasıl bir formül kurtarır?

İbrahim Kalın CHP congress and Turkey’s secular conservatism

Ahmet HakanLaikliği abartmanın faydaları hakkında

M Ali Birand 1 Mayıs inadı hepimizi pişman edecek...

Cüneyt Ülsever Kapatma davasının önü, arkası (III)

Enis Berberoğlu

Türkiye'de 1 milyon kişi işkence mağduru

O fotoğrafı çeken gazeteciye tehdit

Oktay EkşiOlur böyle vak’alar

Özdemir İnce

Yalçın Doğan Son CHP: Ayçiçeği ve güneş

Yalçın Bayer CHP nedir, ne olmalıdır

Şükrü Küçükşahin CHP Kurultayı’nın delegeleri

Ömer Lütfi Mete Bayram kavramını iğfal...

Serdar Turgut Ayaklar, başlar ve elitler

Sebahattin Önkibar Sabah-ATV'de, Tayyip Bey, Katar ve kamu bankaları?

YASİN DOĞAN Baykal klasiği

Fehmi Koru: CHP'ye uygun bir Türkiye tablosu

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Ali Bayramoğlu: Yazı ve yazar takibinde bir bakanlık…

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Perihan Mağden - El değişti: Oyun aynı

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İsmet Berkan - Her Türk elitist doğar!

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Türker Alkan - AKP'nin bilinçaltı

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Hasan Celal Güzel - 'Bu vatan kimin?'

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Altan Öymen - Başbakan Tayyip Erdoğan'ın yeni bir çifte standardı

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EKREM DUMANLI - Tükeniş

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MÜMTAZ'ER TÜRKÖNE - Olduğu gibi görünemeyen CHP

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HÜSEYİN GÜLERCE - Erken seçim çare olabilir mi?

Kerim Balcı Is an early election too early?

Andrew Finkel Not-so-common sense

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Mustafa Karaalioğlu Egemenlik kayıtsız şartsız...

Mehmet Altan Türban ve 1 Mayıs...

Mehmet Y Yılmaz’Seçilmiş kral’ böyle buyurdu!

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERDAL ŞAFAKOfer ve Gülbenkyan

ENGİN ARDIÇGökten zembille

ERGUN BABAHANVurun tanığa

EMRE AKÖZKitapsızların zaferi

Umur TaluBüyük buluşma

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAKSinir olduğum "ama"lar

MEHMET BARLASMesleğine sadık insanların maratonu koşuluyor...

MAHMUT ÖVÜRCHP kurultayından ne bekleniyor?

YAVUZ DONATCHP... Kendin pişir, kendin ye

Umut Oran: Baykal dinliyor, not alıyor ama eyleme geçmiyor
Funda Özkan

Hurşit GüneşCHP’de adaylar var, hareket yok

Derya Sazak Kurultay vizyonu

Haluk Koç: “Delegeleri eşlerine emanet ettim”

İddianameyle gelen inceleme

Krizlerin kaynağı İttihat ve Terakki zihniyeti

Ulusalcılar kendini kandırıyor

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Onur Öymen'in Nazi polemiği

RP'nin 'kayıp trilyon' mağdurları CHP için savcıları göreve çağırdı

CHP'nin kayıp trilyonu, Genç Parti'nin aldığı yardıma benzemiyor

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Kılıç: Yurt dışından para alma kapatma sebebidir

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Meclis'in saygınlığı için herkes gereken hassasiyeti göstermeli

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23 Nisan resepsiyonunda renkli görüntüler

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'Gel Hasip, yanıma otur'

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Ergenekon zanlıları 'cuma sohbeti' adı altında Marmara İlahiyat'ta buluşmuş

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

88. yılda ekonomik hâkimiyet kimde?

Ergin Yıldızoğlu Turgut Özal'ı Anmak...

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
'Fiyat istikrarını henüz tam olarak sağlamadık'

Sovereign wealth funds: a new source of financial optimism for Turkey? (1) by MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ & ALASTAIR NEWTON*

Sovereign wealth funds: a new source of financial optimism for Turkey? (2) by MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ & ALASTAIR NEWTON

Ercan Kumcu Dış finansman borçlanmaya dayandı

Erdal Sağlam 1990’lı yıllardaki kamu bankacılığı

Deniz Gökçe Otmar İssing beklenen kitabı yazdı!

Faizi artırmak yerine...
Fatih Özatay

Türkiye birinci lige çıkabilir mi?
Mahfi Eğilmez

Forum İstanbul toplantılarında ‘İstikrar ve Büyüme’ konuşulacak

İBRAHİM KAHVECİ Gözü aç olanlar karnı aç olanları yiyebiliyor

Özince uyardı: Kemerleri bağlayalım

Yabancı yatırımcı parti kapatma davasından ne anlar?


H4 New York Times For Democrats, Questions Over Race and Electability As Barack Obama struggles to wrap up the nomination, Democrats are wondering, if not worrying, about what role race may be playing

Assessing Strength of Contenders in Swing States Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is best positioned to win in the fall, but exit polling shows that Barack Obama could do just as well.

New Jobs Set for 2 Generals With Iraq Role The two commanders most closely associated with President Bush’s current strategy in Iraq would be elevated into new posts extending into the next administration.

Groups With Iran’s Backing Blamed for Baghdad Attacks

At Expense of All Others, Putin Picks a Church The Kremlin has turned the Russian Orthodox Church into a de facto official religion, warding off other Christian denominations through a variety of harassing measures.

To Sideline Taliban, Afghan Agency Extends Government’s Reach

Bush and Jordan’s King Meet on Mideast

Israel and Syria Hint at Progress on Golan Heights Deal

Video Links North Koreans to Reactor, U.S. Says

Bracing for Games, China Sets Rules That Complicate Life for Foreigners

Iran to Discuss Alleged Studies of Atomic Arms

World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Brown Heads Off Revolt Over Tax Rate on the Poor

World Briefing | Europe: Germany: Nationwide Raids on Suspected Islamists

World Briefing | Europe: After Threats, Danes and Dutch Close Embassies Abroad

ROGER COHEN Bring on the Right Biofuels Biofuels are suddenly being blamed for every global ill. Most of this, to borrow a farm image, is hogwash and bilge.

GAIL COLLINS Hillary’s Smackdown It’s O.K. by me if Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton keep running against each other. Just as long as they keep it personal

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Better Roses Than Cocaine In Latin America, it is Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton who are seen as the go-it-alone cowboys, by opposing the United States’ free-trade agreement with Colombia

H5 Washington Post N. Koreans Taped At Syrian Reactor Video Played a Role in Israeli Raid

Israelis Claim Secret Agreement With U.S. Americans Insist No Deal Made on Settlement Growth

Running On Sweet Nothings By David Ignatius Can these three candidates stop promising easy answers and start telling the truth about what's ahead?

Editorial The Race Goes On And why not? Democrats are still learning about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Trouble Ahead for Obama By Robert D. Novak The Democratic Party faces deepening difficulties whether Obama is nominated or rejected.

Lessons From Dayton for Iraq By: Richard Holbrooke | The Washington Post Twelve years ago, the guns in Bosnia fell silent after a war that killed at least 100,000 people and left more than 2 million homeless. Since then, the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement has often been suggested as a model for other peace efforts in countries with deep ethnic or religious differences

Continuing Battle Divides Democrats

Leaders to Seek End After Primaries to Avoid Further Damage

Bush Nominates Petraeus To Lead Central Command

Fearing a War, Lebanese Prepare by Buying Up Arms Potential for Violence Between Religious Sects Leaves Many Anxious

CIA Foresaw Interrogation Issues

Agency Considered Investigations 'Virtually Inevitable'

Attacks on Green Zone Drop Sharply, U.S. Says Joint Offensive With Iraqis Is Credited With Curbing Militancy in Cleric's Stronghold

Justice Dept. Sees Surge In Global Crime Networks

With New Cash, Clinton Moves to A New Venue $10 Million Added as Ind. Effort Begins

Back to The '60s By Harold Meyerson, The Democratic party finds itself sliding back toward the divisions of the 1960s.

The Democrats' Worst Nightmare

By David S. Broder Many Democrats are praying for this divisive primary campaign to end.

Scientists Report Political Interference

Hands Across the Border By Dan Froomkin

The Most Disappointing President By Dan Froomkin

H6 Guardian Win gives Clinton fresh momentum Democrat candidate claims 'tide is turning' in her favour following win in Pennsylvania primary

Whoever wins, prepare for a letdown Timothy Garton Ash: None of the presidential candidates can deliver what the world wants

Pentagon wants 'surge' general for top job Bush administration wants the leader of US war effort in Iraq to become Middle East commander

Profile of General David Petraeus

Despite Iraq, America's love affair with war runs deep Simon Jenkins

Obama's failure to finish gives Democrats pause

Indiana to be tiebreaker contest

Reasons to be cheerful

Leader: The politics might be dirty but there is substance behind the Democrat slugfest

Incendiary talk

David Shariatmadari Apr 23 08, 06:30pm: US elections 08: Hillary Clinton's threat to obliterate Iran is little more than foreign-policy posturing, but try telling that to Iranians

Carter's principled mission

Richard Silverstein Apr 23 08, 07:00pm: Jimmy Carter knew that talking to Hamas would be controversial, but he was only doing what Israel and the US should be doing themselves

Shops ration rice as US buyers panic Restaurants stockpile to guard against soaring cost as world food crisis grows

A glimpse of African tigers

William Gumede: Chinese investment could help fight poverty in ways western money never has

To lionise former extremists feeds anti-Muslim prejudice

Ziauddin Sardar: When one sinner repents, says the biblical adage, there is much joy in heaven

Fuel shortage forces halt of Gaza food aid UN is to halt handouts for up to 800,000 Palestinians because of Israeli economic blockade

Iraq's Gift to Latin America
by Stephen Kinzer Distracted by the Iraq war, the United States is ignoring a growing socialist hegemony in Latin America which once it would have swiftly countered

H7 Rand Good Morning, Syria! – Time to Revisit Our Axis of Evil List?

Iraq's Political Refugees in Limbo By: Saleh al-Mutlaq | The Boston Globe The MEK has a controversial image in the Middle East and in the West. The group's determination to end the rule of religious zealots in Iran over the past 20 years led to its vilification by the United States, which, in 1997 branded the MEK a "foreign terrorist organization."

Shot by Both Sides By: Fred Kaplan | Slate Which is it: Are the Iranians extraordinarily clever, or are we extraordinarily dim? Certainly, when it comes to pursuing our respective interests in Iraq, they seem to be thinking and acting strategically, while we seem not to be

Back to Basra - Austin Bay, RealClearPolitics

Don't exclude al-Sadr

The Iraqi government is about to make a major mistake: excluding Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process.

Time A Blow to Bush's Mideast Peace Hopes

Daily Star Is the opposition organically anti-state?
By Michael Young

We must guard against the worst in a nonpolar world By Richard N. Haass

ICG "A Seat at the Table for IDPs",Donald Steinberg in Forced Migration Review

Sadr's in a JAM - American Enterprise InstituteBy Thomas Donnelly

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By Frederick W. Kagan

Climate Change 'May Put World at War' By: Charles Clover | The Telegraph Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading defence think tank has warned.

Two Iraq War Narratives That Need to Be Reconciled By: Lisa Schirch | The Daily Star
Americans and Iraqis tell two different stories about the war in Iraq. Most Iraqis say that the United States-led invasion and occupation have fueled violence. The dominant American story is that US forces are curbing sectarian violence and making things better in Iraq

U.S. Energy Independence: Myths and Reality By: Peter Kiernan | World Politics Review
Energy independence has emerged as a popular rallying cry in this U.S. election year. Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls all at some stage have advocated energy independence, especially independence from foreign sources in the Middle East

Report: U.S. policy increasing terrorism
(UPI) -- The U.S.-led war on terror is facilitating the global expansion of terrorist networks and recruiting, according to a report by the Senlis Council.

Nuclear Iran - Editorial (Times of India)

Nationalism in China

Asia Times Iran's 'bomb' and dud intelligence
Just as the intelligence community in the United States and Britain took a beating over the misreading of the flow of information about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction before the invasion of 2003, assessments on Iran's nuclear program - which vary wildly - have aroused incredulity. At stake is a far more dangerous war with Iran than the one with Iraq, and one that continued intelligence failures could precipitate. - Richard M Bennett

Israel changes tune on Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been unequivocal recently in his assurances that Iran will not get the bomb. This is a sea-change for the Israeli leader, who until now has been careful to keep "all options" on the table, and reflects the conviction that diplomatic means will be central in stopping Tehran from going nuclear

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

Saudi-Syrian feud 'main obstacle' for Lebanon

Promotion Keeps US on Iraq War Course

Israel willing to give up Golan: Syrian minister

Iran Watching U.S. Campaigns With Hope for Detente By: Jeffrey Fleishman | Los Angeles Times
Iranians know the new U.S. leader will inherit an overextended military in Iraq, a declining dollar, high oil prices and a sub-prime mortgage crisis that are straining the American economy. This scenario, analysts here suggest, may lead to a softer U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, where Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has become widely admired for his harsh line against the Bush administration.

How Urgent Are US 'Emergency' Iraq Funds?

Arab Angst Over Shi'ite Power Underpins Iraq Policy,,

Tehran to detail nuclear activity (By George Jahn)

Congress to Hear of Alleged Syrian, North Korean Nuke Cooperation

Ousted Iranian economic minister takes potshots at Ahmadinejad

Cordesman: Afghanistan 'won't be solved by moving out of Iraq'

Iran-India : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will travel to India next week, a trip that is causing tension between India and the United States (Reuters).

Ahmadinejad in Rows with Leading Iranian Officials

US Soldiers Say Admin. Exaggerated Iraqi Role in Basra Offensive

Iran Says IAEA Nuclear Talks Were 'Positive'

Iraq May Drop Oil Deals if Not Inked by June

Maliki Tries to Rally Arabs Behind Iraq

'Disneyland' planned for Baghdad warzone

, Talabani hints at Sunnis' return to government

Iraqi Oil Windfall Keeps Growing

Debka Exclusive: Pyongyang scrambles to offset impending Syrian plutonium reactor revelations in Congress

CIA to disclose Israeli September raid destroyed Syrian plutonium reactor

Exclusive: Dispute over former Iraqi VP Izzat Ibrahim’s reported capture

H9 Ha’aretz ANALYSIS: New espionage affair may be old story, but will greatly damage Israel

Don't be afraid of peace with Syria

Ezra: New spy case won't harm U.S.-Israel ties

Syrian leak / Talking through the press

Repressing the Iranian Threat By: Yuval Steinitz | Haaretz The underestimation of Iran's nuclear program undermines the effort to save the world from a situation in which a fundamentalist regime holds nuclear arms

J'lem fears U.S. hearings on Syrian reactor will unveil classified data

U.S. presence seen vital to re-launch of peace talks with Syria Israeli, foreign experts don't anticipate change in American position vis-a-vis talks with Damascus

U.S. to demand Israel admit Ben-Ami Kadish acted as its agent

U.S.: We expect full cooperation in Kadish case

U.S. decision / All eyes on North Korea

Ex-prosecutor: Israel lied about extent of anti-U.S. spying in '80s

New Espionage Affair May Be Old Story, but Will Greatly Damage Israel

Hamas likely to accept Cairo's Gaza-only cease-fire proposal

New poll: Will the new spy case harm U.S.-Israel ties?

Jerusalem Post Concerns mount over IAF strike briefing Officials: Revelations could "embarrass" Assad, create pressure to attack Israel, postpone talks.

Rattling the Cage: Not one inch

Israel's stance is - first give us 100% peace, and then we'll decide how much land to give you

'Israel will return Golan if Syria cuts ties with terror'

Diplomatic officials to 'Post': Damascus must end support for Hamas, expel Mashaal, distance itself from Iran, and cut Hizbullah ties.

Washington Watch: On Iran - also try diplomacy

[ DOUGLAS M. BLOOMFIELD

How Israel got trashed

Thank media, our government's failure to expose nature of Palestinian foe.

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Spy arrest shows Israel lied'
Pollard prosecutor Joseph E. DiGenova slams Israel, says Kadish arrest shows 'this was much larger espionage operation with sleeper cells in the United States than we understood or could have known at the time'

Syria confirms Golan reports Syrian foreign minister says nothing should stop resumption of peace negotiations with Israel

Carter: I wasn't told to shun Hamas

Think long-term in Gaza/ Yigal Walt Pointless military operations should be replaced by lucid goals, clear plan

Don’t write off Israel-US ties American Administration unlikely to make big deal out of Kadish espionage affair

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

Newsweek The Feds Accuse an Octogenarian of Informing for Israel

2048: a peace odyssey Khaled Diab: Israel is 60 years old and the conflict still rages on. Can we look forward to peace by the 100th anniversary?

American Allegedly Spied for Israel

Breaking The "Unwritten Rule" In Israeli Espionage
CBS News

Ex-Mossad Head Defends Meshaal Plot - Laila El-Haddad (Al Jazeera-Qatar)

Israel Strengthens Hamas' Leadership

Carter spreads a new doctrine
Former US president Jimmy Carter was well received this week in Syria, where he met a range of people, including the head of the political bureau of Hamas, a US-listed terrorist organization. Despite Carter's stated aims, there will be no immediate breakthroughs in the Middle East, but he does have the ear of think-tanks and decision-makers in Washington. - Sami Moubayed

Carter says Secretary Rice “not telling truth”

"Kadish Affair" Unlikely to Harm U.S.-Israel Relationship

Daniel Kurtzer, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: U.S. Diplomacy in the Middle East

NY Sun The Spy from New Jersey

Forward Arrest of Retired Army Engineer Renews Focus on Past Israeli Espionage Activity

How Jimmy Carter Almost Derailed Peace With Egypt The Strategic Interest

Did Israelis Leak New Spy Info to Thwart War?

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Iraqis see red as U.S. opens world's biggest embassy The 104-acre, 21-building enclave was cleared for occupancy recently and will open next month

Clinton's Pennsylvania victory gives campaign new life A convincing win spurs the fight forward, but does little to close the gap in delegate count with Obama.

A New US Focus on Nation-Building

Superdelegates' superdilemma

Clinton's victory only enhances their role in deciding whose campaign style is the better.

High oil prices put focus on Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Stop adding to the oil reserve, some say.

General Petraeus to head U.S. forces in Middle East The move brings greater focus to the conflict in Afghanistan. Lt. Gen. Odierno is set to succeed Petraeus in Iraq.

In E.U., hope dims for Iraqi refugees Sweden, Europe's most generous host, is scaling back to ease strains on its welfare system. One town alone has accepted more Iraqis than the US since 2003.

Honey Sayed spins tunes and positive news in Syria

Popular 'Good Morning Syria' host provides a rare cultural bridge in the Arab world.

ASIA

Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan`s Military Economy

Mixing Sports and Politics By: Dominique Moisi | The Japan Times Beijing was given the Olympic Games for political and economic reasons, so its calls to separate politics and sport are naive and baseless.

Tribal Rivalry 'Limits Al-Qa'eda Terror Plans' By: David Blair | The Telegraph The mountainous region of Pakistan where al-Qa'eda's core leaders are believed to have regrouped is so riven by tribal conflict that it cannot be an effective base for waging global terrorism, according to a new study.

Asia Times Taliban reap a peace dividend Pakistan and Britain have hailed the peace agreement with pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Muhammad under which Sufi was released after six years in prison in return for his group renouncing violence in Pakistan's troubled tribal areas. For the Taliban it's good news as they will take advantage of any lull to put the finishing touches to their spring offensive in Afghanistan. By which time far more radical al-Qaeda-linked leaders will have rendered Sufi's agreement meaningless. - Syed Saleem Shahzad

Musharraf bolsters China-Pakistan bond Musharraf's six-day trip to China was productive and timely for the "all-weather" friends. It has buoyed the beleaguered president's credibility while providing needed international support for Beijing. China is Pakistan's largest arms supplier and it is no coincidence Musharraf's last stop was to speak against extremism in China's restive Muslim province of Xinjiang. - Pallavi Aiyar

India drawn deeper into Afghanistan Neither the poor security situation in Afghanistan nor specific Taliban attacks on Indian project personnel is likely to persuade Delhi to downsize its commitment to the country. On the contrary, it could result in India taking up an offer to train Afghan soldiers in counter-insurgency, which will bring it a step closer to military engagement of the Taliban. - Sudha Ramachandran

In Afghanistan, Insurgents Attacking Cellphone Network By: Laura King | Los Angeles Times
Taliban fighters are blowing up telecom towers, hoping to foil NATO-led forces who from hunt them down via cellphone signals. Afghans are fuming.

CFR Samore: More Fluid US Stance on N. Korea Nuclear Weapons

Rubin: Negotiate with Bitter Pashtuns who Cling to Religion, Guns

India: US Advice on Iran Is Rejected

Pakistan on the Tightrope
MERIA

Caving in to Pyongyang

The more details that come out about the Bush administration's approach to negotiations with North Korea, the more disturbing the deal looks.

The price of rice will rise By PHILIP BOWRING We are seeing the impact of several trends, some of which cannot be reversed.

China Stocks : The Independent reports on the decline in the Chinese stock market, which has fallen 50 percent since last October.

Intolerance in Indonesia By: Sadanand Dhume | The Wall Street Journal
In the global debate about the compatibility between Islam and democracy, Indonesia is often held up as an example of the possible. Ten years after General Suharto's downfall, the world's most populous Muslim country has institutionalized free elections and the peaceful transfer of power

China May Give Up Attempt to Send Arms to Zimbabwe By: Celia W. Dugger and David Barboza | The New York Times
As protests intensified across southern Africa against the shipment of Chinese-made arms intended for Zimbabwe, the government in Beijing said Tuesday that the ship carrying the arms — owned by a large Chinese state-owned company, Cosco — may return to China because of the difficulties in delivering the goods.

Cultivate Dialogue With China By: Paula J. Dobriansky | Miami Herald
President Bush has repeatedly expressed his steadfast support for dialogue between the Dalai Lama and China's leadership. Meaningful dialogue presents the only viable way forward

U.S. angry as Pakistan seeks peace deal with Islamists

Japan may be rigid but it is not inefficientDavid Pilling on the nation’s service sector

The most potent weapon wielded by the empires of Murdoch and China

Tokyo Should Put Its Mouth Where Its Money Is By: William Pesek | Bloomberg News
Japan spares little expense boosting its economy. It has amassed the largest public debt, lowered interest rates to zero and bailed out banks and companies. Now, it's time for Japan to put its mouth where its money is

H11 IHT Roger Cohen: Bring on the right biofuels By ROGER COHEN

Biofuels are suddenly being blamed for every global ill. Most of this is hogwash.

9 people detained as Germans raid Islamic centers Scores of officers carried out raids on Islamic centers in several big towns and cities.

EUROPE European press review

Is Social Europe Fit for Globalization?European Commission This 223-page study examines whether the European social model is fit to rise to the challenges of globalization

Is Europe turning right?
GulfNews - By Amir Taheri

Will the Real Serbia Please Stand up?,* the latest policy briefing from the International Crisis Group

A Rising Euro Threatens American Dominance By: Benn Steil | Financial Times As the dollar continues its relentless six-year slide against the euro and other main currencies, the question is being asked more and more: what would it mean if the dollar ceded its global dominance to the euro?

If the Boot Fits By: Gianni Riotta | The Wall Street Journal
The Cold War ended in Italy last week -- nearly two decades after the tumbling of the Berlin Wall. Our new parliament, elected after two days of voting April 13-14, will not have any members elected under the hammer and sickle.

Czech-Bound US Missile Radar Is Folly, Critics Say

The Pain in Spain The Economist
The Spanish economy has been a driving force for economic activity in the euro area for more than a decade, with year-on-year GDP growth exceeding the average rate of expansion in the euro area in every quarter since 1995. The good times are now over

Budget Blues in France The Economist
France’s public finances deteriorated last year and President Sarkozy’s commitments on tax and spending suggest that a serious attempt at fiscal consolidation is unlikely before 2009 at the earliest, despite pressure from other member states.

Greece, flooded by refugees, under fire for asylum policies The UN refugee agency last week harshly criticized Athens for poor treatment of asylum seekers – a majority of whom are from Iraq and Afghanistan

What Does Berlusconi Have Up His Sleeve? By: Alexander Smoltczyk | Der Spiegel The old man with the face lift is back in power again. But what does Silvio Berlusconi have planned for his third stint as prime minister? One thing is certain: the anti-immigrant Northern League will be keen to wield its newfound power.

General Elections in Serbia, 11th May 2008 Fondation Robert Schuman A French analysis of the forthcoming Serbian general elections

Europe Turns to Coal Again, Raising Alarms on Climate

Analysis: German Big Brother bill bashed
Published: April 22, 2008 at 9:42 AM UPI) -- Germany fears its government is trying to turn the country into a Big Brother state for the sake of more efficient anti-terror operations.

H12 RFE/RL

Russia embraces its church, leaving western faiths in the cold The Kremlin has turned the Russian Orthodox Church into a de facto official religion, warding off other Christian denominations through a variety of harassing measures

Russia reveals US plans to capture Caucasus
Pravda

Google News Azerbaijan

Middle East Talks in Moscow Get Scant Support By: Nicholas Kralev | The Washington Times
A planned follow-up to November's highly-touted Middle East peace conference in Annapolis will likely be postponed or even canceled because of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' reluctance to take part, Western and Palestinian diplomats said yesterday

Georgian Spy Plane Reached the UN By: Alexander Gabuev, Konstantin Lantratov, and Georgy Dvali | Kommersant
The case of the Georgian unmanned spy plane shot down over Abkhazia has reached an international level. Today it will be discussed at the UN Security Council extraordinary session

Is Putin's Accession as United Russia Leader an Act of Desperation? By: Jonas Bernstein | Eurasia Daily Monitor
Some observers see Putin’s acceptance of the United Russia chairmanship as a sign that he and the siloviki, who had hoped that he would stay on for a third presidential term, are increasingly concerned about their future and somewhat desperately seeking ways to preserve their dwindling power base.

Azerbaijan Blocks Russian Shipment for Iranian Nuclear Plant

H13 The Times Race matters in the US election

The Democrats will just have to admit it - Barack Obama would lose to John McCain

Anatole Kaletsky

The Waltons vs The Cosby Show

After 45 ballots and millions spent, the true nature of the Democratic contest is clear

Obama limps on with tainted image Hillary Clinton's Pennsylvania win heaps pressure on to Barack Obama as doubts grow about his ability to tackle John McCain

Petraeus rewarded after ‘surge’ success

General Petraeus is to be nominated by President Bush to take charge of US Central Command

UN troops overworked and outgunned in Darfur

Disappointment and fear remains as contributing countries fail to meet commitments to a weak UN force in western Sudan

Rationing to protect rice supplies

With supplies dwindling and customers hoarding stocks, the US giant Wal-Mart and British stores are starting to restrict sales

Wall Street Journal Plutonium on the Euphrates
The North Koreans, Syria, and the U.S.

Battlefield Promotions
At last, Bush sticks with the right war-time generals.

Eastern Solidarity
Timely support at NATO for Georgia and Ukraine. Review & Outlook

Is Obama Ready for Prime Time?
By Karl Rove The Illinois senator is still the favorite, but his November problems grow

The Democrats Have a NomineeBy Daniel Henninger Wonder Land: Pennsylvania doesn't make a difference. The cement is set around the Clinton coffin.

Immigrant Scapegoats
By Jason L. Riley Do we really want to emulate Europe's rigid labor markets?

Primary Colors
By James Taranto Are white Democrats "uncomfortable with a black as president," or is this just a journalist's prejudice?

Clinton Win Stirs Doubts on Obama

Clinton's Pennsylvania win generated $10 million in contributions and stoked concerns about Obama's appeal in a general election, even as Democratic leaders admit he remains the favorite to win the party's nomination.

Fed Weighs Pause After Next Cut The Fed is likely to cut short-term rates by a quarter point when it meets next week, but the option of standing pat will likely also be on the table amid concern about inflationary pressures. If the Fed does cut rates, officials may signal a pause to see whether their moves can spur a second-half recovery.

A Blueprint for Sovereign Wealth Fund Best Practices
Peterson Institute
This 21-page US policy brief offers a blueprint for improving the transparency, predictability and accountability of sovereign wealth funds

Global Economic Prospects 2008/2009 Peterson Institute

Global Business Cycles: Convergence or Decoupling

Roubini The Shape of the US Recession: V or U or W or L-Shaped?

H14 Financial Times Israel offers to ‘return’ the Golan Heights Prime minister Ehud Olmert is willing to vacate the Golan Heights, the territory conquered by Israeli forces in the 1967 war, in exchange for full peace with Damascus, a Syrian cabinet minister has said

Iraqi offensive draws extra forces to Basra The US military presence in Basra has grown to 800 troops as its soldiers provide increased support to an Iraqi government offensive against militias

Petraeus to head US Mideast operations

A Rising Euro Threatens American Dominance By: Benn Steil |
As the dollar continues its relentless six-year slide against the euro and other main currencies, the question is being asked more and more: what would it mean if the dollar ceded its global dominance to the euro?

Iran president puts ally in economic post Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad appoints Hossein Samsami as the acting economy minister in the latest cabinet shake-up believed to be aimed at helping him win next year’s election

Columnist Gideon Rachman asks why the American presidential election is such compelling viewing, and says it is because it combines the formats of game shows, talent contests, television soaps, and sporting events.

US man charged with spying for Israel US authorities have arrested a former US army engineer on charges of supplying nuclear and other military secrets to Israel

Saudis warn on oil capacity

The biggest threat to the future security of oil supplies is the lack of spare production capacity worldwide, Saudi Arabia warned

Maliki criticises Iraq’s Arab neighbours The Iraqi prime minister rebukes neighbouring states for failing to open embassies in Baghdad, urging them to secure their borders and forgive Iraq’s foreign debt

Jury out on Kuwait’s de-peggingThe emirate’s move to unlink the dinar from the dollar peg prompted debate about whether its neighbours should follow suit

Der Euro Otmar Issing, chief economist at the European Central Bank for its first eight years, has a gripping tale to tell of the emergence of the euro as the ECB approaches its tenth anniversary, writes Ralph Atkins

Economists’ Forum A turning point in managing the world’s economy: How do we persuade citizens the rise of the emerging countries, the brightest story of our era, is to be welcomed?

WORLD NEWS: Israel hints at Golan deal for Syrian peace

Democratic fight turns gladiatorial

The party must bring the Obama-Clinton contest to a close. The super-delegates can hasten a conclusion to this epic of political self-harm, and they should

Analysis: Clinton’s numbers

By winning the Pennsylvania primary with a 10 percentage point margin, Hillary Clinton crossed precisely the threshold that pretty much everyone agreed was the minimum necessary for her to rejuvenate her fading chances of securing the Democratic nomination

Energy shock The danger is that rate cutting to ease the credit squeeze combines with an ever-rising oil price to trigger serious inflation

Robust euro restricts region’s growth

Signs are emerging that the currency’s record strength is restricting eurozone growth, with a survey showing the outlook for manufacturing deteriorating faster than expected

Berlin open-minded on Blair as EU chief Germany is leaving the door open for Tony Blair, former UK prime minister, to become a candidate for the EU presidency, but is not offering public support for him

Comment: Trust is crucial in EU-China trade We must maintain an open mind in dealing with the pressure caused by the expansion of trade and oppose protectionism, writes Chen Deming

Prosecutor warns EU of Mafia resurgence

Tax retreat knocks Brown off course

The UK prime minister’s cave-in has reinforced his perceived weaknesses and undermined his perceived strengths. Quite an achievement

Money rolls in following primary victory Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign received a surge in online donations following her victory in the Pennsylvania primary, replenishing her war chest ahead of forthcoming ­contests in Indiana and North Carolina

Clinton claims big states give her primacy

H15 Los Angeles Times CIA to Describe North Korea-Syria Nuclear Ties By: Paul Richter and Greg Miller | Los Angeles Times
CIA officials will tell Congress on Thursday that North Korea had been helping Syria build a plutonium-based nuclear reactor, a U.S. official said, a disclosure that could touch off new resistance to the administration's plan to ease sanctions on Pyongyang.

How neo are the neocons?

By Jonah Goldberg Promoting democracy throughout the world has been a driving force in U.S. politics since the country's earliest days.

Obama, Clinton turn eyes toward Indiana Both, however, interrupt campaigns to return to Washington to cast labor-friendly votes.

Iraq's 'King of Clubs' Ibrahim reportedly arrested DNA tests are being done to determine whether the man is Izzat Ibrahim, a top Saddam Hussein aide who is No. 6 on the U.S. wanted list, an Arab news channel reports.

Iran agrees to talk with arms inspectors The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog calls the accord to discuss alleged evidence of a weapons program a milestone.

Petraeus nominated to command all U.S. forces in Middle East

H16 American Politics

What does it mean that Obama lost the white vote again? No one wants to single out race as a deciding factor. But Obama won only 38 percent of the white vote in Pennsylvania and he's carried the white vote in just seven of the 30 states where voters were interviewed as they left polling places.

The Top Ten List of Undisputed Facts Showing Barack Obama's Weakness in the General Election Against John McCain

Gallup Daily: Obama 50%, Clinton 42% Nationally

Assessing Strength of Contenders in Swing States

Image conscious

Michael Tomasky: US elections 2008: Clinton's win in Pennsylvania gives her momentum for the upcoming states, which could matter more than actual votes

The Incredibly Shrinking Democrats

For Indiana Voters, Talk of Change May Fall Flat (Monica Davey/New York Times)

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

Meet John 'Dubya' McCain

By J. Peter Scoblic If you like George Bush's foreign policy, you'll love the GOP's current candidate.

Pennsylvania's bitter bloc

By Shawn Hubler Some rural voters in the state think 'that Obama' may be on to something.

McCain and the Bush Shadow - Ron Klain, New York Times


Is Obama Ready for Prime Time? - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal

The Race Hasn't Moved One Bit - Amy Walter, National Journal


All Eyes Turn to a Repeat in Indiana...
- Victor Davis Hanson, NRO

Wilting over waffles By MAUREEN DOWD Now that Hillary has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his rival.

Down and dirty on the campaign trail It's time for the superdelegates to settle the Democratic race.

U.S. Relations By: Helle Dale | The Washington Times
In the course of U.S. presidential election politics, the present inevitably takes a beating. In the discussion of American global leadership, virtually no good news ever gets into the debate, to the extent foreign policy is discussed at all.

The GOP's bait-and-switch tax strategy By Bruce Bartlett The rhetoric defies reality, when what the nation really needs is a permanent plan

Celebrity-in-Chief Neighborhood | From the "Daily Show" to "The View" candidates are embracing the talk show circuit. But is it grounds for electability?

H17 Daily Telegraph Rich and poor will pay for world food crisis Filling a 4x4 with ethanol uses enough maize to feed a human for a year, writes Mary Riddell. The EU quotas are a death sentence, and Gordon Brown should say so.

Clinton can't see that the race is over Which movie is Hillary Clinton? She has compared herself to Rocky. But Toby Harnden is convinced that it is in fact Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Saddam's top ally 'captured' in Iraq US forces "seized" most wanted Douri.

Clinton claims 'tide is turning' her way Defiant Hillary Clinton turns to Indiana after her victory

Libya's Gaza slur causes UN walkout France's ambassador has led a walkout of some Western envoys after Libya likened the Gaza Strip to Nazi "concentration camps".

H18 Independent Leading article: A victory that only extends the agony of the Democrats

Women and white workers prove saviours for Clinton

It was in the end a famous victory for Hillary Clinton. She won it in the clapboard row-houses of white, working-class communities, among religious, gun-loving rural types. She even won in the affluent exurbs of Philadelphia where voters flirted with Barack Obama, only to dump him at the last minute

Rupert Cornwell: Curse this sheer dumb Republican luck!

Adrian Hamilton: An ethical foreign policy is still within reach

Democrats' ugly civil war rumbles on

Tough-talking Clinton vows to 'obliterate' Iran if it ever dares to attack US ally Israel

Struggling Sarkozy to remind French: 'I'm a man of action'

A year after his victory in the first round of French presidential elections, Nicolas Sarkozy will attempt tonight to refloat an administration which threatens to sink into a morass of internal bickering and popular discontent

Is it time to give up the search for an Aids vaccine?

Walker's World: A tale of two cities
By MARTIN WALKER (UPI) -- New York's mayor has money and power; London's mayor has neither. But London's voters have more fun. Is this the way to run the city of the future?

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

Fighting the wrong war

Organizing the U.S. Government for National Security: Overview of the Interagency Reform Debates (PDF; 133 KB)
Source: Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists)

Congressional Oversight of Intelligence: Current Structure and Alternatives (PDF; 181 KB)
Source: Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists)

2008-2009 Presidential Transition: National Security Considerations and Options (PDF; 265 KB)
Source: Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists)

Data Mining and Homeland Security: An Overview (PDF; 231 KB)
Source: Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists)

Precision in the Global War on Terror: Inciting Muslims through the War of Ideas
Source: Streategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College

Analysis: Hamas conducted first armored attack on regular army in terrorist history

Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan`s Military Economy

Mission unfinished

WHEN George Bush came to office in 2001, he parroted his national security advisers' view that the US military should not get involved in nation-building in foreign hot spots. That was one reason the military was so unprepared to handle the chaos that engulfed Iraq after US forces speedily toppled Saddam Hussein. (Boston Globe

US Takes Counterinsurgency Lessons From Israel by Steve Niva

Text of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates' speech at West Point

Stratfor Placing the Terrorist Threat to the Food Supply in Perspective ...

Senate wants Pentagon to investigate courting of TV analysts

Former Prosecutor Says New Spy Case Shows That Pollard Case Was Bigger Than Thought

Revealed: CIA has 7,000 documents on renditions

Double number of ex-cons join the US army The US army doubled its use of "moral waivers" for enlisted soldiers last year to cope with the demands of the Iraq war, allowing sex offenders, people convicted of making terrorist threats, and child abusers into the military, new records released yesterday showed

The Pentagon's Corrupt 'Military Analysts' Exposed by Gareth Porter

Al-Qaeda No. 2: Attacks on Western Nations in Works

Private Military Contractors and Risk Transfer Warfare

H20 Slate Gates Celebrates Dissent The generals quash it.
Fred Kaplan

Think Again: The Peace Corps By: Robert L. Strauss | Foreign Policy
In the eyes of Americans, no government agency better exemplifies the optimism, can-do spirit, and selfless nature of the United States than the Peace Corps. Unfortunately, it’s never lived up to its purpose or principles.

USDA Rice Projections, 2008-17
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Where Did Your Federal Dollars Go in 2006?
Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Science and Technology Policymaking: A Primer (PDF; 455 KB)
Source: Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists)

Entrepreneurship in higher education, especially within non-business studies
Source: European Commission, Enterprise and Industry, Education and Training for Entrepreneurship Full Report (PDF; 378 KB)

H21 Behavioural Economics: Common Mistakes in Daily Decisions

Researchers claim dark matter find

The Big Question: Why are honey bees disappearing, and what can be done to save them?

Constrained Choice: Why Are Some Women and Men Able To Create and Maintain Healthy Lifestyles, While Others Are Not?
Source: RAND Corporation Full Document (PDF; 139 KB)

‘Basic Instinct’ Director Paul Verhoeven: Jesus Was Son of Mary and a Roman Rapist

The accidental rebel

By PAUL AUSTER

Being crazy struck me as a perfectly sane response to the hand I had been dealt - the hand that all young men had been dealt in 1968.

How To Spot a Persian Prostitute

Streetwalkers in chadors.

Cheap food prices gone for good?Sharp spikes in wheat, corn prices; GOP sen.: Chinese should 'eat rice.'

Understanding How Educational Freedom Improves Education

“To shoot a man because you disagree with him about Hegel’s dialectic is after all to honour the human spirit,” says George Steiner... more»

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“Zafer İlan Et ve Kaç:” ABD ve Afganistan’dan “Sorumluca” Çekilmenin Mantığı 23 Haziran 2011
Orta Doğu'da Durum Raporu 25 Mayıs 2011
Bin Ladin’in Öldürülmesi Üzerine Notlar 25 Mayıs 2011
Bin Ladin’in Öldürülmesi Üzerine 15 Kısa Not 3 Mayıs 2011
ABD ve Karadeniz Nisan 2011

Türkiye Beşar’a Ne Demeli? Suriye'de “52 Cuma” Reformsuz Geçmez 20 Nisan 2011
Amerika-Sonrası Dünyanın Provası Olarak Libya Krizi ve Türkiye 22 Mart 2011
“Demokratikleştiremediklerimizden misiniz?”: Orta Doğu’daki Değişim Dalgasının Neden, Şekil ve Olası Sonuçları 10 Şubat 2011
Analiz Üzerine Notlar 14 Ocak 2011
Wikileaks Üzerine Notlar ve Yorumlar 23 Aralık 2010
Enerji ve Güvenliği Üzerine Notlar 29 Kasım 2010
Amerikan Travması ve Kongre Seçimleri 23 Kasım 2010
Füze Savunması Üzerine 20 Soru ve 5 Seçenek 20 Ekim 2010
Obama Ekibinde Yaprak Dökümü - Beyaz Saray’dan Kaçış mı? 12 Ekim 2010
"Kürt Devleti" Üzerine Notlar ve Çeşitlemeler 23 Eylül 2010
Mullen’ın Ankara Ziyareti 7 Eylül 2010
ABD’nin Afganistan’daki Seçenekleri 24 Ağustos 2010
Financial Times Haberinin Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Üzerine Düşündürttükleri 18 Ağustos 2010
İsrail-ABD-İran-Türkiye Dörtgeni 26 Temmuz 2010
Bay Netanyahu Washington’a Gitti: Böyle mi Olacaktı, Obama? 16 Temmuz 2010
Stratejik Dehlizlerde Derinlik Sarhoşluğu: Bir AKP Dış Politikası Eleştirisi Temmuz 2010
Rus Casusluk Olayı: "John Le Carre mi, Austin Powers mı?" 5 Temmuz 2010
“Mahalleye Hoş Geldin”:Türkiye’nin Orta Doğu’da İlk Günü 02 Haziran 2010
Nükleer Takas: “Savaşı Bitiren Anlaşma” mı, “Acem Oyunu” mu? 20 Mayıs 2010
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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