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30 May 2008
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H1 IHT FALLING BEHIND

Globalization and its discontents

By HENRY A. KISSINGER The growing gap between the world's political and economic orders must be closed.

TLS The Jewish key to Henry Kissinger Is the ferocity of criticism for Kissinger related to the fact that he is Jewish?, asks Niall Ferguson

New York Times DAVID BROOKS The Reality Situation We don’t understand the Iranians because the Iranians don’t understand themselves. Until they resolve their internal ambiguity, they won’t be able to make a strategic shift.

Help Russia Help Us By RICHARD LUGAR and SAM NUNN The priority of our national security policy must be to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction. This task is impossible without the cooperation of Russia

Asia Times Now it's a blockade against Iran The call this week in a US media report for the George W Bush administration to drop its diplomatic efforts to get Tehran to freeze its uranium-enrichment program and instead mount a "month-long naval blockade of Iran's imports of refined gasoline" is as much a threat to Iran as it is to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. - Jim Lobe

Syrian talks offer more than hot air Reaction to the tentative peace talks between Syria and Israel ranges from high optimism that an accord will be signed this year to skepticism that no deal can ever be brokered as long as the George W Bush administration remains cool to the idea. Beyond any tangible deal, though, the talks send a message from the Syrians to the Iranians, as well as to the wider world, that they want to move forward. - Sami Moubayed

Washington Post U.S. Cites Big Gains Against Al-Qaeda Group Is Facing Setbacks Globally, CIA Chief Says

Food Prices Predicted to Ease Before Entering Steady Climb Biofuels and Development Among Contributors

Israel's Olmert Loses Key Support Minister Urges Party To Prepare for Change

Carbon Chastity The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment By Charles Krauthammer

Soli Özel – America and the Middle East Alternatives Internationale

Guardian The road to peace in Iraq runs directly through Tehran

Jonathan Steele: Hysteria over this week's arms report is misplaced, and US attempts to cast Iran as the villain of the region can only backfire

Once, 'international' sounded saintly. Now it means bureaucracy and waste Simon Jenkins: From Eurovision and the Olympics to the UN and the World Bank, a deficit of accountability drains all true legitimacy

Time to focus on Pakistan Colin Cookman: US intelligence officials agree al-Qaida has found a safe haven in Pakistan, yet US politicians remain preoccupied with Iraq and Iran

McCain makes his multilateral mark Simon Tisdall US elections 08: The Arizona senator's belief in international citizenship makes him a partner for those seeking a common global security policy

China: handle with care Hari Kunzru: Beijing's human rights record does need to be challenged - but, given the strength of nationalist feeling, we have to be careful about how

Atomic scientist disowns confession Disgraced 76-year-old says Pakistan admission was forced upon him by President Pervez Musharraf Interview: Why should I talk to the IAEA?

Financial Times Uncomfortable truths for a new world of them and us The politics of globalisation lags ever further behind the economics, writes Philip Stephens. For all its tacit recognition that power has been flowing eastwards, the west still wants to imagine things as they used to be - when financial crises were something that happened somewhere else

Iran on track for nuclear milestone

The country has made big strides in recent months and is on course to pass an important threshold for nuclear weapons capability next year, scientists and analysts say

A 10-point plan for tackling the food crisis Robert Zoellick looks at how best to help those in danger

France hoping to broker EU deal with Russia France hopes the European Union can reach a deal with Russia on a new strategic partnership by the end of 2008, the French prime minister said after talks with Vladimir Putin

It’s curtains for Olmert The latest corruption probe is another vivid enaction of how difficult it has become to govern an Israel whose fragmented politics are in danger of turning into a spoils system

Britain is better off outside the euro Martin Wolf looks at the case against joining If a country is to join the eurozone, its people must be willing to cope with the consequences forever, writes Martin Wolf

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: 'Dwarfs' of Europe band together to form substantial geopolitical force

Ahmadi-Nejad’s right-hand man

Mojtaba Samareh-Hashemi rejects the view put forward by analysts and opponents of Iran’s fundamentalist government that he is the éminence grise of the president Interview transcript: Mojtaba Samareh-Hashemi

US to woo Gulf investors Hank Paulson, the US Treasury secretary, will invite oil producers to invest their petrodollars in the US while urging them to take steps to curb the price of oil in the medium term on a tour of the Gulf that begins

America cannot afford to drive away talent Overseas students are vital for the US, says Bob Greifeld Many companies rely on inventors, scientists, engineers and academics who are foreign-born but trained in America, writes Bob Greifeld

The Times Iran will be first test for the new president

How to respond to Iran’s nuclear ambitions looks like being the first difficult decision facing the next president of the United States

Bronwen Maddox

Britain, the new banana republic

Economic crises... unelected cabals kicking out the Prime Minister: the signs are all there

Gerard Baker

Christian Science Monitor US-Iran regional power plays shift Iran's 'axis of resistance' may seem ascendant, but new chances for peace could redefine game in US's favor.

A one-state solution for Palestinians and IsraelisIf the aim of the peace process is to resolve the conflict properly, then only this approach tackles the root of the problem. By Ghada Karmi

A critical mess over Iran Obama and McCain say Iran must not get the bomb. They should read a new UN report.

Rogue Sadr militias roam Baghdad

A Mahdi Army truce holds most of the Shiite cleric's forces in check. But some terrorize residents of Risala, a Baghdad neighborhood

Arab states still wary of investing in Iraq At a United Nations conference in Sweden Thursday, Iraq appealed for debt forgiveness to boost development.

Asia Times A giant backward step on Iran The International Atomic Energy Agency's latest report on Iran - like previous ones - gives no evidence of safeguard breaches by Tehran in its nuclear program, that is, there is no move towards it making nuclear weapons. Yet the uncharacteristic - and sudden - negative tone of the report has played right into the hands of those who thirst in their desire to accuse Iran of nuclear proliferation. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi (

The Economist A special report on EU enlargement In the nick of time If the recent entry of 12 new EU members had been delayed much longer, it might never have happened, argues David Rennie (interviewed here). That would have been an historic error

The oil price Recoil Painful though it is, this oil shock will eventually spur enormous change. Until then, beware the hunt for scapegoats

Energy Double, double, oil and trouble Is it “peak oil” or a speculative bubble? Neither, really

The Economist Lebanon The prospect of a wider peace If Lebanon's latest deal holds, why not bring in Syria and Israel?

Nuclear proliferation

Iran's endless filibuster The world must once again ratchet up its efforts to stop Iran from enriching uranium

Iran Smoke and mirrors Iran makes it hard even for benevolent outsiders to understand it

Daily Star As things look, Israel may well attack Iran soon
By Joschka Fischer

Hassan Nasrallah is trapping himself By Michael Young

Iran-Asia: Pipeline Politics: Iran Looks to Send Natural Gas East By: Peter Kiernan | World Politics Review Iran's huge natural gas reserves are getting greater attention from Asian energy-consuming nations, and this poses a dilemma for the American strategy to economically isolate Iran as part of a larger effort to pressure Tehran to cease its nuclear activities

EurasiaNet Azerbaijan Sees Positive Signs for Energy Partnership with Turkmenistan Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has recently stepped up his ongoing campaign to promote Azerbaijan as the key to Europe’s energy security at a recent energy summit in Kyiv. But this is a role in which Baku needs a supporting actor. Azerbaijani experts believe that the Aliyev administration now has agreements with Turkmenistan to play that part.

RFE/RLCentral Asia: Beijing Flexes Economic Muscle Across Region

Daily Telegraph Israel massacred Palestinians, says Tutu Apartheid struggle leader Desmond Tutu completed his Gaza mission describing Israel's killing of 18 Palestinians as massacre

Cheap Dollar Means Expensive Oil By: David King | The Moscow Times Back in December 2002, one dollar equaled one euro. But that exchange rate didn't last. The dollar was on its way down, a trend that had started more than a year earlier, and has lasted, with occasional oscillations, to this day.

BBC Long era of cheap food over

Q&A: Rising food prices

Lord Chris Patten writes that countries whose sole policy for dealing with the world's problems is to blame Bush and Cheney fail to realize that once the current U.S. administration leaves office, pressing economic and environmental problems will still need solutions.

Al Awsat Taqiyah Made in USA : Amir Taheri

Ha’aretz Peres: If Assad wants peace, he should come to Jerusalem

Britain looked to Israel for lessons in military deception Newly released documents show U.K. military studied IDF techniques of complex, intertwined deceptions

Jonathan Spyer: Iran and their friends are winning

Shimon Peres' blog: 28 thoughts on politics, power and wisdom

Source: Messer evidence could help indict Olmert

PA Demanding U.S.-Led International Force after Peace Agreement

Senior advisor to presidential candidate: get used to nuclear Iran (WTR)

Guest: "pro-Israel" groups hurt the American Jewish community

Murdoch says 'rock star' Obama will win election

Enlarging the European Union

Chicken or Kiev? The European Union must not abandon its most successful policy when it comes to Ukraine

ForaTv Michael Scheuer on Missed Chances to Get Bin Laden

Charlie Rose - A conversation with author Tony Judt A conversation with author Philip Bobbitt

Asia Times Europe's Asian love misplaced
The recent history of Europe's ties with India shows little enthusiasm for the would-be superpower, and neither India nor the European Union seems to be in a hurry to bolster the relationship. Such indifference, however, will soon prove to have been a strategic error. And so will Europe's obsession with China. - Andrew Bishop

Wall Street Journal General McClellan's War
Iraq, and the real lessons of the press secretary's memoir.

But Is It True?By Peggy Noonan
Declarations:
Scott McClellan isn't admirable, but he is believable.

The President Has Kept Us Safe
By Thane Rosenbaum
It's preposterous to think Bush policy has nothing to do with why we haven't been attacked again

Walt and Mearsheimer Take ‘The Israel Lobby’ to Israel
By Daniel Treiman

H2 The Economist Enlargement enriches old as well as new members Will Turkey ever join the union?

Jet fighters hit 16 PKK targets in N. Iraq

ABD’den Türkiye’ye İran-Irak uzmanı büyükelçi geliyor

Turkey attacks Kurdish rebels in Iraq

"Suriye'ye su sözü verildi"ye yalanlama

Iraqi Kurd Paper Outlines UN Plan to Solve Status of Ethnically Disputed Areas

A dilemma for Turkish secularism
Daily Star James D. Lamond

EurasiaNet Turkey: Examining the Nuances of the Mosque-State Debate BY NICHOLAS BIRCH In early May, Olli Rehn, the European Union’s enlargement commissioner, characterized the ongoing domestic political struggle in Turkey as pitting "extreme secularists" against "Muslim democrats." There are numerous experts in Turkey who are disputing Rehn’s analysis. They contend that the political struggle -- which is now centering on a Supreme Court case on a possible ban of the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) -- is more nuanced than what appears to be the perception from Brussels

Time Postcard: Istanbul Persecution drove them underground for centuries, but the ultraliberal Alevis are finally having their say. Worshipping with Turkey's unconventional Muslim minority

EDM TURKEY PREPARES TO PAY THE PRICE FOR DROUGHT, POOR PLANNING AND ECONOMIC POPULISM

Turkey in the EU - What the public thinks EurActiv

Sami Kohen Bizim için farkı ne?

Ferai Tınç Türkmenlerde ’ihmal’ tedirginliği

Tarihi imza: Kazak petrolleri Türkiye'ye akacak

Kurds wary of October elections in Iraq Middle East Times

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff’s Speaks to the Press Outside the Prime Ministry Ankara, Turkey (May 28, 2008)

You Must Remember This By: Clifford D. May | National Review There’s an anniversary this week we might do well to recall. On May 29, 1453 -- just 555 short years ago -- troops led by Mehmed II broke through the walls of the ancient Christian capital of Constantinople.

LA Times Saudi law may lead to Turk's beheading

The barber was reported to the police for cursing during an argument. Turkey's president has appealed to the Saudi monarch

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

‘Sorun ekonomik olsaydı Egeliler de dağa çıkardı!’

Ayna, Güneydoğu’daki sorunun ekonomik değil siyasal olduğunu savundu

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Kürtler ve AKP: Çatışma mı uzlaşma mı?

Cevdet Aşkın Hakurk'a hava harekâtı, Türkiye'nin en 'sıcak' yazı

Mehmet Metiner GAP eylem planı

PKK'da liderlik savaşı: 8 ölü

The Specter of Mustafa Barzani on Kirkuk

Türk DTP’de genel başkanlığa soyundu

PKK ile DHKP- C kavgası

AK Party deputies mulling visit to northern Iraq

Opposition to Article 140 grows
Kurdish Globe

Operasyon bitti açıklama geldi

Baykal Güneydoğu çıkarmasına hazırlanıyor

Hakurk'a havadan bomba yağdırıldı

Ayna: Paket açmakla Amed fethedilemez

Mayın molası

Kürtçe yayın Meclis'ten geçti

TRT’den 24 saat Kürtçe yayın imkanı

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL

Türkiye iki büyük savaşı engelledi!

Şemdinli'de Alay Komutanlığı'na taciz ateşi

Jet fighters hit 16 PKK targets in N. Iraq

Nasuhi Güngör Lübnan ve Kürt sorunu

Iraqi Vice-president Visits Turkey's Mosul Consul General

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

Turkey in the EU - What the public thinks

L'Express: Türkiye'nin sessizliği, Paris'i kaygılandırıyor

AP'li Sosyalistlerden Doğu Ortaklığı'na Türkiye şartı

[HABER ANALİZ] Rusya-Türkiye ilişkilerini tehdit eden köpekbalıkları

Turkish and Greek top generals discuss CBM

Zeynel Lüle CHP'nin AB bayrağı

Savaş Süzal Babacan Washington'da rekor kıracak

[Haber İzlenim] Çift şapkanın faydaları

ABD, Aşkabat-Bakü diyaloğundan memnun

AFPA new take on the Green Line
Economist The two halves of Aphrodite’s island remain at loggerheads

Faruk Şen 15'inci yılında Solingen

Patrik hasta ama görev devri yok

Rumlar da Ermeni anıtı açtı

Sözünüzü tutun lütuf istemiyoruz

Ege’de tarihi isbirliği

Turkey Calls for Good Behaviour From France By: Elitsa Vucheva | EU Observer Ankara has said that the reluctance of some member states to clearly say that it can one day be a full member of the EU is having a negative impact on the bloc's image in the country – a comment directed at Turkey-hostile France

Durmuş Hocaoğlu AB Sevdâsına Neler Oluyor?: 3

'Kıbrıslı Liderlerin Tutumu Cesaret Verici'

Prime minister to visit Nakhcevan

Embassy denies Sarkozy opposes Turkey because it’s Muslim

Erdoğan: NGOs should be more active in Europe

Ermeni cemaatine vekil patrik

Akçam'a 'Soykırım Kürsüsü'nde görev

Greek Cyprus parties evaluate leaders' meeting

Turkish historian to study genocide
Boston Globe

Turkey reiterates efforts on Nabucco

UN official confident of progress in Cyprus peace talks

Cyprus to hold exercise with Greece, France despite Turkish ...

"THREE GENOCIDES AND ONE GENERAL STRATEGY"
AZG Armenian

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

Global education turns Turkish teachers into world citizens

Yassıada'da neler yaşandı?

Beni Ömer Şerif'in gençliğine benzettiler

Diyanet'ten sorumlu bakandan flörte destek geldi

Yüksek Mahkeme ‘mektupla oy’u iptal etti

Tuncay mahkemelik oldu(VİDEO)

Telekulağa karşı nasıl önlem alınır?

Tatlıses'e ağır suçlama

Turks join heavyweight division

57 polis hakında soruşturma başladı

Hüngür hüngür ağladı

30 Mayıs 2008 Basın Özeti

H3 Açık çek, buyrun komisyon kuralım

Beş bin kişi resmen dinliyor

F-Tipi kulak tartışması

Emniyet ‘dinlemeyi’ kendi içinde aramayacak

Kayıtta olma korkusu...

Çetelerden dinlemelere bir korku cumhuriyeti

'Aranan Böcek Önder Sav'ın telefonu' çıktı

Önder Sav tartışılan görüşmeyi NTV’ye anlattı

AKP’den telekulak önergesi

Sav, Baykal'a da demediğini bırakmamış!

'Birlikte araştıralım'

Dinlenme iddiası psikolojik harbe dönüştürülüyor

Hükümetten CHP'ye hodri meydan: İddiaları araştırmak için ortak komisyon kuralım

Sav'dan suç duyurusu

Başsavcı ek delil sunabilir

Vakit: Açık telefondan dinledik

Emniyete göre hattı açık kaldı

CHPdeki telekulakı da Polatkan soruşturacak

Bahçeli: Meclis araştırsın

CHP'den, dinlemeyi araştıracak komisyona ret

Ergenekon haberlerine 472 soruşturma açıldı

Dinlemeye karşı ‘siyasi’ formüller

Ergenekon’un finansman kaynakları da çözülüyor

Hedef saptırıp delil karartıyorlar

AKP’nin fikri namusuna bağlı

Şimdi de Babacan krizi

Şerif Mardin ne demek istedi?

CHP dinlenmeyi önleyen cihaz alacak

Baki Tuğ’a suikast son anda önlendi

Ülke çimentosu çatladı, yeniden karmak lazım

Sav'ın, inancı aşağılayan sözleri karikatür krizi gibi

Yüksek yargı mensupları Hacıbektaş'ı ziyaret edecek

Baki Tuğ'a suikast girişimini MİT önledi

Yassıada'da paşayı eşek yapıp sırtına bindiler! Çocuklarımız askere kızmasın diye işkenceleri anlatmadık!

Son Dakika Milliyet Hürriyet Zaman

Cengiz Çandar Beyrut'tan Brüksel'e Tuna'dan Baltık'a

Ahmet TaşgetirenAtatürk nerede öldü?

Ruşen - Çakır

İstihbarat servislerinde denetim ve hesap verme

CEVAT ÖNEŞ

Taha Akyol ‘Kulak’ için komisyon

Fikret Bila Önder Sav: Ben abdestimden eminim

Hasan Cemal Gizli Kulak, kulağından tutulup sergilenmeli!

Murat Yetkin Araştırmaya gerek yok, biz dinlemedik

İsmet Berkan Bu leke temizlenmeli!

Dolmabahçe konuşması (2)
MEHMET ALİ KIŞLALI

Fehmi Koru Dinleniyor muyuz? Kim dinliyor?

Taha Kıvanç Ülkemize de bekleriz

Hüseyin Gülerce CHP'yi sahi kim dinliyor?

Şamil Tayyar Her gördüğün pijamalıyı baban sanma

Emin Pazarcı Türkiye’yi sarsan gazeteci konuştu

Serdar Turgut Devlette çürüme

Ekrem Dumanlı Böcek, aslında bazılarının kafasında ve kalbinde

Mustafa Ünal Türkiye bu ayıpla yaşamamalı

İhsan Dağı AK Parti'nin kapatılması neden milli güvenlik meselesidir?

Mümtazer Türköne 27 Mayıs, hangi ordunun eseri?

Ali Bayramoğlu İstihbarat savaşları, itibarsızlaştırma ve kriz…

TAMER KORKMAZ

“Telekulak Sav'ları” nelerin üzerini örttü?

Güler Kömürcü
Bâcıyân-ı Rûm ve Tomris Kaan aranıyor

Yasemin Çongar İdeolojik bilim, ideolojik yargı, ideolojik sol...

Ertuğrul Özkök Böyle bir iftira görülmedi

Ahmet Hakan Her şeyin bedeli var

M Ali Birand AKP mi, yoksa biz mi sorumluyuz ?

Paranoyaklar Ülkesinde Dinleme Tulûatı HASAN CELAL GÜZEL

Mustafa Karaalioğlu Buradan başlayalım

Aydın Ayaydın

Baykal: Ortak komisyon önerisi kamuoyunu oyalamaya yönelik

Onur Kumbaracıbaşı

AKP’nin gerginlik ve kriz stratejisi

Nuray Başaran Hukukçu olmayan mahkeme üyeleri kapatma davasına bakmamalı

Some Muslims are too conservative. So what?
Mustafa AKYOL

Güneri Civaoğlu Olur böyle vakalar

Güngör MengiBabacan’a pes!

‘Babacan’ın Türkiye’yi şikayet etmesi vahim’

Sabahatin Önkibar Devletini aşağılayan Babacan'ın sözleri kapatılma davasına delildir!

Gülay Göktürk “Türkiye’yi kötülemek”

Cüneyt Ülsever

Enis Berberoğlu

Hurşit Güneş Gordon Brown ile Tayyip Erdoğan farkı

Oktay Ekşi Babacan’ın şikáyeti

Özdemir İnce

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Müslümanların dini özgürlüğü yokmuş!

Bülent Keneş Wiretapping and slandering

Ali Bulaç Islam and modernity

Etyen Mahçupyan A pleasant coup story

İbrahim Kalın A new global power structure rising?

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Observasyon* komisyonu...

ERDAL ŞAFAK Flört ve parfüm

ENGİN ARDIÇ Fetih kutlamaya gerek var mı?

ERGUN BABAHAN Telefonun öbür ucunda kim var?

EMRE AKÖZ Telekulak müsameresinde rol paylaşımı

Umur Talu Sistemli keneleşme!

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Kürtler ve AKP: Çatışma mı uzlaşma mı?

NAZLI ILICAK Kimin kulağı Önder Sav'ı dinledi?

MEHMET BARLAS Kartel medyası dönemine özlem duyanlar gerçekleri görmelidir

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Van, Başbakan Erdoğan'dan ne bekliyor?

YAVUZ DONAT Deniz Baykal: "İşin tadı kaçtı"

Oray Eğin
AKP için Sezen Aksu şifresi

Nagehan Alçı
Milliyetçiliğin son 20 yılı

Serdar Akinan
Hıyanet-i vataniye

Eser Karakaş Ulusalcıların sefaleti

Ahmet Kekeç Devletin valisi Önder Sav’ın özel ulağı mı?

Mehmet Altan Tekme, tokat, yumruk...

YASİN DOĞAN Gündem saptırma girişmeleri

Ece Temelkuran ‘İyi, güzel, doğru’: Çarşı!

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Sınırlama taksitleri vurur

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam

Hasan Ersel GAP Eylem Planı'nın anımsattıkları

Explore Turkey's Economy This Weekend With BLOOMBERG TV

Güngör Uras Kredi kartında sorun ‘ödeyememe’

İBRAHİM KAHVECİ

Hesap ödeme zamanı geldi!

Risk algılaması arttı, yatırımcı dövize kaydı

H4 New York Times DAVID BROOKS The Reality Situation We don’t understand the Iranians because the Iranians don’t understand themselves. Until they resolve their internal ambiguity, they won’t be able to make a strategic shift.

Help Russia Help Us By RICHARD LUGAR and SAM NUNN The priority of our national security policy must be to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction. This task is impossible without the cooperation of Russia.

Best Is the New Worst By SUSAN JACOBY The word “elite,” once an accolade, has turned poisonous in American public life, as both the left and the right have twisted it into a code word meaning “not one of us.”

The Energy Challenge Mounting Costs Slow the Push for Clean Coal Despite support, plans to take the carbon dioxide that spews from coal-burning power plants and pump it back into the ground have hit roadblocks.

U.S. Withdraws Fulbright Grants to Gaza The American State Department has withdrawn all Fulbright grants to Palestinian students in Gaza, because Israel has not granted them permission to leave.

Taste of Senate Set Capt. McCain on a New Path In John McCain’s quick transition from prisoner of war to politician, a turning point was the year 1981, when he turned down an admiral’s star to make a run for Congress.

Editorial Sticker Shock and Awe at the Pentagon Congress should be willing to spend a little more to find out how much of the taxpayers’ dollars are being wasted in the Pentagon’s budget.

H5 Washington Post U.S. Cites Big Gains Against Al-Qaeda Group Is Facing Setbacks Globally, CIA Chief Says

Food Prices Predicted to Ease Before Entering Steady Climb Biofuels and Development Among Contributors

Israel's Olmert Loses Key Support Minister Urges Party To Prepare for Change

Carbon Chastity The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment By Charles Krauthammer

Letting Cap-and-Trade Work How Free Credits Increase the Cost of Cutting Carbon Emissions

By Max Epstein

'Look What They've Done to Her'

By E. J. Dionne Jr Anger from women at Hillary's treatment.

McClellan Says Book's Tone Evolved Aide-Turned-Critic Tells of Growing Disillusionment With Bush Administration

Analysis For Future White House Aides, Required Reading By Dan Balz

Campaign Jousting Returns to Iraq War McCain, Obama Trade Attacks

The Libertarian Jesus By Michael Gerson, Just as Jesus the leftist revolutionary is a distortion, so is Jesus the libertarian.

Editorial Let Them Eat Frogs Burma's junta is willing to let its people starve while relief waits just offshore

Rice Says Policy on N. Korea Is A Team Effort

H6 Guardian The road to peace in Iraq runs directly through Tehran

Jonathan Steele: Hysteria over this week's arms report is misplaced, and US attempts to cast Iran as the villain of the region can only backfire

Once, 'international' sounded saintly. Now it means bureaucracy and waste Simon Jenkins: From Eurovision and the Olympics to the UN and the World Bank, a deficit of accountability drains all true legitimacy

Time to focus on Pakistan Colin Cookman: US intelligence officials agree al-Qaida has found a safe haven in Pakistan, yet US politicians remain preoccupied with Iraq and Iran

McCain makes his multilateral mark Simon Tisdall US elections 08: The Arizona senator's belief in international citizenship makes him a partner for those seeking a common global security policy

Atomic scientist disowns confession Disgraced 76-year-old says Pakistan admission was forced upon him by President Pervez Musharraf Interview: Why should I talk to the IAEA?

Olmert's bitter harvest Daphna Baram Even those who believe he can bring peace have abandoned him. It's time for the Israeli prime minister to resign

Voices from the right Sholto Byrnes A new magazine has set out to defend western civilisation and liberal values - and it's claiming them for the right

The hot-air harvest Aditya Chakrabortty How the food crisis and the $130 barrel killed off the myth of the weightless economy

China: handle with care Hari Kunzru: Beijing's human rights record does need to be challenged - but, given the strength of nationalist feeling, we have to be careful about how

The future is now Brian Beutler May 29 08, 06:30pm: A new report from the US government gives a surprisingly blunt assessment of how climate change is harming the environment

Tutu calls for end to blockade of Gaza Nobel laureate sent by UN Human Rights Council to investigate deaths of 18 Palestinians

Confidence in the UK's economy evaporates Biggest slump in consumer confidence since the onset of the last UK recession in autumn 1990

Time to talk to al-Qaida, Orde urges Britain should negotiate with leaders of al-Qaida to end its violent campaign, says senior police chief

Obama sets sights on finishing line

Democratic frontrunner hopes party showdown with Clinton and final primaries will gain him nomination

Blair launches inter-faith foundation Ex-PM declares he wants to devote his life to promoting understanding between the world's religions

More meat, more trouble Global food crisis: Rising demand for meat in China is destabilising world food prices

Sticking Bush to McCain Tony Munter US elections 2008: Obama's best strategy is to link his Republican rival to the failings of the current president

Bishop's move Leader: The editors of the new rightwing political magazine Standpoint knew they were on to a winner when they commissioned the Bishop of Rochester to write for their first edition

H7

Pipline Politics: Iran Looks to Send Natural Gas East By: Peter Kiernan | World Politics Review
Iran's huge natural gas reserves are getting greater attention from Asian energy-consuming nations, and this poses a dilemma for the American strategy to economically isolate Iran as part of a larger effort to pressure Tehran to cease its nuclear activities

Cheap Dollar Means Expensive Oil By: David King | The Moscow Times
Back in December 2002, one dollar equaled one euro. But that exchange rate didn't last. The dollar was on its way down, a trend that had started more than a year earlier, and has lasted, with occasional oscillations, to this day.

BBC Long era of cheap food over

Q&A: Rising food prices

Lord Chris Patten writes that countries whose sole policy for dealing with the world's problems is to blame Bush and Cheney fail to realize that once the current U.S. administration leaves office, pressing economic and environmental problems will still need solutions.

U.S. Is Unwise to Deny Iran's Key Role in the Gulf By: Ethan Chorin | Financial Times
In spite of $79bn (€50bn, £40bn) in foreign exchange reserves and revenues from $100-plus oil, Iran’s economy is slowing, not accelerating. The resource windfall masks a creaking infrastructure, a bloated public sector, astronomical unemployment and double-digit inflation, all within an environment of pervasive corruption

An Open Source Center Look at Iranian Schoolbooks “Iranian Textbooks: Content and Context,” SAIC Research Report, 31 December 2007.

Daily Star Lebanon needs a Cabinet, not a new forum for reckless rhetoric

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

Iraq 'stepping back from abyss' UN chief Ban Ki-moon praises progress in Iraq at a UN forum, while Iraq's PM calls for debt relief from Arab states.

Syrian Mufti Says Damascus Wants Dialogue With West, Peace With Israel

Iran Paper Analyzes Motives Behind "Package Diplomacy"

The Economist Lebanon The prospect of a wider peace If Lebanon's latest deal holds, why not bring in Syria and Israel?

Iran Smoke and mirrors The world must once again ratchet up its efforts to stop Iran from enriching uranium

Little action on Iraq debt relief at conference

Iran Should Have Cut Ties With UK, Not US - Politician

Missile-Related Shipment to Syria Stopped, U.S. Says

Militancy, hedonism coexist in duality of Lebanon

`China Should Be More Involved in Mideast Issues'

Iraq's appeals stir little Arab response

Foreigners in fear
Risk of abduction puts the brakes on Iraq's reconstruction

Larijani's rise
Iran's new parliament speaker is seen a rival to Ahmadinejad

H9 Ha’aretz Peres: If Assad wants peace, he should come to Jerusalem

Britain looked to Israel for lessons in military deception Newly released documents show U.K. military studied IDF techniques of complex, intertwined deceptions

Fischer High noon in the Middle East A hitherto latent rivalry between Iran and Israel has been transformed into an open struggle for dominance in the Middle East

Jonathan Spyer: Iran and their friends are winningThe revelation of negotiations with Syria last week came wrapped in the packaging of a diplomatic breakthrough

Playing poker with Nasrallah

Shimon Peres' blog: 28 thoughts on politics, power and wisdom

Source: Messer evidence could help indict Olmert

PA Demanding U.S.-Led International Force after Peace Agreement

Alive or dead Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has remained in hiding for two years, for fear of ending up like his operations chief.

Senior advisor to presidential candidate: get used to nuclear Iran (WTR)

Guest: "pro-Israel" groups hurt the American Jewish community

Poll: What political option is better for Israel?

On Iran Obama made a mistake. He knows it

Author of novel on Nazis: Israel uses Holocaust for political ends

Olmert's U.S. visit: Business as usual, or a farewell tour?

Barak: There will probably be elections this year

Jerusalem PostPM mulls Kadima primary as part of 'graceful exit' plan

Olmert, Mofaz hold cooperation talks

Transportation minister rumored to be seeking PM's support in an eventual leadership race against Livni

A choice between Geneva and Hamas [ DAVID KIMCHE

Peace could be our strategic asset

[ DANNY ROTHSCHILD

In Washington: There Are No Dangers in Diplomacy By: M.J. Rosenberg | The Jerusalem Post
Last week's agreement between the Lebanese government and Hizbullah clearly puts the Shi'ite organization on top. Hizbullah rules. The only reason it has not taken formal control of Lebanon is that it chooses not to

Yedioth Ahronoth Livni leads Kadima poll
Survey conducted among 62,000 of Kadima members shows 39% will vote for foreign minister in future primary elections for party's leadership. Mofaz supported by 25% of respondents; Dichter and Sheetrit far behind

Beware suicidal regimes History shows that Iran may pursue nuke program despite paying lethal price

Close deal with Hizbullah Experience shows that Israel must finalize prisoner swap despite price

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

Olmert, McCain, Obama To Gather at Aipac Convention by Eli Lake

The Economist Israel The prime minister is tottering Is time finally up for Israel's Ehud Olmert?

The Palestinian economy It all depends on the politics A big investors' conference has created goodwill, but it won't reduce the Palestinian economy's reliance on aid and its need for a lasting peace

Pressure grows on Israel's Olmert The party of scandal-hit Israeli PM Ehud Olmert should prepare for possible polls, his foreign minister says.

Moving now to a discussion of Palestine's borders is a mistake
By Nabeel Kassis

Bahrain names Jewish US envoy The king of Bahrain appoints a Jewish female legislator as the country's new envoy to the United States.

Hamas Leader Says in Nablus Time to Resume Inter-Palestinian Dialogue

Burden Is on Syria to Prove It Is Ready to Break from Past

LBJ's Newly Released Oval Office Recordings Disclose His Deep Feelings toward Israel (AP/International Herald Tribune)

U.S. Withdraws Fulbright Grants to Gaza

Deal Imminent between Israel and Hezbollah By: Ulrike Putz | Der Spiegel
Israel and Hezbollah are once again close to a deal that would bring two kidnapped Israeli soldiers back home. Details of the agreement, negotiated by a German middleman, indicate that the two might not still be alive

Palestinian Ambassador Expects Moscow Forum to Revive Mideast Process

H10 Christian Science Monitor US-Iran regional power plays shift Iran's 'axis of resistance' may seem ascendant, but new chances for peace could redefine game in US's favor.

A one-state solution for Palestinians and IsraelisIf the aim of the peace process is to resolve the conflict properly, then only this approach tackles the root of the problem. By Ghada Karmi

A critical mess over Iran Obama and McCain say Iran must not get the bomb. They should read a new UN report.

Rogue Sadr militias roam Baghdad

A Mahdi Army truce holds most of the Shiite cleric's forces in check. But some terrorize residents of Risala, a Baghdad neighborhood

Arab states still wary of investing in Iraq At a United Nations conference in Sweden Thursday, Iraq appealed for debt forgiveness to boost development.

Ex-spokesman McClellan sours on Bush in tell-all book The ex-aide describes the administration as engaging in a 'political propaganda campaign' to sell the Iraq war to the US public

After earthquake, China welcomes U.S. military As Defense Secretary Robert Gates heads to Singapore, the Pentagon sees a turnaround in the Chinese security forces.

Imports fall, improving U.S. trade balance The shift reflects consumer stress, but it could help boost US manufacturers.

Global cluster-bomb ban draws moral line in the sand Supporters of the treaty, to be unveiled in Dublin Friday, hope that it will pressure nonsignatories – including the US – to stop using the

Europe balks at $8 a gallon gas

Protests have rocked London, Paris, and other cities across the continent this week.

ASIA

From National Geographic, a special issue on China.

From NPQ, Francis Fukuyama on China, strong states and liberty.

From TLS, a review of books on China (and more).

Central Asia: Beijing Flexes Economic Muscle Across Region China, with billions of dollars invested in Central Asian resources, is making deals that regional leaders find hard to turn down. Beijing, indeed, has a clear strategy for Central Asia -- and it’s working

Can Charity Change China? By: Leslie Hook | The Wall Street Journal
The earthquake in Sichuan has transformed China in many ways. Abroad, China has switched from victimizer to victim. At home, Olympic excitement has been replaced by the sadness of death and destruction, and xenophobic anger has been exchanged for a new spirit of volunteerism.

China: Handle With Care By: Hari Kunzru | The Guardian
Beijing's human rights record does need to be challenged -- but, given the strength of nationalist feeling, we have to be careful about how.

From World Affairs, PJ O'Rourke on the Cleveland of Asia: A journey through China’s Rust Belt. Bryan Walsh reviews The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester (and more and more).

Prospect for Partnership in the Hindu Kush By: Ashley Bommer | The Japan Times
Controlling the Afghan-Pakistan border demands that both governments share a counterinsurgency policy that looks at Afghanistan and Pakistan together.

China Looks to Thaw Taiwan Ties Al Jazeera
China has invited Taiwan to restart talks suspended for more than a decade in a sign of a possible thaw in relations between the two sides.

`China Should Be More Involved in Mideast Issues'

Outside View: The new China Syndrome By HARLAN ULLMAN (UPI) -- Thirty or so years ago, the phrase "China Syndrome" was the battle cry of the more radical elements opposing nuclear power. Today, the disastrous earthquake in China's Sichuan province yields a newer meaning to that phrase.

Japanese Are Loath To Rebuild Workforce Through Immigration: Politicians Avoid Issue They See as Toxic

Indonesia Pulls Out of OPEC By: John Aglionby | Financial Times
Indonesia, Opec’s only Asia-Pacific member, on Wednesday quit the oil cartel, finally accepting its dramatic shift from an oil exporter to a consumer crippled by high prices

Dmitry Medvedev Looks Far Beyond an Energy Alliance With Astana By: Farkhad Sharip | Eurasia Daily Monitor
It appears that the two sides easily reached an accordance of views in signing the joint statement of bilateral cooperation and discussing a wide range of topics ranging from transport and communications to space technology development, the military partnership, interaction in Central Asia and within the UN, SCO and OSCE and, most importantly, energy policy

H11 IHT FALLING BEHIND

Globalization and its discontents

By HENRY A. KISSINGER The growing gap between the world's political and economic orders must be closed.

Social pain of rising fuel costs spreads in Europe This week, waves of protest broke out across the continent, as irate port workers clashed with riot police in Marseilles and banner-wielding truckers shut down traffic in London.

Balkans are no longer a hotbed of crime, UN report says The region has become one of the safest areas in Europe, but organized crime continues to pose a serious challenge.

Health care: Change it or tear it down?People in the United States and Western Europe are broadly dissatisfied with their health care systems, a survey shows, with Americans even more upset than Europeans.

IMMIGRATION IN EUROPE

A manageable burden? EU governments need to start dealing with the problem of illegal immigration in logical ways.

Another chance to limit global warming By supporting a bill that seeks aggressively to reduce greenhouse gases, the U.S. Senate can help usher in a new era of American leadership.

EUROPE European press review

CRS “German Foreign and Security Policy: Trends and Transatlantic Implications,” updated April 29, 2008.

U.S. Rebuilds French Connection By: Gordon Lubold | The Christian Science Monitor Pentagon insiders call it "the Sarkozy moment" – an opportunity to rebuild a relationship with the French government and military made possible by the election last year of Nicolas Sarkozy as French president.

 

The Economist Ukraine's government A political soap-opera, continued

The European Union and Russia

Uneasy partnership

Germany's president A swansong for the coalition

Kosovo's future Divided rule

France and its Muslims The graveyard shift

The Islamic headscarf in Denmark

Covering up

Charlemagne A woman's place?

Walker's World: Could Ireland vote 'No'? By MARTIN WALKER (UPI) -- Ireland's referendum vote on the new European Treaty is looking dangerously close.

Fall From President's Circle Can Be Steep The family members and relatives-by-marriage of Central Asian presidents often rise swiftly to power and wealth. Often, just as quickly, they fall in disgrace -- sometimes forced into exile, if not murdered.

Analysis: Are UN, EU Part Of The Problem In Kosovo?

Analysis: Are Kosovar Serbs, UN On Collision Course?

The New 'Frozen Conflict'

The European Union has delayed the deployment of its mission to Kosovo, casting the future stability of the newly independent country into doubt.

H12 RFE/RLCentral Asia: Beijing Flexes Economic Muscle Across Region

China: Afghan Investment Reveals Larger Strategy

EurasiaNet Azerbaijan Sees Positive Signs for Energy Partnership with Turkmenistan Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has recently stepped up his ongoing campaign to promote Azerbaijan as the key to Europe’s energy security at a recent energy summit in Kyiv. But this is a role in which Baku needs a supporting actor. Azerbaijani experts believe that the Aliyev administration now has agreements with Turkmenistan to play that part.

Army suicides cause Russia alarm A total of 341 Russian military suicides in 2007 is worrying, says the country's chief military prosecutor.

EDM TRANSIT SPACE CONCEPT LAUNCHED AT KYIV ENERGY SUMMIT


- MEDVEDEV CONTINUES HARD LINE ON MISSILE DEFENSE

- UKRAINIAN PROSECUTORS TARGET SELF-DEFENSE LEADERS

Google News Azerbaijan

Beware of the WTO By: Felix Goryunov | The Moscow Times
Russia's 15-year flirtation with the World Trade Organization intensified this week as multilateral consultations on accession resumed in Geneva.

H13 The Times Iran will be first test for the new president

How to respond to Iran’s nuclear ambitions looks like being the first difficult decision facing the next president of the United States

Bronwen Maddox

Britain, the new banana republic

Economic crises... unelected cabals kicking out the Prime Minister: the signs are all there

Gerard Baker

Rioting farmers besiege Delhi Members of one of the lowest social classes caused chaos in Delhi in a bid to gain access to jobs allocated to others

Obama says battle with McCain starts next week Speaker of the House puts pressure on Hillary Clinton to pull out as election battle with Republican John McCain begins

Blair sells religion as force for good The former British Prime Minister says his Faith Foundation will focus on developing understanding between faiths

France gives Putin a presidential welcome A rare gesture from the Élysée Palace allowed the former Russian president to upstage his successor, Dmitri Medvedev

Tzipi Livni breaks ranks over Ehud Olmert Israeli Foreign Minister says ruling party must prepare to replace Ehud Olmert, who is being investigated for corruption

Hostages: a year in captivity

It is time to speak out on the plight of Britain's hostages in Iraq

Cruel fuel The age of cheap air travel is over

Wall Street Journal General McClellan's War
Iraq, and the real lessons of the press secretary's memoir.

But Is It True?By Peggy Noonan
Declarations:
Scott McClellan isn't admirable, but he is believable.

The President Has Kept Us Safe
By Thane Rosenbaum
It's preposterous to think Bush policy has nothing to do with why we haven't been attacked again.

In Defense of Lobbyists

By Tom C. Korologos
The right to 'petition the government' is critical to our democracy.

McCain Should Run Against Congress By Kimberley A. Strassel Potomac Watch: Neither Democrats nor Republicans should be spared.

BP, Russian Partners in Standoff

BP's partners in Russian oil venture TNK-BP sought the ouster of the unit's British CEO, but the U.K. energy company refused. The escalating dispute could shape BP's future and the role of foreign companies in Russia under its new president.

The Spokesman Decides to Speak

By Kimberley A. Strassel
Bookshelf:
The innocent did learn a thing or two in Washington. His bitter account is tailor-made to stir a media frenzy.

Dear President Medvedev

By Tatyana Morozov
And Alyona Morozov

Our mother and neighbors were sacrificed to start a war in Chechnya.

Italy's Nuclear Job

By Henry Sokolski
Europe should let the market decide what the best energy investment is.

H14 Financial Times Uncomfortable truths for a new world of them and us The politics of globalisation lags ever further behind the economics, writes Philip Stephens. For all its tacit recognition that power has been flowing eastwards, the west still wants to imagine things as they used to be - when financial crises were something that happened somewhere else

Iran on track for nuclear milestone

The country has made big strides in recent months and is on course to pass an important threshold for nuclear weapons capability next year, scientists and analysts say

A 10-point plan for tackling the food crisis Robert Zoellick looks at how best to help those in danger

France hoping to broker EU deal with Russia France hopes the European Union can reach a deal with Russia on a new strategic partnership by the end of 2008, the French prime minister said after talks with Vladimir Putin

It’s curtains for Olmert The latest corruption probe is another vivid enaction of how difficult it has become to govern an Israel whose fragmented politics are in danger of turning into a spoils system

Britain is better off outside the euro

Martin Wolf looks at the case against joining If a country is to join the eurozone, its people must be willing to cope with the consequences forever, writes Martin Wolf

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: 'Dwarfs' of Europe band together to form substantial geopolitical force

Ahmadi-Nejad’s right-hand man

Mojtaba Samareh-Hashemi rejects the view put forward by analysts and opponents of Iran’s fundamentalist government that he is the éminence grise of the president Interview transcript: Mojtaba Samareh-Hashemi

US to woo Gulf investors Hank Paulson, the US Treasury secretary, will invite oil producers to invest their petrodollars in the US while urging them to take steps to curb the price of oil in the medium term on a tour of the Gulf that begins

America cannot afford to drive away talent Overseas students are vital for the US, says Bob Greifeld Many companies rely on inventors, scientists, engineers and academics who are foreign-born but trained in America, writes Bob Greifeld

WORLD NEWS: McCain steps up Iraq criticism of Obama

Livni holds back over Olmert future

Israel’s foreign minister has made little secret of her ambition to become prime minister and the incumbent now appears to be on his way out

Iraq calls for debt cancellation Senior members of Iraq’s government have stepped up calls for Arab neighbours to cancel over $60bn in debts run up during the rule of Saddam Hussein to speed up the economic development of the country

US trade balance boosts GDP A narrower US trade deficit helped the economy grow at a 0.9 per cent annual rate in the first three months of this year according to preliminary government data

US army suicide cases at record 115

The number of US soldiers who committed suicide rose to a record 115 in 2007 as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan place an increasing strain on the military, the US army said

Oil price surge hits US growth outlook The surge in the price of oil is putting further pressure on an already weak US growth outlook even as it also fuels inflation

Futures watchdog investigates oil market US regulators revealed a wide-ranging investigation into crude oil trading practices amid increasing Congressional concern over the role of speculators in record energy prices

Who rates the ratings agencies?

Straightforward regulation would not work. It would be far better to open up the methodology behind ratings to wider scrutiny, debate and understanding

China embarks on quake diplomacy

Sichuan has provided an opportunity to re-evaluate many aspects of society and is helping exorcise wartime ghosts. Some good can come of this tragedy yet

Balkans ‘safer’ than west Europe

Both conventional and organized crime rates in the Balkans are falling, contradicting the region’s stereotype as a gangster’s paradise, says a United Nations report

Time for Germany to lower its payroll taxes It’s the right policy, says Holger Schmieding

EU weighs price of Irish No vote on treaty Another rejection of the Lisbon treaty is something too dreadful to contemplate in Brussels and most of the member states, writes Quentin Peel

D Telekom raided over spying allegation Prosecutors raided the Bonn headquarters of Deutsche Telekom as part of a probe into possible criminal actions by former executives during an alleged spying campaign targeting directors and journalists three years ago

Crude politics: policy changes and protests Interactive map: How government policies are changing as the rising cost of oil forces leaders to reconsider their approach to subsidies and taxation

A door ajar: Will international aid bring a better future for Burma?

WORLD NEWS: Bush supporters denounce former press chief's memoirs

H15 Los Angeles Times

Editorial

Hillary isn't every woman

Rosa Brooks: It's wrong to assume that women share a unified set of political views and should automatically favor female political candidates

The brain on autopilot

By Russell Beckley

The primitive mind isn't all bad, and sometimes it's essential

H16 American Politics

Gallup Daily: Obama Back Up By Double-Digits

Pew Research Center: McCain's Negatives Mostly Political, Obama's More Personal

Fox News founder Murdoch predicts landslide win for Obama

Economy grew faster than believed, but remains troubled

Obama prepares to declare victory after Tuesday primaries

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

Time Don't Link Obama to Former Radicals
Obama's rivals are wrong to link him with the former radicals he has befriended--even if they are despicable

How Pelosi tends a more divergent flock House speaker's skills are being tested by Democrats' greater ideological diversity – a challenge that will intensify if the party picks up more seats in November.

America's suburbs An age of transformation

Abe Greenwald / Commentary:

Pelosi Credits Iran's “Goodwill” for Surge Success

Is Pentagon pushing for 9/11 trial during presidential campaign?

From ARPA, a review of Why is There No Labor Party in the United States? by Robin Archer; and a review of Religion in American Politics: A Short History by Frank Lambert.

H17 Daily Telegraph Israel massacred Palestinians, says Tutu Apartheid struggle leader Desmond Tutu completed his Gaza mission describing Israel's killing of 18 Palestinians as massacre

War never going to be politically correct Britain's decision to ban the use of cluster bombs will only endanger our troops on active service, writes Con Coughlin

Progress or lip service? Have the catastrophe in Sichuan and the imminence of the Beijing Olympics persuaded China to moderate its xenophobia?

Obama is winner in European poll World prefers him above John McCain

Worst Labour showing since polling began Gordon Brown's personal rating among voters is now the same as John Major's at his lowest point, a Telegraph survey finds

H18 Independent The last Briton in Guantanamo faces death penalty

A British resident who is facing the death penalty in Guantanamo Bay has made a final desperate plea to Gordon Brown to end his six-year ordeal and bring him home today.

McClellan says first loyalty is to truth as he defends Bush book

Declaring that "loyalty to the truth" was more important than his affection for President George Bush, the softly-spoken former White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, took to the airwaves yesterday to defend his bombshell new book.

Secrets and lies Inside George Bush's White House

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

an interview with Justin Boland on Fifth Generation Warfare

CRS “National Security Strategy: Legislative Mandates, Execution to Date, and Considerations for Congress,” May 28, 2008.

“The Army’s Future Combat System (FCS): Background and Issues for Congress,” updated May 12, 2008.

“American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics,” updated May 14, 2008.

Victor Davis Hanson: Interviewed about the greatest books on war via HNN

Pentagon Wants Laser Attack Warnings for Satellites By: Paul Marks | New Scientist The Pentagon is developing sensors to pinpoint a ground-based laser attempting to blind one of its spy satellites. The move will be interpreted as a further step towards the militarisation of space, say some experts

ForaTv Michael Scheuer on Missed Chances to Get Bin Laden

Intelligence agencies in turf war

Malaysia: A report from the Rand Corporation looks at Malaysia's counterinsurgency strategy against Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand.

Army Suicide Event Report 2007 (PDF; 4.1 MB)
Source: Suicide Risk Management & Surveillance Office, Army Behavioral Health Technology Office (via McClatchy Newspapers)
From related story:

GI Suicides Near Two-Decade High

When Talking With Terrorists Makes Sense By: Paul Staniland | The Christian Science Monitor
While many politicians are willing to engage with "rogue states" such as Iran and North Korea, they draw the line at terrorists, who are seen as intrinsically ruthless and radical. That's why "I will not negotiate with terrorists" is a refrain heard across the political spectrum -- and why Jimmy Carter took such flak recently for visiting with Hamas

Pentagon Asks Congress for Authority to Transfer War Funds

$152 Billion in Defense Spending Unchecked

Pentagon Intelligence Oversight Falls Short

Ultimate Fighting Recruits Military to Its Ranks The military has embraced mixed martial arts fighting to help build moral, aid in recruiting and as a training aid to enhance the skills of soldiers.

H20 Slate

Food Crisis: In an interview posted on the Peterson Institute's website, Arvind Subramanian discusses Asian policy responses to the food crisis (PDF) and how export restrictions affect inflationary pressures.

Air Travelers Avoided 41 Million Trips in Past Year – U.S. Economy Takes $26.5 Billion Hit

H21 The charges against video games – that they stunt minds and spark addiction – are based on ignorance of what gamers do when they sit down to play... more»

what does the exchange of a gift mean to the giver and the recipient? Is altruism a myth?

Was WWII worth fighting? Get the facts and make up your own mind! No need for experts! This book tells all you need to know!... more»

The chasm between the humanities and the sciences can be bridged with a new kind of thinking that uses the strengths of both disciplines... more»

U.S. foreign policy in expansive, idealistic, and militarist mode has done well: defeats of Nazism, Japanese imperialism, and Soviet communism, for instance... more»

From Editor & Publisher, is it the end of the newsroom as we know it?

Stonehenge yields one of its secrets

New radiocarbon dating shows that Stonhenge, the mysterious ancient monument in England, was a cemetery for at least five centuries.

The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It
Washington Post

Google Still Gung-ho on Book Search

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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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