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H1 The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek It's true China is booming, Russia is growing more assertive, terrorism is a threat. But if America is losing the ability to dictate to this new world, it has not lost the ability to lead

New York Times How to See This Mission Accomplished Nine experts on military affairs identified a significant challenge facing the American and Iraqi leadership and proposed one step to help overcome that challenge

Washington Post Iraq Says It Has Proof Of Iranian Meddling

Tehran Funneling Weapons, Officials Say

In Southern Iraq, an Upgrade for U.S. Facilities

Here's How America Looks to the World By Josef Joffe, When security is at stake, there is no limit to fear or fortification

An Enemy on the Run In Afghanistan, the Challenge Beyond al-Qaeda By David Ignatius, It's losing ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now on to Pakistan.

War of the Rockets By Jackson Diehl, No defense against Iran's missile-to-media attacks in Gaza and Sadr City.

Wright And Ridiculous By Sebastian Mallaby, It would be a travesty if Obama's campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher.

Taking Back The Frontier By Ahmed Rashid, Almost every global terrorist plot traces back to Pakistan's tribal areas.

Bush's Rescuers By Jim Hoagland, The Democrats and their pet policies are making the president look good.

TOP CLASS They're Global Citizens. They're Hugely Rich. And They Pull the Strings. By David Rothkopf, We didn't elect them. We can't throw them out. And they're getting more powerful every day.

Analysts Divided on Clinton's Arab Defense Plan

Georgian Planes Downed Over Breakaway Region

Food Politics The old ways no longer cut it.

NYT Hezbollah Trains Iraqis in Iran, Officials Say An American official said the account of Hezbollah’s role was provided by four Shiite militia members who were captured in Iraq late last year and questioned separately

Christian Science Monitor

Iraq increasingly finds itself caught between U.S. and Iran

The US military in Iraq says Iran continues to aid militants, but Iraqis now say that they want their own evidence.

Guardian Clinton accused over Iran rhetoric Democratic rivals level criticism at one another over foreign policy on competing television networks

Financial Times Europe has much to offer the US The European Union has a rare opportunity after the US elections to present to the White House a comprehensive offer of co-operation, writes Wolfgang Ischinger

Promoting healthy globalisation US international economic policy needs to focus on issues in which the largest number of Americans have the greatest stake, says Lawrence Summers

Clinton is the bigger gamble Are wavering Democrats right to be moving to Hillary Clinton? Would she be a more effective opponent against John McCain? I think not. The unelected super-delegates backing Mr Obama are doing what is best for the Democrats, even if they do not realise it, writes Clive Crook

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Mideast mediation needs new dynamic It is no good the Quartet just making the usual noises. The choice, for Israel and the US, has never been clearer: settlements or peace -

The Times US bolsters force in Afghanistan America plans to send 7,000 extra troops to combat a resurgent Taleban as other Nato members appear unwilling to contribute

Americans take up Great Game in Afghanistan Learning firepower alone is not enough to win over locals, troops have become tribal experts, linguists and aid workers

Wall Street Journal Iran Must Finally Pay a Price By Fouad Ajami
Why are the mullahs allowed to kill American soldiers with impunity?

H2 Erdoğan ‘We Are Not Rooted In Religion’ | Newsweek International Edition.

The Observer Mystery of a killer elite fuels unrest in Turkey Jason Burke

FT Turkey spending to rise ahead of new IMF deal Ankara said it was revising some key budget targets between 2008 and 2012 to release about YTL 17bn for investment in infrastructure and to boost agricultural production

NYT Turkish Schools Offer Pakistan a Gentler Islam Turkish educators are offering an alternative approach to religious schools that could reduce extremists’ influence Slide Show: Sowing Seeds of a Moderate Islam

Brookings Righting the Course: The Future of the U.S.-Turkish Relationship

Turkish Raid May Have Killed PKK Chief Karayilan, Hurriyet Says

PKK denies any fighters killed in Turk air strikes

IRAQ: The Kurds struggle; inside a tent city Los Angeles Times

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

More than 150 Kurdish rebels killed in Iraq raids: Turkish army

Kurds dispute toll in Turkey's airstrikes in Iraq

Neighbors at the Table
New York Times

Cevdet Aşkın

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

Turkey supports Macedonia's NATO membership

EBRD says Turkey has applied to be country of operation

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

H3

Milliyet Son Dakika

Cengiz Çandar

Ahmet Taşgetiren

Ruşen - Çakır

Taha Akyol

Fikret Bila

Hasan Cemal

Murat Yetkin

İsmet Berkan

Fehmi Koru

Taha Kıvanç

Şamil Tayyar

Ali Bayramoğlu

Yasemin Çongar

Ertuğrul Özkök

Ahmet Hakan

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt Ülsever

Enis Berberoğlu

Oktay Ekşi

Özdemir İnce

Mehmet Y Yılmaz

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERDAL ŞAFAK

ENGİN ARDIÇ

ERGUN BABAHAN

EMRE AKÖZ

Umur Talu

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK

MEHMET BARLAS

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

YAVUZ DONAT

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam

Turkey Cuts Budget Goals to Spend on Jobs and Dams (Update1)

Turkey cuts primary surplus target to 3.5 percent

Turkey's banking authority vetoes ABN Amro handover

WB loans $203 mln to Turkey's Cadastre Modernization

H5 Washington Post Iraq Says It Has Proof Of Iranian Meddling

Tehran Funneling Weapons, Officials Say

In Southern Iraq, an Upgrade for U.S. Facilities

Editorial Coming Clean on Torture

What Congress should do next

Here's How America Looks to the World By Josef Joffe, When security is at stake, there is no limit to fear or fortification

An Enemy on the Run In Afghanistan, the Challenge Beyond al-Qaeda By David Ignatius,

It's losing ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now on to Pakistan.

War of the Rockets By Jackson Diehl, No defense against Iran's missile-to-media attacks in Gaza and Sadr City.

Wright And Ridiculous By Sebastian Mallaby, It would be a travesty if Obama's campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher.

Taking Back The Frontier By Ahmed Rashid, Almost every global terrorist plot traces back to Pakistan's tribal areas.

Bush's Rescuers By Jim Hoagland, The Democrats and their pet policies are making the president look good.

TOP CLASS They're Global Citizens. They're Hugely Rich. And They Pull the Strings. By David Rothkopf, We didn't elect them. We can't throw them out. And they're getting more powerful every day.

Analysts Divided on Clinton's Arab Defense Plan

Clinton's Tough Path By David S. Broder, Here's how her camp sees her winning the nomination.

Georgian Planes Downed Over Breakaway Region

Food Politics The old ways no longer cut it.

The Truman Transformation

By George F. Will, There was a time when conservatives feared concentrations of unchecked power.

Dueling Appeals On Taxes From Obama, Clinton He Calls for More Rebates As She Defends Gas Proposal

The Heart Of A Conservative

The conservative icon wanted government out of the boardroom -- and the bedroom. Reviewed by Lou Cannon, FLYING HIGH Remembering Barry Goldwater By William F. Buckley Jr.

Conservative Camelot A liberal historian reconsiders Ronald Reagan's legacy. By Reviewed by Kevin Phillips, THE AGE OF REAGAN A History, 1974-2008 By Sean Wilentz

Why We Need a Shield Law

By Arlen Specter, Page A17

Protecting our free press protects the public more than the journalists.

The Facets Of Chinese Nationalism

By Yang Jianli, Olympic participation must be predicated on establishing minimum human rights standards

H6 Guardian Clinton accused over Iran rhetoric Democratic rivals level criticism at one another over foreign policy on competing television networks

We've been given a yellow card - Labour Brown takes blame for poll debacle and tells voters: I share your pain

The clunking fightback

Leader: Any alteration to the prime minister's approach to power will prove skin-deep. He is who he is

NY mayor flies in to give Boris advice

Tories see Michael Bloomberg's visit as confirming Boris Johnson's status and party's progress

Inspiring's fine, but Obama must master the daily grind Michael Tomasky: The Democratic frontrunner might have won already if he had confronted potential problems head-on

The Observer David Cameron's success brings his biggest challenge The voters have delivered a savage verdict on Gordon Brown, but the Tories will now be exposed to more searching scrutiny

Time to put an end to this age of cynicism and scorn

Henry Porter: The West is living through an age of plenty but voices of optimism and joy struggle to be heard

Feeble government lets the superclass soar over the rest of us Will Hutton: The superclass can only make the scale of money it does because of its capacity to do what it will with cash

Hillary's right turn

Michael Tomasky: US elections 2008: Clinton's condoning the use of right-wing tactics and talking points against her fellow Democrat is sickening

H7

The Australian:
Saudis' secret agenda

Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Secuurity
CRS

A review of The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East by Olivier Roy and The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State by Noah Feldman.

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

Rice links Israel-Syria peace push to Lebanon -paper

Militants fight daily to forestall Iraqi wall U.S. troops continued yesterday to battle Shi'ite extremists along a garbage-strewn stretch of road in Baghdad's Sadr City in an effort to protect the capital's Green Zone and choke off the militant influence of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia.

Biting hard
Egypt struggles to tackle growing food price crisis

'Justice denied'
Relatives fear for health of jailed Egypt Brotherhood leader

Iraqi first lady survives bombing

Bid to salvage Shia-Yemen truce
Mediators from Qatar try to salvage a truce between Shia rebels and the government in Yemen amid rising violence

H9 Ha’aretz –

Jerusalem Post

Yedioth Ahronoth

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

Rice sees Mid-East deal this year The US believes an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is possible by the year's end, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says.

Crunch time
US struggles to find a breakthrough in the Middle East

Growing hardship
Shortages of key supplies bite hard for people in Gaza

The Mideast Editing Wars By: Gershom Gorenberg | The American Prospect The hawkish pro-Israel group CAMERA's campaign to warp Wikipedia articles was ineffectual. But it's a warning not to trust the online encyclopedia -- and to be wary of partisan "accuracy" advocates in the Israeli-Palestinian Narrative War

Abbas despairs on foils to peace Aides to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that he is "depressed" by the lack of progress in negotiations with Israel and views President Bush's summit with Arab leaders this month as a crucial test for U.S.-brokered peace efforts.

Mid-East impasse

Condoleezza Rice frustrated by lack of progress

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Iraq increasingly finds itself caught between U.S. and Iran

The US military in Iraq says Iran continues to aid militants, but Iraqis now say that they want their own evidence.

Why U.S. job market has not plunged April saw only 20,000 jobs lost, and unemployment improved to 5 percent.

To be young and voting It looks as if the youth vote is set to increase again – a welcome sign of civic health.

Pakistan's 'Gandhi' party takes on Taliban, Al Qaeda The Awami National Party, which leads the ruling coalition in the crucial North West Frontier Province, espouses a nonviolent approach to tackling extremism.

ASIA

Pyongyang moonshine THE WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are coming under heavy fire from from one-time presidential loyalists over the administration's weak approach to North Korea.

H11 IHT After five years, mission sorely unaccomplished

The only mission that needs to be accomplished in Iraq is an orderly exit. President Bush is no closer to acknowledging that reality.

EUROPE European press review

Mardell's Europe
Boris victory signals major change in British-EU relations

Q&A: Serbia poll
The issues facing the country for its 11 May general election

Out in the cold
Danish writer struggles to publish new translation of Koran

H12 RFE/RL

Rebels 'hit two Georgian drones'

Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia says it has downed two unmanned spy planes - a claim denied by Tbilisi.

Georgia-Russia tension grow

Q&A: Russian-Georgian ties

Profile: Abkhazia

Google News Azerbaijan

A review of Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed by Anders Aslund.

The 3 Vladimirs By: Richard Lourie | The Moscow Times
It seems both timely and premature to assess President Vladimir Putin's eight years in office. Timely because he is coming to the end of his two-term presidency and premature because his likely upcoming stint as prime minister can do much to alter his legacy

Russia's dangerous decline

THE United Nations Population Fund projected last week that Russia's population will drop from 142 million today to 100 million in the next 40 to 50 years. The agency's report praised recent government efforts to increase birth rates and extend lives. But not enough is being done to counter stark demographic forces: an impending decrease in the number of women ... (Boston Globe)

The confounding legacy of Yeltsin A memorial to Boris Yeltsin was recently dedicated in a central spot in Russia's most illustrious cemetery, but many passersby do not know what to make of it.

Turkmen leader tries to end the personality cult of his predecessor
The leader of isolated, energy-rich Turkmenistan took further steps to dismantle the personality cult of his deceased predecessor, ordering the previous president's statue removed from the capital's downtown, the country's state media reported over the weekend

Abkhazia claims to have shot down two Georgian spy planes

H13 The Times US bolsters force in Afghanistan America plans to send 7,000 extra troops to combat a resurgent Taleban as other Nato members appear unwilling to contribute

Americans take up Great Game in Afghanistan Learning firepower alone is not enough to win over locals, troops have become tribal experts, linguists and aid workers

Obama: 'I share small-town workers' values' Illinois Senator fights to appeal to white small-town America as Clinton continues to gain blue-collar workers support

Rice: peace deal attainable this year US Secretary of State insisted today that a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians is still attainable this year

You’ve got a year, MPs tell Brown Ministers tell The Times that if Labour’s ratings do not improve in the coming year the PM's position will become untenable

And Now The Hard Part

Mayor Johnson's in-tray is daunting. It could also prove frustrating

Sunday Times United States is drawing up plans to strike on Iranian insurgency camp

Hillary Clinton clings on as ‘white flight’ begins to harm Barack Obama

Israel on high alert amid fears of potential 60th birthday terror

Mahdi Army fighters grateful for sand storm standstills in Sadr City

The awfully nice guys allowing US torture at Guantanamo Bay

An unrepentant view from inside the neocon bunker By Sarah Baxter

Wall Street Journal Iran Must Finally Pay a Price By Fouad Ajami
Why are the mullahs allowed to kill American soldiers with impunity?

A Reading List For Democrats
Gary Rosen Bookshelf: A voice from the left suggests a bracing dose of the Great Books.

Solving Asia's Food Crisis
By Haruhiko Kuroda
Focus on long-term solutions, not short-term fixes.

DECLARATIONS by Peggy Noonan Loyal to the Bitterness

H14 Financial Times Europe has much to offer the US The European Union has a rare opportunity after the US elections to present to the White House a comprehensive offer of co-operation, writes Wolfgang Ischinger

Promoting healthy globalisation US international economic policy needs to focus on issues in which the largest number of Americans have the greatest stake, says Lawrence Summers

Clinton is the bigger gamble Are wavering Democrats right to be moving to Hillary Clinton? Would she be a more effective opponent against John McCain? I think not. The unelected super-delegates backing Mr Obama are doing what is best for the Democrats, even if they do not realise it, writes Clive Crook

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Mideast mediation needs new dynamic It is no good the Quartet just making the usual noises. The choice, for Israel and the US, has never been clearer: settlements or peace -

Gideon Rachman’s blogFood prices, political unrest and Jeff Sachs: Jeffrey Sachs managed inadvertently to make me feel faintly guilty with a long riff about how world-weary cynicism is the soft option

Rice maintains heat on Israel over settlements The US secretary of state criticised Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank and raised concerns over roadblocks that restrict Palestinians’ ability to move freely

Greece plans sale to Deutsche Telekom Costas Karamanlis, the Greek prime minister, is this week set to approve the €2.5bn sale of a strategic stake in OTE, the public telecoms operator, to Deutsche Telekom, which would also take over management

US warns on blocks to foreign takeovers Rich countries risk stoking protectionism by blocking foreign takeovers on grounds other than national security, a senior White House official has warned

Clinton pledges probe into oil prices Hillary Clinton said she was convinced that energy companies were manipulating oil prices and vowed to launch an investigation if elected president

Religion drags race to the fore in US election Having bypassed ethnicity as an issue with voters, Barack Obama now finds that it is looming large

Warships guard Iraq’s economic lifeblood Vessels from from the US, UK and Australia, as well as a renascent Iraqi coastal force, protect up to 1.8m barrels of crude oil per day flowing into giant tankers in the Gulf

Oman to build two-year rice stockpile Oman is to buy 200,000 tons of rice, enough for a two-year stockpile, as the Gulf state seeks to ease the inflationary burden on its population

Arab wealth funds wait for smoke to clear After a flurry of investments in distressed international banks, Middle East policymakers have watched with concern as the credit squeeze has continued to claim more victims

GCC’s two difficult decisions Governments in the Gulf must strike the right balance between accumulating and spending the energy windfalls

Slow German growth sounds poverty alert More than 10m Germans could fall into poverty by 2020 because of insufficient economic growth, McKinsey, the consultancy, warned

Palestinian fiscal crisis averted by donation

Kuwait has given a firm commitment to immediately hand over $80m that will help plug a large gap in the Palestinian Authority’s finances in the second half of the year

Fascists and Jews united for Rome mayor Rome’s election last week of its first rightwing mayor since the time of Mussolini has been celebrated by fascists as a historic victory over the left

India’s battle with return of inflation

Indian governments have a poor record of implementing long-term policies that could benefit the economy. This one is no exception

London voters go blue for Boris

Labour will benefit from Tory failure in the capital. Ahead of a general election, it will need little excuse to blame the new mayor and make his job impossible -

Italy needs to focus on productivityWithout an improvement in productivity growth, I cannot see how Italy can prosper or reduce its public debt, says Wolfgang Münchau

China up against the Citi limits
Citi limits Beijing’s proliferating investment vehicles are adding to competition among sovereign wealth funds

Family in the News: The Rockefellers Long regarded as patrons of the arts and science, America’s foremost dynasty has turned its considerable attention to shareholder activism at ExxonMobil

H15 Los Angeles Times

Editorial

H16 American Politics

Rasmussen Reports:

Partisan Trends — Election 2008 Creating Record Number of Democrats

Zogby Poll: Obama Holding Lead in NC; Race Still Deadlocked in Indiana

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

Energy? Here's the drill

By Donald Lambro

The United States and the global economy will need a great deal more energy in the decades to come. It is said that within the next two decades we'll need about 40 percent more energy than we used in 2005.

H17 Daily Telegraph

Brown fights for his future as revolt grows Gordon Brown was facing a fight for his political future last night after Labour MPs lined up to attack his Government's policies and the style of his leadership

Obama tars Clinton with Bush brush Calls surging Clinton a Bush clone who threatens Iran.

Israeli ex-president seeks Syria peace

Barack Obama back on track

After Mr Obama's confident performance on television, it seems he has put the embarrassment caused by his former pastor behind him, and can become, once again, the "post-race" candidate.

The Boris formula can inspire the Tories

There is no question that the Tories are back. Labour is clinging to one hope: that now the spotlight of public interest is being beamed at the other side, the Conservatives will be unable to hide their flaws

H18 Independent Gordon Brown: Why I should stay in my job

Gordon Brown is mounting a final fight-back after Labour crashed to its worst electoral drubbing for a generation at the hands of the Tories and criticism intensified of his record as Prime Minister.

White working class vote still eludes Obama The final stretch into tomorrow's Democratic primary contests in Indiana and North Carolina was dominated by skirmishing between the candidates over a tax proposal to help working Americans fill their gas tanks.

Leading article: The Prime Minister must show us who he really is

Bruce Anderson: Boris Johnson is a libertarian, but he is not a Tory - and he's unlikely to last the course

Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis Speculators blamed for driving up price of basic foods as 100 million face severe hunger

Jeffrey Sachs: You Ask The Questions The US economist answers your questions, such as 'Does capitalism need failures?' and 'Is George Bush the worst president ever?'

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

The Al-Qaeda Media Machine (PDF; 546 KB) Source: Military Review

Joseph Myers / American Thinker: Strategic Collapse in the War on Terror

Interrogating Terrorist Suspects: Criminal Justice and Control Process in Three Australian Cases
Source: University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Research Series Full Paper (PDF; 928 KB)

A review of Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law by Philippe Sands.

Somalia Airstrikes and the Bounds of Law Does the United States' recent use of force fall within its congressinoal authorization?

Brookings Institute: A Look at the Pentagon’s Five Step Plan For Making Iron Man Real

Exposed Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris

We're in a war - where are the media?

THE REAL NEWS of April played second fiddle to the presidential campaign, the pope's visit to America, and the Texas polygamy case. (By Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe)

H20 Slate Obama Gets Personal

The candidate courts Indiana voters with his family values
John Dickerson

Three A.M. Reading Still can't get enough of the campaign? Here are the most interesting Web sites, books, and magazines about American politics.

How Bad Could It Get?

Will the recession be more like the 1990-'91 downturn or the Great Depression?
James Ledbetter

It's Like Money, but With No Dead Presidents

Do "local currencies" really help the communities that use them?
Tim Harford

Key Elements of a Global Deal on Climate Change LSE

Global Agricultural Supply and Demand: Factors Contributing to the Recent Increase in Food Commodity Prices Source: U.S Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Full Report (PDF; 784 KB)

Global Climate Change National Security Implications
Source: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College Full Document (PDF; 1.5 MB)

The new economics of hunger: A brutal convergence of events has hit an unprepared global market, and grain prices are sky high.

A New Face of Hunger Should Prompt a New Approach to Foreign Aid

Rising Food Prices: What Should be Done? FPRI

Nuclear Power’s Role in Generating Electricity (PDF: 2.3 MB)
Source: Congressional Budget Office

Science and Technology Policymaking: A Primer CRS

Philanthropy Annual: 2007 Review
Source: Foundation Center

H21 Carl Zimmer on how the more we know about genes, the less we understand

Does your brain have a mind of its own?

Why can't we stick to our goals? Blame the sloppy engineering of evolution.

Against All Odds? National Sentiment and Wagering on European Football (PDF; 90 KB)
Source: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

A review of The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret MacMillan.

The baron of bibliomania David McKie: A love of books is mostly a good thing, except when it leads to the ruin of your home and family

Parents 'abdicating their responsibilities' Parents are “abdicating their responsibility” by leaving children in school for up to 10 hours a day, said a leading head teacher.

The 10 worst football managers

Ivy Leaguers are bright – but nice?

These are the people who rise to the top, partly on the backs of nicer people.

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