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| H1 International Crisis Group Lebanon: Hizbollah’s Weapons Turn Inward
Text of Bush's Speech to the Israeli Parliament
The Economist Lebanon Keep it together Lebanon's problems reflect those of the wider region. They must be tackled all the same
Lebanon Iran's tool fights America's stooge A delicate balance between Christians, Druze, Sunnis and Shias has broken down. Reassembly will be hard
Barbarians at the vault Western finance is under attack. Yet the banking system has done much better than it is given credit for
Guardian Fast forward to the past Leader:George Bush tours the Middle East for his last time as president, treading around the minefield of his past policy disasters
A prophet perplexed Benny Morris: Herzl's dream has been realised, but with the kinds of conflict and society he never foresaw
Washington Post The Miracle, at 60 By Charles Krauthammer The establishment of the State of Israel embodied many subsidiary miracles.
Factions in Lebanon Agree to Meet for Talks Government Strikes Deal With Hezbollah, but Issues Remain
Iraq Finds Its Arab Neighbors Are Reluctant to Offer Embrace Sunni States Refuse to Forgive Debt, Send Ambassadors
McCain Sees U.S. Troops Leaving Iraq by 2013 He Still Opposes Firm Date
New York Times DAVID BROOKS Obama Admires Bush Is Barack Obama naïve enough to think that an extremist ideological organization like Hezbollah can be mollified with a less corrupt patronage system and some electoral reform?
Ha’aretz – ANALYSIS: Despite tough talk, will U.S. be the one to stop Iran? Bush may not be as naive as Obama, but U.S. policy under his watch has failed on the Iranian issue
Alon Liel Please, Mr. President Bush's visit at this time is more important than ever, because two days spent in Israel are vital to understanding our situation
President Bush Addresses Members of the Knesset
CEPS The United States:A normative power? Download PDF for free
USIP Briefing: Analyzing Iran's Domestic Political Landscape
Reidar Visser The Sadrists of Basra and the Far South of Iraq: The Most Unpredictable Political Force in the Gulf’s Oil-Belt Region? Background paper on internal rivalries within the Sadrist movement, and how US policy could affect Muqtada al-Sadr's strategies in the future. FULL PAPER (PDF)
Global Economic Trends: The Credit Crunch: A Conversation with George Soros (Audio)
Coups and Counter-Coups By: Kaveh L Afrasiabi | Asia Times
Getting Japan to Capitalize on Its Innovation By: Andrei Hagiu and Robert Dujarric | The Japan Times As they lament the West's obsession with China and prepare to host the Group of Eight in July, Japanese fear becoming a minor planet in the Chinese orbit.
Demise of Al-Qa'eda in Sight, U.S. Official Says By: Alex Spillius | The Telegraph A senior United States counter-terrorism official has declared that the demise of al-Qa'eda is in sight, as the terrorist group's failure to adapt its violent ideology and tactics has provoked growing dissent across the Islamic world.
Financial Times Change is in the air for financial superclass Elites cede power only reluctantly and there are signs of an effort to stave off the beginning of the end of the golden age, writes David Rothkopf
Time to convene a summit on oil A summit would not cause instant falls in prices, but an international response will achieve more than countries acting alone
Bush suggests Obama wants ‘appeasement’ of terrorists —
Carnegie Russia's foreign policy: self-affirmation, or a tool for modernization? By Dmitri Trenin
Obama's America: Fast Forward to 2012 - Michael Novak, National Review
Middle East Times He came. He saw. He faltered. There appears to be little else to say about U.S. President George W. Bush's curiously truncated trip to the Middle East this week, says the paper in an editorial.
The Economist A special report on international banking Paradise lost Banks are bound to fail from time to time. But does the fallout have to be so painful?
| H2 - TÜSİAD Türkiye-ABD ilişkilerini masaya yatırdı
Türk - Amerikan İlişkilerinin Geleceği
A Re-Look at Biofuels ASAM
Guardian New alcohol law prompts fears for Turkish bar trade Critics say sale of drinks by the glass could end in bars and restaurants
The Times Royal visit gives Turkey a scent of EU prize The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were joined by the Foreign Secretary David Miliband on day three of their state visit
EDM AKP STRENGTHENS ITS HOLD ON THE TURKISH MEDIA
Wilson: We are following closure case with concern
Cyprus, Turkey peace talks fading (By Andrew Borowiec THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
Türkiye’de medya hareketleri Reuters’ta
İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası Dış Basında Türkiye - BBC Turkish 0700 VOA Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey TurcoPundit
Google News Fırat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect Dış Basında Irak BBC Monitoring Inter-national
Kürt kökenli siyasetçilerden Türk'e tam destek: PKK statükoya hizmet ediyor
Nasuhi Güngör Kaptan’ın gizemli bilgileri
Türk, Türkiye’de aynı açıklıkta konuşmadı Ahmet Türk bir açıklama yaparak, DTP’nin “çatışmasızlık” konusundaki görüşlerini vurguladı
Türk: Silahların dönemi kapandı
Cevdet Aşkın PKK kara harekâtına zorluyor, silahların susması başka bahara
IKDP ajanları korucu çıktı!
Darbeye karşı yasa teklifi
Sokakta örgütsüz Kürt düşmanlığı var
Gülay Göktürk “Açık ve net olma” özgürlüğü
‘Osmanlı Milletler Topluluğu’
[YORUM - BEJAN MATUR] Dil hapishanesi
Özçelik, Iraqi officials discuss new moves for improving ties
Hain saldırının görüntülerini internete koydular
Köşk'e Türkmen kökenli Ortadoğu danışmanı
Çatışma çözüm değil zarar getirdi,
Alman raporu: PKK, hâlâ milyonlarca Euro topluyor
Nicole Pope Redressing regional imbalances
First international cooperation against PKK
Sami Kohen Şov mu, son çaba mı?
Hasan Ersel Mısır'da iktisadi gelişmeler ve iktisat politikası Anatolian firms explore African opportunities
Babacan: Friendship is main theme of relations with African
Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri Günlük Haftalık
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Avrupa’ya AB bürosu açtırıyor
Villepin: "Polemikler olabilir ama bölünmemek lazım"
EP: Those attacking Lagendijk are attacking Turkey's future
Bursa’ya ne yaptık?
European Parliament Socialists welcome 301 change
Human rights organizations upset with Prime Ministry
‘Gül’ün türbanı askeri kızdırdı’
Serdar Turgut Seks özveri ve güç Güler Kömürcü
Turkey-UK relations excellent, confirm ministers
OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU Kıbrıs'ta liderlerin temsilcileri buluştu
'İslam fobisi Avrupa'da çok kültürlülüğe engel'
Kapatma davası konusunda uyardı
Rights group attacks Dutch immigration policy
Ferai Tınç Gorbaçov’un masasındaki formül
Meral Tamer Gorbaçov’la daldan dala bir kahvaltı
God save the Queen, indeed
Mehmet Altan Kripto şifreleri
'EU needs Russia and Turkey on board to survive'
Zeynel Lüle Hükümetten beklenen hiçbir şey yapmamasıdır
Nagehan Alçı
Germany's Taliban Trial: From Murat Kurnaz to Cüneyt Ciftci By: John Rosenthal | World Politics Review
What Turkey can learn from Albania Gerald KNAUS
Danimarka yargısında türban krizi
Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat AltintopReport instigated 3-children proposal
Güngör Uras Gençlerimiz ABD için Ar-Ge yapıyor
Gülen Cemaati’nden Diyanet’e sansür mü?
Zaman’ın köken merakı
Durmuş Hocaoğlu "Tanrısız Modernite" den "Yeni Modernite" ye
Serdar Turgut Serdar Turgut
Perinçek, F Tipi cezaevini beğendi
Derya Sazak Deprem gerçeği
Okul camiye bağlandı!
Harem-selamlık ‘Namaz Platformu’
Gönültaş�a tepki yağdı
ÇGD: ‘Mafya reisi’ gibi!
Fabrikatör memur!
BOTAŞ'taki yolsuzluk davasına bugün başlanıyor
Filenin sultanı artık tesettürlü
Gözü dönmüş çetenin inanılmaz işkencesi
Justice Ministry mulls new law to address prison overcrowding
Eleştirmenlerden Üç Maymun’a tam not
POAŞ'a hem ceza hem yıkım kararı
40 bin ton buğday TMO'nun elinde kaldı
1. Kamuya binlerce memur alınacak
Dündar'a gönderdiğim mektubun arkasındayım Can Dündar'ı tehdit eden mafya babası kim?
Kadir Topbaş UNESCO’yu yanlış anlamış
İçerenköy'den Glock fışkırıyor
Yüksek Mahkeme'nin istediği oldu kurucu rektörleri YÖK belirleyecek
| H3 Türkiye gerilmesin diye Anayasa’yı değiştirmeyeceğiz
'Anayasa değişikliği yapmayacağız'
Esrarengiz takipte cevap bekleyen 11 soru Dinleme iddialarına inceleme başlatıldı
İşte Paksüt soruları!
Şamil Tayyar YSK Başkanı açıkladı
Bülent Korucu Paksüt olayının önemli ayrıntıları
Paksüt'ün takip şüphesi soruşturmayı başlamadan bitirmiş
İşte Osman Paksüt'ün takip raporu 'Dinlenme şüphesi' kritik operasyonu deşifre etti.
ENGİN ARDIÇ Kıvrıkoğlu Paşa'dan mektup
Dava ne kadar çabuk biterse o kadar iyi olur
'Telekulak' için soruşturma mı açılacak?
Atalay’dan Erdoğan’a Paksüt brifingi
Özkan'ın kuracağı parti CHP'ye rakip olacak
Çiçek: Cebe şeytan sokmak istiyorlar
3’üncü yol iması tartışma yarattı
Merkez sağ gençlerden umudu kesti
‘Karamsar olmayın kapatılmayacağız’ Tuncay Özkan yeni parti kuruyor
Dinlemeyi fazla kurcalamayalım
CHP: Bize fatura edilemez
'İstihbaratçıların yaptıkları üstümüze atılıyor'
Başbakan için yeni bir gensoru mu geliyor?
Peki ya gerçekten izleniyorsa?
AK Parti'nin gündeminde anayasa değişikliği yok
'367 kararına imza atan mahkemeye kim güvenir?'
Son Dakika Milliyet Hürriyet Zaman
Günün gazete manşetleri için tıklayın
Murat YetkinAmaç şantaj yapmak mı?
İsmet Berkan Ankara havası ağır geldi
Cengiz Çandar Kraliçe’nin gemisinin güvertesinden Türkiye’ye bakış...
Ahmet Taşgetiren Öyle çetrefil bir iş ki...
Taha Akyol ‘Çok fikirli’ Türkiye
Fikret Bila
Hasan Cemal Hesap sormayı öğrenmeden demokrasi ve hukuk olmaz!
Fehmi Koru Gorbaçov'la iki saat
Taha Kıvanç Hürriyet Çankaya'da da yoktu
İlnur Çevik The real target is Prime Minister Erdogan Turbulent times demand muscular newspapers
Şamil Tayyar YSK Başkanı açıkladı
Ali Bayramoğlu Soğuk savaş, dönme dolap, asparagas ve yağlı tandır…
AK Parti'nin ve Türkiye'nin geleceği
Gül rol çalıyor MEHMET ALİ KIŞLALI ‘Osmanlı Milletler Topluluğu’
Ertuğrul Özkök Bir nikáh şahidinin hikáyesi
Mustafa Ünal Siyasette yeni arayışlar
Sabahattin Önkibar Müesses nizama göre Tayyip Bey'le Gül arasındaki farklar?
Hakan Aygün AKP'nin geleceğiyle ilgili soruların yanıtları...
Ahmet Hakan Nasıl oluyor da oluyor
M Ali Birand Geleceğimizi 11 yargıcın eline bıraktık...
Nuray Başaran AK Parti'ye yakın olduğu düşünülen medya grupları da ayrışabilir
Etyen Mahçupyan AK Party’s strategy
Gila Benmayor Attali: Nüfus, demokrasi için saatli bomba olabilir
Güneri Civaoğlu Nüfus, saatli bomba
İhsan Dağı Myanmar cuntacıları ile CHP'nin ne farkı var?
Mümtazer Türköne 68'li darbeciler
Hüseyin Gülerce Ergenekon ve 68'liler...
Özdemir İnce Tuhaf şeyler ve ayıcılık üzerine
Mehmet Y Yılmaz Görev Emniyet’in
Yalçın Doğan Sanki ölümüne erken seçim
Devrimci gençlere bomba attıranlar
Son 75 yılın en büyük krizi ve çokuluslu 'açlık' oyunu..
Denetimsizliğin dayanılmaz keyfi
Bülent Keneş Story of a major sale
Oray Eğin Yandaş medyaya karşı omuz omuza
Darbe tartışması program bitirdi
Güngör Mengi
Okay Gönensin
Mehmet TezkanGül’e siyasi yasak gelirse ne olur!
ENGİN ARDIÇ Kıvrıkoğlu Paşa'dan mektup ERGUN BABAHAN Kapatmadan kapatmak
EMRE AKÖZDarbe Günlükleri'nin etkisi
Umur TaluNeden?.. Çünkü... O zaman!..
NAZLI ILICAKElizabeth'in yatağı
MEHMET BARLAS Cumhuriyetçiler bir anda saray protokolcüsü oluverdi... MAHMUT ÖVÜRDP'de Soylu-Çiller savaşı (mı?)
YAVUZ DONAT6 perdelik bir Ankara hikâyesi Deniz Gökçe Şarapsever Ertuğrul, rakı yasağını sen de yaz
Melih Aşık CHP’nin İstanbul’u
Mehmet Metiner "Kraliçeli demokrasi!"
Gözleri var görmezler
Yabancı, faize geliyor yerli dövize gidiyor
Ercan Kumcu İmalat sanayiinde üretim artışı iyi ama yavaşlıyor
22 ay sonra Merkez'den faiz artışı
Çapoğlu: 'Türk Ekonomisinin Kırılganlığı Arttı'
Aydın Ayaydınİşler iyi giderken sorun yok ters giderken her şey sorun
Hükümete ‘çapa’ önerisi UĞUR GÜRSES
Eser Karakaş En önemli gösterge yabancı yatırım
Haluk Bürümcekçi Faiz artırımı: Deja Vu?
Güven Sak Hükümetten beklenen hiçbir şey yapmamasıdır
Kemal Derviş de çok tehlikeli bulmuştu
Hurşit Güneş Çiftçinin enflasyonu
Ertuğ Yaşar Merkez Bankası yanılıyor
Metin Münir Ekonomiyi köprü kuyruğuyla ölçme teorisi
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| H4 New York Times DAVID BROOKS Obama Admires Bush Is Barack Obama naïve enough to think that an extremist ideological organization like Hezbollah can be mollified with a less corrupt patronage system and some electoral reform?
McCain Vision Has Most G.I.’s Out of Iraq by 2013
Editorial See How They Run Senator John McCain scored some points on Thursday by acknowledging the many failures of the Bush presidency and pledging to not repeat them.
Pakistan Defies U.S. On Curbing Attacks
Kandahar Journal: Hunger and Food Prices Push Afghanistan to Brink
Feuding Political Camps in Lebanon Agree to Talk to End Impasse
Blackwater’s Impunity That the U.S. is so reliant on private guards to plug the holes in the military underscores how badly this administration has mismanaged the occupation of Iraq.
A Disgraceful Farm Bill President Bush should veto a $307 billion farm bill that rewards rich farmers while doing nothing to help the world’s hungry.
California Court Affirms Right to Gay Marriage The ruling, striking down laws limiting marriages to unions between a man and a woman, would make California the second state to allow same-sex marriage. Text of the Opinion (pdf) News Analysis: Ruling Vaults Issue Back Onto Political Stage
Quake Toll Rises Amid Struggle to Reach Survivors Officials in China warned that the death toll, raised now to 19,500, could reach as high as 50,000, as dozens of villages remained cut off from rescuers Thursday.
| H5 Washington Post The Miracle, at 60 By Charles Krauthammer The establishment of the State of Israel embodied many subsidiary miracles.
Factions in Lebanon Agree to Meet for Talks Government Strikes Deal With Hezbollah, but Issues Remain
Iraq Finds Its Arab Neighbors Are Reluctant to Offer Embrace Sunni States Refuse to Forgive Debt, Send Ambassadors
House Blocks War Money and Sets Pullout Plan
McCain Sees U.S. Troops Leaving Iraq by 2013 He Still Opposes Firm Date
Bush's Comments In Israel Fuel Anger Linking of Nazis, Iran Seen as Jab at Obama
Editorial Torture's Blowback An alleged Sept. 11 conspirator can't be tried because the administration thought harsh tactics were a good idea.
Poor Muslims Cite Fear of Backlash After Blasts in Historic Indian City
Hypocrisy on Hamas McCain Was for Talking Before He Was Against It By James P. Rubin As an interview from 2006 shows, John McCain was for talking to Hamas before he was against it.
Bush's Idea of Sacrifice By Dan Froomkin
By Robert S. Strauss, If it is to win for America, the Democratic Party has to unite now.
War Funding Bill Stalls in House 131 Republicans Vote 'Present' in Protest of Pelosi Tactics
Brand on the Run By E. J. Dionne Jr., Republicans are turning on each other because even their best news is bad news.
The GOP's Ideas Deficit By Eugene Robinson The Reagan era is about to end, and we have George W. Bush to thank for its demise.
King's Radical Belief By Michael Gerson, There is a difference between Rev. Martin Luther King's anger and that of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
California Supreme Court Strikes Bans on Same-Sex Marriage
| H6 Guardian Fast forward to the past Leader:George Bush tours the Middle East for his last time as president, treading around the minefield of his past policy disasters
A prophet perplexed Benny Morris: Herzl's dream has been realised, but with the kinds of conflict and society he never foresaw
Bush appeasement slur angers Democrats Obama outraged by president's claim that talking to US foes in Middle East is like negotiating with Hitler
PM's climbdown defuses Lebanon crisis Arab mediation forged agreement between the western-backed government and Hizbullah
Red states feeling blue Sasha Abramsky US elections 2008: Throw out the old maps - the next presidential contest will not be a re-run of 2000 and 2004
Dylan Loewe The Republican candidate now says US troops will leave Iraq by 2013 - a disingenuous ploy that is as unrealistic as his previous position
China appeals for rescue equipment Earthquake survivors still being found under rubble as estimate of final death toll rises to 50,000
In the wake of catastrophe comes the whiff of unrest Naomi Klein: The natural disasters in Burma and China have loosened the repressive grip the countries' rulers exert on their people
Hamas and antisemitism Alan Johnson It isn't enough to declare belief in the truth of the Holocaust. It's necessary to actively oppose the ideology of Jew-hatred
When it comes to kissing and telling, you can't beat this 15th-century gadget Simon Jenkins: The flood of memoirs has again proved the worth of the book as a receptacle for almost all the human imagination can devise Sarkozy hit by further strikes May 16 2008: Tens of thousands of striking teachers and state workers take to streets in France protesting at job cuts
His master's voice Martin Jacques: Britain's foreign secretary, David Miliband, is promoting military intervention in Burma. This is dangerous imperialist idiocy
Alan Wolfe: A ground-breaking manifesto, published by leading Protestants, urges US evangelicals to abandon involvement in partisan politics
Brown signals retreat on
West is urged to cancel further $400bn of poor countries' debt Report calls for removal of major obstacle to the battle against global poverty, and reform of lending system
Documents link Chávez to guerrillas Interpol authenticates documents that suggest Venezuelan officials plotted to help Marxist insurgents fight the Colombian state
Islamist group claims it planted Jaipur bombs The little-known Indian Mujahideen says it was responsible for killing 63 people in Rajasthan
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Middle East Times He came. He saw. He faltered. There appears to be little else to say about U.S. President George W. Bush's curiously truncated trip to the Middle East this week, says the paper in an editorial.
The Economist A special report on international banking Paradise lost Banks are bound to fail from time to time. But does the fallout have to be so painful?
The UN and humanitarian intervention To protect sovereignty, or to protect lives?
The value of keeping order A dismal calculus
Climate change A moment of truth
Asia Times The US-Iran sound bite showdown Ahmadinejad's latest comments on Israel have been variously translated in the Western media, the most ominous having it that Israel will not save itself from "death and destruction". This will inevitably be seized on by the George W Bush administration as more evidence that Tehran wants to "destroy" Israel, muscling up the case for a US attack. Maybe that is what Ahmadinejad intends. - Pepe Escobar
Coups and counter-coups
The Great Sedition By: Mshari Al-Zaydi | Asharq Alawsat
Egypt's Unrest in Perspective By: Amr Hamzawy and Mohammed Herzallah | The Washington Post
The International Arena and Emerging Powers: Stabilising or Destabilising Forces? FRIDE
US plot to nail Iran backfires
State nominee defends VOA President Bush's nominee as the nation's top public diplomacy official, whose Senate confirmation has been blocked over concerns about anti-American bias in Voice of America's programs, said yesterday that the broadcaster "tells the truth" even if it appears "harmful to U.S. interests."
Is democracy advancing or retreating?The radical theocrats may not achieve their dreams; but that begs the question: Can they destroy ours?
| H8 IraqSlogger Google News Iraq Iran Syria Mideastwire.com - NPR Iraq
Bush: Talks With Iran Like Nazi Appeasement
McCain: US Can Win Iraq War by 2013
Iraqi Forces Hunt Door-to-Door for Mosul Militants
Maliki Calls on Mosul Residents to Participate in Provincial Elections
Pulling strings U.S. claims Iranian weapons are in Iraq (UPI) -- A spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad said emerging evidence suggests Iran is backing the so-called special groups targeting coalition and Iraqi forces.
Sadrists' political future uncertain
House Rejects War-Funding Bill
Deal seeks to end Lebanon strife
Sadr fighters lay down their weapons
Iran Says It Foiled Attack on Russian Consulate By: Nazmeh Bozorgmehr | Financial Times
High Season for Al-Qa’ida in Yemen By: Mohammed Al-Saadi | The Media Line Western families fill up the small and only departure hall of ‘Sana International Airport over the past few weeks, queuing for European and American destinations. They have been instructed to leave Yemen for security reasons, though some have told Yemeni friends they don’t feel threatened
Lebanese Figure Says "Sunni Resistance" in Northern Lebanon "Holy Jihad"
Iran Sacks Another Minister as Critics Grow Louder
| H9 Ha’aretz – ANALYSIS: Despite tough talk, will U.S. be the one to stop Iran? Bush may not be as naive as Obama, but U.S. policy under his watch has failed on the Iranian issue
Alon Liel Please, Mr. President Bush's visit at this time is more important than ever, because two days spent in Israel are vital to understanding our situation
ANALYSIS: Was Bush's Knesset speech a swipe at Obama? Obama has an interest in faking insult, thus emphasizing the differences between him and McCain
Israel: Bush means business on Iran nukes Officials in Jerusalem satisfied with the results of Bush's visit, including policy on Iran's nuclear program
Rosner's Guest: Is Judaism more a religion or a nationality?
Marcus We're not alone The contrast between our achievements and the Palestinians' misery cries out.
Poll: Was Bush attacking Obama?
Herzl would have been proud to give Obama's interview
Bar’el The enemies within
Don't mention the warGermany is signing colossal trade deals with Iran.
Democratic hold on Jewish vote could slip (WTR)
Israel protests UN chief Ban Ki-Moon's use of term 'nakba'
'Just like the Soviet Union collapsed, Israel can also disappear'
No more appeasement In his speech to the Knesset, Bush addressed his visit to Masada and the Israeli vow, saying, 'Masada shall never fall again.'
Jerusalem Post Dramatic new regional support for Red-Dead seas canal planLong-anticipated project could create a million jobs, solve water crisis, quadruple tourism and produce unprecedented regional cooperation.
Hamastan must go Experience has long since shown that Israeli vulnerability and indecisiveness invite aggression
Bush: Masada will never fall againSays Hamas and Hizbullah will fail, allowing nuclear Iran would be "betrayal of future generations."
Blair: New PA troops will be far better Peace envoy says personnel training in Jordan will be greatly superior to those who failed in Gaza.
The gathering storm, and beyond Israel is the aboriginal homeland of the Jewish people across space & time
Hizbullah's takeover could spell regional escalation, expert tells 'Post'
Sephardi View: The beautiful game In Israel, basketball is known as 'Ashkenazi' and football is 'Sephardi'.
Yedioth Ahronoth We forgot how to fight Our leaders busy coming up with excuses for avoiding tougher military moves
Israel must make clear that war with Hizbullah will lead to Lebanon's ruin, writes Giora Eiland
Livni: We'll have to cede land FM says two-state solution only viable when 'nakba' finally stricken from Palestinian lexicon
Arabs slam Bush's rhetoric
Daily Alert.org – Hebrew Press Editorials (2008) - Middle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review – Google News Israel - Palestine
Forward When Survival of the Jewish People Is at Stake, There’s No Place for Morals
Israel-Palestine: Why Today`s Crisis is Rooted in the Denials of Yesterday Sylvain Cypel, Editor in Chief of Le Monde
Far from Palestine Personal pain Olmert's political abyssEverywhere he looks, embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sees potential disaster looming
Bush exalts ties to Israel President Bush brought Israel's parliament to its feet yesterday with a rousing speech that described U.S. ties to the Jewish state as a biblical bond and the two nations as eternal allies in the war against terrorism.
Quiz: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
New Republic Who Does 'J Street,' The New Israel Lobby, Really Represent? by James Kirchick
Prepared Text of Bush's Knesset Speech
Abbas pledge on 'catastrophe' day Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vows to end Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory.
Israel warns of Gaza rocket range Israel's intelligence chief says Palestinian militants will soon double the range of rockets they fire from Gaza.
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| H10 Christian Science Monitor In Israel, Bush outlines a blunt vision for the Middle East At the Knesset on Thursday, the president spoke in visionary terms of Israel's future, saying that the core of the current regional conflict 'was an ancient battle between good and evil.'
Pentagon scales back AFRICOM ambitions Opposition in Africa means the new command's headquarters will more likely be in US or Europe.
What's next for the Ron Paul revolution? The effort to renew the Founding Fathers' vision is good for America.
Afghan aid that works The National Solidarity Program empowers local people, but risks underfunding.
Getting Japan to Capitalize on Its Innovation By: Andrei Hagiu and Robert Dujarric | The Japan Times
A hard American look at China's soft power A new US Congress study on China's foreign policy finds that many developing countries are attracted to Beijing because its aid and trade and investment generally come without those pesky human rights conditions. But as China becomes more engaged in world affairs, it is clear its "hands-off" approach has negative implications that could counterbalance any soft-power advantages. - David Isenberg
China seeks an Afghan stepping-stone
China's embrace leaves US in the cold China's determined efforts to improve relations with Southeast Asian neighbors and to strengthen transport and trade links should bring improved prosperity to the region. The success of Beijing's initiatives also underlines the diminishing role to be played in the region by the United States
Al Awsat China's Other 'Forgotten People' : Amir Taheri
The Downside of Joining the Superpower Club By: Victor Mallet | Financial Times Being a superpower is not all pomp and pleasure. There is more to it than attending summits, deploying aircraft carriers and overthrowing irritating regimes in the Caribbean with which you disagree.
The first chapter from China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society by Daniel A. Bell.
China quake toll 'to top 50,000' China's government fears more than 50,000 people may have died in the Sichuan earthquake, state media say.
Russia, India, China Do Not Target Their Cooperation Against Third States - Yang
Good Morning, Vietnam By: Duncan Currie | The Weekly Standard April 30 marked the 33rd anniversary of Saigon's fall to the North Vietnamese Communists. The former capital of South Vietnam is now called Ho Chi Minh City, a name that better reflects Vietnam's past than its present and future
Australian Eggs for a Korean 'Basket Case'? By: Leonid A Petrov | Asia Times
Analysis: Indian agencies start blame game (UPI) -- India's intelligence and security agencies are indulging in a blame game over a recent foiled infiltration bid by militants on the Pakistani border, with one agency accusing the paramilitary forces guarding the border of lacking alertness.
New Republic Bush Has Made Human Rights A Centerpiece Of His Presidency. Ask The Chinese People How That's Working Out.
US declines to cite China as a currency manipulator
Administration credits China with policy shifts
Islamist group claims it planted Jaipur bombs The little-known Indian Mujahideen says it was responsible for killing 63 people in Rajasthan
CHINESE LEADERS are being far more open about the earthquake in Sichuan province than their predecessors were after a similar disaster in 1976, and more open than the Burmese junta after a cyclone devastated much of the country earlier this month. But the presence in Sichuan of Chinese and foreign reporters reveals only part of the story. A better test ... (Boston Globe)
Ten Years After Pokhran II: Nuclear Stability in Southern Asia
| H11 IHT Help Lebanon: Talk to Syria and Iran If President Bush really wants to do more to help Lebanon, he will need to talk with Hezbollah's masters in Syria and Iran
Civil servants and teachers in France strike against cutbacks Hundreds of thousands of French teachers and civil servants staged a one-day strike throughout the country Thursday to protest government plans to cut jobs in the public sector.
Italy cracks down on immigrants The widely publicized police raids were a strong signal from Italy's new rightist government, which includes the anti-immigrant Northern League Party, that it will pursue tougher policies toward immigrants.
EUROPE European press review
Making and Breaking Promises: The European Union under the Treaty of Lisbon ZEI This 35-page German discussion paper examines whether the Treaty of Lisbon will lead to enhanced openness and effectiveness in the EU
Europe's Single Currency The Economist Ten years after the EU's historic decision to adopt a single currency, the European Commission has presented a detailed analysis of the euro's experience to date and launched a debate on how to address the challenges likely to be faced over the next decade
The euro-area economy Too good to last
France's cost of living Purchasing-power disparity
Russia's government New jobs, old faces
Pipelines from Russia Dead souls Serbia's election Balkan end-game? Charlemagne Balkan exceptionalism What Serbia's election says about the European Union's enlargement
Germany: A Re-emerging Economy?
Serbia's mighty challengeElections held this week in Serbia provide hope that this Balkan nation will at last chart a course of cooperation and integration with its neighbors.
Carnegie NATO and Afghanistan: Saving the State-Building Enterprise
Sarkozy hit by further strikes Tens of thousands of striking teachers and state workers take to streets in France protesting at job cuts
Italian police swoop on migrants Italian police arrest hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants in raids across the country. Italy police to protect Gypsies Row strains Italy-Romania ties
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The Economist Georgia and Russia Gather round the gorge The outside world can help deter both Russian bullying and Georgian vote-rigging
Russia's government New jobs, old faces
Pipelines from Russia Dead souls
Russia-NATO Relations: Stagnation or Revitalization
Russia, Georgia Joust Over Talk on Abkhazia Base
Medvedev Kicks Off Kazakhstan Courtship BY SERGEI BLAGOV
Businessmen: Russia’s Medvedev Inherits Strong, But Vulnerable Economy
Georgia: EU Official Says Events In Abkhazia "Demonstrate Dangers And The Need To Act" Peter Semneby, the EU special representative for the South Caucasus, this week traveled to Georgia for talks on the breakaway region of Abkhazia. The territory has been in the spotlight in recent weeks, as Moscow has built up its troop presence and sought to formalize its ties with the region’s de facto leadership, a move Tbilisi says violates its territorial integrity. Semneby spoke to David Kakabadze, head of RFE/RL’s Georgian Service, during a stop in Prague following the visit
Gabala Accord With U.S. Possible Only If Approved By Baku - Russian Ambassador
Stormy Relations between Kiev and Moscow SWP A 4-page German commentary describing how relations between Ukraine and Russia are under strain over gas supplies and security concerns
Google News Azerbaijan
Moscow Questions the Territorial Status Quo in Crimea By: Vladimir Socor | Eurasia Daily Monitor
Putin's Tall Order By: Alexei Bayer | The Moscow Times
A Lineup Aimed at Taming Siloviki By: Francesca Mereu and Max Delaney | The Moscow Times
Kazakhstan-Tajikistan: Meetings between the Kazakh and Tajik presidents could signal a new alliance on oil and water (RFE/RL) that would come at the expense of Russian and Uzbek influence.
EDM NATO CREATES CYBER DEFENSE CENTER IN ESTONIA - RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS USED AS CHANNEL FOR TBILISI-MOSCOW CONTACTS - YUSHCHENKO WILL BE MARGINALIZED BY CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN UKRAINE |
| H13 The Times Obama: the new Great Redeemer First it was Kennedy... now the US media are prostrating themselves before saviour Barack
The country's politicians are sabotaging hopes of revived democracy
Obama blasts Bush on terror talk jibe President likened Barack Obama's plan to talk with rogue states to the false comfort of appeasement towards the Nazis
McCain: I will win Iraq and kill bin Laden Republican candidate 'looks back' on first term as he sets out his stall for presidential election fight against Democrats
Islamist group threatens India tourist attacks Little known group Indian Mujahideen has also claimed responsibility for the bombings that claimed 63 lives in Jaipur
Eurozone faces effects from global downturn Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank, led warnings that Europe faces a marked slowdown this year
Karzai must say what he'd do with $50bn Aid is desperately needed to lift one Afghanistan from deep poverty but farming can't absorb this sum quickly
Hope fades for the missing as earthquake toll leaps
Wall Street Journal Political War Games
Russia's Power Couple
Pity Party By Peggy Noonan
Democracies Don't Let People Die By: Daniel Henninger | The Wall Street Journal
Semiannual Report on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies (PDF; 221 KB) Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury
| H14 Financial Times Change is in the air for financial superclass Elites cede power only reluctantly and there are signs of an effort to stave off the beginning of the end of the golden age, writes David Rothkopf
Time to convene a summit on oil A summit would not cause instant falls in prices, but an international response will achieve more than countries acting alone
McCain urges UK-style Q&A in Congress
Lebanon foes to resume dialogue The pro-western government and the Hizbollah-led opposition agreed to a resumption of political dialogue after Arab League mediators brokered a deal ending days of sectarian fighting
Bush warns against a nuclear Iran Allowing Iran to build nuclear weapons would mark an “unforgivable betrayal of future generations”, George W. Bush told the Israeli parliament, promising that the US would continue to stand with the Jewish state in future confrontations
Fed urged to control future asset bubbles The Federal Reserve should use regulatory powers aggressively and pro-actively to limit the threat from future asset price bubbles, Frederic Mishkin, one of the Fed’s governors, said
EU to tighten screw on Tehran bank Bank Melli, Iran’s biggest commercial bank, is set to be banned from operating in the European Union under proposals in the final stages of discussion in Brussels
Obama team slams Bush’s Knesset speech Barack Obama’s campaign accused George W. Bush of launching an “unprecedented political attack on foreign soil” in a speech to the Israeli Knesset that linked Mr Obama’s call for talks with America’s enemies to 1930s-style appeasement of Hitler
Islamabad’s tribal deals spark concerns Pakistani efforts to negotiate peace deals with militants in the border regions with Afghanistan have raised concerns in Kabul and Washington
NATIONAL NEWS: Defence review looks to shorter term
Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, urged US banks to continue raising capital, saying this could pave the way for an improvement in economic conditions
Monster-bankers Germany keeps trying to slay the dragon of capitalism
States must act locally in a globalised world Jeremy Greenstock on the need to decentralise
Burma’s victims pay price for foreign policy realism The Burmese junta has bestowed the right, if not the obligation, on the international community to intervene. But the geopolitical circumstances also remind us that what should be done will always be tempered by what can be done, writes Philip Stephens
German growth helps spur eurozone A dramatic German growth spurt powered a reacceleration in eurozone growth at the start of this year, in contrast to the sharp US slowdown
Berlin sees spy threat to business Germany accused Russian and Chinese spies of increasing their efforts to steal technical secrets from companies
Surge in exports lifts French GDP The French economy grew by an above forecast 0.6 per cent in the first three months of 2008, powered by a surge in exports, proving the resilience so far of the eurozone’s second largest economy in the face of a global slowdown
Britain must not cut loose its anchor Stick to the inflation target, says Martin Wolf
Troubled by bubbles: Bankers rethink the hands-off approach Central bankers look at using regulation to prevent asset prices getting out of line with economic fundamentals
Burma’s victims pay bill for foreign policy realismThe junta has bestowed the right, if not the obligation, on the international community to intervene,
ECB concern over liquidity scheme The European Central Bank voiced its “high concern” at growing evidence that banks are exploiting its efforts to unblock the frozen funding markets by using its liquidity scheme to offload more risky assets than it envisaged
| China quake death toll could reach 50,000 More than 130,000 troops reportedly have reached the disaster area. Experts fear cracked dams could add to the catastrophe
House Democrats approve restrictions on Iraq war policy
Americans' money worries are growing, L.A. Times/Bloomberg poll finds
Political clashes underline limits to intelligence reform
'Appeasement' remark by Bush sets off political fray The president, speaking to Israeli lawmakers, takes apparent aim at Obama in saying that negotiating with some dictatorships amounts to 'appeasement.' Obama calls it a 'false political attack.'
4 Iranian Embassy workers hurt in Baghdad shooting Iraqi soldiers shot at the Iranians' vehicles after coming under fire themselves, police say. Iranian officials downplay the possibility of diplomatic fallout.
Pakistan says it has no knowledge of missile strike The attack in the border region, if it was carried out by the U.S., could test the new government. It might have killed an Al Qaeda official.
George E. Bisharat and Judea Pearl discuss what role the U.S. should play in negotiations.
McCain predicts troops will be out of Iraq by 2013 His victory outlook reverses his stance against suggesting a withdrawal timetable. He also pulls away from Bush in forecasting a presidency marked by better relations with Congress and Democrats
Editorial
California Supreme Court overturns ban on same-sex marriage In a 4-3 vote, the court becomes the first in the U.S. to apply constitutional protections reserved for race and gender to sexual orientation
Steeling Obama By Douglas E. Schoen Recent controversies have only strengthened his campaign
Talks set on new government for Lebanon The deal, brokered by Arab League diplomats, follows a burst of street battles. It appears to be a boost for Hezbollah.
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The Economist Lexington Why not both? The dubious case for a Democratic dream team
If Clinton Wants VP, Obama Can't Stop Her — Does Hillary Clinton want to be the Democrats vice presidential candidate? Probably. Could she get on the ticket by dropping out before the last states vote on June 3rd? Definitely not. Does Barack Obama want her on the ticket? Absolutely not.
What Obama Owes the Clintons - Peter Beinart, Time
Hillary's Lessons for John McCain - Jennifer Rubin, New York Observer
Obama says Bush falsely accuses him of appeasement
The Politico: Six ways the GOP can save itself
Alan Wolfe: A ground-breaking manifesto, published by leading Protestants, urges US evangelicals to abandon involvement in partisan politics Sasha Abramsky May 15 08, 07:00pm: US elections 2008: Throw out the old maps - the next presidential contest will not be a re-run of 2000 and 2004
Who could tell Clinton if and when the party's over?
realclearpolitics memeorandum ABC’s The Note – US News Political Bulletin Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp
An excerpt from Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy by Jeffrey Feldmann.
LET'S SAY Hillary Clinton's remaining primary rival were not Barack Obama but a white male. Suppose she were ahead in pledged delegates, led in the popular vote in DNC-approved contests, had raised the most money, and had attracted the most contributors. (By Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe)
| H17 Daily Telegraph Al-Qa'eda threatens to attack Euro 2008 Police in Switzerland warn of website threats from al-Qa'eda sympathisers. US official: Demise of al-Qa'eda in sight
China's humanity in earthquake rescue Now China has demonstrated its proficiency in handling one crisis, demands will inevitably be made on it to get involved in others far beyond its borders, writes Con Coughlin
Israel, 60 years on At the 60th anniversary of the founding of the modern state of Israel, the lesson to be learnt is that without close American supervision things fall apart.
New warning on earthquake's impact.
| H18 Independent Leading article: How to weather the financial storms |
| H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism
“Information Operations,” Department of Defense Directive O-3600.1, August 14, 2006.
Political clashes underline limits to intelligence reform
The European Armaments Sector: The Need for the State to Adapt CSS
Senate Armed Services Committee Report 110-335 on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009
RAND Arroyo Center Annual Report 2007: Serving the Army for 25 Years
How the Pentagon is Organizing its Cyber Warfare System
Germany's Taliban Trial: From Murat Kurnaz to Cüneyt Ciftci By: John Rosenthal | World Politics Review
National Special Security Events (PDF; 129 KB)
Analysis: Indian agencies start blame game (UPI) -- India's intelligence and security agencies are indulging in a blame game over a recent foiled infiltration bid by militants on the Pakistani border, with one agency accusing the paramilitary forces guarding the border of lacking alertness.
Analysis: USAF's cyber offense capability (UPI) -- Procurement documents from the U.S. Air Force give a rare glimpse into the Pentagon's plans for developing an offensive cyberwar capacity that can infiltrate, steal data from and if necessary take down enemy information technology networks.
From National Journal, the Marine Corps is facing big bills to pay for the future force the Corps says it needs
Vulnerability of Research Reactors to Attack | H20 Slate
From Monthly Review, Fred Magdoff on the world food crisis: Sources and solutions.
Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008 Source: World Bank
Agricultural Productivity in the United States
As food prices shoot up, so do backyard gardens Gasoline and food price spikes have had what could be called a 'Miracle-Gro' effect on the backyard garden movement.
casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is using his vast fortune to help finance conservative, pro-Israel, and pro-business causes. | From the University of Chicago Press, an excerpt from The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr
From New Humanist, Henri Lefebvre, the theoretician of the Paris uprising of 1968, saw that society’s most profound truths were etched on everyday life
Does charisma originate in the individual, in the followers, or in the situation? Joseph Nye investigates.
Who are these 'famous' people, anyway? One man flips through the supermarket tabloids – and recognizes none of the celebrities.
Please, go outside and play Rosa Brooks: Overbearing parents have taken the fun out of childhood and turned it into a grind
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, ed. Richard Dawkins |
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