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16 June 2008
  June 16, 2008

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H1 New York Times No Rushing Talks on Pact With U.S., Iraqis Say

Financial Times Solana’s gambit Sooner or later, Iran must grasp the international community’s offer on the table, otherwise it will become clear what its ulterior motives really are

Europe’s rocky roadThe Irish rebuke on the Lisbon treaty will make it difficult to justify a second referendum any time soon

EU leaders scramble to solve treaty crisis The heads of European Union states will seek to salvage something from the wreckage of the Lisbon pact after Ireland’s rejection of the agreement last week

Wolfgang Münchau: Europe’s plan B Once 26 countries have ratified, the pressure on Ireland will become unbearable, writes Wolfgang Münchau

Iran shows interest in nuclear compromise Diplomats recorded an unexpectedly positive reaction from Tehran when the international community offered to help Iran develop a civil nuclear energy programme if it halted uranium enrichment

Saudis eye large boost to oil output capacity The kingdom is considering increasing production to its highest level in more than 25 years to bring down record prices and ease political pressure from developed countries

Israeli plan threatens peace talks, says Rice The US secretary of state warns that a proposal to build hundreds of homes in an occupied West Bank settlement might hurt already fragile negotiations with the Palestinians

Iraq to dominate Bush and Brown dialogue Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, yesterday sought to play down trans-atlantic tensions over British troop withdrawals from Iraq ahead of an informal dinner with...

Rising power of Hamas worries PA and Israel A year into its rule in the Gaza Strip, the Islamist group has consolidated its authority and retained popular support in spite of food shortages and power cuts

The Fed, the dollar and wider price concerns Congress and the White House should help resolve the financial crisis as it has become too great a burden for the Federal Reserve to handle alone, writes David Hale

McClatchy Iraqi PM: US May Be Asked to Leave

Washington Post Editorial A Partnership With Iraq The Shiite government signals a desire for an alliance with the United States. Shouldn't that be welcomed?

Iran Rejects Proposal Offered by 6 Nations The country says the package of incentives is "out of the question" because it includes a demand for a halt to uranium enrichment.

Rice Urges Israel to Desist on Settlements Despite Expansion, Secretary Sees 'Chance' For Peace Deal in '08

Powerful Iraqi Cleric Recalibrates Strategy The movement of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said Saturday that it would not take part in provincial elections this year, one day after it formed a new paramilitary group to fight U.S. troops.

Aides to Sadr Refine Stance On Elections

Can Pakistan Prove It? By Jackson Diehl, A democracy can fight terrorism as well as a dicatorship can

A Fix-It List for The Spies By David Ignatius, VERGENNES, Vermont -- If the U.S. intelligence community were a business, it would be obvious that there's something wrong: It's in the middle of a misguided reorganization that makes the AOL-Time Warner merger look good

In Europe, a Slide Toward Irrelevance By Robert Kagan BRUSSELS -- A mere two years ago, the British author and thinker Mark Leonard published a book titled "Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century." Today, one wonders to what degree Europe will even participate in the 21st century

REPRISE OF THE VULCANS What Will the Pillars of His Foreign Policy Be? By James Mann, Don't assume that the Republican bickering will end when President Bush steps down

WSJ Russia Outflanks EU's Pipeline Plan Europe is seeking to build a pipeline to help ease the Continent's dependence on Russian gas. Moscow has proposed a pipeline of its own.

Sunday Times No 10 admits EU treaty is finished

Bush arrives in Britain with Bin Laden demand As US president takes tea with the Queen, he enlists British special forces in final attempt to capture al-Qaeda leader

Brookings The U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Relationship and Nuclear Safety/Security

Stephen P. Cohen,

Guardian In this new age of warfare we need clearer rules on when to cross borders Philip Bobbitt: The threat from armed groups and states set on mass killing gives fresh urgency to calls for global criteria on intervention

Christian Science Monitor

A year later: Hamas still defiant, but Gazans continue to struggle

The Islamist militant group has controlled the coastal strip for a year now and says it will not relent to international pressure

Independent Saudi King: 'We will pump more oil' Saudi Arabia will raise oil production to record levels in an attempt to avert an escalation of social and political unrest around the world.

Sean Farrell: Regimes play power games with supplies

Leading article: The oil era reaches its desperate endgame

H2 Rob Hughes EURO 2008 - TURKEY 3, CZECH REPUBLIC 2; Turkey Advances With a Stunning Late Rally

Iraqi Kurdish PM Insists on Autonomy, Says Not Responsible for PKK Attacks

[NEWS ANALYSIS]
Turkey spends more on defense

Private Turkish airliner starts regular flights to northern Iraq

Turkish Agency Quotes Syrian Minister on Joint Oil, Gas, Nuclear Power Plans

SOLİ ÖZEL Stratejik tercihler

Semih İdiz İrlanda referandumunun sonuçları Türkiye’ye yarar

Arif Keskin 'ABD İran’a saldırmayacak!'

ÖMER TAŞPINAR ABD'nin İran açmazı

Fethullah Gulen: Threat, Benefactor, or Both?

Ha’aretz Syria and Israel aiming for direct peace talks by next month Senior Turkish source familiar with the talks said still no talk of a possible Olmert-Assad summit

Kuzey Irak'a tarifeli uçak seferleri başlıyor

Rand: AK Party closure will deepen divide

Pentagon'a sunulan AK Parti raporu

Ardan Zentürk ‘Kapatma’ ve ‘Amerikan görüşü...’

Diaspora'ya tokat gibi yanıt !

Ermeni diasporasının 'soykırım' iddialarını yalanlayan belgeler ortaya çıktı

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

Barzani sees better relations with Turkey

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights (in Arabic) 12 Jun 08

Operasyonlar genişledi sınıra zırhlı araç takviyesi

Cevdet Aşkın Öcalan: Perinçek ABD'ye hizmet ediyor

AK Party closure case pushes DTP case off agenda, agitating Kurdish voters

İmzalar atılıyor, TPAO Suriye'de petrol avına çıkıyor

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

Kıbrıs'ta 'tek millet' projesi tutmaz

Rauf Denktaş İngiltere yine yanlışta Adalet deyince

Ömer Taşpınar Quo vadis Europe?

Mensur Akgün Akdeniz Birliği'ne katılmasak ne olur

İhsan Dağı Deceiving the Americans

Avrupa Birliği yolunda iki yeni adım

Talat: İngiltere, Kıbrıs'ta taraflar arasındaki güvenin altını oydu

Türkmenistan ve Azerbaycan'dan bağımsız enerji politikası hamlesi

Etnik temizliği Ermeniler yaptı

Hüseyin Macit Yusuf Hristo - fiyasko...

A challenging Summer awaits the Western Balkansby HAJRUDIN SOMUN*

Unshackled and flush, Russians venture abroad One of the most enduring changes in the lives of Russians in recent years has occurred not in Russia itself but in places like Turkey where they vacation.

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

Nihat works Turkey's miracle Turkey snatched a quarter-final slot from the Czech Republic with an amazing three-goal comeback

Mustafa Sarıgül'ü ve ayrılığı anlattı

Aylin Kotil evliliklerinin nasıl sonlandığını anlattı.

Report: Only 2 Tuzla shipyards comply with safety rules

Küresel ısınma reçetesi, Türkiye'ye 5,7 milyar dolara mal olabilir

Turkish teachers remind me of fictional characters in novelsby CHINGIZ AITMATOV*

15 Haziran 2008 Basın Özeti

16 Haziran 2008 Basın Özeti

H3

AKP 'sinsice' İslamlaştırırsa AB süreci aksar!

Ergenekon operasyonunda Hrant Dink cinayeti niye yok?

3. Aleviler oy vermezse CHP baraja takılır!

Profesör Zühtü Arslan: Parlamento üzerinde vesayet var

1960 darbesi, Türkiye'nin Kerbela'sı Adnan Menderes ise Hz. Hüseyin'i

EZBER BOZAN ÇIKIŞ ! Servetlerinin alınmasından korkuyorlar

Türkiye’de artık parti kapatılmasın

Genelkurmay'ın muhtıra verdiği gazeteci...

Büyük Kulüp, İlker Paşa'yı soruşturup almış!

Bakanlık'tan çağrıya yanıt

Newspapers forced to self-censor on Ergenekon coverage

Son Dakika Milliyet Hürriyet Zaman

Cengiz Çandar

Ahmet Taşgetiren Sizi görüyoruz baylar!

Ruşen - Çakır

Nuh Gönültaş Paşa'nın genelkurmay başkanı olması önlenemeyeceğine göre

Taha Akyol Yetki gaspı

Fikret Bila

Hasan Cemal

Murat Yetkin

İsmet Berkan Türkiye’deki temel siyasi bölünme

Fehmi Koru Anayasa Mahkemesi ne demek istedi? We are the vıctıms

Taha KıvançSıkıldım artık

Şamil Tayyar Ergenekon’un büyük oyunu

Yavuz Baydar Who is in control of ‘the process’?

Durmuş Hocaoğlu Türkler, Sâhiden Bir "Millet" mi?

Ali Bayramoğlu

Yasemin Çongar

Ertuğrul Özkök

Gülay Göktürk “Darbeye karşı bir ses çıkar”

Nasuhi Güngör Niye karargah savunması?

Eser Karakaş Genelkurmay bildirisi ve üslup

Mustafa Akyol Atatürk’ü nasıl sevsinler ki?

TAMER KORKMAZ

Beraber ve solo saldırılar “İftira” dünyaya hükümdar olmaz!

KÜRŞAT BUMİN

Ortada olanlar yetmiyormuş gibi

Ortada olanlar yetmiyormuş gibi (2)

Ömer Lütfi Mete Herkese bir Ağlama Duvarı

Şahin Alpay High time for post-Kemalism

Çözümsüzlük çözüm üretemez mi?
ORAL ÇALIŞLAR

Kararı görmeden paçayı sıvamak
TARHAN ERDEM

Ekrem Dumanlı Yaftacı kafayla nereye kadar?

[MONDAY TALK] Öktem: So-called intellectuals pump up fascism in Turkey

Mehmet Metiner Karanlık senaryolar

Ahmet Hakan Kahpelik

Mehmet Altan TSK Medyası mı?

Sabahattin Önkibar Askeri kimler, niçin hedef alıyor?

Mehmet Yılmaz İki Yüksek Mahkeme, iki önemli karar

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt Ülsever Bilderberg geyiği bitti!

How dare you not love Atatürk?! Mustafa AKYOL

Enis Berberoğlu

Oktay Ekşi

Özdemir İnce

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Cumhurbaşkanı ’dava’ arkadaşını affeder!

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Yargının icrası...

ERDAL ŞAFAK "Hayır"ın bedeli Bahçem

ENGİN ARDIÇ Subay nerede? Entel yazı

ERGUN BABAHAN Osman Bey

EMRE AKÖZ

Umur Talu

Fatih Çekirge O el sıkıldı

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

Arato'ya bir cevap

NAZLI ILICAK İzleneceksin elbette Başın öne eğilmesin

MEHMET BARLAS Gerçekten geçmişin kavgalarını ve kamplaşmalarını özledik mi? Yarının klasiklerini bugünden bilmek mümkündür...

Yavuz Baydar Baran’s Turkey

İhsan Yılmaz The real electorate: young military officers

Doğu Ergil The Constitution and its court

Bülent Kenes Turkey in transition

MAHMUT ÖVÜR İzmir 'kale'sini kim fethedecek?

YAVUZ DONAT Anayasso Savunma... 4 kitap

Hoca'yı kurtarma ittifakı!

Ekonomi

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Bu yaz piyasalar kavrulmasın yeter

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
2009'da trilyon YTL'lik ekonomi olacağız

Asım Erdilek Global financial prospects of emerging market economies and Turkey

Vahap Munyar TÜSİAD’dan üç sendika liderine davet ve Kemal Derviş sürprizi

Ercan Kumcu İkaz sinyallerine dikkat

Erdal SağlamEkonomi sahipsiz kaldı

Seyfettin Gürsel Küresel ısınma reçetesi, Türkiye'ye 5,7 milyar dolara mal olabilir

Turkey's staggering credit card interest rates

H4 New York Times No Rushing Talks on Pact With U.S., Iraqis Say

A Year Reshapes Hamas and Gaza Hamas has spread its authority across all aspects of life, and Gazans have not, as Israel and the United States hoped, risen up

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Letter From Cairo If prices keep soaring, food and fuel could reshape politics around the developing world as much as nationalism or Communism did in their days.

Nuclear Ring Reportedly Had Advanced Weapon Design Investigators say they have found blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon on computers belonging to a Pakistani nuclear scientist’s smuggling network

In ’74 Thesis, the Seeds of McCain’s War Views In an essay for the National War College, John McCain blamed domestic politics for weakening the will of American prisoners of war.

Text: McCain's Essay (pdf)

Bush Says Iran Spurns New Offer on Uranium

Officials Fear Bomb Design Went to Others Four years after Abdul Qadeer Khan’s atomic black market operation was declared over, inspectors are wondering who may have received the blueprints for a nuclear weapon found on his computer network

Obama the Delegator Picks When to Take Reins Senator Barack Obama is more inclined to focus on the big picture over the day-to-day whirl while managing his campaign.

Obama Calls for More Responsibility From Black Fathers

Karzai Threatens to Send Soldiers Into Pakistan

Rice Says Houses Hurt Mideast Talks

Kosovo’s New Constitution Takes Effect

In Iraq’s South, a Mission Has Dual Aims

Rival Turns Up the Heat on Musharraf

Surging Oil and Food Prices Threaten the World Economy, Finance Ministers Warn ,

Bush Shows Optimism on Iraq Deal

Iraqi Troops Mass for Assault in South

Bush Says Iran Spurns New Offer on Uranium

Free and Flush, Russians Eager to Roam Abroad A people who under Communism were rarely allowed to travel abroad are now seeing the world. And relishing it.

Hugo Chávez, New and Improved Even if the Venezuelan president’s recent change of heart is driven by self-interest more than conviction, the change is welcome.

PAUL KRUGMAN Fiscal Poison Pill I realized that the tax cuts enacted by the Bush administration are, in effect, a fiscal poison pill aimed at future administrations.

WILLIAM KRISTOL Big Tim Tim enjoyed being a big shot. But he was just about the nicest big shot in Washington — decent and unpretentious, remarkably kind and thoughtful.

The Heir Up There By MAX BOOT The appointment of Gen. Norton A. Schwartz as the chief of staff of the Air Force could serve as inspiration for people who share his underprivileged background

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF The Weapon of Rape The United Nations and its member states seem to finally be recognizing that systematic mass rape is at least as much an international outrage as, say, pirated DVDs

FRANK RICH Angry Clinton Women ♥ McCain? The same Republican operatives who gleefully insulted Hillary Clinton are now peddling the fable that her female supporters will desert their own party en masse.

Age Becomes the New Race and Gender Get ready, in campaign ’08, for hints, proxies and a possible backlash.

MAUREEN DOWD W. Regrets Almost Nothing During his farewell European tour, President Bush was still pushing, but more softly, the same refrain that turned Europe so virulently anti-American

Think the Gender War Is Over? Think Again Senator Barack Obama has refused to give the traditional answer to the question posed by the American Sphinx who guards the halls of leadership: “Are you man enough?”

Tiny Town: Washington After a Fall In a place of petty concerns and Big Doings, Tim Russert, who died on Friday at 58, was the chief scorekeeper. Obituary

Why This Court Keeps Rebuking This President Rarely have the Supreme Court’s justices gotten in the White House’s way in times of conflict. Until now.

H5 Washington Post Editorial A Partnership With Iraq The Shiite government signals a desire for an alliance with the United States. Shouldn't that be welcomed?

A Fix-It List for The Spies By David Ignatius, VERGENNES, Vermont -- If the U.S. intelligence community were a business, it would be obvious that there's something wrong: It's in the middle of a misguided reorganization that makes the AOL-Time Warner merger look good

In Europe, a Slide Toward Irrelevance By Robert Kagan BRUSSELS -- A mere two years ago, the British author and thinker Mark Leonard published a book titled "Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century." Today, one wonders to what degree Europe will even participate in the 21st century

REPRISE OF THE VULCANS What Will the Pillars of His Foreign Policy Be? By James Mann, Don't assume that the Republican bickering will end when President Bush steps down

Suited for the New Diplomacy? By James P. DeHart Is the Foreign Service becoming too militarized?

Iran Rejects Proposal Offered by 6 Nations The country says the package of incentives is "out of the question" because it includes a demand for a halt to uranium enrichment.

Rice Urges Israel to Desist on Settlements Despite Expansion, Secretary Sees 'Chance' For Peace Deal in '08

Powerful Iraqi Cleric Recalibrates Strategy The movement of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said Saturday that it would not take part in provincial elections this year, one day after it formed a new paramilitary group to fight U.S. troops.

Aides to Sadr Refine Stance On Elections

Can Pakistan Prove It? By Jackson Diehl, A democracy can fight terrorism as well as a dicatorship can.

Our Tarnished Titans By Sebastian Mallaby, Maybe all those Wall Street investment bankers aren't so smart after all.

Man in the Middle By Robert D. Novak, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will try to keep inflation at bay without raising interest rates.

Smugglers Had Design For Advanced Warhead An international smuggling ring that sold bomb-related parts to Libya, Iran and North Korea also managed to acquire blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon, according to a draft report by a former top U.N. arms inspector

G-8 Says Oil, Food Prices Pose Threat to World Economy

Constitution of Newly Independent Kosovo Takes Effect

A Sober Assessment of Afghanistan

Outgoing U.S. Commander Cites 50% Spike in Attacks in East

Editorial 'Aggressive Action at Home' Another call for U.S. leadership on climate change

The Right Kind of Energy By Vinod Khosla, Biofuels can help our environment, economy and national security.

In Israel, Rice Criticizes West Bank Settlements

Perot, Back On the Charts By David S. Broder, Sixteen years after he shook up American politics by launching an impromptu campaign for president, Ross Perot is about to dip a toe back into the public debates. And, yes, he's bringing his charts with him to make his point.

For Russert, a Host of Tributes From Near and Far

Detainees May Be Denied Evidence for Defense

Read My Lips: We Need These Taxes By Roger Lowenstein There are (relatively) painless ways to make it more fair -- and reduce the deficit.

The Bubble How homeowners' missed mortgage payments set off widespread problems and woke up the Fed.

What We Owe Our Young By Sandra Day O'Connor and James R. Jones, Our next president's legacy will be defined by how he represents the interests of young Americans.

'I'm Not Anti-Islam; Islam is Anti-Me' Sally Quinn Interview | VIDEO: Ayaan Hirsi Ali explains why she left Islam and became an atheist.

Ireland Snubs the EU Conor O'Clery | The tiny country votes to throw a huge wrench into EU reform. What now?

H6 Guardian Goodbye to all that

Editorial: World leaders have legacies. Global disasters have aftermaths

In this new age of warfare we need clearer rules on when to cross borders Philip Bobbitt: The threat from armed groups and states set on mass killing gives fresh urgency to calls for global criteria on intervention

PM denies rift with Bush over Iraq

Spokeswoman for PM says there was 'no disagreement' over the withdrawal of troops from Iraq

Smugglers had warhead blueprint

Ex-weapons inspector fears 'rogue' states bought plan for sophisticated nuclear warhead on black market

Karzai stokes border tensions

Afghan president warns he will send troops across frontier with Pakistan to pursue Taliban

EU should take new route - Miliband The foreign secretary comes close to declaring that the EU Lisbon treaty is dead

Rice attacks Israel's settlement plans Jerusalem's city council unveil plans to build 40,000 new apartments over the next 10 years

Saudi Arabia to raise crude production to ease prices Opec to increase July output in second consecutive rise in the hope it will depress the crude oil price

Scarcity in an age of plenty

Joseph Stiglitz: As food and fuel prices continue to increase the world must look to new patterns of consumption and production

Is Europe ready for life after Bush?

Ken Gude: His departure will open the door for new transatlantic relations, but clearing away the damage he has done will be a huge task

A legacy of understanding Karma Nabulsi: Orientalism at 30 It is the quintessential Palestinian text of the 1970s. But Orientalism's humanistic plea still resonates today

The check to US executive power hangs in the balance Michael Tomasky: The supreme court is crucial in redressing such abuses as Guantánamo. A President McCain is sure to dilute its scrutiny

We forget at our peril Peter Preston: The rightwing press may see the EU as a gravy train, but if the project unravels we are all in deep trouble

42 days? Try 18 months Evo Morales: This European targeting of illegal immigrants is hypocritical, draconian and undiplomatic

The Observer The Irish vote must not thwart a better Europe

Editorial: Without reforming the way it makes decisions, the EU will continue to look like a self-serving, arcane bureaucracy

Europe must not be derailed by lies and disinformation Will Hutton:Ireland's voters have primed a bomb that could lead to EU break-up

Bush warns Brown over plan to cut Iraq force Exclusive interview: US president tells UK to avoid rushing into troop withdrawals

EU tries to isolate Irish over treaty

Germany and France scramble to resuscitate the Lisbon Treaty after Ireland's crushing blow

EU chief offers Iran new deal as nuclear sanctions loom Iran weighs up trade deals offered in exchange for halting uranium enrichment programme

I freed millions from barbarism, says President with no regretsThe US president talks to Ned Temko about his legacy, Iran and his plans for a freedom institute devoted to 'universal values'

George W Bush on ... The outgoing US president on Iran, Iraq and life after the White House

US elections: Evangelical flock strays from the Republican fold

McCain 'neither trusted nor liked' by evangelical voters in Colorado Springs

H7

Major Setback on Nuclear Crisis - Michael Theodoulou, Times of London

Intelligence on the Qods Force is the Key - Galrahn, Information Dissemination

Boston Globe Iraq, the sovereign colony? PRESIDENT BUSH has been treating Iraq less as an ally than a vassal. He has been pushing Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to accept two long-term agreements that would, as many Iraqis rightly object, compromise Iraq's sovereignty and independence. (Boston Globe)

Rattled Pakistan Looks to Musharraf By: Syed Saleem Shahzad | Asia Times The United States air strikes that killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops this week have shaken the country to the core, so much so that President Pervez Musharraf, who was about to be consigned to the bin of history, could make a remarkable comeback

Could Iraq Surge Success, Paradoxically Benefit Obama? By: Charles Crain | World Politics Review Sen. John McCain's best chance of victory may lie in championing the hugely unpopular war in Iraq. But the surge's success could also undermine the effectiveness of McCain's uncompromising rhetoric on the war

Iraq: After the Tipping Point By: Amir Taheri | Asharq Alawsat
Now that the Bush presidency moves towards its close, many opponents of new Iraq, especially in the West and Arab countries, are beginning to admit that new Iraq is not failing.

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

Saudi oil output to rise in July Saudi Arabia will increase its oil production by 200,000 barrels a day from July, its oil minister tells the United Nations.

Iraqi PM says security talks with US at impasse

Iraq Readies Forces for Militia Crackdown - Haider al-Nasrallah, Reuters

Muqtada's Outside-Inside Game (Updated) - Dr. iRack, Abu Muqawama

Iraqi Forces Mass Outside of Amara - Kramer and Rubin, New York Times

Sadr's Movement to Back Independent Candidates - Voice of America

Sadr Shifts Strategy for Iraq Elections - Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press

US-Iraqi Talks on Security Agreement Reach "Deadlock"; Other Reports

Riyadh, Tehran "Near Deal" on Lebanon The Daily Star

Al-Jazeera Talkshow Discusses Iraqi-US Accord Negotiations, Iran Influence

Al-Maliki Views Iraqi-Jordanian Talks, Oil Supplies, Agreements With Iran, USA

Paper Considers Possible Scenarios for Iran Nuclear Dossier

View from Syria Hamas leader on strategic shifts in the Middle East

Keep talking Western countries are keen to keep Iran talks going

Al-Arabiya TV Correspondent Discusses French-Syrian "Rapprochement"

Saudi Paper Accuses Iran of Interfering, Meddling in Arab Affairs

Rice Urges Paris to Send Positive Message to Syria

Iranian Press Menu 15 Jun 08

Iraqi Economic Experts Stress Importance of Relations With Jordan

Article Alleges Doha Agreement Due Partly to Money Paid to Lebanese Leaders

Iran Official Stresses Regional Security Ties

H9 Ha’aretz Rice: Settlement building may harm Israel-PA talks

Gideon Levy: Europe's hatred of Muslims makes it back Israel despite occupation

Olmert aides: Israel and Syria may hold direct talks soon

Syria and Israel aiming for direct peace talks by next month Senior Turkish source familiar with the talks said still no talk of a possible Olmert-Assad summit

Israel promises Syria: Talks to proceed despite domestic crises

Hamas in Gaza, one year on / Everyone in the region is talking to each other

Harel Hezbollah first

Eldar Getting fed up When Israel is perceived as the central factor in the tensions with Iran, it should not be surprised if it is depicted in the world as the major offender in the spiraling cost of oil

Jerusalem Post'Rice criticism ruffles few feathers'

Gov't source tells 'Post' secretary of state's remarks on e. J'lem building "not making waves today."

Complaints from a dead duck Why Condi's talking tough about construction in east Jerusalem

Analysis: One year after 'coup,' Hamas still favored

The dark side of Damascus

'Israel-Hizbullah deal extremely close'

Sources in New York reportedly don't rule out possibility of prisoner swap on Friday or next Sunday

Memo from Madeleine Madeline Albright on world's trouble spots and commander-in-chief's tools

Yedioth Ahronoth Olmert: We'll keep building
Prime minister meets with visiting US secretary of state, responds to latter's harsh criticism against construction in east Jerusalem. 'We're building in Jewish neighborhoods which are expected to remain in Israeli hands,' he says

'Assad should meet Olmert' President calls for direct Israeli-Syrian talks if both sides genuinely interested in forging trust

Hamas patience pays off/ Shaked Hamas believes its firm stand in face of pressure forced Israel to agree to truce

Before the next war starts The IDF is capable of taking over and flattening Gaza; but then what?

Barak has failed Is defense minister again failing to realize this is time for actions, not words?

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

Israel and Syria 'in peace talks'
Israeli officials have resumed indirect peace talks with Syria with the mediation of Turkey, reports say.

Rice warns on Israel settlements Condoleezza Rice warns Jewish settlement building is having a "negative effect" on efforts for Middle East peace.

Hamas's Haniyah Comments on Possible Gaza Incursion, Abbas's Call for Dialogue

Halt Talks With Israel Instead of Turning to "Helpless" EU - Gazan Commentator

Palestinian Commentary Urges Fatah, Hamas to Implement Reform

Hamas Consolidates Its Sway Over Gaza A Year After Ouster of Fatah, Islamists Spread Authority Across All Aspects of Life

Rice criticizes Israel on West Bank settlements

Israel Approves Plan to Build Tens of Thousands of Apartments in East Jerusalem

H10 Christian Science Monitor A year later: Hamas still defiant, but Gazans continue to struggle The Islamist militant group has controlled the coastal strip for a year now and says it will not relent to international pressure.

Afghan prison attack stirs tensions with Pakistan President Hamid Karzai threatened Sunday to send troops to Pakistan to fight militants themselves.

How to cut the price of oil Energy costs have become a driving force of inflation.

The real reason running mates matter Of the past 11 VPs, 7 went on to become their party's presidential nominee.

Candidates: Stop misusing religion Faith tours? Clergy endorsements? That's not America.

Zimbabwe's pro-Mugabe war vets draw hard line In a rare interview, militia leader threatens to take over more white-owned farms and businesses.

ASIA

India Takes the High Ground Against China By: Sudha Ramachandran | Asia Times After 43 years, India has re-opened an airfield, the highest-altitude air base in the world, that overlooks China's Xinjiang province and the Karakoram Highway to Pakistan. Delhi says the move is in response to Chinese incursions, and should be seen as a clear sign that it is fed up with being bullied on the Sino-Indian border.

Rattled Pakistan Looks to Musharraf By: Syed Saleem Shahzad | Asia Times The United States air strikes that killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops this week have shaken the country to the core, so much so that President Pervez Musharraf, who was about to be consigned to the bin of history, could make a remarkable comeback

Scrutable, 'Invisible' Japan By: Kazuo Ogoura | The Japan Times
If Japan cannot summon the verve and ambition to express its opinions on the shape of the world of tomorrow, it risks becoming more and more "invisible."

Afghanistan's president threatens to send troops into Pakistan

The World Watches China's Rise to Power

Pay Attention to Pakistan - Trudy Rubin, Miami Herald opinion

'A Case of Exploding Mangoes' Reviewed by ROBERT MACFARLANE Who killed General Zia of Pakistan? A novel revisits the question. First Chapter

Karzai Threatens to Send Troops Into Pakistan

US Missile Strike Kills One in Pakistan

H11 IHT A moment of clarity in Baghdad As the Bush administration pushes for a legal agreement to extend the American military presence in Iraq, the Iraqis are pushing back. That is a positive sign.

Letter from Cairo By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN If prices keep soaring, food and fuel could reshape politics around the developing world as much as nationalism or Communism did in their days.

Irish voters reject EU treatyThe defeat of the treaty, by a vote of 53.4 percent to 46.6 percent, was the result of a highly organized campaign that played to Irish voters' deepest fears about the EU

The animosity does not run deep

By JAMES K. GLASSMAN

Americans can listen better and we can work to rectify the lies and misconceptions about our image overseas.

Roger Cohen: In praise of being cut off To be 'always on' in our accelerated world is to be always off, to something.

Kosovo's new constitution in place amid deep divisions A new constitution for Kosovo came into force Sunday that hands power to the ethnic Albanian government after nine years of United Nations administration

The 'legacy' question trails Bush on his European tour The U.S. president professes not to dwell on his legacy, but the question hangs over his eight-day visit to Europe nonetheless - in interviews he has given to foreign journalists and in his friendships with European leaders

China-Germany talks thaw relations that had cooled over Tibet Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was in Beijing to "resume the interrupted strategic dialogue in the second half of the year."

NATO again fails to substantially bolster Afghan mission A session of NATO defense ministers ended Friday after following a familiar script in the debate over Afghanistan: Defense Secretary Robert Gates made a plea for U.S. allies to fulfill pledges for troops. The allies promised modest additions

EUROPE European press review

Bush drops straight-talk in Europe for alphabet soup diplomacy

France's Return to NATO Can Complement EU Security By: Leo Michel | Der Spiegel President Sarkozy seeks a rapprochement with NATO while strengthening the European Union’s defense dimension. France’s allies, including the United States and Germany, have welcomed this. But Sarkozy faces strong domestic resistance to changing France’s relationship to NATO.

U.S. Sees Kosovo as Model By: NIcholas Kralev | The Washington Times The U.S. military, which has been part of a NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo for nine years, views its mission as a model for its presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.

France Must Recognize Its Invisible Workforce By: Jessica Reed | The Guardian Illegal workers prop up the French economy but are given no recognition. Risking everything, they have come out on strike

Parallel systems? Why Kosovo's handover of power is less than clear

Mardell's Europe An EU treaty that is not yet dead, but dying

Despite popular myth, anti-Americanism in Europe isn’t on the rise

CRACKDOWN: Italy defends move to patrol streets with soldiers...

BBC Brown and Bush in talks at No 10

Gordon Brown and George W Bush hold formal talks on the second day of the US president's two-day visit to the UK.

EU meeting on Irish No aftermath EU foreign ministers gather for talks on how to respond to the Irish rejection of the Lisbon reform treaty.

H12 RFE/RL

NATO not planning bases in Ukraine

Google News Azerbaijan

Just Say 'Nyet!' By: Brook Horowitz | International Herald Tribune Significant progress in reducing corruption will be possible when people in positions of power and influence in Russia finally accept that the value of values outweighs the cost of values, and start acting accordingly

H13 The Times Last day in Britain for President George W Bush Final tour of Europe secured vague assurances of support but little tangible progress for what remains of his foreign policy

True believers could quit EU The only way a hard core could go it alone is by reforming as a 'Lisbon Treaty Club' and leaving the EU behind

President Karzai in terror warning

Leader vows to widen hunt for Taleban into Pakistan and warns Baitullah Mehsud that he intends to hunt him down

Life in Iraq's Triangle of Death

Like an increasing number of Iraq's 2.7million internally displaced people, the Assaf family decided to risk going home

Irish PM under pressure to save treaty Brian Cowen is facing huge pressure from EU leaders to keep the Lisbon treaty alive but he does not know how to save it

Rogue states may have atomic missile plans Computer files show that an international smuggling ring may have sold nuclear weapons designs to Iran and North Korea

Kosovo takes control with little fanfare Pristina Government adopted its new constitution but Belgrade insisted that it would never recognise the breakaway status

Sunday Times No 10 admits EU treaty is finished

Bush arrives in Britain with Bin Laden demand As US president takes tea with the Queen, he enlists British special forces in final attempt to capture al-Qaeda leader

EU copes fine without a constitution There will be an attempt by some to say that the Irish did not understand what they were rejecting

Al-Sadr forms elite wing to fight US forces Virulently anti-American militant leader moves to reassert control over his sprawling army and refocus on political aims

Tehran's last chance of deal on nuclear power International assistance to develop peaceful nuclear energy programme offered if Iran halts uranium enrichment

Contempt for democracy It is not the treaty that is dead, but Europe’s democratic process

Obama: my wife will be demonised Just one week into the US general election and the battle is already degenerating into depressingly familiar terrain

Dismayed Republicans emerge as Obamacons After eight years of disappointment, scores of high-profile Republicans and conservatives are switching their allegiances

Wall Street Journal Democracies Can't Compromise on Core Values
By Natan Sharansky There's a reason Muslims aren't assimilating in Europe's 'postnational' states.

An Irish Education
Dublin teaches Europe about democracy. Review & Outlook

Europe After Lisbon
By Anand Menon The EU doesn't need a new treaty, nor the navel-gazing its demise is bound to bring.

The Irish Majority
By Bruce Arnold Why can't the EU take 'no' for an answer?

Afghan Prison Break
Habeas corpus, Taliban-style

Russert's Career Advice: Just Do It
By Robert Costa In journalism, hard work really does pay off.

H14 Financial Times Solana’s gambit Sooner or later, Iran must grasp the international community’s offer on the table, otherwise it will become clear what its ulterior motives really are

Europe’s rocky roadThe Irish rebuke on the Lisbon treaty will make it difficult to justify a second referendum any time soon

EU leaders scramble to solve treaty crisis The heads of European Union states will seek to salvage something from the wreckage of the Lisbon pact after Ireland’s rejection of the agreement last week

Wolfgang Münchau: Europe’s plan B

Once 26 countries have ratified, the pressure on Ireland will become unbearable, writes Wolfgang Münchau

Iran shows interest in nuclear compromise Diplomats recorded an unexpectedly positive reaction from Tehran when the international community offered to help Iran develop a civil nuclear energy programme if it halted uranium enrichment

Saudis eye large boost to oil output capacity The kingdom is considering increasing production to its highest level in more than 25 years to bring down record prices and ease political pressure from developed countries

Israeli plan threatens peace talks, says Rice The US secretary of state warns that a proposal to build hundreds of homes in an occupied West Bank settlement might hurt already fragile negotiations with the Palestinians

Iraq to dominate Bush and Brown dialogue Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, yesterday sought to play down trans-atlantic tensions over British troop withdrawals from Iraq ahead of an informal dinner with...

Rising power of Hamas worries PA and Israel A year into its rule in the Gaza Strip, the Islamist group has consolidated its authority and retained popular support in spite of food shortages and power cuts

The Fed, the dollar and wider price concerns Congress and the White House should help resolve the financial crisis as it has become too great a burden for the Federal Reserve to handle alone, writes David Hale

Detente in the Taiwan Strait

Beijing must follow the deal on aviation with other concessions that would benefit Taiwan while doing no harm to China or its claim to sovereignty

Kosovo’s constitution takes effect

The newly independent country will take over duties such as policing and justice from the United Nations after nine years – but the European Union’s supervisory role remains unclear

Editorial comment: Doomed anthems

Traditional anthems glorify fallen heroes and celebrate the slaughter of dastardly foes. Such themes are tricky these days, and not just for Kosovo

China warms to green alliance with US China and the US should set up joint research laboratories for renewable energy and other pollution-reducing technologies, according to a Chinese vice premier

US fears over A.Q. Khan nuclear ring The US is concerned that the illicit network set up by Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan may have distributed designs for nuclear warheads as well as uranium enrichment technology

McCain attacks Guantánamo ruling

Candidate calls the Supreme Court decision to allow Guantánamo Bay prisoners to challenge their detention in US courts ‘one of the worst decisions in the history of this country’

G8 warns on rising inflation threat

Hank Paulson, the US Treasury secretary, has talked up the dollar as the Group of Eight finance ministers warned of the increasing threat inflation posed to their economies

Israeli plan threatens peace talks, says Rice The US secretary of state warns that a proposal to build hundreds of homes in an occupied West Bank settlement might hurt already fragile negotiations with the Palestinians

Inevitable trauma Politicians and business people must give the Bank the backing it needs for actions required to keep inflationary expectations securely under control

Caught in the middleBritish consumers are reeling under the impact of rising food and fuel costs, falling house prices and tightening credit conditions

Time to put the EU treaty on ice

Europe does not need to turn the Irish No vote into a crisis of confidence. Just make the European Union work better with its present rules

John Thornhill: Irish ‘No’ leads to yet another European psychodrama

The bigger question raised by the Irish, French and Dutch votes is whether there remains enough solidarity to underpin the EU’s legitimacy, writes John Thornhill

EU set to crack down on rating agencies Brussels is to unveil “targeted regulatory measures” for credit rating agencies operating in Europe over the next few months in response to anger over their role in promoting the sale of complex structured investments

It wouldn’t be Nice if the Irish had voted for LisbonMaverecon blog: Telling the Irish people: “keep on voting till you get it right” would be both contemptible and counterproductive

Orthodox responses to taxing issues

Aside from their disagreement over the distribution of the tax burden, the biggest difference between the presidential candidates on economic policy is over healthcare – and on this they are far apart, writes Clive Crook

Ireland insists Brian Cowen, the Irish prime minister, has given the first indication that he will resist demands to stage a second referendum in the wake of Ireland's rejection of...

Comment: Win-win for China-US energy efforts Stronger co-operation between the two countries on energy and the environment will bring about tremendous business opportunities and handsome returns for American investors, writes Wang Qishan

H15 Los Angeles Times

Editorial

Iraq security forces expand their campaign against the Mahdi Army

The city of Amarah is a stronghold of the Sadr movement. Nouri Maliki reportedly set a deadline for the surrender of explosives and larger weapons

Iraqi cleric Sadr to demobilize most of his militia

France urges pursuing EU treaty

French President Nicolas Sarkozy led calls Saturday for the European Union to press on with ratifying its new treaty, but Ireland's "no" vote revived talk of pro-European capitals forming their own club

Europe greets Bush with a yawn instead of a snarl this time

Pakistan's truce effort interferes with U.S. battle against militants

American and NATO officials fear the negotiations in tribal areas will result in more violence in Afghanistan.

Karzai threatens to send forces into Pakistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened today to send Afghan troops after notorious Taliban leaders inside Pakistan in an angry warning to his eastern neighbor that he will no longer tolerate cross-border attacks.


Iran is offered incentives to halt uranium enrichment

The Islamic Republic appears likely to reject the new package of economic and political inducements from Europe, Russia, China and the U.S.

In China, the game has changed

By Victor D. Cha Playing host to the Olympics may be forcing new ways on the rigid regime

America isn't over By Ted Widmer The next president must free us from Bush's 'freedom agenda,' but that's not an excuse to disengage from the world

15 killed in hunt for escaped Taliban inmates U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces killed more than 15 insurgents during a hunt for inmates who fled prison after a sophisticated Taliban attack.

A Perot moment Editorial: The former presidential candidate met his day's economic concerns head on. We could use that now.

Microsoft the underdog

By Matthew DeBord Yahoo is doomed in its deal with the ever-expanding Google. Somehow, Bill Gates' company is now the hero.

H16 American Politics

Mapping the 2008 Battlegrounds - Peter Brown, Wall Street Journal


Why Obama Should Pick Hillary as VP - Ed Kilgore, Salon

McCain and Obama Trade Blows Over Iraq - Stephen Hayes, Wkly Standard

The Mythology of Munich 1938 - Evan Thomas, Newsweek

U.S. Can Rebound Globally After Bush - Ted Widmer, Los Angeles Times


Why McCain Should Pick Rudy - David Frum, New Republic

Many Historians See Little Chance for McCain - David Paul Kuhn, Politico


Obama's Real Electoral Challenge - Noemie Emery, Weekly Standard

Age Becomes the New Race and Gender - Adam Nagourney, New York Times

Can Obama Cut Into the Evangelical Vote? - Maureen Callahan, NY Pos

A War Worth Fighting - Christopher Hitchens, Newsweek

Obama would apply payroll tax on incomes above $250,000

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

Under George Bush, red states were red and blue states were blue; this year the map could be drenched in purple.

'One Man’s America' By GEORGE F. WILL Reviewed by JACOB HEILBRUNN George Will, unlike the radicals of the right, wants to preserve American traditions.

Obama has big Internet advantage as campaign begins While it's no guarantee he'll win in November, Obama has technological advantages over McCain that could help him raise money and organize supporters, surveys of Web use show. He's got seven times more Facebook supporters and 10 times more YouTube hits. Obama's supporters also are more likely to give money and volunteer via the Internet.

Economy faces that '70s feeling again; Fed has a big challenge

Not since the 1970s has the U.S. economy faced such an ugly combination of a persistent energy shock, a looming recession threat and menacing inflation that stays stubbornly high -- even in the face of a screeching slowdown in growth. This combination has the Federal Reserve, charged by law with both sustaining growth and curbing inflation, in a bind

H17 Daily Telegraph Iran softens nuclear stance Iran willing to find diplomatic solution

Obama's call to black fathers Act like men not boys, urges Fathers' Day speech.

For all the flaws, Bush is a loyal friend It would be churlish not to bid Mr Bush welcome in his final presidential visit to London. He might not have been the easiest of allies, but an ally he has been

Bush urges Brown to keep troops in Iraq George W Bush is urging Gordon Brown to delay the withdrawal of troops from Iraq until the security situation has improved

Kosovo’s Albanians take power Kosovo saw an historic transfer of power on Sunday when its Albanian majority took control of the government for the first time.

Karzai threatens cross-border raids Afghanistan threatened to mount cross-border raids into Pakistan when President Hamid Karzai insisted on his country's right to "self defence".

EU foreign ministers try to save treaty EU foreign ministers will meet in Luxembourg to attempt to salvage the Lisbon Treaty and prepare the ground for a crisis summit in Brussels this week

Sunday Telegraph If EU will not listen, it risks popular revolt

The EU brings many benefits to its members, and properly organised and run, it could bring many more, but it is vital that its rules and institutions are endorsed democratically

Iraq future at heart of final Bush visit Mr Bush has urged the UK not to withdraw unilaterally or set a "definite timetable".

Kosovo’s Albanians take power Kosovo saw an historic transfer of power on Sunday when its Albanian majority took control of the government for the first time

Armed Forces are a credit to our country Whether risking their lives or helping to rebuild societies, our Forces do invaluable work. We must never forget what we owe them, says The Prince of Wales.

How Taliban sprang 450 terrorists Sarposa's entire population of 1,100 inmates is enjoying freedom after an audacious Taliban attack engineered one of the biggest mass jail breaks in history

H18 Independent Saudi King: 'We will pump more oil' Saudi Arabia will raise oil production to record levels in an attempt to avert an escalation of social and political unrest around the world.

Sean Farrell: Regimes play power games with supplies

Leading article: The oil era reaches its desperate endgame

Brown ready to rain on Bush parade with Iraq pull-out Gordon Brown is ready to override the misgivings of George Bush, in the UK on an official visit, by going ahead with a major announcement on British troop withdrawals from Iraq.

EU leaders move to keep treaty alive amid fears of permanent rift Deep cracks appeared yesterday in the efforts of European governments to put a brave face on Ireland's rejection of the European Union reform treaty.

Iran set to reject ultimatum on nuclear programme

Independent on Sunday Exclusive: New batch of terror files left on train Secret government documents detailing the UK's policies towards fighting global terrorist funding, drugs trafficking and money laundering have been found on a London-bound train and handed to 'The Independent on Sunday'.

What now for Europe? The EU's Irish problem The Irish Republic woke up yesterday with a severe collective political hangover, in the wake of the voters' rejection of the Lisbon Treaty

Iraqi refugee crisis grows as West turns its back

James Fergusson: Sooner or later, we have to talk to the Taliban

Obama plans foreign tour as Bush flies to Britain As President George Bush continues his farewell tour of Europe this weekend the two men lining up to succeed him in the White House are plotting trips of their own to prove their foreign policy mettle

Kandahar locked down after Taliban's dramatic prison raid

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

What statistics don't tell us: The bad news about the good news about terrorism.

America's prison for terrorists often held the wrong men McClatchy Newspapers Mohammed Akhtiar was washing his hands at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp when fellow prisoners crept up behind him and smashed him in the head with a metal mop squeezer. The assailants knew something the U.S. military didn't — Akhtiar was no terrorist bent on attacking the United States, but an active opponent of Afghanistan's al Qaida-allied Taliban regime.

Guantanamo was supposed to house the "worst of the worst." But a McClatchy investigation that included interviews with 66 former detainees on three continents found that dozens of the men imprisoned there — and maybe hundreds — were no threat at all, and some in the U.S. government knew it. » read more

Kaplan on Rumsfeld - Max Boot, Contentions

H20 Slate The Great Snipe Hunt of 2008 Tracking the much discussed Hillary-turned-McCain voters.
John Dickerson

Spoiling the Barrel By: Jeremy Leggett | The Guardian Many in and around the oil industry believe that the 300 billion barrels of Opec reserves additions from the 1980s are - let us put it politely -- political oil.

Where Has All the Water Gone? By: Maude Barlow | The American Prospect
The world's water crisis poses grave threats to our survival. Can we change course?

H21 Born to nap? The midday snooze has gained new scientific respect. View the steps toward the perfect siesta. (By Jennifer Ackerman, graphic by Javier Zarracina)

Google is giving us pond-skater minds Andrew Sullivan on the corrosive power of technology

Scientists find bugs that eat waste and...

Asian-Americans, the new Jews

Despite the myths, Jews don't all get degrees in law, medicine or finance.

Mars soil may hold water A space probe sent to search for signs of water on Mars has found unusually "sticky soil" which scientists believe may hold the first ice to be collected from an alien world

'Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It' Elizabeth Royte asks why Americans spend billions on bottled water when they can guzzle tap water for next to nothing.

Words, words, words: Michael Kinsley on a brilliant new way for measuring the productivity of journalists.

Malthus Redux: Is Doomsday Upon Us, Again? As the hungry riot, the ideas of a British thinker of 200 years ago get another look

More on Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World (and an interview and more).

NYT Chingiz Aitmatov, Who Wrote of Life in U.S.S.R., Is Dead at 79 Mr. Aitmatov was a Communist writer who gave a voice to the people of the remote Soviet republic of Kyrgyz, and later became a diplomat and a friend and adviser to the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev

Surprising insights from the social sciences Bullying, choosing a double major, and a mystery in the bathtub. (By Kevin Lewis, Boston Globe)

A league table of liveable cities

For every city that made the list, Tyler Brule says there are many others with zero concept of how to make their citizens happier

China's SAT: If the SAT lasted two days, covered everything you'd ever studied, and decided your future

Questions For Gore Vidal

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In a Changing World of News, an Elegy for Copy Editors Copy editors are more powerful than proofreaders. They untangle twisted prose. They are surgeons, removing growths of error and irrelevance.

ROGER COHEN In Praise of Being Cut Off Content for platforms does not make a story. Today, you arrive anywhere and surf the Net. Being “always on” is being always off, to something.

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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
It never rains circa. 1991.
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