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H1 Slate Protecting the Oil Supply What if the Chinese were to apply the Carter Doctrine? Shmuel Rosner

Guardian A shot in the dark

Editorial: Efforts to persuade Iran to freeze its programme of uranium enrichment are entering a dangerous new phase

Bush is trying to impose a classic colonial status on Iraq Seumas Milne: US efforts to force Iraqis to swallow permanent vassal status and give up control of their oil echoes British imperial history

9/11's fading force Michael Tomasky: Would another major terrorist attack on US soil significantly boost the Republican party? I'm not so sure

Washington Post When Good Coalitions Go Bad By Richard Perle On Iran, Condoleezza Rice and Barack Obama are both right

The Rise of The Obamacons

By Robert D. Novak Why so many conservatives are taking a serious look at Barack Obama.

Too Much Hot Air By Bjorn Lomborg, Global warming is real, but most plans to slow it are unrealistic and most rhetoric about it is unhelpful.

Climate Issues Tied to U.S. Security By Walter Pincus, U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that global climate change will worsen food shortages and disease exposure in sub-Saharan Africa over the next two decades, creating operational problems for the Pentagon's newest overseas military command

With Deal, Olmert Averts Rebellion by Partners

West to Pursue Twin Track in Iran Nuclear Dispute By: Stephanie Nebehay | Reuters
Western powers will continue a twin track policy of sanctions and diplomacy towards Iran over its nuclear program, the EU's top diplomat said on Wednesday, despite Tehran's warnings it could backfire.

MESH Assign Iran to Israel? By Josef Joffe

International Energy Outlook 2008 - Highlights Source: Energy Information Administration

Geopolitical Diary: A U.S.-Iranian Dance of Diplomacy | Stratfor

Christian Science Monitor

Post-Soviet 'frozen conflicts' heat up as big-power interests collide

Tensions are growing as NATO and a resurgent Russia divide over future of breakaway statelets.

Israel's embattled Olmert survives, for now The prime minister skirted a vote to dissolve Israel's parliament by agreeing to allow a September primary election within his centrist Kadima Party.

Can Lebanon douse political fires? Fighting in Tripoli is indicative of rising Sunni-Shiite tensions as the formation of a new government hits an impasse. Religious leaders called for calm Wednesday.

Obama and Clinton campaign together How is he doing at winning over her supporters – and tapping into her formidable fundraising network? What might she get in return?

The Times Ireland's 'no' vote: a big earthquake Despite the protestations of the European elites, the vote changes the whole future of the EU Anatole Kaletsky

Pakistan: the Khyber impasse

Pakistan cannot afford to lose control of its gateway to Afghanistan

The Post-American WorldThe Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria - Times Online

Fareed Zakaria’s view of the 21st-century world is too cosy for comfort

Wall Street Journal Iran's Troubling Opposition
By Amir Taheri It's a shame that some of the mullahs' enemies are terrorists themselves.

Diplomacy Is Working on North Korea
By Condoleezza Rice The multilateral path has helped us learn a lot we otherwise wouldn't know.

Uighur Justice By Nury A. Turkel They have a beef with China, not the U.S

It's All About Obama By Karl Rove The senator risks being painted as arrogant and self-centered

Independent David Miliband: Miliband's manifesto

While Gordon Brown has chosen not to mark his first anniversary, the Foreign Secretary sets out his vision in a wide-ranging interview with Steve Richards

Jerusalem Post Time to rethink Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee Howard Berman urges a new US strategy on thwarting Iran.

A disastrous attack on Iran? [ CHUCK FREILICH

American Interest A Nation In Debt barbara dafoe whitehead
The subprime mortgage debacle has deep roots in the decline of thrift.

OpenDemocracy Russia: where are the petrodollars going? Fuelled by petrodollars, inflation is rising again in Russia. Corruption is a complicating factor. What to do? Dmitri Travin examines the options

American Prospect Talking to Iran Is Not So Controversial Don't look now but there is a broad consensus on what the next administration should do about Iran. Ilan Goldenberg

CFR Media Conference Call: How to Manage China’s Challenge to the Global Economy (Audio)

IHT Interconnected we prosper

By WILLIAM J. AMELIO Poverty is receding at a rate unsurpassed in history; and the power of the emerging dreamers, thinkers, tinkerers and innovators worldwide have only just now begun to transform our world

Despite some setbacks, Sarkozy is riding high The French president has restored national diplomatic stature not only in Washington and European capitals, but also in Africa and the Middle East.

Asia Times US pushes Iraqi Shi'ites closer to Iran Beyond the issue of permanent United States bases in Iraq, the Shi'ite government of Nuri al-Maliki objects to a new security agreement with Washington on the grounds that it does not guarantee Iraq against foreign aggression. The Shi'ites fear possible US collaboration with Sunni Arab regimes to try to overthrow their administration, a fear that pushes them closer to Iran. - Gareth Porter

Neo-con redux? There's a mini revival of the neo-conservatives in the United States as they attempt to put the record straight about their policies that led to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the alliance with Pakistan. By contrast, the presidential hopefuls, Barack Obama and John McCain, are silent on key issues in these countries at a time the US's interests are under threat. - Ehsan Ahrari

• 'Innocence Abroad' by Scott Carpenter , The American Interest

The Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Institute has just issued an excellent report (PDF here) calling for a "responsible" withdrawal of US troops from Iraq that is "quick, careful, and generous."

H2 Germany vs. Turkey Player Ratings - International Herald Tribune

Euro Blogs: Tenacious Turkey

Goal.com - Euro 2008 - Player Ratings: Germany 3-2 Turkey

Avrupa Basını Türkiye'yi yazıyor

Guardian Last-gasp Lahm slams door on Turks Germany left it late but scraped past a vibrant Turkey 3-2 to qualify for the final of Euro 2008

Independent Germany 3 Turkey 2: Lahm has last word to deprive Turkey They wear you down, they make you believe you have a chance and then, when you least expect it, they break your hearts. Typical Germany.

The Times Lahm strikes ends Turkey's dream

NYT EURO 2008 - GERMANY 3, TURKEY 2; Turkey Scores Late Again, but Not Late Enough

Lahm sends fortunate Germany to final

LAT Germany isn't winning over fans

AKP’yi kapatmak talihsizliktir

CHP sosyal demokrat değil

Turkey: When Secularism and Democracy Collide New York Times,

Türkiye raporu bugün oylanacak

Turkish Ex-Antiterrorism Official Says Rebel Kurds Use Northern Iraq As Base

Beyaz Saray'da Bush-Talabani Görüşmesi

Turkey promotes new pipeline

Turkey's Constitution' International Herald Tribune Letters

EDM TURKEY TO TAKE PART IN IRAQI OIL EXTRACTION

NATO’da Türkiye’den daha önemli ülke yok

İşkenceye onay % 51

Turkey’s ‘New Policy’ in Central Asia

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

Remarks By President Bush and President Talabani of Iraq in Photo Opportunity

Cevdet Aşkın PKK şiddeti artıracak, gözler Erdoğan'ın Bağdat ziyaretinde

Kurds’ oil deals shake Iraq integrity

Dağlıca'daki 'şüphe'

Talabani: "Bölge ülkeleriyle ilişkileri geliştiriyoruz"

KRG and Korea National Oil Corporation sign new petroleum contracts

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 25 Jun 08

New oil contracts between Kurdistan and Seoul

Temsilci gönderip Çankaya'yı sordu

Turkey Approves Law for Non-Turkish State Broadcasts

Örgütten kaçıp hayata döndüler

Turkish Ex-Antiterrorism Official Says Rebel Kurds Use Northern Iraq As Base

TRT’den 24 saat Kürtçe yayın için yasa hazır

Tendürek’te 3 PKK’lı öldürüldü

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Bu adam nereye koşuyor, bu stres nasıl patlayacak!

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

AKPM’nin gündemi Türkiye demokrasisi

Aydınlardan AB’ye ‘genişleme’ çağrısı

ABD’den uyarı: AKP’nin kapatılması talihsizlik olur

Semih İdiz Fransız senatosunda sağduyu ağır bastı

Sami Kohen Sarko’nun tutumu değişir mi?

Rauf Denktaş Çözümden yana mısınız?

Time Who Will the Turks Cheer Now?

AP Türkiye Dostları Grubu kuruluyor

Bush, Bilderbergers Push EU Membership for Turkey | The New American

CHP’ye Sosyalist Enternasyonal darbesi

Türkiye, işkenceyle mücadelede Avrupa Birliği'nden iyi not aldı

Avrupa Konseyi'nde kritik gün

Şahin Alpay Belgrad'dan bakınca İrlanda

AB delegasyonu ile Türkiye ekonomisi tartışması

7. 'Ermeni katliamını Mustafa Kemal de lanetledi'

Şirketler türbanı yasaklayabilir

Ermeni yanlısı senatörden Erivan elçi adayına engel

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

’Çete avcısı’ polis ve oğlu sır dolu kazada yaralandı

‘Anadolu Jet’ fiyaskosu
HASAN CELAL GÜZEL

Dil bilmeyene yurtdışı görev

Magandalar için MOBESE kalkanı

Anayasa Mahkemesi bireyi korudu: Her bilgi herkese verilmez

Çevik Kuvvet psikolojik destek alacak

İnanılmaz kaza

H3

Yazılıp çizilene itibar etmeyiz paşam

'Genelkurmay, Dağlıca baskınını 9 gün önce öğrendi' iddiası

Taraf'tan şok belge!

Taraf gazetesi yeni bir şok belgeyle gündemde.Bu kez Dağlıca baskınına dair gizli belgeyi yayınladılar

‘Başbuğ da YAŞ’tan önce atanıyor’ iddiası

Sınır dışı edilecek mi?

Görüşmede ana konu terördü

'Sosyal demokrat değilsin demeyin'

Basını uyardı

Emniyet bizim bilgimiz dışında dinleme yapabilir

Dönüş sessiz

Fethullah Gülen: Gidişim kendimceydi, dönüşüm de öyle olacak

Yeşil kart kefillerinin tam listesi

Siyasette taşlar yerine oturacak, herkes yaptığından ders çıkaracak

Gülen'den 3 önemli mesaj

YAŞ öncesinde son MGK bugün

Yetkili kurumdan dinleme itirafları

'Başbakan'ımızla uzun vadeli terörle mücadeleyi görüştük'

'Kendim gibi döneceğim'

Baykal, Sosyalist Enternasyonel’e rest çekti: Gelmeyiz

Alevi açılımı sürüyor

Cemevi için düzenleme yok

"AK Parti gereken dersi almamıştır"

Bahçeli: "Türkiye AKP'ye muhtaç değil"

Başsavcı'nın Cumhurbaşkanı Gül hakkındaki iddiaları ortadan kalktı

Atatürk bu millete ruh ve inanç verdi

Günlük gazete başlıkları

‘O hâkimlere dava açın’

Baro panelinde Cumhurbaşkanı ve eşine hakaret

Adalet Bakanı 301'le ilgili yedi dosyadan altısını reddetti

'Kapatma davasının bedeli ağır oldu, enflasyon ve faiz tırmandı'

Son Dakika Milliyet Hürriyet Zaman

Cengiz Çandar

Ahmet Taşgetiren Travmaya travma demenin günahı

SOLİ ÖZEL Hukuk aramak

Ruşen - Çakır Ergenekon kitapları: İlişkiler derin, kitaplar sığ

Taha Akyol Travma

Fikret Bila Erdoğan-Başbuğ görüşmesinin düşündürdükleri

Hasan Cemal

Murat Yetkin Erdoğan, Genelkurmay’a Başbuğ’u getiriyor

İsmet Berkan Erdoğan da Fırat’a kızmış mıdır?

Fehmi Koru Timsah ve gözyaşları

Taha Kıvanç

Şamil Tayyar

Hüseyin Gülerce Gülen kararı, yeni dönemin başlangıcı

Bilal Çetin Olağandışılığın olağanlaşması...

Ali Bayramoğlu Travmalar meselesi…

Yasemin Çongar

Şükrü Küçükşahin AKP’de bir karşı grup

Ertuğrul Özkök Bu fotoğraftaki adama iyi bakın

YASİN DOĞAN Bahçeli'nin teklifi…

Mustafa Erdoğan AKP kapatılırsa laiklik kurtulur mu?

Ahmet Hakan Yeni başlayanlar için Dengir Bey

M Ali Birand Herşeyimiz, oynadığımız futbola benziyor

Cüneyt Ülsever Lahika ile travma arasına sıkışmış Türkiye (II)

Serdar Turgut Fethullah Gülen ve Cemil Meriç

Baykal bu anayasayı seviyor
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Futboldaki ve Anayasa’larımızdaki milliyetçilik ALTAN ÖYMEN

Enis Berberoğlu

Ardan Zentürk ‘Karar’ ve Türk okulları...

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Oray Eğin Cemaat ve Taraf kardeşliği

Sedat Sertoğlu Fethullah Gülen

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Yalçın Doğan Siz asıl bu vatandaşa bakın

Hadi Uluengin Láhika-3, elde var sıfır

Amaç:?Devleti şeffaf hale getirmek NİLGÜN BAŞALP

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERDAL ŞAFAK Fischer'in korkuları

Mümtazer Türköne Travma

ENGİN ARDIÇ Travmatik yazı

ERGUN BABAHAN

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Umur Talu Son kullanma tarihi

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MAHMUT ÖVÜR 'Darbeler sandıkta hesaplaşmayı engelliyor'

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ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu Bankacılıkta bilanço riskleri

Erdal Sağlam Enerjide devlet politikası olmalı

'Yüksek faiz enflasyonu tahrik etti'

Hurşit Güneş Küresel değişimler ve bizdeki para politikası

Meral Tamer Ekonomide son 25 yılın tipik kriz modeli geride kaldı

Seyfettin Gürsel Kemal Derviş'in büyüme hayali

Türkiye IMF’nin stand-by sınavını geçti

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IMF son iki stand-by için olumlu not verdi

Yeni G7 MAHFİ EĞİLMEZ

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KORKMAZ İLKORUR

H4 New York Times Delicate Talks for Democrats on a Path to a Unified Party With the help of a Washington lawyer, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are negotiating issues like how to repay Mrs. Clinton’s campaign debt and her role at the Democratic convention

ROGER COHEN Why Obama Should Visit a Mosque Fear-mongering about Islam is a global industry. Barack Obama has a unique power to break the cycle, not least by emboldening moderate Muslims to denounce terror.

The Petro-Manipulators The root of the current energy crisis goes back years, and has more to do with manipulation than inefficiency, writes Timothy Egan.

Voters split over McCain, Obama views on Iraq

Editorial Anger and Restraint By striking down the death penalty for the rape of a child, the Supreme Court’s ruling should deter efforts to extend the use of capital punishment

H5 Washington Post When Good Coalitions Go Bad By Richard Perle

On Iran, Condoleezza Rice and Barack Obama are both right

The Rise of The Obamacons

By Robert D. Novak Why so many conservatives are taking a serious look at Barack Obama.

Too Much Hot Air By Bjorn Lomborg, Global warming is real, but most plans to slow it are unrealistic and most rhetoric about it is unhelpful.

Climate Issues Tied to U.S. Security

By Walter Pincus, U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that global climate change will worsen food shortages and disease exposure in sub-Saharan Africa over the next two decades, creating operational problems for the Pentagon's newest overseas military command

With Deal, Olmert Averts Rebellion by Partners

ANALYSIS McCain-Obama So Far: Positively Negative By Dan Balz

One Senator Says 'Enough' By Dan Froomkin

4 U.S. Soldiers, Interpreter Killed In Iraq Fighting Americans Blamed in Death of 4 Relatives

Don't Deport the Talent By George F. Will, The technology industry shows the absurdity of U.S. immigration policy.

Drawing a Line By David S. Broder,

Unfair voting districts hurt our democracy more than a broken campaign-finance system

High Court Rejects Death For Child Rape Penalty Reserved for Murder And Crimes Against State

Computer Files Hold Key in CIA Case Officer Had Maps, Photos Involving Abducted Cleric, Court Told

H6 Guardian A shot in the dark

Editorial: Efforts to persuade Iran to freeze its programme of uranium enrichment are entering a dangerous new phase

Bush is trying to impose a classic colonial status on Iraq Seumas Milne: US efforts to force Iraqis to swallow permanent vassal status and give up control of their oil echoes British imperial history

9/11's fading force Michael Tomasky: Would another major terrorist attack on US soil significantly boost the Republican party? I'm not so sure

Fed holds key interest rate at 2%

Concern about rising inflationary pressures outweighs worries about sluggishness in economy

A world less flat Ryan Avent: If the price of oil remains high, we may see drastic changes to America's cities, economy and way of life

Lies, damned lies and John McCain Matthew Yglesias: Despite his record of twists, evasions and misstatements, the Republican candidate gets a free ride from the American media

Unhappy birthday Editorial: There are precious few crumbs of comfort for Gordon Brown in the voters' verdict on his first full year in office

We don't need guns to help the people pitch Mugabe from his perch Timothy Garton Ash: Mandela may be a better bet than the Almighty to remove a ruler who has turned his country into a hell on earth

Obama's overly disciplined message Shahnaz Habib: The Obama campaign's snub of Muslim supporters is a betrayal of minority Americans who placed their hopes in him

H7

No One in PD Conducts PD Overseas

David Andelman: Iraq According To Its Sheikhs

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

Iraq, U.S. Making Progress on Security Pact: Talabani

Bush, Talabani discuss complex Iraq security deal

Iran's Envoy to Iraq Speaks on US-Iraq Security Pact

U.N. investigators look at Syria's alleged secret nuclear site

'Good start' to UN's Syria probe UN nuclear inspectors say their investigation into claims Syria was developing nuclear weapons is off to a good start.

Saudis hold 520 terror suspects

US forces face spike in deadly violence in Iraq

H9 Ha’aretz – Jihad threatens to continue rocket attacks, despite truce

Rosner's Guest: Israel was wrong on Hezbollah war, wrong on Gaza restraint

1 out of 5 Israelis wants to leave the country (WTR)

What the public wants The questions of whether the Syrians will dip their feet in the Kinneret, or whether Jerusalem will be divided must be subject to a referendum

Ex-Knesset speaker Avrum Burg: Time for two-state solution is running out

Top Saudi official: Ball in Israel's court if it wants peace with us

Attempted Coup Splits Hamas Military Forces

Olmert to opposition: You just don't want peace

German mediator to secure Hezbollah, Israel signatures on prisoner swap accord

Jerusalem Post Olmert says he will run again despite deal with Labor Prime minister may remain in office even if new Kadima leader is chosen; Shas is said to hold the key to government's survival.

Time to rethink Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee Howard Berman urges a new US strategy on thwarting Iran.

A disastrous attack on Iran? [ CHUCK FREILICH

UN inspector: Syria probe 'inconclusive' But Syrian VP says his country allowed UN nuclear inspections to prove US allegations were false.

Yedioth Ahronoth

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

BBC Israel closes Gaza after rockets Israel closes its border crossings with Gaza in response to a Palestinian rocket attack that breached a ceasefire.

Israel: Security Must Exist Prior to the Establishment of a Palestinian State - Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Recognising the Jewish 'Nakba'

Lyn Julius: Acknowledging the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab countries – written out of history – could be the key to Middle East peace

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Post-Soviet 'frozen conflicts' heat up as big-power interests collide

Tensions are growing as NATO and a resurgent Russia divide over future of breakaway statelets.

Israel's embattled Olmert survives, for now The prime minister skirted a vote to dissolve Israel's parliament by agreeing to allow a September primary election within his centrist Kadima Party.

Can Lebanon douse political fires? Fighting in Tripoli is indicative of rising Sunni-Shiite tensions as the formation of a new government hits an impasse. Religious leaders called for calm Wednesday.

Obama and Clinton campaign together How is he doing at winning over her supporters – and tapping into her formidable fundraising network? What might she get in return?

The key to a better U.S. image

USIA helped world views of the US before the cold war; let's revive it.

India at an impasse over civilian nuclear deal Communists oppose the pact with the US, which would give India access to nuclear fuel and technology, threatening to bring down the government.

Supreme Court sharply limits use of death penalty In a 5-to-4 ruling, the justices decide child rape isn't a capital offense.

ASIA

BBC Cracks in China's booming economy?

BBC Korean legacy

What is driving US efforts for a North Korea deal?

India to Restart Iran Pipeline Talks, but Left Unimpressed

Bush Europe Trip Yields Mixed Results on Afghan War Front By: Richard Weitz | World Politics Review One of the major objectives of President Bush's trip to Europe last week was to secure additional international support for the war in Afghanistan

What to Expect From North Korea By: Ralph Cossa | The Japan Times
Pyongyang might not be great at living up to its promises, but it won't budge an inch if it thinks others aren't living up to theirs

A Partnership of Equals By: C. Fred Bergsten | Foreign Affairs
Beijing is shirking its responsibilities to the global economy. To encourage better behavior, Washington should offer to share global economic leadership

Asian Economic Integration and US Policy Options

China, India Hasten Arms Race in Space By: David R. Sands | The Washington Times
India became the latest country to boost its defense presence in space, announcing last week plans to develop a military space program to counter the fast-growing space defense efforts of neighboring China

Afghanistan Strategy Targets Pakistan Ties By: Sara A. Carter | The Washington Times
The new U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Army Gen. David D. McKiernan, said he will visit Pakistan in the next few weeks to coordinate strategy amid a deteriorating relationship between the two U.S. allies

Japan's Gulf Policy and Response to the Iraq War MERIA An Israeli article studying Japan's support for the US over the course of the Iraq War

Pakistan Court Postpones Sharif by-Election By: Nasir Jaffry | Agence France-Presse
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the postponement of a crucial by-election while it decides on a government appeal against the disqualification of former premier Nawaz Sharif

N Korea declaration expected
There are reports that North Korea is set to hand over a long-awaited declaration of its nuclear activities.

Amid Apparent Progress on N. Korean Nukes, Japan, Others Remain Cautious By: Jason Miks | World Politics Review
TOKYO -- A flurry of activity over the past two weeks suggests the six-party talks aimed at ridding North Korea of its nuclear program might finally be back on track. But despite this progress, Japan is concerned that the U.S. might be moving too fast in removing North Korea from the terrorism sponsors list and has pressed to ensure that the issue of Japanese abductees is resolved first

More Cracks in Abdullah's Crumbling Facade By: Anil Netto | Asia Times Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's administration managed to ride out the widespread public ire over the removal of fuel subsidies. Now members of parliament from two key energy producing states are threatening to defect from Abdullah's ruling coalition

South Korea lifts ban on U.S. beef imports

South Korea lifted a ban on U.S. beef imports Thursday, with President Lee Myung-bak urging the nation to move past a dispute that has paralyzed his government with protests over mad cow disease concerns

H11 IHT Interconnected we prosper By WILLIAM J. AMELIO Poverty is receding at a rate unsurpassed in history; and the power of the emerging dreamers, thinkers, tinkerers and innovators worldwide have only just now begun to transform our world

Despite some setbacks, Sarkozy is riding high The French president has restored national diplomatic stature not only in Washington and European capitals, but also in Africa and the Middle East.

A double cartel holds EU hostage on energy While governments say it is time to diversify energy sources to reduce dependence on oil, they don't speak about the direct link between oil and natural gas.

Roger Cohen: Why Obama should visit a mosque Fear-mongering about Islam is a global industry. It thrives on ignorance. Obama has a unique power to break the cycle, not least by emboldening moderate Muslims to denounce terror

EUROPE European press review

Poland's Haunting Past By: Jonathan Steele | The Guardian
New charges are swirling through Poland that Lech Walesa, the legendary shipyard worker who helped to found the Solidarity movement and later became the country's first post-communist president, was at one time an informer for the communist secret police and later tried to conceal potential evidence

Mardell's Europe Treaty No vote hands Sarkozy an Irish hot potato

Der Spiegel Trans-Atlantic Interference?: US Neocons Accused of Role in Irish 'No' Vote

H12 RFE/RL

Medvedev: Graft is security risk
BBC News

Russia after Putin Allison Gill: The EU should make the most of its first meeting with Dmitri Medvedev, and encourage him to be his own man

EDM INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE UNVEILS “CONCEPTUAL DESIGN” FOR FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION

- EUROPEANS REMISS ON NABUCCO, ILLUSION-PRONE ON SOUTH STREAM

- WILL PARLIAMENTARY CRISIS LEAD TO TYMOSHENKO’S DISMISSAL?

Google News Azerbaijan

Medvedev Wants "Serious" Pact With EU By: David Schlesinger | Reuters
Russia wants to negotiate a "serious" pact governing its relationship with the European Union but not one overburdened with detail, President Dmitry Medvedev told Reuters in an interview

Siberian Summit Looks for New Start By: Anna Smolchenko | The Moscow Times Russia and the European Union hope to turn a page in their stalled relations when their leaders meet in this Siberian oil town this week.

Russia Warns Poland on Negative Effects of Proposed U.S. Missile Shield

Russia Will Stress It is Inadmissible to Review History at Summit With Eu - Kremlin Aide

Human Rights Watch condemns Russia for violence in Ingushetia

The recent spike in insurgent attacks in the region is reminiscent of earlier rights abuses in Chechnya

H13 The Times Ireland's 'no' vote: a big earthquake Despite the protestations of the European elites, the vote changes the whole future of the EU Anatole Kaletsky

Pakistan: the Khyber impasse

Pakistan cannot afford to lose control of its gateway to Afghanistan

The Post-American WorldThe Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria - Times Online

Fareed Zakaria’s view of the 21st-century world is too cosy for comfort

We can feed the world: look at all the space It's no wonder food prices are rising. We are exploiting less of the planet for agriculture than we were only a few years ago Ross Clark

Bulldozing a path through democracy Whatever happened to accountability? Decisions on big projects will be made by a superquango Camilla Cavendish

Sovereign funds: the wealth of nations The money that has bailed out Barclays and other Westerbn banks is a growing and welcome source of international credit

Mandela ends his silence to condemn Mugabe

Wall Street Journal Iran's Troubling Opposition
By Amir Taheri It's a shame that some of the mullahs' enemies are terrorists themselves.

Diplomacy Is Working on North Korea
By Condoleezza Rice The multilateral path has helped us learn a lot we otherwise wouldn't know.

Uighur Justice
By Nury A. Turkel They have a beef with China, not the U.S.

Is Sour News Good News for the Dems? By Daniel Henninger
Wonder Land: Public frustration is at an all-time high. But voters will be disappointed if they think Barack Obama can be their savior

Fed Holds Rate Steady

The Fed kept its key short-term rate at 2%, expressing heightened concern about inflation and effectively suggesting that its next move is likely to be a rate increase, its first since the credit crisis flared in August. (Statement)

The Fed at Ease
Ben Bernanke talks tough about inflation, but once again shows an apparent lack of will to tighten money.

It's All About Obama
By Karl Rove The senator risks being painted as arrogant and self-centered

How Bush Misread War-Powers With the third and most-recent rebuke from the Supreme Court, it has become clear that Bush's counterterrorism strategy rested on a critical legal miscalculation from a series of World War II-era opinions

Tense Sentry Duty in Afghanistan

The U.S. counteroffensive against the Taliban is making gains in Afghanistan. That success has created greater need for Marines like Lance Cpl. Carlos Santiago who man outer security posts and defend bases against suicide bombers.

Malevolence and the Mufti
By David Pryce-Jones Bookshelf: He admired Hitler, commanded a national movement of violence and sowed the seeds of Mideast disaster.

H14 Financial Times Fed cannot ignore global inflation

The US benefits from the dollar’s use as a reserve currency; the price is that the central bank cannot forget the effects of its policy on the wider world

WORLD NEWS: Larijani warns Europe further sanctions would provoke Iran

WORLD NEWS: Labour U-turn saves Olmert government

BETWEEN THE LINES - QUENTIN PEEL: Past imperfect Russia looks to the future

Oh no, not again Once more, Berlusconi is spending much of his political energy legislating to protect himself from Italy’s public prosecutors

WORLD NEWS: Pentagon eases back as tensions rise

Fed sits tight as ECB chief signals rate rise The Federal Reserve indicated growing fears about inflation relative to growth on Wednesday, but stopped short of saying that it saw inflation as the dominant risk

Noyer warning The fruits of globalisation, bringing cheap goods from low-cost markets to the developed economies of Europe, can no longer be relied on to contain inflation, said...

There is no global mercy for Brown

The UK prime minister wants to use what power remains to him to interfere, to fix, to patch up. He increasingly looks like a busybody in a world at the mercy of larger forces. He must reconfigure himself as someone tackling these forces head-on, writes David Runciman

WORLD NEWS: Queasy Republicans shun toxic president

Trichet rejects oil price link to trading

Jean-Claude Trichet, European Central Bank president, has rejected the argument that speculators are behind recent sharp rises in world commodity prices

Opec and US fuel figures at odds

The oil cartel says it will need to produce far less oil than Washington’s forecast of world demand in the next 12 years, creating uncertainty over production investment

Olmert deal salvages Israel coalition

The country’s prime minister has faced down the latest threat to his embattled tenure, striking a deal with his main coalition ally that will allow him to govern for at least another three months

Saudi Arabia detains 520 terror suspects The kingdom is holding 520 people arrested over the last six months and suspected of “involvement in terrorism”, a security spokesman said

Chubais hits at EU ‘fear’ of Gazprom

Anatoly Chubais, one of Russia’s leading liberal reformers, has accused the European Union of trying to limit the Russian company’s access to its natural gas market for political reasons

Paris makes energy its top EU aim

France has made a common energy and environment policy by the end of the year the top priority of its six- month presidency of the European Union, which begins next...

Qataris take up to 10% of Barclays

Qatari investors are poised to own up to 10 per cent of Barclays after the bank called on groups from the Middle East and Asia to support a £4.5bn share issue

Lebanon faces testing times To revive the economy, the state must act on a series of reforms that have not been implemented during the political impasse, but the prospects of that happening appear mixed

Egypt cancels bank privatisation

Egypt has cancelled the auction for a stake in its third-largest state bank, rejecting a National Bank of Greece bid valuing it at $2.025bn, according to the Egyptian bank’s chairman

Gideon Rachman’s blogExpulsion from Europe: Lisbon’s most ardent supporters seem to be stuck arguing simultaneously that it is no big deal (and therefore there is no excuse for the Irish to say No) - and that it is essential. Surely, it can’t be both

WORLD NEWS - ZIMBABWE: Global outcry serves only to make Mugabe dig in deeper

Time running out for nuclear program talks, Iran warns

By Borzou Daragahi

Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says Tehran could take drastic steps in response to pressure aimed at halting its uranium enrichment efforts

Mum's the word on nuclear inspections in Syria

BABYLON & BEYOND: United Nations nuclear inspectors to investigate claims that Damascus was secretly developing nuclear facilities

Goodbye Fallouja, hello Kabul?

BABYLON & BEYOND: Nothing official has been said, but more and more Marines of all ranks are saying that their future is in Afghanistan, not Iraq

A new Condi, but who cares?

By ROSA BROOKS Rice's new philosophy on foreign policy could have come from a Democrat, but Bush probably isn't listening.

Iraq authorities say U.S. soldiers killed 9 civilians

By Doug Smith

The military says the Americans were fired upon first in clashes in Baghdad and near Tikrit

Editorial

Don't blame Ireland

By James M. Banner Jr.

Europe's almost there but still doesn't get it

H16 American Politics

New Report from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Finds Religion in U.S. is Non-Dogmatic, Diverse and Politically Relevant
Source: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

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Obama's Delicate Balancing Act - Jay Newton-Small, Time

What Happened to Maverick McCain? - Jason Horowitz, New York Observer

Mr. Cool vs. Old Reliable - Jim Geraghty, National Review Online

The Debate McCain Must Force - Dick Morris, The Hill

Poll: High gas prices cause many Americans 'financial hardship'

A winning strategy for McCain

THE TRENDS are troubling for John McCain. Polls show growing support for Barack Obama, for Democrats generally, and for change. And since Obama broke his public financing pledge he'll have much more money than McCain for advertising. (By Todd Domke, Boston Globe)

H17 Daily Telegraph Why Armed Forces chiefs broke ranks The top brass of Britain's Armed Forces are not normally given to insubordination, says Con Coughlin, which makes it all the more remarkable that they have spoken out

Mystery over Sarkozy suicide policeman The policeman who shot himself as Nicolas Sarkozy left Israel has been named as Raeed Ghanem, a member of Israel's Druze minority

Obama asks donors to bail out Clinton Senator Barack Obama has urged his biggest financial donors to help bail out his defeated Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

What is on Barack Obama's iPod?

H18 Independent David Miliband: Miliband's manifesto

While Gordon Brown has chosen not to mark his first anniversary, the Foreign Secretary sets out his vision in a wide-ranging interview with Steve Richards

Hamish McRae: Money is still cheap, but that is afat lot of use if it is not available

King of the West bank

He's the richest man in Palestine who built a Renaissance-style palace during the second intifada. Now Munib al-Masri wants to secure an independent state for his people.

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

My Philosophy on War - Damien McElroy, Daily Telegraph of London

Top Engineers Shun Military - Philip Taubman, New York Times

Robots ready to support soldiers

Intelligent armed vehicles that use GPS and laser technology are close to being deployed in hotspots

Regime of Torture By: Joseph L. Galloway | Miami Herald
Tony Taguba knew something about prisoners in wartime long before the Pentagon ordered him to investigate the torture and shameful mistreatment of Iraqi detainees revealed by those soldier photographs taken inside Abu Ghraib prison.

The Pentagon's merchants of war Forget about the United States Department of Defense's Stealth bombers and its "black budget" which swallows billions of dollars without accountability, there's another stealth side to the Pentagon - the corporate side where little-known companies gobble up US tax dollars at phenomenal rates. Most of the time, large or small, they fly under the radar and are seldom even identified as defense contractors. Nick Turse pins down five of the billion-dollar babies that profit from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Lieutenant Colonel Gian Gentile has a new piece in World Affairs titled A (Slightly) Better War: A Narrative and Its Defects.

H20 Slate Protecting the Oil Supply What if the Chinese were to apply the Carter Doctrine? Shmuel Rosner

Oxfam Warns Poor Nations Against Biofuels Der Spiegel Biofuels have pushed up world food prices and won't ease global warming, a new Oxfam report warns. Developing nations, the organization argues, should "move with extreme caution" before switching from staple food crops.

Baby Boomers Face Massive Loss of Retirement Wealth Due to Housing Market Meltdown Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research Full Report (PDF; 171 KB)

H21

U.S. students improve in math and reading, report finds Minorities and the poor make the most progress, narrowing the performance gap. Are federal reforms working?

A host still in search of himself on 'Fareed Zakaria GPS'

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