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5 July 2008
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H1 Independent Military action 'would destabilise Iraq'

Los Angeles Times Iran gives 'positive' response to nuclear incentive proposal

New York Times Iran Responds Obliquely to Nuclear Plan

The Economist Intelligence Unit report celebrating their 60th anniversary and predicting some of the next sixty years.

OxAn Seminar Programme for 2008

World Economic and Social Survey 2008: Overcoming Economic Insecurity
Source: UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs - Download in sections (PDFs) or as full report (PDF; 4.2 MB).

Wall Street Journal Iraq's Oil Surge The horror: American companies are getting contracts.

New Information about Administration Knowledge of Hunt Oil’s Kurdish Contract Source: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Documents in PDF.

WINEP The Unlikely Prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian Agreement in 2008 - Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Amnon Lipkin-Shahak

From Diplomatic Courier, an article on what peace with Iran could look like.

From ResetDOC, Jurgen Habermas on a “post-secular” society

Michael Walzer on US foreign policy after January 2009 (If Obama wins).

Washington Post Energy Independence - Gal Luft

Secretive Agency Under the Spotlight Chief Tries to Repair CIA as Scrutiny Grows

From Discover, here are 20 things you didn't know about oil.

Back to the Future: the enduring characteristics of insurgency and counterinsurgency

Iraqi Shi'ites Denounce Security Pact With US

Shi'ite Clergy Want Referendum Over US Troop Presence

Commentary Asks If Syria Abandoning Iran By Starting Talks With Israel

US-Iran Tension Makes Washington Mistrust Iraqi Army - UK-Based Arabic Daily

IHT FROM RUSSIA WITH ALARM Questions for the candidates By MIKHAIL GORBACHEV The next U.S. president will have to decide whether America will be an empire or a democracy.

NYT India Party Struggling for U.S. Nuclear Deal

Editorial No Rush, Please President Bush gave away far too much and got far too little for the nuclear deal with India.

Pakistani Says Army Knew Atomic Parts Were Shipped

BOB HERBERT Cause for Alarm Symbols of patriotism have replaced the hard work and sacrifice required to keep a great nation great.

Guardian Another inconvenient truth The green squeeze: Ron Oxburgh: The century of cheap energy is behind us – in the future we are all going to have to work longer and harder to pay for it.

Obama denies Iraq policy shift

Presidential candidate says he might 'revisit' his policy of rapidly withdrawing all US troops from Iraq

The row over Macedonia's name rumbles on Helena Smith: But Greeks are hoping that a boost for the balkan nationalists in Macedonia could unexpectedly pave the way for compromise

German Paper Sees Little Chance of Israeli Strike Against Iran

Attacking Iran? How Does $300 Oil Sound? by Robert Dreyfuss

MEMRI Iran's Defense Plan - Y. Mansharof and A. Savyon

Ha’aretz Peres: No chance of peace with Palestinians

Oren To wait - or to strike?

Marcus Don't stick your neck out Let history be our guide: Was there anyone who talked or bragged or threatened or let out a peep before Israel bombed the Iraqi reactor?

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Meeting not on the agenda'
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem says President Assad will not be meeting Prime Minister Olmert on sidelines of upcoming Paris conference; talks between countries 'only just beginning,' Muallem says

'Apologize for handshake'

Iraqi members of parliament furious, demand apology from president for Barak handshake

The Times No equality under different laws Allowing British Muslims recourse to Sharia would be a charter for male dominance and bullying Matthew Parris

Outside forces blamed for attacks on British Afghan governor Mullah Abdul Salaam says that infiltrators from Pakistan and Iran are deliberately trying to escalate conflict

Newsweek Q&A: Iranian Diplomat on Tehran’s Role in Iraq

H2 PKK’da dönüm noktası birkaç ay önce geçildi

Ankara’ya ültimatom vermiş

PKK Türk sınırına kaydı

Closure case causes concern
Oxford Analytica

Reuters yorumu: Yaşlı adamların uyduruk örgütü

Barzani remarks ruin chances of Erdoğan meeting with Kurds

Erdogan says Turkish democracy not under threat

FT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: If Turks turn away it is to craft their own, better future

Türkiye'nin Ortadoğu'daki barış çabalarını sonuna kadar destekliyoruz

Türkiye'nin Arabuluculuğu

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

New Information about Administration Knowledge of Hunt Oil’s Kurdish Contract Source: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Documents in PDF.

US Officials Condoned Hunt-Kurd Oil Deal: Documents

Kürt sorununu 'bürokratik elit'in tavrı derinleştiriyor

PKK’nın gizli kasası tutuklandı

PKK kampları Türk sınırına kaydı

Abdülhamit Bilici Who are these 3,000 people?

Barzani remarks ruin chances of Erdoğan meeting with Kurds

Turkey pushes Israel, Syria direct talks

Cevdet Aşkın

D-8 Zirvesi'ne Babacan katılıyor

12 Eylül sonrası işkence yapıldı

Nedim Seven yakalandı

Turkey clears Syria border mines, boosts trade hopes

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

Rauf Denktaş Önemli davet!

Semih İdiz Kıbrıs, iç kavgamızın ana maddelerinden biri olacak

Sami Kohen Fransa ile AB süreci nasıl olacak?

Tufan Türenç Vurulan kelepçeler

Sadi Somuncuoğlu Cephelerden gelen haberler

France takes over EU term presidency CENGİZ AKTAR

Sarkozy Türkiye uzlaşısından memnun değil

Turkmenistan isn’t going to join Nabucco project – Prikhodko

Fransa-Bulgaristan stratejik işbirliği

Gürcistan Devlet Başkanı Türkiye'ye geliyor

The Wider Black Sea Region in the 21st Century CEPS A 351-page collection of essays on the new dynamics of the Black Sea region

Caspian Pipeline Consortium, Bellwether of Russian Investment Climate? IFRI This 27-page French essay assesses the implications of the CPC dossier for Russian energy policy

New Head of Development Bank Puts Focus on Russia Mr. Mirow said he hoped Turkey would join the bank this fall

Sarkozy'nin Fransız Avrupa siyasetinden kopuşu

Başbakan Soyer: Ergenekon’un KKTC uzantısı UBP

July 1 Cyprus meeting creates storm

ADL clears g-word fallout, pushes for ties with Armenia

Füze pazarlığı

ABD füze kalkanı yerleştirmek istediği Polonya'yı 18 aydır neden ikna edemiyor?

"Rum nüfusunda daralmanın nedeni Kıbrıs sorunu"

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

Psikolojim savunma için müsait değil

Ebru Şimşek’in tazminat zaferi

Let's Talk (Ancient) Turkey

AK Parti’li başkan ve 37 kişi gözaltında

Google'dan 'Kırkpınar'a jest

Askerlerin Taksim’deki yürüyüşü heyecan yarattı

H3 AKP'den Nazım Hikmet'li savunma Tam Metin

Ergenekon, Başsavcı'ya suikast planlamış

İşte Ergenekon'un 3 kozmik balonu

Eğer doğruysa bunlar çıldırmışlar! İşte Ergenekon'un öldüreceği 3 önemli isim...

Darbe tanığı Gül ve Özkök

Kaos tarihi 1 mayıs

Cinayetler önce bana teklif edildi!

'MHP’liler katliamı önce bana teklif etti'

7 Temmuz’a yalanlama

En güvenilir kurum ordu

'Kapansak da yola devam'

Koç'a çattı

Osman Paksüt: Hangi karar çıkarsa çıksın Türkiye'de kıyamet kopacak

İddialar silsilesi: Erdoğan’a yedi suikast girişimi, Gazi olayları, Dink bağlantısı

Paksüt: AB’nin yaptığı psikolojik harekâttır

Demirel: Tek çare seçime gitmek

İddianame ertelendi

Şahin: Sızdırmalar gölgeleme amaçlı

Yeni bilmece Osman Gürbüz

Soruşturmada son iddia

Başbakan savcıysa ben de avukatım

Kimse Türkiye'nin millî ve stratejik hedeflerini gölgelemesin

Koç’a ağır itham: Ayrımcı

Baykal: Resmi aktör yok

AKP savunmasında Fazilet’ten alıntılar!

‘Sümüklü Fethullah’tartışması

‘Halkı sokağa döken parti olmayalım’

Ergenekon ricası

'Dinliyorlar'

Tansiyon Eruygur’u hastanelik etti

Sinan Aygün'e tutuklama kararı çıktı

Baykal'a göre Ergenekon masal: Geri zekalılar bile inanmaz

CHP’den Ergenekon savcısına suç duyurusu

Jandarma baskınını darbe sandılar

Cumhurbaşkanı devreye girmiş

Ergenekon'un 'Yeşil'i bütün karanlık olaylarda sahne almış

Operasyonlardan rahatsız olanların çetelerle bağlantısı var

Erol Mütercimler ve Adnan Türkkan serbest bırakıldı

Kilit isim Günaydın’ın psikolojisi bozulmuş

Will time come for 1980s generals?

TSK members displeased over latest detentions

Son Dakika Milliyet Hürriyet Zaman

Cengiz Çandar Cumhuriyet tarihinin en önemli olayı

Ahmet Taşgetiren Rol kaymaları

Ruşen - Çakır

Taha Akyol Kaba benzetmeler

Fikret Bila Usul ile esasın dengesi ve Balbay

Hasan Cemal Yaşananlar, özünde demokrasiyle demokrasi düşmanının kavgasıdır!

Murat Yetkin Etkili bir AKP’linin Ergenekon yorumu: Operasyon elimizde pimi çekili bomba

İsmet Berkan Bu eziyete gerek var mı?

Fehmi Koru

Taha Kıvanç

Şamil Tayyar

Ali Bayramoğlu Bir gün utanacaksınız…

Can Dündar Ergenekon savcısının odasında 2.5 saat

Fatih Altaylı Amiral Özden Örnek'in ilginç bağlantıları

Güneri Civaoğlu Ergenekon ve yo-yo

İsmail Küçükkaya “Şakası bile soğuk”

Yasemin Çongar

Ertuğrul Özkök Zenci, elit, baron ve istilacı

Başaramazlar
MEHMET ALİ KIŞLALI

Ergenekon neyin nesi?

NEJAT ESLEN

Mehmet Kamış Ergenekon'u tartışmaya nereden başlamalı?

Sept. 12, Hudson, Eruygur: always the same scenario

Ahmet Hakan

M Ali Birand Uyanın, giderek fakirleşiyoruz...

Cüneyt Ülsever

Enis Berberoğlu Tek yol: Erken atama

Oktay Ekşi

Mehmet Altan Dağbaşı

Özdemir İnce Dalavereyi Şükrü Kızılot sayesinde öğrendim (2)

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Öyle iddianameye böyle savunma

Yalçn Doğan Öğrencilere: Hasır altı etmiyoruz

Şahin Alpay Ankara, Ankara'ya karşı

Sabahattin Önkibar 7 Temmuz'daki darbe olayı ve Ümraniye bombalarının imha sebebi

The amazing adventures of the Ergenekon mates Mustafa AKYOL

Ömer Lütfi Mete Gelecek masada değilse devlet yoktur

KÜRŞAT BUMİN Neler oluyor?

Beril Dedeoğlu Leaks from the Turkish Armed Forces

CHP’nin heba ettiği fırsat
HALUK ŞAHİN

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERDAL ŞAFAK Bir ulusun inşası

ENGİN ARDIÇ Kendini genel başkan sanan genel başkan

ERGUN BABAHAN Seçim ve yeni anayasa

EMRE AKÖZTasfiye niye gerekli?

Umur Talu

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

Parayla egzotizm almak

NAZLI ILICAK İki tez çarpışıyor

MEHMET BARLAS "Kozmik bilgiler" gerçekten dünya dışı evrene mi ait?

MAHMUT ÖVÜRDSP'de 'Sinan Aygün' kavgası!

YAVUZ DONAT

Ekonomi

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
'Bundan sonra ön planda IMF değil, Dünya Bankası olacak'

Ercan Kumcu

Deniz Gökçe Osman Ulagay kardeşime adresli!

Erdal Sağlam Fiyatların düştüğü bir ayı artık zor görürüz

Suzan Sabancı Dinçer: Siyasi kriz yaşıyoruz, ekonomimiz güçlü, etkilenmez FUNDA ÖZKAN

Güven Sak Aman Allahım, vaziyet sandığımız kadar kötü değilmiş

Memura yüzde 1, emekliye yüzde 6 zam

H4 New York Times Iran Responds Obliquely to Nuclear Plan

India Party Struggling for U.S. Nuclear Deal

Editorial No Rush, Please President Bush gave away far too much and got far too little for the nuclear deal with India.

Pakistani Says Army Knew Atomic Parts Were Shipped

BOB HERBERT Cause for Alarm Symbols of patriotism have replaced the hard work and sacrifice required to keep a great nation great.

World Briefing | Europe: Poland: U.S. Defense Aid Rejected

World Briefing | Europe: Georgia: 2 Killed in South Ossetia

U.S. at Odds With Afghans on Airstrike

Despair Drives Suicide Attacks by Iraq Women The phenomenon of female suicide bombers seems to have arisen at least in part because of successes in detaining and killing local members of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.

Jesse Helms Dies at 86; Conservative Force in the Senate The former North Carolina senator had a courtly manner and mossy drawl and turned his hard-edged conservatism against civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art

In Montana, Obama Tries to Rally Support on Iraq

Accounting Plan Would Allow Use of Foreign Rules Officials say regulatory changes would attract investment and enhance U.S. competitiveness, but critics say the changes would dilute safeguards.

H5 Washington Post Energy Independence - Gal Luft

Secretive Agency Under the Spotlight Chief Tries to Repair CIA as Scrutiny Grows

Indian Leader Rescues Nuclear Deal With U.S.

Inside Mugabe's Violent Crackdown

New Details Show How Campaign Was Conceived and Executed by President, Advisers

Two Speeches, Two Truths About America By Colbert I. King, Obama's speech on patriotism this week stands in sharp relief to Frederick Douglass's oration on the Fourth of July, 1852

Supreme Slip-Up A recent high court ruling is factually flawed. The justices should correct it

What Fearless Is David Ignatius | Don't expect Ingrid Betancourt to stop her crusade for Colombia's future.

H6 Guardian Another inconvenient truth The green squeeze: Ron Oxburgh: The century of cheap energy is behind us – in the future we are all going to have to work longer and harder to pay for it.

Obama denies Iraq policy shift

Presidential candidate says he might 'revisit' his policy of rapidly withdrawing all US troops from Iraq

Intelligence chief in coma after collapse

It's time for a New Green Deal

Andrew Simms: A translation of Roosevelt's 1930s policy aims to tackle climate change, unemployment and the credit crunch

There's a place for sharia Inayat Bunglawala: Lord Phillips did his best to dispel misrepresentation of sharia councils. Predictably, though, he's now taking a whipping from the press

Time to put the brakes on biofuels

Robert Bailey: How much more evidence of the impact on biofuels needs to emerge before politicians realise the path they are taking

Gordon Brown: West must not give up on aid and climate change

World is suffering triple challenge of higher fuel prices, higher food prices and a credit crunch says PM

The row over Macedonia's name rumbles on Helena Smith: But Greeks are hoping that a boost for the balkan nationalists in Macedonia could unexpectedly pave the way for compromise

Empty vessels Editorial: The government is proud, the navy thrilled and the army jealous. The problem is that no one seems to know exactly what the ships are intended to do or how they will be paid for

Courage of the flip-flop Julian Baggini: It's easy to be a conviction politician. Real bravery consists of changing tack according to the evidence

The education boom has proved a curse for the poor Polly Toynbee: It's all very well for Gordon Brown to talk of an upwardly mobile Britain: but the best social engineer is equality

Bush and Sarkozy to attend Olympics US president will attend the opening ceremony in China despite boycott calls from human rights groups

H7

German Paper Sees Little Chance of Israeli Strike Against Iran

Attacking Iran? How Does $300 Oil Sound? by Robert Dreyfuss

MEMRI Iran's Defense Plan - Y. Mansharof and A. Savyon

Abu Aardvark: Dissolving the Sons of Iraq... ?

CFR Public Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century: Engaging in the Most Important Ideological Contest of Our Time (Audio),,

War or peace US and Iranian policy battles offer stark choices

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

Iraqi Shi'ites Denounce Security Pact With US

Shi'ite Clergy Want Referendum Over US Troop Presence

Commentary Asks If Syria Abandoning Iran By Starting Talks With Israel

US-Iran Tension Makes Washington Mistrust Iraqi Army - UK-Based Arabic Daily

Egyptian Radio Urges Land-for-Peace Principle in Any Mideast Peace Talks

Iraq Foresees "Temporal Framework" for US Presence in Iraq - Deputy Premier

Israeli Officials Say Iranian Claim on Holding Missing Diplomats "Nonsense"

Tehran responds to nuclear offer
Iran responds to an international offer of incentives for suspending uranium enrichment, EU and Iranian officials say.

H9 Ha’aretz Peres: No chance of peace with Palestinians

Oren To wait - or to strike?

Marcus Don't stick your neck out Let history be our guide: Was there anyone who talked or bragged or threatened or let out a peep before Israel bombed the Iraqi reactor?

Barak orders demolition of Jerusalem, yeshiva terrorists' homes

Hamas suspends Shalit talks over Gaza closure

Iran: Any attack on our nuclear facility will be beginning of war U.S. admiral warns Iran likely to attack Israel, says seemingly unimportant event could trigger strike

Iraqi MPs voice outrage after President shakes Barak's hand MPs say president Jalal Talabani's handshake with Israeli minister is violation of country's law

U.S. admiral: Iran strike on Israel 'likely'

On Israel-Diaspora relations, Israelis are quite clueless

Poll: 45% of Gaza Residents Would Leave If Possible

What Cyprus, Bosnia and Kosovo can teach us From "Conflict Resolution" to "Conflict Management" - Shlomo Avineri Historic disputes are not resolved with a wave of the hand, much less by external directives. It takes lengthy internal processes, which alone can lead to the formation of a joint political desire to reach an agreement

U.S. Admiral: Iran Likely to Attack Israel - Amir Oren In an article entitled "Maritime Strategy in an Age of Blood and Belief" in the U.S. Naval Institute's monthly Proceedings, Adm. James Winnefeld, commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, describes the possibility of an offensive barrage of ballistic missiles fired from Iran against Israel as being "by far the most likely employment of ballistic missiles in the world today, and it demands our immediate attention in the event of a need for a U.S. or NATO response."

Jerusalem PostTurkey pushes Israel, Syria direct talks

4th round of indirect talks to be held later in July; Turkish official: It may be too early for breakthrough.

Report: Iran responds to EU proposal Solana reportedly given Iranian answer to package offered in exchange for halting nuclear program.

Middle Israel: Do the Arabs gain from the energy crisis?

[ AMOTZ ASA-EL

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Meeting not on the agenda'
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem says President Assad will not be meeting Prime Minister Olmert on sidelines of upcoming Paris conference; talks between countries 'only just beginning,' Muallem says

'Apologize for handshake'

Iraqi members of parliament furious, demand apology from president for Barak handshake

Larijani: Israel based on racism

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

WINEP The Unlikely Prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian Agreement in 2008 - Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Amnon Lipkin-Shahak

Israel to destroy attacker's home

Israel's defence minister orders the army to prepare to demolish the home of the Palestinian who killed three Israelis.

Hamas suspends talks over Shalit Hamas suspends talks over a prisoner exchange deal due to involve the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit

Jerusalem Vulnerabilities Weighed - Joshua Mitnick, Christian Science Monitor

Hamas, Abu Mazen and the Ceasefire Moshe Dayan Center

H10 Christian Science Monitor

ASIA

H11 IHT FROM RUSSIA WITH ALARM Questions for the candidates By MIKHAIL GORBACHEV The next U.S. president will have to decide whether America will be an empire or a democracy.

WARRANTS FOR WAR CRIMINALS When peace talks undermine justice

By RICHARD DICKER

At events marking the International Criminal Court treaty's 10th anniversary, diplomats must align peace negotiations with the commitment to justice.

European Commission rebukes Sarkozy on interest rates and trade

The European Commission delivered a sharp response Friday to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France over his recent comments on interest rates and trade policy, underlining European economic policy divisions before the coming Group of 8 summit meeting

Georgian forces shell towns in South Ossetia Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia on Friday mobilised reservists and threatened to use heavy weapons against Georgian forces after two people were killed in heavy exchanges of fire overnight

EUROPE European press review

CEPS What prospects for normative foreign policy in a multipolar world?

The Wider Black Sea Region in the 21st Century CEPS
A 351-page collection of essays on the new dynamics of the Black Sea region

Caspian Pipeline Consortium, Bellwether of Russian Investment Climate? IFRI This 27-page French essay assesses the implications of the CPC dossier for Russian energy policy

Der Spiegel Interview on the EU and the Balkans: 'Ignorance Is Rife and Many Prejudices Exist'

Power struggle Doubts cloud Bulgaria's nuclear reactor plans

Poland Rejects US Missile Shield Offer

US Studying Poland's Quest for More on Missile Defense

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

EU-Russia Relations: Toward a Way Out of Depression IFRI, CSIS

U.S-Russia Strategic Partnership Against Nuclear Proliferation
CSIS, IFRI

CER Russia and the multipolar myth

CEPS Georgia and the EU - an overview of current relations

Thousands protest against Armenian President Sarkisian

Medvedev's Visit to Azerbaijan: Possible Scenarios in Energy ...

Russian risk

Has the row over TNK-BP spooked foreign investors?

Central Asia key to OSCE security

H13 The Times No equality under different laws Allowing British Muslims recourse to Sharia would be a charter for male dominance and bullying

Matthew Parris

Outside forces blamed for attacks on British Afghan governor Mullah Abdul Salaam says that infiltrators from Pakistan and Iran are deliberately trying to escalate conflict

McGuinness flies to Baghdad on peace mission Robert Bendetson, American businessman, pays for rival Iraqi groups to come together to try to

reduce violence

Welsh and Gaelic are official EU tongues European Union already has 23 official languages and two more should help cement its reputation as a modern Tower of Babel

Grass roots fret as Obama pirouettes on policy As presidential candidate Barack Obama assuages more conservative electorate, progressives say he may lose their support

Italy and gypsies: thumbs down

Italy must abandon plans to fingerprint all gypsies in the country

Abramovich admits secrets to his billions Chelsea football owner admits to paying billions of dollars for political favours and protection fees to amass his fortune

Wall Street Journal Iraq's Oil Surge
The horror: American companies are getting contracts.

Bernanke's French Lesson
Europe's bankers recognize the threat of inflation.

Jesse Helms
A hero of the Cold War.

How Jesse Helms Made a Difference By John Fund
An uncompromisingly defiant conservative who rescued Reagan's political career.

H14 Financial Times Iran sends word on nuclear talks Tehran has sent a written response to an offer from the world’s leading powers regarding its nuclear programme, amid hopes in the west that formal negotiations could begin

Iraq reassures oil investors on openness The Iraqi government sought to counter criticism of the opening of its oil sector to international participation with reassurances that the process would be transparent

Israelis ponder threats within fortified city Israel’s security officials this week saw that not even the highest walls and strictest checks can stop an attacker who lives in their midst, as a resident of the city killed three Israelis with a bulldozer

Obama seeks to tackle doubters

The move from the left seems to be working but policy refinements may just look like flip-flops, reports Andrew Ward

WORLD NEWS: Poles dent US missile deal hopes

MARKETS & INVESTING: Bets double on oil hitting $200 before end of year

Philanthropy goes to the dogsGenerosity often means relinquishing power. It does not mean assigning armies of the less wealthy to tasks of one’s own devising, writes Christopher Caldwell

Markets succumb to economic gravity In a global economic slowdown asset prices would fall further. Cheaper assets present an opportunity for long-term investors, but there will be much pain at the same time

Cameron’s big flaw Britain’s Conservative leader, David Cameron, must end the incoherence. A leader who fails to lay down the law while in opposition will only struggle to do so when in government

Bare necessities Cellphones and beer count, but not cars or cigarettes, in a report that explores what constitutes the basic necessities of everyday life by asking focus groups

Global tourism defies slowing trends

Barroso at odds with Sarkozy on ECB Europe’s divisions over inflation were highlighted on Friday when José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, defended the European Central Bank against political critics

‘Anti-China’ groups threaten Olympics Sabotage efforts ‘intensifying’, says official

Coffee with the FT: Václav HavelThe former president, dissident writer and anti-communist revolutionary is fascinated by the US, but has reservations about globalisation and consumerism

From the Aspen Ideas Festival Clive Crook’s blog: The presidency and the constitution – does a “state of national emergency” still exist in 2008 to justify innovations?

Philanthropy goes to the dogs

H15 Los Angeles Times Iran gives 'positive' response to nuclear incentive proposal

Poland spurns U.S. air defense offer

Editorial

Will the stock market get worse?

ANALYSIS: Some funds scored gains in second quarter, but with the financial system fractured, prospects look murky

H16 American Politics

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

Analysis: Obama's shifts to center giving GOP ammo

From TAP, Michael Tomasky on the Party in Search of a Notion: The opportunity before the Democrats is far bigger than a few House and Senate seats if they can recognize — and seize — this unique historical moment.

two parties have starkly contrasting views of what it means to love your country — can they be reconciled? Peter Beinart wants to know.

From Slate, David Greenberg on how the Republicans claimed the "patriotism" mantle in presidential politics.

Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies

H17 Daily Telegraph Defeat terrorism by cosying up to radicals?

The Lord Chief Justice's remarks about sharia stem from the belief that the West is 'morally crippled' by its treatment of Islam, says Charles Moore.

H18 Independent Military action 'would destabilise Iraq'

Strike and we'll strike you back, warns Tehran One of Iran's top military leaders has warned that any strike against it would trigger war.

Sir Charles Wheeler: Distinguished foreign correspondent who exemplified the best in BBC reporting for more than 60 years

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

White House reportedly considering plans to empty Guantanamo

CFR United States Plan for Sustaining the Afghanistan National Security Forces

Does Osama bin Laden still matter? Peter Bergen wants to know.

Al-Qaeda: The War in Waiting - Philadelphia Inquirer editorial

Back to the Future: the enduring characteristics of insurgency and counterinsurgency

Video shows daring Colombian raid

Colombia releases video of the audacious raid that freed hostage Ingrid Betancourt, as she returns to France.

Atlantic Eye: Defending Gen. Wesley ClarkOXFORD, England, July 3 (UPI) -- Gen. Wesley Clark is uniquely qualified to dissect the record of Sen. John McCain. He served in the U.S. military for 38 years. He was supreme allied commander Europe, a Rhodes Scholar and valedictorian. Presidents need advisers who will tell them what they must know, not what they want to hear.

McCain Wants Much Larger US Military

Fact Sheet on Strengthening Arms Control and Nonproliferation
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

H20 Slate

Climate Change May Challenge National Security, Classified Report Warns Source: The Earth Institute at Columbia University

Biofuels behind food price hikes, leaked World Bank report finds

From The Nation, as the planet is rocked by multiple shocks, here's a look at how disaster capitalists are reaping the benefits—leveraging the Iraq War, the push for arctic drilling and the global food crisis

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