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On Slog to Safety, Seething at West It was the question of the day among exhausted Georgians: Where are the United States and NATO?

Guardian Much ventured, little gained Editorial: Georgia's attempt to wrest control of the breakaway province of South Ossetia was short-lived

Analysis: Jonathan Steele This is no pipeline war but an assault on Russian influence

Newsweek What Bush Got Right By Fareed Zakaria For the next president, simply reversing this administration's policies is not the answer

Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st Century National Security Strategy Source: The Brookings Institution Full Report (PDF; 1.2 MB)

Brzezinski: Russia's Invasion of Georgia Is Reminiscent of Stalin's Attack of Finland

Washington Post Putin Makes His Move By Robert Kagan, Historians will come to view Aug. 8, 2008, as a turning point no less significant than Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell.

Black Sea Watershed By Ronald D. Asmus and Richard Holbrooke, We have arrived at a transformational moment in the West's post-Cold War relations with Russia.

Georgia's Risky Move

Dmitri Trenin | Playing David against a Russian Goliath.

Anatol Lieven | That's a huge miscalculation.

The Observer Georgia's volatile risk-taker has gone over the brink

Thomas de Waal: Its President shouldn't expect sympathy from the West, where patience is running out

The west can no longer stand idle while the Russian bully wreaks havoc David Clark: The clashes with Georgia follow years of aggressive Kremlin policy. Moscow needs to be told its G8 place is not unconditional

New York Times News Analysis: In Georgia Clash, a Lesson on U.S. Need for Russia

Taunting the Bear By JAMES TRAUB Russia and Georgia were going to erupt. It was really just a question of when

Candidates’ Reactions to Georgia Conflict Offer Hints at Style on Foreign Affairs

In Loose Style, McCain Leads a Camp Divided Senator John McCain has been the overseer of a kingdom with unclear lines of command and an unsettled atmosphere that keeps aides constantly on edge

Buildup to the Next War By NOAH FELDMAN Talk of an attack on Iran won’t go away. Maybe that’s why it won’t happen

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Flush With Energy America needs to learn from Denmark, which responded to the 1973 Arab oil embargo in such a way that today it is energy independent

E Pluribus Unum: Decision-Makers and Decision-Making in Iran ISS A 4-page policy brief on governmental decision-making in Iran

Financial Times US decline will not be easily reversed The next president’s biggest challenge will be will to prevent the US becoming dependent on foreign sources for capital and energy, writes Byron Wien

Wounded pride ignites accidental war The danger is now that the South Ossetia conflict will undermine Russia’s already tense relations with the US and the rest of Europe, writes Quentin Peel

China to overtake US as largest manufacturer China is set to overtake the US next year as the world’s largest producer of manufactured goods, four years earlier than expected, as a result of the rapidly weakening US economy

Whispers of a Watergate for Bush Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind alleges the White House directed the forgery of evidence to support its case for the Iraq war. Congress ought to look into this urgently, writes Clive Crook

Iranians facing power cuts wonder where the money went

Washington Post U.S., Iraq Remain Unresolved On Dates for U.S. Troop Pullout Political Concerns Slow Completion of Security Framework

The Elections Are Coming. Is Al-Qaeda? By Bruce Riedel, We should expect to hear more from al-Qaeda, violently or otherwise, before November.

How The Surge Worked By Peter Mansoor

The Times Georgia: another Sarajevo moment avoided

The great powers learnt in 1914 that small conflicts can easily and quite accidentally trigger world wars William Rees-Mogg

Russia's Self-Aggrandisement

Georgia is no model democracy, but its treament is unconscionable

Comment: Nato should still embrace Georgia Georgia's miscalculation over South Ossetia should not deter Nato from offering membership - it is not up to Moscow who joins

Iraq Demands 'Clear Timeline' for US Withdrawal

WAR IN GEORGIA: THE OIL ANGLE

Strafor Geopolitical Diary: Lessons Learned from Georgia

By getting involved in the conflict in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, Russia has shown the world that it can operate effectively in its periphery.

Independent Leading article: A small war in the Causasus which has huge implications

Bruce Anderson: The West must share the blame for war in Georgia

How Georgia Fell Into Its Enemies' Trap - Edward Lucas, Times of London

The War That Russia Wants - Svante Cornell, The Guardian

Kremlin Determined to Break Georgia's Will - Ralph Peters, New York Post

Georgia Should Have Stepped Back - Anne Applebaum, Washington Post

McClatchy United States holds little leverage over Russia in Georgia conflict

Apply Kosovo's model to South Ossetia?

Top McCain Adviser Lobbied for Georgia

European governments are at their wits’ end, says Jürgen Habermas. It is time for them to admit it, and let the people decide the future of the EU... more»

Chinese, Russian Stall Tactics on Iran - Joshua Gleis, Boston Globe

TAPE: TOP CIA OFFICIAL CONFESSES ORDER TO
FORGE 9/11 DOC LIKELY CAME FROM CHENEY

Time A China Threat From Pakistan?

Helena Cobban The South Ossetian War: Some thoughts

Djerejian Georgia On My Mind

Ford secretly told FBI about panel's doubts on JFK murder

The Pipeline War: Russian bear goes for West's jugular

Pakistan army to ask Pervez Musharraf to resign

Sunday Telegraph The return of Cold War diplomacy The problem with Georgia is that it controls the oil and gas pipeline from Azerbaijan to Turkey that offers Europe a degree of independence from Russian energy blackmail

Georgia: Russia demands to be regarded as number one — Why has Russia reverted to traditional means of controlling its former satellite states? At the heart of Vladimir Putin's aggressive nationalism is his firm belief that the power of the West is on the wane, says James Sherr.

Dubya's Unwise Gift to the Mullahs By: Amir Taheri | New York Post The State Department will reportedly soon announce the opening of an Interests Office in Tehran. It may prove to be a major mistake.

Der Spiegel Attack in the Mountains: Is this the First War between Russia and a Former Soviet State?

Tom Barnett Answering the inevitable question on Russia

Today in The Nation: Getting Georgia's War On

US Suggests Russia Wants 'Regime Change' in Georgia

Al Awsat Missiles of Illusion By: Amir Taheri | Asharq Alawsat
Remember al-Qaher and al-Zafer? You don't? Well, what about al-Hussein and al-Abbas? No, again? The first two were the names of missiles that the Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdul Nasser relied upon as "secret weapons" in his promised "Battle of Destiny" in 1967.

The Observer Russia must prove its diplomatic maturity Editorial: Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili is often described as 'pro-West', although 'pro-Nato' would be more precise

If the Democrats want Obama to win, they have to get rough

Michael Crowley:Barack may dislike mudslinging, but he needs his people to paint John McCain as nothing more than a slightly older Bush

Jerusalem Post Tbilisi wants to see Israel place diplomatic pressure on Russia Israel consults Russia to fend off bilateral tension; over last decade, Jewish state sold Georgia some $300 million in weaponry, training

Analysis: Israel tiptoes around conflict Israel has a real strategic interest in not infuriating the Russians in their conflict with Georgia

'Palestinians might demand citizenship' PA negotiator Qurei: If Israel refuses Palestinian state with '67 borders, Palestinians will demand Ids

'Georgia arms sales reduced months ago' Defense officials: Past Georgian deals unconnected to Russian weaponry reaching Hizbullah, Iran.

IHT STALLING ON IRAN

China and Russia reap the benefits of sanctions By JOSHUA GLEIS

It is imperative that the Chinese and Russians understand they have much to gain from an end to the conflict with Iran

For U.S., bigger issues require Russian help State Department officials made it clear over the weekend that there was no chance the United States would intervene militarily in the conflict between Georgia and Russia

Ha’aretz – Report: Slain Assad aide supplied anti-aircraft missiles to Hezbollah Sunday Times quotes Mideast sources saying top general gave group mobile SA-8 missiles

G. Levy: Livni, Mofaz, Barak are same as Bibi - they also won't end the occupation

In depth / Contrary to popular belief, war with Iran is not imminent

Does Israel need American consent to attack Iran?

Bar’el A single precondition From Israel's point of view, an independent Lebanon is a lost cause, now that with Syrian assistance, Hassan Nasrallah has taken over Beirut's center of power, including the presidency and the cabinet.

ANALYSIS / Someone timed Russia-Georgia crisis to coincide with Olympics Has a tiny province caused the biggest crisis in Europe since the fall of Communism?

Yedioth Ahronoth The Israeli connection

For years, Israeli firms have been selling arms to Gerogian military, training its infantry forces

'Assad's Iran visit a failure'

Al-Hayat says Tehran has demanded to receive information on Syria's indirect talks with Israel

Wall Street Journal Kremlin Capers
As Georgia burns, Moscow-watchers note a Putin play elsewhere.

The War in Georgia Is a War for the West By Mikheil Saakashvili
Russia's aggression is a challenge to democracy and international

It's Curtains for Musharraf By Najam Sethi
There is no reason for the U.S. to prop up the president.

Remember the Uighurs
By Rebiya Kadeer
Let the Olympic spotlight shine also on China's campaign of indimidation.

Daily Star Iran, the US and the post-Cold War world By Rami G. Khouri

In the Middle East, it's the extremists who are prevailing By Shlomo Ben-Ami

US Nuclear Strategy after the 2008 Presidential Elections ISS This 4-page article analyzes the stances of the US presidential candidates in respect of nuclear strategy

Time Moscow's Dangerous Game in Georgia

South Ossetia: war and politics, Thomas de Waal

From FT, a review of books on a divisive climate of disillusionment which is casting doubt on the future of the American Dream

Georgian War Not All Russia's Fault - Charles King, CS Monitor

Will Russia Get Away With It? - William Kristol, New York Times

Making Obama the Incumbent - E. J. Dionne, Houston Chronicle

No Mercy From Moscow - Peter Wilson, The Australian

H2 ERDAL ŞAFAK Türkiye ne yapabilir?

SOLİ ÖZEL 1938 mi 1956 mı?

NYT Outside U.S., Credit Cards Tighten Grip Credit cards have become commonplace in Turkey, but so has the curse of debt

The Dream of a New Turkey
Newsweek By Soner Cagaptay

FT Turkey’s music-loving military chief favours harmony By forgoing the annual purge of officers accused of Islamic practice, General Ilker Basbug’s first move assuaged the AKP and surprised many, hinting at fundamental change

Blow dealt to prospect of oil pipeline security

Gürcistan-Rusya savaşı iş dünyası için ateşten gömlek

Aradığınız kişiye şu an ulaşılamıyor! Türkiye, yanındaki savaşa müdahale etmek isterken Putin Erdoğan'ın telefonuna çıkmadı

Kadri Gürsel Türkiye İran krizinde taraf olmaya mecburdur

Iraqi-Kurd MP lashes out at 'Turkish interference'

Outbreak of armed conflict in tense Kirkuk feared GulfNews

Al-Iraqiyah: Arab-Kurdish Polemics over the Oil City of Kirkuk

Türkiye'nin Girişimleri

Dışişleri Bakanı Ali Babacan, Güney Osetya sorunu konusunda Gürcistan, Rusya ve Amerika dışişleri bakanlarıyla telefon görüşmeleri yaptı

Semih İdiz Türkiye’yi Batı’ya iten Rusya’dır

Erdal Şafak Kafkasya'ya Balkan modeli

Ferai Tınç Gürcü lideri kim itti?

Ömer Taşpınar Tiflis'te yanlış hesap

The Russian bear in Caucasia

Gürcülerin silahları Türkiye'den

'AKP bir tercih yapmalı'

AKP’nin izleyeceği rotaya ilişkin tartışmalar sürüyor. Newsweek dergisi durumu değerlendirdi

'Temkinli ama etkili'

Başbuğ, dış basının gözdesi oldu. Dün de Financial Times, Başbuğ analizi yaptı

Türkiye'ye savaş faturası

Babacan, Gürcü ve Rus bakanlarla görüştü

Türkiye füze kalkanı kuruyor İsrail, Çin, Rusya ve ABD ile görüşülüyor. İhtiyacın yarısı dışardan alınacak yarısını Türkiye üretecek

[Türkler Ortadoğu'da nereye koşuyor Lübnan'lı gazeteci Mişel Nevfel yazdı] Türkler geliyor...

ABD tavır değiştirince Kerkük sorunu iyice çıkmaza girdi

MUHAMMED HARRUB

Kerkük’teki ihtilaf doğal nedenlerden kaynaklanmıyor HALİL EL ENANİ

Al Hayat Which is More Important for the Kurds: Iraq or Kirkuk? Elias Harfoush - If there is a legacy still ablaze from the reign of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, then it most certainly is represented by the city of Kirkuk.

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

PKK’ya karşı örtülü operasyon planları

UN delays Kirkuk polls, strategist links conflict to Israel and US

Devlet kurumları anlaştı demektir

DTP davası
Diyarbakırlıların kapatma davasıyla ilgili görüşleri

PKK terör örgütünün yeni hedefi karakollar

Öcalan Savcı Öz’ü bekliyor

Açıkta içmeyin namaza gidin

Ergenekon iddianamesi eklerinde, Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri’nin kırsal kesimde ve Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi’nde 2005’ten bu yana “halkla ilişkiler stratejisi” izlediğini iddia eden bir belge de çıktı.

TSK’nın halkla ilişkiler stratejisi TSK’NIN Güneydoğu Anadolu bölgesinden 2005 yılından bu yana “halkla ilişkiler stratejisi” izlediği ortaya çıktı

DTP’nin kapanmasını önlemek için PKK silahları sustursun

‘Kapatılırsak kaos başlar’

Bir grup DTP'li Beyoğlu'nda işyerlerini taşladı

Barzani’den Kerkük’e tarihi ziyaret

Şahin Alpay Ahmadinejad’s visit to Turkey is welcome

Cevdet Aşkın

Mehmet Metiner Türk- Türkçülük Kürt-Kürtçülük

Hasan Demir Barzani Kerkük'te, bizimkiler Mavi Tur'da!

Suriye’nin aktif dış politikası düşmanlarını endişelendiriyor

USAM DARİ

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

Economic crisis wraps Turkish Cypriot cabinet in jail stripes

Güney Osetya sorunu nedir?

Bu nasıl söz?

[Yorum - Sinan Oğan] Gürcistan-Güney Osetya savaşında cephe genişlerken, Gürcistan kaybediyor...

Obama’nın korkusu
MURAT YETKİN

Fikret Ertan Saakaşvili'nin hesap hatası

Abdülhamit Bilici [ANALİZ] Küresel kavgaya Rus çözümü

Ferai Tınç Kafkasya’da süper güç rekabeti

Hasan Kanbolat Saakashvili’s ambitions before Georgia’s hopes

[HABER ANALİZ] Küresel kavganın Osetya ayağı

Ve Bakü petrolü Rusya’ya akıyor Azerbaycan, Gürcistan’daki çatışmalar yüzünden petrolünü Rusya’nın Novorosiysk limanından ihraç edeceğini açıkladı.

Gürcistan - Osetya savaşının asıl sebebi ne?

Bülent Keneş First round of power struggle in Georgia won by Russia

Gürcülerin silahları Türkiye'den

Yavuz Baydar EU ministry must be established immediately

Turkish minorities on Greek Aegean islands deprived of their rights

HAKAN ALBAYRAK

Saakaşvili ve şovenist siyasetin iflası

YUSUF KAPLAN

Sekülerleşme, milliyetçilik virüsü ve "geliyorum" diyen tehlike

Ardan Zentürk Kafkasya’da kanlı dans...

Could South Ossetia become Kosovo? by SAVAŞ GENÇ*

Gürcistan’ı ikna edin Osetya’dan çekilsin

Russia flexes muscles in Caucasus: End of post-Soviet era?

Emin Pazarcı Saakaşvili'nin hırsı

Azerbaycan, petrol sevkiyatını durdurdu

Halit Kakınç Gürcistan, haklı bir mücadele veriyor...

Türkiye’yi suçladılar

Bartholomeos' historic visit to Kiev Cengiz AKTAR

Osetya'da Türk gazeteciler yaralandı

Yağmur Atsız Vladikavkaz (Kafkaslar’a Hükmet!)

Mahir Kaynak Osetya krizi

‘Batı, çatışma dışında kalsın’

Derya Sazak Ateş ve barut

Hakan Aygün Kafkaslar'da savaş...

Arslan Bulut Gürcistan, Türkiye niyetine bombalanıyor!

Violence in Georgia: Whose war is this? by CENAP ÇAKMAK*

Iron silk road may become giant highway between East and West

Rus gazetesinden Türkiye'ye şok suçlama Rus Savunma Bakanlığı'nın askeri raporundaki ilginç detay...

Rusya’yı suçlayalım, rahat edelim...MARK ALMOND

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

İşte bebeklerimizi öldüren üç neden

Cengiz Çandar Büyük gün, eşsiz açılış

Hasan Bülent Kahraman Kültür girişimcisi aranıyor

İstanbul ve Ankara'ya füze kalkanı kuruluyor

Devlet Bahçeli'ye Ankara'da kartal yuvası gibi villa

İşadamları vekillere sponsor olabilecek

Taksim’de 80 yıldır komünizm propagandası yapılıyor!

Emekli Büyükanıt Ergenekon’a komşu

Hacı Bektaş’ta yine Aleviler yok

Doğu Türkistan: Dilşad Hatun’un kavgası sürüyor VNİ ÖZGÜREL

Ali Saydam
Savaş ve Kamu Diplomasisi

Sanatçılar, Öz’e dava hazırlığında

Why Turkey isn’t a ‘team player’ at the Olympics

Deniz Gökçe Pekin Olimpiyatı ve Sinan Erdem

Hacıbektaş the heartland of Alevis

Serter Atatürk'ün ruhunu çağırmış

Ergenekon’un genelevcisi

H3 Yeni anayasa yerine demokratikleşme paketi

AKP'nin yeni Anayasa paketi

Anayasa’nın tamamı yerine 40 maddeden oluşan demokratikleşme paketi

[Namlunun ucundaki dört yıldızlı generaller] Apoletli suikastlar zinciri

PKK’ya karşı örtülü operasyon planları

AKP'nin değişiklik paketi yola çıktı

Ergenekon'da şok belge!

DTP’li Kurtulan’ın PKK’lı eşi devlet ajanıymış...

Anketten çıkan ilginç sonuçlar

Bu dosyaları kim açacak?

Eruygur, ‘Kadrolaşma var’ diye 1500 bürokratı fişlemiş

PM’s rendezvous traffic with generals includes Gen. Koşaner

[HABER İNCELEME] Ergenekon dosyasının 7 yıl sümen altı edilmesinin sır perdesi aralanıyor

Öcalan Savcı Öz’ü bekliyor

Generalleri fişlemişler

Kanlı 1 Mayıs'ın telsiz konuşmaları Ergenekon'un ek klasörlerinde çıktı

Milyon değil, 171 bin sayfa

Bugüne kadar Ergenekon eklerinin birkaç milyon sayfayı bulduğu belirtildi. Ancak, ekler 171 bin 199 sayfa. Gizli bilgilerin yer aldığı bir 4’üncü DVD’nin de olduğu iddia ediliyor

1 Mayıs’ın yeni telsiz konuşması

Serdar Turgut: Ergenekon'da adı geçen herkesten nefret ediyorum

TSK’nın halkla ilişkiler stratejisi TSK’NIN Güneydoğu Anadolu bölgesinden 2005 yılından bu yana “halkla ilişkiler stratejisi” izlediği ortaya çıktı

Meclis, anayasayı uzlaşarak değiştirmeli

Ergenekon'da 1 Mayıs'ın telsiz konuşmaları da çıktı!

Eruygur'un ofisinde şok belge !

Askerden darbe yapmasını istemiş

AK Parti gençleri ‘korumaktan’ vazgeçti

CHP, 7 yıl önce YAŞ ihraçlarını hukuk devletine aykırı bulmuş

Gölge ordudan Ergenekon'a-8

Gölge ordudan Ergenekon'a-7

Aytaç Yalman'a şok suçlama

Kabinenin yeni A takımı

Ben de yüzde 47’yle seçildim ama benimki sayılmıyor

Devlet sırrının dosyada olması suç

Suçlanan polis Ergenekon’da görevli

Gizli tanık tartışması

Küçük: Bahçeli’yi 5. kattan atacağım

‘Ergenekon, 12 Mart ve 12 Eylül’ün sonucudur’

Tüm NATO personelini fişlemişler

Taslağı geri çekti

Gül’ün vekaleti Çatlı'nın aşkı Ergenekon'da

Çatlı'nın ölümüyle Topal cinayeti karanlıkta kaldı

Hablemitoğlu cinayetinde talimat Tekin'den

Devletin ajanıymış

Öcalan - Ergenekon ilişkisinin peşinde

İlker Başbuğ'un hocası, TSK'yı hedef alan CHP'ye kızgın: Yaptıkları münasebetsizlik

[Dinç Bilgin] CHP gibiyim; her şeyi tenkit ediyor, hiçbir şey yapmıyorum

Perinçek'e suikast notu

Ergenekon davası sanıklarından Doğu Perinçek’e de 1998 yılında bir suikast planlandığı ortaya çıktı

CHP'de Kılıçdaroğlu rahatsızlığı

Susurluk raporundaki ilginç ayrıntı: Cinayetler devlet ciddiyetine uymalı

Fevzi Doğan'ın ölüm emri Veli Küçük'ten

'Atatürk'ü sevip sevmemem neyi değiştirecek?'

Ekranların tek türbanlı kadın spikerinden şok açıklamalar...

İşte 'O' Cumhurbaşkanı

Şok eden küfürlü sözler

12 Eylül darbesi yasasıyla üniversiteleri yönetmek zül

Çatlı düğününe Ağar çiçeği

Mumcu’ya yamağı ihanet etti

[CAFE CAPITAL]
Justification for top court decision will not be announced

Erdoğan ile Büyükanıt bugün görüşecek

Son Dakika Milliyet Hürriyet Zaman

Fatih Çekirge Gece yarısı bildirileri olmayacak

Ahmet Taşgetiren

Ruşen - Çakır Org. Başbuğ farklı olup iz bırakabilecek mi?
AKP ORDU İLİŞKİLERİ 3

Taha Akyol Üniversite ve liberalizm

Fikret Bila Rusya ve ABD’nin Kafkasya mücadelesi

Hasan Cemal Sisteme teslim olmak ya da olmamak...

Murat Yetkin Türkiye’nin alacağı Gürcistan dersleri

İsmet Berkan Nefretin ruhu

Fehmi Koru Kışkırtmaya gelmesinler

Taha Kıvanç Okluk Koyu, Nirvana Yatı...

Şamil Tayyar Genelkurmayın tavrı

Ali Bayramoğlu

Yasemin Çongar Ergenekon’dan Güngören’e, özneye değil yükleme bakmak

Ertuğrul Özkök

Mıstafa Akyol The right to pornography

Ahmet Hakan Edibe ah Edibe Türkcell yönetimiyle Recep İvedik zirvesi

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt Ülsever

Enis Berberoğlu Çeteci hayır için çalışmaz

Tufan Türenç Gül, ettiği yemine sadık kalmadı

Darbeciler, çeteciler ve irtica oyunları HASAN CELAL GÜZEL

CHP ile ordu arasındaki gerilim... ORAL ÇALIŞLAR

Nasuhi Güngör Erdoğan, Başbuğ ve yeni dönem

Mustafa Akyol Laik devlette içki ve pornografi

Gülay Göktürk Edibe Sözen ne yapmak istiyor?

Serdar Turgut Mesaj alınmıştır, normale dönelim

Oktay Ekşi

Özdemir İnce

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Birkaç tane çete kurdum!

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Karadeniz'in harmonisi...

Eser Karakaş Siyasetin sınırları

ERDAL ŞAFAK Türkiye ne yapabilir?

ENGİN ARDIÇ Osmanlı'nın yasağı üç gündür İsmetçiler

ERGUN BABAHAN Shana-Obama ve gençlerimiz

EMRE AKÖZ Atatürk'ün ruhu Nur Serter'e ne dedi?

Umur Talu Kimi tutmalı?

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK Tesettür, deniz ve dağ Laiklikten ne anlıyoruz?

TAMER KORKMAZ

'Fişleme' Zinciri

TAMER KORKMAZ

Fiş-gene-kon!

Okay Gönensin

Edibe Hanım’ın lahana turşusu

MEHMET BARLAS Cep telefonunda darbe geyiği de yapılırmış... Türkiye bölgedeki her krizde taraf olmak zorunda mı?

MAHMUT ÖVÜR "Darbeciler Yargılansın" kampanyası

YAVUZ DONAT

Ali Bulaç Emrivakiyle darbe

Mehmet Tezkan

Tarikatların etkin olduğu ülkede demokrasi olmaz!

Can Ataklı

Neydi o tarihin en büyük tehlikesi?

Okay Gönensin

Odağın karşısı

AKP ile çocuklar
YILDIRIM TÜRKER

‘Yol’ nedir?
TARHAN ERDEM

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
Kadınlar, sandık ve kabine revizyonu

Ergenekon'dan köşe yazarlarına mail yağmuru

'Pergel Kanunu' ile 461 yazar üzerinde kurulan plan neydi?

Ekonomi

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Doların artışı petrolün kârını siler mi?

Ercan Kumcu İstanbul’un finans merkezi olması

Erdal Sağlam Ekonominin yeniden gündeme oturması zor

Erdal Sağlam Yeni ekonomik program için IMF ile anlaşmak şart

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Asım Erdilek Turkey weathers year-old global financial crisis

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News Analysis: In Georgia Clash, a Lesson on U.S. Need for Russia

Taunting the Bear By JAMES TRAUB Russia and Georgia were going to erupt. It was really just a question of when

Candidates’ Reactions to Georgia Conflict Offer Hints at Style on Foreign Affairs

Iraq demands 'clear timeline' for US withdrawal

In Loose Style, McCain Leads a Camp Divided Senator John McCain has been the overseer of a kingdom with unclear lines of command and an unsettled atmosphere that keeps aides constantly on edge

Buildup to the Next War By NOAH FELDMAN Talk of an attack on Iran won’t go away. Maybe that’s why it won’t happen

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Flush With Energy America needs to learn from Denmark, which responded to the 1973 Arab oil embargo in such a way that today it is energy independent.

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Make Diplomacy, Not War

The United States is overinvesting in military tools and underinvesting in diplomatic tools.

Georgia and Russia Nearing All-Out War As Russia moved in more forces and continued aerial bombing, it appeared determined to occupy South Ossetia and Abkhazia

'Descent Into Chaos' By AHMED RASHID Assessing what the Bush administration did wrong in Central Asia and what the next president will face.

Editorial Energy Fictions A nation that uses one-quarter of the world’s oil while possessing less than 3 percent of its reserves cannot drill its way to happiness at the pump.

Editorial The United States v. the Driver The priority assigned to Salim Ahmed Hamdan is an example of President Bush’s hapless approach to combating terrorism

Warning of Attacks on Olympics Is Said to Be Linked to Muslim Separatist Group

Police in Western China Kill 5 Suspected Militants After Bombing Attack

Darfur Withers as Sudan Sells Food Sudan is capitalizing on high global food prices at a time when millions there barely have enough to eat.

For Suspects, Anthrax Case Had Big Costs For some of the innocent, F.B.I. scrutiny led to lost jobs, canceled visas, broken marriages and frayed friendships

'The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power'

Open Questions on a Closed Case

By GERRY ANDREWS

Investigators must reveal the scientific methods they used to match the anthrax letters to Bruce Ivins

Outside U.S., Credit Cards Tighten Grip Credit cards have become commonplace in Turkey, but so has the curse of debt

'My Guantánamo Diary' An interpreter for Afghan detainees tells their side of their stories.

Today’s Kremlin: Too Elusive for a Solzhenitsyn? In the face of a fuzzier authoritarianism, no titanic Russian intellectuals.

H5 Washington Post Georgia Retreats, Pleads For Truce With Russia Georgian army pulls out of contested South Ossetia province, but Russia ignores calls for cease-fire and continues offensive, striking Georgia's capital.

Georgia's Risky Move

Dmitri Trenin | Playing David against a Russian Goliath.
Anatol Lieven | That's a huge miscalculation.

Putin Makes His Move By Robert Kagan, Historians will come to view Aug. 8, 2008, as a turning point no less significant than Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell.

Black Sea Watershed By Ronald D. Asmus and Richard Holbrooke, We have arrived at a transformational moment in the West's post-Cold War relations with Russia.

Tbilisi On the Streets of the Capital, a Sense of Patriotism Mingled With Defiance

Bush, Cheney Increasingly Critical of Russia Over Aggression in Georgia

U.S., Iraq Remain Unresolved On Dates for U.S. Troop Pullout Political Concerns Slow Completion of Security Framework

Editorial Russia's Dare Maybe now the West will see Vladimir Putin for what he is.

Obama as Incumbent By E. J. Dionne Jr.,

McCain's campaign is trying to turn Obama's popularity against him.

The Elections Are Coming. Is Al-Qaeda? By Bruce Riedel, We should expect to hear more from al-Qaeda, violently or otherwise, before November.

How The Surge Worked By Peter Mansoor

In Ramadi, a Counterinsurgency in Cash

Program Fed $87 Million To Violence-Plagued City

Money as a Weapon A modest program to put cash in Iraqis' hands stretches its mandate with big projects.

Russia-Georgia War Intensifies

Civilian Deaths on Increase In Conflict Over S. Ossetia

In a City Upended by War, Desperation and Bravado

U.S. Assails Russian 'Escalation' Of Crisis

That Was the Obama We're Still Waiting For By Michael Tomasky,

The promise of a purple people uniter hasn't come to fruition.

The End of the Masters of the Universe? By William Cohan, A heaping helping of humble pie might be just what Wall Street needs. Or maybe not.

Early in the Games, Glimpses Of China's Security Struggles Violence and bloodshed marring the first two days of the Beijing Olympics provided a dramatic reminder that there is no such thing as perfect security in a country as vast as China, with so many people nursing grievances against the authoritarian government.

Bush Sharpens Public Critique Of China's Idea Of Freedom

'Sovereignty' That Risks Global Health By Richard Holbrooke and Laurie Garrett, Here's a concept you've probably never heard of: "viral sovereignty."

Strong Energy Measures Wanted

Poll Shows Most Favor New Drilling, Taxes on Oil Profits

Obama Tax Plan Would Balloon Deficit, Analysis Finds Democrat's Promise to Cut Taxes Without Adding to Debt Relies on Bush Fiscal Policy

Rivals in Search of Trust By David S. Broder, In the time they served together in the United States Senate, John McCain and Barack Obama developed neither a friendship nor an intense dislike

Editorial Trial by Tribunal Osama bin Laden's driver should be freed.

H6 Guardian Much ventured, little gained Editorial: Georgia's attempt to wrest control of the breakaway province of South Ossetia was short-lived

Analysis: Jonathan Steele This is no pipeline war but an assault on Russian influence

Georgia's volatile risk-taker has gone over the brink Thomas de Waal: Its President shouldn't expect sympathy from the West, where patience is running out

The west can no longer stand idle while the Russian bully wreaks havoc David Clark: The clashes with Georgia follow years of aggressive Kremlin policy. Moscow needs to be told its G8 place is not unconditional

Russia rejects ceasefire calls as Georgia withdraws Putin in charge in South Ossetia as fighting continues and flood of refugees grows

South Ossetian refugees flee 'living hell'

Georgia under attack in second rebel province

Q&A: what happens now?

Background: the tussle for South Ossetia

Georgia under all-out attack in breakaway Abkhazia Separatist rebels and Russian forces launch attack on Georgian stronghold in Black Sea territory

What could happen next? Explainer: If Russia is serious about its peacekeeping role it will attempt to return to status quo

On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction

Oliver Tickell: We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy

Eleven people dead after suicide attacks in western China Uighur Islamic separatists attempting to steal global attention from the Beijing Olympics

Mahmoud Darwish Obituary: Poet, author and politician who helped to forge a Palestinian consciousness after the six-day war in 1967

The Observer Georgia's volatile risk-taker has gone over the brink

Thomas de Waal: Its President shouldn't expect sympathy from the West, where patience is running out

Russia widens attacks as world pleads for peace Russian bombers and artillery widen attack against Georgian forces

Russia must prove its diplomatic maturity Editorial: Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili is often described as 'pro-West', although 'pro-Nato' would be more precise

If the Democrats want Obama to win, they have to get rough

Michael Crowley:Barack may dislike mudslinging, but he needs his people to paint John McCain as nothing more than a slightly older Bush

Don't be fooled. China hasn't changed Nick Cohen: Environmental concerns will always be trumped by the party's survival instinct

Young, gifted, and black US leaders Barack Obama's success reflects the rise of 'post-racial' black politicians who distance themselves from the old politics, reports Paul Harris in Newark

Go on, admit it. Beijing is boring. Call off 2012 Barbara Ellen: Is it my imagination or, with the Chinese Olympics barely begun, is everyone already either bored stiff or openly hostile?

H7 Daily Star Iran, the US and the post-Cold War world By Rami G. Khouri

In the Middle East, it's the extremists who are prevailing By Shlomo Ben-Ami

Dubya's Unwise Gift to the Mullahs By: Amir Taheri | New York Post The State Department will reportedly soon announce the opening of an Interests Office in Tehran. It may prove to be a major mistake.

Al Awsat Missiles of Illusion By: Amir Taheri | Asharq Alawsat
Remember al-Qaher and al-Zafer? You don't? Well, what about al-Hussein and al-Abbas? No, again? The first two were the names of missiles that the Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdul Nasser relied upon as "secret weapons" in his promised "Battle of Destiny" in 1967.

The Gulf States and Iranian Hostility : Tariq Alhomayed

Al Hayat The Lebanese-Syrian Test Walid Choucair - The Lebanese crisis will experience a period of vital tests over the next few months, to render the current summer season full of political activity.

Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process Patrick Seale - Political turmoil and uncertainty in both Israel and the United States have now brought an end to the grim farce of Middle East peace-making

Boston Globe There is nothing like a disputed place to bring incendiary nationalism to the boil.

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

Iran, Algeria to discuss OPEC-style gas group

Iraq, Syria to boost trade

Al-Mahdi Army to Become Cultural Society

Iraq's Sadr launches unarmed wing Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr forms a cultural wing, saying that his militias will disarm if the US withdraws from Iraq

Water shortages frustrate Iraqis
US and Iraqi officials come together to try to meet needs for clean water

Car bomb kills 21 in Iraq market
A car bomb kills at least 21 people and wounds 70 more in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, police say.

H9 Ha’aretz – Report: Slain Assad aide supplied anti-aircraft missiles to Hezbollah Sunday Times quotes Mideast sources saying top general gave group mobile SA-8 missiles

G. Levy: Livni, Mofaz, Barak are same as Bibi - they also won't end the occupation

In depth / Contrary to popular belief, war with Iran is not imminent

Barak questions whether Livni would be 'wise' choice for premiership Defense Minister to Ch. 10: Israel was wrong to go to war in Lebanon, Gaza op would not halt militant strikes

Does Israel need American consent to attack Iran?

Bar’el A single precondition From Israel's point of view, an independent Lebanon is a lost cause, now that with Syrian assistance, Hassan Nasrallah has taken over Beirut's center of power, including the presidency and the cabinet.

Georgia's gamble Public sympathy will do little for Georgia, just as it does for Tibet and Darfur, and as it did in Chechnya and the former Yugoslavia.

ANALYSIS / Someone timed Russia-Georgia crisis to coincide with Olympics Has a tiny province caused the biggest crisis in Europe since the fall of Communism?

White House: Russia risking ties with U.S. in Georgia offensive Georgian ministry: Forces pulled from South Ossetia; Foreign Ministry: Halt arms sales to Georgia

INTERVIEW / Top U.S. general lays foundation for Palestinian state

PA: We may demand binational Israeli-Palestinian state Top negotiator Qureia says two-state solution can be achieved only if Israel withdraws to pre-1967 borders

Foreign Ministry: Halt Israeli arms sales to Georgia

Mourning Mahmoud Darwish, 'the son of all the Palestinians'

IDF reservists who trained Georgia troops: War with Russia is no surprise IDF troops: Georgia trainees compared Mideast situation to their situation, were 'excited we came to help

Were Jewish partisans depicted in new Hollywood movie murderers or heroes?

Putin to Peres: I hear your concerns over Iran

Foreign Ministry: Israel recognizes Georgia's territorial sovereignty

Foreign Ministry seeks lower profile for Israel in Georgia-Russia conflict

Arabs reluctant to help Palestinian Authority (WTR)

Jerusalem Post Tbilisi wants to see Israel place diplomatic pressure on Russia Israel consults Russia to fend off bilateral tension; over last decade, Jewish state sold Georgia some $300 million in weaponry, training

Analysis: Israel tiptoes around conflict Israel has a real strategic interest in not infuriating the Russians in their conflict with Georgia

'Palestinians might demand citizenship' PA negotiator Qurei: If Israel refuses Palestinian state with '67 borders, Palestinians will demand Ids

Former Georgian: South Ossetia is like our Golan Heights [ ABE SELIG,

Analysis: Back to the USSR

[ ISABELLA GINOR AND GIDEON REMEZ

US: Fighting could have major impact on US-Russian ties Official: Georgian troops pull out of South Ossetian capital; Russia expands bombing blitz; Jewish Agency: 200 Jews evacuated

'Hizbullah received advanced launchers' 'Sunday Times' report: Assassinated Assad aide provided group with Syrian anti-aircraft weapons

Israel concerned over Georgia 'war' Livni to convene meeting to address fears that arms sales to Tbilisi will harm relations with Russia

'Israel can decide for itself on Iran' Rice says "Israel a sovereign country," dismissing speculation of US warning against an attack.

What is the conflict in Georgia really about?

Crusades long gone, but jihad lingers on [ BARRY RUBIN

Yedioth Ahronoth The Israeli connection

For years, Israeli firms have been selling arms to Gerogian military, training its infantry forces

'Assad's Iran visit a failure'

Al-Hayat says Tehran has demanded to receive information on Syria's indirect talks with Israel

Hizbullah’s global reach

Group’s reach extends farbeyond Lebanon, poses global threat, J. Halevi and A. Perry write

'Binational state possible'
Top Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurei tells Fatah loyalists behind closed doors 'if Jerusalem continues to oppose making Palestinian state a reality, we'll demand to become part of a binational state with Israel'

'Israeli experts in Georgia'

Ex-envoy to Georgia says country modeled army after IDF, calls for US intervention in conflict

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

Daily Star Don't write off Olmert's negotiating efforts just yet
By David Kimche

There Won't Be 'Peace' Without Democracy By: Natan Sharansky and Bassem Eid | The Wall Street Journal A tragic peace process turned to farce last weekend. After bloody clashes between Hamas and Fatah loyalists in the Gaza strip killed 11 Palestinians and injured 120 more, nearly 200 Palestinians associated with Fatah sought asylum in Israel

It's Hard to Relax in a Loaded Setting By: Uri Dromi | Miami Herald Is the present calm only a "pausa" before violence erupts again? Hezbollah is arming itself to the teeth, and Syrian President Bashar Assad said that if he couldn't get the Golan peacefully, "other options were open."

Washington Institute Financial Crisis Grips Fayad Government The Palestinian Authority faces a crisis of confidence and political legitimacy as salaries go unpaid due to unmet international aid commitments. Mohammad Yaghi writes.

Can antisemitism be amusing?

Obama and Israel ’s Ruling Elites*

H10 Christian Science Monitor Russo-Georgian conflict is not all Russia's fault But war could ignite further disputes in the region. By Charles King

Russia's cold-war mentality By going to war with Georgia, Russia is drawing a new Iron Curtain.

Pressure builds on Pakistan's Musharraf The ruling coalition has vowed to move forward with an impeachment process against the president. Even some of the unpopular leader's allies are urging him to quit.

After setbacks, Sadr redirects Mahdi Army Moqtada al-Sadr instructed his militiamen to join a new social wing of his anti-American Shiite army

Russian clout prevails in S. Ossetia Georgian President Saakashvili called for international mediation over the breakaway region in a conflict some see as East vs. West.

Relief for consumers: prices falling After soaring for months, prices for oil, rice, and other commodities are going down.

Obama's challenge: What role for the Clintons? A roll-call vote for Hillary Clinton at the convention would be 'cathartic,' she says. Then there's Bill

ASIA

Daniel Drezner & Robert Kagan: Chinese Politics

Wife of Pakistani Nuclear Scientist A.Q. Khan Talks: Musharraf 'Lied' about Husband's Role in Atomic Bomb

China's quick fall, slow return to glory WINSTON LORD, the former US ambassador to China, long ago remarked on the tendency of Americans to regard China with an attitude alternating between romance and fear. Thanks to the Olympics, we finally know whether China is an unassuming poor country suddenly made good or a menacing superpower in the making. The answer is neither. (By Philip Auerswald, Boston Globe)

Yedioth Ahronoth Horror show in Beijing/ Wegman China’s fascist tendencies, as displayed in opening ceremony, should concern us all

Finance in East Asia: from crisis to integration - challenges of second generation reforms

Seeing China Whole - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune

Chinese grow close to US in sport of giants

Allies call on Pakistan's beleaguered Musharraf to quit

H11 IHT STALLING ON IRAN

China and Russia reap the benefits of sanctions By JOSHUA GLEIS

It is imperative that the Chinese and Russians understand they have much to gain from an end to the conflict with Iran

For U.S., bigger issues require Russian help State Department officials made it clear over the weekend that there was no chance the United States would intervene militarily in the conflict between Georgia and Russia

Russia pursues retreating Georgian troops Russian troops advanced on the city of Gori in central Georgia on Sunday night, for the first time directly assaulting a Georgian city with ground forces.

Musharraf under fire Pakistan's coalition government must get beyond its political dispute with President Pervez Musharraf.

EUROPE European press review

European governments are at their wits’ end, says Jürgen Habermas. It is time for them to admit it, and let the people decide the future of the EU... more»

Der Spiegel The Fight for South Ossetia: Caucasus Violence Took Europe By Surprise

H12 RFE/RL Georgia Asks U.S. To Act As Mediator

South Ossetia Crisis Could Be Russia's Chance To Defeat Siloviki

Russia expands Georgia blitz, deploys ships

BBC US warning to Russia over Georgia

The US strongly criticises Russian military action against Georgia, in the bitter conflict over South Ossetia, amid reports that Moscow has bombed further targets inside Georgia.

Eyewitness: Mood shifts in Gori

U.S. says Russia's use of force disproportionate in Georgia

Debka Russia expands war with Georgia to Abkhazia, Black Sea

Israel backs Georgia in Caspian Oil Pipeline Battle with Russia

Google News Azerbaijan

Let's Go to the Moon and Mars Together By: Thomas R. Pickering | The Moscow Times
The United States and Russia are slipping and sliding into a dark vortex together. If this continues, the results won't be pretty

Abkhazia sends army to drive out Georgian troops

US faults Russia for rising violence in Georgia

H13 The Times Georgia: another Sarajevo moment avoided

The great powers learnt in 1914 that small conflicts can easily and quite accidentally trigger world wars William Rees-Mogg

Russia's Self-Aggrandisement

Georgia is no model democracy, but its treament is unconscionable

Comment: Nato should still embrace Georgia Georgia's miscalculation over South Ossetia should not deter Nato from offering membership - it is not up to Moscow who joins

Moscow attack as Georgian forces sue for peace President Bush has expressed solidarity with George, telling Mr Putin that Russia's actions are "unacceptable

Roots of the Georgia-Russia conflict Central cause of the conflict is that Southern Ossetes want to unite with their counterparts in the North, part of Russia

Putin leads from front to send US message Who runs Russia? Putin strongly condemns military attack and vows retaliation before Medvedev takes to the airwaves

We helped in Iraq - now help us, beg Georgians

Petraeus: US flying Georgians into battle zone American commander in Iraq says that his troops are helping to redeploy Georgian soldiers to fight in South Ossetia

General Petraeus hails SAS after Iraq victory Departing head of multinational force in Iraq praises British special forces for 'initiative' over al-Qaeda car bombers

Call for more troops to thwart Taliban victory British commanders warn that unless thousands more are sent to Afghanistan the Taliban will win control of the country

A bright but short life on the shelves of the intelligentsia Go to any second-hand bookshop and bear humbled witness to the debris of big ideas past. Here's five of them James Harkin

Barack slips away with ‘Obama fatigue' The presidential contender is taking a holiday in the hope that a low profile will reverse a worrying trend in the polls

Fresh questions for Edwards over affair As Edwards confessed to the relationship, former campaign finance director admits payments were made to Ms Hunter last year

Sunday Times Georgia pulls troops out of South Ossetia capital The announcement came as 10,000 additional Russian troops landed in Georgia

‘Bodies are lying everywhere. It’s hell’

How Georgia fell into its enemies' trap

Russia strikes a blow at its fears of Nato encirclement Tensions over two tiny Russian-backed Georgian enclaves reflect the much larger tensions between Russia and the West

Slain Syrian aide supplied missiles to Hezbollah Recently assassinated Muhammed Suleiman had been supplying anti-aircraft missiles to Lebanese militant group Hezbollah

I spy an Olympic crack in China’s wall China must realise that progress on the world stage cannot be divorced from certain freedoms Simon Jenkins

Call for more troops to thwart Taliban victory British commanders warn that unless thousands more are sent to Afghanistan the Taliban will win control of the country

Barack slips away as ‘Obama fatigue’ sets in The presidential contender is taking a holiday in the hope that a low profile will reverse a worrying trend in the polls

Obama: McCain is 'in the pocket' of the oil firms

Video threatens to derail Clinton-Obama truce

Olympics teach excellence in making money

Wall Street Journal Kremlin Capers
As Georgia burns, Moscow-watchers note a Putin play elsewhere.

Russia Widens Attacks Russia broadened its military campaign against neighboring Georgia, as Tbilisi pulled back its battered troops. Moscow's massive assault marks a watershed in an increasingly assertive foreign policy. Efforts at a cease-fire failed, with Russia dismissing Western appeals.

• Russia's Geopolitical Aims Trump Markets

The War in Georgia Is a War for the West By Mikheil Saakashvili
Russia's aggression is a challenge to democracy and international

It's Curtains for Musharraf By Najam Sethi
There is no reason for the U.S. to prop up the president.

Remember the Uighurs
By Rebiya Kadeer
Let the Olympic spotlight shine also on China's campaign of indimidation.

Five Months
By James Taranto
Will President Obama's first act be to free an al Qaeda war criminal?

War in the Caucasus
Georgian mistakes, and Russian imperialism.

H14 Financial Times US decline will not be easily reversed The next president’s biggest challenge will be will to prevent the US becoming dependent on foreign sources for capital and energy, writes Byron Wien

Wounded pride ignites accidental war The danger is now that the South Ossetia conflict will undermine Russia’s already tense relations with the US and the rest of Europe, writes Quentin Peel

China to overtake US as largest manufacturer China is set to overtake the US next year as the world’s largest producer of manufactured goods, four years earlier than expected, as a result of the rapidly weakening US economy

Whispers of a Watergate for Bush Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind alleges the White House directed the forgery of evidence to support its case for the Iraq war. Congress ought to look into this urgently, writes Clive Crook

Iranians facing power cuts wonder where the money went

Georgia’s error Gideon Rachman’s blog: By becoming the first to shed blood the Georgians lost the moral high ground and gave Russia the causus belli it sought

Heated diplomatic exchanges Loathing mounts as Russia reveals iron fist Washington has warned Russia it is risking its long-term relationship with the US by failing to halt what was described as aggression in Georgia

Russia-US ties face deep chill

Blow dealt to prospect of oil pipeline security

Georgia ceasefire fails to halt Russian attack Russian aircraft were reported to have struck at targets inside Georgia despite an announcement that the country was pulling its troops out of South Ossetia

More help needed for US economy

With monetary policy constrained and housing finance responding only weakly to the steps taken so far, fiscal policy needs to stay on the table

Musharraf at bay

Pakistan’s president secured re-election from a rump parliament packed with his placemen; the parliament elected in February should decide his fate

Georgia unrest poses problems for Sochi 2014 Russia’s plans to host the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi are likely to face difficulties because of its support for the separatist movements in the breakaway regions of Georgia

Opec income hits record as oil prices soar Petroleum exporters go on spending spree

Freedom fight As it stands, the UK government’s counter-terror strategy strikes the wrong balance between keeping people safe and preserving their freedom

The five lessons bankers must relearn

In the old partnerships, the partners paid close attention to their firm’s risk for a simple reason: it was their money. Today, boards must become more informed on the risk-taking, writes Philip Purcell

US news loses its dominant voices

H15 Los Angeles Times Russia snubs Georgia's call for cease-fire

Moscow sends more troops and continues bombing.

In South Ossetia capital, a relative calm Tskhinvali remains on edge as residents emerge from shelters for the first time since fighting erupted to find streets littered with bodies and debris

U.S. soldier, 17 Iraqis killed in suicide blast The attack in Tarmiya is the most deadly of several incidents across Iraq. U.S., Iraqi negotiators continue working on pact laying out the future for U.S. troops in the nation

Editorial

Obama: star of his own movie

By Neal Gabler His 'celebrity' comes from an emotional identity with voters, not from 'rock star' hysteria.

Pakistan troops withdraw from Taliban stronghold After days of heavy fighting, and with eight soldiers dead, the army stops the campaign in Bajaur. Fighting also erupts in nearby North-West Frontier Province

Designs on power

By Steven Heller Mao has far outlasted other 20th century dictators as a graphic icon in his country.

H16 American Politics

Gallup Daily: Obama 47%, McCain 42%

Making Obama the Incumbent - E. J. Dionne, Houston Chronicle

Salon Why isn't Obama crushing McCain?

Doubts Starting to Rein Back Obama - Andrew Sullivan, Sunday Times

Why Polls Aren't Worrying Team Obama - Carol Marin, Chicago Sun-Times

Obama's VP choice imminent via website, e-mail, text message

Clinton Was Advised to Portray Obama as Foreign - Mike Allen, Politico

Like It Or Not, Obama Needs Bill Clinton - Howard Fineman, Newsweek

Georgia Conflict Tests Candidates - Wall Street Journal

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

George Will Obama and the Promise of History

Forward Party Platforms Draw in Jewish Groups A concerted effort by Jewish groups to weigh in with Republican and Democratic officials involved in formulating their respective party’s platforms appears to signal a sizable shift in communal priorities since the last presidential election, four years ago.

The Ghosts of Political Leanings - Michael Barone, US News & World Report

The Humor Deficit in 2008 - Kurt Andersen, New York Magazine

Obama gets advice from new ‘friend’ Clooney George Clooney has become one of Barack Obama’s most high-profile backers, calling him several times a week to offer advice on body language, presentation and policy.

H17 Daily Telegraph Call to unite to resist Russian aggression

Vladimir Putin's war on Georgia will not be the last in his quest to restore the Soviet empire, says Denis MacShane.

Fears of ethnic cleansing grow as Russia advances A full-scale evacuation of the Georgian city of has Gori started as fears rose that Russia would soon advance its troops across the border from the breakaway republic of South Ossetia into the main body of Georgia itself.

War must be stopped before it spreads With a small war raging, the issue is not who started it but how to stop it and what is at stake is the balance of power in the region

EU bureaucrats 'outnumber British army two to one' The number of bureaucrats working for the European Union is nearly double the number of soldiers in the British army, campaigners claim.

Karadzic 'was protected by UK'

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, was able to avoid capture for 13 years because he received high-level protection from London, former Hague Tribunal officials have claimed

Beware of politicians bearing fuel gifts Gordon Brown's plan to give families money would be unnecessary if we weren't over-taxed, says Janet Daley.

Sunday Telegraph The return of Cold War diplomacy The problem with Georgia is that it controls the oil and gas pipeline from Azerbaijan to Turkey that offers Europe a degree of independence from Russian energy blackmail

Georgia 'pulls troops out of South Ossetia'

Crisis deepens as Russia snubs Bush's call to pull troops out

China beefs up security after new terror attack China sends soldiers into the far-western town of Kuqa after at least eight people were either wounded or killed in a bomb attack.

China's future hatches in the Bird's Nest The imagination, harmony and refinement of the Olympic opening showed a great culture at its best, says George Walden.

H18 Independent Georgia bows to might of Russia Georgia's appeal for a ceasefire seemed to have fallen on deaf ears last night as Russian jets bombed the capital, Tbilisi, for the first time.

Bruce Anderson: The West must share the blame for war in Georgia

Leading article: A small war in the Causasus which has huge implications

Some weep, some rage as bombs pulverise capital

Diplomatic Effort: UN urges Russia to halt offensive

The Refugees: Civilians pour over border into Russia to escape conflict

Bush steps up pressure on China with call for religious freedom

President George Bush attended a Christian service in Beijing yesterday to call for greater religious freedom in China, but a leading local underground church activist was detained en route to the ceremony.

Independent on Sunday Georgian troops 'pull out as Russian warships arrive' Georgian troops pulled out of the capital of the breakaway province of South Ossetia today under massive Russian shelling, Georgian officials said

30,000 homeless as a chaotic conflict intensifies

War in the Caucasus: Inside the battle zone

Andrew Wilson: Georgia and Russia can still step back from the brink

Leading article: A war on our blind side

Alex Salmond: The new king of Scotland

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

Winning the ideas war against Al-Qaeda
By Steven W. Barnes

Report: Al-Qaida in Iraq more integrated Al-Qaida in Iraq is more integrated with the broader organization, yet the group did not exist prior to the 2003 invasion, a U.S. Military Academy report said.

H20 Slate

H21 The Wisdom of Crowds? A single economic forecast is usually wrong. But groups of economic forecasts are often just as mistaken. Why? Tim Harford

It Takes a Hothead? Why does it take a cliché to draw attention to the problem of fathers' rights?
Dahlia Lithwick

The Sunday paper: A British institution in search of a mission

Changing habits on Sunday, which has become less of a day of rest and reading and the migration of analytical journalism, once the preserve of the Sunday papers, to dailies has made the Sunday read less distinctive

From Daedalus, a special issue on nature, including Cass Sunstein (Chicago): Precautions and Nature; Philip Tetlock (UC-Berkley) and Michael Oppenheimer (Princeton): The Boundaries of the Thinkable; Bill McKibben (Middlebury): The Challenge to Environmentalism; Leo Marx (MIT): The Idea of Nature in America; Richard Kraut (Northwestern): On Philosophy as a Guide to Well-Being

The Descent of Men By MAURICE ISSERMAN Mountaineering has become more dangerous as the traditional expeditionary culture, which had emphasized mutual responsibility, gave way to an ethos stressing self-preservation

Lifting China The rise of Chinese weightlifter Chen Yanqing helps to explain why many think China may win the medal count in the Beijing Games -- unseating the U.S. from its spot as Summer Olympics medal king

Mothers and work: the great debate

Is it possible for modern mothers to combine childcare with a career? Our panel discuss the choices they have made in their own lives

Take the Bananas and Run

Missing men America's fight against poverty has a growing hole. Some say it's time to pay attention to the people falling through it: men. (By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Boston Globe)

Uncommon Knowledge

Surprising insights from the social sciences: Why innovation is getting harder; and fewer clothes = more coverage

Integration of immigrants into a new culture is related to poor sleep quality

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