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H1 Washington Post How to Stop Putin By Charles Krauthammer There's nothing to be done militarily. What we can do is alter Putin's cost-benefit calculations.

After Warning Moscow, U.S. Has Few Options White House mixes strong rhetoric with modest action in response to Russia's continued military incursion in Georgia despite cease-fire agreement

McClatchy Russia working to destroy Georgia's wounded military

Despite angry words, Pentagon seeks to avoid conflict with Russia

Russia relations sure to suffer, but no one knows how much

Musharraf being nudged to quit before impeachment Americans and British diplomats are trying to encourage a quick exit from office for Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, a staunch Western anti-terrorism ally, before he suffers the disgrace of impeachment, Pakistani officials said Wednesday

In a Generation, Minorities May Be the U.S. Majority Census Bureau projections show that changes in racial distribution are occurring faster than anticipated just a few years ago.

WSJ US Launches Airlift to Aid Georgia

Bush's Economic Warnings to Russia Face Hurdles

Israeli DM: US Blocking Strike on Iran

Jerusalem Post Israel Fears Georgia War Could Hurt Iran Effort

Ha’aretz – Report: Syria Fears Israel Strike, Taking Preventive Steps

Guardian Sticks, carrots and nukes Patrick Clawson: Castigating Israel misses the real issue - a nuclear Iran. Britain can do much to help resolve the crisis

This is a tale of US expansion not Russian aggression Seumas Milne: War in the Caucasus is as much the product of an American imperial drive as local conflicts

A reality check for Nato Robert Fox: The alliance's 'new strategic concept', already in trouble, has been dealt a death blow by recent events in Georgia

America's next move Ken Gude: Russia's attack on Georgia exposed the weakness of Bush's foreign policy. Here's what the US needs to do to regain leverage

The Times Iraq: US troops will be out 'within three years'

Foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari also told The Times the US military will be barred from unilaterally mounting attacks

Vladimir Putin's mastery checkmates the West

Russia has been biding its time, but its victory in Georgia has been brutal - and brilliant Michael Binyon

MESH Michael Reynolds on Debacle in the Caucasus

Salon Putin's war enablers: Bush and Cheney Russia's escalating war on Georgia reveals the consequences of the Bush administration's long assault on the international rule of law.
By Juan Cole

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Fragile Cease-fire in Georgia - Council on Foreign Relations

Pakistan's Governance Challenges - Council on Foreign Relations

Irfan Husain, Columnist, Dawn Newspaper, Pakistan - Council on Foreign Relations

The war for Georgia: Russia, the west, the future , Ghia Nodia

The Georgia-Russia conflict: lost territory, found nation , Donald Rayfield

Djerejian McCain: Let's Compound the Blunder!

IHT GEORGIA'S FATE

The grim realities of power

By RAJAN MENON Russia's attack illustrates how little gratitude matters in the politics among nations.

U.S. officials say they warned Georgia to avoid fight Bush administration officials have been adamant in asserting that they warned the government in Tbilisi not to let Moscow provoke it into a fight. But there had been a lot of mixed messages.

Conflict in Georgia narrows oil options for West Energy experts say that the hostilities between Russia and Georgia could threaten American plans to gain access to more of Central Asia's energy resources

The road leads back to you, oh Georgia GulfNews - By Amir Taheri,

Los Angeles Times Georgia conflict may spark new U.S. policy battle over Russia Some say the White House sent Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili mixed signals. The violence may bolster U.S. hard-liners' argument for further isolating Moscow

Who got Georgia into this?

By ROSA BROOKS

Russia's aim in Georgia battle was strategic U.S. experts say Moscow's goal in the Georgia battle has been to lay claim to a sphere of influence on Russia's periphery

Stratfor From Tbilisi to Tehran -- History Resumes Russia created a new reality with the conflict in Georgia, and the United States is willing to let the politics of that new reality unfold

Christian Science Monitor

Russia's big Caucasus win

Moscow has gained leverage, threatened Georgia's pro-West leader, and bolstered national pride.

Georgia's Israeli Arms Point Russia to Iran By: Peter Hirschberg | Asia Times Israel's relations with Georgia have been close, supplying Tbilisi with some US$200 million worth of military equipment since 2000. Israel is now worried of Russian retribution in the form of increased arms sales to its perceived enemies, including an anti-aircraft missile system for Iran

BBC Lebanon chief mends ties in Syria Lebanon's president arrives in Damascus for talks with Syria's leader, the first such trip after three years of turbulence.

Lebanon lurches back to brink

GAP Report Details Azeri Privatization-World Bank Corruption Source: Government Accountability Project

Lord Chris Patten Is there a European Foreign Policy?

France's role in the Rwandan genocide IS THE defendant's dock at the International Criminal Court reserved for leaders of small and poor countries that defy the West? Not if Rwanda has its way. It wants to charge some of France's most celebrated leaders of the 1990s as collaborators in genocide. (By Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe

Georgian President's Claims Raise Eyebrows

Georgia’s Lessons for Asia By: Philip Bowring | Asia Sentinel
The crisis in and around Georgia may seem rather remote from most of Asia. Yet there are issues and lessons from this latest fall-out from the break up of the Russian/Soviet empire that are relevant in Asia, which still faces border disputes and ethnic minority issues left over from European and other imperialisms

Der Spiegel 'Massacres on our Doorstep': Europe Agrees to Monitor Georgia Cease-Fire

Time Staring Down the Russians

H2 FT US warns Turkey over energy deal with Iran As Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad visits Turkey, Washington says it expects Ankara to avoid an agreement that would harm diplomatic efforts to halt Tehran’s nuclear programme

Ahmedinejad NTV’nin sorularını yanıtladı Söyleşinin tam metni için tıklayınız Ahmedinecad CNN TÜRK'e konuştu

Murat Yetkin İran’la yeni enerji anlaşması imzalanmıyor

[Yorum - Arif Keskin] Ahmedinejad'ın ziyareti ve Türkiye'nin Ortadoğu açılımı

Jamestown Foundation Technological Innovation and the Turkish Armed Forces' War on the PKK by Nihat Ali Ozcan

PKK Tactics May Reveal Damage Caused by Turkish Military Campaign By Emrullah Uslu

SETA - "Saakashvili Pulled the Trigger: Turkey between Russia and Georgia” by Hasan Ali KARASAR

Ha'aretz Turkey and Iran / US-approved relations

İran'la doğalgaz imzası başka bahara

Kurdish Forces Refuse to Quit Iraq Battlefield Province

Tehran Times Turkey a reliable partner for Iran: analyst

Türkiye, kritik bir dönemde Ahmedinejad'ı ağırlıyor

Şükrü Küçükşahin Gül’ün Ahmedinejad’a söyleyecekleri

İttifakın ilk adımı

Şatoda ağırladılar

Laçiner: Eski usul dağda, gerilla hareketlerinden ayrılmış bir örgüt yapılanıyor

Ahmadinejad In New Israel Tirade Before Turkey Trip

Guardian Turkish PM disowns anti-porn bill Move appears to offer olive branch to secularist critics and fears of an Islamist state

Sami Kohen Erdoğan’ın zor misyonu

Zor dostluk: Türkiye-İran
NURAY MERT

Metin Münir Ne sivilden ne askerden cevap var

Terör tuzağına karşı antimayın araçları gündemde

Serpil Yılmaz Türkiye’nin Ortadoğu randevusu

Çırağan’da Gül’le

Kafkas ittifakını Kremlin onayladı

Turkey raises Iran gas imports as BP halts pumping Shakh-Deniz ...
Hürriyet

TURKEY AND THE PROBLEMS WITH THE BTC Eurasia Daily Monitor

EurasiaNet RUSSIA ATTACK: CONSEQUENCES FOR GEORGIA PIPELINE AND POTI PORT

The Times Power in the pipeline: Why the BTC matters

İsmail Küçükkaya Kafkaslar’ı en iyi bilen adam Çankaya’da

analysis: Bridging Turkey’s political divide —Ijaz Hussain Daily Times

Israel, Turkey and U.S. to Hold Search and Rescue Drill

İran’la anlaşmaya ABD gölgesi

Erdoğan dün Putin’e bugün Tiflis’e gitti

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

Cevdet Aşkın Hükümete şehit tepkisi, PKK'dan şiddeti artırma sinyali

Beşikçi: Solution to Kurdish issue needs analytical deliberations first

Kurdish Forces Refuse to Quit Iraq Battlefield Province

PKK’nın yeni hedefi ‘şehir odaklı’ terör

İşte PKK'nın yeni stratejisi

Teröristler, İran sınırından sızıyor

DTP'li Ayna'dan PKK kutlaması!

Kirkuk Reflects Challenges of Ethnic Conflict in Iraq

Kurdistan PM returns to Erbil from Iran

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 13 Aug 08

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights (in Arabic) 13 Aug 08

1. Bu sözler DTP'yi kapattırır

Britain and Turkey back Arabs on Kirkuk

Barazani tackles Kirkuk elections in USA

Ayna'dan çok ağır tahrik!

Mehmet Altan Ahmedinejad’la...

DTP’den kapatmaya karşı AKP taktiği

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

Semih İdiz Rusya gerçekten kazandı mı?

Seyfettin Gürsel Rusya: Ortak mı, rakip mi?

Rauf Denktaş Birleştirmeden yana olmak

İsrafil Kumbasar Gürcistan üzerinden Ermenistan'ı Karadeniz’e çıkarma planı mı var?

Turkey steps into Georgia conflict

BTC oil pipeline damage study may take a week -BP

Mehmet Binay Tarih enerjiyle geri döndü

Hüseyin Gülerce Gürcistan dersi: Türkiye'siz AB'nin geleceği yok

Fikret Ertan 6. Madde...

Turkey lost $300000 a day on BTC, exports to resume after repair

Guardian Germany shaken by ice-cream killings Two Turkish citizens arrested following manhunt involving 200 police with helicopters and dogs

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

Hakkari Üniversitesi'ne Oxford'lu rektör adayı

Türkler Çin Seddi önünde bir kez daha havlu attı

SOLİ ÖZEL Hangi ahlak?

Turkey to renew railways with two-way system

Along Turkey's Sun-Drenched Coasts, a European Invasion By: Handan T. Satiroglu | World Politics Review The Turkish coastline has witnessed a construction bonanza fueled by moneyed Europeans seeking a relatively affordable place in the sun. Much of Turkey's once pristine coastline has metamorphosed into a coastal suburbia, replete with American-style apartments and luxury homes surrounding golf courses.

Deniz Gökçe Olimpiyatlarda Türkiye ne yapar?

Tuzla kapatılacak

Novelist Highlights The Rich Flavor Of Old Istanbul : NPR

Ali Tezel Bu ölümler de Tuzla’da hiç bir şey değiştirmez

Travel industry: Turkey and Egypt prove winners for Thomas Cook

Hangi üniversite ne zaman batar

’Aydın Höykürmeli’ Ergenekon senfonisi

İlk Türk bilgisayar oyunu rekora koşuyor

H3 Savcının sorusu 3 manşeti yalanladı

Konuşma hayali çıktı!

Citibank istedi Pamukbank bitti

Bankaya el koydurup yolunu bulmuş

Ergenekon terör örgütü şemaya döküldü, '1 numara' sansürlü

MİT'in Ergenekon şeması

Ordunun seçimlere müdahale planı

Teori iyi pratik zayıf!

Mumcu ve Çatlı raporları sahte

Karargah Evleri ek delillerde

Atatürkçülük kisfesi altında Masonlara hizmet ettim

Misyoner tesadüfleri!

İddianamedeki şemalar bantlı

Anayasa için CHP'yle uzlaşı şart

CHP 'Anayasa değişecek' vaadini parti programından çıkarıyor

Mumcu suikastında sahte belgeyle hedef saptırılmış

1 numaranın adını dosyaya koymadı

Ergenekon MİT adına belgeler de üretmiş

Foreign Policy'ye konuştu: Ülkemin hasretini çekiyorum

'CHP yönetimi, PKK kadrosuyla görüştü' iddiası

Güney mi İpek mi tartışması

CHP Dişli’nin peşini ısrarla bırakmıyor

Yolu kaldırın, E-5’ten yol açın imarı yükseltin, milyonları alın!

Yeni 23 rektör adayı belirlendi

YÖK’ten tartışma yaratacak liste

Gül istedi MGK İstanbul yolcusu

İddianame teröristleri de birbirine düşürdü

AKP ders çıkartmadı

AKP anayasal suç işliyor

Köşk'te çok ilginç buluşma!

Ergenekon evidence reopens Gazi case

Tuzla faciasına üçlü soruşturma

Gül'ün oğlu, Mescit talebini doğruladı

Baykal’a da veda edecek

Baykal: Saygıyla uğurlayacağız

CHP, Tuzla’daki araziyi de sordu

DHKP-C’de liderlik mücadelesi başladı

Aydınlar Ergenekon çağrısı yaptı

Son Dakika Milliyet Hürriyet Zaman

Cengiz Çandar

Ahmet Taşgetiren Belediyeler ve...

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Gen. Başbuğ may order trial for Ergenekon-linked officers

Ruşen - Çakır

Taha Akyol Ahmedinecad ve Anıtkabir

Fikret Bila Dişli söylediklerini belgelemeli

Hasan Cemal

Murat Yetkin İran’la yeni enerji anlaşması imzalanmıyor

İsmet Berkan Biraz da iyi şeylere bakalım

Fehmi Koru Tuzla'dan çıkan tabutlar

Taha Kıvanç

Şamil Tayyar

Ali Bayramoğlu

İbrahim Kalın A long dull moment in Turkey?

Serdar Turgut Gerçek nihayet ortaya çıkıyor

Yasemin Çongar Moskova’dan dünyaya ağustos mesajları

Ertuğrul Özkök Ali Vural ile Veli Dural

Derya Sazak Ekmek ve mayın

Imported armor vs. national armor Burak BEKDİL

CHP+Ordu=İktidar
HASAN CELAL GÜZEL

Ahmet Hakan

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt Ülsever

Enis Berberoğlu

Oktay Ekşi Tut sözünü

Bekir Coşkun Ertuğrul Özkök boşuna bekleyecek...

Özdemir İnce

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Sınırın iki yanında da aynı takiye

Soruşturmanın sordurduğu soru: Ergenekon mu, reorganizasyon mu?

MAHMUT ÜSTÜN

TAMER KORKMAZ

Boşuna söylemiyor…

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL

Dünyayı alarma geçiren iki olay!

AKİF EMRE

Türkiye'yi kritik dönem bekliyor

YASİN DOĞAN

Kosova'nın rövanşı mı?

DAVUT DURSUN

Rusya zafer kazandı ama silah kendisine karşı dönerse...

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERDAL ŞAFAK İstanbul'da bir konuk

ENGİN ARDIÇ Frikik istiyorlar!

ERGUN BABAHAN Ergenekon'un hayali ve Rusya

EMRE AKÖZ Meraklı turşucu

Umur Talu

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK Bunun adı: Arsa spekülasyonu

Mustafa Mutlu

Başbakan muhalefet lideri olsaydı, ne derdi?

MEHMET BARLAS Bundan böyle de düşünerek atmayın adımlarınızı...

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

YAVUZ DONAT

Mümtazer Türköne Üniversite için demokratik çözümler

Can Ataklı

Meclis Başkanı Toptan, Şaban Dişli’nin mal beyanını incelesin

Süheyl Batum

Çukurambar’daki Cumhurbaşkanı ve tercihleri

Okay Gönensin

Sadece 7 yıl

İşte Tuncay Güney'in soyadı

Yeni klasörlerle birlikte bilinmeyenler açığa çıkıyor.

Atatürkçülük kisfesi altında Masonlara hizmet ettim Birliğe giriş 2 mum bir hançerli törenle yapılıyor...

Ekonomi

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

1994 ve 2001'den farkımız ne?

MELİHA OKUR
Doğalgaz 1 Ocak'ta 400 dolar!

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam IMF anlaşma için niyetli ama...

Şükrü Kızılot Ekonomide güven eğilimi düşüyor

Turkey shares close down, outperform peers

Hazine nakit yönetimi değişti
MAHFİ EĞİLMEZ

Doğru ölçümle cari açık
FATİH ÖZATAY

Aydın Ayaydın

Tekstil sektörü can çekişiyor

Asaf Savaş Akat

İlk yarıda sanayi üretimi

Türkiye sanayide enerjinin en ucuz olduğu dördüncü ülke

H5 Washington Post How to Stop Putin By Charles Krauthammer

There's nothing to be done militarily. What we can do is alter Putin's cost-benefit calculations.

After Warning Moscow, U.S. Has Few Options White House mixes strong rhetoric with modest action in response to Russia's continued military incursion in Georgia despite cease-fire agreement

Despite Truce, Russians Take Georgian City Bush Rebukes Moscow, Sends Humanitarian Aid

Conflict Makes Clear Who Rules in Russia Putin Shown Giving Orders to Medvedev

From Green Light to Yellow By Dan Froomkin

Lebanon, Syria Agree to Open Diplomatic Relations

A Convoy Heads for Gori to Investigate Rumors of Plunder

Editorial Blaming Democracy

The fundamental principle at stake in Georgia

Russia's War Is The West's Challenge By Mikheil Saakashvili,

The current war threatens freedom and democracy everywhere.

U.S. to Grow Grayer, More Diverse

Minorities Will Be Majority by 2042, Census Bureau Says

The Next Memo What Democrats Need to Hear: 'STOP IT!!!!'

By E. J. Dionne Jr., Will the Party of Clinton ever become the Party of Obama?

Democrats Pick Warner As Keynote Speaker Ex-Governor's Role Hints That Kaine Isn't VP Choice

New Books Aim To Unweave the Obama Narrative

How Hillary Should Steal the Show

The Gene Pool | The cynical speculate that Hillary plans to upstage Obama at the convention.

Let's talk about how.

dot.comments: McCain, Georgia, and Lobbying

Discuss: How to Contain Russia?

Palestinians Turn Out to Lay Beloved Poet to Rest

Let the Women Play By Mona Eltahawy, Saudi Arabia's Olympic team should include female athletes

Hair Samples in Anthrax Case Don't Match

Strands From Mailbox in Princeton Are Not From Ivins, Investigators Say

H6 Guardian Sticks, carrots and nukes Patrick Clawson: Castigating Israel misses the real issue - a nuclear Iran. Britain can do much to help resolve the crisis

This is a tale of US expansion not Russian aggression Seumas Milne: War in the Caucasus is as much the product of an American imperial drive as local conflicts

A reality check for Nato Robert Fox: The alliance's 'new strategic concept', already in trouble, has been dealt a death blow by recent events in Georgia

America's next move Ken Gude: Russia's attack on Georgia exposed the weakness of Bush's foreign policy. Here's what the US needs to do to regain leverage

Georgia and NATO

NATO's eastward push has been belligerent and wrongheaded

Fear and loathing in Tbilisi

Matthew Collin: Few Georgians will criticise Mikheil Saakashvili openly while the Russian invaders remain. But they are counting their casualties

Amid promise of peace,
Georgians live in terror Russian militia accused of an orgy of looting, burning, murdering and rape

Moscow rejects call to preserve Georgia borders

Video: Violence as Russian military advances

Rights group: Russia inflating casualty figures

Kremlin 'exaggerating death toll'

West rushes to save Musharraf

Three of Pakistan's four provincial parliaments pass resolutions declaring president unfit for office

Lebanon bomb mars landmark summit Blast comes just before president visits Syria to agree formal diplomatic relations with neighbour

Taliban kills aid workers in ambush

Three western women and their Afghan driver shot in car by five gunmen in eastern Logar province

From slow to stop Editorial: A statistical cigarette paper is all that now separates the economy from outright contraction

Sub-prime crisis: Property crash pushes third of US homebuyers into negative equity House prices are plunging at their fastest rate for 12 years, leaving millions struggling to meet home loans

We need a clash over free speech

Sunny Hundal: The decision not to publish a novel about the prophet's youngest wife only delays the fight over free speech that we need

H7 Country Analysis Brief: Saudi Arabia Source: Energy Information Administration

Syria Seeks Peace to Regain Land, Isn't Isolated, Dardari Says By: Massoud A. Derhally | Bloomberg News Syria seeks peace with the aim of regaining territory occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War and isn't isolated by U.S. sanctions, the country's deputy prime minister said

Film Row Stalls Egypt-Iran Reconciliation By: Will Ward | ISN Security Watch A mix of geopolitics and historical grievances stoked by a provocative Iranian film reverses progress toward an Egypt-Iran reconciliation.

Country Analysis Brief: Egypt
Source: Energy Information Administration

Getting real on Iran

THERE HAVE been welcome indications recently that the Bush administration intends to continue with purely diplomatic efforts to dissuade Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability. As Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote in a recent article for the United States Army War College quarterly, "Another war in the Middle East is the last thing we need." (Boston Globe)

Hezbollah Gains Veto Powers in New Cabinet By: Hussein Dakroub | The Washington Times
The Lebanese parliament overwhelmingly approved a national unity Cabinet on Tuesday that gives Iranian-backed Hezbollah a more powerful say in how the country is run

Another August Crisis: Learning from Bush 41 By: Alan W. Dowd | World Politics Review
In August, U.S. presidents travel to their ranches or beach houses or, this year, to the Olympics. But that wasn't the case during the administration of George H.W. Bush. In fact, it was during these dog days of summer that the elder Bush was busiest. The next president could learn a thing or two from the 41st -- about what to do and what not to do.

Al Hayat The Iranian "Giant" - Jamil Theyabi

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

BBC Lebanon chief mends ties in Syria Lebanon's president arrives in Damascus for talks with Syria's leader, the first such trip after three years of turbulence.

Lebanon lurches back to brink

Divided state forges new future

U.N. Pledges to Expand In Iraq, 5 Years After Blast

US oil company says it has ended talks with Iraq

Bombs Hit Northern Iraq, Forces Expect More

Former Iraqi Diplomat Says Jordan's King Baghdad Visit "Response to US Pressure"

Iran Daily Alleges Jordan Support to Mojahedin-E Khalq

Iraqi Analysts, Jordanian MPs React to King Abdallah's Baghdad Visit; Update

H9 Ha’aretz – Report: Syria Fears Israel Strike, Taking Preventive Steps

Jerusalem Post Israel Fears Georgia War Could Hurt Iran Effort

What Russia Gained and Lost in Georgia - Yitzhak M. Brudny

Yedioth Ahronoth

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

LA Times Crime and Israeli army punishment By Etgar Keret

In the Israeli military, injuring a handcuffed Palestinian is 'conduct unbecoming' a soldier -- but less so than tying cardboard wings to an antenna.

U.S. Peacemaking: Showing the Ways By: Rami G. Khouri | The Daily Star Few observers expect the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli negotiations between the administrations of Mahmoud Abbas and Ehud Olmert to achieve any significant breakthrough during the remaining months of President George W. Bush's term

Abbas Adviser: Israeli Land-Swap Proposal ‘Unacceptable' By: Rachelle Kliger | The Media Line
A reported Israeli proposal to pull out of 93 percent of the West Bank and compensate the Palestinians with land in the Negev is “unacceptable,” a key adviser to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud ‘Abbas told The Media Line.

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Russia's big Caucasus win

Moscow has gained leverage, threatened Georgia's pro-West leader, and bolstered national pride.

Warmer Lebanon-Syria ties puts focus on prisoners' fate

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman's visited Damascus Wednesday, raising the prospect that perhaps hundreds of detainees in Syria will be released.

Air Force leadership works to regain trust The new Chief of Staff must overcome a recent pattern of service mismanagement.

Stuck in Syria, Iraqi students get a crack at college in the US

A nonprofit group paves the way by negotiating tuition waivers.

ASIA

Georgia’s Lessons for Asia By: Philip Bowring | Asia Sentinel
The crisis in and around Georgia may seem rather remote from most of Asia. Yet there are issues and lessons from this latest fall-out from the break up of the Russian/Soviet empire that are relevant in Asia, which still faces border disputes and ethnic minority issues left over from European and other imperialisms.

Chinese Repression of Uighurs By: Diane Chido | ISN Security Watch While China lays out the welcome mat for the world, millions of ethnic Chinese have made themselves at home uninvited in the land of the Uighur.

Pakistan's Governance Challenges - Council on Foreign Relations

Irfan Husain, Columnist, Dawn Newspaper, Pakistan - Council on Foreign Relations

Reclaiming India By: Tarun Vijay | The Times of India
Kashmiri Muslim leaders would like to enjoy the fruits and liberties of a Hindu majority democracy but vehemently deny that to Hindus in their area of influence.

Beijing Games Focus U.S. Attention on Asia By: Tom Plate | The Japan Times
China is odds-on to become the next superpower, but it usually flies well below the radar of U.S. media. Will the Olympics make a difference

Three Security Officials Killed in W. China By: Jill Drew | The Washington Post
Three security officials were killed at a roadside checkpoint in western China's Xinjiang region Tuesday when at least one assailant jumped off a passing vehicle and stabbed them to death, state media reported. It was the third deadly incident in nine days, coinciding with the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing

H11 IHT GEORGIA'S FATE

The grim realities of power

By RAJAN MENON Russia's attack illustrates how little gratitude matters in the politics among nations.

U.S. officials say they warned Georgia to avoid fight Bush administration officials have been adamant in asserting that they warned the government in Tbilisi not to let Moscow provoke it into a fight. But there had been a lot of mixed messages.

Conflict in Georgia narrows oil options for West Energy experts say that the hostilities between Russia and Georgia could threaten American plans to gain access to more of Central Asia's energy resources

Russian soldiers occupying Stalin's birth city are buoyed by battle with Georgia The sudden campaign of the Russian military that began last week seems to have restored a sense of confidence among its officers

EUROPE European press review

Is there a European Foreign Policy?

France's role in the Rwandan genocide IS THE defendant's dock at the International Criminal Court reserved for leaders of small and poor countries that defy the West? Not if Rwanda has its way. It wants to charge some of France's most celebrated leaders of the 1990s as collaborators in genocide. (By Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe)

BBC Spanish inflation at 15-year high Prices in Spain rose at their fastest rate for 15 years in July, driven by higher food and transport costs.

Caspian crisis Pipeline politics threatens Georgia's future

H12 RFE/RL

BBC Rice says Russia faces isolation Condoleezza Rice warns Russia it faces international isolation if it does not leave Georgia, as she starts a visit to Europe.

US policy in question

Partner problems Why the US may need to review its policy on Georgia

Rice Vows Russia Won't 'Get Away With' Georgia Invasion

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Georgian Leader's "Worst' Decision" Was to Use Force - Spanish Daily

The Georgian-Russian Conflict Through Eyes of Baku By: Fariz Ismailzade | Eurasia Daily Monitor
The escalating conflict in Georgia--with its unexpected military developments and great humanitarian losses--seems to have caught Azerbaijani officials and the public off guard

GAP Report Details Azeri Privatization-World Bank Corruption Source: Government Accountability Project Full Report (PDF; 2.1 MB)

H13 The Times Iraq: US troops will be out 'within three years'

Foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari also told The Times the US military will be barred from unilaterally mounting attacks

Vladimir Putin's mastery checkmates the West

Russia has been biding its time, but its victory in Georgia has been brutal - and brilliant Michael Binyon

Bush squares up to Putin over Georgia President Bush dispatched US military hardware to the heart of the Caucasus in a dramatic change of stance towards Russia In full: President Bush’s statement

Full text of the Russia-Georgia peace plan

Hope rises despite Lebanon bombing After at least 18 are killed in attack Syria and Lebanon announced they would staff embassies in each other’s capitals

High noon in Kashmir

In the foothills of the Himalayas, India must stand up for peace

GM crops: not against nature

The Prince of Wales is entitled to speak his mind, but his views on GM crops are ill-informed, alarmist and anti-science

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H14 Financial Times Bush sends US forces on Georgia aid mission

George W. Bush ordered US military forces to lead a “vigorous” humanitarian mission to Georgia and raised doubts over Russia’s commitment to the French-brokered ceasefire

Ukraine snubs Moscow on port

A surprise Kiev decree requires Russian naval vessels to ask permission 10 days in advance before returning to the strategic harbour. Russia denounces it as ‘not serious’

Beirut rebuilds its confidence

With a new government and revived tourist interest, Lebanon’s capital is becoming a development hotspot and its impromptu carparks are disappearing

Missile talks with Poles gain urgency

Talks on building part of a US missile defence shield on Polish soil have restarted, with Polish officials sending more positive signals than recently, in part because of fears over the Russian attack on Georgia

Russian tanks seen moving into Georgia Russian armoured vehicles moved into the Georgian town of Gori and the surrounding area destroying Georgian military bases as reports emerged that South Ossetian militia were looting the town

CIS unmoved by Saakashvili’s gesture No other former Soviet country has responded to the Georgian president’s call to rally behind him and exit the Moscow-dominated Commonwealth of Independent States

Lebanon bomb kills 18 in Tripoli

A roadside bomb targeting a bus has killed at least 18 people, including nine soldiers. The attack has revived concerns about the country’s stability after the recent easing of tensions

US presidential candidates resist watering down climate plans

At an interaction last week with voters in Indiana, Barack Obama was asked what his highest priorities would be in his "first 1,000 days in office". Ahead of universal...

Japan must acquire a taste for competition The country needs to rethink its agricultural policy, which has left many parts of its farming sector facing a grim future, writes Michiyo Nakamoto

A golden opportunity for Chinese brands? Domestic sponsors and companies basing advertising around the Olympics are likely to be disappointed

European business is changing step by step Remnants of the old way of doing things still exist. The worst traits crop up in corporations in France, Germany and Italy, writes Richard Milne

Advertisers will see you read this

Most people know vaguely that companies use technology to track browsing habits but are unaware of the scale and penetration of these techniques. It is harder than it should be to opt out of being tracked by advertising networks or search engines, writes John Gapper

Shoot the doves The inflation report may say ‘the balance of risks to inflation is judged to be on the upside’, but its overall message is too dovish

A royal muddle The heir to the British throne should be guided by science, not superstition. ‘Let them eat organic shortbread’ is no answer to rising food prices

H15 Los Angeles Times Georgia conflict may spark new U.S. policy battle over Russia Some say the White House sent Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili mixed signals. The violence may bolster U.S. hard-liners' argument for further isolating Moscow

Who got Georgia into this?

By ROSA BROOKS

Russia's aim in Georgia battle was strategic U.S. experts say Moscow's goal in the Georgia battle has been to lay claim to a sphere of influence on Russia's periphery

Bush takes tougher stance on Georgian conflict Facing conservatives' criticism, he orders Rice to Georgia and accuses Russia of seizing territory.

Russian convoy rolls through Gori, violating truce Russian tanks and armored units rolled through this key Georgian city today hours after its leaders accepted a peace deal in which Moscow would pull its troops back to positions before hostilities between the country began over the disputed breakaway region of South Ossetia six days ago.

Getting one's bearings in the Georgia-Russia conflict The fighting in the Caucasus is Russia's biggest foray beyond its borders since the Soviet collapse. It is also the culmination of years of antagonism

Suspected U.S. missile strike kills 9 in Pakistan The attack reported by local officials near the Afghan border may signal an increased U.S. campaign against Islamic insurgents. American officials deny knowledge of the strike

Our own worst bioenemy

By Wendy Orent The U.S. bioweapons program has grown so large that it is a threat to Americans

• Cyber-attacks on Georgia tied to mob, Russia

H16 American Politics

Gallup Daily: Obama Up by 6, 48% to 42%

Polls show landslide scenario unlikely in November...

WHITES NO LONGER MAJORITY BY 2042

Kristol: Colin Powell to Endorse Barack Obama

Brzezinksi: I Expect Powell To Endorse Obama

Arkansas party leader shot dead

MCCAIN: USA MUST REEVALUATE RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA...

McCain Adviser Got Money From Georgia

Inside Obama's VP Thoughts by Richard Cohen

McCain: 'In the 21st century, nations don't invade other nations.'

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

A One-Term, Non-Incumbency Pledge by McCain?

H17 Daily Telegraph How to keep the bear in its cage

The most telling support for Georgia has come from Poland and Baltic states. The West should now follow their example

Russia challenges Bush with Georgia advance

US pressured to "choose" between Moscow and its ties with Georgia

Cameron now looks like PM-in-waiting

Gordon Brown's inexplicable delay in reacting to Russia's attack on Georgia has given the Tories their tipping point, says Iain Martin.

H18 Independent Bush sends message to Russia with aid mission to Georgia America and the EU sent forceful messages of political support to the Georgian government yesterday as they endorsed a French-brokered peace plan following Georgia's humiliating rout by the Russian army

Johann Hari: We need to stop being such cowards about Islam

Kim Sengupta: First war, now anarchy as Russian militias run riot

Destitute and traumatised, the refugees forced to flee South Ossetia

Adrian Hamilton: We are still fighting the Cold War

Leading article: A conflict that has cost Georgia's democracy dear

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

Strengthening our strategy against WMD EVEN IN the highly charged political environment of the presidential campaign, one national security priority has gained strong bipartisan support: the urgent requirement to combat weapons of mass destruction from hostile states and terrorists. That priority must be put into immediate and sustained practice. (By Ashton B. Carter and Robert G. Joseph, Boston Globe)

Should the Next U.S. President Advocate Replacing the War Powers Resolution? By: D.J. Wolff | World Politics Review
On July 8, a bipartisan National War Powers Commission, co-chaired by former Secretaries of State James A. Baker and Warren Christopher, called upon the next administration to replace the controversial 1973 War Powers Resolution

Air Force leadership works to regain trust

The new Chief of Staff must overcome a recent pattern of service mismanagement.

U.S. Analyst Depicts Al Qaeda as Secure in Pakistan and More Potent Than Last Year By: Mark Mazzetti | The New York Times
Al Qaeda’s success in forging close ties to Pakistani militant groups has given it an increasingly secure haven in the mountainous tribal areas of Pakistan, the American government’s senior terrorism analyst said Tuesday.

Terrorism Weekly : The Jihadist Threat and Grassroots Defense

The End of Al-Qaeda? - Philippe Gohier (Maclean's-Canada)

H20 Slate

For Disaster IDPs: An Institutional Gap
Brookings Institution
A US article on the institutional challenge that climate change is likely to present in respect of people displaced by natural disasters

Biofuels and the Food Price Crisis: A Survey of the Issues CGD
This 19-page US working paper criticises the promotion of corn-based ethanol

Our Ravaged Seas: Globalization Is Destroying the World's Oceans

Is the Cost of Gas Leading Americans to Use Alternative Transportation?
Source: AARP Policy & Research

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Unmasking the Myths Behind the Fairness Doctrine
Source: Culture and Media Institute Full Report (PDF; 2.6 MB)

Steven Pinker The Stuff of Thought: Language as a window into human nature

Understanding of the brain could transform battlefield of the future

Bullets could be replaced with 'pharmacological land mines' that release drugs to incapacitate soldiers on contact

Our obsession with college and the BA has created a two-tiered entry to adulthood: the anointed are admitted to the club, others are labeled as second-best... more»

The oxygen crisis

Peter Tatchell: Could the decline of oxygen in the atmosphere undermine our health and threaten human survival?

A robot with -- a biological brain!

Genetic modification gets royal warning Prince Charles of Britain said Wednesday that the widespread use of genetically modified crops would be the biggest environmental disaster of all time.

Is this the greatest Olympian ever?

In less than an hour, swimmer Michael Phelps won his fourth and fifth gold medals in world record times

Volley of fire Russia v Georgia at beach volleyball: the continuation of war by other means?

Advertisers will see you read this

Most people know vaguely that companies use technology to track browsing habits but are unaware of the scale and penetration of these techniques. It is harder than it should be to opt out of being tracked by advertising networks or search engines, writes John Gapper

Why Are Georgia and Georgia Both Named Georgia?

What the Deep South and the former USSR have in common.

So, you want to be a writer? By ALLEGRA GOODMAN

While book sales are down, creative writing enrollments are booming. The longing to write knows no bounds.

I love you, Lord Byron: How the poet's postbag bulged with female admirers' letters

Lord Byron, the Romantic poet, was one of the first celebrities to receive a deluge of fan mail from anonymous women whose amorous epistles he treasured, research has revealed.

Clooney takes the biggest risk of his career with film on Bin Laden's driver

The Big Question: Why do so many foreign billionaires want to make their home in Britain?

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