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Guardian Russia: we are ready
for a new cold war Relations with the west plummet as Kremlin recognises breakaway states

The Princip precedent Editorial: Now Russia appears to be willing to trash its strategic relationships

Washington Post A Syrian-Israeli Breakthrough? By David Ignatius, If the U.S. joins France in sponsoring a meeting, it would test everyone's sincerity.

Clinton Calls for Unity, Vows Support for Obama

Slate Go on Without Me

Hillary Clinton throws everything behind Barack Obama. John Dickerson

Editorial Stuck in Georgia

When the Europeans meet next week, they should agree to put on hold a trade and security deal with Moscow so long as it continues to occupy Georgia

What Could Happen Next in Caucasus Conflict

CFR Russia's Offensive in Georgia a Signal to NATO to Stay Away from Its 'Space' F. Stephen Larrabee

Wrong on Russia, by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, The National Interest,

Kosovo Precedent Prevails

by Ted Galen Carpenter

Insisting that recognizing Kosovo would not set a dangerous precedent was wishful thinking. Now the United States needs to backtrack to repair relations with Moscow

A Middle East Strategy For The West by Barry Rubin

Financial Times Why I had to recognise Georgia’s breakaway regions Did Saakashvili believe we would stand idly by as he launched an assault on the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, asks Dmitry Medvedev

Alarm at Russian ‘policy of confrontation’ Moscow’s decision to recognise South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states was condemned in western capitals as an unwarranted escalation of the Georgian crisis that would have long-lasting consequences

Countdown in the Causcasus The speed of Russia’s reaction suggests that Tbilisi fell into a well-laid trap

Washington remains hobbled by IraqThe US has to set the course in dealing with Russia – Europe ought to, but cannot and will not. Exercising such leadership means getting over Iraq, writes Clive Crook

There are many sensible reasons for irrational behaviour John Kay on the questionable worth of analytic skills Analytic skills are neither necessary nor sufficient for good performance – as many barely articulate Olympians show, writes John Kay

Russia’s gamble could backfire The example of Abkhazia and South Ossetia may well encourage the restive republics of the north Caucasus to determine their own destiny

Collateral damage The European Central Bank cannot risk becoming an asset dump of last resort. Its challenge is to differentiate between the opportunists and the needy

Pakistan’s turmoil The biggest question raised by the current turmoil is whether the country’s civilian leaders are ready to govern in the national interest or merely their own

Europeans bet big on Obama It may be that there is a connection between our Eurobamania and the way that the candidate’s campaign has faltered, writes Geoffrey Wheatcroft. Why the senator is ‘de-Europeanising ‘himself

Biden as Obama's 'bridge'
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama, facing steady slippage in opinion polls, selected six-term Senator Joseph Biden as his running-mate to attract skeptical older, working class and Catholic voters. If Biden's beaming smile at Monday's Democratic convention is any measure, his selection is just the ticket. - Jim Lobe

MESH Putin’s war and the Middle East

USIP The Future of the U.S. Military Presence in Iraq Listen to Audio

Charlie Rose Show An Hour With Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Violent Non-State Actors in the Middle Eastern Region (Full PDF Article)

Jerusalem PostThe ramifications of a Palestinian state

[ LOUIS RENÉ BERES

Washington Watch: Which Joe is more in synch with Jewish voters?

[ DOUGLAS M. BLOOMFIELD

US aid warship will defy Russian control of Georgian port of Poti

Russian Mediterranean warships placed under Black Sea Fleet command

Daily Star If Georgia's Saakashvili survives, Vladimir Putin loses By Richard C. Holbrooke

Alon Ben-Meir: Syria and Iran: an Alliance of Convenience

Daily TelegraphDirty politics are killing hope in Pakistan The dismissal of Pervez Musharraf underscored the futility of democracy in Pakistan, says Isambard Wilkinson.

Wall Street Journal Obama Should Just Be Himself By Dan Gerstein
There's no reason to panic about the polls. Undecided voters will appreciate the senator's independence

IHT Europe into the breach

By VOLKER PERTHES

The EU can keep the Middle East peace process alive while the U.S. changes leaders

Ha’aretz – The faulty pleasant approach The U.S. administration believes its role is to encourage Israel and the PA to reach an agreement, but it does not believe in forcing its views on the two sides. This is an enlightened, pleasant approach, but in the Mideast jungle it is terribly out of place.

Missile Defense Scam Scores Points for All By: Gwynne Dyer | The Japan Times Every single person involved in the controversy over the U.S. placing ABM missiles in Poland knows that they don't work, aren't a threat, and have nothing to do with Iran. So why are they making so much fuss?

OpenDemocracy Georgia after war: the political landscape , Robert Parsons

Sovereignty, status and the humanitarian perspective, Mary Kaldor

Amir Taheri Fear is behind Russia's move - GulfNews

Daily Star Khamenei would do best to remain above Iran's political brawl

The Gulf states, change you can invest in By Rami G. Khouri

We Americans can adjust our compass heading, says John Lewis Gaddis, if we can make ending tyranny once again our priority, as it was through most of our history... more»

Hizbullah's Role in Attacks against U.S. and British Forces in Iraq - Jonathan Dahoah Halevi (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Russia Likely to Find Succor at Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit A EURASIANET COMMENTARY BY STEPHEN BLANK While coming under increasing criticism from the West over its truculent behavior in Georgia, Russia looks set to garner support from other Shanghai Cooperation Organization members when the group holds its annual summit in Dushanbe on August 28-29. The gathering will be watched closely by the United States and European Union for insight into Russia’s diplomatic intentions on an array of fronts, especially the Iranian nuclear question

Christian Science Monitor

Iraq urges 2011 deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal Maliki wants a date in the status-of-forces deal, a move the US is resisting.

The greatest failure of thought in human history To solve climate change, we must overcome "systems blindness."

Sunni Lawmakers Establish New Political Group for Provincial Polls

Iraqi Kurd Forces Angered by Pressure to Pull Back

Guardian Should Georgia follow Bosnia's model?

Lionel Beehner: The Bosnian city of Brcko has become an example of how a peaceful, multiethnic community

can emerge from conflict

Russia: back to the bad old days?

Irina Filatova: The conflict over Georgia may do for Medvedev's Russia what the Hungarian uprising did for Khrushchev's reforms

European future: Germany shrinks, France grows, UK population booms

Britain to be biggest country in EU by 2060 according to survey of demographic trends

Obama has to do it on his own terms

Jonathan Freedland: Republicans are casting the opponent as out of touch. Democrats shouldn't play

The Times Medvedev raises spectre of a new Cold War Comments came as Russia's president set tensions soaring by recognizing independence of two breakaway republics in Georgia

Analysis: Nato ageements are at risk Several areas of joint activity and assistance between Russia and the alliance are under threat in the row over Georgia

H2 Serdar Turgut Obama Kürt devletini kurdurur

GMF - Amberin Zaman "Crisis in the South Caucasus: Turkey's Big Moment" Download File,: 1367 KB

USAK Gürcistan Krizi Değerlendirme Raporu PDF

Turkey: Ankara's S-300 Curiosity | Stratfor

U.S. Senator Richard Lugar Visits Ankara For a complete transcript of Senator Lugar’s remarks to the press, please click here

Talabani Watch II By Michael Rubin

Obama’nın Biden’ı Tercihinin Bir Tahlili Şanlı Bahadır Koç

Rehn’in hükümete uyarısı net

US senator expects delay in Turkey's Caucasus proposal

Lavrov to visit İstanbul next week for Caucasus talks

Rusya-Türkiye ekonomi savaşı

Israel, Turkey, US in Mediterranean exercise

Çelik: İran'daki Türkçe eğitimine direnci kırdık

Guardian Turkish PM attacks 'idle' green groups Recep Tayyip Erdogan lambasts environmentalists saying they 'prance around' not protecting nature

Turkish court lifts YouTube ban after online censorship protest

Robert Ellis Turkish fata morgana

Misyonere tehdit

Kafkas Platformu teklifine 'maç davetine icabet' şartı

Lavrov, Kafkas Platformu için pazartesi Türkiye'ye geliyor

Air Defense: Turks Buy Protection From Russian Weapons

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

M Ali Birand PKK vuruyor, ancak istediğini elde edemiyor

DTP Genel Başkanı Ahmet Türk: Silah, hak arama yöntemi olamaz

Talabani Watch II By Michael Rubin

Arabs and Turkmen in Iraq demand UN envoy's resignation (Roundup)

Iraqi Kurd Forces Angered by Pressure to Pull Back

Kurdish Journalists Under Assault in Iraq

Sami Kohen Ortadoğu dengeleri sarsılıyor

Cevdet Aşkın DTP'den uzlaşma atağı, Kürt sorununda çözüm fırsatı

How Hunt Oil Buys and Sell(s)
Harper's Magazine

Şehit er Türkçe ve Kürtçe ağıtlarla uğurlandı

Kaçış yolları tutuldu

PKK'ya büyük darbe

15 PKK’lı öldürüldü

Iraq halts crude exports to Turkey

Ankara’da bombalı kamyonet heyecanı

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

EU waits for Turkey to break its political crises cycle

Nabucco at risk after crisis in Georgia

DALOGLU: Russia's withdrawal
Washington Times

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL

Bu kadar tesadüf size tuhaf gelmiyor mu?

Nasuhi Güngör Montrö ve Türkiye

Hadi Uluengin Kevgir kompleksi

Beril Dedeoğlu AB yolunda yeni adım

Sadi Somuncuoğlu Gürcistan üzerinden ABD-Rusya restleşmesi

'Kosova'ya Misilleme'

TÜRKSAM başkanı Sinan Oğan'

For true Caucasus stability Turkey must remain on course
ADIL BAGUIROV

Kafkas oyunu

NATO 10 gemi daha yolluyor

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

Metin Münir Siemens’teki rüşvet skandalı Türkiye’yi içine alıyor mu?

KÜRŞAT BUMİN

'Film Şeridi' üzerine notlar

Türkiye 'bor'da dümene geçiyor

Arsenikli su telaşı

Koç grubu tersanesinde faaliyet yeniden başladı

YAVUZ DONAT Hor görme Elvan'la Ramazan'ı

Kimse sahiplenmedi burası beton olacak

Erdoğan'ı kim öldürdü?

Bardakoğlu: Doğal afet ilahi ceza değildir

Yanan ormana inşaat izni yok

Ahmet Ertegün Tarih Araştırma Vakfı feshedildi

Yunan şarkıcı isyan etti: Türkler hırsız!

Çalıntı parçalarla tam 35 albüm yaptılar...

Turkey's odd man of the sea
Turkey's one-man environmental crusade, Imdat Avci, has spent years sailing the turquoise inlets and bays off Marmaris on the Mediterranean coast to protect its fragile marine ecology and accost its violators. The salty, stubborn Don Quixote has used tactics such as hunger strikes and threats to cut off his fingers, for which he is becoming famous. - Fazile Zahir

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Anayasa’yı değiştiririz

MHP’den sürpriz hamle

Karanlığa 9 ışık yaktı

Ferda Paksüt ifade vermeye çağrıldı

Ergenekon soruşturması Yüksek Mahkeme’ye uzandı

Ferda Paksüt’e savcıdan acil davet

Ergenekon'da Çömez kilit halka

6. Araştırmadan çıkan ilginç sonuçlar

Son ankette AK Parti uçtu !

Bahçeli'den 2. Anayasa çıkışı

Ergenekon’u Jandarmaya mal etmeyin

İkinci adamın ilk tepkisi AB'ye oldu

Okkan assassination linked to JİTEM

AKP’nin RTÜK ve TRT adayı profesör, bilim hırsızı çıktı

Ergenekon’da tazminat uyarısı

10 Aralık Hareketi ‘partileşiyor’

TSK’da Başbuğ dönemi

Alevilerde ulusalcı 'derin' kavga

Başbakan önce kendi ’çevre’sini temizlesin

Gül’ün görev süresiyle ilgili tartışmalara YSK’dan nokta

‘500 milyon dolar’ iddiası araştırılıyor

Hatırlamıyorum

MHP'nin gözü yüksek mahkeme yetkilerinde

Gül'lü Köşk birinci yılında

Gül Çankaya'da kaç yıl kalacak? Bu büyük tartışma için uzmanlar ne diyor?

Bilecik bomba kaynıyor!

Paşa'ya aile boyu fişleme!

JİTEM’s illegal actions cost Turkey a fortune

CHP treninden inen bir daha binemiyor

'Arif Doğan, JİTEM'ci olmam için Genelkurmay'dan yazı çıkardı'

Milli Görüş'e baskın!

İBDA-C de fişlemiş!

İçki satana zabıtadan çivili sopa

‘İçki dayağı’nda iki zabıtaya soruşturma

Gül’den sadece 2 iade

Pamukoğlu darbe karşıtı parti kuruyor

Son Dakika Milliyet Hürriyet Zaman

Cengiz Çandar

Ahmet Taşgetiren Başbakan'la çevre sohbeti Kadehini kır da git

Ruşen - Çakır MHP, AKP ile CHP’nin arasına sıkıştı

Taha Akyol

Fikret Bila Bahçeli’nin önerdiği yol haritası

Hasan Cemal Uyarı: Sisteme teslim olsanız da başınız gider!

Murat Yetkin Azerbaycan, Ermenistan’la barış istiyor

İsmet Berkan Birbuçuk kutuplu dünya

Fehmi Koru Uzlaşalım da, kim kiminle uzlaşsın?

Taha Kıvanç Bu ilk sabıkası değil, sonuncu da olmayacak

Şamil Tayyar Memlekette ne savcılar var

Ali Bayramoğlu

Yasemin Çongar

İsmail Küçükkaya
Başbuğ’un astsubay açılımı...

Ertuğrul Özkök Bu yazı medya patronlarına

Güngör Mengi

Kışkırtıcı çağrı!

Yabancı cehaleti
MEHMET ALİ KIŞLALI

Solda yeni gündem, eski tartışmalar MERYEM KORAY

Mustafa Ünal Siyasette yeni döneme girerken...

Ahmet Hakan

M Ali Birand PKK vuruyor, ancak istediğini elde edemiyor

Cüneyt Ülsever CHP’yi kutluyorum: AKP’ye diş geçirdi

Enis Berberoğlu

Oray Eğin
Cumhuriyet’e sahip çıkın

Oktay Ekşi Askersiz istila

Bekir Coşkun Nasıl AK olunur?..

Tufan Türenç Bir üniversitede yaşanan olaylar

Özdemir İnce Demokrasinin önündeki en büyük engel: Tarikatlar (2006)

Mustafa Akyol Tarikatlar olmadan demokrasi olmaz

Yılmaz Özdil Du yu andırsitend?

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Haberde unutulan küçük ayrıntı

MHP yine AKP’nin payandası olacak

Yalçın Doğan Sen fiyatı kır farkı vermek benden

Güneri Civaoğlu Hayat AKP’yi neden yoruyorsun?

Yavuz Baydar Seeking consensus possible, but reaching it rather unlikely

Mehmet Altan Ramazan provokasyonları mı?

Eser Karakaş Siyasi etik ve bizler

MUHARREM SARIKAYA MHP'nin sınırları...

ERDAL ŞAFAK CHP ile uzlaşmak

ENGİN ARDIÇ Öyle aman aman bir film değildir

ERGUN BABAHAN

EMRE AKÖZ

Umur Talu Alın grevi, sendikayı; vazgeçin 657'den!

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Ergenekon-liberal işbirliği

NAZLI ILICAK Türkiye fay hattında

MEHMET BARLAS "Bürokrasi"ye karşı "Adhokrasi" bir çözüm olabilir mi?

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

Sabahattin Önkibar Git umreye, al tahsisi!

Ali Bulaç Dini ve halkı şikâyet edenler (2)

Balbay'ın Ergenekon'dan tutuklanması için dua ettim

Gül'ün Çankaya Köşkü'nde bir yılı

Dokuz 'ışık' sürprizi

Saçan'a ağır suçlama: 5 milyon $ rüşvet aldı

Öztürk: Kalkancı bizim hoca...

Ekonomi

Ege Cansen İşsizliğe çözüm: Herkes kendine bir iş kursun

Bütçe 9 yıl sonra ilk kez IMF'siz hazırlanıyor

Deniz Gökçe
Ekonomiye geri dönerken...

İ.Hüseyin Yıldız
Ekonomide zor dönem

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Kurtuluşun yolu tekstille açılır mı?

Ercan Kumcu

Aydın Ayaydın

Kamuda disiplin ve borçlanma

Erdal Sağlam

Hurşit Güneş Memurlar krizde salt olarak, sonra da göreli olarak yoksullaştı

Editorial Stuck in Georgia

When the Europeans meet next week, they should agree to put on hold a trade and security deal with Moscow so long as it continues to occupy Georgia

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

A Biblical Seven Years

As snapshots go, the one China presented through the Olympics was enormously powerful — and it’s one that Americans need to reflect upon this election season

MAUREEN DOWD High Anxiety in the Mile High City I’ve never actually seen a convention where the energy was so absorbed by people who had lost the nomination, rather than the one who had won

A Jihad Grows in Kashmir

By PANKAJ MISHRA

A new generation of politicized Kashmiris has now risen; the world is again likely to ignore them — until some of them turn into terrorists with Qaeda links

H5 Washington Post A Syrian-Israeli Breakthrough? By David Ignatius, If the U.S. joins France in sponsoring a meeting, it would test everyone's sincerity.

Clinton Calls for Unity, Vows Support for Obama

U.N. Finds Airstrike Killed 90 Afghans Most of Fatalities In U.S.-Led Attack Said to Be Children

Russia Says 2 Regions in Georgia Are Independent

Editorial Mr. Obama and the Clintons Beyond political differences, a legacy the Democratic nominee can build on

Power Barometer: U.S. and Iran, Natural Allies

Target the Kremlin Pocketbooks

By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky, Hit Putin where it hurts.

Crises Reveal Limits of Bush's Personal Diplomacy on World Stage

Obama, Bill Clinton Remain Distant

Despite Similar Stories, a Complex Relationship

McCain Says Obama Is Confused About America's Global Standing

Republican Continues To Stress Foreign Policy

Can He Be a Working-Class Hero?

By Harold Meyerson, Page A13

Obama's challenge is to become a tribune for anger without looking like an angry black man

Don't Underestimate the Moment

By Michael Gerson, Page A13

Obama has been given a unique historical moment. He will fill it with significance or eventually be filled with regret

U.N. Envoy Rebuked For Solo Diplomacy Ties to Bhutto's Husband Criticized

The Rise Of Fantasy Politics

By Robert J. Samuelson, Page A13

Obama and McCain have each embraced symbolic gestures that falsely suggest they've made tough choices.

Suicide Bombing in Volatile Iraqi Province Kills at Least 25

Pakistani Push in Tribal Areas Triggers a Flood of Refugees

Afghan Opium Production Falls, Despite Problem Provinces

China's Emissions on the Rise

Carbon output from the country's power plants to increase by about a third this year, report says

Cheney's Not-So-Soothing Presence
By Dan Froomkin

N. Korea, Angry Over Terror List, Threatens to Rebuild Nuclear Program

Warner's Keynote Opens Hillary Clinton's Night Speakers Ramp Up Criticism of McCain and Bush

With Counterattack Ad, Obama Aims to Avoid Repeat of 2004

For Clinton's Ardent Backers, It's Obama on the Sidelines

H6 Guardian Russia: we are ready
for a new cold war Relations with the west plummet as Kremlin recognises breakaway states

The Princip precedent Editorial: Now Russia appears to be willing to trash its strategic relationships

Israel accelerates West Bank settlements Despite continuing negotiations with Palestinians, construction of homes in Jewish settlements doubles

US election: Full text of Hillary Clinton's speech in Denver

Clinton disarms her troops Richard Adams: Hillary Clinton did a brave and unusual thing in Denver - she directly confronted her own supporters over their motives

The things Hillary didn't say

Michael Tomasky: She slayed the pundits, but it's not clear Hillary persuaded the Pumas.

The Clinton drama Michael Tomasky: Enough already with the Clintons' childishness. The election is about more important things than personal feelings

Obama will struggle to win as the real American. He has to do it on his terms

Jonathan Freedland: With startling chutzpah, Republicans are again casting the opponent as out of touch. Democrats shouldn't play the game

Take this war into Pakistan Jawed Ludin: If the US wants to bolster this fragile democracy, a radical new strategy to defeat terror is called for

Should Georgia follow Bosnia's model? Lionel Beehner: The Bosnian city of Brcko has become an example of how a peaceful, multiethnic community

can emerge from conflict

Russia: back to the bad old days?

Irina Filatova: The conflict over Georgia may do for Medvedev's Russia what the Hungarian uprising did for Khrushchev's reforms

Property: US house prices fall a record 15% but light appears at the end of the tunnel Downturn in housing market slows indicating that economy could be beginning to stabilise

Clinton calls for unity as Democrats ponder a case of rednecks with rifles

Security scare reawakens fears of attack on Barack Obama's life as Hillary Clinton aims to unite party

Economics: Germans gloomy as recession looms large Europe's biggest economy reports corporate and consumer confidence falling to new low

European future: Germany shrinks, France grows, UK population booms

Britain to be biggest country in EU by 2060 according to survey of demographic trends

Obama has to do it on his own terms

Jonathan Freedland: Republicans are casting the opponent as out of touch. Democrats shouldn't play

Afghan air strike child death toll hits 60 President Hamid Karzai orders new rules for any foreign force military operation in the country

US diplomat targeted in Pakistan attack

Armour-plated car saves US consul-general in attack by gunmen in the volatile city of Peshawar

In praise of ... Edward Kennedy

Editorial: Ever-present in the triumphs and disasters of the US Democratic party for half a century

For 2012, the big winners are chauvinism and profligacy

Simon Jenkins: The success of the British Olympic team in Beijing has been like that of British troops in battle

H7 Missile Defense Scam Scores Points for All By: Gwynne Dyer | The Japan Times Every single person involved in the controversy over the U.S. placing ABM missiles in Poland knows that they don't work, aren't a threat, and have nothing to do with Iran. So why are they making so much fuss?

Daily Star Khamenei would do best to remain above Iran's political brawl

The Gulf states, change you can invest in
By Rami G. Khouri

We Americans can adjust our compass heading, says John Lewis Gaddis, if we can make ending tyranny once again our priority, as it was through most of our history... more»

Hizbullah's Role in Attacks against U.S. and British Forces in Iraq - Jonathan Dahoah Halevi (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Iran to Build Second Nuclear Power Plant By: Rachelle Kliger | The Media Line
Iran has announced plans to build a second nuclear power plant in the country, a facility that is likely to be an additional headache for world powers trying to make Tehran abandon its nuclear program.

The Big Questions
About Iraq by Patrick Cockburn

Iran's Internal Crackdown - Washington Times opinion

Ahmadinejad's Obsession with Israel - Washington Times opinion

Iran's Saudi Spy By: Muhammad Diyab | Asharq Alawsat
Last week, newspapers carried a report saying that Iraqi authorities arrested a young 20-year-old Saudi national as he was trying to infiltrate Iran through the Iraqi border using a forged Saudi passport.

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

Sunni Lawmakers Establish New Political Group for Provincial Polls

Iraqi Kurd Forces Angered by Pressure to Pull Back

Iraq bomb kills police recruits

At least 25 people are killed as a suicide bomber attacks police recruits in Diyala province in Iraq, according to police.

Petrodollars Fail to Help Ordinary Iraqis

Iraq Says 650 Doctors Have Returned From Exile

No progress in peace talks with Israel, says Syria's Moallem

H9 Ha’aretz – The faulty pleasant approach The U.S. administration believes its role is to encourage Israel and the PA to reach an agreement, but it does not believe in forcing its views on the two sides. This is an enlightened, pleasant approach, but in the Mideast jungle it is terribly out of place.

ANALYSIS / Israel's political limbo is just as thorny for Rice U.S. officials trying hard to understand the constitutional ramifications of the Kadima leadership race

Israeli and American: Why Jews can have more than one home

U.S. judge orders release of testimony in Jewish American atomic spies trial

Young Egyptians are in no hurry to die for the homeland

General Mofaz runs for office

Jerusalem PostThe ramifications of a Palestinian state

[ LOUIS RENÉ BERES

Washington Watch: Which Joe is more in synch with Jewish voters?

[ DOUGLAS M. BLOOMFIELD

Obama's Carter-esque reflexes

Why the Georgia crisis imperils Obama's pro-Israel support [blog

U.S. Congressman: Advanced Radar to Israel Has "No Quid Pro Quo" Attached

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Ahmadinejad a major threat'

Domestic criticism: Iranian cleric tells German newspaper Iran president betraying the people

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

Rice wraps up Mid East peace push The US Secretary of State ends her latest peace push saying there is still a good chance of an Israeli-Palestinian deal.

A summer camp for political dissenters in Israel At Alternative Camp, draft dodgers and declared conscientious objectors hope to develop a new generation of young Israelis who refuse to fight.

Yeruham in Jerusalem By: Anshel Pfeffer | Haaretz
The only long-term solution for Jerusalem's ills is legislation that would expropriate substantial portions of the municipality's authority and transfer it to a special ministry or government department established for this purpose.

Israel only releases prisoners to those who attack it
By Walid Salem

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Iraq urges 2011 deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal Maliki wants a date in the status-of-forces deal, a move the US is resisting.

The greatest failure of thought in human history To solve climate change, we must overcome "systems blindness."

Barack Obama: American enough

His life epitomizes the American dream. Now he has to show that he's 'one of us.'

Russia maintains pressure with recognition of Georgian territories

Medvedev approved the move a day after parliament voted unanimously in favor of it

Power struggle rages in Pakistan

Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari – the two leaders of the ruling coalition that split Monday – will battle for influence in next week's presidential election.

More than your average Joe

Joe Biden's got working-class roots, but his main strength is his foreign-policy expertise

Petrodollars fail to help ordinary Iraqis Residents complain that the Iraqi government is focusing on cosmetic changes while the US Army funds reconstruction initiatives.

Malaysia's top opposition figure makes a comeback Anwar Ibrahim retook his parliament seat Tuesday. His goal: topple the government.

Census: Income rose, middle class grew in 2007 But child poverty also rose, according to the new report.

ASIA

Rising income inequality in China : a race to the top Source: World Bank Policy Research Working Papers

The Taliban ‘Advance’: No Time To Wobble - Paul Smyth, Head, Operational Studies, Military Sciences Department, RUSI

Taliban Gain New Foothold in Afghan City

US Aiming to Conclude India Nuclear Deal By Sept 08 - Official

Obama, McCain Should Make U.S.-India Relations a High Priority By: Nirav Patel and Vikram Singh | World Politics Review
As the presidential elections near, Sens. McCain and Obama will be forced to debate and articulate foreign policy positions before a nation transfixed by its fortunes in the Middle East. But what the candidates say, or fail to say, about the world beyond the Middle East, and particularly about the Asia-Pacific region, will have tremendous consequences for American strategy. In particular, both candidates must understand the importance of India to U.S. strategy in the Asia-Pacific.

Pakistan Bans Taliban After Suicide Bombings By: John Matthew Hall | The Independent
Pakistan has banned a Taliban group after they claimed responsibility for one of the country's worst-ever terrorist attacks, toughening its stance a week after US ally Pervez Musharraf was ousted from power.

Setback for Pakistan's terror drive

The defection to the opposition of the second-largest party in the ruling coalition in Pakistan will not immediately bring down the government. It will, however, significantly strengthen the forces opposed to Islamabad's participation in the "war on terror", and make the military less willing than ever to crack down on Taliban and al-Qaeda militants. - Syed Saleem Shahzad

Russian Threat to NATO Supply Route in Afghanistan By: Jeremy Page | The London Times
Russia played a trump card in its strategic poker game with the West yesterday by threatening to suspend an agreement allowing Nato to take supplies and equipment to Afghanistan through Russia and Central Asia

Without Pakistan's ISI
Pakistan Daily

CFR Media Conference Call: The Right Way to Engage China (Audio)

No favorites in Pakistan

The splintering of the ruling Pakistani coalition is new evidence that the post-Musharraf era is going to be troubled. Washington, which stuck too long to the general, should stay nonpartisan. (Boston Globe)

China Misfires With Divisive 'People's War' By: Wu Zhong | Asia Times
A notice posted by Beijing's secret police during the Olympics put the capital's mostly ethnic Han citizens on high alert to report any Tibetan and Uyghur strangers

Terms of Amity for Britain, Japan By: Hugh Cortazzi | The Japan Times
The 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Yedo opening diplomatic and trade relations between Britain and Japan is well worth celebrating.

H11 IHT Europe into the breach

By VOLKER PERTHES

The EU can keep the Middle East peace process alive while the U.S. changes leaders

Europe sets date when deaths overtake births: 7 years A EU study concedes for the first time that Europeans will begin their long foreseen demographic decline in just seven years' time.

When Iraqi politicians speak, the U.S. should listen An elected Iraqi government is standing up and telling its American protectors it wants them to stand down.

Russia formally recognizes enclaves

By CLIFFORD J. LEVY

The decree, signed by President Dmitri Medvedev on Tuesday, set Russia on a collision course with the West.

EUROPE European press review

Georgian Rebels Seek Greater EU Recognition By: Leigh Phillips | EU Observer The Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia is keen to get EU recognition as an independent country, after the Russian parliament passed a resolution urging the Russian president to endorse Georgian rebels' ambitions of statehood.

CEPS Essential Steps for the European Union after the "No" Votes in France, the Netherlands & Ireland

Economics: Germans gloomy as recession looms large Europe's biggest economy reports corporate and consumer confidence falling to new low

Paris mayor to run for left leadership

Bertrand Delanoë declares his candidacy for leadership of the embattled Socialist party of France

H12 RFE/RL

Russia Warns of Military Response to US Missiles

Kosovo Issue Differs From S. Ossetia-Abkhazia One - Lavrov

Russia defies West, recognizes breakaway Georgia regions

BBC Cold warrior? Meeting Russia's president amid a diplomatic storm

RUSSIAN FORCES SETTING UP OCCUPATION ZONES IN GEORGIA

- RUSSIA IS READY FOR A MAJOR CONFRONTATION WITH THE WEST

Geopolitical Diary: The Black Sea and Reviving the Cold War

Google News Azerbaijan

Punishing Moscow Could Also Hurt West, Analysts Say

Text of Medvedev Speech

U.S. warships due to arrive in disputed Georgian port

Russia Warns of Military Response to US Missiles

Don't Trust Politicians With War By: Alexander Golts | The Moscow Times
Until recently, I thought the famous quip by early 20th-century French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau that ""war is too important to be left to the generals"" had a lot of validity.

Michael J. Totten:
The Truth About Russia in Georgia

H13 The Times Medvedev raises spectre of a new Cold War Comments came as Russia's president set tensions soaring by recognizing independence of two breakaway republics in Georgia

Analysis: Nato ageements are at risk Several areas of joint activity and assistance between Russia and the alliance are under threat in the row over Georgia

Georgia begs the West for help

A grimly familiar tale in US history The alleged plot to kill Barack Obama fits a dramatic pattern that began at a theatre 140 years ago Ben Macintyre

Commentary: white supremacy and bikers don't mix Since the United States is home to about 900 hate organisations, a plot to kill a black canditate is not farfetched

China's apologists are clueless

The Olympics were quite a show. But it's wonderful what you can do with total control over people

Martin Samuel

The windfall trap Energy companies are posting huge profits as consumers suffer, and the Exchequer needs more money, but this does not make the case for a new tax

Obama 'message lost' in convention noise

Amid the Barack Obama security scare and squabbles with the Clinton camp Democrats fear an opportunity is being missed

UN hails drop in Afghan opium crop United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reveals the first drop in opium cultivation and production since 2005

Zardari left ‘crippled by depression’

Asif Ali Zardari, the leading contender to be President of Pakistan, experienced mental illness as recently as last year

North Korea halts nuclear disablement

The regime also announced that it would consider restoring the Yongbyon reactor that can make material for atomic bombs

Wall Street Journal Obama Should Just Be Himself By Dan Gerstein
There's no reason to panic about the polls. Undecided voters will appreciate the senator's independence.

'Independence' Day in the Caucasus

Review & Outlook: Russia's lonely strike against Georgia's borders.

Pakistan's Priorities

Review & Outlook: Sharif's resignation draws clear battle lines

Obama Should Find His Inner Kansan By Thomas Frank
The Tilting Yard: Republicans might just listen this year if a liberal talked the way liberals used to talk.

Lieberman Would Be a Bad Veep Choice for McCain

By Henry Olsen
As Lincoln showed, a 'war ticket' isn't the formula for lasting success

Russia Is Brazen, Europe Weak

By Bernard-Henri Lévy
The Kremlin is shameless about twisting law and principle.

Russia Backs Breakaway Regions

Russian President Medvedev said that he has signed a decree recognizing the independence of the breakaway Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Medvedev said Russia is not afraid of a new Cold War, but does not seek it

'You're Not Going to Get Pregnant'

By James Taranto
The case against Hillary Clinton.

The National Debt: Who Bears Its Burden?
Source: Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS)

Upbeat U.S. census data mask economic plight

H14 Financial Times Why I had to recognise Georgia’s breakaway regions Did Saakashvili believe we would stand idly by as he launched an assault on the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, asks Dmitry Medvedev

Alarm at Russian ‘policy of confrontation’ Moscow’s decision to recognise South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states was condemned in western capitals as an unwarranted escalation of the Georgian crisis that would have long-lasting consequences

Countdown in the Causcasus The speed of Russia’s reaction suggests that Tbilisi fell into a well-laid trap

Washington remains hobbled by IraqThe US has to set the course in dealing with Russia – Europe ought to, but cannot and will not. Exercising such leadership means getting over Iraq, writes Clive Crook

There are many sensible reasons for irrational behaviour John Kay on the questionable worth of analytic skills Analytic skills are neither necessary nor sufficient for good performance – as many barely articulate Olympians show, writes John Kay

Russia’s gamble could backfire The example of Abkhazia and South Ossetia may well encourage the restive republics of the north Caucasus to determine their own destiny

Collateral damage The European Central Bank cannot risk becoming an asset dump of last resort. Its challenge is to differentiate between the opportunists and the needy

Pakistan’s turmoil The biggest question raised by the current turmoil is whether the country’s civilian leaders are ready to govern in the national interest or merely their own

Europeans bet big on Obama It may be that there is a connection between our Eurobamania and the way that the candidate’s campaign has faltered, writes Geoffrey Wheatcroft. Why the senator is ‘de-Europeanising ‘himself

Medvedev endorses Georgia break-up The Russian president Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree recognising the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the two Georgian breakaway regions, in a move that provoked western anger

How to shore up America’s crumbling housing market

By stopping the downward overshooting of prices, my mortgage replacement programme would help homeowners, including those with negative equity. Limiting the destruction of homeowners’ wealth would help maintain consumer spending, says Martin Feldstein

Rice criticises Israel settlement surge

Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, urged Israel not to undermine peace efforts with the Palestinians after a report found it had almost doubled its settlement building in the West Bank this year

Recession worries send euro to new low The euro fell to a six-month low against the dollar after a new survey of German business confidence showed the lowest reading for three years and expectations of future activity hit a 15-year low

Obama ‘struggling’ to reach blue-collar voters Barack Obama should be 15 points ahead of John McCain in the opinion polls at this stage of the campaign yet they are still neck and neck, Edward Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania and a prominent supporter of Hillary Clinton, said

Democrats target blue-collar Americans Through the glitz of the first day of the Democratic convention emerged a serious undertone that will be repeated endlessly throughout the week: Barack Obama comes from working class roots and he empathises with blue-collar America

Bulgaria told to tackle crime

Sofia’s European commissioner has told the FT that her country’s politicians should unite to fight corruption and organised crime – and answer criticism by their EU partners

H15 Los Angeles Times U.S. and allies struggle to counter Moscow

The Kremlin's speedy recognition of two breakaway republics of Georgia pressures the West to come up with ways to punish

Candidates play to their political strengths

Clinton steps up for Obama Hillary Clinton puts her presidential campaign behind her and returns to an old job -- lawyer, advocating this time for Barack Obama before a jury of her ardent supporters.

Editorial

Iraq bombing kills 28 at police station The suicide bombing targeting recruits in Diyala province has the hallmarks of an attack by the Sunni Arab insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq.

North Korea suspends dismantling of nuclear program The Foreign Ministry says Pyongyang is responding to U.S. delays in removing it from a list of 'terror-sponsoring' states

Hezbollah presence in Venezuela feared

The Lebanese Shiite militia, linked to deadly attacks in Argentina in the 1990s, may be taking advantage of Chavez's ties with its ally Iran, terrorism experts say

H16 American Politics

Gallup Daily: No Bounce for Obama in Post-Biden Tracking

GALLUP Daily: McCain Takes Lead After Biden Pick...

Clinton hails historic campaign, stands tall behind Obama

Hagel, 8 other GOP senators to pass on RNC convention.

The Nation Joe Biden and the Myth of Foreign Policy Experience by Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Better Hillary Does, the Worse for Obama - Dick Morris, The Hill

Did Hillary Heal Wounds? - Simon

Clinton urges party to back Obama

Hillary Clinton calls on the Democrats to back Barack Obama for president, at the US Democratic Party's convention.

Clinton urges Obama support

Key excerpts: Hillary Clinton

'Hero' Clinton plays killer scene

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

Bill Clinton in Denver again undercuts Obama —

H17 Daily TelegraphDirty politics are killing hope in Pakistan The dismissal of Pervez Musharraf underscored the futility of democracy in Pakistan, says Isambard Wilkinson.

Russia 'ready for a new Cold War' over Georgia Russia formally recognised the independence of two Georgian regions as President Medvedev declared the Kremlin was prepared to defy the West and risk a new Cold War

UN reports Afghan opium decline

The latest UN report on the amount of heroin being produced in Afghanistan showed production had fallen by six per cent from 2007.

How could a good 'story' make Obama a good president?

There is tension in the air at the convention as Democrats start to worry about their choice of candidate, says Simon Heffer

H18 Independent Fuel prices drive cars off the roads

The credit crunch and the rising cost of running a car has caused traffic on Britain's major roads to drop for the first time since congestion was measured, a report has revealed

Party leaders act to stop Clinton supporters spoiling coronation

The Democratic high command has taken extraordinary measures to prevent a public split breaking out on the floor of the party's convention as delegates move to endorse Barack Obama for president later today.

Miliband rallies 'coalition against Russian aggression'

Leading article: Echoes from another era of American liberalism

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

Flying IED is Latest Weapon Targeting U.S. Troops in Iraq By: Richard Tomkins | The Middle East Times A relatively new weapon has appeared on the streets of Baghdad and earned itself an acronym in the language for destruction. The weapon is the IRAM, an Improvised Rocket Assisted Mortar

The CIA and the AQ Khan nuclear network
The National

Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons and Missiles: Status and Trends
Source: Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS)

The Sakinah Campaign and Internet Counter-Radicalization in Saudi Arabia
Source: Combating Terrorism Center, West Point (via Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

Coast Guard Strategic Plan 2008-2012: Command, Control, Communication, Computers, and Information Technology (C4&IT)

From Strategic Studies Quarterly, Douglas Peifer (AWC): Genocide and Airpower.

Hillary Clinton throws everything behind Barack Obama.
John Dickerson

How Economics Can Defeat Corruption By: Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel | Foreign Policy (subscription required)
It was the odd uniformity of the suitcase’s contents that tipped off the baggage inspector: six thick, identical rectangles. They could have been books, but then again, they could have been six bundles of cocaine.

The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty
Source: World Bank Policy Research Working Papers Full Paper (PDF; 193 KB)

The Future of Social Policy: Hard Lessons from the United States

H21

Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores
Source: Institute for the Study of Labor

The Cuban judge sat with his feet up on the desk reading a comic book. The sentence for opposing the Revolution: thirty years... more»

Most conquerors try to convert their subjects. Hitler’s empire was built on the idea of exterminating the natives... more»

Study looks at evolutionary benefits of bravery New research suggests that braver soldiers may ultimately win more sexual partners as well as more battles

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