<$BlogRSDURL$>
TurcoPundit
26 September 2008
  September 26, 2008 - FPR is away till October 06

092608f - FOREIGN PRESS REVIEW (FPR) - ‘Relevant news, views, comments and analyses for informed debate’ Compiled by Şanlı Bahadır Koç U.S. / Britain / Turkey / Magazines / Think-tanks / Blogs / Misc /Books / Quickread / Numbers / Reports - Subscribe to FPR FPR Table - H4 NYT WP GU H7 ME Isr H10 CSM IHT Eur FSU Asia H13 Times WSJ FT LAT H16 USP DT Ind H19 Mil Int Ter Wonk H21 Misc

H1 Jonathan Steele / Guardian:

Israel asked US for green light to bomb nuclear sites in Iran — US president told Israeli prime minister he would not back attack on Iran, senior European diplomatic sources tell Guardian — Israel gave serious thought this spring to launching a military strike on Iran's nuclear sites …

A target too far Editorial: We have come too close to igniting a fresh firestorm in the Middle East

Washington Post Negotiations Falter on Bailout Deal White House Summit Fails to Yield Accord as House GOP Floats New Plan

FROM THE ACADEMICS Away from Wall Street, Economists Question Basis of Paulson's Plan

Editorial Another Iraq Benchmark

Legislators approve a crucial deal on provincial elections

8 Questions About the Debates

By Dan Balz

Pakistanis, U.S.-Afghan Patrol Exchange Fire Near Frontier

A Bailout for All Our Bad Decisions? By Mark Sanford, We should worry about the precedent being set

Ha’aretz Mossad chief fights Iran nuclear program his own way Under Meir Dagan, the Mossad has used creativity and daring to strike Israel's enemies

NYT DAVID BROOKS Thinking About McCain What disappoints me about the McCain campaign is it has no central argument. His proposals don’t add up to more than the sum of their parts.

What the World Wants to Know By ASIF ALI ZARDARI, MICHELLE BACHELET, BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY, HU SHULI, RORY STEWART, LILIA SHEVTSOVA, ENRIQUE KRAUZE, YOICHI FUNABASHI, PAUL MARTIN, VICENTE FOX, RAMACHANDRA GUHA and IVAN KRASTEV - Leaders and writers from around the world pose questions they’d like to the presidential candidates to answer at the debate in Oxford, Miss.

Stratfor McCain's Foreign Policy Stance (Open Access)

Christian Science Monitor

Russia-West crisis enters 'breathing period' Contradictory messages are rampant as the EU and US reconsider security pledges to Georgia while new players such as Iran and Turkey enter the game.

Iraq election law marks progress, opens political season Provincial polls are now expected early next year and could bring about a political realignment across Iraq

Politico Wild day, no deal Late-night meeting ends without House Republicans or signs of progress

Los Angeles Times Obama, McCain aren't worlds apart on foreign policy In fact, as the pressure increases to win over undecided voters, each has edged closer to the center.

U.S. blames Iran for delay in Iraq pact With no breakthrough in negotiations on extending the American military mandate in Iraq, which expires Dec. 31, Ambassador Ryan Crocker alleges Tehran is trying to derail the talks

Damascus Fears Deviation on Peace Road By: Sami Moubayed | Asia Times As Israeli premier-in-waiting Tzipi Livni battles to form a government, Syria is preparing for the possibility she will call off the indirect talks with Damascus

Asia Times CHINA'S DOLLAR MILLSTONE History of monetary imperialism
Given US dollar hegenomy, China and Japan have little choice but to invest their export earnings in US Treasuries or other dollar-denominated assets. In consequence, China now lends to the US more than double the vast sums Washington lent to war-torn Europe in 1947 under the Marshall Plan. And the US is anything but war-torn. - Henry C K Liu This is the third part of a continuing series.
Part 1: Breaking free from dollar hegemony Part 2: Developing China with sovereign credit

NPQ Jacques Attali: WALL STREET MELTDOWN: THE FIRST AUTHENTIC GLOBAL CRISIS

The Economist America's bail-out plan I want your money

No government bail-out of the banking system was ever going to be pretty. This one deserves support

America’s bail-out plan The doctors' bill

'More Freedom, Less Terror? Liberalization and Political Violence in the Arab World' by Dalia Dassa Kaye, Frederic Wehrey, Audra K. Grant, Dale Stahl, RAND

Financial Times Wrangling holds up US bail-out An unprecedented White House emergency meeting broke up after failing to reach full agreement on the Bush administration’s financial rescue package after another day of intense stress on the money markets

US ‘will lose financial superpower status’ The US is poised to lose its role as a global financial ‘superpower’ in the wake of the financial crisis, Peer Steinbrück, German finance minister, said as he called for a regulatory crackdown on financial markets

China after the Olympics; a great but hesitant power Each time I visit China I am struck by the hesitation. The world watches in awe and, if truth be told, with considerable apprehension, as China reclaims a place as a great power. Yet those steering the country’s rise betray a strange ambivalence, writes Philip Stephens

Sarkozy sets out bigger state role

The French president has delivered a ringing endorsement of global capitalism but says its values and practices must be fundamentally rethought in the face of the biggest financial crisis since the 1930s

Politics as usual The US financial crisis has eclipsed the presidential election but, bad as the current emergency is, the state of the polls means striving for electoral advantage has come first

Make the world safe from crusaders Samuel Brittan on the limits of military intervention. We could be always at war against cruelty if we did not judge whether our intervention might not add to the sum of misery, writes Samuel Brittan

We need a new Global Monetary Authority Jeffrey Garten on need for far-reaching reform

Time McCain in Crisis Mode: Statesman or Politician?

Follow the Money: Why the U.S. Is Losing the War in Afghanistan
Source: Center for Strategic International Studies Full Report (PDF; 950 KB)

McClatchy Despite U.S. support, Ukraine far from ready to join NATO The Bush White House has been pressing its European allies to accept Ukraine into NATO — over Russia's bitter opposition — but Ukriane's continuing political crisis raises serious questions about whether it's ready to join.

EurasiaNet Georgia: Some Members of US Congress Question Bush Administration Policy Toward Tbilisi BY JOSHUA KUCERA Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, seeking to retain the backing of the United States, is vowing to carry out a "second Rose Revolution" that would hasten the democratization pace in the Caucasus country. While the Bush administration continues to offer strong support for the Georgian leader, some influential members of the US Congress have started to question Washington’s policy stance toward Georgia

Financing Demographic Shifts: Pension and Healthcare Scenarios to 2030 Source: World Economic Forum

International Crisis Group Kosovo’s Fragile Transition Failure by the international community to support Kosovo could lead to a destabilizing partition - Major violence has been avoided but the calm is deceptive in newly independent Kosovo. Divisions between Albanian and Serb areas have widened. If de facto partition continues, pressure will mount to redraw borders on ethnic lines throughout the states of the former Yugoslavia, and EU membership prospects for them will fade. International supporters have not kept pledges, largely because of Serbian and Russian opposition, but also because of insufficient political will and weak coordination.

Iran Keeps China in a Chokehold By: Yitzhak Shichor | Asia Times
Heavily dependent on Persian Gulf energy imports, China takes seriously Iran's threats to block the crucial oil chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz, which bristles with Chinese-made anti-ship cruise missiles, attack craft and mines

A bailout and a new world
While the US is trying to implement its US$700 billion financial bail-out plan, Sarkozy talks of "rebuilding" capitalism. In the corridors of the United Nations, there is talk of another kind of rebuilding, of a new multipolar world that would get rid of imperialism and colonialism. Call it the revenge of the developing world. - Pepe Escobar

The Times The election you wouldn't want to win November's victor could be a one-term disaster but a great president may follow him Gerard Baker

Two false steps towards a debate on a topic that doesnt matter (yet) What was John McCain thinking when he suggested delaying his first debate with Barack Obama?

MESH Anthropology and strategic studies

A Conversation with Sergey Lavrov - Council on Foreign Relations

Wall Street Journal Peggy Noonan: Party of One

Review & Outlook Iraq Political Progress

Bailout Proposal
Hits a Stalemate
Political wrangling threw the $700 billion bailout plan into disarray, despite a day of negotiations that seemed to promise a deal. Talks broke off with no agreement and with plans to reconvene in the morning, without House Republicans.

Text of Lawmakers' Agreement on Principles

Mr. McCain Goes Back to Washington POTOMAC WATCH By Kimberley A. Strassel He risks undermining his experience and judgment.

H2

Türk jetleri Kandil'i bombalıyor

Gül: Türk halkı ABD politikalarına tepkili

The Economist Turkey and Armenia Friends and neighbours Rising hopes of better relations between two historic enemies

Nükleerle birlikte enerjide tüm ipler Rusya'ya verilecek

Christian Science Monitor

Russia-West crisis enters 'breathing period' Contradictory messages are rampant as the EU and US reconsider security pledges to Georgia while new players such as Iran and Turkey enter the game.

AB: Tartışmayı yakından izliyoruz Doğan grubu ile hükümet arasındaki tartışma konusunda taraf olmak istemediklerini belirten AB’nin Ankara Temsilcisi Pierini, “Bu konuda fikir belirtirsek İlerleme Raporu’nu olumsuz etkileyebilir” dedi

Gül’e ‘laiklik’ sorusu

ABD’li askeri öğrenciler ‘Laikliğe nasıl bakıyorsunuz?, Laik Türkiye, Ortadoğu için model olabilir mi?’ diye sordu

EDM MORE SPEED, LESS HASTE RESULTS IN TURKISH NUCLEAR TENDER FIASCO

Armenian President Praises Progress on Turkey Talks

EU on tenterhooks over domestic tenison in Turkey

Cyprus should remain a single country, say Obama and Biden

GREECE & CYPRUS, AND THE ELECTION OF 2008
Hellenic News of America

Turkish Delight for Middle East
Khaleej Times

Burying a bitter legacy in the Caucasus By Hugh Pope

Karzai and Zardari to meet in Turkey to follow up on trilateral talks

Yalçın Doğan New York’ta bizimkiler kuleye çarptı

Türkiye, Azerbaycan ve Ermenistan zirvesi

Rusya bu kabadayılıkla bizi pes ettiremez

Erdoğan, Asya steplerinde 'tarihî' açılışlar yapacak

ABD'nin yeni Ankara büyükelçisi adayına 'soykırım' dedirtemediler

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası Dış Basında Türkiye - BBC Turkish 0700 VOA TSİ 06:30 Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey TurcoPundit ASAM

Google News Fırat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect Dış Basında Irak BBC Monitoring Inter-national

DTP’li belediyeler Kürtçe yazışacak

PKK-DTP-ETA-ANV-PCTV
MEHMET ALİ KIŞLALI

Nasuhi Güngör Gülen Cemaati, Kürt Sorunu ve ‘Tek Türkiye’

Kirkuk "Committee" at Center of Election Accord

Bird flu hits northern Iraq

Cevdet Aşkın Ankara, Kürt sorununda yeni inisiyatif arayışında

Embers under the ashes Al-Ahram Weekly A Syrian military court has sentenced 50 Kurds to prison. With other Kurdish leaders awaiting trial, tensions are running high. Since the Barzani revolt in Iraq and the emergence of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Kurdish Syrians have been clamouring for recognition

A new divide Arab-Kurd strife might shape future Iraqi politics, writes Saif Nasrawi

‘Kandil’e 40 bin YTL

South Korea, Iraq's Kurdish region sign oil pact

The Jews of Kurdistan (1 cent)

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

İKV:AB haksız olarak Türkiye menşeli bazı ürünlere anti-damping uyguluyor

Batı Trakya Türkleri eğitim hakkı için yürüdü

EU ombudsman urges Turkey to review its secularism

Türkiye'ye Rus füzesi Atina-Moskova hattını gerdi

Kornet - E füzeleri Atina-Moskova’yı gerdi

Yavuz Baydar Turkey should support EU integration of S. Caucasus

Fransalı Yahudilerden Sarkozy'ye 'Türklere vefa borcu' hatırlatması

'Avrupa'daki en katı laiklik Türkiye'de'

Rıza Türmen Uygarlıklar buluşması

‘Group of Friends of Alliance of Civilizations growing’

Avrupa Parlamentosu Medya raporu (ingilizce)

ABGS Genel Sekreteri Büyükelçi Oğuz Demiralp: “AB ile Türkiye’nin kaderleri birdir”

Event fosters ties between Turkey, Japan

Küresel sohbet

Guardian 'Neglect and disrepair' leads Corfu dissidents to seek split from Greece Disgruntlement mirrors mounting disillusionment with mainstream parties in Greece

Obama praises Turkish-Armenian dialogue

Türk politikacı belediye yarışında

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

Artist acquitted of insulting Turkish leader

A vital warning: Extreme events that have become visible in Turkey (2)

Durmuş Hocaoğlu Mitolojik Müslümanlık ve İlim Zihniyeti

Şehit çocuklarına Başbuğ şefkati

Genelkurmay’dan ‘Türkçe’ çağrısı

... 'Düello maratonu'

Ahmet Taşgetiren Ah bir de salatı ümmiye olsa...

Tuzla tersaneleri gözaltında

H3

İddialar sert uslup yumuşak

Kılıç yarası

Seviyeli tartıştılar, Meclis'in itibarı zedelenmedi

‘Düellonun’ kazananı yok

DEMOKRASİ KAZANDI

Bu düello burada bitmez!

Baykal’ın sorusu Toptan’ı şaşırttı!

Hürriyet jürisine göre CHP’li Kılıçdaroğlu galip

Tuncay Özkan’ın deposu arandı

Başbuğ, Meclis ambargosunu kaldıracak mı

Sekizinci dalganın ipuçları Ergenekon iddianamesinde

Şeffaf dönemi başlatıyor

Abdüllatif Şener: Dürüst vekilin AKP'de işi olamaz

Ergenekon'da şok detay

Erdoğan’ın adı Deniz Feneri’ne karışanlarla iç içe

Kılıçdaroğlu hayali ihracatı kanıtladı

Belgeler Fırat'ı zor durumda bıraktı

Çankaya Belediye Başkanı: CHP'lilere rüşvet dağıtmaktan iş yapamıyorum

Saçan'da şok belgeler...

Gül, Gülen'in iftarına katıldı

İnterpol’den Akman için tutuklama gelebilir

Baykal: Kırmızı hat belgesi muhteşem

‘Suçlamalar komik’

Gözaltı süresi engellemek için uzatılıyor

Belediyeler Yasası’nda referandum iddiası

AKP’den istifa

O gazeteleri boykot farz, almak haram

Köşk'te 500 dolara Cadillac operasyonu

CHP'li başkanın rüşvet itirafları

[Haber İzlenim - Ömer Şahin] Ağır iddialara rağmen siyasi nezaketi korudular

Dink Ailesi’nden 3 hâkim için suç duyurusu

Dink ailesi hâkimleri HSYK’ya şikâyet etti

Medya üzerinden 'yoksulluk' oyunu

Son dalgada iki gün ek gözaltı süresi

Türban üstü şapka çözümü!

‘Baykal ve Erdoğan’ı da görmek istiyoruz’

‘Fener’in noteri disiplinde

Gökçek'in 'gurur' tablosu

Ankara'da 400 bin kişi yardımla yaşıyor

Akman ikna etmek için evimize kadar geldi

Tolon’un tahliyesi istendi

Tolon'un avukatı: Sağlıklı ama tahliyesini istiyoruz

Eruygur uyandırıldı sağlık durumu iyi

Danıştay’ın polis açıklaması

Mahir Akkar, Ecevit'e karşı darbe yapılmasını istemişti

Sisi: Ergenekon'da dalgalar devam edecek

Tuncay Özkan, vergi borçlarını Kerimcan Kamal'a bırakmış

Karaman'a vekaletname veren noter, disiplin kuruluna sevk edildi

JİTEM'ci emekli Albay Arif Doğan da hastanede

Arınç: Toptan, Meclis'teki tartışmaya izin vermemeliydi

Son Dakika Milliyet Hürriyet Zaman GH Türkiye

Cengiz Çandar Gül, Bağdat'ta beklenirken New York'ta Talabani ile

Ruşen - Çakır

Taha Akyol Yine Başbakan’a notlar

Fikret Bila Milletvekili siyasetle ticareti ayırmalı

Hasan Cemal İktidar-muhalefet mücadelesine evet, küfürleşmeye hayır!

Murat Yetkin CHP, AK Parti’yi sarsmaya başladı

İsmet Berkan Kim kazandı?

Fehmi Koru Türkiye üyelik peşinde

Taha Kıvanç Saldırılar güçlendirir

Şamil Tayyar Maç 7-1 bitti

Hüseyin Gülerce Aydın Doğan'dan cevap

Ali Bayramoğlu Gayri meşrunun tarihi

Yasemin Çongar

Ertuğrul Özkök

Ahmet Hakan Anlatılan ’ramazan’ ile ’şeker’in hikáyesidir

M Ali Birand Ergenekon, ya dönüm noktası olacak, veya...

Sabahattin Önkibar üyükanıt Paşa, Şener Paşa’dan intikam mı aldı?

Cüneyt Ülsever

Enis Berberoğlu

Otorite TÜRKER ALKAN

Boğaziçi Rektörü ne yapmış oldu?
ORAL ÇALIŞLAR

Siyasetçi ile gazeteciyi karşı karşıya getiren fark
HAKKI DEVRİM

Sorumluluk taşımak...
HASAN CELAL GÜZEL

Bütün kelimeler kirlenirken
HALUK ŞAHİN


Güngör Mengi Dengir yenildi ama Deniz Feneri kazandı

Yiğit Bulut ‘Uyuşturucu baronları’ için cesaretimiz var mı?

Oktay Ekşi Meclis’te düello

Özdemir İnce Solun kanlı serüveni

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Dilerim Başbakan da izlemiştir!

Tufan Türenç Erdoğan’ın belediye oyunu

Metin Münir Doğru mu, yanlış mı Sayın Hilmi Güler?

Derya Sazak Kırmızı hat

Yalçın Bayer Deniz Feneri de TV’de sorgulanmalı

Bekir Coşkun Dalgalar...

Ece Temelkuran Solun ölçülerini sağcılar belirleyemez

Nagehan Alçı Kılıçdaroğlu’nu Sevenler Kulübü (KSK)

Hakan Aygün Kılıçdaroğlu az farkla önde...

[Yorum - Mazhar Bağlı] Komutanını bile fişleyebilme pervasızlığı

Güngör Uras Yardım kurumlarında ‘şeffaflık’ ve ‘denetim’ önemli

Mehmet Altan Tartışmayı siz de izlediniz mi?

Eser Karakaş Medya ve siyaset sınıfta kalıyor

Mustafa Ünal Kim kaybetti?

Mehmet Yılmaz Enfeksiyon!

İhsan Dağı Emeğe saygı ve vicdan meselesi

Etyen Mahçupyan Loser’s strategy

MUHARREM SARIKAYASiyaset sıkışması

ERDAL ŞAFAKYalta bitti mi?

ENGİN ARDIÇSizi işletiyorlar

ERGUN BABAHANSiyasetin işlevi

EMRE AKÖZ

Umur TaluVefa soruları

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAKBalina'dan, Örümcek Ağı ve Ergenekon'a

HINCAL ULUÇ
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan'ın dönen talihi..

MEHMET BARLASAçık oturumun galibi demokrasi ve şeffaflıktı...

MAHMUT ÖVÜRSiyaset neden 'sığ' tartışmalar yapıyor?

ŞEREF OĞUZ
Enerjisiz Türkiye

YAVUZ DONATİletişim uzmanı Manisa köylüsü

Okay Gönensin Zenginleşme aracı olarak iktidar

Mehmet Tezkan Politik maçta kırılma anları!

Bülnet Keneş The high cost of anti-democratic fantasies

Bülent Korucu Tuncay Özkan'a ayıp edildi(!)

Mustafa Mutlu Yaralı var, ölü yok!

TAMER KORKMAZ

YASİN DOĞAN Kumpas kurmak…

Oray Eğin Bu sanatçılar ne kadar korkakmış

Ekonomi

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu Dış finansmanda zorlanacağız

Erdal Sağlam

Güven Sak Amerika'da bankacılık krizinden demokrasi dersleri çıkarmak gerekir

Hasan Ersel Dış ticarette miktar ve birim değer endeksleri ne gösteriyor

Haluk Bürümcekçi Türkiye ekonomisinde resesyon

Erinç Yeldan Küresel Krizden Somut Dersler

Ödevi yapmayalım, fırsat bekleyelim!
UĞUR GÜRSES

Asaf Savaş Akat Krizin basit hikâyesi

İBRAHİM KAHVECİ

Salih Neftçi İki haftadır olan bitene bir bakın

Ferai Tınç ABD’nin mali 11 Eylül’ü bize vız gelmez

The high cost of anti-democratic fantasies in Turkey
www.worldbulletin.net

H4 New York Times Talks Implode During Day of Chaos; Fate of Bailout Plan Remains Unresolved Partisan presidential politics appeared to trample what had been exceedingly delicate Congressional negotiations over the $700 billion bailout package.

Credit Enters a Lockdown Without a mechanism to shed the bad loans on their books, financial institutions and lenders may continue to hoard their dollars and starve the economy of capital

DAVID BROOKS Thinking About McCain What disappoints me about the McCain campaign is it has no central argument. His proposals don’t add up to more than the sum of their parts.

What the World Wants to Know

By ASIF ALI ZARDARI, MICHELLE BACHELET, BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY, HU SHULI, RORY STEWART, LILIA SHEVTSOVA, ENRIQUE KRAUZE, YOICHI FUNABASHI, PAUL MARTIN, VICENTE FOX, RAMACHANDRA GUHA and IVAN KRASTEV

Leaders and writers from around the world pose questions they’d like to the presidential candidates to answer at the debate in Oxford, Miss.

Pakistani and American Troops Exchange Fire

Iran’s Leader Criticizes U.S. Policies Around World

Editorial What About the Rest of Us?

Political theater delayed the passing of the $700 billion bailout package, but the wait will be worth it if keeps Americans in their homes

Russia, Georgia and the Space Station

If the Senate does not extend a waiver allowing NASA to buy seats on Russia’s space vehicles, the United States could lose access to the International Space Station

PAUL KRUGMAN

Where Are the Grown-Ups?

The grown-up thing to do is to rescue the financial system. If Henry Paulson isn’t the grown-up we need, are Congressional leaders able to fill the role?

U.N. Receives New Pledges of Aid Totaling $16 Billion

World Briefing | Europe: Georgia: Bomb Strikes Abkhaz Capital

Radical Settlers Take on Israel

China Launches Space Walk Mission

McCain Leaps Into a Thicket The day’s events raised questions about why Senator John McCain had called for postponing the first debate — and what his own views were about the bailout plan.

Dubious Claims in Obama’s Ads Against McCain Despite a vow of truth, Barack Obama’s latest ads match the misleading nature of some of John McCain’s spots

Poll Finds McCain Edge on Security

Government Seizes WaMu and Sells Some Assets

The government on Thursday made the largest bank seizure in American history, taking over Washington Mutual and selling pieces of it to J.P. Morgan Chase.

H5 Washington Post Negotiations Falter on Bailout Deal White House Summit Fails to Yield Accord as House GOP Floats New Plan

FROM THE ACADEMICS Away from Wall Street, Economists Question Basis of Paulson's Plan

Editorial Another Iraq Benchmark

Legislators approve a crucial deal on provincial elections

8 Questions About the Debates

By Dan Balz

Pakistanis, U.S.-Afghan Patrol Exchange Fire Near Frontier

A Bailout for All Our Bad Decisions? By Mark Sanford, We should worry about the precedent being set

Debate Still in Limbo as Democrats Blame McCain For Interrupting Process

Sarkozy Takes AIm
At Financial Crisis

French President Nicolas Sarkozy warns Europe it cannot escape the U.S. economic woes and says the region must take the lead in rewriting worldwide banking rules

Drama King to the Rescue By Eugene Robinson, McCain succeeded in focusing attention on himself, but not necessarily in a good way

Stakes of Presidential Nominees' First Debate May Now Be Higher

Questionnaires Stir Unease in a Baghdad Enclave Residents Wary Of Bid to Undo Cleansing by Sect

An Elated China Launches Rocket, Prepares for Nation's 1st Spacewalk

How to Spend That $700 Billion

Paulson and Bernanke Would Do Better to Put Capital Directly Into the Banks By Sebastian Mallaby

Carbon Is Building Up in Atmosphere Faster Than Predicted

Catharsis, Then Common Sense

By Charles Krauthammer, Part of Congress's reaction has everything to do with assuaging the rage of constituents

U.S. Has Achieved 'Victory' in Iraq, Palin Tells Couric

The Photo McCain Wanted

By E. J. Dionne Jr., John McCain's sudden intervention could not have been more out of sync with what was actually happening.

Far-Reaching U.S. Plan Impaired N. Korea Deal Demands Began to Undo Nuclear Accord

Sarkozy Advocates Systemic Change After Crisis

WaMu Sold In Biggest U.S. Bank Failure Government Arranges Deal With J.P. Morgan

Shelby Plays Role of Contrarian

Alabama Senator Calls Plan 'Flawed From the Beginning'

What Bush Left Out By Dan Froomkin

World Leaders Embrace Goal of Ending Malaria Deaths by 2015

H6 Guardian Israel sought US go-ahead to bomb Iran nuclear sites

Exclusive: Bush told Israeli PM he would not back attack, diplomatic sources tell Guardian

A target too far Editorial: We have come too close to igniting a fresh firestorm in the Middle East

Interactive guide: Iran's nuclear programme

Explainer: Relations between Iran and Israel

Background: Hizbullah - enemy of Israel

Timeline: Iran nuclear standoff

$700bn Wall Street bail-out stalls

White House summit fails to clinch deal as Democrats criticise McCain for intervention in crisis

John McCain 'undermining' bail-out to lift campaign

Tomasky talk: House Republicans stall bail-out plan

Q&A: The US banking bail-out

Tide of foreclosures ends American dream

FAQ: Will this end Wall Street's woes?

Brokering the bail-out Editorial: After the collapse of one bank and the fire-sale of others, the real delusion turns out to be blind faith in laissez-faire

The $700bn question Robert Reich: Never before in the history of US capitalism has so much been asked of so many for so few

Too much of a good thing Adam Davidson: It's a weird idea, but consider this: the roots of the financial crisis lie in the fact that there was simply too much money in the world

90 minutes that will make or break

Debate, set to attract a record television audience, could settle doubts about Obama and McCain

McCain 'undermining' bail-out to lift campaign

Simon Tisdall: The maverick rides again By putting himself forward as America's economic champion, John McCain has once again upset the Democrats' agenda

The phoney war on poverty

John Hilary: Aid is not enough. Global poverty will not be beaten until Europe and the US radically rethink their failing strategies

$3bn ploughed into fight against malaria World leaders announce plan to end all malaria deaths by 2015 with introduction of vaccine

Bitter rival of Chechnya's leader is shot dead in Russian capital Russia launches investigation into assassination of Ruslan Yamadayev, rival of president Ramzan Kadyrov

H7

Damascus Fears Deviation on Peace Road By: Sami Moubayed | Asia Times As Israeli premier-in-waiting Tzipi Livni battles to form a government, Syria is preparing for the possibility she will call off the indirect talks with Damascus

Sexual Cleansing in Iraq By: Peter Tatchell | The Guardian Islamist deaths squads are hunting down gay Iraqis and summarily executing them

Hubris With Comeuppance By: Arnaud de Borchgrave | The Washington Times The United States, as seen by the media in the rest in the world, is sobering up at the Just Deserts Cafe.

Syria Pushes the Envelope in the North By: Michael Young | The Daily Star Of all the ridiculous reasons explaining the deployment of thousands of Syrian troops along the northern Lebanese border, surely the most ridiculous is that this was done to thwart smuggling

UAE Plans Canal to Bypass Iran The Media Line Iranian threats to close down the Hormuz Strait in the Gulf in case of a military attack are being taken seriously by the neighboring United Arab Emirates (UAE). Strategically located in the Gulf between Iran and the UAE, the Hormuz Strait is the only sea passage to the open ocean for oil-rich exporters such as Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and the UAE

Mubarak&King Abdullah II of Jordan Review Developments of the Palestinian Dialogue, the Peace Process&Livni's Accession

America's loss of value

TO JUSTIFY his bailout of wayward financial companies, President Bush told the United Nations Tuesday that he was acting to avert an economic crisis that "would have a devastating effect on other economies around the world." It is true that the embrace of risky leveraged debt by improperly regulated investment banks may cause ripples of pain in foreign economies. But ... (Boston Globe)

Does Hijacked Iranian Ship Contain Chemical Weapons? - Nick Grace (Long War Journal) An Iranian merchant vessel hijacked last month by pirates may have been heading to Eritrea to deliver small arms and chemical weapons to Somalia's Islamist insurgents.

EU: Iran Closer to Nuclear Arms Capacity

Saving the UN from itself
A despairing mood of inaction and even paralysis grips the United Nations in the face of the world's multiple economic and other problems. There are many root causes for this atrophy, chief among them the UN's penchant for chasing unrealistic goals. A leaner, smarter UN is what is needed. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

The Pentagon's thinking, Mary Kaldor

The war on terror: seven years on , Paul Rogers

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

Questionnaires Stir Unease in a Baghdad Enclave

Dems Bury Iran Blockade Resolution, for Now

Iraq OKs Elections – Except in Oil-Rich Kirkuk

Sunni elders aim for political fight

RAMADI, Iraq, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida in Iraq is finished and the remaining battles will be fought among the political parties at the ballot box, a Sunni tribal leader said.

Sons of Iraq Get a New Boss

Diplomats: Assad Aide Killing Hurts UN Probe in Syria

The unbalanced Iraqi Army
Kurdish Globe

H9 Ha’aretz Mossad chief fights Iran nuclear program his own way Under Meir Dagan, the Mossad has used creativity and daring to strike Israel's enemies

Aluf Benn: Olmert is from Mars, Abbas is from Venus

Report: U.S. said no to Israeli strike on Iran The Guardian quotes European officials who say Bush 'would not support it' and did not expect to revise that view

Peres: U.S. has no choice but to save world from Ahmadinejad

Ari Shavit: Netanyahu behaving like a petty man rather than a statesman

Bill Clinton: I'll only stump for Obama after Jewish holidays

ANALYSIS / Why did the attack on a well-known leftist professor happen now? Attack may be an attempt to intimidate new Kadima Head Tzipi Livni out of trying to cut a deal with the PA

Ahmadinejad and the cityWhat has become clear beyond all doubt this week, if there had been any doubt, is that Ahmadinejad, petty or not, cruel or not, is above all a world-class celebrity of the sort that a New York backdrop only flatters

Jerusalem Post 'US refused to support Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites' Guardian, quoting senior European officials, reports Bush refused to give Olmert green light for attack during May visit to Israel.

EU assessment: IDF can't stop Iran alone Diplomats predict a regional conflagration of unknown proportions as a result of any strike

Pentagon team in Israel for F-35 talks IAF hopes to sign Joint Strike Fighter contract in coming months, with aim of receiving aircraft in 2014

Poll: Obama leads among US Jews

But presidential candidate significantly trails Jewish vote for recent Democratic candidates

Time and negotiations The lack of resolution has nothing to do with time and everything to do with absence of political will.

Appease Iran? [ DANIEL PIPES

Kadima-Labor talks fly, then falter

Labor's demand to raise state budget's framework by 2.5% stalls progress; Barak: We're far from deal

Moscow takes part in Quartet talks today Despite tensions with the West, Russia will meet with representatives from the US, UN and EU

Yedioth Ahronoth 'US denied request to strike'
The Guardian quotes diplomatic sources as saying Israel seriously considered attack on Iran's nuclear sites this spring but was told by Bush he would not back it for fear of retaliation; Olmert spokesman denies report

'Longtime friend of Israel'

Friendly encounter in US between Republican VP nominee Palin, Israeli President Peres

En route to another Intifada? Palestinians heading for collapse, which will surely affect Israel as well

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

Bush still 'hopeful' on Mid-East President Bush tells Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas he is still "hopeful" of a Middle East peace deal before he leaves office.

CSM The Islamization of East Jerusalem In Arab East Jerusalem, Islamist groups are gaining more of a foothold through charity, such as free iftar meals during Ramadan, opening schools, and offering services.

Israel: The Iranian People Are Not Our Enemies - President Shimon Peres (Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Hostility and fear

Palestinian and settler tensions breed hatred

McCartney turns to Hebrew for Tel Aviv gig Former Beatle spends day studying in bid to woo 50,000 Israeli fans with ancient language

Israeli peace advocate attacked

Pipe bomb wounds academic Zeev Sternhell in suspected attack by right-wing Jewish extremists

H10 Christian Science Monitor Russia-West crisis enters 'breathing period' Contradictory messages are rampant as the EU and US reconsider security pledges to Georgia while new players such as Iran and Turkey enter the game.

Iraq election law marks progress, opens political season Provincial polls are now expected early next year and could bring about a political realignment across Iraq.

Lincoln's lesson for today's culture wars Democracy must be more than two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch.

India faced with home-grown terrorism Police have arrested the head of Indian Mujahideen, which claims responsibility for recent bombings

ASIA

Iran Keeps China in a Chokehold By: Yitzhak Shichor | Asia Times
Heavily dependent on Persian Gulf energy imports, China takes seriously Iran's threats to block the crucial oil chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz, which bristles with Chinese-made anti-ship cruise missiles, attack craft and mines

Shots fired in US-Pakistan clash The US military says its troops have exchanged gunfire with Pakistani forces across the border with Afghanistan.

It's time for the United States to get smart on Pakistan By Robert M. Hathaway

Bush, Zardari Meet as U.S.-Pakistan Relations Deteriorate By: Richard Weitz | World Politics Review When Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali Zardari, met privately with U.S. President George W. Bush on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York Tuesday, the deteriorating security situation along the Afghan-Pakistani border was certainly a central topic of discussion

The Economist A special report on the Koreas The odd couple Koreans want their international standing to match the south’s economic success. They may have to wait until the peninsula is unified

U.S., Pakistani forces exchange fire along the Afghan border

Pakistani forces Thursday fired at U.S. helicopters and traded shots with U.S. troops and Afghan police on the Afghan-Pakistan border in the latest blow to cooperation between Washington and Islamabad, U.S. officials said. Neither side reported casualties in the incident, which occurred when the helicopters crossed into the Pakistani tribal agency of North Waziristan, the Pakistan army said

India, Pakistan Say Peace Process `Under Strain,' Pledge Talks By: Ed Johnson | Bloomberg News
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh acknowledged the peace process between their nuclear-armed nations has been ``under strain'' and pledged new talks to get it back on track

India Military Faces Manpower Crunch as Economy Booms By: Jay Shankar | Bloomberg News
Ashok Gowda quit India's army three years ago to build a software business. The reason: The country's economic boom may allow him to earn six times as much in the private sector as he got as a military engineer

Terrorism in Pakistan Friends like these

China's space programme Shooting the moon

H11 IHT EU treaty opponent faces scrutiny over U.S. ties A deputy in the European Parliament suggested that the leading Irish no campaigner, Declan Ganley, might have ties to the CIA. But no evidence of a link has emerged.

For French Muslims, a Catholic education 10 percent of students celebrate Ramadan near a crucifix because Muslim schools are few and the public sector is shunned

Chechen wrestlers retake heritage from wars' wreckage Like the story of Chechnya's long and often bitter relationship with Russia, the history of Chechen wrestling is filled with frustration, betrayal and loss

EUROPE European press review

The Economist Charlemagne

Transatlantic model wars What Wall Street’s woes reveal about European and American views of markets

Europe's economies Struggling to keep moving The financial meltdown may be happening mainly in America, but Europe is starting to feel the heat

Echoes of the Balkans in the Georgia Crisis. By Tim Judah in Tbilisi

Mobility in Europe: Why it is low, the bottlenecks, and the policy solutions
Source: European Commission - Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities

Kosovo threatened by partition without EU (UPI) -- Failure by the international community to support Kosovo could lead to a destabilizing partition, according to a report by the International Crisis Group

Independent Haider is back. Just don't mention the war Last time he was in power, his nation became a pariah state. These days, Jörg Haider is more likely to praise the EU than the Nazis, although he and his party still hold controversial views about immigrants.

 

Belarus hopes poll will thaw ties with West With opposition leaders already denouncing the upcoming elections as fraudulent, the EU and US must rule whether the vote is fair enough to warrant an easing of sanctions

Frugal French France is resisting the credit crunch better than most

 

H12 RFE/RL

McClatchy Despite U.S. support, Ukraine far from ready to join NATO

The Bush White House has been pressing its European allies to accept Ukraine into NATO — over Russia's bitter opposition — but Ukriane's continuing political crisis raises serious questions about whether it's ready to join

EurasiaNet Georgia: Some Members of US Congress Question Bush Administration Policy Toward Tbilisi BY JOSHUA KUCERA Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, seeking to retain the backing of the United States, is vowing to carry out a "second Rose Revolution" that would hasten the democratization pace in the Caucasus country. While the Bush administration continues to offer strong support for the Georgian leader, some influential members of the US Congress have started to question Washington’s policy stance toward Georgia

Amir Taheri Russian Roulette : Amir Taheri

'Dangerous Gulf' Opens Between Russia and West

Google News Azerbaijan

Putin, Not Just Paulson, Setting Decade's Course By: Amity Shlaes | Bloomberg News When Hank Paulson powers over like a battleship to Capitol Hill from the Treasury, the eyes of the entire world are on him. That's too bad because there is a real battleship that also requires monitoring as it powers toward the Atlantic

Ukraine's European Future By: James Marson | The Guardian
The voices clamouring for a Crimean union with Russia largely emanate from Moscow. In Sevastopol, it's a different story.

Sep 25 ANNOUNCEMENT# 84 - From the MEMRI Blog: Georgia Affairs in the Arabic, Iranian, and Turkish Media

Chavez tours Russia to boost ties Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez travels to the southern Russian city of Orenburg to meet President Dmitry Medvedev

EDM RUSSIA NEUTERING THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE AFTER INVASION OF GEORGIA


- RUSSIA'S GLOBAL WAR GAMES

Amid conflict in Georgia, no one remembers civilians By Angelika Arutyunova

Stratfor Geopolitical Diary: Russia's Dalliance With Venezuela

Russia promised to loan Venezuela $1 billion to implement a military cooperation program and offered to help build nuclear energy technology in the South American country

Uzbekistan: Authorities Tighten Grip on Religion During Ramadan
Uzbek authorities have stepped up surveillance of mosques and tightened control on religious activity since the start of the holy month of Ramadan. Although designed to keep a lid on Islamic radicalism, the government measures are causing friction with mainstream believers.

H13 The Times The election you wouldn't want to win November's victor could be a one-term disaster but a great president may follow him Gerard Baker

Two false steps towards a debate on a topic that doesnt matter (yet) What was John McCain thinking when he suggested delaying his first debate with Barack Obama?

Pakistan and US troops exchange fire The five minute ground battle is the first serious exchange between the countries that has been acknowledged by the US

McCain and Obama strive to disguise their ambition

US critics gloat over 'crumblingcapitalism'

US banking rescue package hovers on brink Republicans and Democrats are blaming each other for the stalemate after talks ended with no resolution in sight

What Price Foreign Aid? In straitened times, development budgets inevitably come under greater pressure; there are grounds for maintaining them, despite past failures

Wall Street Journal Peggy Noonan: Party of One

Review & Outlook

Iraq Political Progress

Bailout Proposal
Hits a Stalemate
Political wrangling threw the $700 billion bailout plan into disarray, despite a day of negotiations that seemed to promise a deal. Talks broke off with no agreement and with plans to reconvene in the morning, without House Republicans.

Text of Lawmakers' Agreement on Principles

Mr. McCain Goes Back to Washington POTOMAC WATCH By Kimberley A. Strassel
He risks undermining his experience and judgment.

Fate of First Debate Unclear

The first presidential debate remained up in the air as lawmakers struggled to reach an agreement on a bailout package

Fixing the Paulson Plan

By Douglas Diamond, Steve Kaplan, Anil Kashyap, Raghuram Rajan and Richard Thaler. Above all else, making it fairer to U.S. taxpayers.

· Pakistan and Afghanistan Unite Against Terrorism

By Husain Haqqani and Said T. Jawad The U.S. can foster peace with a trade agreement.

The Public Deserves a Better Deal

· Main Street Needs the Treasury Plan

By Kenneth D. Lewis
For the benefit of American businesses, consumers and the economy at large.

Politico The bailout

Robert Reich: Meltdown is Paulson-Bernanke "self-fulfilling prophecy." Janet Napolitano: Can Washington focus on anything in a bipartisan manner?

McClatchy Bush's bailout meeting ends in disarray; McCain gets blame House and Senate Democrats and Senate Republicans thought they had a deal on the bailout that would limit the initial outlay to $250 billion, allow an additional $100 billion to be spent if the Treasury secretary says it's needed, and would allow Congress to cancel the final $350 billion. But then the congressional leaders met at the White House with President Bush, and the agreement quickly dissolved, with House Republicans proving the spoilers. All sides were holding meetings in an effort to determine what to do next.

BBC Wall St rescue plan 'needs work'

US political leaders say more work is needed on a $700bn bail-out plan for financial markets after White House talks.

Bail-out debate: For and against

H14 Financial Times Wrangling holds up US bail-out An unprecedented White House emergency meeting broke up after failing to reach full agreement on the Bush administration’s financial rescue package after another day of intense stress on the money markets

US ‘will lose financial superpower status’ The US is poised to lose its role as a global financial ‘superpower’ in the wake of the financial crisis, Peer Steinbrück, German finance minister, said as he called for a regulatory crackdown on financial markets

China after the Olympics; a great but hesitant power Each time I visit China I am struck by the hesitation. The world watches in awe and, if truth be told, with considerable apprehension, as China reclaims a place as a great power. Yet those steering the country’s rise betray a strange ambivalence, writes Philip Stephens

Sarkozy sets out bigger state role

The French president has delivered a ringing endorsement of global capitalism but says its values and practices must be fundamentally rethought in the face of the biggest financial crisis since the 1930s

Politics as usual The US financial crisis has eclipsed the presidential election but, bad as the current emergency is, the state of the polls means striving for electoral advantage has come first

Make the world safe from crusaders

Samuel Brittan on the limits of military intervention. We could be always at war against cruelty if we did not judge whether our intervention might not add to the sum of misery, writes Samuel Brittan

We need a new Global Monetary Authority Jeffrey Garten on need for far-reaching reform

The Global Reach IV: Loss of liquidity shatters Gulf faith The notion that the region’s economy is immune from Wall Street’s meltdown has been shattered amid analyst calls to divert more of its oil revenues into its own economies

The Global Reach III: Brazil’s confidence stores up future problems

The Global Reach II: Prudence guides China’s outlook

The Global Reach I: France reforms its Anglo-Saxon attitudes

Kremlin’s crisis management criticised Dmitry Medvedev has criticised the Kremlin’s overly centralised system of decision making, indicating the Russian president was dissatisfied with his government’s own crisis management skills

UN urges clarity amid Syrian troop movement The UN calls for more clarity from Damascus on the reasons behind the stationing of thousands of troops on the Lebanese border, a move that has raised anxieties in Beirut

Stage set for debate in spite of doubts

Barack Obama, the Democrat, who was in Washington at the invitation of President George W. Bush, insisted his first one-on-one televised encounter with John McCain should proceed on schedule

Ahmadi-Nejad opens coffers to shield poor The Iranian president’s populist economic policies include a plan to release billions of dollars in cash as subsidies get cut, but critics say the move will be used to shore up support for the government

Plan reawakens Congress suspicions

The saga of the bail-out underlines how, even with a tough and admired Treasury secretary, the decaying authority of the Bush administration and the parlous state of the public finances have deepened resistance in Congress to writing the White House a blank cheque

McCain throws another desperate pass It is a tactic that John McCain has used more than once as he struggles to change the dynamic of a presidential race that again seems to be shifting in favour of Barack Obama

Everyone is paying price for share buy-backs William Lazonick on dangers of repurchases Abundant stock options give executives an incentive to do buy-backs even if it undermines long-term value, writes William Lazonick

A $700bn shot at the wrong financial target John Gapper’s blog: I cannot see why the market will become convinced that these securities are worth more simply because the US government buys them

Way to local polls is cleared in Iraq

A temp in Tokyo One feature of today’s Japan is the prevalence of contract workers in a once-stable labour market. Now even the prime minister holds a temporary job

Canterbury tales The attack by Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, has received popular support for his views on modern finance. But that does not mean that he is right

H15 Los Angeles Times Obama, McCain aren't worlds apart on foreign policy In fact, as the pressure increases to win over undecided voters, each has edged closer to the center.

U.S. blames Iran for delay in Iraq pact With no breakthrough in negotiations on extending the American military mandate in Iraq, which expires Dec. 31, Ambassador Ryan Crocker alleges Tehran is trying to derail the talks

After roller-coaster day, still no bailout White House meeting ends; no plan Conservatives denounce the $700-billion strategy as ill-conceived and Democrats accuse presidential candidate John McCain of encouraging the revolt.

U.S., Pakistan troops exchange fire on Afghanistan border The Pentagon calls it a misunderstanding and denies that U.S. helicopters crossed the border into Pakistan's tribal regions

Public isn't buying Wall Street bailoutIndignant Americans stage protests, deluge congressional offices.

McCain's economics 180

Rosa Brooks: The '80s S&L scandal didn't slow his push for less regulation. Now, candidate McCain sings a different tune.

JPMorgan Chase buys WaMu assets The country's largest savings and loan is seized late in the day by federal regulators, then sold

Debate: On or off? For now, everyone seems to be assuming McCain will show up.

Editorial

H16 American Politics

Deal May Be Dead: Democrats Blaming McCain

Obama Will Make Debate A Townhall If McCain Doesn't Show

Palin takes questions from press corps for first time

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

GOP's bailout problem: Its senators just can't agree

The First Debate: 'Obama Can't Let Rumor He is Un-American Go Unchallenged'

Could Clinton still come back? Internet buzzes with rumours Biden will be replaced by Hillary as Obama's running mate

The Economist Lexington President Hank Henry Paulson is the most important man in Washington

Commentary: Who exactly does McCain think debate gambit will fool?

H17 Daily Telegraph Simon Schama's goodbye to pettiness The gravity of the global financial crisis has transformed the terrain on which the US election will be fought. One of our leading historians applauds the victory of big ideas over small minds.

Muslims reject al-Qaeda and bin Laden

Washington should refrain from stoking resentment of the West by unilateral incursions into the tribal areas, advises Simon Scott Plummer.

Congress must agree Paulson's cheque

If the Paulson deal is sealed, the big question on everyone's minds will be whether or not it will do the trick. And if not, what next?

H18 Independent Pay curbs plan for bankers Conservative Republicans stall deal to bail out financial industry as McCain proposes $400,000 salary cap for senior executives

Election campaign: Candidates compete to turn bailout to their advantage

The President: Bush risks wrath of Main Street to save the banks

The British impact: A deal that matters on this side of Atlantic too

Haider is back. Just don't mention the war Last time he was in power, his nation became a pariah state. These days, Jörg Haider is more likely to praise the EU than the Nazis, although he and his party still hold controversial views about immigrants.

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

Data mining Know-alls Electronic snooping by the state may safeguard liberty—and also threaten it

An al-Qaida surge? DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida may have launched attacks in Pakistan and Yemen as a diversion against broader plans in Europe or the United States, an analyst says.

Effects of Deployments on Spouses of Military Personnel
Source: RAND Corporation

Heroic act, medal denied – and a debate Defense Secretary Robert Gates questioned a fallen marine's award forcovering a grenade to save his comrades

H20 Slate Debate Thyself How candidates are defined before they take the stage. John Dickerson

history lesson

You Won't Learn Much From the Debates But you should watch them anyway. David Greenberg

Adam Smith Meets Climate Change

How the theory of moral sentiments could be applied to cap-and-trade greenhouse-gas emissions.
Ian Ayres and Doug Kysar

Malaria battle given $3bn boost
World leaders and philanthropists pledge nearly $3bn (£1.6bn) to fight malaria, a disease which kills 1m people each year.

H21

Stonehenge as A&E unit is a revelation that druid mumbo jumbo can't match Simon Jenkins: Science is now revealing the secrets of prehistoric Britain, and its answers are commonsensical rather than supernatural

Love: The old, old story

Should we welcome or rage against the cooling of desire that creeps up on us with age? Thomas Sutcliffe reflects on love and time

Is the English language full?

By ALEX BEAM New words may not be as great as we think they are.

Google Launches New Book Preview

Google News Slate Today's Papers SWJ Blog Media Roundup CFR Daily Brief CFR Daily Opinion Roundup memeorandum antiwar.com book forum FBIS University Channel DocuTicker Arts & Letters Daily PolicyPointers cursor raw story fora.tv

realclearpolitics PoliticsHome Drudge Report Current News Early Bird OpinionSource truthout Dayan Current Contents Blogometer Wikipedia technorati Slate's Today's Blogs ABC’s The Note eurointelligence The Page First Read

IraqSlogger Global Power Barometer Juan Cole - Kevin Drum - Gideon Rachman - Mark Kleiman - Belgravia Dispatch - washington realist - Tom Barnett - democracy arsenal - Josh Marshall - Daniel Drezner - Laura Rozen - the washington note - MondoWeiss - David Corn - SyriaComment - Israel-Syria Peace Society - William Arkin - Phil Carter - Helena Cobban - MatthewYglesias - Oxblog - Brad DeLong - coming anarchy / Wonkette Tom Hayden -

PostGlobal - AmericaAbroad -The Corner - Passport - huffingtonpost / Pajamas Media / Open University / CounterterrorismBlog Today in Iraq / OutSide the Beltway - InstaPundit - winds of change Kausfiles - Becker Posner-andrewsullivan.com - Registan - armscontrolwonk - IsraPundit Regime Change Iran Martin Kramer - Dani Rodrik

   
 
U.S. foreign policy, Middle East, Turkey and Beyond

ABD dış politikası, Orta Doğu, Türkiye ve Ötesi

Şanlı Bahadır Koç,


If you want to receive it early in the morning subscribe to FPR
TurcoPundit Home
Pre-March 2004Archive

ARCHIVES
March 2004 / April 2004 / May 2004 / June 2004 / July 2004 / August 2004 / September 2004 / October 2004 / November 2004 / December 2004 / February 2005 / May 2005 / June 2005 / October 2005 / November 2005 / December 2005 / January 2006 / February 2006 / March 2006 / April 2006 / May 2006 / June 2006 / July 2006 / August 2006 / September 2006 / October 2006 / November 2006 / December 2006 / January 2007 / March 2007 / April 2007 / May 2007 / June 2007 / July 2007 / August 2007 / September 2007 / October 2007 / November 2007 / December 2007 / January 2008 / February 2008 / March 2008 / April 2008 / May 2008 / June 2008 / July 2008 / August 2008 / September 2008 / October 2008 / November 2008 / December 2008 / January 2009 / February 2009 / March 2009 / April 2009 / May 2009 /

What they have said about Foreign Press Review
"FPR'ın iki "kötü" özelliği var: 1. Alışkanlık yaratıyor, onsuz yapamaz hale geliyorsunuz; 2. Değeri alındığı değil, arada bir de olsa, alınamadığı vakit anlaşılıyor. Bir de sürekli bir kaygıya yol açıyor; 'Ya bir gün kesilir ve onu hiç alamazsam' duygusuyla sürekli yaşamak kolay değil."

Cengiz Çandar


"... fantastic .... an outstanding and unique service, not just for those who follow Turkey closely, but those who follow international trends and ideas. ... selection of material is some of the best anywhere ... coverage of the Turkish press and Turkish issues is truly unsurpassed .... outstanding and intelligent service"

Graham Fuller


"... extremely useful"

Andrew Mango


"FPR olmadan ne yapardım ya da bugüne kadar ne yapmışım bilemiyorum"

Soli Özel


"Güne başlamak için FPR’den daha iyi bir yol düşünemiyorum"

Hasan Ünal


Makaleler


Ankara ve Güneydeki Riskler 29 Aralık 2011
İslamcı Dalga Üzerine 5 Aralık 2011
Ankara’ya Suriye ile İlgili Bazı Tahlil, Tahmin, Uyarı ve Öneriler 2 Kasım 2011
İran ile İlgili Son Amerikan İddiaları ve Türkiye 16 Ekim 2011
Ankara Suriye’de “Rejim Değişikliği” Politikasına Geçerken 28 Eylül 2011
Türk Dış Politika Gündemine Dair 7 Kısa Not 6 Eylül 2011
“Zafer İlan Et ve Kaç:” ABD ve Afganistan’dan “Sorumluca” Çekilmenin Mantığı 23 Haziran 2011
Orta Doğu'da Durum Raporu 25 Mayıs 2011
Bin Ladin’in Öldürülmesi Üzerine Notlar 25 Mayıs 2011
Bin Ladin’in Öldürülmesi Üzerine 15 Kısa Not 3 Mayıs 2011
ABD ve Karadeniz Nisan 2011

Türkiye Beşar’a Ne Demeli? Suriye'de “52 Cuma” Reformsuz Geçmez 20 Nisan 2011
Amerika-Sonrası Dünyanın Provası Olarak Libya Krizi ve Türkiye 22 Mart 2011
“Demokratikleştiremediklerimizden misiniz?”: Orta Doğu’daki Değişim Dalgasının Neden, Şekil ve Olası Sonuçları 10 Şubat 2011
Analiz Üzerine Notlar 14 Ocak 2011
Wikileaks Üzerine Notlar ve Yorumlar 23 Aralık 2010
Enerji ve Güvenliği Üzerine Notlar 29 Kasım 2010
Amerikan Travması ve Kongre Seçimleri 23 Kasım 2010
Füze Savunması Üzerine 20 Soru ve 5 Seçenek 20 Ekim 2010
Obama Ekibinde Yaprak Dökümü - Beyaz Saray’dan Kaçış mı? 12 Ekim 2010
"Kürt Devleti" Üzerine Notlar ve Çeşitlemeler 23 Eylül 2010
Mullen’ın Ankara Ziyareti 7 Eylül 2010
ABD’nin Afganistan’daki Seçenekleri 24 Ağustos 2010
Financial Times Haberinin Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Üzerine Düşündürttükleri 18 Ağustos 2010
İsrail-ABD-İran-Türkiye Dörtgeni 26 Temmuz 2010
Bay Netanyahu Washington’a Gitti: Böyle mi Olacaktı, Obama? 16 Temmuz 2010
Stratejik Dehlizlerde Derinlik Sarhoşluğu: Bir AKP Dış Politikası Eleştirisi Temmuz 2010
Rus Casusluk Olayı: "John Le Carre mi, Austin Powers mı?" 5 Temmuz 2010
“Mahalleye Hoş Geldin”:Türkiye’nin Orta Doğu’da İlk Günü 02 Haziran 2010
Nükleer Takas: “Savaşı Bitiren Anlaşma” mı, “Acem Oyunu” mu? 20 Mayıs 2010
ABD Irak’tan Çekilirken Riskler ve Hesaplar 1 Mayıs 2010
ABD-İsrail İlişkilerinde “Normalleşme” Sancıları 22 Nisan 2010
Obama’nın Nükleer Cazibe Taarruzu: Bardağın Üçte Biri Dolu 9 Nisan 2010
ABD-İsrail İlişkilerinde “Tektonik Kayma” mı? 5 Nisan 2010
Irak Seçimleri: Sonun Başlangıcı, Başlangıcın Sonu 19 Mart 2010
Ermeni Karar Tasarısı Üzerine Notlar, Yorumlar ve Öneriler 8 Mart 2010
Ermeni Karar Tasarısı Üzerine Notlar, Yorumlar ve Öneriler 8 Mart 2010 (word)
Bütçe Açığı ve Amerikan Gerilemesinin Ekonomi Politiği 19 Şubat 2010
Cemaat-skeptic 6 Ocak 2010
AKP bir seçim daha kazanırsa burası FC olur 4 Ocak 2010
ABD bu işin neresinde? 29 Aralık 2009
Türkiye-Ermenistan Protokolü Üzerine Düşünceler 3 Eylül 2009
"Obama’nın Savaşı":AfPak Üzerine Notlar 20 Nisan 2009
Obama’nın Ardından 17 Nisan 2009
Obama’nın Türkiye Gezisi ve Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri 19 Mart 2009
ABD ve Orta Doğu Barış Süreci Mart 2009
Obama’nın “Kırkı Çıkarken” Mart 2009

ABD-PKK “İlişkisi” Üzerine Notlar Şubat 2009
Mahşerin Üç Atlısı: Ross, Holbrooke ve Mitchell 5 Şubat 2009
SOFA ABD için Irak’ta “Sonun Başlangıcı” mı? Ocak 2009
Obama Döneminde ABD ve Asya 15 Ocak 2009
Obama’nın Güvenlik Kabinesi Üzerine Notlar 4 Aralık 2008
Yeni ABD Başkanı Obama ve Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri 6 Kasım 2008
ABD Başkanlık Seçimlerinin Türk-Amerikan İlişkilerine Muhtemel Etkileri 30 Ekim 2008
ABD Başkanlık Seçimleri Ekim 2008
Obama’nın Biden’ı Tercihinin Bir Tahlili 26 Ağustos 2008
Amerikan Sağı Üzerine Notlar Ağustos 2008
Gürcistan Krizi, ABD ve Türkiye 11 Ağustos 2008
Obama'nın Dış Gezisi 29 Temmuz 2008
Başkan Bush’un Avrupa Gezisi ve Transatlantik İlişkileri 18 Haziran 2008
ABD Seçimleri (ppt) - 10 Haziran 2008
"Sessiz Tsunami": Global Gıda Krizi (ppt) - 29 Nisan 2008
Amiral Fallon'un İstifası 13 Mart 2008
ABD ve PKK İlişkisi Üzerine Notlar 22 Kasım 2007
“İçeride Liberal, Dışarıda Şahin”: K. Irak’a Harekat Üzerine Notlar 25 Ekimy 2007
K.Irak'a Ekonomik Müeyyideler Üzerine Sorular 25 Ekimy 2007
Irak "Hamle"sinin Muhasebesi Eylül 2007
Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri - Yeni Dönemin Gündemi Eylül 2007
ABD, K. Irak ve Türkiye Üzerine Notlar ve Sorular Haziran 2007
ABD ve Orta Doğu: "Müflis mirasyedi" mi "stratejik deha" mı? Mayıs 2007
Recommendations for Strengthening U.S.-Turkish Relations February 26, 2007
ABD'nin Irak'taki Seçenekleri Ocak 2007
'Topal Ördek'le İki Yıl Daha: 2006 Kongre Seçimleri Aralık 2006
U.S.: Empire, Gulliver or the “First Among Unequals” (ppt) - ASAM 2023 Conference - October 2006
Türk-Amerikan İlişkilerinde “İkinci Bahar” mı, “Sonun Başlangıcı” mı? Stratejik Analiz - Haziran 2006 -
Irak’ta Direnişin ve İşgalin Gölgesinde Demokrasi Deneyi Avrasya Dosyası - İslam ve Demokrasi Özel Sayısı
Gurur ve Önyargı: ABD İran Gerginliği ve Türkiye Stratejik Analiz Nisan 2006 - (pdf)
Arzın Merkezine Seyahat: ABD Ulusal Güvenlik Konseyi - Journey to the Center of the World: U.S. National Security Council Avrasya Dosyası 2005
Dört Tarz-ı Siyaset: Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri ve Başbakan Erdoğan’ın Washington Ziyareti Temmuz 2005
11 Eylül’den Sonra Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri: Eski Dostlar mı Eskimeyen Dostlar mı? Avrasya Dosyası - 2005
“Dört Yıl Daha”: Yeni Bush Yönetimi ve Dünya Aralık 2004
2004’ten 2005’e Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Aralık 2004
Türkiye, Iraklı Kürtler ve Statükonun Meşruiyeti Nisan 2004 - eksik
Askerî Alanda Devrim: Askerî Bir Senfoni Ocak 2004
Çirkin Amerikalı’ ile ‘Güven Bunalımı’: ‘Süleymaniye Krizi ve Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Temmuz 2003 - ( pdf )
The Middle East: A Land of Opportunity and Peril for Turkey - May 2003
Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Üzerine Notlar: Ataerkil Yapıdan Tüccar Mantığına mı? Mayıs 2003
Türkiye, ABD ve Irak Harekâtı: Hayır Diyebilen Türkiye? - Şubat 2003
Değişim, ‘Sense of Proportion’ ve Tarihin Yararları ile Sınırları Üzerine Nisan 2003
ABD Güvenlik Politikalarında Güç Kullanımı ve Caydırıcılık Ağustos 2002
“Yalnız Kovboy” ya da “Eşit Olmayanlar Arasında Birinci”: ABD Dış Politikasında Tektaraflılık-Çoktaraflılık Tartışmaları Mart 2002
İyi, Kötü ve Çirkin: ABD'nin Orta Doğu Politikaları Ocak 2002
Unilateralism corrupts, absolute unilateralism corrupts absolutely Turkish News, May 21, 2002
ABD ve Afganistan: Çıkış Var mı? Kasım 2001
Realism and Change
Crime and Punishment - Deterrence and its Failure in Theory and Practice 2001
“Tüketebileceğimizden Daha Fazla Değişim” ya da Eskimeyen Dünya Düzeni Ekim 2001
“ABD-AB İlişkilerinde Metal Yorgunluğu” Haziran 2001
It never rains circa. 1991.
.



Powered by Blogger