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2 September 2008

September 02, 2008

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From Foreign Affairs, Richard Holbrooke on The Next President: Mastering a Daunting Agenda The next U.S. president will inherit a more difficult set of international challenges than any predecessor since World War II.

Robert Kagan on The September 12 Paradigm: America, the World, and George W. Bush The next administration must learn from Bush's mistakes, but should not shy away from using U.S. power to promote American values

Christian Science Monitor Iran, U.S. step cautiously toward dialogue Signals from both Tehran and Washington are often misinterpreted and the subject of attack on the domestic stages in both countries

The Times Return to 1815 is Europe's way forward

The Congress of Vienna divided the continent into spheres of influence. Similar rules are needed now Christopher Meyer

Gareth Porter Why Iraqi 'Client' Blocked US Long-Term Presence

Why CIA Veterans Are Scared of McCain by Laura Rozen

IHT Realists unite By LESLIE H. GELB Now is the moment to forge a new, broader, politically potent coalition of realists to shape U.S. foreign policy

Making peace with Syria

By ALAIN GRESH Are Europe and France and the next American administration ready to push for peace between Syria and Israel?

McClatchy Maliki's growing defiance of U.S. worries allies and critics

The Times Why America needs a post-Bush makeover The US has lost many of its natural supporters and allies in recent years. Here are six changes that would help

Bronwen Maddox

Russia exploits a limp EU summit

European Union agrees to send hundreds of observers to monitor Russia’s compliance with the supposed ceasefire

CSM U.S. hands over Anbar, Iraq's once-deadliest region Anbar Province is where 1 of every 3 US fatalities in Iraq occurred

E.U. talks tough on Russia

In an emergency session Monday, European Union leaders threatened to postpone talks on a pact with Russia unless Russian troops pull back from positions in Georgia

Is the U.S. Army ready for conventional war? Focusing only on counterinsurgency and nation-building is unwise. It must prepare to fight other armies.

Sarah Palin: a bold choice, or a desperate one? So far, so good: McCain's VP pick has electrified conservatives.

Boston Globe A US role in Syrian-Israeli peace The Bush administration should open the diplomatic toolbox for the Israeli-Syrian talks as it seems to be doing for Iran and North Korea. (By Robert Pelletreau and Edward S. Walker, Boston Globe)

Independent Patrick Cockburn: White House strategy is to help McCain win in November

Leading Article: A last chance for Russia to come in from the cold

Mary Dejevsky: The destructive prejudices of Europe's new members

Andrew Sullivan Wily Obama beats McCain on strategy

An interview with Michael Hudson, author of Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire.

An interview with Paul Kennedy, a man still unafraid of tackling the grand strategies of empire and war; and contrary to expectations

Slate Sarah Surprise Palin's candidacy is fun to cover but raises serious questions about McCain's judgment. John Dickerson

LRB Past Its Peak Michael Klare on the Oil Crisis “Unlike the oil ‘shocks’ of the 1970s, the current energy crisis is almost certain to be long-lasting. None of the quick fixes proposed by pundits and politicians – drilling in protected wilderness and maritime areas, curbs on commodity speculators, pressure on members of Opec to increase output – is likely to have much impact. In 1973-74 and again in 1979-80, events in the Middle East led to a sharp reduction in the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf, causing a contraction in global supplies and a rise in energy prices, and thus sparking a global recession. But when equilibrium of a sort was restored to the region, the oil began to flow again and the crisis passed. Now, however, the imbalance between supply and demand is largely due to factors inherent in oil commerce itself – and so is less easily solved.”

What Happened to Iraq? - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review opinion

Wall Street Journal 'Stop! Or We'll Say Stop Again!'
Europe tries to get serious about Russia's invasion of Georgia

Pakistan's Next President Is a Category 5 Disaster

By Bret Stephens Global View Yes, it is possible to make a mockery of democracy.

NYRB Georgia and the Balance of Power By George Friedman
The Russian invasion of Georgia has not changed the balance of power in Eurasia. It has simply announced that the balance of power had already shifted.

New York Times U.S. Hands Back a Quieter Anbar The handover of the Iraqi province, once a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency, marked a long-delayed milestone

DAVID BROOKS What the Palin Pick Says The Sarah Palin pick allows John McCain to run the way he wants to — not as the old goat running against the upstart, but as the crusader for virtue against the forces of selfishness

Guardian United in anxiety

Editorial: The emergency EU summit on Russia may be declared a washout by some, but a crisis cannot be solved in an afternoon

Putin still pulls the strings Simon Tisdall: There is unlikely to be a thawing of relations with the west while Russia's prime minister has a say in the Caucasus crisis

A Middle East Strategy for the West - Barry Rubin (Jerusalem Post)

BBC Shifting script The five principles of Russia's new world order

Jerusalem Post Calling Israel's bluff [ CAROLINE GLICK

Financial Times McCain: a roll-the-dice commander John McCain will not run a safe foreign policy. He adores rolling the dice. His decision to select Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate typifies the man. It is a big risk. It could turn out to be inspired. Or it might turn out to be a disaster. But it is not safe, writes Gideon Rachman

Now Basra basks With the militias quashed, Iraq’s second city has returned to something approaching normality and regional elections are in prospect

Georgia buys Iran time The situation in Europe fits Ahmadi-Nejad’s delaying strategy perfectly – for now – but the nuclear dispute is unlikely to go away

McClatchy Al Qaida has free movement in Pakistan, top official concedes Pakistan's top security official Monday admitted that al Qaida's leadership moved freely in and out of the country and vowed that "no mercy" would be shown to extremists based in its tribal territory that borders Afghanistan

Daily Star Tehran's paradoxical policy in Iraq
By Sadegh Zibakalam

No new Cold War, but ties to Russia need clarification
By David Miliband

Tom Barnett KnoxNews. Helping Iraq cut economic deals with others

Oil is too valuable to drill

The reason not to drill for oil is this: Our descendants will desperately need it later on. (By Jed Horne, Boston Globe)

Daily Telegraph EU is too faint hearted The mounting threat of Russia gives European leaders a chance to find a sense of common purpose.

H 2 Murat Yetkin Gül, Ermenistan maçına gidiyor

Özdem Sanberk Yeni büyük oyun ve istikrar platformu Batı’dan teşvik görmeden Gürcistan Platform’a gelmez. Bunu sağlamak da Türk diplomasisine düşüyor. Amerika ve Avrupa Birliğine, bölgede kimsenin yararına olmayan hasmane ilişkiler ve gerginlik yerine, orta ve uzun vadede işbirliği ve dayanışmayı hedefleyen bu girişimi iyi anlatması gerekiyor. İstikrar Platformu Türkiye Ermenistan ve Azerbaycan Ermenistan ilişkileri açısından da bir fırsat yaratıyor. Tabii Kafkasya’daki barışın temel güvencesi ise Türkiye Azerbaycan dostluğu.

ERDAL ŞAFAK Gitsin mi, gitmesin mi? (2)

[Yorum - Bejan Matur] AKP'nin Kürt ajandası...

[Yorum - Sinan Oğan] Rusya ile gümrük krizi: Avantajlar, dezavantajlar

Gül’ün Ermenistan kararsızlığı

A Talk with Kurdish President, Massoud Barzani Asharq Alawsat

Rusya’ya değil, Tüzmen’e ‘kırmızı hat’

Crisis in Caucasus: An opportunity for Ankara-Yerevan ties?

Şahin Alpay Terörle mücadele ve TSK

MELİHA OKUR Rusya krizinin perde arkasında ne var?

Azerilere göre Erivan ziyareti hata olur

Rusya ile ticarî kriz gümrükte değil, masada çözülecek

Kim Türkiye pazarını kaybetmek ister ki?

Kıbrıs'ta bu kez çözüm olacak mı?

'Biz böyle iyiyiz' diyenlere şaşarım!

Yeni çözüm süreci, Kıbrıslı Türkleri heyecanlandırmıyor

Cyprus Launches Historic Talks For Peace Deal

Ulusal program hazır

OSC: Qabbanji and Saghir: Kirkuk Crisis Endangers Shiite-Kurdish Alliance

Ermenistan ziyareti tarihi gaflet olur

Türkiye, Kafkas krizinde dengeli bir politika izledi

Erdoğan ve Sarkozy'nin Şam'da sürpriz buluşması

Esad-Sarkozy, Erdoğan-Tani Şam’da buluşuyor

Ankara to build ‘strategic dialogue’ with Gulf countries

Energy minister visiting Caspian energy producers

Rövanş için Sarkisyan Türkiye'ye çağrılacak

Hüsnü Mahalli
Diplomasinin zorluğu

Gül, Ermenistan maçına gidiyor

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

[Yorum - Bejan Matur] AKP'nin Kürt ajandası...

Iraqi Kurds, Government Hold Second Round of Talks Over Khanaqin Situation

Bingöl şehitleri için binler ağıt yaktı

Irak Türkmenlerinin sesi Prof. Ketene vefat etti

Bu acının tesellisi yok

Avrupa ve ABD daralınca ihracatçı Körfez'e demir attı

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 01 September 08

Cevdet Aşkın

Şam’da barış için dörtlü zirve

Kurdistan Region Premier Says Tension With Central Government Not Addressed Yet

Iraqi Kurdish Parties Blamed for Indifference on Disputed Zones

HAKAN ALBAYRAK

“İsrail, Sünni bir ülke mi oldu?”

Kurdish delegation off to Baghdad on disputed Khanaqin

DISCLOSING WAR CRIMES IN NORTH KURDISTAN

In Kirkuk, Catholics and Muslims pray together for peace

S. Arabistan’a gidiyor

Ankara to build ‘strategic dialogue’ with Gulf countries

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

Dünyanın gözü bu ziyarette olacak

Bahçeli'ye göre Erivan'a gitmek gaflet

Bakoyanni Kıbrıs için umutlu

Eski Fransa başbakanından "Türkiye'ye evet" kitabı

Rauf Denktaş Devir teslim

Chaney, Gürcistan, Ukrayna ve Azerbaycan'a gidiyor

Osetya krizi Erivan’la Ankara arasındaki kapıyı aralayabilir

MUHAMMED NUREDDİN

Hsan Ünal İki kutup

Okay Gönensin

Gül Erivan’a gitmelidir

Andrew Finkel Taking sides

Ali Bulaç EU membership and obstacles

Kafkaslarda yaşanan 'büyük güç' olma mücadelesi -

Önce güvenlik sonra ziyaret

'Kafkaslar'da huzur Rusya ile iyi ilişkiye bağlı'

İlter Türkmen Obama mı McCain mi?

Sami Kohen Moskova’nın yeni doktrini

Talat: Taktik oyunlar müzakere sürecini zehirlemesin

Mehmet Altan Ermenistan ile ilk ilişkiyi Türkeş kurmamış mıydı?

Misillemede Tüzmen krizi

Hadi Uluengin Efe Rusya

Mahir Kaynak Rusya ne istiyor?

Toktamış Ateş Erivan’a gitmek...

Turkish delegation in Kyrgyzstan

Gila Benmayor Putin’in dış politika başdanışmanı geliyor

Türkiye’nin onuru ve Ermenistan gezisi
ORAL ÇALIŞLAR

Ermenistan ziyareti
NURAY MERT

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL

İngiltere Türkiye'yi Ergenekon'la vurmuş!

Meral Tamer ABD’nin “Dişi Şahin’i, Demir Lady Thatcher’e rahmet okutur

Hakan Aygün Baltacı yine Katerina’ya karşı!

Murat Yülek Daunting tasks of the new US administration

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

Yalçın Bayer İbadetler günümüzün koşullarına uyarlanamaz mı?

Serdar Turgut
Masumiyet Müzesi

33 fotoğraflık albümü Genelkurmay sitesinde

’Teze karşılık beni istedi’

Türkiye kan alarmında

H3 İsmail Küçükkaya Hava Kuvvetleri’nde muvazzaf tutuklaması

Sol çıkışını arıyor

CHP niyet etti, değişecek

Hükümetten Bakan Kürşad Tüzmen'e Rusya freni

'Ama' yorumlarının devamı 'darbe' sözcüğü ile geliyor

Yeni anayasa için liderler turuna çıkıyor

Ergenekon'un Kürt raporu, Baykal'ın önünü mü açtı?

‘20 günlük acemi er mevziye gider mi?’

Küçük'ten böcek yardımı

Ergenekon'a karşı atak

Deniz Feneri’nde müthiş itiraflar

Dişli MYK’da savunma yaptı

AKP'de gece yarısına dek süren toplantı

Arınç: MYK'ya Dişli de katıldı

AK Parti seçim ordusu

Astsubaylar YAŞ'a Anamuhalefet MGK'ya YAŞ ve MGK üyeleriyle ilgili ilginç öneri..

Ecevit’in arşivindeki çok gizli askeri sırlar

Karnesi zayıf belediye başkanı yeniden aday olamayacak

Ergenekon'a sessiz kalan solcu değil, tutucudur -

[Haber Yorum - Ali Akkuş] Ankara Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı ne yapmak istiyor?

VIP fuhuş çetesinin ’amir’ köstebekleri

Son Dakika Milliyet Hürriyet Zaman GH Türkiye

Cengiz Çandar Abdullah Gül, Kristof Kolomb mu olacak

Ahmet Taşgetiren Sol eşittir AKP karşıtlığı mı? Ramazanı değerlendirmek

Ruşen - Çakır

Taha Akyol Atatürkçü dış politika

Fikret Bila Erdoğan: Rusya'yı göz ardı edemeyiz

Hasan Cemal

Murat Yetkin Gül, Ermenistan maçına gidiyor

İsmet Berkan

Fehmi Koru Maçı da gönülleri de kazanmalıyız

Taha Kıvanç Bu inatçılık Milliyet'e zararlı

Şamil Tayyar

İsmail Küçükkaya
Hava Kuvvetleri’nde muvazzaf tutuklaması

Ali Bayramoğlu Cülus merasimi ve askeri peşrev… Nasıl toparlanacağız? Hangi istikamete gideceğiz?

Nuray Başaran Baykal açıkladı: Adayımız Kocaoğlu

Org. Başbuğ’un konuşması ve demokrasi
HASAN CELAL GÜZEL

Yasemin Çongar

Ertuğrul Özkök İçkiye takan kimmiş bakalım

Erhan Çelik Seçimlerde AKP'yi bekleyen tehlike!

Yalçın Doğan Cemaatler bile ’olmaz böyle şey’ diyor

Ahmet Hakan İlker Paşa ile Yaşar Paşa arasındaki farklar

M Ali Birand AB için laf değil, icraat

Seyfettin Gürsel Postmodern tehdit!

Mustafa Karaalioğlu Avukatın çıkmazı

Sabahattin Önkibar Paşa için çeteci diye tepinip verilen madalyaya suskun kalan Ergenekon demokratları!

Cüneyt Ülsever

Enis Berberoğlu Cemaat ekonomisine önlem nasıl alınır?

Oktay Ekşi Dernekle soymak

İhsan Dağı Askerler küreselleşmeden korkar mı?

Mümtazer Türköne 'Ulus devlet'in 'ulus'unu tartışmak

Özdemir İnce

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Yumurta, tavuk bilmecesi gibi

Yılmaz Özdil Tut şunun ucunu döşiyelim abi...

Sami Selçuk Yargıçlar, yargılamaktan ve olan hukuku uygulamaktan kaçınamazlar

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

Muhalefetin 'Toptan' duruşu

ERDAL ŞAFAK Gitsin mi, gitmesin mi? (2)

ENGİN ARDIÇ

ERGUN BABAHAN

EMRE AKÖZ Orhan Pamuk!

Umur Talu Mecburi din dersi mecburi laiklik!

Ekonomi

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ekonomide kur çatlağı

Ercan Kumcu Avrupa ekonomileri zorda

Erdal Sağlam Merkez Bankası daha açık konuşmalı

Güngör Uras Başkana inandım, fena halde aldandım

Güven Sak Şirketlerimiz neden kurla ilgili uyarılara kulak asmıyor

Hurşit Güneş Memura sadaka gibi zam

MELİKŞAH UTKU

Yeni nesil Türk akademisyenler

Asaf Savaş Akat

Küresel dengesizlik ve mali sistem

Yiğit Bulut Enflasyon gerçekten düştü mü

Turkey Economy Watch: Turkeys Trade Deficit Widens In July

Karışık küresel sinyaller
MAHFİ EĞİLMEZ

Kura öbür taraftan bakmak...
KORKMAZ İLKORUR

‘Başını çemberleyen AKP’li oluyor’
FUNDA ÖZKAN

Turkey's exports make strong showing in August

H4 New York Times U.S. Hands Back a Quieter Anbar The handover of the Iraqi province, once a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency, marked a long-delayed milestone

BOB HERBERT Head for the High Road Sarah Palin is the latest G.O.P. distraction. She’s meant to shift attention away from the real issue of this campaign — the awful state of the nation after years of Republican rule.

Rich Man’s Burden We used to work hard so that someday we wouldn’t have to. Today, the more we earn, the more we work.

Editorial An Even Poorer World The World Bank reported that 1.4 billion people live below the poverty line. The developed world needs to do more to help the world’s most vulnerable people

Palin's Teen Daughter Is Pregnant; New G.O.P. Tumult

Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process The disclosure that Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter was pregnant was one of several revelations that called into question how thoroughly John McCain had screened her

Japan’s Prime Minister Resigns

For Thousands of Refugees From the Conflict in Georgia, the Fear Lingers

Half a Million Are Stranded by India Flood

Europeans Meet on Crisis in Georgia

U.S. Military Will Transfer Control of Sunni Citizen Patrols to Iraqi Government

A New Twist in the Motherhood Debate With her intense family obligations, Sarah Palin has set off a fierce argument among women about whether she has time to take on the vice presidency

In Political Realm, ‘Family Problem’ Emerges as Test Republicans rallied around Gov. Sarah Palin, but the disclosure of her teenage daughter’s pregnancy brought uncertainty.

Judgment Call

By TOBIN HARSHAW What does the selection of Sarah Palin for a running mate say about John McCain?

Downgraded Hurricane Gustav Largely Misses City

Hurricane Warnings There are still worrisome questions about whether FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers have fully learned their lessons from Hurricane Katrina.

H5 Washington Post Uncertainty After Anbar Handover Fate of U.S.-Backed Sunni Fighters Precarious as Government Targets Force's Leaders

Editorial Understanding Russia Moscow's aggression is aimed not at Georgia's territory but at Europe's new democracies.

Planet War: Losing Afghanistan

E.U. Eases Off on Economic Threats After Russia Suggests Troop Pullback

The Cynicism Express By Eugene Robinson, McCain's choice of running mate is alarmingly cynical or dangerously reckless.

U.S., Libya Neither Friends Nor Enemies, Gaddafi Says Before Rice Visit

Japan's Premier Resigns Position After 11 Months

How Many Americans? By Steven A. Camarota, There are 135 million reasons to change our approach to immigration.

The Lesson of Bristol Palin

By Ruth Marcus, Talking about abstinence turns out to be easier than abstaining

Hurricane Isn't The Only Jolt For Convention Palin's Daughter, 17, Is Pregnant

No Surprises From Palin, McCain Team Says Daughter's Pregnancy and Trooper Controversy Were Revealed Before Pick, According to Campaign Aide

Calculated Risk With Female Voters Is Suddenly Even Harder to Calculate

Russian Offensive Hailed in Arab Mideast

New Orleans Levees Tested As Gustav Lashes Gulf Coast

Editorial Gustav's Landfall

The initial response suggests government has learned from Katrina

Republicans Rush In By Richard Cohen, The Alaska National Guard and other foolish arguments for Sarah Palin.

H6 Guardian United in anxiety

Editorial: The emergency EU summit on Russia may be declared a washout by some, but a crisis cannot be solved in an afternoon

Putin still pulls the strings Simon Tisdall: There is unlikely to be a thawing of relations with the west while Russia's prime minister has a say in the Caucasus crisis

EU freeze Russia strategic pact talks European leaders launch 'crucial' missionto mediate with the Kremlin over the Caucasus crisis

Meet the leftnecks Joe Bageant: The working-class voters of America's heartland are more progressive than most liberals allow

It's not about us Björn Lomborg and Gary Yohe: The climate change debate, while very public and very political, is not the

Tomasky talk: Palin's problem

In response to news about Sarah Palin's daughter, Michael Tomasky wonders what the conservative right will make of her place for hyperbole and hysteria; it's time to move on

Despite being a woman, Sarah Palin doesn't get my vote Hadley Freeman: While a female VP would be nice, John McCain can't just throw any lady on the podium and expect us all to squeal excitedly

H 7 An interview with Michael Hudson, author of Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire.

An interview with Paul Kennedy, a man still unafraid of tackling the grand strategies of empire and war; and contrary to expectations,

From Foreign Affairs, Richard Holbrooke on The Next President

What Happened to Iraq? - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review opinion

An Iranian Ambassador in Space? INSS
An Israeli assessment of the recent Iranian satellite launch

Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century Philip Bobbitt, author Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century.

Iran's 'Perfect Storm' - Washington Times opinion

From American Journalism Review, after their credulous performance in the run-up to the war in Iraq, how are the news media handling the Bush administration’s allegations against Iran?

Larry Diamond on the time for a “diplomatic surge”: Democracy may be turning a corner in Iraq, but it’s going to need a lot of help.

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

Iran, US Step Cautiously Toward Dialogue

Iraqis regain control of Anbar province The province, scene of the bloodiest battles of the insurgency, is the first Sunni province to be returned to Iraqi rule

Iran exporting Azeri oil

Iraqis take control of once-bloody Anbar province (AP)

Americans Fret About Loss of Control Over Maliki

Iran FM Presses for End to UN Military Authorization for Iraq

Lack of Electricity and Summer Are Iraqis' Problems in Ramadan

Iraqi Spokesman Rules Out Expelling Mujahedin-e Khalq

US Commander: Iraq's Anbar Needs Cash to Keep Out Insurgency

Report: Immunity a Sticking Point in US-Iraq Security Pact

Iran Denies Buying Russian Missiles

Iran Considers Lopping Zeros Off Currency

Bolivia's president lands in Iran
Bolivian President Evo Morales arrives in Tehran for trade talks with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Few Things Are as They Seem in Tehran - George Jahn

Iraqi contracts develop as oil begins to move Iraq Oil Report

H9 Ha’aretz – Poll: Hamas popularity among Palestinians declining

Clumsiness in the CaucasusThe dispute between Georgia and Russia has two sides. The question is why does Israel have to turn itself into a third side

Bradley Burston: Our Hurricane Mahmoud and their Hurricane Gustav

· Jerusalem Post Calling Israel's bluff

[ CAROLINE GLICK

Energy giants take heat for promoting Iran gas conference

ADL blasts companies for "hindering the effort to isolate Iran;" Austrian organization demands OMV rescind its €22 billion with Teheran.

Biden camp says report on Iran a lie

Aide to Democratic VP nominee blames partisan opponents for peddling falsehoods to Army Radio.

Yedioth Ahronoth Assad’s reckless behavior

Farid Ghadry advises Israel to stay away from negotiations with unreliable President Assad

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

As a Palestinian state recedes, Jordan contacts Hamas
By Saad Hattar

a review of 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris (and more and more and more);

Jewish Republicans try to read Palin tea leaves

Israeli-Syrian Talks Delayed Over Official's Resignation - Paper

Report: Israel-Syria Indirect Peace Talks Delayed

From JBooks, here's a literary history of the dirty Jew.

H1 0 Christian Science Monitor Iran, U.S. step cautiously toward dialogue Signals from both Tehran and Washington are often misinterpreted and the subject of attack on the domestic stages in both countries

U.S. hands over Anbar, Iraq's once-deadliest region Anbar Province is where 1 of every 3 US fatalities in Iraq occurred

E.U. talks tough on Russia

In an emergency session Monday, European Union leaders threatened to postpone talks on a pact with Russia unless Russian troops pull back from positions in Georgia

Is the U.S. Army ready for conventional war? Focusing only on counterinsurgency and nation-building is unwise. It must prepare to fight other armies.

Sarah Palin: a bold choice, or a desperate one? So far, so good: McCain's VP pick has electrified conservatives.

Will pocketbooks pick the president? Big edge for Obama if the economy – statistically sour – motivates voters, say modelers.

Japan's unpopular prime minister resigns Yasuo Fukuda's term was beset with political gridlock and economic problems.

Thailand's political stalemate deepens Activists have disrupted air and rail travel, and refuse to leave government grounds.

ASIA

A Strategic Economic Engagement
Henry M. Paulson Jr.
The prosperity of the United States and China depends on helping China further integrate into the global economic system

Keeping Up With Asia
Yoichi Funabashi
The Bush legacy in Asia is positive and the next admistration can continue this trend by continuing multilateral engagement with Japan and China.

Decoding Pakistan's Perplexing Cease-Fire

Japan PM resigns to avoid `political vacuum' (AP)

State of emergency declared in Bangkok

The decree comes at the climax of a week of violence which has left one man dead and dozens injured

Pakistan poll tactics reopen Islamic schools

Radical madrassas that were closed are offered a deal to win Islamist support for Asif Ali Zardari's presidential bid

South Korea’s Miraculous Democracy Source: Journal of Democracy (via RAND Corporation)

Full Document (PDF; 3 MB)

Pakistani Taliban: Attacks Will Continue During Ramadan - Voice of America

Medvedev Offers to Train Afghan Police - Jeremy Page, The Times

H11 IHT Realists unite

By LESLIE H. GELB Now is the moment to forge a new, broader, politically potent coalition of realists to shape U.S. foreign policy

Making peace with Syria

By ALAIN GRESH Are Europe and France and the next American administration ready to push for peace between Syria and Israel?

Bring back the former John McCain

John McCain's task is to persuade the American people that electing him will not merely mean more of President Bush's ideology and incompetence.

Scars linger for Georgian refugees

Weeks after the fighting, many are stranded in tents, others have gone home and some are in Russia.

Taking the 'United' out of the United Kingdon The Scottish have always sought to maintain a strong and independent identity, but for the first time, as one scholar says, the union between England and Scotland "is perceived to be in danger

EUROPE European press review

Show of unity

EU leaders overcome divisions to condemn Russia

Possible EU Steps in the South Ossetia Crisis

EU Will Send Monitors to Georgia

EU leaders warn Russia over partnership talks (AP)

Merkel: Don't Halt Russia Dialogue Over Georgia

Europe's Water Resources Seen at Risk - Washington Times

H12 RFE/RL

Walker's World: The price of Putin

Google News Azerbaijan

Russia Won't Change Foreign-Policy Course, Could Adjust Approaches to Relations With U.S., Eu - Diplomat

Editorial ; Russia's Neighbors Must Play Defense

Stratfor Russia: Energy as a Powerful Short-Term Lever

Tajikistan: Reconsidering Russia

A deal between Russia and Tajikistan over the use of a Tajik airport suggests Tajikistan might be looking toward Russia as its security guarantor

Russia Seeks Int'l Police Presence in Georgia

Russia: US May Have Sent Weapons to Georgia

Anger at death of Kremlin critic
Opposition leaders in Russia's Ingushetia region condemn the killing of an anti-Kremlin journalist shot in police custody

A hollow victory Tanzilya Salimdjanova and Mandeep Tiwana: After 17 years of Uzbekistan's independence, the continued suppression of civil liberties makes a mockery of the celebrations

H13 The Times Return to 1815 is Europe's way forward

The Congress of Vienna divided the continent into spheres of influence. Similar rules are needed now Christopher Meyer

Why America needs a post-Bush makeover The US has lost many of its natural supporters and allies in recent years. Here are six changes that would help

Bronwen Maddox

Russia exploits a limp EU summit

European Union agrees to send hundreds of observers to monitor Russia’s compliance with the supposed ceasefire

Storm favours Republicans by silencing Bush After two years of planning, the convention in St Paul is now running on a script being written minute by minute

Search is on for evidence of inexperience Democratic researchers are frantically trying to find out exactly how much foreign travel Sarah Palin has conducted

'Paper tiger' EU sends observers to Georgia EU leaders shy away from imposing sanctions on Russia after Sarkozy receives assurance of Russian troop withdrawal

Palin: my teenage daughter is pregnant Republican VP nominee tries to quash internet rumours with details about her family, as she faces the media spotlight

Palin and McCain - the movie potential LA Notebook: Vice Presidents and Hollywood; plus another great Alaskan story

Chris Ayres

Yasuo Fukuda: Japan retrospective Two prime ministers in two years may indicate a backsliding

Wall Street Journal 'Stop! Or We'll Say Stop Again!'
Europe tries to get serious about Russia's invasion of Georgia

Pakistan's Next President Is a Category 5 Disaster

By Bret Stephens
Global View Yes, it is possible to make a mockery of democracy.

The Politics of Hurricanes
Gustav offers a measure of redemption for GOP governance

Victory in Anbar
As significant as Okinawa and the Chosin Reservoir.

17 and Pregnant
The Palin family makes a difficult decision.

Why McCain Still Has a Chance to Win By Peter Robinson
While Obama remains elusive, the Arizona senator is someone we can all understand.

'I Fear for Germany'
By Daniel Schwammenthal
State of the Union
The Social Democrats' flirt with the Left may threaten the country's standing as a Western ally

Rebalancing China's Economy
By Richard Katz
Lessons from Tokyo.

Selling the Taliban
By Joanna Nathan
A sophisticated propaganda campaign in Afghanistan.

McCain Team Scrambles to Rescript Show

Just as he put the finishing touches on the Republican convention, McCain adviser Fred Davis had to rip up his script. The shift in the first day from a partisan event to a massive storm-relief campaign allowed McCain to paint himself as a presidential figure. But it robbed the campaign of some prime-time exposure it planned to use to criticize Obama

Farewell, Mr. Fukuda
Another Japanese prime minister undone by economic woes.

Google Tackles Microsoft With Browser Google plans to launch its own browser, in the latest twist in a battle with Microsoft. The open-source software is designed to make it easier and faster to browse the Web, the company said.

John McCain Has a Tax Plan to Create Jobs
By Martin Feldstein
And John B. Taylor Unlike Obama, he doesn't believe taxes should be used to redistribute income.

Preliminary Annual Report on U.S. Holding of Foreign Securities
Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury

H14 Financial Times McCain: a roll-the-dice commander John McCain will not run a safe foreign policy. He adores rolling the dice. His decision to select Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate typifies the man. It is a big risk. It could turn out to be inspired. Or it might turn out to be a disaster. But it is not safe, writes Gideon Rachman

Now Basra basks With the militias quashed, Iraq’s second city has returned to something approaching normality and regional elections are in prospect

Georgia buys Iran time The situation in Europe fits Ahmadi-Nejad’s delaying strategy perfectly – for now – but the nuclear dispute is unlikely to go away

EU warns Russia of talks delay

European Union leaders warned Russia that they would postpone talks on a new long-term partnership agreement unless Moscow withdrew its troops in Georgia to positions occupied before last month’s fighting

Kremlin’s grip on troops tested

As Russian troops advanced further and further into Georgia last month, some officials within the Kremlin became concerned that frontline officers were overstepping the limits of their authority

Shifting refugees add to region’s chaos Humanitarian organisations are facing a huge challenge in dealing with the constant to-and-froing of displaced people across the region

Romania in island dispute with Ukraine Countries argue at International Court of Justice in The Hague over status of exclusion zone and the mineral exploitation rights to oil and gas reserves

Iraqis take control of Anbar

The US military has handed the Iraqi government responsibility for security in Anbar province, the former stronghold of the Sunni insurgency. It is the first Sunni province to be returned to Iraqi control since the 2003 US-led invasion

Gaddafi extols virtues of capitalist reforms The Libyan leader has pledged to introduce free-market measures by the beginning of next year in an unprecedented speech extolling the virtues of capitalism

Sterling drops to record low against euro The pound suffered as money markets digested warnings from Alistair Darling that the economic times the UK faces ‘are arguably the worst they’ve been in 60 years’

Japan changes to more of the same

The prime minister’s decision to go is probably the right one but true change will need a rare event to take place – a change in ruling party

Markets relieved as Gustav weakens

Hurricane Gustav ploughed into the Gulf Coast of Louisiana with less force than forecast, prompting relief in global oil markets, as government officials scrambled to avoid the mistakes made during hurricane Katrina three years ago

McCain turns convention into fundraiser John McCain all but converted his presidential convention into a fundraising event for victims of hurricane Gustav, and Republican officials said it was too early to decide whether the Minneapolis event would return to its full schedule later in the week

Pregnancy revelation gives Republicans pause Sarah Palin, John McCain’s Republican running mate in the US presidential race, revealed that her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, was pregnant and would marry the father of the child

Clive Crook: Bush weathers the storm The Bush administration’s response to hurricane Katrina in the summer of 2005 is the worst stain on its record – worse in some ways than Iraq. Has George W. Bush, radiating idiotic cheerfulness in the face of a total failure of disaster management, ever seemed such a simpleton, such a figurehead of epic incompetence?

The Fed is right to focus on providing liquidity State activism essential, says George Magnus

Disquiet over rise of Yemeni moral police Yemen’s tribal society has become more overtly religious in the past few decades. Older Yemenis remember a time when many women did not wear the veil, especially in the once socialist south but also in rural areas. Now that is virtually unthinkable

H15 Los Angeles Times Iraq takes over security in Anbar from U.S. troops Iraq also plans to assume authority over 50,000 U.S.-allied Sunni Arab fighters in Baghdad. The moves will test the Shiite-led government's willingness to back Sunni-led efforts deemed key to peace.

EU-Russia partnership talks hinge on retreat Moscow must fulfill a cease-fire accord with Georgia, a European special summit says

Japan prime minister Yasuo Fukuda resigns The unexpected decision appears to blindside the governing Liberal Democratic Party. Fukuda will leave as soon as a new leader is picked

Palin says daughter, 17, is pregnant

An aide says McCain became aware of the pregnancy 'last week.' The disclosure unsettles the GOP convention.

Renewing America's 'contract with the middle class' In the last 25 years, what is good for America and what is good for much of corporate America have gotten way out of sync.

A warrior president ? By Bob Kerrey John McCain's military experience is not enough by itself to qualify him to be president.

Editorial

H16 American Politics

Poll: Obama gets post-convention ‘bounce’

CBS News: Post-Democratic Convention Poll

How thoroughly did McCain's campaign vet Palin?

Palin's Teen Daughter Is Pregnant; New G.O.P. Tumult

Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process

Palin's Wikipedia make-over

Mystery user Young Trigg added about 30 edits to biographical article on information website before VP nomination

A warrior president? By Bob Kerrey John McCain's military experience is not enough by itself to qualify him to be president.

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

FACE IT: THEY DIDN'T VET HER

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

POLITICO: New Palin details may help, not hurt...

Members of ‘Fringe’ Alaskan Independence Party Say Palin Was a Member in 90s

Palin rebuts rumors, says daughter pregnant

Evangelicals rally behind Palin after pregnancy news

McCain raises $47 million in August

Stephanopoulos: “The Big Question... What Else Don't We Know About Governor Palin”

Palin Was a Director of Embattled Sen. Stevens's 527 Group

Rove: Obama's inexperienced; Biden's a ‘big, blowhard doofus’

Obama and Biden's Chemistry Test

Jewish Republicans try to read Palin tea leaves

A review of Executive Orders and the Modern Presidency: Legislating from the Oval Office by Adam Warber

H17 Daily Telegraph EU is too faint hearted The mounting threat of Russia gives European leaders a chance to find a sense of common purpose.

Brown fails to make EU punish Russia France and Germany persuade other EU leaders in Brussels to give Moscow a second chance.

The party's just starting for John McCain This week's Republican convention will see a presidential candidate who has suddenly galvanised his campaign. John O'Sullivan explains how he can win.

H18 Independent Patrick Cockburn: White House strategy is to help McCain win in November

Leading Article: A last chance for Russia to come in from the cold

Yuri Nosenko: KGB agent whose defection to the United States was one of the Cold War's most dramatic episodes

Seventeen, pregnant and unmarried: Palin's girl becomes an election issue

The sudden intrusion of adolescent bedroom drama into the US presidential race threatens to rock, if not quite capsize, the nascent McCain-Palin ticket.

Dominic Lawson: Why Palin is a natural born winner

Storm clouds have a silver lining for McCain

Gulf ruler buys top club – then reveals his plan to spend, spend, spend... The tiny Gulf state of Abu Dhabi launched an audacious raid on one of Britain's topfootball clubs yesterday in a move that will transform the shape of global football.

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

Terrorism and Internet IICC
This 4-page Israeli report illuustrates how Al-Qaeda and other jihadi websites are used to foment terrorist activity

From the International Journal of Conflict and Violence, a special issue on terrorism, including Michel Wieviorka (EHESS): From Classical Terrorism to “Global” Terrorism

H20 Slate Sarah Surprise

Palin's candidacy is fun to cover but raises serious questions about McCain's judgment. John Dickerson

Global warming's new tipping point? UN: As Greeland ice shelf vanishing, sea level rise may accelerate times three.

H21 Google launches internet browser Search engine Google is launching an open source web browser, Chrome, to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Garrett Hardin’s famous essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” asserts that human beings are prisoners of biology and the market. He is wrong... more»

Otto Preminger, hearing a group of fellow émigrés speaking Hungarian, said, “Don’t you people know you’re in Hollywood? Speak German.” He had a point... more»

Julian Barnes is not frightened about dying but not happy, either. “I don’t believe in God, but I miss Him”... more»

Can e-book kill off paperback? An electronic book reader capable of storing 160 volumes will be launched this week

A review of The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community by Stephen A. Marglin

From Harper's, Jonathan Franzen and James Wood: An egg in return, in three parts (and more and more on How Fiction Works).

From TLS, a review of Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts by Joseph Horowitz

Bernard-Henri Lévy, a Sartre in billowy, unbuttoned white shirt, has his finger on the geopolitical zeitgeist like no other philosopher... more»

Scientists discover male 'infidelity genes' Men with a genetic variant that affects an important attachment hormone are more prone to infidelity, research suggests