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H1 New York Times $700 Billion Is Sought for Wall Street in Vast Bailout The Bush administration is requesting virtually unfettered authority for the Treasury to buy mortgage-related assets. Text of Plan | Bailout Q. & A.

Wall Street Journal Everyone Needs to Worry About Iran The mullahs' drive for the bomb is not a partisan concern. By RICHARD HOLBROOKE, R. JAMES WOOLSEY, DENNIS B. ROSS and MARK D. WALLACE

Boston Globe Iraq moving toward Biden's controversial vision Power being decentralized on its own

Financial Times Capitalism in convulsion In just two momentous weeks, the landscape of global finance has been dramatically transformed

The shadow banking system is unravelling A hedge fund shake-out is likely, says Nouriel Roubini - Excessive risks, high leverage and poor management mean a shake-out among bloated hedge funds is likely

Defaults will test a fair-weather construction Wolfgang Münchau on the global financial sector

What is the best solution? The right measures in desperate times? Raghuram Rajan and Charles Calomiris on how to stem the financial crisis

This is no time for politics of the playground Obama and McCain were bound to seem irrelevant to the task of stabilising the financial system, even though important principles are at stake in that effort. But whichever of them wins in November, the fallout from this emergency will probably cloud the next administration’s first two years in office, says Clive Crook

A long shadow Low interest rates and finance through deficits may have been right for the Depression but the techniques look unsustainable in the face of the current crisis

Racial views steer some white Dems away from Obama Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close

Henry Paulson is demanding extraordinary power for himself to deploy taxpayers’ money on behalf of a plan that, as far as I can see, doesn’t make sense.

Los Angeles Times Small allies, big headaches By Gideon Rose Major powers have to be wary lest friendly nations lead them down a slippery slope to conflict

Newsweek Haass: How Obama and McCain See the World

Why Realists are Worried About McCain

Brzezinski: We're In A New Era For Foreign Policy

Zakaria: How to Spread Democracy Valiant efforts are being made every day to end hunger, reduce poverty, save lives. But if we truly want to solve the world's problems, here are five things we need to do.

Washington Post Rough Week, But America's Era Goes On

By Niall Ferguson, Does Wall Street's meltdown presage the end of the American century?

A Bad Bank Rescue By Sebastian Mallaby, The plan involves vast risks, huge complexity and no guarantee of success.

Bush Crafts a Handoff By Jim Hoagland, A war that can be won is a valuable asset for a presidential candidate. It spreads hope and wards off vote-numbing despair on the campaign trail. For Barack Obama, the winnable war is Afghanistan. John McCain makes the same claim for Iraq.

A Prescription for Recovery

By Robert H. Dugger This crisis is an economic heart attack, but not a fatal one.

The Confidence Game By Robert J. Samuelson Better than continued turmoil, yes, but will the government's plan restore trust?

The Plain Vanilla Revolutionary

By David Ignatius

A Peace From the Bottom Up

By Jackson Diehl The Israeli-Palestinian peace process is dead. It's time to try something else.

New York Times But Will It Work? Some are skeptical of the Treasury plan, despite wide agreement on the need for a broad intervention.

Bubblenomics By DAVID LEONHARDT The hissing sound you hear is the economy shrinking.

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

The Push to ‘Otherize’ Obama

The political campaign to transform Barack Obama into a Muslim is succeeding. The real loser as that happens is our entire political process.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

No Laughing Matter George W. Bush never challenged Americans to do anything hard, let alone great. The next president is not going to have that luxury

Back in Iraq, Jarred by the Calm By DEXTER FILKINS In Baghdad, a war reporter rediscovers a social fabric he thought was lost forever

Independent Robert Fisk's World: Why does the US think it can win in Afghanistan?

McClatchy In Black Sea port, Ukraine is sovereign, but Russia rules

History Will Judge By: Charles Krauthammer | The Washington Post
Indeed, the three presidential campaigns between the fall of the Berlin Wall and Sept. 11, 2001, were the most devoid of foreign policy debate of any in the 20th century. The commander-in-chief question that dominates our campaigns today was almost nowhere in evidence during our '90s holiday from history

Ha’aretz – Olmert hands in his formal resignation to President Peres

ANALYSIS / Even Assad has a better opinion of Livni than Barak Barak's meeting with opposition leader Netanyahu is unequivocal sign of Livni's slim chances of forming gov't

Ex-IDF chief: Israel can't avoid a military confrontation with Iran Moshe Ya'alon calls on world to stand up to Ahmadinejad like they did against the Nazi threat in WWII

Iran 'galloping toward a nuclear bomb,' military intelligence chief says MI chief: As Iran progresses in developing bomb, the world seems less inclined to stop

Obama's Foreign Policy Advantage By: Matthew Yglesias | The American Prospect
Nouri Al-Maliki's endorsement of Obama's withdrawal timeline was a coup for the candidate. And even though economic issues have elbowed foreign policy out of the headlines, Obama shouldn't forget it

Policy and Strategy in an Era of Globalization Patrick Gorman, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

How Paulson Became the New Face of Capitalism - Daniel Gross, Newsweek

The Times Desperation: the threat to Pakistan The State can do little to prevent terrorist attacks, but a counter-terror response will have a disastrous effect

No theory can stop boom and bust

Since the 19th century, economists have sought to stabilise the trade cycle and prices simultaneously, without success

William Rees-Mogg

How to Stay in Iraq
for 1,000 Years by Frida Berrigan

Iraq: A Precarious Peace By: Claude Salhani | The Middle East Times

• 'The Islamic Republic's Economic Failure' by Patrick Clawson, Middle East Quarterly

• 'The American Military Advisor: Dealing with Senior Foreign Officials in the Islamic World' by Michael J. Metrinko, Strategic Studies Institute, Army War College

Reconciling the Arab Initiative with Israel's Core Requirements for Peace CCC This US article considers the potential of the Arab Peace Initiative to provide a basis for an Israeli-Palestinian peace

Yedioth AhronothPalestinian civil war nearing

All signs show that a bloody Hamas-Fatah confrontation will come soon, Moshe Elad writes

FT The arrest of Sudan’s Bashir should proceed Criminals must face justice, says Richard Holbrooke Bringing perpetrators of international crimes to justice may seem difficult in a conflict but is the right choice

Sunday Times A lack of guts let the spivs roam free The crash of 2008 has proved that capitalism, like any system of human behaviour, needs policing

Simon Jenkins

Tweedledum or Tweedledumber

The US economy is in crisis but neither presidential candidate has a credible solution Andrew Sullivan

Russia defies West over nuclear Iran Russia will resist western pressure for tougher United Nations sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme

The secret life of Tzipi Livni

The woman set to be Israel’s new leader worked as an agent for a covert cell in an elite spy unit

McClatchy Financial uncertainty goes beyond home loans For the better part of 15 years, the U.S. economy roared in part because of innovations in finance that vastly expanded credit to people of all walks of life. What mortgage and consumer finance will look like after the current crisis has passed is anything but clear. And it's uncertain whether America will return to the days of easy credit to purchase a car, home or go to college

Newsweek Why McCain Loves Misha Georgia's president is a man after the Republican nominee's heart. That's what worries some advisers

A Conversation with Journalist Bob Woodward

Joint Strategic Assessment Team II Sean Naylor of Army Times reports that General David Petraeus is planning to form a team of under 100 experts to conduct a top-to-bottom strategic assessment of US Central Command’s area of responsibility.

The operators Behind a seductive Wall Street conspiracy theory. (By Drake Bennett, Boston Globe)

Debka Israeli intelligence revises estimate: Iran is progressing fast towards a nuclear bomb

Playing Depression-Era Monopoly - Lawrence Lindsey, Weekly Standard

H2 Mark Parris US-Turkish Relationship: What's Wrong with This Picture?

CFR Turkey's Foreign Policy Davutoğlu interview

Turkey's Near Abroad With tensions between Russia and Georgia resonating in Turkey, Ankara seeks to balance its economic and strategic partnerships in the Caucasus.

Newsweek Turkey’s Media War The dispute is really a political matter—yet another attempt by Erdogan and the AKP to neuter a bastion of opposition. By Soner Cagapta

Heading Both WaysTurkey is a U.S. ally that also depends on Russia. No wonder its foreign policy is so confused.

Looking beyond Talabani GulfNews

Toprak talebiniz var mı?

Guardian Turkey 'scared to admit genocide' Historian's remarks on 1915-22 Armenian genocide cast shadow over efforts to forge new bonds

Ömer Taşpınar Neo-Ottomanism and Kemalist foreign policy

[NEWS ANALYSIS] Turkey, US to streamline intelligence cooperation

Rice 'compliments' Turkey for Caucasus peace effort

Turkey cannot play hub role, says Nabucco envoy

ABD'nin yeni Ankara elçisini Ermeni lobisi terletecek

Experts: Livni’s election likely to impede Turkey-mediated talks

ABD raporunda Alevi vurgusu

Gül, Talabani ve Bush ile görüşecek

Ergenekon organization chart mapped out

US: Turkish constitution restrict freedom of religion

Süpergüç Amerika gücünü yitiriyor mu?

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

The Kurdish movement after Öcalan’s death by EMRE USLU & ÖNDER AYTAÇ*

Kürt sorununun çözümü tampon Kürtlerde

Looking beyond Talabani GulfNews

Kirkuk Election Mediation Fails; Ministry Officials Attacked; Iraq Security Update

Iraq: Kurdish Parties to Abandon Government Offices in Diyala

Iraqi President's Letter Calls on PM to Normalize Relations With Kurds - Paper

Cevdet Aşkın Öcalan: Erdoğan, Erbakan kadar cesur olsa akan kan durur

Nasuhi Güngör Kuzey Irak’tan notlar

YASİN AKTAY

PKK ve Kürt sorunu

DTP Kapatılmasın
TARHAN ERDEM

DTP, yerel seçim stratejisini Diyarbakır'da belirliyor

İhsan Dağı Political actors needed to solve Kurdish question

İstihbaratçıdan Öcalan hakkında şok iddia!

Orakoğlu'ndan gündemi değiştirecek açıklamalar...

'İki gözüm 8 yıldır ne yaptın?'

Kürtçe pankartla seçim stratejisi

Kürdistan Sorununda Solcu Tavır Nasıl Olmalıdır?

Eylem hazırlığındaki teröristler Cudi ve Kato'da kıskaca alındı

Iraqi Military Operation in Diyala Province Risks Renewal of ...

Kurdish Political Parties Evacuate Former Iraqi Regime's Buildings ...

Iraq gov't, Kurds to tackle strained ties: deputy PM Barham Salih

Looming End of Oriental Christianity: Unholy Alliance of ´Kurdish ...

HAKAN ALBAYRAK

Olmert tam olarak ne söyledi?

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

Hüseyin Macit Yusuf Hristo-fiyasko'nun tahrikleri gölgesinde müzakereler...

Bülent Keneş What progress has Turkey made in its EU bid?

Plassnik:Türkiye ile müzakereler hız kazanmayacak

Ermeni lobisinin büyükelçi oyunu

Cumhurbaşkanı Gül'ün BM'deki temasları bugün başlıyor

Gül: Güvenlik Konseyi üyeliği Türkiye için fırsat

NSC Of Armenia: Our Neighbors Are Not Our Rivals

Fikret Ertan A boost for GLONASS

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

Soner Yalçın Dünden bugüne, isim isim siyasal İslam’ın gizli kasaları

Yine sağlık skandalı 13 bebek daha öldü

Horoz gibi dövüştürülüyorlar

Yargıda e-tebligat dönemi başlıyor

Destan değil trajedi

'Eşekli kütüphane' Japonya'da birinciliğe oynuyor

Milliyet, bayram tatilinde otellere ücretsiz dağıtılacak

Alkollü kazalarda Türkiye birinci

Öğrenci affı nasıl olmalı?

The climate may change, but Turkey’s policies do not

Turkey to put on full cultural show at Frankfurt Book Fair

MUSTAFA ÖZEL

Çocuktan önce kendini eğit!

HakareTube

Türkiye'nin yeni nesil imamları

H3

'Bir Numara' örgütü 6 hücreden yönetiyor

Köksal Toptan'dan partilere 4 konuda uzlaşma çağrısı

Teğmenler her yerde komutan fişlemişler

Zahid Akman istifa etmeyeceğini açıkladı

Mehmet Barlas: Aydın Doğan süreçten huzursuz

Yine sağlık skandalı 13 bebek daha öldü

Kürt sorununun çözümü tampon Kürtlerde

25 milyon kişi iş gücüne katılmıyor

Türkiye’de dini değerler ne artıyor ne azalıyor

'Başbakan'ın damadının medya yönetmesi yanlış'

Son kavga, Doğan Grubu'nun atanmışların yanında yer almasına reaksiyondur

Artık Anadolu da pay istiyor

[MONDAY TALK]Sarıgül: CHP needs to be freed of Baykal's ‘occupation'

Ergenekon'da sürpriz: Teğmenlere tutuklama, emekli paşaya tahliye

Tutuklanan subaydan Hizbuttahrir üyesine: Büyük işlere imza atacağız

Ergenekon'da son durum

Genç subayların buluşma yeri: İşçi Partisi'nin Karargâh Evleri

Genç subaylar, komutanlarını fişlemiş

Subaylara darbe çağrısı: Ülke elden gidiyor! ● Toplantılardan komutanların haberi var

Başkonsolosluk saldırısında talimatı Ergenekon sanığı Ersoy vermiş

Beyin kanaması durdu

Savcılık istedi, Şener Eruygur tahliye oldu

Dört teğmen ile bir askeri öğrenci örgütten tutuklandı

Toptan daha ne desin

Ergenekon davası fırsat, Türkiye çetelerle mutlaka yüzleşmeli

Garnizon komutanından yoğun bakımdaki Eruygur'a ikinci ziyaret

Erdoğan’ın freni en sonunda tuttu

Akman’ın yalanları

Akman'ın avukatı: Tekzipleri yayınlamadılar

İspatlayamazsan TV'ye çık 'ben şerefsizim' de

Devlet sırrında yaman çelişki

Ergenekon Harp Okulu’na sızdı

1000 lotu nasıl aldın?

Telefona takıldı

AKP'li başkana yolsuzluk suçlaması

Makbuzu getiren parasını alacak

Makbuzu getiren parasını alacak

Faşist yönetim gibi

Erdoğan’ın medyaya tavrı demokrasiyle bağdaşmıyor

İletişim toplantıları notları TSK'nın internet sitesinde

Toptan: Türkiye'de istifa kültürü yok

Cezaevinde F Tipi Ergenekon terörü

Toptan: İstifa iddiaları kabul etmek değildir

CHP'nin karakteri çamur at sonra kaç

Hesabında usulsüzlük olan tek parti

YARSAV Başkanı'na 2 günde verilen çürük raporunu, sara hastası 2 yıldır alamıyor

Ne Türkiye dindarlaşıyor Ne de din elden gidiyor

O da Erdoğan gibi çiftçiyi azarladı

Son Dakika Milliyet Hürriyet Zaman GH Türkiye

Cengiz Çandar Gül'un umudu bayramda yumuşama ve barışma -- Tayyip Erdoğan 'yasaklı' olsa daha mı iyi olurdu

Ahmet Taşgetiren • Sistemin zirvesinde çöküş ( 20.09.2008 )

Ruşen - Çakır Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’ı anlamak

Taha Akyol AK değil mi?

Fikret Bila Boykot çağrısının bir başka anlamı

Hasan Cemal ‘Yalvarıyordum ama ölüm bile elime geçmiyordu!’

Murat Yetkin Saakaşvili: Atatürk 20’nci yüzyılın en büyük lideri

İsmet Berkan Erdoğan’ın freni boşalır mı?

Fehmi Koru Boykot mu, nedenmiş o?

Taha Kıvanç Bir yanlışı düzelteyim derken...

Soli Özel| 'Lula'lıktan 'Çavez'liğe

Şamil Tayyar Baykal’ın borsa oyunu

Ali Bayramoğlu

Yasemin Çongar Elinizde tuttuğunuz gazete...

Ertuğrul Özkök İadeli taahütlü bir yazı

Ahmet Hakan Başsavcı’ya açık mektup Alem doktor olmuş

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt Ülsever Başbakan’ın ruh halleri

Enis Berberoğlu Asıl çete nerede

Sabahattin Önkibar Jandarma İstihbarat, İhlas için harekete geçti!

Şükrü Küçükşahin CHP’de Sav dönemi bitiyor mu

Polemiği sevmem ama...
HASAN CELAL GÜZEL

Ekrem Dumanlı Gazeteleri boykot çağrısı

Eser Karakaş Pozitif ve negatif laiklik

Şahin Alpay Lessons in political public relations

Kavramları ordu tanımlarsa ne olur?

Başbakan sakin konuştu...
ORAL ÇALIŞLAR

Yavuz Baydar Calculations and miscalculations

Yalnız mıyız? HALUK ŞAHİN

Bir harf etrafında fırtına: ‘Dat’çılar ve ‘zat’çıların kavgası
AVNİ ÖZGÜREL

Mehmet Yılmaz Pakistan ile Türkiye arasındaki Ergenekon farkı

KÜRŞAT BUMİN 'Özgür medya' da yekpare değil

Fatih Çekirge 10 milyar dolarlık BOTAŞ batığı

Bundan sonra ne olacak?
ORAL ÇALIŞLAR

Rıza Türmen Standartların gerisine düşüyoruz

Kadri Gürsel Erdoğan’ınki cürümden de beter!

Mustafa Akyol Din sömürüsüyle yüzleşmek

Oktay Ekşi Çağrının yankısı

Özdemir İnce Kayıtdışı devlet

Mehmet Y Yılmaz

Can Dündar Deniz Feneri savcısı ve pornocu profesörler

Ferai Tınç Boykot çağrısı ile dillere düştük

Tufan Türenç Gül ile Erdoğan’a bir önerim var

Yalçın BayerDevlet Denetleme Kurulu raporları Cumhurbaşkanlığı sitesinden kaldırılmış

Ahmet Turan Alkan "Cafcaf"lı bir Ergenekon analizi!

Mehmet Altan BM’ye nasıl girilir?

KÜRŞAT BUMİN

Boykot meselesi

TAMER KORKMAZ

Ne haber?

Mehmet Tezkan Armada hissesi Deniz Feneri parası mı?

[CAFE CAPITAL] Deniz Feneri e.v. controversy

Gülay Göktürk Yazık oluyor

Mümtazer Türköne Ergenekon'un uzantıları

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Paranın yeni düzeni

ERDAL ŞAFAK New York yolunda New York günlüğü (1)

ENGİN ARDIÇ Aydın Doğan'ın gazetelerini okuyun! Eski zaman yağcıları

ERGUN BABAHAN Ne yapmalı?

EMRE AKÖZ Dünya âlem bu işe gülüyor

Umur Talu Kimileri bina dokur... Kimi inadına okur! Bu devletler sizin!

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

İslamsız Müslüman olmak

NAZLI ILICAK Dostlara teşekkür

MEHMET BARLASİnsan aklının temel direklerinden biri de "hafıza"dır...
--- Anlamak da yaratmak kadar önemlidir...

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Eski İstanbul'u bir 'hukukçu' koruyacak

Can Ataklı Sonun başlangıcına atılan adım

Okay Gönensin Şeref, haysiyet vs.

YAVUZ DONAT

Ulus-devletler, nükleer silahlar
TÜRKER ALKAN

İsmail Küçükkaya
Yargının zirvesi: “Sistem sorunlu”

Yaman Törüner Gerçeği bulmanın en iyi yolu, tartışmaktır

Mehmet Metiner Ne biat ne cihat

Erol Aksoy’un şirketleri yeniden TMSF’de

Ekonomi

Osman Ulagay ‘Neo-Liberalizmin Çernobil’i’

25 milyon kişi iş gücüne katılmıyor

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu Yatırım bankacılığı ölüyor mu Büyüme senaryoları

Erdal Sağlam Bu yönetimle kriz bizi çok vurur

Hasan Ersel ABD'de çıkış köklü reformlar ama buna cesaret edecek lider yok

Asım Erdilek Uncle Sam to try cutting the Gordian knot

ÖMER TAŞPINAR
ABD finans krizinin anatomisi

Güngör Uras Ayşe Hanım Teyzem kriz telaşında

Ali H Aslan [WASHINGTON] ABD'nin Titanik sendromu

İbrahim Öztürk 'İmparatorluk paradoksu' olarak ABD krizi ve çözümü

Asaf Savaş Akat Fatura vergi mükellefine mi

ECEVİT KILIÇ
Bizi Amerika değil Rusya krizi etkiler

Deniz Gökçe
Nihayet sakinleşme geldi!

Islamic finance: Japanomics -- Turkeynomics?

Kediler MAHFİ EĞİLMEZ

ABD 2007-2008 ve Türkiye 2001
FATİH ÖZATAY

Dünyadaki kriz ve biz
BARAN TUNCER

25 milyon kişi iş gücüne katılmıyor

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
Başbakan'dan piyasalara güven mesajı

Deniz Gökçe
Bir dünya gerçeği: Göç temelli sorunlar

Krizin ‘finansal atıkları’!
UĞUR GÜRSES

Hafızaları tazeleyelim
FATİH ÖZATAY

H4 New York Times $700 Billion Is Sought for Wall Street in Vast Bailout The Bush administration is requesting virtually unfettered authority for the Treasury to buy mortgage-related assets. Text of Plan | Bailout Q. & A.

But Will It Work? Some are skeptical of the Treasury plan, despite wide agreement on the need for a broad intervention.

Bubblenomics By DAVID LEONHARDT The hissing sound you hear is the economy shrinking.

Democrats Begin to Set Own Bailout Terms A week of intense negotiation is expected as Congressional Democrats said they wanted greater oversight of the Treasury, among other measures

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

The Push to ‘Otherize’ Obama

The political campaign to transform Barack Obama into a Muslim is succeeding. The real loser as that happens is our entire political process.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

No Laughing Matter George W. Bush never challenged Americans to do anything hard, let alone great. The next president is not going to have that luxury

Back in Iraq, Jarred by the Calm By DEXTER FILKINS In Baghdad, a war reporter rediscovers a social fabric he thought was lost forever

Radical Shift for Goldman and Morgan Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, Wall Street’s last independent investment banks, will transform themselves into bank holding companies subject to greater regulation.

Young and Arab in Land of Mosques and Bars In Dubai, religion has become more of a personal choice and Islam less of a common bond than national identity.

MAUREEN DOWD Seeking a President Who Gives Goose Bumps? So’s Obama.

A meeting between Barack Obama and former President Jed Bartlet of the “West Wing.”

Behind the Scenes, Teams for Both Candidates Plan for a Presidential Transition

FRANK RICH Truthiness Stages a Comeback The twin-pronged Rovian strategy of truculence and propaganda that sold Bush and his war could yet work for John McCain.

A Professor and a Banker Bury Old Dogma on Markets The Fed chairman and the Treasury secretary have cast aside long-held views about regulation and government involvement in private business

Olmert Quits Post, and Political Maneuvering Begins

After Bombing, Pakistan’s President Is Pressured

Land of Gandhi Asserts Itself as Global Military Power

Iran’s President Replaces Central Bank Chief

Forced From Office, Mbeki Says Farewell

Bombing at Hotel in Pakistan Kills at Least 40

The Wall Street Bailout Plan, Explained

7 Years Later, 9/11 Hijackers’ Remains Are in Limbo

British Prime Minister’s Grip on Job Is Weakened

Pakistan’s President Calls for End to Terrorism and Criticizes Intervention by U.S.

Bomb Kills 3 Near Sports Field in Northern Iraq

South Africa’s President to Quit Under Pressure

In Crisis, Paulson’s Power Is Magnified Battlegrounds How will the endless campaign finally end? Here are four writers’ dispatches about the presidential campaign, with audio, from swing states.

Anarchy in the U.K.? By TOBIN HARSHAW Britain's sanctioning of Islamic Sharia courts has agitated some commentators.

NYT: "Senator John McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations, current and former officials say."

H5 Washington Post Rough Week, But America's Era Goes On

By Niall Ferguson, Does Wall Street's meltdown presage the end of the American century?

A Bad Bank Rescue By Sebastian Mallaby, The plan involves vast risks, huge complexity and no guarantee of success.

Bush Crafts a Handoff By Jim Hoagland, A war that can be won is a valuable asset for a presidential candidate. It spreads hope and wards off vote-numbing despair on the campaign trail. For Barack Obama, the winnable war is Afghanistan. John McCain makes the same claim for Iraq.

Paulson Urges Quick Action on Bailout Plan Treasury secretary stresses immediate need for reassurance on Wall Street and credit markets, says lawmakers should swiftly pass $700B bill

Rivals Beef Up on Economics

Crisis forces Obama, McCain to adjust monetary policy positions, seek counsel on corporate finance

A Prescription for Recovery

By Robert H. Dugger This crisis is an economic heart attack, but not a fatal one.

The Confidence Game By Robert J. Samuelson Better than continued turmoil, yes, but will the government's plan restore trust?

The Plain Vanilla Revolutionary

By David Ignatius

Steering the McCain Campaign, a Lot of Old Bush Hands

Olmert Steps Down As Premier Of Israel

21 Foreigners Among Dead in Islamabad Suicide Bomb Blast: Two Americans With Embassy Killed in Attack

A Peace From the Bottom Up

By Jackson Diehl The Israeli-Palestinian peace process is dead. It's time to try something else.

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Lose Status as Investment Banks

Candidates Seek Changes In Wall Street Rescue Plan

Legislative Proposal for Treasury Authority To Purchase Mortgage-Related Assets

When a New President Inherits a Mess By Ted Widmer

Modernized Afghan Taliban Runs a Parallel Govt

Blast Kills Dozens in Pakistan

At Least 250 Hurt as Suicide Bomber Detonates Truck Outside Islamabad Hotel

Washington Readies Sea Change for Wall Street Rescue Plan Grows to $700 Billion; Similar Measures Urged Overseas

Financial Crisis In Russia Raises Stakes for Putin Fiscal Test Is Nation's Gravest Since '98

Calling Out the Culprits Who Caused the Crisis

Editorial There's an Energy Crisis

But it's not the one you think.

OIL PRICES are plummeting, and the government ought to do something about it.

Back to Square One By Bruce Bartlett, If the events of recent days prove anything, it is that we cannot believe a word that John McCain or Barack Obama has said about what he will do as president. It's not that they have lied. Simply put, the underlying premise of everything the candidates have proposed -- that the economy is...

History Will Judge By: Charles Krauthammer | The Washington Post
Indeed, the three presidential campaigns between the fall of the Berlin Wall and Sept. 11, 2001, were the most devoid of foreign policy debate of any in the 20th century. The commander-in-chief question that dominates our campaigns today was almost nowhere in evidence during our '90s holiday from history

Behind the Curtain: Bush ran the White House, but Cheney didn't wait for orders.

Hiding in Plain Sight Why is Sarah Palin granting so few interviews?

A Debate's High Stakes

By David S. Broder, Friday evening in Oxford, Miss., Barack Obama and John McCain will meet in the first presidential debate of 2008, and this dramatic campaign will in all likelihood reach another turning point.

Bailout on Wheels By George F. Will

Cultural and Structural Shifts Rise Out of Risk-Taking Titans' Hard Fall

As Hill Debates Bailout, Wall St. Shifts Continue Paulson, GOP Oppose Democrats' Proposal to Limit Executive Pay

For Japan, Economic Hope in Wall Street Bailout U.S. Recession Would Punish Tokyo Exports

PostGlobal: Death of American Capitalism

Barometer: The U.S.'s Financial Tsunami

H6 Guardian Mrs Clean enters the mire Editorial: It is Tzipi Livni's central challenge to break the stalemate in the Israel/Palestine peace process

What our country desperately needs is a leader who loves us Alice Walker: Americans have been treated with contempt for so long that we have become inured to our own society's suffering

The battle of the TV clips

Michael Tomasky: The candidate with the best one-liners and ripostes will win the US presidential debates

US election hopefuls gear up for clash Figures show two sides are spending an average of $3m a day in run-up to face-to-face debates

Brown plans crackdown on world markets PM aims for tighter international controls of global money markets and culture of irresponsible City bonuses

US: world should copy our bail-out

British government is reluctant to mount similar emergency intervention to America's $700bn plan

'I have been a loyal member of the ANC for 52 years' - Mbeki resigns in TV address

The Observer The US took action in the face of crisis. We must do the same Will Hutton: While America shows imagination and guts, Britain's paltry response has done no more than buy time

Britain can no longer indulge these buccaneering financiers

Editorial: They may not have intended it as such, but traders on the London Stock Exchange declared love for state intervention

Mass poll shows Labour wipeout across country Eight cabinet ministers forecast to lose seats while Tories would have majority of 146

Scores feared dead in Pakistan blast

Witnesses in Islamabad speak of a truck bomb as Pakistan's leaders vow to fight terrorism

Wall Street woes help Obama

The Sarah Palin effect wears off as women voters return to Barack Obama, eroding Republican gains

Writer and fighter Tom Stoppard on human rights and US torture in the war on terror

H7 Obama's Foreign Policy Advantage By: Matthew Yglesias | The American Prospect
Nouri Al-Maliki's endorsement of Obama's withdrawal timeline was a coup for the candidate. And even though economic issues have elbowed foreign policy out of the headlines, Obama shouldn't forget it

Policy and Strategy in an Era of Globalization Patrick Gorman, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Asia Times Iran plays the mediator "Rogue state" Iran has embarked on a whirlwind of diplomacy across the Caucuses and troubled Central Asia. Tehran's momentum as a "main pillar of regional stability" is partly due to fears that regional tensions could affect its national security interests, and its determination to counter attempts to form a "Caucasus alliance" which would exclude it. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

US at a turning point
The United States is in the middle of a national disaster that has moved well beyond a subprime crisis to one in which the position of the economy is in jeopardy and its way of economic life - tied fundamentally to the availability of cheap credit - is imperiled. - Max Fraad Wolff

Daily Star 30 years of peace talks: some lessons
By Rami G. Khouri

Iraq: A Precarious Peace By: Claude Salhani | The Middle East Times
In the words of Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari, we are all aware of the painful trajectory Iraq has gone through over the course of the last five years. Indeed, the people of Iraq had to go through a devastating war; a near civil war; daily terrorist attacks that have claimed thousands of lives; the second-largest refugee crisis in the Arab world, after the Palestinians; and the list goes on, and on

The Bush Years Will Be Remembered for the Cruel Triumph of Realism Over Illusion By: Rich Lowry | New York Post
One of the era's great illusions was spun by President Bush -- that the force of freedom was so irresistible, it would prevail in a place like Iraq even in the absence of law and order.

Taking Ahmadinejad at His Word - Malcolm Hoenlein (New York Jewish Week)

Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Understanding the Three Ways of Dealing with Financial Crises

Michael J. Totten / Commentary:

Al Qaeda's Defeat In Iraq

Why the Surge Worked - Matthew Kaminski, Wall Street Journal opinion

BBC US banks make shock status switch

The last two major investment banks in the US have changed their status, the latest twist in the financial crisis.

Peston: Paulson's super-bank

Will the bailout work?

Who's to blame?

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

Russia Rejects New Measures Against Iran

Police: Iran-Trained Iraqis Return for Attacks

Iraqi Analyst: Proposed US-Iraqi Deal Slammed as Humiliating

Russia, China, Germany reject US evidence of Iran's covert nuke program

Ten Russian warships have docked at Syrian port

Iraqi Newspaper Warns of Coming Difficult Stage

Iraq: Kurdish Parties to Abandon Government Offices in Diyala

(CORR) Iran Daily Analyzes US Policies in Afghanistan, Middle East

Iraqi Premier Addresses Baghdad Governorate Meeting on Economy, Security

US air raid kills Iraq civilians
The US military says seven people, including three women have been killed in an air strike near Tikrit.

Counting costs

Iraqi capital reflects on its losses as calm returns

H9 Ha’aretz – Olmert hands in his formal resignation to President Peres

ANALYSIS / Even Assad has a better opinion of Livni than Barak Barak's meeting with opposition leader Netanyahu is unequivocal sign of Livni's slim chances of forming gov't

Ex-IDF chief: Israel can't avoid a military confrontation with Iran Moshe Ya'alon calls on world to stand up to Ahmadinejad like they did against the Nazi threat in WWII

Iran 'galloping toward a nuclear bomb,' military intelligence chief says MI chief: As Iran progresses in developing bomb, the world seems less inclined to stop

Livni offers Barak 'full partnership' in new gov't

ANALYSIS / Ehud Olmert is a victim of his own greed When entering politics, Olmerts should have decided what was more important - soul or possessions

Olmert's term The State of Israel has known many governments in its 60 years of existence, yet it is doubtful whether it has ever known a worse one than that of Ehud Olmert.

Mofaz's double gameMofaz's conduct after the defeat in the Kadima Primary was dignified at first, but it appears more and more to be an opening bargaining position.

Will she be a real leader? After the enthusiasm dies down over the fact that a woman, with integrity, elegantly dressed and well-spoken, might be Israel's next prime minister, we can only try to guess what her positions will be - and that's hard to do

Syria hints it can make peace with Livni

PA chief of staff: We must be ready to retake Hamas-ruled Gaza by force

Yossi Sarid: Economic crisis forces us to rethink 'American dream'

Jerusalem Post Livni: If no new gov't soon, elections

Kadima leader says she prefers unity gov't, insists party is unified and will continue to lead the country

'Israel needs nat'l emergency gov't' Barak briefs Labor ministers on Netanyahu meeting amid reports he may opt out of Livni-led coalition.

· From survival to revival

A rebuke to those who say US Jewry is going the way of Lehman Brothers

Syrian paper: If Livni wants peace, she'll have it

'Syrian site passes first nuclear probe'

Yedioth AhronothPalestinian civil war nearing

All signs show that a bloody Hamas-Fatah confrontation will come soon, Moshe Elad writes

'Iran about to have bomb'

Military Intelligence official tells cabinet Tehran has third of what it needs to build nuclear bomb

Is rightist instinct wrong?/ orbach Rightist instinct to oppose Tzipi Livni could backfire, push her deeper into the Left

'Nuke traces possibly buried'

IAEA investigators suspect Damascus may have ordered traces of alleged reactor bulldozed

Investigate the army

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

Reconciling the Arab Initiative with Israel's Core Requirements for Peace CCC This US article considers the potential of the Arab Peace Initiative to provide a basis for an Israeli-Palestinian peace

Livni's To-Do List in Six Months By: Uri Dromi | Miami Herald
Now that Tzipi Livni has won the primaries in the Kadima ruling party and Ehud Olmert is stepping down, Livni might be busy answering the phone calls of well-wishers and even more phone calls of job-seekers. When she's finally left alone in her new office, she will be so exhausted that she might forget why she ran for this job in the first place.

Tough road ahead Major challenges face Israel's would-be prime minister

After stepping down as PM, Olmert may stay in office for months

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Olmert offers formal resignation

Israeli PM Ehud Olmert submits his resignation to the president - but will remain in power until a new government is formed.

Profile: Ehud Olmert

Syrian Paper: Livni 'Mossad Beauty'; Likud: They Know She's Weak

Palestine Inside Out Saree Makdisi

H10 Christian Science Monitor

How $700 billion Paulson-Bernanke plan may help house prices Economists hope the proposed bailout will boost confidence and end the cycle of falling real estate values.

The mortgage buck stops where?

A public reckoning by Congress is needed before taxpayers are put on the hook.

Pakistan's contradictory faces

In a country rife with extremism I saw civilized culture and a triumphant human spirit.

Why some firms are bailed out and others ignored Those sinking in the wake of the real estate plunge get different treatment. For the overall economy, it makes sense

Pakistani militants target foreigners Saturday's massive truck bombing, which killed at least 50 people, is seen as a warning to the Pakistani government over its cooperation with the US.

Thabo Mbeki: the fall of Africa's Shakespearean figure South Africa's president was ousted by his own party this weekend

Schools: Obama stresses more investment, McCain parental choice A growing chorus of business and education-reform advocates are hoping the next president will create a 'Sputnik moment' for education.

ASIA

Commentary: Losing Afghanistan? - Arnaud de Borchgrave, United Press International

Modernized Afghan Taliban Runs a Parallel Govt

Land of Gandhi Asserts Itself as Global Military Power

US Intel: Pakistan Strike Bears al-Qaeda Hallmarks

Fact Sheet: The 19th U.S. – China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (PDF: 132 KB)
Source: U.S. Trade Representative

U.S. Congress Questions Military Aid to Pakistan, Saying It Won't Help Fight Afghan Militants By: Joshua Kucera | Eurasianet
Key upgrades to Pakistan’s US-supplied F-16 fighter jets could be in jeopardy because critics in Congress believe that the improvements are aimed more at making the jets capable of fighting India rather than the Taliban and al Qaeda

Was Pakistan prime minister's house bomber's target?

Indonesia's democratic miracle

Kishore Mahbubani

IHT Philip Bowring: Imagining the next North Korea

By PHILIP BOWRING

What happens after Kim Jong Il dies? The scenarios are either too gloomy or too upbeat.

Geopolitical Diary: A Turning Point in Pakistan's Attitude Toward ...

Pakistan's Double Game - Washington Times editorial

All change in the US's Afghan mission
The United States admits it needs to speed up progress in Afghanistan, which in the past seven years has accounted for a hefty chunk of the US$752 billion bill for the "war on terror". US military forays into Pakistan are one aspect of a "new strategy" that could see Americans taking direct control of counter-insurgency activities. More troops and more resources have also been demanded, even as the Taliban consolidate their positions around Kabul. - Syed Saleem Shahzad

Pakistan to target rebel hotspots

Pakistani officials promise targeted action against militants, after a suicide bomb killed 53 people in the capital, Islamabad

Pashtuns 'Caught In Someone Else's War'

H11 IHT Some hard truths about the bailout The upfront cost of the latest federal bailout will be enormous. So will the risk of losses in the long run on top of the risks already incurred.

Moscow mood mixes anxiety and defiance Medvedev talks of modernization, but street talk questions how long boom will last.

Pope's trip highlights church-state struggle in Europe Is the Roman Catholic Church a beleaguered underdog, fighting for a voice in secular Europe, or a still-mighty power, wielding its influence on European law through friendly center-right governments?

EUROPE European press review

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European Development Cooperation to 2020: The EU as an Answer to Global Challenges?
EDC 2020

Creeping Islamization in Europe - Diana West, Washington Times opinion

CER Can the next US president heal the transatlantic rift?

H12 RFE/RL

Shaky Economy Suddenly Dims Russian Prospects, Including Military

Russia’s Arms Buildup Will Hit a Wall - Westhawk blog

Moscow Will Boost Defense Spending to $50 Billion -

Can Russia's economy afford Putin for much longer? By Anders Aslund

Tajik -- Iranian Relations Blossom By: Samantha Brletich | Diplomatic Courier
Out of the five Central Asian Republics, Tajikistan is the only one that has the infrastructure and capacity to support an electric system that produces enough energy for its own country, its neighbors, and has some left over. Both members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Iran and Tajikistan have been in the media lately for their increased cooperation. The partnership is a no-brainer: Tajikistan is considered energy abundant

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What Goes Around Comes Around for Russia By: Brian Klein | The Japan Times
Like far-flung Soviet republics of the past, the states of South Ossetia and Abkhazia will be reminded of the lost benefits of not integrating with the West

Russia: Kazakh, Kyrgyz Position on South Ossetia Conflict

Pondering CIS Dependence On Energy Exports

Georgia: International Observer Missions Face Uncertain Future

H13 The Times Desperation: the threat to Pakistan The State can do little to prevent terrorist attacks, but a counter-terror response will have a disastrous effect

No theory can stop boom and bust

Since the 19th century, economists have sought to stabilise the trade cycle and prices simultaneously, without success

William Rees-Mogg

Washington divided over European bailout UK and European banks may be excluded from $700bn bailout amid backlash over financial burden on US taxpayer

Economy takes back seat in first US presidential debate Convulsions in financial markets force Barack Obama and John McCain to hastily rewrite their tax and spending plans

Al-Qaeda blamed as suicide bomber kills 53 CC TV footage showed the driver of the lorry ramming into the hotel's security gates but failing to breach a second barrier

Hotel bomb shows al-Qaeda's deadly new reach

What is most alarming about the devastating Marriott bombing is that the militants appear to be acting with impunity

Ehud Olmert confirms resignation to Cabinet But it remains unclear when outgoing Israeli Prime Minister will hand resignation letter to the country's President

Sharia courts are extending their reach The longer we acquiesce in the spread of Islamic law in Britain, the more it will happen

Stephen Pollard

Destination unknown If the Prime Minister cannot supply the direction his government needs, it will fall to others to articulate Labour's vision

'No deterioration between Russia and West' Alexey Mordashov, the billionaire owner of Russian steel company SeverStal is an optimistic practitioner of globalisation

After Thabo Mbeki South Africa's president departs with dignity but limited achievement

Sunday Times A lack of guts let the spivs roam free The crash of 2008 has proved that capitalism, like any system of human behaviour, needs policing

Simon Jenkins

Tweedledum or Tweedledumber

The US economy is in crisis but neither presidential candidate has a credible solution Andrew Sullivan

Russia defies West over nuclear Iran Russia will resist western pressure for tougher United Nations sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme

The secret life of Tzipi Livni

The woman set to be Israel’s new leader worked as an agent for a covert cell in an elite spy unit

It's the ordinary folk who carry the can Those who make lending decisions should be prepared to take responsibility when things go wrong

Gordon Brown says: 'I will do better'Embattled Prime Minister dismisses speculation about his future and defends his economic record of the past decade

At least 53 killed in Islamabad bomb blast

Taxes will soar during credit crisis

Bankers will still get huge bonuses as ordinary taxpayers face a rise of up to 5p in the pound to plug shortfall

New tapes reveal Osama Bin Laden was a sought-after wedding poet

Fears of dollar being hit by bailout plan

Word of the proposals created a mood of euphoria in financial markets last week but analysts have warned of the risks

From now on it gets messy for Mrs Clean

She is expected to be the next Israeli prime minister, but Tzipi Livni faces a tough battle just forming a coalition

Wall Street Journal Everyone Needs to Worry About Iran By RICHARD HOLBROOKE, R. JAMES WOOLSEY, DENNIS B. ROSS and MARK D. WALLACE

A Mortgage Fable

The GOP Leads a 'Socialist' Bailout By Lanny J. Davis
Let's have an election debate about the size of government.

McClatchy Can you trust a Wall Street veteran with a Wall Street bailout? Making the rounds on the Sunday morning talk shows, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson repeatedly said today's financial problems were long in the making. He should know. He was part of the Gold Rush that has brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse. That's given some people pause about giving him the unfettered authority to solve the nation's credit crunch

allup Daily: Obama Leading McCain by 4 Points

H14 Financial Times Capitalism in convulsion In just two momentous weeks, the landscape of global finance has been dramatically transformed

The shadow banking system is unravelling A hedge fund shake-out is likely, says Nouriel Roubini - Excessive risks, high leverage and poor management mean a shake-out among bloated hedge funds is likely

Defaults will test a fair-weather construction Wolfgang Münchau on the global financial sector

What is the best solution? The right measures in desperate times? Raghuram Rajan and Charles Calomiris on how to stem the financial crisis

The arrest of Sudan’s Bashir should proceed Criminals must face justice, says Richard Holbrooke Bringing perpetrators of international crimes to justice may seem difficult in a conflict but is the right choice

This is no time for politics of the playground Obama and McCain were bound to seem irrelevant to the task of stabilising the financial system, even though important principles are at stake in that effort. But whichever of them wins in November, the fallout from this emergency will probably cloud the next administration’s first two years in office, says Clive Crook

A long shadow Low interest rates and finance through deficits may have been right for the Depression but the techniques look unsustainable in the face of the current crisis

Iran fires central banker

Iran’s central bank governor has reportedly been dismissed after refusing to carry out the populist policies of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, president

Tensions mount over bail-out

A high-stakes game of political poker was under way in Washington on Sunday as Congress prepared to vote this week on a plan to create a $700bn fund to buy toxic assets from banks and thereby ease the credit squeeze

Obama targets Wall Street greed

Barack Obama, casting himself as the defender of Main Street in the face of the folly and greed of Wall Street, is drawing ahead of John McCain in the race for the White House, according to opinion polls

Democrats demand further measures

Legislators spent the weekend locked in frantic negotiations over the Bush administration’s proposed $700bn (€485bn, £382bn) rescue plan to save the financial system from collapse

Taxpayers shoulder trillion-dollar deficit On top of a string of unprecedented events stemming from the credit crunch, the US Treasury’s $700bn rescue plan for distressed mortgage assets seems likely to give us another: the trillion-dollar deficit

Goldman, Morgan Stanley to become regulated banks In the biggest restructure since the Great Depression, the Fed has given the green light to the last surviving big investment banks on Wall Street to become regulated banks

The challenges after Mbeki

Six months of uncertainty lie ahead before elections, a period in which Zuma and the ‘new’ ANC have much to prove

Israel’s leaders Livni may present the best hope of keeping negotiations with the Palestinians alive. What is not clear is whether she differs with Sharon’s strategy

Crisis management For a prime minister as unpopular with voters as he is unloved by his own party, this may be the beginning of the end for Gordon Brown

The Iraq war could cost US its financial system

Gideon Rachman’s blog The Marriott bomb in Islamabad: The vast majority of the people killed in the suicide attack at the Marriott are likely to be Pakistani Muslims - not that this ever seems to bother al-Qaeda or its affiliates

Moscow widens emergency funding

Russia’s finance ministry widened the provision of emergency budget funding to Russia’s banking system, a sign that the system is still under pressure

Merkel vents annoyance over US and UK Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, has vented public frustration at the US and UK governments’ previous opposition to the stronger regulation of financial markets

Pakistan braced for new wave of violence

Fears rise for homeless Georgians

Iran supreme leader intervenes in Israel row Iran’s supreme leader has sought to put an end to a government row over Israel, ruling out friendship with Israel and contradicting the statements of president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad

Defence treaty delay to hit UK

The ratification of a defence treaty designed to bolster American-British defence co-operation by removing red tape has been deferred until the next Congress.

H15 Los Angeles Times Small allies, big headaches By Gideon Rose Major powers have to be wary lest friendly nations lead them down a slippery slope to conflict.

Ehud Olmert's failed promises

By Gershom Gorenberg Israel's prime minister had vowed to curb settlements in order to achieve peace with the Palestinians, but he lacked the political savvy to accomplish either goal.

The battle over war powers

By Paul Findley and Don Fraser The Constitution, and the War Powers Act of 1973, limit a president's ability to initiate conflict. Some wish to change that

The Bush Doctrine? By John Kenney Can I get back to you on that?

Straight talk expressed

By Meghan Daum

Europeans on left and right ridicule U.S. money meltdown

They list greed and Greenspan among the culprits, and there are comparisons to . . . Albania. But amid the gloating, there is fear for financial systems in Britain, Spain, Italy and elsewhere

Defense Secretary Robert Gates urges middle ground with Russia

As NATO ministers disagree on Georgia, Gates says the next U.S. administration needs a balanced approach to contain Russian aggression without resorting to military force

High-risk era wanes
on Wall Street As once-freewheeling firms lie dead or damaged, the industry may change how it does business.

Blog: Fed now will regulate Goldman, Morgan as banking firms

• Broad agreement on $700-billion bailout

Column: U.S. awaits markets' verdict on bailout.

Obama outraises and outspends McCain The campaign contribution figures for August also show Obama got a financial boost after Palin joined the Republican ticket

$700-billion rescue asks for sweeping powers The bill would let the Treasury secretary act unilaterally to buy up bad mortgage assets.

• Business unusual: U.S. takeovers raise many questions

• Those golden years have lost their glow

Wall St. crisis gives Obama leverage The Democrat reminds Floridians that McCain backed Bush's plan to let people invest Social Security money in the stock market.

With Olmert gone, clock starts on Israel coalition Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni wasted no time today working to put together a new government, meeting with potential coalition partners even as outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert formally resigned. Her ability to move fast in her first task could have far-reaching effects on Mideast peace talks

Recession, my old friend

By Matthew DeBord Economic downturns? He's seen more than a few in his lifetime.

Editorial Bailing out Wall Street

The financial crisis has caught the candidates' attention -- but we need solutions, not politics.

The FBI's reach A plan to boost the agency's intelligence-gathering power at home raises concerns about rights.

Iraqi detainees languish in clogged justice system A new U.S.-funded legal clinic in Baghdad attempts to review the cases of those who have been held without charge or trial, but the task is daunting and hurdles numerous.

Brazil sits pretty amid U.S. economic crisis There was a time that when the 'the United States coughed, Brazil got pneumonia' but after its own share of crises, Brazil has seen a period of economic stability and rapid growth

H16 American Politics

Racial views steer some white Dems away from Obama Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close

Gallup Daily: Obama 50%, McCain 44%

Behind the Scenes, Teams for Both Candidates Plan for a Presidential Transition

Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times: The Push to ‘Otherize’ Obama

Congressional Leaders Stunned by Warnings

Florida poll: McCain has lead, but Obama wins on economy

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Campaigns Beef Up Economic Teams in Face of Crisis

H17 Daily Telegraph

Pakistan must wake up

The struggle to tackle extremism head-on will require great physical and moral courage. But at stake is the very survival of this Muslim nation

Brown given nine months to save job by Cabinet allies

Senior ministers have given Gordon Brown until June to prove himself capable of saving Labour from election meltdown.

Sunday Telegraph Obama and McCain prepare for first presidential debate

Plan to sharpen up Obama and calm down McCain for televised battle.

• Race is an issue for Obama

H18 Independent Robert Fisk's World: Why does the US think it can win in Afghanistan?

The high heel vote: How women are winning the US election

Rachel Maddow, Samantha Bee and Tina Fey aren't household names in Britain, but they're at the vanguard of the feminisation of American politics. Sarah Hughes celebrates an election year in which women have finally moved centre stage – and asks: what next?

Independent on Sunday Bush launches $700bn rescue plan and confesses he didn't realise how severe problems were

Obama seizes the moment by detailing his strategy for restoring confidence in markets

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

Irregular Warfare: New Challenges for Civil-Military Relations

60 Killed, 257 Injured in 'Pakistan’s 9/11'

Counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan: An Interview with John Nagl By: Urs Gehriger | World Politics Review
Urs Gehriger of the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche recently spoke with Nagl about the success of Gen. David Petraeus' counterinsurgency tactics in Iraq, and what needs to be done to successfully implement them in Afghanistan

The Plain Vanilla Revolutionary - David Ignatius, Washington Post opinion

The Strategy of Containment in Fighting Terrorism
CCC
A 9-page US article examining the applicability of containment strategy to terrorist organizations

Sean D. Hamill / New York Times:
7 Years Later, 9/11 Hijackers' Remains Are in Limbo

An Argument for Open Source Intelligence Secrecy - Secrecy News blog

Urban Warfare Analysis Center

Hijacking Terrorism Studies - Merv Bendle, Quadrant Magazine

Senate Boosts Funding for Laser Weapons The Senate has embraced last year's Defense Science Board conclusion that directed-energy weapons -- such as high-, medium- and low-power lasers -- hold great potential and should be developed as soon as possible.

For Military, Slow Progress in Foreign Language Push

H20 Slate Afghanistan Isn't Like Iraq Why a "surge" won't work there.
Fred Kaplan

Obama's Message Deficit

Why he needs an economic slogan.
Jacob Weisberg

Burn Her!

Why it's dangerous to be a witch in a recession.
Tim Harford

Poverty and the Developing World
World Bank
A 46-page re-estimate of the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty

Containing Climate Change By: Carter F. Bales and Richard D. Duke | Foreign Affairs
The United States can curb its own emissions and encourage energy efficiency and the development of clean-energy technology worldwide by rethinking carbon regimes

H21

The story of my lives

Philip Roth on losing friends, living alone and why the next book will be his last

Protecting marriage to protect children Marriage as a human institution is constantly evolving. But in all societies, marriage shapes the rights and obligations of parenthood.

The Camera-Friendly, Perfectly Pixelated, Easily Downloadable Celebrity Academic

Five studies in the new world of online lecturing.

The Academic-Industrial Complex

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'Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe'

By MARK MAZOWER
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The Best Mind of His Generation

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Obsessive, ironical, needy: David Foster Wallace’s voice was the voice in your head.

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