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H1 New York Times India’s Suspicion of Pakistan Clouds U.S. Strategy in Region The Mumbai attacks seem likely to sour Indian-Pakistani relations and hamper, at least for now, America’s ambitions for reconciliation in the region.

Iraq Approves Deal Charting End of U.S. Role The Iraqi Parliament ratified an agreement that sets out a three-year timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. Text of Agreement (PDF) Baghdad Bureau: Analysis

Dying of Consumption By STEPHEN S. ROACH There is a deeper, potentially positive, meaning to the decline in consumer spending: Americans are now moving back to more prudent income-based lifestyles.

The Economist Terror in India The Mumbai attacks A dangerous new front-line in the global war against terrorism

The Economist America and Iraq

Well, is it victory or humiliation? No happy ending, but the final chapter of the Iraq saga remains to be written

Iraq Is it really coming right? In most of Iraq, violence has plummeted and the Americans under a new president look set gradually to withdraw. But will the battered country hold together?

A special report on Russia Enigma variations Russia is not the Soviet Union, but what is it? A recovering world power—or a corrupt oligopoly with a market economy of sorts?

The world economy The perils of incrementalism Bold, unorthodox remedies are needed to jolt the world economy back to life

Barack Obama's team So far, so very good The president-elect is proceeding with all deliberate speed

Washington Post Obama's Realist Worldview Recalls George H.W. Bush

Barack Obama's foreign policy philosophy sounds a lot like that of (the other) President Bush

Iraq's Parliament Approves Security Agreement With United States Vote by Parliament Hailed 'Historic

Characteristics of Plot Suggest Attackers Were Trained Outside India, Analysts Say Analysts Cite Scale, Compared With Previous Onslaughts

Putin's Intentions Debated After He Changes Course and Supports Extending Presidential Term from 4 Years to 6

Editorial -- Mr. Obama Should Keep Mr. Gates as Defense Secretary

From Market Economy to Political Economy By Charles Krauthammer,

This is not the time for an economic agenda based on liberal social goals

Stratfor India: Mumbai Attacks and Hints of a Pakistan Connection

Red Alert: Possible Geopolitical Consequences of the Mumbai Attacks (Open Access)

DT The meaning of the terrorists' tactics

As India burns, Amir Taheri examines how radical Islamists may be changing their tactics to inspire home-grown jihadists

Indian Terror Attacks Indicate Links to Al-Qaeda, Experts Say

Reidar Visser The “Withdrawal Treaty” Is Passed

McClatchy With Iraqi parliament approving pact, Maliki's stature grows In a country where agreements are hard to reach, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki built a broad political coalition to muscle through a divisive U.S.-Iraq security pact that could set his place in his nation’s history as the man who ended the American occupation

Lobe JFK Episode Suggests Obama's Iraq Plan at Risk

JFK Episode Suggests Obama's Iraq Plan at Risk

Daily Star Obama has the strong cards of Roosevelt and Churchill
By Dominique Moisi

Time Obama Chooses An Unlikely Team of Hawks Why the biggest roles for Obama's foreign policy picks will be the ones they play at hom

Oil May Fall After OPEC Meet as Recession Deepens, Survey Shows Bloomberg

Negotiating Under Fire: Preserving Peace Talks in the Face of Terror Attacks FPRI A US paper showing how an understanding of how violence undermines the legitimacy of a peace process can help determine what measures may effectively insulate peacemaking from the efforts of outside spoilers to wreck ongoing negotiations over long-festering, ethnic conflicts

How Terror Unfolded: They Came by Boat to Kill Their Enemies

Sophisticated Attacks, but by Whom?

Who Is Behind the Mumbai Attacks?

Q&A: Who Could Be Behind the Mumbai Attacks and Why?

Three Determinants in World Politics - M.K. Bhadrakumar, The Hindu

Beware of Engagement - Martin Kramer (Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies-Shalem Center)

Obama's First Test - Gregor Peter Schmitz, Der Spiegel

Doves Keep Faith as Obama Team Tilts Right - Jonathan Martin, Politico

Measuring the Obama Effect Around the World - Ian Bremmer, RCP

The U.S. Financial Crisis: The Global Dimension with Implications for US Policy CRS This 88-page US report sets out the challenges facing the US Congress in reacting to the global financial crisis

Financial Times Broken banks put state back in the driving seat

Something big is happening. What started as a series of pragmatic ad hoc responses by governments and central banks is moving the boundary between state and market. Expediency is now overlaid with ideology. Government is no longer a term of abuse, says Philip Stephens

Iran in about-turn towards security agreement Tehran is said to be satisfied with the changes won by Iraq in the pact with the US, suggesting it ‘sees the future of US policy in a new light and seeks to cooperate with Washington’

India points finger at Pakistan

Prime minister blames ‘neighbours’ for attacks

Wall Street Journal  Obama's War Cabinet Gates and Jones are welcome signs of continuity.

 Syria and the Nuclear Cops

IAEA Chief Mohamed ElBaradei believes Syria deserves a new reactor.

Berlin ♥ Iran III REVIEW & OUTLOOK Good relations between these two countries is a matter of tradition

Guardian  India's 9/11

Editorial: The Mumbai attacks were as horrific in scale and as cold in execution as the Madrid or London bombings

 Iraq's parliament votes for US troop pullout within next three years Security pact setting timetable for American exit will go to national referendum by July

Syria at the crossroads Chris Phillips: While resisting Bush long provided an excuse not to get on with reform, it's now time for Bashar al-Assad to deliver

Newsweek Khanna: Assessing Blame for Mumbai Attacks

Will Israel attack Iran? , Paul Rogers

H2 The Economist The worrying Tayyip Erdogan Turkey’s prime minister once promised big reforms to bring his country closer to the European Union. He seems no longer to be pushing them

'Türkiye'yi izleyin' Krizin etkilerini en fazla hisseden ülkelerden biri Türkiye mi olacak?

IMF 'lüks değil'

IMF ile anlaşma yapılmasını savunan UBS raporunun yazarı ile konuştuk

US-IRAQ: Kurds Anxious Over Security Pact Mohammed A. Salih

Economist yorumu

Dergiye göre Erdoğan bir değişimden geçiyor ve bu değişim, 'kaygı verici'

FT Nations aim to hammer out Azeri gas deal Italy, Greece, Turkey and Azerbaijan will to try to hammer out an agreement in coming weeks on the export of Azeri gas to Europe via a planned pipeline across the Adriatic

Axel Springer extends Dogan partnership

Son Dakika-ABHaber, AP Türkiye taslak raporunu yayınlıyor (orjinal tam metin)

Ergenekon’da sonuca kadar gidin

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

Öcalan may reappear in front of judge

Kerkuk ‘Final Masterplan Report -October 2008′

Cevdet Aşkın

YASİN DOĞAN TRT'de Kürtçe yayın…

Nasuhi Güngör Kuzey Irak fırsat mı, felaket mi?

Two policemen killed, four injured in PKK attack

K. Irak da PKK’dan rahatsız

Kılıçdaroğlu’nun PKK’lılarla aynı araçta olduğunun belgesi

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL

Bombay'a saldıran kim, arkasındaki güçler kim

Almanya iki PKK'liyi yargılayacak

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

Regional acts no mask for reforms

Krize karşı Balkan paktı

AB üyesi olsaydık böyle büyük orduya gerek kalmazdı

Lagendijk - Öymen atışması

TSK’da Karadeniz endişesi

European Union urges DTP to choose either mountains or Parliament

KKTC Başbakanı Almanya'da

Gökçe Aytulu Ermenistan'da soykırım politikası ekonomik sorunları bile gölgeliyor

Nicole Pope A dose of EU realism

Balkanlar’da krize karşı ortak dayanışma

Rauf Denktaş Görünen minareler

İBRAHİM KAHVECİ Alman ittifakı!

AİHM'de Türkiye davası

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

Turks in America the Movie

H3 Mahkeme 1 numarayı öğrendi

Binbir surat Tuncay

24 bin kişi sorguladım, onun gibisini görmedim

MİT, resmi yazısında kod adı İpek'i kullandı

Mehmet Eymür, ‘Güney’le hiç ilgim yok’ dedi ama...

1 numaranın ismi biliniyor mu?

MİT Güney’i kullandı mı

Güney: Bana göre bu savcı uzaylı...

İşte Kontrterör’ün tartışmalı tarihi

Eymür’ün 3 ’canlanma’ sinyali

Doğan'da Alman oyunu

Bürokraside adaylık heyecanı ve İstanbul için sürpriz isimler

MİT ve askerden dosya istendi

‘Savcı Öz haber servisi yapıyor!’

MOSSAD’a çalışıyor iddiası...

Seçmen artışına muhalefetten tepki

Kuryeler Karaman’a para taşıdı 4.5 milyon euro şirketlere aktı

Bakan Gönül'den üç ay sonra YAŞ açıklaması

1 numarayı gösteren Ergenekon şeması mahkeme başkanında

Akıl tutulması var sembollere takıldık

Erdoğan: Bazılarına teşekkür edeceğiz

Ankara adayı kim olacak

Hürriyet'in korkusu benim konuşmam

Bayrakları bile var

Özden'in ölümünde Ergenekon gölgesi

Danıştay için 'nafile' duruşma

Yengeç'te bir hâkim daha

Açılım değil çünkü planlı yapılmadı

'TOKİ Başkanı görevinin başında, adaylığı söz konusu değil'

CHP'li Ateş: Yeni açılım Alevileri rahatsız etmedi annem de çarşaflıydı

AK Parti'de teşkilat temayülü belirleyici olacak

Emekli MİT'çi Gündeş: Güney, MİT elemanı değil

Mit-te-calismis-olabilir-benim-elemanim-degilm

Son Dakika Milliyet Hürriyet Zaman GH Türkiye

Birinci Sayfalar Akşam Birgün Bugün Cumhuriyet Dünya Hürriyet Milli Gazete Milliyet Posta Radikal Referans Sabah Star Taraf Tercüman Türkiye Vakit Vatan Yeni Şafak Zaman Arşiv

Video NTV CNNTürk Milliyet

Cengiz Çandar 'Çarşaflamak'

Ahmet TaşgetirenSon kale: CHP tehlikede!

Ruşen - Çakır

Taha Akyol Bir sosyalistin mektubu

Fikret Bila Açılım mı değil mi?

Hasan Cemal Gözü dönmüş utanmaz adama çağrı!

Murat Yetkin Susurluk-Ergenekon: Benzerlikler-ayrılıklar

İsmet Berkan Tuncay Güney’in rolü

Fehmi Koru İtiraz ediyorum sanmayın

Taha Kıvanç Saflar sıklaşırken CHP

Şamil Tayyar MİT’te iç hesaplaşma

Adem Yavuz Arslan MİT Eymür'ü neden sattı?

Ali Bayramoğlu Askeri tutkal…

Yasemin Çongar

Ertuğrul Özkök

Hasan Ünal

Ahmet Hakan Bir açılım da AKP yapsın

Atılgan Bayar
Türk olmak için Kürt’e ihtiyacımız var

M Ali Birand Devletin içindeki pisliği temizleyin

Cüneyt Ülsever

Enis Berberoğlu

Nereye gidiyormuşuz?

MEHMET ALİ KIŞLALI

Alevi Açılımı ve Millî Birlik

HASAN CELAL GÜZEL

Alevilik, çarşaf... Siyaset normalleşiyor mu?

ORAL ÇALIŞLAR

Sabahattin Önkibar Devlette hesaplaşma ve haham Tuncay'la Eymür'ün ilişkisi!

Mehmet Altan MİT’te neler oluyor

Gülay Göktürk Çarşaf açılımı ve iki ihtimal

Hüseyin Gülerce Demek ki Ergenekon, her yere konmuş..

Mümtazer Türköne Denetimsiz güvenlik gücü, suç örgütüne dönüşür

Oktay EkşiSeçim kütükle başlar

Özdemir İnce Yeni bir anayasa için yeni bir kurucu sözleşme (1)

Mehmet Y YılmazÖrtünün masumiyeti meselesi

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

CHP'den bir açılım da hükümete...

ERDAL ŞAFAK Kurtarmak ve canlandırmak

ENGİN ARDIÇ

Yalçın Doğan Örtünün masumiyeti meselesi

Tufan Türenç İhanetler hep vardı

ERGUN BABAHANErgenekon, MİT ve Tuncay Güney (İpek)

EMRE AKÖZDeniz Baykal'ın "negatif" iktidarı

Umur Talu

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

Çanaktan kâseye Amerika

NAZLI ILICAKCHP'li Atilla Kart yanılıyor

MEHMET BARLASTerörizm dünyanın en büyük demokrasisini hedef aldı...

MAHMUT ÖVÜRErgenekon'u 'MİT aklı' deşifre etti!

YAVUZ DONATBaşbakan'ın terazisi

TAMER KORKMAZ

Çelişkilerin Davetiyesi

AK Party supporters in search of Tayyip Erdoğan by EMRE USLU & ÖNDER AYTAÇ*

Eser Karakaş Artık bu meseleleri aşalım

Ferai Tınç Kriz zamanlarında gazetecilik

Oray Eğin
Barlas, bu işi siz çözersiniz!

Serdar Turgut
Deniz Baykal’ın ışığı gördüğü gün

Mustafa Ünal 'Size 2 ay süre, bu işi bitirin'

Nagehan Alçı
‘Bayan’ Türkiye

Serdar Akinan
Ruhunuzu yıkayın

İhsan Dağı Başörtüsüne özgürlük, CHP'ye iktidar!

Mahçupyan Why the number of undecided voters is on the rise

Bülent Keneş The tip of the iceberg

Ekonomi

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam

Hurşit Güneş Dış açık kurla kapanır, ama Türkiye’de sorun başka

Güngör Uras Sendika parası niye akla gelmiyor?

Meral Tamer Başbakan’a gerçekleri anlatacak biri yok mu?

Obama, Paul Volcker'i göreve çağırdı

Sosyal yardımlar için formül var

UĞUR GÜRSES

Erinç Yeldan|Ekonomi Politik

Deniz Gökçe Muhasebe deyip geçme bil altında yatanı!

Eyüp Can AK Parti Hükümeti'nin paketi nerede

H4 New York Times India’s Suspicion of Pakistan Clouds U.S. Strategy in Region The Mumbai attacks seem likely to sour Indian-Pakistani relations and hamper, at least for now, America’s ambitions for reconciliation in the region.

Iraq Approves Deal Charting End of U.S. Role The Iraqi Parliament ratified an agreement that sets out a three-year timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. Text of Agreement (PDF) Baghdad Bureau: Analysis

Dying of Consumption By STEPHEN S. ROACH There is a deeper, potentially positive, meaning to the decline in consumer spending: Americans are now moving back to more prudent income-based lifestyles.

Russian Missile Plan Gives a New European Trade Hub an Old Identity Crisis

PAUL KRUGMAN Lest We Forget The story of how we failed to see this coming has a clear policy implication — that financial market reform should be pressed quickly, and that it should not wait until the crisis is resolved.

DAVID BROOKS Stimulus for Skeptics Until we endure some fundamental adjustments in housing prices and consumption, no federal sugar rush is going to restore economic health. But that’s not a recipe for doing nothing.

Suicide Bomber Kills Four in Kabul

U.N. Reports That Taliban Is Stockpiling Opium

Amnesty Plan in Iraq Draws 18 Insurgents

Venezuela and Russia Sign Accords

Indian Forces Fire at Jewish Center It was not known how many hostages were being held inside Nariman House, home to the Orthodox Jewish group Chabad Lubavitch.

Editorial About Latin America President-elect Barack Obama should not put off improving ties with Latin America. And given how bad relations are now, it will not take much.

H5 Washington Post Obama's Realist Worldview Recalls George H.W. Bush Barack Obama's foreign policy philosophy sounds a lot like that of (the other) President Bush

Iraq's Parliament Approves Security Agreement With United States

Vote by Parliament Hailed as 'Historic

Characteristics of Plot Suggest Attackers Were Trained Outside India, Analysts Say Analysts Cite Scale, Compared With Previous Onslaughts

Putin's Intentions Debated After He Changes Course and Supports Extending Presidential Term from 4 Years to 6

Editorial -- Mr. Obama Should Keep Mr. Gates as Defense Secretary

From Market Economy to Political Economy By Charles Krauthammer,

This is not the time for an economic agenda based on liberal social goals.

Indian Commandos Battle Assailants

Attacks in Mumbai Commercial Center Kill at Least 125

A Timeline of India's Growing Terrorism

Barack Obama Embodies Change

By Kathleen Parker, Page A29

Yes, the cabinet names are familiar. But Obama still may be the departure he promised.

India Must Confront Terrorists, Whether Muslim or Hindu By Dileep Padgaonkar,

Editorial -- A Fannie-Freddie Fix

In Lawrence Summers, the president-elect has found the right person to reform the mortgage giants.

Suicide Bomber Targets U.S. Convoy in Kabul; At Least 4 Killed

Obama Must Mobilize Supporters to Help Nonprofits By Paul C. Light

Editorial

H6 Guardian  India's 9/11

Editorial: The Mumbai attacks were as horrific in scale and as cold in execution as the Madrid or London bombings

 Iraq's parliament votes for US troop pullout within next three years Security pact setting timetable for American exit will go to national referendum by July

Syria at the crossroads Chris Phillips: While resisting Bush long provided an excuse not to get on with reform, it's now time for Bashar al-Assad to deliver

 This show's diplomacy is for real - and it's worth a hundred Milibands Simon Jenkins: The V&A exhibition takes Syrians seriously in their own capital, unlike the hectoring speeches of the foreign secretary

Bombs and bullets cannot destroy India - as long as its gates remain open Shashi Tharoor: This atrocity was not homegrown. But if it leads to demonisation of the nation's Muslims, the terrorists will have won

Smugglers run rife on the new frontline between east and west Former Soviet republic fears it may become a prize in the Kremlin's geopolitical struggle with Europe

 Thanksgiving Day: Economy rains on US parade New statistics will show the number of Americans reliant on food stamps is poised to top 30 million

Chavismo is alive and kicking

Max Ajl: Commentators have painted Venezuela's elections as a bitter blow for Hugo Chávez. But they have their facts wrong

India's peaceful illusion has been shattered Dibyesh Anand: The attacks in Mumbai raise the question: is a secular democratic setup sufficient to tackle religious extremism?

Who is behind the Mumbai attacks?

Stephen Tankel: The signs offer contradictory evidence and point to the increasing complexity of the threat from jihadist violence

After Mumbai, an end to complacency? MJ Akbar: India is a tough nation, but under ineffectual governance it is in danger of degenerating into a soft state

H7 Daily Star Iraq's handling of the deal with America evinces a newfound national spirit

Genocide in Darfur? Let the court decide Solving the public dispute over whether the situation in Darfur meets the legal definition of genocide. (By Philip Heymann and Martha Minow, Boston Globe)

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

With Iraqi Parliament Approving Pact, Maliki's Stature Grows

Iraqi parliament backs US pullout

The Iraqi parliament approves a plan on the future of US forces in Iraq, paving the way for complete withdrawal by 2011.

Text of Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (pdf)

Iraq Referendum Deal Won't Effect Pact Any Time Soon

Sadr Bloc MP: Pact Passage Violates Constitution

Excerpts From US-Iraqi Security Agreement

Iran Says Navy Can Strike Well Beyond Its Coast

Russia to Complete Iran Nuclear Plant in 2009

UN Sets Date to Try Rafiq Hariri Assassins

H9 Ha’aretz – Benn Swan song for two lame ducks

Roni Bart: Obama only makes demands of Israel, not the Palestinians

Anshel Pfeffer: U.S. Jews jealous of Israelis who don't have to grapple with Jewish identity

Yoel Marcus: Sadly, Israel's Obama hasn't appeared, nor is he likely to

ANALYSIS / Is al-Qaida behind the Mumbai terror attacks?

India declines Israeli offer of aid delegation to Mumbai Barak offers India security, intelligence and humanitarian aid in dealing with the situation

Jerusalem PostAnalysis: Terrorism has truly become war, and we need to rethink how we fight it

By DAVID ALTMAN
Since the era of the suicide bombers, terror groups have upgraded to include paramilitary unit

Lack of Syria nuke info baffles IAEA

ElBaradei criticizes Israel for supposedly bombing nuclear site and US for waiting to provide intel.

Mumbai Terror: In cold blood

No religious creed can ever justify waging war against civilians.

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Why India? Why Now?

Ron Ben-Yishai analyzes terror offensive in India, objectives and motives of perpetrators Move embassy to J'lem'

US Jews urge president-elect Barack Obama to move American embassy from Tel Aviv to capital

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

Find a new negotiating paradigm for the Palestinians
By Mohammad Yaghi

The Economist Israel The fading of Labour The party of the old establishment is dying under Ehud Barak

The UN, Israel and racism At risk of early derailment

Israel's Lebanon War Showcased Cluster Bomb Horrors

Yiddish, a language once spoken by more than 10 million Jews, had a profound effect on American culture in the first half of the 20th century... more»

What Is Killing the Prospect of Mideast Peace? - Janet Albrechtsen

Indian Forces Storm Mumbai Jewish Center

Israeli FM Won't Rule Out Action in India

Livni urges Olmert to step down

The leader of Israel's governing Party, Tzipi Livni, calls on Ehud Olmert to quit after the attorney-general says he may charge hi

H10 Christian Science Monitor

ASIA

The Economist Terror in India The Mumbai attacks A dangerous new front-line in the global war against terrorism

The EU and China The summit of discourtesy Crisis or no crisis, China’s diplomatic priorities prevail

Pakistan: Indian Afghanistan 'Aid' Subverted

India's Suspicion of Pakistan Clouds US Strategy in Region

Meet the Taliban - Clifford May, National Review

China's Latin American Tango - William Ratliff, Wall Street Journal

An Essential Partnership with China - Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian

China's Guantanamo Problem - Mark Kukis, Time

H11 IHT H.D.S. Greenway: A team of rivals The big difference between Lincoln and Obama is that less was expected of Lincoln at first.

CHINA, SÍ, RUSSIA, NO?

Fidel's choice By ANDREW SMALL AND CAROLINA FERRER RINCON

It was once said of Fidel Castro that his "stomach is in Moscow but his heart is in Beijing." Now the opposite seems to be true

ASSAULT ON MUMBAI

Eyewitness to terror

By RAHUL SINGH

Wednesday's attack is the first time that south Mumbai, a favorite for foreign tourists, and the city's financial center, has been targeted in such a big way.

Czech Senate approves U.S. missile defense base

AP

The upper chamber of the Czech Parliament on Thursday approved a deal with Washington to accept a U.S. missile defense installation

Switzerland to join EU passport-free zone

AP

Switzerland will join the European Union's passport-free travel zone next month under an agreement reached Thursday.

EUROPE European press review

The Economist Charlemagne Europe's surprising labour flexibility How migrating workers from eastern Europe are improving labour markets

Policy in Europe

Those reluctant Germans

Transdniestria: a family quarrel , Thomas de Waal

H12 RFE/RL

Putin's Intentions Debated After Shift on 4-Year Term

Google News Azerbaijan

Russia Applauds US Moves on NATO Membership

Polish Security Head Fired After Shooting in Georgia

Russian president ends Venezuela visit -- after tussle

H13 The Times Massacre in Bombay India looks into the abyss as extremist violence shakes the foundations of a secular demoracy

Commandos storm Bombay Jewish centre At least 17 black clad commandos abseiled from a helicopter onto the building as snipers also opened fire

Iraq gives US troops three years to get out The Iraqi Parliament approved a controversial security pact with Washington setting a timetable for US forces to leave

Iraq agreement opens way for democracy After months of debate, Parliament passed what is arguably the most important piece of legislation in its young history

We will bounce back sooner than people think My hunch is that the financial markets will make a sharp recovery next year. But the overmortgaged West will pay a price Martin Sorrell

India points the finger at Pakistan

Prime Minister blamed forces 'outside the country' as commandos fought suspected Islamist terrorists in Bombay

Focus on Westerners suggests al-Qaeda If Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out the attacks, it would be the first time the terror group has singled out Westerners

India cannot blame it all on outsiders Radical Islamist terrorism has flourished among the sub-continent's seething mixture of rivalries Maria Misra

Castro makes offer to meet Obama The head of the Communist regime and a US president have not come face to face since the island's revolution in 1959

Wall Street Journal  Obama's War Cabinet Gates and Jones are welcome signs of continuity.

 Syria and the Nuclear Cops

IAEA Chief Mohamed ElBaradei believes Syria deserves a new reactor.

Berlin ♥ Iran III REVIEW & OUTLOOK Good relations between these two countries is a matter of tradition

India's Antiterror Blunders

By Sadanand Dhume
Years of appeasing militants has made the problem worse

 Thanksgiving Cheer From Obama By Karl Rove
He's assembled a first-rate economic team.

Murder in Mumbai

Turbulence Ahead DECLARATIONS By Peggy Noonan Some things to be thankful for in depressing times

H14 Financial Times Broken banks put state back in the driving seat

Something big is happening. What started as a series of pragmatic ad hoc responses by governments and central banks is moving the boundary between state and market. Expediency is now overlaid with ideology. Government is no longer a term of abuse, says Philip Stephens

Iran in about-turn towards security agreement Tehran is said to be satisfied with the changes won by Iraq in the pact with the US, suggesting it ‘sees the future of US policy in a new light and seeks to cooperate with Washington’

India points finger at Pakistan

Prime minister blames ‘neighbours’ for attacks

Eurozone set for rate cut of at least 50bp Region faces worst downturn since early 1990s

Dark art of assessing oil production cuts When the Opec oil cartel meets in Cairo tomorrow, some of its most powerful members will argue that the key action the group must take is to keep strictly to the 1.5m

Top Chinese official warns on downturn Job losses and unrest feared

LSE grads join team Obama

Three of the first 15 cabinet and White House appointments earned degrees from the London School of Economics, illustrating a broader point about the new regime’s composition

How Britain flirts with disaster

Martin Wolf on the pre-Budget report

Economists’ forum

Bolivarian bravado As Chávez prepares to mark a decade in power in Venezuela, there are growing doubts over his achievements

Credit creationism Measures to limit the severity of the present crisis without exacerbating long-term risks will test their balancing skills

Mumbai comes under siege

What matters now is that the Indian government does not overreact. Otherwise, the attackers really will have got the terror formula right

Business fears over Chinese-French rift Business leaders expressed concern that French commercial interests in China could be harmed in the wake of the cancellation of a sum

Lithuania vows not to follow Hungary to IMF Lithuania faces a sharp contraction of economic growth next year, but is determined not to follow the example of Hungary and Latvia and turn to international institutions for emergency help, Lithuania’s incoming prime minister says

H15 Los Angeles Times Iraq lawmakers OK pact allowing U.S. forces to stay through 2011 Iraqi lawmakers today approved a pact allowing U.S. forces to stay in the country through 2011 after winning support from skeptics by promising a public referendum on the plan

Al Qaeda just one suspect in India terrorist attacks Several extremist groups have been active in India and may have been involved in the Mumbai attack

Cyber-attack on Defense Department raises concerns The 'malware' strike, thought to be from inside Russia, hit combat zone computers and the U.S. Central Command overseeing Iraq and Afghanistan

Opium poppy harvest declines 6% in Afghanistan Eradication effort, along with drought and a global food shortage that boosted the price of wheat, cut production of the crop, which is used to make heroin

Editorial

H16 American Politics

The Economist Barack Obama's economic team Off to work they go

The transition 2 Masters of war

Bailing out the carmakers A catalytic conversion

Lexington Head of State The Obama-Clinton soap opera is set to run for another few years

Obama Picks Foxes to Guard Henhouse - Robert Scheer, SF Chronicle

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H17 Daily Telegraph Barack Obama turns to the old guard Little more than three weeks after Mr Obama achieved his victory, many who voted for him are starting to fear that they are in for a Clinton third term, writes Con Coughlin.

We must stand shoulder to shoulder with India The attack by Islamist terrorists on Mumbai was the eighth such outrage in India since May, but by far the most sophisticated and bloody.

H18 Independent Grief, relief and fear as the battle of Mumbai still rages As the death toll rose to 119, the last, defiant militants continued to hold out in the face of a fierce offensive by Indian commandos.

Leading article: A terrorist atrocity with tangled regional roots

How terror unfolded: They came by boat to kill their enemies

The Investigation: India's nightmare: were the killers home-grown?

31 December 2011: day the last US soldier leaves Iraq After tortuous negotiations, Baghdad parliament sets definitive timetable for American withdrawal

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Hamish McRae: The question is how to spend our way out of this global recesssion

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

Los Angeles Times Cyber-attack on Defense Department raises concerns

The 'malware' strike, thought to be from inside Russia, hit combat zone computers and the U.S. Central Command overseeing Iraq and Afghanistan

Effects-Based Approaches to Operations: Canadian Perspectives Canadian Department of National Defence A 266-page Canadian monograph analyzing the militsry concept of effects-based operations from the Canadian perspective

Closing Down The Dark Side ( Barack Obama is already under pressure to roll back the harsher facets of the Bush Administration's war on terrorism. Why some liberals may be disappointed

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A Global Policy Package to Address the Global Crisis ILO

Smoking, governments and health A wisp of public-spiritedness

H21 Anthropology is at war with itself, split into two schools: social anthropologists on one side, evolutionary anthropologists on the other... more»

Is Google Deal a Setback for Rival Digitization Efforts?

Anti-intellectualism in presidential speeches is a serious problem because of the way it allows public discourse to be infected with demagoguery... more»

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Season's Readings

The editorial page's annual list of recommendations for the best books published in 2008. (Boston Globe)

Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses Lincoln, Obama — and their 'rivals'

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