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H1 Wall Street Journal We're Heading Toward a Global Weimar By Jacques Attali
Things are grim, but he who masters green tech will be a superpower.

Geopolitical Diary: Shadowy Motives in an Azerbaijani's Death The calculated manner of the Azerbaijani air force chief's killing suggests several possibilities for who might have been behind it.

Los Angeles Times U.S. now sees Iran as pursuing nuclear bomb In a reversal since a 2007 report, U.S. officials expect the Islamic Republic to reach development milestones this year.

Israel vote deals a setback to U.S. peace effort in Mideast In backing right-wing parties, Israelis have shown they don't want to negotiate with a weak Palestinian Authority

Foreign Policy The Worst
Is Yet to Come
Five economists who got it (mostly) right peer into the economic abyss. NORIEL ROUBINI | STEPHEN S. ROACH | DAVID M. SMICK | ROBERT J. SHILLER | DEAN BAKER

The Middle East Moves East BY: John B. Alterman | World Politics Review The U.S. government's map of the Middle East is changing. Long dominated by the Arab-Israeli conflict, U.S. conceptions of the Middle East are drifting eastward, increasingly centering in the Persian Gulf and coming to envelop the mountains and plains of Afghanistan and Pakistan

Iran to Obama: Let’s Tango! :: Scott MacLeod - TIME.com

Daniel C. Kurtzer Despite Paralysis in Israeli Politics, US Peace Efforts Crucial - Council on Foreign Relations

Der Spiegel Thawing Relations?: US and Iran 'Like Two Boxers Circling around a Ring'

After Israel's Election, Palestinians Weigh a New Intifadeh

Maliki responds to Biden: the age of American pressure on Iraq has ended ... in al-Sharq al-Awsat.

Jerusalem PostConsensus forming on Likud-led unity gov't with Kadima

Netanyahu ready to give Livni 2 of top 4 ministries and equal cabinet representation; Kadima privately admits Bibi will be asked to form coalition.

'Right-wingers outnumber leftists 2-1'

Poll shows 30% identify as right-wing, 13% center-right, 24% center, 13% center-left, 6% Left.

Assessing the Obama Mideast team [ STEVEN J. ROSEN,

Analysis: The coalition calculus of saying 'no' to America
Backed by a wide coalition, a prime minister can stand all kinds of pressure from abroad

New York Times Deal Reached in Congress on $789 Billion Stimulus Plan The package includes tax cuts and $150 billion in spending on infrastructure but ended up smaller than either the House or Senate had proposed

Stimulus Victory for Obama, but in a New Political Climate For President Obama, the positive outcome of the stimulus bill negotiation could either be an opening act for a more ambitious agenda or a harbinger of reduced expectations.

ROGER COHEN Iran’s Inner America In Iran, people under 30 thirst for contact with the outside world and, above all, an America that looms with all the power of myth

Editorial Mr. Obama and Russia Washington should restart its relationship with Moscow, but it cannot mean absolving Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin of its authoritarian ways.

Guardian  Nato is creaking David Davis: The alliance is imperilled from within and without. Members urgently need to reassess its ambitions

Scepticism about peace process drives electorate's drift towards the right With almost all votes counted in the Israeli elections, rightwing and religious parties control 64 of the 120 seats

Obama officials despair as poll outcome puts focus on US-Israeli linksIsraeli election deadlock expected to complicate US review of Middle East policy

Awkward alliance Editorial: The forthcoming Israeli election is a watershed in both Israeli and international politics

Respecting Iran in Iraq Ranj Alaaldin: Iranian influence in Iraq cannot be wished away. It also has positive aspects that are often overlooked

A toxic force rises in Israel

Jonathan Freedland: The country needs to take a long hard look at itself after a vote that has elevated a far right politician, Avigdor Lieberman, to kingmaker

Popular Rage Grows as Global Crisis Worsens

Der Spiegel As the global economic crisis deepens, tempers around the world are getting shorter. French and British trade unions are organizing strikes, Putin is sending troops into the streets and Beijing is trying to buy itself calm.

Things to Consider When Approaching Iran BY: Peter Kiernan | World Politics Review Obama has a huge task ahead of him should he attempt to break the 30-year American-Iranian deadlock, but the payoff could be significant.

Winep Israeli Election Results: Implications for Middle East Peacemaking

Some Conjecture: An Israeli-Saudi Alliance

Christian Science Monitor

Key to who will govern Israel: Avigdor Lieberman

In a country divided between the centrist Kadima and hawkish Likud parties, a new kingmaker emerges from the far right.

Coordinated Kabul assault shows Taliban strength Insurgents attacked three government offices in a heavily fortified area Wednesday, a day before US envoy Holbrooke's visit.

The Times This patient requires radical surgery Unless governments stop posturing for the sake of headlines, nationalisation of every bank is inevitable Anatole Kaletsky

Financial Times Heaven help America’s banking system

The US Treasury secretary is a good conciliator. Geithner’s years at the New York Federal Reserve have taught him how to stroke politicians. But his challenges are just starting – Wednesday’s thrashing of Wall Street bankers was an appetiser for Congress, writes John Gapper

Israel backs into political gridlock

The overall triumph of the right elbows aside any chance Israel will look to its future by giving up settlements and clearing the way for a Palestinian state - Feb-11

Relax your reserve The IMF was founded to channel capital from surplus to deficit countries but its available resources are far from sufficient

Poll results set to worsen Arab tensions Analysts say the spectre of a rightwing Israeli administration further dims hopes of resolving conflict in the region, with some suggesting it could increase the chances of violence

Which is the real Pakistan?

David Pilling on the nation’s ambiguity

Stratfor Part 3: The Russian Defense Industry Without the ability to innovate, the Russian defense sector could eventually become irrelevant. This is part three of a four-part series on the reformation of the Russian military. (With Stratfor map)

Newsweek Kagan: Why Afghanistan Won't Be Obama's Vietnam

What Happens If China's, Russia's Economies Fail?

The End of American Capitalism?

H2 "Riskli Türkiye-ABD ilişkileri Bush'un eseri"

A New Direction for Turkey?: Erdogan Rides Wave of Popularity in Muslim World - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Khalil al-Anani: the rising powers in the Middle East -- Iran and Turkey ... Arab-Arab divisions and the old power blocs increasingly a distraction from the real balance of power with Israel and US. al-Hayat

In His Own Words: Erdogan on Israel, Hamas, and the Gaza Conflict Was the Turkish prime minister's outburst against Israeli president Shimon Peres in Switzerland an isolated incident, or representative of the Turkish government's attitude toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? This PolicyWatch collect's Erdogan's past comments on the issue to provide background and context.

US seeks to withdraw from Iraq using Turkish soil

AP Dış İlişkiler Komisyonu Türkiye raporunu kabul etti

'Türkiye'nin Arabuluculuğu Ortadan Kalkabilir'

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

KRG takes action against PKK Kurdish officials have imposed a security blockade around Qandil Mountain in northern Iraq to control Kurdish rebel activity in the region, officials said.

Kurds change name of legislative branch (UPI) -- Lawmakers with the legislative branch of the Kurdistan Regional Government Wednesday voted unanimously to change the official name of the body.

Cevdet Aşkın

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

Turkey and Armenia Move Closer to a Deal on Formal Diplomatic Relations BY: Emrullah Uslu | Eurasia Daily Monitor

To Maintain its Power the AKP Must Decisively Win March 29 Election

:A draft could be ready by fall for Cyprus

Ex-envoy warns Armenian issue could be "defining" Turkey-US ties

EU lawmakers urge Turkey to speed Cyprus cooperation — n

Turkey: MEPs concerned at lack of progress in talks with EU

Cyprus President: Talat must be left alone to negotiate

’Nabucco project not anti-Russian’

Turkey econ min says no new development on IMF deal - Forbes.com

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

The slow road to revelation Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a director who likes to let things unfold slowly. He is also a proficient photographer

Can Turkey kick football racism out of the stadiums?

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H4 New York Times Deal Reached in Congress on $789 Billion Stimulus Plan The package includes tax cuts and $150 billion in spending on infrastructure but ended up smaller than either the House or Senate had proposed

Stimulus Victory for Obama, but in a New Political Climate For President Obama, the positive outcome of the stimulus bill negotiation could either be an opening act for a more ambitious agenda or a harbinger of reduced expectations.

20 Dead as Taliban Attackers Storm Kabul Offices The attacks underscored the deteriorating security in Afghanistan on the eve of a visit by the U.S. envoy.

In Israeli Vote, With Two Parties Nearly Tied, the Winner Is Gridlock

Afghan Arms Are at Risk, Report Says

Obama Weighs Adding Troops in Afghanistan

Security Talks About Iraq Not Needed, Iran Signals

ROGER COHEN Iran’s Inner America In Iran, people under 30 thirst for contact with the outside world and, above all, an America that looms with all the power of myth

Editorial Mr. Obama and Russia Washington should restart its relationship with Moscow, but it cannot mean absolving Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin of its authoritarian ways.

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Escaping the Bust Bowl

America’s horror of “nationalization” could be defused by handing out shares to all American households.

Anybody Got a Better Idea?

By PETER CATAPANO

Criticism is easy, economics is hard.

H5 Washington Post Congress Reaches Stimulus Accord

$790 Billion Bill Expected To Receive Final Approval And Go to Obama Soon

Netanyahu, Livni Start to Build Competing Coalitions in Israel

Taliban Fighters Strike in Kabul, Killing at Least 20

Car Bombings Kill 16 in Shiite Area of Baghdad Dual Car Bombs Target Shiite Area

Lost U.S. Weapons May Be Going to Taliban, GAO Says

Editorial Mr. Chávez vs. the Jews

With George W. Bush gone, Venezuela's strongman has found new enemies.

Runaway Stimulus By George F. Will, Spend $789 billion and reshape our government? No time to debate that now!

Obama and Geithner - Getting Lost in the Middle By E. J. Dionne Jr.,

When will the Obama administration learn that bland centrism achieves nothing?

One Thing Darwin Didn't Know

By Rick Weiss, On the 200th anniversary of his birth, it's worth remembering a fight he knew not to pick.

National Security Innovation That Isn't

Biden in the House By David S. Broder, The Senate veteran is adjusting to his new role.

H6 Guardian  Nato is creaking David Davis: The alliance is imperilled from within and without. Members urgently need to reassess its ambitions

Scepticism about peace process drives electorate's drift towards the right With almost all votes counted in the Israeli elections, rightwing and religious parties control 64 of the 120 seats

Obama officials despair as poll outcome puts focus on US-Israeli linksIsraeli election deadlock expected to complicate US review of Middle East policy

Awkward alliance Editorial: The forthcoming Israeli election is a watershed in both Israeli and international politics

Respecting Iran in Iraq Ranj Alaaldin: Iranian influence in Iraq cannot be wished away. It also has positive aspects that are often overlooked

A toxic force rises in Israel

Jonathan Freedland: The country needs to take a long hard look at itself after a vote that has elevated a far right politician, Avigdor Lieberman, to kingmaker

Israeli rivals seek coalition

Centrist leader Livni meets far-right's Lieberman in attempt to woo small parties after close poll

Jonathan Spyer: Surface squabbles, underlying unity

Petra Marquardt-Bigman: Victory for the block vote

Carlo Strenger: Israel's age of fragmentation

Uri Dromi: Time for a re-run?

Benjamin Pogrund: More roadblock than roadmap in the Middle East

Bad news for President Obama? Simon Tisdall: Israel's election result could force the US leader to negotiate with Binyamin Netanyahu – can a thinker and an in-fighter connect?

Booing Davos Man is a start, but the crisis runs far deeperSeumas Milne: Responsibility for this slump goes beyond a few greedy bankers. To beat it will mean ditching the ideology that fuelled it

Taliban kill 20 at state offices in Kabul before US envoy's visit Insurgents storm justice ministry and hold it for two hours before Afghan security forces regain control

Brown and the bankers Editorial: The intellectual alternative to the free market that Mr Brown promised in 1992 is more necessary than ever

Congress reaches deal on stimulus plan The two houses of Congress must now vote on the compromise bill, which may soon reach President Obama's desk

Russian and US satellites crash in space Nasa sounds alert as 25,000mph collision at 400 miles above Earth leaves cloud of debris drifting in space

Officials 'hid torture proof from Obama'

US blanked out files on abuse of British resident in Guantámo, lawyers claim

Watching us, via Europe's back door Tony Bunyan: The ECJ ruling on retention of our communications data shows that threats to our liberties are now originating in the EU

H7

Popular Rage Grows as Global Crisis Worsens

Der Spiegel As the global economic crisis deepens, tempers around the world are getting shorter. French and British trade unions are organizing strikes, Putin is sending troops into the streets and Beijing is trying to buy itself calm.

Things to Consider When Approaching Iran BY: Peter Kiernan | World Politics Review Obama has a huge task ahead of him should he attempt to break the 30-year American-Iranian deadlock, but the payoff could be significant.

Hoping for a Spontaneous Regime Change in Iran

The Geopolitics of Food Scarcity - Lester Brown, Der Spiegel

MARC LYNCH Arab newspapers care more about China than Israel

Obama gives up on promoting democracy BY WILL INBODEN

DAVID ROTHKOPF Foreign-policy writing doesn't actually have to be pompous

Why rogue states are now neorealists

Lebanon: A new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies looks at the development of the Lebanese Armed Forces since the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon in April 2005.

In Iraq, a Vote of No Confidence - Daud Salman, RealClearWorld

The first chapter from A Necessary Engagement: Reinventing America's Relations with the Muslim World by Emile Nakhleh.

Hawks home to roost: The liberal interventionists are back, and will have a pretty loud voice on Obama’s staff — will he listen to them?

Analysis of the Munich Conference on Russia, Iran and Afghanistan issues by Walid Phares

Al Hayat The International Tribunal and the Fourth Anniversary of the Hariri Assassination

Washington and Tehran: From Wrestling to Chess?

Video Briefing: Khatami's Underdog Status

Iran's former two-term president, Mohammad Khatami, recently announced his plans to challenge incumbent President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in a presidential election slated for June. Khatami is regarded by some as reformers' best hope despite obstacles to a substantive challenge to the country's current hard-line administration. In the latest of RFE/RL's occasional briefings, Radio Farda correspondent Mehrdad Mirdamadi talks about Khatami's underdog status, despite Iranian grievances aimed at the mis

Victory Over Tradition

For Iranian Shi'a, the Islamic Revolution seemed like a dream come true, pushing their faith to the forefront. Yet it subverted centuries-old traditions in which senior clerics remained largely independent of the state

An election that raises Syria's appetite
By Michael Young

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

Iraq: String of Bombings Threatens Relative Calm

Iraqi FM 'Assured' of No Quick US Pullout

Gear for Iraq May Extend US Stay

Bombing rocks Baghdad bus station
At least 16 people are killed in an explosion at a bus terminal in the Iraqi capital
Baghdad.

Uneasy alliance

The diverse groups which united to oust the Shah

Iraq: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told reporters that the era of U.S. dominance in Iraq has ended (AFP). "The Iraqi government knows what are its responsibilities," he said.

Ethnic conflict specialist proposes Iraq withdrawal

Syria poised to transfer Iranian mobile anti-air missiles to Lebanese Hizballah

Feb 11 SD# 2240 - Al-Arabiya TV Director in 'Al-Sharq Al-Awsat' on Upcoming Iranian Presidential Election: Don't Wish for a Khatami Victory

H9 Ha’aretz Livni: I'll fight on to form coalition, despite poor odds A day of coalition talks makes clear Netanyahu has considerable advantage in forging right-wing government

White House: Unclear how Israel poll will affect Mideast peace State Department spokesman says U.S. does not intend to intervene in internal Israeli politics

Abbas: Isolate Netanyahu gov't like Hamas

OPINION / In the election, the left got what it deserved Barak lost the elections because he did not have the courage to decisively defeat the terror of Gaza.

Soul-searching on the left The left parties must rehabilitate and rebuild themselves in the opposition as a serious left alternative to the right-wing bloc that won the election.

Gideon Levy / Does Zionism legitimize every act of violence and injustice? Anyone who wants a meaningful left to rise up in Israel must first air out Zionism in the attic.

Major reforms are unlikely, but electoral threshold could be raised

Who will be the next defense minister?

Jerusalem PostConsensus forming on Likud-led unity gov't with Kadima

Netanyahu ready to give Livni 2 of top 4 ministries and equal cabinet representation; Kadima privately admits Bibi will be asked to form coalition.

'Right-wingers outnumber leftists 2-1' Poll shows 30% identify as right-wing, 13% center-right, 24% center, 13% center-left, 6% Left.

Assessing the Obama Mideast team [ STEVEN J. ROSEN,

Analysis: The coalition calculus of saying 'no' to America
Backed by a wide coalition, a prime minister can stand all kinds of pressure from abroad

Election equations

Agenda-driven media outlets claim Israel holds nearly all diplomatic cards

The Pollard Affair: Was it dual loyalty?

[ ELI KAVON, The heavy price of citizenship is that Jews lost their national identity.

The rise of Avigdor Lieberman

With Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli voters said no to the past By Danny Ayalon

The right-wing candidate represents a disillusionment with policies that have failed to achieve peace

Yedioth Ahronoth Kerry to meet Assad in Syria

Senator's spokesman: Obama administration aware of plans, helping arrange Mideast trip

'Livni, consider opposition'
Political sources estimate President Peres will task Likud leader Netanyahu with forming next government; Kadima official says chairwoman 'should not necessarily be dragged into coalition that also features Shas, Lieberman'

Don't fear rightist coalition

Mor Altshuler urges Likud Chairman Netanyahu to keep leftist parties out of his government

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

The Rise of Avigdor Lieberman BY: M.J. Rosenberg | Los Angeles Times Israel is becoming a right-wing country. That is the most significant thing you need to know about Tuesday's election returns.

Horse-trading

Tortuous talks will follow Israel's inconclusive poll

Winep Israeli Election Results: Implications for Middle East Peacemaking

Hamas Challenge to the PLO: Opportunities and ProspectsDays after the end of Israeli military operations in Gaza, Hamas began a campaign to replace the PLO with a new, Hamas-dominated body devoted to violence. The outcome of this political struggle will shape the future of Palestinian politics and prospect for peac

Don't expect Israel's parties to be very unlike By Barnett R. Rubin

Jeffrey Goldberg:

A Stunning Israeli Election

Former CIA Official on Engagement With Hamas and Middle East Peace

Israeli press bemoans political stalemate

Israel's Big Winner: 'Peace Skeptics' BY: Benny Avni | New York Post Israeli voters yesterday threw a wrench into the plans of the world's peace processors -- President Obama included.

Israel's Age of Fragmentation BY: Carlo Strenger | The Guardian The country's overwhelming anxiety led to a narrow election, stifling innovative ideas for peace and allowing the right to thrive.

Israel's Baffling Election Explained - Fania Oz-Salzberger, Forbes

Israel's Left Did Not Crumble - Uri Misgav, Ynet News


A Toxic Force Rises in Israel - Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian

New Leadership, Same Problems for Israel - Emile Hokayem, The National

The Somalization of Hamas : Dr. Hamad Al-Majid

PBS After Parliamentary Elections, Israel Faces Political Deadlock

Daily Star Israel's central role in the resurgence of 'anti-Semitism'

Israel Vote Bad Omen for Obama Peace Plans

Netanyahu offers Livni 10 portfolios, may form government without Lieberman

US opinionators fazed by rise of Israeli right?

U.S. Urged to Be Flexible on Hamas BY: NIcholas Kralev | The Washington Times An influential Palestinian lawmaker visiting Washington urged the Obama administration to accept a government for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip that would bridge divisions between the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority and Hamas.

From JBooks, an essay on the philosophical roots of secular Jewishness/Judaism

Paul Buhle on the Jewishness of Jews Without Money; a review of Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce by Sarah Abrevay

an article on the Madoff scandal and the future of American Jewr

Retribution for Mughniyah: A Dish Served Cold?

When will Hizbullah avenge Mughniyeh assassination?

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Key to who will govern Israel: Avigdor Lieberman

In a country divided between the centrist Kadima and hawkish Likud parties, a new kingmaker emerges from the far right.

Coordinated Kabul assault shows Taliban strength Insurgents attacked three government offices in a heavily fortified area Wednesday, a day before US envoy Holbrooke's visit.

Accord reached on stimulus bill: $789 billion for 3.5 million jobs

House and Senate negotiators crafted a deal Wednesday, pushing for floor votes this week. Tax cuts make up about a third of the total expenditure.

Will the stimulus bill boost public confidence?

Americans need a lift. A big spending package may provide at least a little one, pollsters say.

Next flash point over terror detainees: Bagram prison

With Guantánamo set to close, more attention is falling on the US military facility in Afghanistan and those in custody there.

Obama buys time for zombie banks The Geithner plan must limit the public money to back private purchases of bad assets.

Lincoln at 200: still a light for democracy's moral purpose

Critics saw in America a 'pigpen of freedom.' He saw a cause worth dying for.

ASIA

The Lights Come On in Kabul BY: Jean MacKenzie | Global Post For the first time since the fall of the Taliban, the majority of homes in the capital are lit throughout the night, allowing the use of televisions, irons, computers, and other accoutrements of modernity that had long been denied to Kabul’s besieged inhabitants.

The Lessons of Mumbai Rand Corporation This 32-page study of the Mumbai, India, terrorist attack of November 2008 identifies the operational and tactical capabilities displayed by the terrorists and evaluates the response of the Indian security forces

War between India and Pakistan?

From Dissent, is China a threat to or threatened by democracy?

CFR Iran and the Future of Afghanistan

Taleban test Can US envoy turn tide against the militants?

China's National Defense in 2008

U.S. Envoy Told Dialogue Works Better BY: Sana Abdallah | The Middle East Times Richard Holbrooke, the new U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, was in Islamabad on Tuesday meeting Pakistani leaders as the U.S. Barack Obama administration reviews its policy to change the course of the war against the Taliban and al-Qaida in South Asia

Waiting for Richard Holbrooke - M.K. Bhadrakumar, The Hindu

Pakistan: Taliban Gain Momentum BY: Naveed Ahmad | ISN Security Watch Pakistan's new democratically elected government appears to be losing control across the country, as the tribal area threatens to implode under the specter of a strengthening Taliban insurgency

Deadly attacks hit Afghan capital

Mrs. Clinton Goes to China - Gordon Chang, Forbes

India: New Delhi has reached a deal with Moscow for the purchase and supply of uranium pellets to fuel India's nuclear reactors (BBC). The deal is valued at $700 million.

Meet China's green crusader

By DANIEL K. GARDNER

In the last few years China has begun to take aggressive action to bring its air and water pollution under control.

Taliban show their strength with attack in Afghan capitalTaliban fighters stormed two government ministries and the prisons administration center Wednesday in Kabul in simultaneous assaults that killed at least 20 people, wounded more than 50 and underscored the ease with which the insurgents are able to penetrate the heavily guarded Afghan capital.

Giving Democracy a Chance BY: Philip Bowring | International Herald Tribune Bangladesh democracy was revived last December in what by most accounts was one of the fairest, best run elections seen anywhere in south Asia.

Domestic Trends in the United States, China, and Iran: Implications for U.S. Navy Strategic Planning
Source: RAND Corporation Summary (PDF; 210 KB)
+ Full Document (PDF; 1.1 MB)

Looking Into Holbrooke's Balkan Past

Richard Holbrooke, who is touring Afghanistan and Pakistan as Barack Obama's special envoy, is best known as the hard-nosed diplomat who brokered a peace deal for Bosnia in 1995. What does Holbrooke's legacy in the Balkans mean for the daunting task ahead in South Asia? More

India's elephant in the room Meena Varma: The success of Slumdog Millionaire obscures the real cause of poverty in India – the caste system

Drought threatens China's wheat crop

The region that produces 95 percent of the country's wheat is facing its worst drought in 50 years.

Ex-CIA official to chair Afghanistan-Pakistan review

Were the Kabul attacks inspired by Mumbai?

H11 IHT Roger Cohen: Iran's inner America 'Death to America' has become background noise, interesting as piped elevator music.

Europe aims to ease tension on protectionist policies The European Union on Wednesday said it would hold two more economic summit meetings in an effort to overcome disunity on tackling the slowdown

Russia open to better relations with NATO Russia is open to the possibility of letting the United States and NATO ship weaponry across its territory to Afghanistan if the broader relationship between Moscow and the West improves, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday.

EUROPE European press review

Yes Oui Can BY: Adar Primor | Haaretz French President Nicolas Sarkozy has no real intention of leaving the stage that has given him the aura of being "king of the world."

Arsonists in Greece attack 2 newspaper buildings

H12 RFE/RL

Stratfor Part 3: The Russian Defense Industry Without the ability to innovate, the Russian defense sector could eventually become irrelevant. This is part three of a four-part series on the reformation of the Russian military. (With Stratfor map)

Geopolitical Diary: Shadowy Motives in an Azerbaijani's Death The calculated manner of the Azerbaijani air force chief's killing suggests several possibilities for who might have been behind it.

Azerbaijan: Slain Air Force Chief Involved In U.S.-Russian Negotiations

SPIEGEL Interview with Russia's Energy Minister: 'We Cannot Continue to Waste Valuable Natural Resources'

A Ukraine mystery: Who did Russian gas sales benefit? When Ukraine and Russia ended their clash over natural gas supplies last month, resuming the flow to more than a dozen European countries, the agreement focused a spotlight on a mysterious firm that suddenly was cut out of the deal.

Georgia: Faith Is the Fashion, as Church Influence Soars Nearly two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Georgian Orthodox Church has become one of the most prominent actors in Georgias social and political life.

Kyrgyzstan: Fate of US Base for Afghan War Could Be up in the Air until April A vote determining the fate of an American air base in Kyrgyzstan may not take place until April, Kyrgyz legislators told EurasiaNet on February 11. Some observers say President Kurmanbek Bakiyev is pressing for a delay in order to make one last effort at squeezing better lease terms out of the United States. Other experts suggest Bakiyev is hedging so that he has leverage to make sure Russia follows through on its economic assistance commitments.

Azerbaijan: Air Force Chief Assassinated in Baku, Search for Suspects Ongoing Azerbaijans air force commander was shot and killed as he left his home on the morning of February 11, prompting a search by analysts and ordinary Azerbaijanis alike to identify a cause and a culprit.

Kyrgyzstan: Local Opinion Diverges on Fate of American Air Base at Manas As a bill deciding the fate of a US air base in Kyrgyzstan awaits parliamentary debate, a sampling of opinion in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital, shows that residents are divided over the facilitys future.

Google News Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan air force head killed

The commander of Azerbaijan's air force has been shot dead outside his house in the capital, Baku, officials say.

Shooting kills head of Azeri air force

The air force chief of Azerbaijan, the oil-producing state in the volatile southern Caucasus region, was shot and killed outside his home Wednesday

Time for Ukraine's Leaders to Rise Above Politics BY: Adrian Severin | European Voice Rapid accession to either NATO or the EU is simply not realistic for several reasons, the least of which is that Ukraine is nowhere near ready

U.S.-Russia: Missile Diplomacy BY: Jeremy Druker | ISN Security Watch Russia ditches plans to place missiles on the EU's doorstep in Kaliningrad and the US seems close to delaying its own missile defense shield plans in Eastern Europe, but the rhetoric continues

Getting Outswindled By a Swindler BY: Yulia Latynina | The Moscow Times The Russia-Ukraine gas war officially ended in Moscow on Jan. 19, when Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a 10-year agreement. But there was a strange epilogue when Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko demanded shortly thereafter that the agreement be annulled.

Russian and US satellites collide

US and Russian satellites collide in space, creating a cloud of debris above Siberia in the first such reported mishap.

With No Work In Russia, Central Asians Head Home

With jobs becoming increasingly scarce in Russia, large numbers of Central Asian migrant workers are returning to their home countries. But coming amid a growing economic crisis, the massive influx is not being welcomed by regional governments, which fear that ballooning unemployment could bring social unrest.

Russia Says No Retaliation Unless US Builds Shield

Iran, Russia, U.S.: The BMD link

Hints of a new U.S. policy on ballistic missile defense have left the Baltic states and the Central Europeans very nervous.

Economic Ills Spur Russian Openness Medvedev revived a dormant human-rights council and invited a handful of Kremlin critics to join, the latest in a series of small steps toward political openness in recent weeks.

Russia's Arms Sales to Sudan a First Step in Return to Africa: Part One

H13 The Times This patient requires radical surgery Unless governments stop posturing for the sake of headlines, nationalisation of every bank is inevitable Anatole Kaletsky

28 die in daring attack on Afghan government Co-ordinated attacks on several targets in Kabul by suicide bombers and gunmen ahead of visit by US envoy

Election plunges Israel into deal-making frenzy Israelis face a strange political landscape with two factions declaring victory and former bouncer holding keys to victory

ANALYSIS: peace left out in the cold Any surviving hopes for the sclerotic Middle East peace process have been firmly put into the deep freeze

Britain to send 300 more troops to Afghanistan

Specialist troops to be deployed within weeks in a move being seen as an attempt to head off any larger request from US

Wall Street Journal We're Heading Toward a Global Weimar By Jacques Attali
Things are grim, but he who masters green tech will be a superpower.

Israel's Semi-Right Turn

No surprise, given recent events.

New Government in Israel to Form Israeli elections boosted several right-wing parties, making it possible Netanyahu and not rival Livni will be asked to form the next government.

Obama's Legislative Victory Comes at High Cost

By Karl Rove Republicans did well to oppose the spending bill

Satellites Destroyed
In Orbital Collision
A
U.S. commercial satellite was destroyed in a crash with a defunct Russian military satellite. NASA said it was the first in-orbit spacecraft collision

Taliban Infiltrate Kabul, Kill 20

Taliban militants set off blasts at Afghanistan's Justice Ministry and another building, killing at least 20 people, on the eve of Holbrooke's visit.

How to Drive Innovation in Europe By J. Frank Brown and Jean-Philippe Courtois
Funding, yes, but mostly less red tape.

Daniel Henninger: Exactly How Does Stimulus Work?

US lawmakers reach stimulus deal

The US Congress reaches what President Obama praises as a "hard-fought compromise" on his economic stimulus plan.

Obama diary: The first 100 days

Q&A: Obama stimulus plan

Causes of the Financial Crisis (PDF; 594 KB)
Source: Congressional Research Service (via Taxpayers for Common Sense)

H14 Financial Times Heaven help America’s banking system

The US Treasury secretary is a good conciliator. Geithner’s years at the New York Federal Reserve have taught him how to stroke politicians. But his challenges are just starting – Wednesday’s thrashing of Wall Street bankers was an appetiser for Congress, writes John Gapper

Israel backs into political gridlock

The overall triumph of the right elbows aside any chance Israel will look to its future by giving up settlements and clearing the way for a Palestinian state - Feb-11

Relax your reserve The IMF was founded to channel capital from surplus to deficit countries but its available resources are far from sufficient

Poll results set to worsen Arab tensions Analysts say the spectre of a rightwing Israeli administration further dims hopes of resolving conflict in the region, with some suggesting it could increase the chances of violence

Which is the real Pakistan?

David Pilling on the nation’s ambiguity

Israeli leaders scramble to forge alliances Far right to play key role in PM decision

Opinion: How to avoid the ruin of the European market Taskforces chaired by the European Commission should co-ordinate state aid, making sure that national measures reinforce each other to the greater benefit of the sectors concerned and avoid bending competition rules, write Giuliano Amato and Emma Bonino

UN ‘will hold Israel to account on Gaza’ Ban Ki-moon, United Nations secretary-general, has signalled that the UN intends to hold Israel to account for its actions in targeting UN facilities during its recent military operation in Gaza regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s election

Look out for a rash of new business myths Jonathan Guthrie on the tyranny of certainties

Congress reaches deal on stimulus

Geithner fights back over rescue criticism


China to stick with US bonds

Misgivings about state of economy


EU to hold emergency anti-crisis summits Meetings aim to suppress protectionism

H15 Los Angeles Times U.S. now sees Iran as pursuing nuclear bomb In a reversal since a 2007 report, U.S. officials expect the Islamic Republic to reach development milestones this year.

Israel vote deals a setback to U.S. peace effort in Mideast In backing right-wing parties, Israelis have shown they don't want to negotiate with a weak Palestinian Authority

House and Senate agree on leaner stimulus bill Dems win three moderate GOP votes for the $789-billion plan. Supporters say it will create or preserve 3.5 million jobs

Bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims kill 20, injure 60 in Iraq The attacks end a monthlong lull in violence. They appear timed to coincide with Arbaeen, a holy occasion in which Shiite faithful trek to the city of Karbala

Iraq Cabinet member's exit raises gender, sectarian issues Nawal Samarai, a Sunni Arab, says she resigned because her ministry of women's affairs was a fake office. Critics say such 'ministers of state' were appointed to fill quotas and lack real power

Synchronized suicide attacks in Kabul kill at least 20 Deadly raids at three government buildings just before U.S. envoy's visit highlight security weaknesses.

The rise of Avigdor Lieberman

With Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli voters said no to the past

By Danny Ayalon The right-wing candidate represents a disillusionment with policies that have failed to achieve peace

The Mideast on rewind

Familiar faces are again vying for power. Consider Benjamin Netanyahu in...

Geithner's bigger TARP

The Obama administration's plan to bolster the U.S. financial system is...

Editorial

H16 American Politics

Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:

So Far, Amateur Hour — The first however-many days of Barack Obama's presidency have been a study in amateurism. — Many suspected that Obama wasn't quite ready, but kept their fingers crossed. Optimistic disappointment is the new holding pattern.

Newt Gingrich / Washington Times:

Where does the conservative movement go from here? — ANALYSIS/OPINION: — The conservative movement has a simple and almost certainly successful future if it does three things: — 1. Advocate first principles with courage, clarity, persistence and cheerfulness.

Poll: With 69 percent approval, Obama has political firepower

realclearpolitics memeorandum

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet

Politico ABC’s The Note MSNBC FirstReadTime ThePage Politico Playbook

PoliticsHome fivethirtyeight US News Political Bulletin

A review of So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government by Robert G. Kaiser (and more).

A review of Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America by Russ Baker.

H17 Daily Telegraph Peace is the big loser in the Israeli election

Israel could end up with its most hardline government for 20 years, predicts David Blair

Israel swings sharply to the right

Telegraph View: Labour has been eclipsed in Israel's general election.

The tragedy of Israel

The problems do not lie with the people, but with the hard line leaders with which they are afflicted, argues Liam Fox.

Israel election: Livni fights to become PM

Tzipi Livni, the leader of Israel's Kadima party, held talks with the far-Right politician who has become the country's "kingmaker".

H18 Independent Leading article: Israel's tricky electoral arithmetic

Anne Penketh: Obama will need all of his 'out-of-the-box' thinking to tackle Israel

Rival leaders court the 'kingmaker of the right'

Lieberman wooed as horse-trading begins, while Netanyahu takes pole position in race to lead coalition

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

The Lessons of Mumbai Rand Corporation This 32-page study of the Mumbai, India, terrorist attack of November 2008 identifies the operational and tactical capabilities displayed by the terrorists and evaluates the response of the Indian security forces

Panetta's Challenge: Going from Washington Insider to CIA Outsider

An excerpt from Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century by P. W. Singer (and an interview; and a review at Bookforum).

Terrorism requires calibrated response (UPI) -- India's defense minister is calling on leaders in the private and government sectors to strengthen cooperation to prevent future terrorist attacks.

69 computers missing from nuclear weapons lab

War of the Future: National Defense in Cyberspace

Obama's Position on Space Treaty is Impractical and Dangerous BY: Jason D. Wood | World Politics Review According to a recent article in Global Security Newswire, President Barack Obama might seek an international agreement to limit weapons in space, reversing Bush administration policy.

Bickering over German spy service's role (UPI) -- Germany's government coalition is bickering over the influence of the country's foreign spy service.

Iraq: U.S. Casualties (PDF; 127 KB) Source: Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS)

Is Obama following Bush's lead on records decisions?

China's National Defense in 2008

Female FBI officer ‘tortured Mumbai terror attacks suspect with sex’

H20 Slate Exclusive Excerpts From Dick Cheney's Memoir

Stimulate First, Ask Questions Later
With the stimulus bill, Obama chose urgency over transparency.
John Dickerson

Blessed Be the Newsmakers
A new business model for the press: Declare itself a religion.

Scientists must rein in misleading climate change claims Vicky Pope: Overplaying natural variations in the weather diverts attention from the real issues

H21 Saving The New York Times

From The New Criterion, Gertrude Himmelfarb revisits the lasting, provocative wisdom of Edmund Burke

The New Washington Press Corps: As Mainstream Media Decline, Niche and Foreign Outlets Grow
Source:
Pew Research Center Project for Excellence in Journalism

The Origin of Darwin

By OLIVIA JUDSON

A look back at the life of Charles Darwin, who was born 200 years ago today. His work transformed our understanding of the planet and of ourselves.

The politics of ME, ME, ME: The shrillness and point-scoring of much internet-based discussion — on topics as diverse as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and chronic fatigue syndrome — is narrowing the space where a larger political dialogue should be.

Reading Malcolm Gladwell’s books is like watching Frank Capra movies (and more and more and more on Outliers).

From PUP, the first chapter from Rational Decisions by Ken Binmore; and an excerpt from Reason and Rationality by Jon Elster

a review of Memo to a New President: The Art and Science of Presidential Leadership by Michael Genovese

Will the Amazon Kindle Ship Outside the US? Can It?

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Obama’nın Güvenlik Kabinesi Üzerine Notlar 4 Aralık 2008
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ABD Seçimleri (ppt) - 10 Haziran 2008
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