November 15, 2006
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| H1 NYT Military Analysis: Get Out Now? Not So Fast, Experts Say By Michael Gordon
CSIS U.S. Policy Options in Iraq: A Primer READ MORE (repeat)
Washington Post Bush Initiates Iraq Policy Review Separate From Baker Group's By Robin Wright
Baker Ex Machina By David Ignatius
Guardian Why stop the Great Satan? He's driving himself to hell Simon Jenkins: Tehran can sit back and watch its tormentors sweat. But the US and Britain must start from diplomatic ground zero.
Christian Science Monitor Can Iran help in Iraq?
Ha’aretz Akiva Eldar An Iraq withdrawal, via Palestine In the coming politcal race, the U.S. will focus its interests on one part of the world.
Iraq: A Final (Bipartisan) Push? - Greg Djerejian, Belgravia Dispatch
Tony Karon James Baker vs. the Likud, Round II: This Time its Persian-al
New York Times Editorial The Road to Damascus It is time to give direct diplomacy with Syria a serious try.
Brookings Explosive Affinities: Cross-Border Consequences of Civil Strife in Iraq Pollack and Byman View Full Article (PDF—1,186kb)
Aye, Spy By JOHN DEUTCH Congress should promptly confirm Robert Gates to be secretary of defense, thank him for his willingness to serve, and tell him we expect great results.
Exclusive: Gates chosen to 'rein in Pentagon near-mutiny' Intel Sources Question Gates' Independence From Cheney, Rumsfeld
Slate war stories What Robert Gates can achieve in two years.
Financial Times Editorial No 'Gasfinger' plot
Dangers of Iran's bid for regional hegemony COMMENT: After the arguments, the figures still justify swift climate action What should matter is not the emotions that drive the people on either side of the climate debate, but rather whether the arguments advanced are persuasive, writes Martin Wolf. BBC Legacy of mistrust
UN sleuths find plutonium at Iran atom site: IAEA Carnegie Islamist Movements in the Arab World and the 2006 Lebanon War Direct to Full Text Paper CSIS Transforming NATO (…again) Key questions for NATO ahead of its summit later this month in Riga, Latvia. READ THE REPORT The Times Leader Pragmatism, not alchemy Excessive expectations are becoming a burden on the Iraq Study Group McClatchy Historian says peak oil production is still a quarter-century away... Study: World has three times more oil than estimated Asia Times Asymmetric challenge to the US colossus Inordinate US global dominance exercised in greedy, overly-muscular fashion and a growing determination on the part of the rising East to bring in a more equitable world order are fundamental forces fueling an inevitable neo-Cold War between the East and West. All it will take is a spark, such as over Iran or North Korea, to bring this asymmetric war into the open. - W Joseph Stroupe Guardian Veering off the road to recovery Brian Whitaker: Lebanon has run into a political impasse, and the country may once again be heading for a period of government paralysis.
A Middle East Nuke Race - Peter Brookes, New York Post
| H2 IHT Winning back the Turks Failure to take action now is likely to lead to a further deterioration of U.S.- Turkish relations and an increasing estrangement of Turkey from the West.
The Cypriots and the Kurds Why doesn't Turkey grant a big chunk of its own citizens - the Kurds - the same rights it demands for people who are not even Turkish nationals?
FT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: It was reckless to hold out EU hopes to Turks
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: A query for Sarkozy about Cyprus . . .
Turkey's EU accession By Tulin Daloglu Washington Times Turkey Says Iraq Must Not Be Split Up Germans Oppose Turkey's EU Accession
"İran'a yaptırımı Türkiye desteklemeli"
Talat "Rumlara önkoşul koymalı"
Washington'dan Avusturya'ya cevap: 'Müzakerelere mola' seçenek olamaz
Gül: Ermeni konusunda yeni açılım peşindeyiz
Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati
Kurdistan’s dance with history, modernity MSNBC –
The Other Iraq CBS 5
Tom Barnett The de facto division of Iraq continues apace with the Kurdish oil rush
DNO sees bigger Iraq oil discovery
BBP lideri Yazıcıoğlu'ndan Ağar'a Musul desteği
Drug Money Feeds PKK - Zaman Online
Osman ULAGAY 2007 için 'yumuşak iniş' duası
Ercan Kumcu Böyle yaşamaya gayret edeceğiz
Ege Cansen Çalmadı ama çalışmadı
Ekonomideki ayak izleri
ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Yabancı, bonoda iştahlı borsada iştahsız mı?
İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası - Dış Basında Güncel Türkiye Bülteni - Dış Basında Türkiye - Google News Turkey - Turquie- Türkei - Kurdish Media - FPR Archive - Quickread - Google News - Iraq -Iran - Syria – Kurdish - Greece - Azerbaijan Cyprus – - Israel - BBC Turkish 0700 -TurcoPundit - Stratfor Mideastwire.com
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Selimiye The Magnificent By Orhan Pamuk , Modernity or Tradition: Istanbul at a Crossroad Finds Its Own Way
An Essay on Redhouse's Pamphlet on the Ottoman Caliphate By Shaykh Daoud
Al - Qaida Suspect May Get Life in Prison RFE/RL Brussels Signs Accords With South Caucasus The EU today signed European Neighborhood Policy action plans with Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Paying Taxes: The Global Picture The Empire Goes on Defense by Michael T. Klare and Tom Engelhardt Neoconservatism, the Undead Ideology by Gary Kamiya
Los Angeles Times Memo to Rumsfeld's successor By Dov S. Zakheim Advice from a former Pentagon insider for the incoming Defense secretary, who inherits two tough wars and low morale.
Robert Fisk: Conflict in Middle East is Mission Implausible
White Paper on German Security Policy and the Future of the Bundeswehr, 2006
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AB'nin yapamayacakları Gündüz Aktan
Kurdish party platform pro-federation
Cengiz Çandar Tüm yazıları Bush yönetiminde ve Irak politikasında “karşı devrim”e doğru
İlnur Çevik Such insensitivity will only alienate Turkey TURKEY: IRAQI PM'S VISIT TO FOCUS ON KURDS AND KIRKUK
Cengiz Çandar Old Republican guard for a new Iraq? Murat Yetkin Irak'a harekâtın eşiğinden dönüldü (13.11) Ankara'nın sabrını Eruh'tan gelen haber taşırdı (14.11) Kuzey Irak temmuzda vuruldu (15.11)
Ertuğrul Özkök Amerika bizi mi satar, Kürtleri mi
ABD'yle büyük krizin eşiğindeyiz
M Ali Birand Ara verip, soluk alırsak, bu iş biter
DEF raporunu Ahmet Evin'le değerlendirdik
ERDAL ŞAFAK Ambargo
Nuh Gönültaş Duyduk duymadık demeyin, Türkiye'de 90 atom bombası var! Vatan Yetti artık Asayiş rakamları meydanın hırsıza, arsıza kaldığını vatandaşın sokağa çıkamaz hale geldiğini gösteriyor NAZLI ILICAK Tayyip Erdoğan'ın Cumhurbaşkanlığı provası: Medeniyetler İttifakı
ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU
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Mustafa Ünal Kongre şifreleri
Taha Kıvanç Godot'yu beklerken...
Tamer Korkmaz 'Mr. Kontrgerilla' adlı bir filme ne dersiniz?
İsmail Küçükkaya
MEHMET OCAKTAN
YAVUZ DONAT Siyaset alanı nasıl genişler?
Tufan Türenç Siyaset bilgesinin verdiği dersler
Şakir Süter Demirel'in ufuk turu
Ahmet Hakan Sezer çok mu tarafsız Fikret BİLA
Sami KOHEN ABD yeni strateji arayışında
Cüneyt Ülsever ABD’nin yeni savunma bakanı
Fehmi Koru Germeyelim, düşeriz
Sadi SOMUNCUOĞLU
Arslan BULUT AB ekseninde Bahçeli, Özdağ ve Somuncuoğlu!
Hasan ÜNAL İrtemçelik için değmez
'Plan B' in European Union policy: the Black Sea, Mediterranean and Eurasian Economic Unions
İncirlik, Irak’taki Amerikalı askerlerin hayatını kurtarıyor
Abdülhamit Bilici Günaydın!
Ömer Lütfi Mete Meçhuller ittifakı
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| H4 New York Times Editorial The Road to Damascus It is time to give direct diplomacy with Syria a serious try.
MAUREEN DOWD Pouring Chardonnay Diplomacy In the catfight between the Idealists and the Realists, the foreign affairs fur is flying.
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Bring in the Green Cat If it doesn’t radically change to more sustainable modes of design, transport, production and power generation, the Chinese miracle is going to turn into an eco-nightmare.
Aye, Spy By JOHN DEUTCH Congress should promptly confirm Robert Gates to be secretary of defense, thank him for his willingness to serve, and tell him we expect great results.
Dozens Abducted in Brazen Raid on Iraq Ministry Orders for police commanders to be arrested suggest the abductions may have been the work of death squads operating under Interior Ministry cover.
Editorial Spin and Consequences Americans have a right to know what standards their president has been applying to the treatment of prisoners.
Memo From Egypt: Silence and Fury in Cairo After Sexual Attacks on Women
U.N. Says Somalis Helped Hezbollah Fighters
Iran’s Leader Cites Nuclear Progress
C.I.A. Tells of Bush’s Directive on the Handling of Detainees
Blair, Clinton and Democrats Hold Meetings With Iraq Panel
Qaeda Leaders Losing Sway Over Militants, Study Finds
12 Detainees Sue Rumsfeld in Germany, Citing Abuse
| H5 Washington Post Bush Initiates Iraq Policy Review Separate From Baker Group's By Robin Wright
Baker Ex Machina By David Ignatius
Reid Pledges to Press Bush on Iraq Policy Democrats will not use Congress's power of the purse to starve the Iraq war effort of funds, the soon-to-be Senate majority leader says.
PostGlobal: Stay the Course in Iraq? After the decisive Democratic election victory, should the US begin withdrawing troops from Iraq now?
A Freedom Agenda for Japan By Fred Hiatt, TOKYO -- Shinzo Abe likes to point out that he is Japan's first prime minister born after World War II.
U.S. Commander in Iraq to Face Democrats Eager for Troop Cuts
IAEA Reports On Discovery At Iran Facility
William Arkin The Coming Purge at Defense Intelligence
Abe to Fortify U.S. Ties in Meeting With Bush
U.N. Report Cites Outside Military Aid to Somalia's Islamic Forces
Editorial Lebanon's New Crisis No shots have been fired, but Hezbollah has launched another dangerous offensive
| H6 Guardian Why stop the Great Satan? He's driving himself to hell
Veering off the road to recovery Brian Whitaker: Lebanon has run into a political impasse, and the country may once again be heading for a period of government paralysis.
Hizbullah leader sees collapse of government · Warning comes as more Shia ministers quit · Nasrallah accuses cabinet of collaborating with Israel
Mass kidnap of Iraqi academics
Leader al-Jazeera Al-Jazeera has come a long way in the decade since it launched. With the Middle East's media heavily censored, the Qatar-based television channel answered a crying need for a less restricted Arab voice and soon built a big audience.
Blessed are the peacekeepers Conor Foley: It's not perfect, and it's certainly not glamorous, but the UN is still the best hope we have of settling conflicts such as the one in Darfur.
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| H7 Carnegie Islamist Movements in the Arab World and the 2006 Lebanon War Direct to Full Text Paper McClatchy Historian says peak oil production is still a quarter-century away... Study: World has three times more oil than estimated Analysis: Oil conspiracies never die Asia Times Asymmetric challenge to the US colossus Inordinate US global dominance exercised in greedy, overly-muscular fashion and a growing determination on the part of the rising East to bring in a more equitable world order are fundamental forces fueling an inevitable neo-Cold War between the East and West. All it will take is a spark, such as over Iran or North Korea, to bring this asymmetric war into the open. - W Joseph Stroupe The Small Wars Journal has an important discussion thread entitled Iraq: Strategic and Diplomatic Options The Empire Goes on Defense by Michael T. Klare and Tom Engelhardt Neoconservatism, the Undead Ideology by Gary Kamiya CFR The Buzz over the Baker Report BBC Iraq Study Group Bush tests standing on Asia visit Military Matters: Wars and elections Lose a war, lose an election. What else should anyone expect, especially when the war is one we never had to fight? Morgan Stanley Global The Meaning of Money Justin Raimondo 11/15/2006 Benching Scowcroft Why the Iraq Study Group Won't Get Us Out of IraqBy RAY McGOVERNFox Neoconservatives: New Bush Advisers Will Raise White Flag in Middle East. Iraq: The Democrats' Next War - John Heilemann, New York Magazin James Baker and the Desert Storm Legacy - Austin Bay Tom Barnett The transformation of the intelligence community
| H8 UN sleuths find plutonium at Iran atom site: IAEA Iraq Panel Unlikely to End Debate on War Senate to Question US Commander in Iraq BBC Legacy of mistrust
Talking tough
Iran undecided on talks with United States on Iraq
Iraq panel unlikely to end debate on war
Analysis: Egypt looks to Russia, China for nuke power
Uncertain Iraq policy is the issue By Amir Taheri
Geopolitical Diary: Iran's Good-Faith Kidnapping Stratfor
ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT BRIEFING Divided Lebanon Confrontation between rival political groups is likely
McClatchy Hezbollah leader predicts collapse of Lebanese government
Hezbollah's thirst for added powers threatens peace
Tug of war with U.S. unsettles neighbors
AP poll: Most doubt Democrats have a plan for Iraq
Asia Times Argentina's Iranian nuke connection Prosecutors are seeking the arrest of Iranian ex-president Ali Akbar Rafsanjani and six other former top officials for the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center. The case hinges on Tehran's alleged anger over supposedly terminated nuclear cooperation with Argentina, but a new report indicates serious nuke talks between the two countries were ongoing. The prosecutors' case could bomb. - Gareth Porter
Maliki on a path to self-destruction Senate Vote Favors Iraq Reconstruction Watchdog Paper: Syria Ready for Dialogue With US on Iraq Marine General: Iraqi Govt Not Meeting Needs in Sunni Regions OpenDemocracy After the US elections: the road ahead for Iraq | Zaid Al-Ali
America's election: Daddy's swagger vs Mommy's care | Ruth Rosen
CSIS Pulitzer-winner Anthony Shadid Speaks about Iraq LISTEN TO THE EVENT |
| H9 Ha’aretz - Print Edition
Akiva Eldar An Iraq withdrawal, via Palestine Eye on the Mideast In the coming politcal race, the U.S. will focus its interests on one part of the world.
Hamas: Boycott to end even if PA gov't doesn't recognize Israel
BBC Out of ideas
Jerusalem Post In the Diaspora: An American parable[ SAMUEL FREEDMAN,
Eye of the Storm: The thumpin' as seen from the Middle East [ AMIR TAHERI,
Yedioth Ahronoth PM: Unite against Iran Analysis: Missed red flags on Israeli spy
Analysis: A Palestinian unity government
Al Jazeera enters the 'information war' - in English
Geopolitical Diary: A Compromise Prime Minister for the PNA Stratfor
Learning the Lessons of Madrid |
| H10 Christian Science Monitor Can Iran help in Iraq? Tony Blair and the Iraq Study Group both support bringing Iran and Syria into a cooperative effort.
Editorial Exiting Iraq with 'help' from Iran
Blair calls for new focus on Israeli- Palestinian conflict British PM says that the conflict's resolution is key to peace for the Mideast.
In talks with India, pressure's on Pakistan With Taliban in the west and separatists in the south, Pakistan hopes peace talks with India will shore up the east.
With midterms over, all eyes turn to the 2008 presidential race Who will stand out from the crowded field of White House hopefuls?
It's still two years to election day, but the race is already on Presidential candidates are lining up and the field is starting to take shape.
Big Oil headed for tougher Congress Democrats may repeal tax breaks for oil companies and propose their own comprehensive energy package.
| H11 IHT Blair's turn
UPI Analysis: Europe to rethink Iraq strategy?
White Paper on German Security Policy and the Future of the Bundeswehr, 2006
The Economist Down a gear Weaker growth figures suggest the euro area’s economic outlook is becoming less certain
Washington Times Where is the West? Two generations of not having to defend their own survival because they have been living under the protection of the American nuclear umbrella, have allowed too many Europeans to grow soft and indulge themselves in illusions about brutal realities and dangers.
Albania: Postponing Kosovo Decision Threatens Stability
| H12 RFE/RL Brussels Signs Accords With South Caucasus The EU today signed European Neighborhood Policy action plans with Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Georgia: What Led To Defense Minister's Demotion? Iran Vows 'Nuclearization' As IAEA Faults Cooperation Deal On WTO Entry Near Russia's quest to join the WTO appears to be nearing its end -- and what looks like a happy end after 13 years of stormy negotiations. Asia Times another 'axis of evil' candidate Much has been written about Russia's emerging status as a rival to US global dominance, but Moscow does not want to alienate the US, or Europe, too much. Far less worried about such things is former Soviet republic Belarus, which could have serious implications for the US-Iran standoff. - Dmitry Shlapentokh
The NATO-Russia Partnership: A Marriage of Convenience or a Troubled Relationship? Strategic Studies Institute |
| H13 The Times Leader Pragmatism, not alchemy Excessive expectations are becoming a burden on the Iraq Study Group
Iraqis left stunned by mass kidnappingIn a chillingly efficient raid that has shocked the city, about twenty armed men stormed the offices, brushing aside five armed guards at the door
We have conditions too, say Iran and Syria
Blair pushes US on Palestine conflict
Hamas limits coalition options
Battle lines are drawn for the next big contestsRudy Giuliani and John McCain have formed 'exploratory committees' to raise money and test the electoral water before declaring a presidential bid
WSJ Class Struggle American workers have a chance to be heard. By JIM WEBB
Father Knows Best? Four shorthands of the Bush 41 record. | H14 Financial Times Editorial No 'Gasfinger' plot
Dangers of Iran's bid for regional hegemony
MIDDLE EAST: Mass kidnap from Iraq education institute highlights security chaos
Iran says it will be ‘fully nuclear’ soon COMMENT: After the arguments, the figures still justify swift climate action What should matter is not the emotions that drive the people on either side of the climate debate, but rather whether the arguments advanced are persuasive, writes Martin Wolf. NATIONAL NEWS: Israel-Palestine deal is key to Middle East, says Blair
COMMENT: Why China must turn away from economic nationalism The international business community is worried. Several high-profile foreign takeovers of Chinese companies have recently ground to a halt, writes Tao Jingzhou of the law firm DLA Piper Beijing.
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Rising sum? Difficult choices await Japan despite a record postwar boomWhen the Japanese cabinet next releases its regular economic report, the current period of economic expansion is to be declared Japan’s longest postwar recovery. Before one gets carried away, however, it is worth taking a look at history.
| H15 Los Angeles Times Memo to Rumsfeld's successor By Dov S. Zakheim Advice from a former Pentagon insider for the incoming Defense secretary, who inherits two tough wars and low morale.
Army probes for answers on Iraqi kidnappings Today's raid is similar to one that occurred more than a month ago in which at least 60 workers were found slain days later. - At least 70 kidnapped from Baghdad building Power struggles unravel Democrats' unity
Editorial Hopes for the lame ducks This Congress can still make itself useful, but it should leave the NSA's surveillance program to the next one.
South Korea blinks Seoul should be getting tough on its northern neighbor, instead of allowing opportunities to slip away.
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| H16 ABC: Abramoff was set to implicate Rove, Democrats
Time Inside Pelosi's Power Play
Barbara Boxer plans Senate hearings on global warming
Signs of Democratic takeover were hard to missKarl Rove must read polls through red-colored glasses.
Rebuilding a conservative Republican majorityAdhere to principles of governance and society, regain the faithful.
Post-election autopsy
Questions and the sixth-year rule
realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec - Blogometer
Libby: No White House Plot, No Crime in CIA Leak
| H17 Daily Telegraph Blair has failed: can Brown do any better? We should not set too much store these days by what passes for Tony Blair's foreign policy, says Simon Heffer. Instead, we should have only one concern, and that is what Gordon Brown will propose to do about it.
Heritage Foundation Britain Must Not Retreat From Iraq | H18 Independent Blair under new pressure to announce war inquiry Robert Fisk: Conflict in Middle East is Mission Implausible
Our new friends in the Middle East
Left-wing backlash casts shadow of doubt over Ségolène Royal's 'secular miracle' |
| H19 Atlantic Eye: The spymasters' spymaster
BBC Rumsfeld faces German legal test A lawyers' group asks Germany to sue former US defence chief Donald Rumsfeld over alleged prisoner abuse.
China's naval surveillance of U.S.
Abe tasks panel to form security body like NSC
Japan creating its own 'National Security Council'
Just Released: Ernst & Young Global Information Security Survey 2006
The Zarqawi affair, part 11 of 23
Pentagon 'could take lead role' in disasters | · H20 Slate After Rumsfeld:What Robert Gates can achieve in the next two years.
· The Defense Doesn't Rest:Why the NBA hasn't become an offensive league.
Max Boot's War Made New:One day, will we think it strange that nations used to put troops in uniforms and send them abroad for short tours only when war was imminent?
Recession? A Point for Nouriel Roubini
Resisting the Ideological Hegemony of Neoclassicism
| H21 Borat's biggest patsies--reporters Joel Stein: Why are journalists interviewing Sacha Baron Cohen's alter ego as if he were actually real? So who are you calling bird brain? Chatter of chickens proves they are brighter than we thought
Internet Fact Guide 2006
Kevin Drum The Professionalization of the Blogosphere
One in 100 web pages pornographic
Deadline set for Microsoft to hand over software secrets
Editor Announces Major shake-up at WASHINGTON POST...
Wikipedia Is a Hit in China as Ban Is Lifted The Chinese-language version of reader-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia exploded in popularity after a yearlong ban of the site was lifted.
With Yao Ming playing like the NBA's best big man, the Houston Rockets look like title contenders. But has his teammate Tracy McGrady begun to decline prematurely?
US Cable Companies Back Away From al-Jazeera
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