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H1 Barack Obama's victory speech in South Carolina

Iraqi Alliances: Shifting Sands
Asharq Alawsat

Newsweek The World Bails Us Out by Fareed Zakaria The United States is in the beginning of a period of relative decline. This is not defeatism, it's math.

The U.S. Economy Faces the Guillotine America is on the road to recession, and many predict a worldwide slowdown. But it's a new economic order, and the emerging markets could take the lead. By Daniel Gross

Weekly Standard We Are Winning. We Haven't Won. America has a chance at a historic victory in Iraq, but only if we don't pull out too many forces too soon. by Max Boot

NYT Editorial Too Easy to Refuse Just talking about better relations is clearly not enough to get Tehran’s attention. What is needed is a credible grand gesture.

NATIONAL JOURNAL: State Of Disorder (01/25/2008)

Iran confident of no attack, can survive sanctions

From the Archive - Atlantic Monthly July/August 2007 China Makes, The World Takes A look inside the world’s manufacturing center shows that America should welcome China’s rise—for now by James Fallows

Superiority Complex Why America’s growing nuclear supremacy may make war with China more likely by Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press

Los Angeles Times Iraq urges limits on U.S. operations As the two governments work out a military agreement, Baghdad says the country must not be involved in any attacks on its neighbors.

Iraq's No. 1 problem ,By Bing West and Max Boot Bush may have to withdraw his support for Nouri Maliki if the prime minister continues to slow progress.

Super Tuesday could cut Obama down to size The South Carolina winner faces a multistate contest that does not play to his strengths, and three of the biggest states are on Clinton's turf

Why the right loves a disaster

By Naomi Klein Ideologues use times of crisis as an opportunity to foist their economic policies on desperate societies

Why Congress didn't bring the troops home The Democratic majority squandered chances to work with Republicans unhappy with Bush and tried to bully their rivals.

New York Times Pakistan Rebuffs Secret U.S. Plea for C.I.A. Buildup President Pervez Musharraf dismissed proposals to allow the United States greater latitude to operate in tribal territories where militants are active, officials said.

A President Like My Father By CAROLINE KENNEDY We need a change in the leadership of this country — just as we did in 1960. We have that kind of opportunity with Senator Barack Obama.

A New France in the New Middle East: Forget Glory

By ELAINE SCIOLINO Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Egypt. Charles de Gaulle left Algeria. Nicolas Sarkozy has nuclear plants to sell

Ha’aretz – Bar’el Whose monopoly now? The feeling is that Egypt has become a true enemy state at last, Syria-style. Just as Damascus is perceived as responsible for the actions of Hezbollah, so Cairo will be the custodian of Hamas

Source: J'lem will be last topic on peace agenda Capital may be last issue discussed with Palestinians due to concerns it will damage negotiations

NYRB Olmert & Israel: The Change By Amos Elon
Israel under Ehud Olmert is not what it was under Ariel Sharon, at least in tone. Sharon was a soldier who spent much of his life fighting the Arabs. Olmert is a suave corporate lawyer, a deal maker, a political operator. Sharon supported the "Greater Israel" movement. Olmert's idea of Israel is not the replay of a biblical vision but a secular modern state with a booming economy, integrated into global commerce and closely linked to Europe. This does not mesh well with what God and Abraham discussed in the Bronze Age

Boston Globe The black box economy Behind the recent bad news lurks a much deeper concern: The world economy is now being driven by a vast, secretive web of investments that might be out of anyone's control. (By Stephen Mihm, Boston Globe)

Washington Post Bush Hits a Wall in the Mideast By Jim Hoagland, There's not much Bush can do about Middle East peace. But he needs to be seen as doing something.

Dan Drezner "The Future of U.S. Foreign Policy." Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft

NYT Magazine Waving Goodbye to Hegemony By PARAG KHANNA Just a few years ago, America’s hold on global power seemed unshakable. But a lot has changed while we’ve been in Iraq — and the next president is going to be dealing with not only a triumphant China and a retooled Europe but also the quiet rise of a ‘‘second world.’’ (repeat)

Mother Jones The Last Empire By Jacques Leslie For years, America has pushed China to make its economy more like ours. Now the planet is about to pay the price.

Independent Return to Fallujah

Three years after the devastating US assault, Patrick Cockburn enters this besieged Iraqi city to find it without clean water, electricity and medicine, its streets looking as if the fighting had finished only a few weeks ago.

Newsweek The Supplicant-in-Chief As America goes begging for foreign bailouts, get ready for the president's new role by Michael Hirsh

Sunday Times Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe

Al Hayat Trapped Between Humiliation And Bush's Visions Mostafa Zein - It becomes crystal clear for the Arabs that the Palestinian question is an Arab affair. They realized that the desire to put the Palestinian cause behind them and to ignore it in the name of realism, the inability to confront the Israel and the US, or the claim that Hamas has flipped against Palestinian Authority and joined the Iranian-Syrian project, changes nothing

Iraq's Progress Report - Michael O'Hanlon, Washington Times

Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security, updated January 10, 2008 (PDF; 434 KB) Source: Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists)

Making Up with Iran's Mullahs - New York Post editorial

Iraq Moves Troops And Tanks to Northern City Mosul

Iran's New Purge - Amir Taheri, New York Post

How Bush Decided on the Surge - Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard A year ago, we were losing in Iraq. Then the president made the most momentous decision of his presidency.

Washington Post The Seven-Year Slide By Rahm Emanuel At the dawn of the 21st century, conventional wisdom was that America held unmatched cultural, economic and military power.

Bush's Speech to Focus On Iraq War, Economy In State of the Union address, President Bush faces a steep challenge in persuading a skeptical public to follow his lead in his final year in office.

Good and Bad Capitalists By Sebastian Mallaby Surveying the world's financial chaos, my colleague Robert J. Samuelson declared last week that "capitalism's most dangerous enemies are capitalists." This is the truth, but not the whole truth: There are constructive capitalists as well as dangerous ones

No More Coups What Bush Must Tell Musharraf By Jackson Diehl,

A Better Way to Grow NATO By Ronald D. Asmus,

US Shift Seen to Pakistan, Afghanistan

The Observer Gaza's falling wall changes Middle East map for ever
The tide of humans pouring over the frontier from Gaza into Egypt for days has now become a vast convoy of carts, cars and lorries. Peter Beaumont joined the jubilant throng who watched as the borders of a conflict that has lasted for generations were crossed

Financial Times IMF head in shock fiscal appeal The intensifying credit crunch is so severe that lower interest rates alone will not be enough “to get out of the turmoil we are in”, warned IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Beyond fiscal stimulus, further action is needed Confidence would be well served by a comprehensive programme of measures that insures against a prolonged downturn, says Lawrence Summers

Investors shift bets to oil slideInvestors are shifting their bets towards oil prices weakening in the near future as the slowdown in US economic activity damps energy demand growth

WORLD NEWS: UN pressed to back fresh Iran sanctions Western states face an uphill task of persuading the Security Council that a third round of modest economic sanctions would force Iran to come clean about its nuclear ambitions

Sovereignty Through Decentralization Foreign Policy In Focus The claim that decentralizing decision-making power to local communities can strengthen national governments may seem like a contradiction. After all, the common assumption is that power concentrated at the national level strengthens a country’s autonomy. Therefore, how could national sovereignty possibly be reinforced if the responsibilities for planning and managing development programs are distributed among local people?

H 2 NYT 13 Arrested in Push to Stifle Turkish Ultranationalists Suspected in Political Killings

Turkey Requests Used Helicopter Gunships From US

Independent Turkey divided over headscarf ban decision A small square of coloured material returns to the centre of Turkey's political stage this week as the government prepares to end the controversial headscarf ban.

Sunday Times Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe

Türkiye-ABD savunma grubu toplantıları Saygun'un katılımıyla bu hafta yapılacak

Iran resumes gas exports to Turkey - official

Government warm to patriarch’s ‘ecumenical' title

Turkey says US nuclear policy strengthens Iran

El Kaide üyelerinin yurtdışı hattını, Çeçen asıllı Rus ayarlamış

9 killed, dozens injured in Turkish train derailment

ABD sönecek AB devleşecek Türkiye süpergüç üyesi olacak!..

Legalizing the Nuke Trade with Turkey: J. Frank

Türkiye'yle nükleer işbirliği neo-con'lar için mi? JOSHUA FRANK

None Dare Call It Treason: Justin Raimondo

Turkey's democracy under microscope m