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Guardian Flags are not enough Leader: The issue now is not whether independence redresses the wrongs of the past, but whether it addresses the future

WP Editorial Independent Kosovo

The birth of Europe's newest state was long overdue.

Financial Times Pakistan’s flawed elections matter The best outcome would be the return to centre stage of the mainstream parties, the implosion of Islamists and a national unity government to rebuild institutions

A difficult birth The EU position is far from perfect, but its policy is backed by leading members, and it has clout. It must deliver by deploying an effective mission

Europe must unite over a Russia policy Implementation of EU treaty provisions on common security and foreign policy offers new co-operation prospects, writes Donald Tusk

Western fears on Russian energy A clear majority of west Europeans regard Russia as an unreliable energy supplier but remain resistant to paying more for alternative supplies from renewable energy sources

Newsweek The End of Conservatism by Fareed Zakaria Conservative slogans sound anachronistic in the context of today's problems, like an old TV show from the 1970s.

Can Independent Kosovo Survive? Another Failed State? Kosovo's declaration of independence isn't likely to solve its many problems—or defuse tensions in the troubled Balkans

Should America Be the World's Policeman? - IQ2 US Debate (pdf) For the motion: Max Boot, Michael Mandelbaum, Douglas Murray

Against the motion: Ian Bremmer, Ellen Laipson, Matthew Parris

Daily Star A new US Middle East policy in 2009 ? Don't bet on it By Michael Young

Al Hayat Is a Washington -Tehran 'Grand Bargain' Possible? Patrick Seale -

Los Angeles Times CIA turns out the lights on 'black stations' After 9/11, the agency spent hundreds of millions setting up front companies in Europe. Most flopped.

The Observer Kosovo: the vital questionsWho lives there now, and what was the war about? Peter Beaumont explains

'I don't hate Muslims. I hate Islam,' says Holland's rising political star

Ian Traynor meets Geert Wilders, the popular Dutch MP whose film on Islam has fuelled the debate on race in Holland

New York Times Old Clinton Ties and Voters’ Sway Tug at Delegates The dwindling group of undecided Democratic superdelegates is being caught in strong political crosscurrents

Political Memo: Obama Adding Detail to His Oratory

The Charisma Mandate By KATE ZERNIKE A “cult of personality” can help a leader be effective. But it has some built-in problems.

Editorial Questions, Not Just on Iraq Before Americans choose a president they will need to know how he or she plans to rebuild America’s moral standing and address a host of foreign policy challenges

Vote Is Expected to Further Weaken Musharraf

Dreams Stifled, Egypt’s Young Turn to Islamic Fervor Across the Middle East, many people are forced to put off marriage, the gateway to independence. In their frustration they turn to religion for solace.

WP The Obama Mystery By David Ignatius, What Obama would actually do as president remains a mystery.

Iraq's Jihad Myths By Reuel Marc Gerecht,

Reading Bin Laden's Mind By Michael Scheuer, What message might Osama Bin Laden want to send to his followers?

Editorial Trading Down On economics, Mr. Obama goes populist.

WT Council blocks power grab Iran's constitutional watchdog yesterday opposed an attempt by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to expand his administration's power, saying the move "lacks legal justification."

Attacks in Baghdad fall 80 percent: Iraq military

Iraqi Security Forces Stage Walkout Against US

Sunday Times Right slams Obama as 'shady Chicago socialist' Republicans are out to crush Barack by painting him as a leftwinger with dubious support

Israel kills terror chief with headrest bomb Israeli intelligence sources said the driver's headrest was replaced with another containing a small high-explosive charge

Tom Barnett KnoxNews. Realigning America's grand strategy to a world transforming

BBC Balance of forces
Who has the power as Pakistan shapes up for Monday's elections

Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists)+ Islam: Sunnis and Shiites (PDF; 215 KB)

"Independent Kosovo: Day One" Alex Anderson in BalkanInsight.com

GuardianNorthern Rock's rescue is part of a geopolitical sea change

Martin Jacques: This is no blip. The global economic crisis will burst the bubble of free-market doctrine and force states to take a more active role

A Viennese mirror Wess Mitchell The EU, currently lodged between a resurgent Russia and revisionist US, could take some poignant lessons from its parallels with the Hapsburg Empire

Flags are not enough Leader: The issue now is not whether independence redresses the wrongs of the past, but whether it addresses the future

Drezner's assignment: define the foreign policy community

Salon Killing "Bubba" from the skies Inside a secret high-tech control center the U.S. Air Force targets enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan. But can they bomb them legally, and without killing innocents? A Salon exclusive.
By Mark Benjamin

WP An Intelligence Reform Reality Check By Jack Devine It's time to take another look at the intelligence changes made after Sept. 11, 2001, and their impact on our intelligence capabilities and leadership at home and abroad.

Greece Plans Intelligence Reform Law Amidst Terrorism Concerns

H 2 Seymour Hersh ABD’nin Türkiye’de çok gayrıresmi üssü var

NYT Magazine Minority Rules By MELINE TOUMANI Nationalism used to hold Turkey together. Now, as the Kurdish crisis is showing, it’s tearing the country apart. Can homegrown multiculturalism be the new ideology that binds? One big-city mayor gives it a try.

NYT: İşsizlik Müslüman genci İslam’a yöneltiyor

FRUS Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume XXIX, Eastern Europe; Eastern Mediterranean, 1969-1972 Turkey (PDF 325 KB) Cyprus (PDF 587 KB) Greece (PDF 766 KB) General Policy (PDF 275KB) entire volume (4.4 MB) click here.

McClatchy Kurds impose limits on where Arabs can live in Iraq's north Iraqis born outside of the Kurdish north must undergo a security check to win a residency permit, which must be renewed every three months. Even a casual visit to a nearby town requires a separate permit.

Washington Times U.S. Turks aim to change image (By Svitlana Korenovska)