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H1 New York Times Clinton Defeats Obama in Ohio Primary; McCain Clinches Race as Foe Concedes Hillary Rodham Clinton’s victory over Barack Obama in Ohio gave her a chance to soldier on. John McCain claimed the Republican nomination

News Analysis: In 2 Battlegrounds, Voters Say, Not Yet

McClatchy Analysis: Now it could get ugly Hillary Clinton's victories in Ohio and Rhode Island aren't enough to turn the tide and overtake Barack Obama, who still leads in delegates needed to win the Democratic presidential nomination. But her victories were enough to stop his winning streak at 12 and break his momentum. Perhaps more important for the party, Tuesday's results likely ratified her scathing attacks on Obama as a dangerous neophyte who would endanger the country.

CFR Can America Handle the Rise of Asia? (Audio)

Ha’aretz – Bradley Burston: Nine immoral solutions for Gaza - a guide

Debka Ahmadinejad’s Baghdad visit opened way for US-Iran status quo deal on Iraq

Financial Times Life in a tough world of high commodity prices If central banks are confident commodity prices will stop rising, they should slash rates. But, given the continued growth of emerging economies, they cannot be sure of that. Worse, core inflation seems to be drifting upwards, writes Martin Wolf

The makings of an oil supply crunch A chronic lack of investment in upstream supply infrastructure will constrain the ability of the oil cartel Opec to meet global demand for crude in the long term

Sarkozy dilutes plans for Mediterranean bloc The French president has watered down his plans to set up a union of Mediterranean countries, instead agreeing with Angela Merkel to revitalise an existing EU initiative that will include all member states

Al-Qaeda is losing the battle of minds

Having paid a high cost in blood and treasure, we are now proving that America is not the ‘weak horse’ bin Laden believed, writes Peter Wehner

Gazprom steps up Ukraine gas war

Officials in Kiev warned that gas supplies to Europe could be hit if the Russian gas group went ahead with threats to cut shipments to Ukraine by more than a half

American Conservative Defining Deterrence Down By James Kurth
Applying classical theory to the new age of nuclear terror

FM 3-24: Petraeus' Big Tent - Cullen Nutt, New Jersey Star-Ledger He brought in academics and human rights advocates to help write a counterinsurgency field manual, and staked his reputation on the result

Dissent and strategic leadership of the military professions (PDF; 313 KB) Source: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College

Regional Analysis Brief: Central Asia Source: Energy Information Administration

Iran Just Won't Stay Isolated By: Charles Kupchan and Ray Takeyh | Los Angeles Times The U.N. Security Council on Monday passed a third round of sanctions against Iran. But at the same time that the United States and its European allies were building support for the new U.N. resolution, Iran's president was making an official visit to Iraq, the first such visit since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

Russia Chooses Chains - Ralph Peters, New York Post

IHT Bring in Hamas By HENRY SIEGMAN It's time to take advantage of Hamas's offer of a mutual cease-fire

Gaza v. Annapolis By DAVID MAKOVSKY If Hamas ceases firing rockets on Israel, there will be no reason for Israel to strike Gaza.

Washington Post Bush Attends to Foreign Policy Issues President Talks to Medvedev, Pushes Colombian Free-Trade Pact, Discusses Mideast

Silence on Armenia By Levon Ter-Petrossian We in Armenia have been trying to understand the roots of the West's indifference to the rape of our democracy.

OpenDemocracy Armenia’s virtual public sphere, Armine Ishkanian

Guardian To blame the victims for this killing spree defies both morality and sense Seumas Milne: Washington's covert attempts to overturn an election result lie behind the crisis in Gaza, as leaked papers show

Israel's Jewish critics Mike Marqusee: Anti-Zionism is part of a larger opposition to racism, an expression of solidarity with the Palestinians as victims of injustice

Democracy is ill served by its self-appointed guardians Simon Jenkins: Our sonorous moralising lies behind so much bloodshed in the past 50 years

EU concerned as Russia cuts gas to Ukraine Germany and central Europe brace themselves for cuts in supplies as Medvedev steps up dispute

Newsweek Spymaster: The War on Al Qaeda

MESH • COMMENT: Adam Garfinkle on the split in Islam

The Times Commentary: Iraq ripe for Iranian domination

NYT Winning the Battle, Losing the War By JAMES H. WILLBANKS One general lesson from the Tet offensive is the importance of not putting the best face on a military situation for political reasons.

MAUREEN DOWD Duel of Historical Guilts People will have to choose which of America’s sins are greater, and which stain will have to be removed first. Is misogyny worse than racism, or is racism worse than misogyny?

Double Bubble Trouble By STEPHEN S. ROACH The most relevant lesson to take from Japan’s economy in the 1990s was that the interplay between financial and real economic bubbles causes serious damage.

Book BOOKS OF THE TIMES; A Game Where Resources Dwindle and Partners Shift

Jerusalem PostUS-Israel group to prepare policy help Group of lawmakers to prepare foreign policy reccomendations for next US administration.

OpenDemocracy Palestine: a Kosovo precedent?, Yossi Alpher

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Kosovo, Palestine, Iraq: the limits of analogy, Shlomo Avineri

Asia Times Sunnis make merry on US's dime Iraq's Sunni-dominated Awakening Councils, bankrolled by the United States, have certainly blunted al-Qaeda, but they continue attacks on US and Iraqi forces. The Sunnis, using a "fight, bargain, subvert, fight" approach, are all the while working towards their ultimate goal of the complete withdrawal of US troops and reducing the power of the Shi'ite-dominated government. - Gareth Porter

UN deepens the Iran nuclear crisis The third round of United Nations Security Council sanctions now hanging over Iran's head in connection with its nuclear program is the harshest yet. Tehran has dismissed the measures as "legally defective". But with US and French ships in the Persian Gulf poised to carry out the interdiction of vessels suspected of carrying nuclear cargo to and from Iran, the stage is set for the next chapter - physical confrontation. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Daily Star A conflict without any possible victor By Rami G. Khouri

PBS Impact of Dollar's Falling Value Ripples Through U.S. Economy As the value of the dollar has fallen, the U.S. economy has had to adjust in a multitude of areas. While some sectors have benefitted from cheaper U.S. exports, others have felt the pinch of inflation. Paul Solman examines the impact of the dollar's value

U.S. Navy Returns to Lebanon - David Kenner, Weekly Standard

2008 DoD Report to Congress on the Military Power of the People’s Republic of China (PDF; 29.7 MB) Source: U.S. Department of Defense DoD Brief: PRC Military Report

Weekly Standard Miscomprehending China They don't want to be our friends.
by Gordon G. Chang

Commentary The End of the Chinese Miracle? Gordon G. Chang To sustain growth, far-reaching economic and political reform is increasingly urgent, but highly unlikely.

Carnegie The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East

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Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat

Carnegie Iranian President Ahmadinejad's Trip to Iraq

USIP Testimony: Kosovo Isn't the Problem, Serbia Is

USIP Resurrecting the Wall of Fear: The Human Rights Situation in Syria

Stratfor The US Economy and the Next ‘Big One’

H 2 ABD'li vekil Holt: "ABD PKK'dan bir dönem memnundu"

Ha’aretz MI: Iran arming Hezbollah with missiles via Turkey Turkish authorities said unaware of arms shipments violating UN Security Council Resolution 1701

Daily Star Editorial Time for Turkey to step forward and play its natural regional role

PKK’yla pazarlık iması

ABD Başkan Yardımcısı Dick Cheney geliyor

BBC Clash on Armenian-Azeri border Armenian and Azerbaijani forces clash over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, leaving two dead.

RFE/RL Deadly Fighting Erupts In Karabakh Officials in Armenia and Azerbaijan have confirmed deadly military clashes in two regions of the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. It appears to be the most serious violation in years of a 1994 cease-fire deal.