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H1 Guardian Eight dead as gunmen hit Jerusalem religious school Deadliest attack in four years is dramatic escalation in conflict

  

Yedioth Ahronoth En route to 3rd Intifada? Israel must prepare to contain violence that may follow Jerusalem carnage, says Ron Ben-Yishai

 

New York Times Editorial Dark Days in Armenia President Bush and other Western leaders need to make clear to Armenia’s government that a slide into authoritarianism is unacceptable

 

DAVID BROOKS Playing by Clinton Rules  Senator Barack Obama doesn’t have an impressive record of experience or a unique policy profile. New politics is all he’s got. He loses that, and he loses everything.

 

Washington Post The Great Non Sequitur By Charles Krauthammer Because Obama transcends race, does he also transcend divisions of region, class, party, generation and ideology?

 

Washington Times Prize in Eurasian game Kazakhstan is 4 times as big as France, is projected to export 3 million barrels of oil a day by 2015, has some of the largest reserves of uranium on the planet, and is a major exporter of grain.

 

WSJ Irresolution on Iran
Bush diplomacy ends with a whimper at the U.N.

 

Lobe Foreign Policy Increasingly Flows Through Pentagon

 

Salon The Iran hawks' latest surge U.S. and Israeli hard-liners -- some with close ties to John McCain -- are once again hyping the Iranian nuclear threat. By Gregory Levey

 

MESH Byman U.S. success in Iraq and the global jihad

 

Asia Times As alliances shift, Iran wins - again  Bush administration promoted a Turkey-Israel axis, a Sunni Arab "axis of fear" and then a Saudi-Israeli nexus, always trying to isolate Iran. None of these concoctions has worked, and there are even hints that Washington and Tehran have concluded a secret deal brokered by Saudi Arabia to hammer out contentious issues. This might be fanciful, but the bottom line is that Iran sees itself as the ultimate victor of the US war on Iraq. - Pepe Escobar

 

Iran-Iraq Ties Show U.S. the Way By: Kaveh L. Afrasiabi | Asia Times Iran-Iraq ties show US the way Tehran's enormous influence in Iraq is there to stay, given Iran's proximity and religious and historical connections, highlighted by President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's recent visit. This leaves the US with little choice but to adjust its anti-Iran policy to accommodate Iran's regional clout

 

Amir Taheri Why the Nuclear Programme Undermines Iran's Independence : Amir Taheri

Stratfor Iran, U.S.: Confusion About Iraq Talks (and the Lack Thereof ...

 

RFE/RL Caspian: Turkmen, Azerbaijani Deal Could Raise Energy Hopes Azerbaijani and Turkmen officials have resolved a lingering obstacle to improved trade ties during the latest round of talks on issues that include cooperation to develop Caspian energy resources

 

Armenia: Crisis Spotlights ’Karabakh Clan’  As Armenia’s first post-Soviet president in the 1990s, Levon Ter-Petrossian brought in top officials from Nagorno-Karabakh to serve in his government.

 

NPQ Olivier Roy: MCCAIN IS WRONG: AL-QAIDA NOT A THREAT IN IRAQ IF U.S. LEAVES

 

Forward Hamas Rockets Hit Closer to Heart of Israel Terrorism Expert: ‘Just a Matter of Time Before They Reach Tel Aviv’

 

U.N. Border Force May Be All That Can Stop Chaos in Gaza
Edward Walker

 

Esquire The Man Between War and Peace As head of U. S. Central Command, Admiral William "Fox" Fallon is in charge of American military strategy for the most troubled parts of the world. Now, as the White House has been escalating the war of words with Iran, and seeming ever more determined to strike militarily before the end of this presidency, the admiral has urged restraint and diplomacy. Who will prevail, the president or the admiral? By Tom Barnett

 

The 1953 CIA Coup in Iran and the Roots of Midast Terror Amy Goodman interviews Stephen Kinzer

 

The Economist India's economy What's holding India back? 

India's achievement is at risk because it has failed to reform its public sector

 

McClatchy Will Clinton-Obama fight injure Democrats?  Concerns are growing that the Clinton-Obama contest could fracture the Democratic Party. Will African-Americans, who vote 8 or 9 to 1 for Obama, give their votes if Clinton wins? If Obama wins, will Clinton's white female supporters back him?

 

Oil Advances to Record as Dollar Drops to All-Time Low...

 

Coordinated Baghdad bombs kill 55

 

Baghdad welcome
Jim Muir asks whether the Americans have delivered Iraq to Iran

 

The Times Outgunned Iraqi army in a battle to save Mosul US troop 'surge' has failed to quell al-Qaeda but commanders hope for victory in the northern city by July

 

Guardian Food crisis worse than climate change Government's new chief science adviser raises concerns about food security and rush to biofuels

 

The losers' game Scott Ritter: Diplomatic manoeuvres to force Iran to prove a negative about its halted nuclear weapons programme ... now where have I seen that before?

 

Financial Times Europe’s sputtering political engine We must hope that Nicolas Sarkozy realises sooner rather than later that nurturing the Franco-German axis is in the interests of France, the EU and himself

 

McCain takes the call The advert shows children asleep as a presidential-looking Hillary Clinton picks up the telephone in the face of a new global crisis. Swap Clinton for John McCain and you have a strategy that could help him win, says Philip Stephens

 

Daily Telegraph Iran's state within a state Such is the power of the Revolutionary Guards that many Iranians are now questioning whether there is any point in voting, says Con Coughlin.

 

Christian Science Monitor

Iran debate: Who owns the revolution? Hard-liners play tough to prevent reformist gains in March 14 vote.

 

Global warming not always to blame for extreme winters

Natural variations in weather can vary more than climate change signals, experts say.

 

Tom Barnett What is the middle class ideology of globalization?

 

MESH Iran’s nuclear program: more evidence

 

IHT Condoleezza Rice pushes NATO allies to increase Afghanistan contributions

Clinton's Kamikaze Mission - Jonathan Chait, The New Republic

 

Obama is Weak in Key Gen. Election States - Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix

 

H2 BBC MonitoringInternational

  

The Economist Fethullah Gulen A farm boy on the world stage  A “prophet” who finds honour, and some suspicion, in his own country

 

Business in Turkey A bad time to scare off foreign investors

 

'Terör Örgütüyle Görüşme Yok'

 

Arşivden ABD-PKK İlişkisi Üzerine Notlar 22 Kasım 2007

 

US expects Turkey not to negotiate with PKK

 

Ankara, Gates’e yeni Kürt paketini sundu

 

U.S. House of Representatives, House Armed Services Committee   Witnesses: Admiral William Fallon, USN (pdf)

 

PKK’yla uzlaşın!

IHT European rights monitor protests prison isolation of Kurdish rebel More than eight years of solitary confinement on a remote island without access to television or telephone has damaged the mental health of the Kurdish militant leader, Abdullah Ocalan, the Council of Europe said on Thursday

 

EDM TURKEY PREPARES TO WELCOME TALABANI FOR "WORKING VISIT"

 

1979'da FKÖ'yle neler konuşmamıştık?
BASKIN ORAN

 

Google News Fırat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect Dış Basında Irak  BBC Monitoring International

 

Türk işadamlarından Güney Irak'a 7 milyar dolarlık harekat

 

Altan Tan Erdoğan için tarihî fırsat

 

 

Diyarbakır platformu

 

AKP'liler: Kürt sorununda çözüm eşitlik ve özgürlükte...

 

Talabani’nin Türkiye ziyareti Kürtleri böldü

 

Eser Karakaş Kürt meselesinde sivil öneriler

 

DTP'li Tuncel: 'Sorun Türkiye'de Çözülmeli'

 

Nasuhi Güngör Muhalefetin derdi, ordunun çözüme yakınlığı mı?

 

CHP Meclis'te genel görüşme isteyecek

 

Van’da olaylar: 1 ölü, 107 gözaltı

 

KORAY DÜZGÖREN

Sınırötesi tartışmalarının örttüğü gerçekler

 

The use of military force against terrorism by Bekir Çınar*

 

Serdar Turgut Talabani ve Kürt lobisi

 

Talabani'nin Ankara ziyareti

 

Savaş Süzal PKK ile diyalog ve çifte standart

 

Özcan Yeniçeri Siyasi çözüm ya da siyasi çözülme!

 

Talabani in Ankara for landmark visit

 

Cevdet Aşkın Öcalan'da zehirlenme yok, ABD 'PKK ile uzlaşın' diyor

 

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
Gül'den Talabani'ye: Avrupa kapınız biziz

Okay Gönensin

Talabani ile yeni baştan

 

Türkiye, Erbil'e konsolosluk açmayacak

 

Report: Masrour Barzani charged in Austria [Michael Rubin]

 

Iraq Press Roundup

 

DTP'li göstericilerin attığı taş, bir vatandaşı öldürdü

 

Independent report says no trace of poisoning in PKK’s jailed leader

 

Timing of US remarks on withdrawal purposeful, says retired general

 

Güneri Civaoğlu Apo ve Guzman

 

TSK hesapları alt üst etti

 

295 Ex-PKK Members Return Home Under Repentance Law

 

Ilisu Dam ‘will cause flood of asylum seekers’

PUK Politburo Holds Meeting

 

 

 

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The President Mam Jalal’s Visit to Turkey

 

Casey:Üslerin yasal statüsünün ne olduğu, Irak hükümetine sormanız gereken birşey

 

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Gates: Kürd halkının bazı kaygılarının giderilmesi gerekir!

 

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Oramiral Fallon: ''Kongra Gel(KGK) ile bir çeşit uzlaşma sağlanmalı''

 

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Avrupa İşkenceyi Önleme Komitesi’nin ''Öcalan zehirlenmesi'' ile ilgili raporu açıklandı

 

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Ordu AKP'yi köşeye sıkıştırdı

 

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Büyükanıt’ı yalancı çıkaran Tuğgeneral Erten istifa mı ettirildi?

 

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ABD Dışişleri Bakanlığı: ''bizim politikamızda bir değişiklik yok”

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'Çözüm federal sisteme geçmek'

 

Demirel: Sınır ötesi harekât başarılıdır

Sınırda operasyon

 

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

 

Ankara, Kıbrıs stratejisini gözden geçiriyor

 

[Yorum - Nathalie Tocci] Kıbrıs'ta bardağın yarısı boş mu, dolu mu?

 

Suat Kınıklıoğlu France and Turkey: Friends or foes in Europe?

 

Cyprus seeks early peace talks

 

Turkey, KKTC synchronize policy for new era

 

Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders set dates for reunification meetings

 

Turkey keeps its distance from ‘Club-Med'

 

Cyprus reunification can bring huge economic benefits

 

'Çözüm Kıbrıs'ı ihya edecek'

 

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