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H1 New York Times Top Commander in Mideast Retires  Adm. William J. Fallon’s public statements on Iran seemed to put him at odds with the Bush administration.

US News 6 Signs the US May Be Headed for War in Iran

Stratfor Geopolitical Diary: Fallon and the Two Persistent Stalemates ...

Ha’aretz  Hamas-Israel deal would put Abbas' men at Gaza crossings  Hamas: Israel must completely cease all acts of aggression in W. Bank, Gaza as prerequisite for truce

Joseph Nye: Contextual Intelligence and the Next President

LA Times Fallon didn't get it By Max Boot

 

Los Angeles Times U.S., Iraq discuss post-mandate ties

 

Esquire The Man Between War and Peace By Thomas P.M. Barnett Unlike the Bush Administration, Admiral William "Fox" Fallon, the head of U.S. Central Command, doesn't think we should go to war with Iran. This view might cost him his job. (repeat)

Asia Times Fallon falls: Iran should worry Fallon's resignation as the United States' top commander in the Middle East removes one of the most outspoken opponents of the George W Bush administration's hard line on Iran. Defense Secretary Robert Gates immediately dismissed as "ridiculous" suggestions that Fallon's departure signaled that the US planned to go to war with Iran, but certainly now "all options" are back on the table. - Gareth Porter

Fallon's Exit Provokes Concern Over War

NYT Clawing for Edge, Democrats Fight Over Defining ‘Winner’  As they woo voters and superdelegates, in some instances Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are overstating their own advantage and understating the gains of the other.

Iraq Attacks Lower, but Steady, New Figures Show

Washington Post Top U.S. Officer in Mideast Resigns

 

OPEC's Triumph Acting Like a True Cartel -- With America's Help By Robert J. Samuelson OPEC is acting like a true cartel -- with America's help.

 

The New Face Of Hunger By Ban Ki-moon,  Fast-rising food prices threaten the world's 'bottom billion’

 

Guardian To rescue the two-state solution, Israel must make peace with Syria Jonathan Freedland: A Damascus detente could cut through the cloud of cynicism. But it all depends on a change at the White House

Speedo slows down Leader: Ten months after he came barnstorming to power, Nicolas Sarkozy is in some trouble

Walking the plank
Why did US Mid-East commander Admiral Fallon quit?

 

The Jerusalem PostIn a Cold War With Iran, Can Syria Become Israel's 'China Card'?

 

The futility of deterrence

[ DAOUD KUTTAB

 

Foreign Policy Six Ways Not to Deal with Hamas

 

Washington Monthly The Right Atitude Over time, the neocons' ideology has morphed. But their temperament has remained fixed. By Kevin Drum

 

Reality and the Iraq War - Michael O'Hanlon, USA Today

 

 McCain's Veepstakes: An Obvious Winner - Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard

UK Top Cop Who Led CIA Probe Found Dead

Wall Street Journal The Pentagon vs. Petraeus
Admiral William Fallon has resigned. Now will President Bush start paying attention to the internal strife at the Pentagon?


An Interesting Option: Condi Rice for VP? - Hendrik Hertzberg, New Yorker

 

Financial Times Going, going, gone: a rising auction of scary scenarios A trillion dollars here, a trillion dollars there, and pretty soon you are talking real money, even for the US. Most of the losses will fall not on the financial sector but elsewhere, writes Martin Wolf

 

Back to fundamentals Iran’s elections may be a contest between two conservative groups but voters could still deliver a rebuke to the president

 

Voices from Tehran

As Parliamentary elections approach in Iran, campaigning is limited to just a week. Some factions compain that they have been unfairly disqualified, leaving the contest between rival fundamentalist coalitions. Roula Khalaf reports from Tehran

 

Bush’s commander in the Mideast resigns

 

If Nato fails, so too does Europe on security If Afghanistan ends in unilateral pullouts, leaving just US and allies, this could end the Atlantic alliance, writes Benjamin Schreer and Asle Toje

 

Let the Russians sort out Russia

It may take decades, or even generations, for them to build their own version of democracy. But to argue that they cannot construct it is a kind of racism, writes Rodric Braithwaite

 

2007 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Source: U.S. Department of State

 

Remarks on The State Department’s 2007 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices; Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Washington, DC
+ Remarks on the State Department’s 2007 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices; Jonathan Farrar, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Democracy

 

Iran in figures
The stats that give an insight into life in the oil-rich republic

 

Cheney Says US Needs Missile Defense

 

McClatchy Clinton's foreign experience is more limited than she says

 

Asia Times Big bang or chaos: What's Israel up to? Whether Israel's military logic revolved around the "chaos theory" or the "big bang", its iron-fist intervention in Gaza was neither to send a message to the Israeli public nor to "commit genocide". Rather, Israel's plans are regional, with Gaza being a testing ground. - Ramzy Baroud

 

Iran's Fear, Iraq's Chance - Amir Taheri, New York Post 'I HAVE lost hope of liberating Iraq and turning it into an Is lamic society." So said Muqtada al-Sadr in an open letter to his followers published last week.

 

Light Diplomacy By: Mamoun Fandy | Asharq Alawsat Anyone who thinks that Amr Musa's diplomacy will resolve the crisis in Lebanon is dreaming. In today's world diplomacy can not be successful without power to support and consolidate it

 

Iran's Elections: A Glass Half Full or Half Empty? By: Karim Sadjadpour | The Daily Star Does Iran's upcoming parliamentary election on March 14 deserve to be taken seriously? Or is it simply a sham vote for an emasculated institution?

 

Did We Overreact to 9/11? - Scott MacLeod, Time

 

• 'Weapon of Terror: Development and Impact of the Qassam Rocket' by Margaret Weiss, The Washington Institute

 

The new geopolitics of crude oil
Khaleej Times

 

Christian Science Monitor

 U.S. sees long fight to oust Al Qaeda in Mosul American soldiers say the battle for the northern Iraqi city is a complicated mix of counterterrorism, economic incentives, and political solutions.

 

U.N.'s Ban Ki Moon emerges as dogged reformer In his 15 months as UN secretary-general, he has insisted that the UN come to embody two qualities not always associated with it: efficiency and responsiveness.

 

In global capital markets, Russia eyes larger role The investment push, fueled by a new sovereign wealth fund and eager Russian businessmen, has raised concerns of Moscow meddling abroad.

 

EurasiaNet Iran: US Government Planning Azeri-Language Broadcasts to Iran
BY JOSHUA KUCERA
The US government is planning to beam Azeri-language radio broadcasts into Iran, in a bid to influence opinion among the significant ethnic Azeri population there.

 

IHT  France's nuclear diplomacy By MICHELLE M. SMITH AND CHARLES D. FERGUSON French President Nicolas Sarkozy's nuclear diplomacy has come under particular scrutiny from those concerned about proliferation

 

Asia Times A way to stave off Iran sanctions  Indonesia, by abstaining from the United Nations Security Council vote to impose a third round of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, showed up many of its fellow travelers in the Non-Aligned Movement. With their two-thirds majority at the UN, NAM states, given the political will, have the power to influence this major international crisis by pre-empting further UN action against Tehran. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

 

Zbigniew Brzezinski: “Armenian control over Nagorno Karabakh sharpens problem”

 

The Times Why Serbia will join the EU Five years after the assassination of Zoran Djindjic, it is time to honour his wish  Bernard Kouchner

 

Citizenship Test Brown is trying to solve a problem that either does not exist or is not for him

 

RFE Crisis Spotlights 'Karabakh Clan'  Critics accuse outgoing President Kocharian and President-elect Sarkisian of promoting a tight-knit clan from their native Nagorno-Karabakh while the rest of the country suffers.

 

Stratfor Asia’s Security Role Goes Global

 

Daily Telegraph Oaths and flags do not a nation make

As the weasel was supposed to drain an egg's yolk while leaving its shell intact, writes Daniel Hannan, so Government ministers hector us about patriotism while sacrificing our real national interests

 

Report: National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan

 

From the Archive National Security Memorandum 200

 

The American Recession and the World's Emerging Economies

Is Obama Or Clinton The Better General Election Candidate?

 

Presidential Transitions; Moving to the White House

 

John McCain runs for George Bush's third term

 

H2  New York Times   Turkey Set to Invest in Better Relations With Kurds Turkey plans $12 billion infusion for Kurdish region

 

Asharq Alawsat Asharq Al-Awsat's Secret Trip into PKK Territory

 

Aliza Marcus Operasyon test amaçlı yapıldı

 

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 11 Mar 2008

 

Çantasında füze var

 

Serdar Turgut Kıyamet için geliyor

 

Washington Times EU wary of French initiative The French vision of an economic linkage of the 16 countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea is running into fierce resistance from other EU nations and potential participants

 

Ha’aretz ANALYSIS/ Diplomatic bind not of our own making - for a change

 

Gates, Türkiye'de füze savunma sistemini görüştü

 

ABD Dışişleri: Kötü muamele dayak ve işkencede artış var

 

Anayasadaki 'özgürlük' çelişkisi, ABD insan hakları raporuna girdi

 

 

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

 

Kuzey Irak'a yine girdik

 

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 11 Mar 2008

 

Emin Pazarcı Asker yine Kuzey Irak'ta

 

Harekâtı Talabani gelsin diye mi yaptık

Diyalog isteyip Köşk’e gitti

 

Cevdet Aşkın PKK'nın tasfiyesinde kritik dönem, MHP 'uyandı', CHP şaşkın

 

PKK’nın yıllık geliri 500 milyon euro

 

Belçika'da okullarda PKK propagandası

 

Gates, Ankara'da füze savunma sistemini de gündeme getirmiş

 

Ergenekon'cular PKK'ya silah satmış!

 

İşte tuzaklarıyla Kandil

 

"PKK çocukları kaçırıp eğitiyor"


 

Yalçın Doğan Bana bir bardak su, aman Çince olsun

 

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Washington'daki PKK sigarası..

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
Bir gün fazla kaldık

 

The U.S., Iran and the Iraqi "Messenger" By: Huda Husseini | Asharq Alawsat A few years ago, the current Iraqi president Jalal Talabani eagerly hugged Saddam Hussein, the then president of Iraq who occupied and was forced out of Kuwait, and who caused the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Kurds

 

Turkey's Hurriyet protests Washington Post on PKK

 

Turkey, Iraq, Syria to initiate water talks

 

TALABANI CONDEMNS PKK, CALLS ON TURKEY TO ENGAGE WITH KRG Eurasia Daily Monitor

 

OP-ED: Pyotr Goncharov – Turkey and Iraq

 

Irak petrolünde aslan payı Türkiye'nin

 

Iraq oil minister slams KRG on Turkey trip

 

'Makarna değil, yeni anayasa'

 

DTP'den Gül'e: Turgut Özal gibi ol

 

'Kandil’in sorumlusu sensin'

Hulki Cevizoğlu BARZANİ İLE GÖRÜŞÜLÜYOR..

 

Arslan Bulut Dick Cheney'nin hayırsız ziyareti!

Sakık “Kürd coğrafyası” dedi, Türk Adalet Bakanı köpürdü

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

 

Morell: Gates “PKK ile masaya oturup müzakerede bulunulmasını savunmuyor”

 

ABD’de düştü, Türkiye’de arttı

 

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

 

 Turkey, EU lack leaders to convey mutual value of Turkish membership’

 

FT Cypriot with the zeal of a convert

 

Dost Kosova’dan düşmanca ifadeler

NATO'ya Rus tehdidi: Üye yaparsanızGürcistan özerk bölgelerini kaybeder

 

AB’den Kuzey Irak’a Türkiye uyarısı

Türk ve Avrupalı gazeteciler AB sürecini değerlendirdi

 

Greek Cyprus uses Hamas argument to oppose KKTC office in Israel

 

ABHaber açıklıyor:Rumlardan AB’ye 'görüşmeler 8 Temmuz Mutabakatı üzerinde' olacak


 

Three cases of political nonsense
Cengiz AKTAR

 

Gerçeği gizleyen düşmandır Ermeni soykırımı yapılmadı

 

ERGUN BABAHAN Uzun, ince bir yol

 

'Türkiye'nin Desteği Önemli'

 

 

 

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

 

Geoffrey Lewis  Obituary: UK's leading authority on the language and culture of Turkey

 

Women -- Is March 8 enough? by FARUK LOĞOĞLU


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