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H1 Washington Post Alliance Invites In Croatia, Albania Bush Is Rebuffed In Bid for Support Of Ex-Soviet States

Guardian Europe owes a huge thank you to skilful, patient President George Bush Timothy Garton Ash: His diplomacy helped to reunite Europe. But as Nato meets in Bucharest, his son is completing two terms of global failure

IHT A new phase By JAAP DE HOOP SCHEFFER Things are looking up in Afghanistan, but that does not alter the need for NATO allies to do more

CSIS Shell Energy Scenarios to 2050 Two plausible ways in which the globe's sources and uses of energy may evolve over the next half-century. Watch the Video | Listen | Energy

Iran's influence evident in Basra
GulfNews - By Amir Taheri

Washington Post Editorial Battle for Basra The Iraqi government uses its own army to fight Shiite militias. Is that bad news?

Perils in The Price Of Rice

By David Ignatius, What do truck drivers in New Jersey, soybean buyers in Indonesia and pasta aficionados in Italy have in common? More than you think.

It Might Be a Recession, Fed Chief Tells Congress Bernanke, Using a Word Rarely Uttered by Top Officials, Lays Out a Litany of Economic Problems

Financial Times False ideology at the heart of the financial crisis New thinking is needed, writes George Soros

Why the euro is unlikely to eclipse the dollar Reports of the dollar’s death are exaggerated

Hillary Clinton cannot let go of her dream Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the Democratic presidential nomination are now anywhere from 5 per cent to 20 per cent. By rights she should be flat on her back, declared the loser by technical knockout, writes Sally Bedell Smith

Bush signals softening on EU defence The US president signalled a softening of long-standing US resistance to stronger European Union defence capabilities, suggesting this could help rather than weaken Nato

New York Times U.S. Cites Planning Gaps in Iraqi Assault on Basra Interviews suggest that Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki overestimated his military’s abilities and underestimated the scale of the resistance in Basra.

NATO Allies Oppose Bush on Georgia and Ukraine

Iraq’s Sunni Time Bomb

By MATT SHERMAN Failure to find a new role for the Sons of Iraq will result in the deterioration of government authority and a return to militia rule for much of Iraq.

Editorial Adrift in the Middle East

If Washington doesn’t make clear its commitment to peace in the Middle East, it cannot expect weak Israeli and Palestinian leaders to reach a realistic compromise

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

A Not-So-Fine Romance China and the United States clash partly because of competing interests, but mostly because of competing narratives.

McClatchy Against McCain, Clinton bests Obama in swing-state polls Hillary Clinton is stronger than Barack Obama when pitted against John McCain, according to new polls of three major states that tend to swing between Democrats and Republicans in November elections

Los Angeles Times Can Iraq's soldiers fight? The recent battle between Iraqi troops and militias provides a sort of progress report on the nation's army.

• 'Is Global Jihad a Fading Phenomenon?' by Michael Scheuer, Jamestown Foundation

Phillippe Sands / Vanity Fair:

The Green Light — As the first anniversary of 9/11 approached, and a prized Guantánamo detainee wouldn't talk, the Bush administration's highest-ranking lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the army's own Field Manual

New polls show Obama surge in Pa.

Asia Times Iran torpedoes US plans for Iraqi oil With the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps showing how much control it has over the killing fields of Iraq, by stopping the fighting in the southern city of Basra, Iran has made both the Iraqi and United States governments look very foolish. Far beyond that, Iran has frustrated the joint US-British objective of gaining control of Basra, without which their strategy for establishing control over the fabulous oil wealth of southern Iraq will not work. - M K Bhadrakumar

The other Iraqi civil war The battle of Basra may be virtually over. But nobody's talking about the invisible Battle of Mosul. Even by George W Bush logic, "the terrorists" and Iran won the battle of Basra. In the north of Iraq, though, the pieces are falling into place for an alliance between the United States, Israel and a "greater Kurdistan". If only the pesky Iraqi nationalist Sunnis and Shi'ites don't get in the way. - Pepe Escobar

The Pentagon's battle bugs
The Pentagon's blue-skies outfit, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, celebrates its 50th birthday this year with a program to create cyborg insects - actual moths, June bugs and other creatures that could be developed and programmed to conduct surveillance (or worse). As part of the US's war-fighting future, researchers are already growing insects with electronics inside them - on-board audio, video and chemical sensors. - Nick Turse

Little more love Why the US is gaining some ground in the eyes of the world

Maliki's Missteps Max Boot

Anatomy of the Surge Peter D. Feaver How and why the troop surge has worked, why a military presence in Iraq is sustainable, and why rapid troop drawdowns would guarantee defeat

Joe Klein Too Many Kagans, Too Little Knowledge

CSIS The Future of NATO through the ISAF PrismRead More

Wall Street Journal The Second Iran-Iraq War
By Kimberly Kagan Congress wanted Prime Minister Maliki to confront the militias. Now it needs to support him.

The Times No wonder Russia is paranoid The West finds it hard to understand, but Nato's expansion is provocative to Russian eyes Anatole Kaletsky

Nato allies desert Bush over expansion plan George Bush appeal for Ukraine and Georgia to be earmarked for Nato membership opposed by Britain, France and Germany

John McCain's new test: find a running mate The Republican presidential candidate is mapping out a strategy to appeal to independents and his fractious party

Foreign Policy Seven Questions: Waiting for a Cyber Pearl Harbor

Ha’aretz – Al Qaida's no. 2 vows to strike Jews worldwide Ayman Al-Zawahri: Jihad will 'spread towards Jerusalem' after U.S. forces exit Iraq

Israel fears Syrian army moves are preamble for Hezbollah op Defense sources: Syrians preparing for severe Israeli response to a Hezbollah attack over Mughniyah killing

Christian Science Monitor

Don't 'pull an Iraq' in Afghanistan Massive state-building efforts are not a good use of tax dollars. By Benjamin H. Friedman

Some signs of optimism on economy Banks raise capital; senators look at a bipartisan mortgage-rescue package.

Guardian Muslim 'separatists' protest as unrest spreads in China Muslim Uighurs have held anti-government protests in the far western region of Xinjiang, Chinese officials have acknowledged, blaming separatists inspired by the unrest in Tibet.

Daily TelegraphIran's nuclear secrets revealed

China provides UN with information on Iran's nuclear plan

• 'Jordan: Preserving Domestic Order in a Setting of Regional Turmoil' by Asher Susser, Crown Center, Brandeis

Hudson Putin to Split NATO Alliance?

Managing Sino-US Relations: The Chinese Way

‘Culture and Conflict in the Middle East’

Has Bush stiffed Israel?
Norman Podhoretz, Commentary.

H 2 CSIS The JDP Faces the Threat of Closure: Erdogan's Toughest Test? Bulent Aliriza

Guardian Kemalism loses its grip

Nicholas Blincoe: The ideology of Ataturk is fading and Turkey's Justice and Development party is building a more multi-ethnic country

MELİHA OKUR Neçirvan niye geliyor?

Turkey’s risk, Europe’s role, openDemocracy A court hearing over the legality of Turkey's ruling party could imperil the country's progress towards European Union membership, says a group of leading European observers

A New Pakistan? By: Tony Blankley | The Washington Times Let's talk Turkey, first.

CSIS'ten kapatılma davasına ilişkin rapor

BASBUG IN INDIA

World Politics Review | Turkey's AKP: Toward Liberal Reform or Islamization?

Report: Turkish president says no plans to send combat troops to Afghanistan - International Herald Tribune

Kadri Gürsel Afganistan kâbusu

Turkish military advisors work in southern Afghanistan - Turkish Daily News Apr 02, 2008

‘KKTC’den asker çekilebilir’

Erdoğan: Ada'dan asker çekmek en son mesele

Report: New Nuclear Arms Race Possible

'Türkiye nükleer yarışa girebilir' iddiası

‘İran’a mesaj verin’ çağrısı

Satterfield urges socio-economic measures against PKK

Ambassador David Satterfield, Coordinator for Iraq, Interview with Murat Celik, Star TV, Ankara (March 31, 2008)

Senior Advisor on Iraq, Ambassador David Satterfield Roundtable Interview, Ankara, Turkey (March 31, 2008)

CSM Divided Cypriots unite to preserve ancient Famagusta The history of the storied port is reflected in its French Gothic cathedral, Italian Renaissance palace, Byzantine church, and Ottoman madrassah-turned-restaurant.

Court Case Against Ruling Party Divides Turks

AK Party plans to strike back with reform package

Headscarf controversy divides Turkey’s universities

If Israel recognizes so-called “Armenian genocide”, document about genocide against Palestinians will be submitted to Azerbaijani Parliament

Sakka’nın eylemine devam edeceklermiş

Washington’s image improving but still bad in Turkey

Parti kapatmak sorunun sadece üzerini örter
Gerd Höhler

Referandum darbeyi çağırır MUHAMMED NUREDDİN

Burak Bekdil Who is more anti-Semitic: Islamists or Kemalists? - Turkish Daily News Apr 02, 2008

Türkiye'nin geleceği artık çok daha belirsiz

Stephen Kinzer

Dava elitlerin seçilmişlere son hamlesi