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H1 Washington Post The Three Revolutions By Henry A. Kissinger How can we form a national security policy when the global order is changing three ways at once

 

United States Institute of Peace Iraq Report (pdf) Iraq After the Surge: Options and Questions By Daniel Serwer and Sam Parker

 

Senate FRC Hearings on Iraq

 

“Iraq 2012: The Regional Context” F. Gregory Gause, III University of Vermont

  

Washington Post Iraq Report Details Political Hurdles and Future Options

 

Bush Listens Closely To His Man in Iraq In White House Deliberations on War, Gen. Petraeus Has a Privileged Voice

 

Editorial NATO's Fudges  Compromises on Afghanistan and expansion of the alliance avoid a rupture but won't win any wars.

 

Three Faces of Infantilism: NATO's Bucharest Summit
by Anatol Lieven

 

New York Times Generally Speaking  Iraq may be President Bush’s war, but Gen. David H. Petraeus has become its front man. Now some pundits suggest the general might have a political future of his own.

 

Sunday Times Iran joined militias in battle for Basra Iranian forces were involved in recent battle for Basra, the US commander in Iraq is expected to tell Congress next week

 

Iraqi Leaders Call for Militias to Disband

 

Ha’aretz  Israel concerned N. Korean nuclear know-how, material has reached Iran

 

Israel, U.S. plan to release details on Sept. 2007 Syria attack  

 

Bar’el Ready for everything but peace If Syria is really a threat and is planning war, what is the meaning of the panic that miscalculation may lead to war?

 

Eldar The time has come for Bush to intervene Nixon wrote in his memoirs that the key to resolving the Israeli-Arab conflict is a forced settlement that is not referred to as such

 

Oren Damascus, Ramallah or Tehran This season's tension between Israel and Syria serves to bring home the extent of the missed opportunity of those years, as of subsequent decades, following the American display of prowess in Iraq in 1991 and 2003

 

Debka Exclusive: Iran, Syria, Lebanon on military alert over US Gulf movements and Israel’s home defense drill

 

National Interest Bucharest on My Mind: Experts React to the NATO Summit

Ehsan Ahrari The Meaning of Iran’s Full Membership in the SCO

 

Iraq Is a Mess. But Germany Was, Too. - David Stafford, Washington Post

 

McClatchy Bush-Putin summit does little to relieve U.S.-Russia strains President Bush made little, if any, progress with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a hastily arranged summit Sunday, dashing any near-term hopes of mending the strained relations between the two nuclear powers

 

From the Archive Zbigniew Brzezinski (01/02/08)

 

McClatchy Is Hillary Clinton dishonest? A lot of Americans think so

 

GOP strategist: Rice 'actively campaigning' to be VP

 

Washington Times Hayden aims for 'a more cohesive CIA' CIA Director Michael V. Hayden says the agency needs to get "back to what the nation needs it to be doing — its espionage function, its analytic function and its covert-action function."

 

RFE/RL A Winner At The NATO Summit?  A report from Bucharest takes a look at the winners and losers at the NATO Summit

 

The Observer We provoke Russian paranoia at our peril

Robert Service: By agreeing to place an American defence system in Eastern Europe, Nato has given the Kremlin the perfect excuse to further cement its autocratic rule

 

Democratic battle hands McCain lead Republican presidential nominee surges ahead in polls as his Democratic rivals fight a bitter battle

 

Food riots fear after rice price hits a high Shortages of the staple crop of half the world's people could bring unrest across Asia and Africa, reports foreign affairs editor Peter Beaumont

 

Los Angeles Times Officials foresee no ebb in Iraq violence Americans and Iraqis agree that the enmity ignited by a government crackdown on Shiite militias remains, setting the stage for 'a hot summer in Iraq.'

 

Petraeus returns to a shifting political battleground The commander in Iraq, due to address Congress, will try not to alienate Democrats. One may soon be his boss

 

Analysis: Iraqi PM wins rare support  Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's faltering crackdown on Shiite militants has won the backing of Sunni Arab and Kurdish parties that fear both the powerful sectarian militias and the effects of failure on Iraq's fragile government.

 

US forces clash with Iraq militia Twenty people are reported killed in clashes in Baghdad between US forces and a Shia militia.

 

New Intel Report Claims Iraq Progress...

 

Gates Says Diplomacy the Plan for Iran

 

Officials Confirm Iran's Role in Truce

 

Iran loses ground in Iraq

 

Financial Times  IMF head calls for global action on turmoil

Government intervention at a global level is required to tackle the credit crisis, according to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, who has warned that market turmoil will take a serious toll on world growth

 

The Fed is blameless on the property bubble The core of the problem lies with the investment community. It is not credible that regulators could have prevented it, writes Alan Greenspan

 

Putin still against US-run missile shield US president George W. Bush and Russia's Vladimir Putin said they were interested in creating a joint defence system with Europe against missile threats - although Russia warned it still opposed plans for a US-run missile shield in central Europe

 

US-Russia optimism on missile shield deal Washington and Moscow yesterday held out the -prospect of an eventual agreement over US plans for a missile shield in eastern Europe, and said they would work towards

 

Petraeus to defend Iraq strategy

General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq who hinted months ago that he wanted to halt troop reductions after the “surge” was unwound this summer, will be under pressure to provide details about the “pause” in congressional testimony

 

Sunday Telegraph British troops go back into Basra Months after control of Basra was placed in the hands of the Iraqis, British troops have been sent back into the southern city, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.

 

George Bush rules out further Iraq troop cuts

 

McClatchy Iraq testimony will be test for Clinton, McCain and Obama Each of the leading presidential candidates will question Army Gen. David Petraeus when he testifies this week at Senate hearings on the Iraq war. What they ask and how they respond to his answers may say a lot about how each would proceed as commander in chief

 

Daily Star Has the moment come to replace the US dollar?    By Kenneth Rogoff

 

Sunday Times Force China through a tunnel of shame The London torch procession shows how craven Britain has become: ignore it or protest Simon Jenkins

 

NYT Indecisive Moments  By NOAH FELDMAN What crackdowns and elections in Iraq never quite achieve

 

U.S. and Iraqis Battle Militias to End Attacks  At least three U.S. soldiers were killed and 31 wounded and at least 20 Iraqis were killed in a failed operation to stop militia attacks on Baghdad’s Green Zone

Paul Krugman Grains Gone Wild How did the food crisis happen? The answer is a combination of long-term trends, bad luck — and bad policy.

WILLIAM KRISTOL The Shape of the Race to Come In politics, as in life, the grass is always greener on the other side. Many Republicans see the weaknesses of the John McCain campaign, and assume Barack Obama will prevail

 

ROGER COHEN A Passage to Tibet Playing in the major leagues is no breeze and China can no longer pretend to be the unobtrusive power par excellence.

 

Basra Fiasco Showed Iran's Power in Iraq - Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer

 

Iran to OPEC: Stop Oil Sales in Dollars

 

Rise and Fall of Nations - Ben Wattenberg, Washington Times

 

Weekly Standard What Happened in Basra The Maliki-Sadr showdown.

Guardian Climate target is not radical enough - study  Nasa scientist says scale of problem grossly underestimated and urges huge CO2 reductions

 

It's another winter of discontent. This time the villain is big finance

Larry Elliott: Economies in crisis The banks can't ignore parallels with the 1970s; they've gained unfettered power and acted with supreme recklessness

 

Russia’s view of US missiles
Le Monde Diplomatique

 

Washington Post Repairing America's Spy Shop By David Ignatius, If only it were just about destroyed interrogation videotapes

No Cushion Against Hubris By Jim Hoagland, But not for long, because the era of hubris is fading. Any lingering assumptions about the ability of a single superpower to manage "the end of history" for the good of mankind are evaporating abroad as the Federal Reserve rushes through emergency measures and slashes interest rates to guard against a collapse of U.S. and European financial markets.

Double Bubble Trouble? By Sebastian Mallaby, Two reforms to shorten America's debt hangover.

 

Road Map to a Gaza War

By Jackson Diehl, Bush's last minute peace push will lead to another Israeli-Palestinian war.

 

 

Between Iraqi Shiites, a Deepening Animosity Basra Offensive Inflamed Long-Standing Rivalry, Redefining Nature of Conflict

 

No Pact, but Bush, Putin Leave a Map Contentious Issues to Await Successors

 

Winging It: European Summit, Russia Trip Take Unexpected Turns

 

Irregular Warfare, Both Future and Present

 

The Next Campaign Stop: Iraq Hearings At Tuesday's Sessions, Candidates Can Ask Questions, Try to Score Points

 

Clinton's Chief Strategist Steps Down

 

US Deployment of Ballistic Missile Defenses in Eastern Europe: Should Russia Worry?

 

Christian Science Monitor  

Iraq's Shiite power vacuum

Sistani's clout is diminishing. Sadr is eyeing his spot. By Mohamad Bazzi

 

Why Iraq troop drawdown is likely to stop in July Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker will describe Iraq's fragile state this week on Capitol Hill.

 

Sadr City assault strains cease-fire

A week after a truce calmed clashes between Moqtada al-Sadr's militia and Iraqi forces, fighting resumed in his Baghdad stronghold Sunday

 

U.S.-Russia row over Kosovo escalates with Moscow aid shipments Russia is sending humanitarian supplies worth $1.7 million directly to Kosovo Serbs, challenging the authority of the US-backed government in Pristina.

 

Newsweek Storm Warning

George Wehrfritz and Jason Overdorf The world could be one crop failure away from an actual food crisis. Market panic has already started.

 

What Power Looks Like They ride on Gulfstreams, set the global agenda, and manage the credit crunch in their spare time. They have more in common with each other than their countrymen. Meet the Superclass.

 

Syria wants U.S. to facilitate 'billions' in business Also want to be primary American ally as region goes on war alert

 

Caveat Emptor: Buy McCain, Get Kagan and Woolsey  by John Taylor

 

H2 Newsweek Turkey's Judicial Coup D'etat Morton Abramowitz and Henri J. Barkey This battle could last for months longer, and whether the AKP wins or loses, the consequences are bad.  
 

Türkiye'nin darmadağın olmasına izin veremeyiz
Morton AbramowItz

 

Attack of the Judges In the battle for the heart and soul of Turkey, the lines are now being drawn by the judiciary

 

SOLİ ÖZEL Güvenlik ekseni

 

Kadri Gürsel NATO zirvesinin gizli galibi Türkiye’dir

 

Osman Ulagay Türkiye’nin yükseliş öyküsünü kim yazacak?

  

Author of book on PKK says Turkey’s fears not unfounded

 

 ‘US should reassure its allies to prevent nuclear weapons ambitions in region’

 

AKP'nin ılımlılığı zoraki
CarolIne Fourest

 

Yedioth Ahronoth Fitting diplomatic price  Israel has Jewish obligation to recognize Armenian genocide, MK Reuven Rivlin says

 

Guardian The road to reunification?

Helena Smith The elation over the reopening of the roadblock on Nicosia's Ledra Street may be over, but the political signs are still hopeful

 

Kapatma davası Kıbrıs'ı da etkiliyor

 

PKK’ya can simidi AB’den

 

Mensur Akgün Okunan haber ve yorum her zaman en önemli olan değildir

 

Rusya'nın enerji atağında Türkiye kilit ülke oldu

Türkiye asla silah tüccarı olmayacak

 

Ferai Tınç Zirvelerin ardından

 

[AK Parti kapatılırsa] AB-Türkiye ilişkilerinde ne olur?

 

The Observer Zico still a man of style

 

Uydu ihalesinde mesaj yarışı

 

 Kapatma davası AB'yle ilişkileri derinden etkileyecek MUHAMMED EL ŞEVAHİN

 

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

 

K.Irak'a ikinci Kara Harekatı kapıda

 

Author of book on PKK says Turkey’s fears not unfounded

 

Barzani’den bağımsız Kürdistan hayaline son

 

Öcalan için 'Çakal Carlos' savunması

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

 

Mahir Kaynak Kürtler ne diyor?

 

‘Kürtler özerk Kürdistan istiyor’

 

Yıldız: Kürtler özerk Kürdistan istiyor

 

Türk ve Kürt milliyetçilerinin kesiştiği nokta...

 

Ardan Zentürk K.Irak petrolünde bir Teksaslı...

 

Ömer Lütfi Mete Hancı kim, yolcu kim?

 

Semih İdiz Kuzey Irak’ta tansiyon artıyor

 

Amed’teki STK temsilcileri Gül’le görüşecek