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H1 New York Times Petraeus Urges 45-Day Halt in Weighing New Iraq Troop Cuts  Progress “fragile and reversible.” VIDEOS

 

Iran Says It’s Installing New Centrifuges

 

A Mystery in the Middle East | Stratfor The Arab-Israeli region of the Middle East is filled with rumors of war.

 

Debate between John Mearsheimer"  and Norman Finkelstein on the Israel lobby and the Iraq war  Part 2

 

The Ongoing Lessons of the Afghan and Iraq Wars Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies Full Paper (PDF; 3.8 MB)

 

MESH Iraq: assessment and recommendations  by Adama Garfinkle

 

Washington Post A Plea From Petraeus Extending the Drawdown in Iraq Could Imperil Gains, General Tells Lawmakers

 

The Iran Problem By David Ignatius, Any version of a war against Iran is a bad idea

 

Editorial Iraq Report Redux The facts there have changed; the debate here, less so.

 

Iran Claims To Install New, Faster Centrifuges Machines to Go Online In a Few Months, After Testing, President Says

 

Sadr Cancels Million-Man Rally in Baghdad

 

Iraq's Real Gains By Barham Salih Iraq closed its fifth year of freedom with tangible improvements in security, the economy and national reconciliation.

 

Salon Sizing up Petraeus on Iraq The top U.S. general gave Congress an upbeat assessment of the war Tuesday. Here's the reality behind the rhetoric. By Mark Benjamin

 

Gen. Petraeus' Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Comm. 

 

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker's Opening Remarks: Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on Iraq

  

Neocon Nation: Neoconservatism, c. 1776 - Robert Kagan, World Affairs

 

Foreign Policy Why the Surge Doesn’t Matter  By Blake Hounshell

 

 

IMF The credit crisis, triggered by the U.S. subprime mortgage meltdown, is spreading to other mortgage and corporate debt markets and could have profound financial system and macroeconomic implications, according to the IMF's latest Global Financial Stability Report.  Read the report

 

NPQ Jacques Attali: THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS: IMAGINING THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO

 

Los Angeles Times Editorial Staying in Iraq for proxy war Al Qaeda in Iraq is weakened. Do U.S. forces really need to stay to counter Iranian influence?

 

In Iraq, Muqtada Sadr threatens to end cease-fire The Shiite cleric also cancels plans for a massive protest march after complaining about harassment from the authorities

 

McClatchy Iraq hearings highlighted differences among the candidates  Obama took the toughest line, pressing Ambassador Ryan Crocker on whether Iraq would ever be free enough of Iranian and al Qaida influence to allow U.S. troops to leave. Clinton used much of her time to restate her Iraq war position. McCain, while distancing himself from the "mismanagement" of the war, voiced support for staying.

 

IHT  Beware an angry China By PHILIP BOWRING Nationalism is more often aroused by setbacks than success, so the Tibet problems and the possible threats to a triumphal Olympics are stirring it in China.

 

THE NATO SUMMIT A mockery of enlargement By IVO DAALDER AND JAMES GOLDGEIER When NATO leaders met last week, they did tremendous damage to enlargement policy as a whole.

 

WSJ Europe's Caspian Opportunity
By Alexandros Petersen and Manja Vidic Seizing it will secure the EU's energy future.

 

Why Iraq Matters - Frederick Kagan, National Review

 

Petraeus' Anaconda Strategy - Austin Bay, RealClearPolitics

 

Financial Times IMF puts cost of credit crisis at $945bn The financial sector faces potential losses of almost $1,000bn as a result of the credit crisis, the IMF said, warning of further losses and writedowns on prime mortgages, commercial real estate, leveraged loans and consumer finance

 

IMF releases an Instability Report It is the extent of the economic slowdown caused by the credit turmoil that will determine whether there is more financial pain to come. The squeeze is not yet over. The IMF may yet be called upon to rescue somewhere before it is

 

Why Greenspan does not bear most of the blame The former chairman of the Federal Reserve, once lauded as the ‘maestro’, has, to his discomfort, become the scapegoat for the crisis. Much of the criticism is highly unfair, writes Martin Wolf, but there are areas where he is wrong

 

Guardian The occupation has frozen Iraq. All else is tinkering

Simon Jenkins: Yesterday's declaration by General Petraeus that the surge must go on will simply prolong the country's agony

 

Food price rises threaten global security - UN  Rising food prices could spark worldwide unrest and political instability, says UN's top humanitarian official

 

The Iraq stalemate Marina Ottaway: Tuesday's testimony in Washington offered two irreconcilable visions of Iraq - one of confidence and progress, the other of chaos and failure

 

A convenient culprit  Dilip Hiro: The US says Iranians were involved in the recent fighting in Basra - but Iran later helped to broker a ceasefire

 

Iran's benign influenceStephen Kinzer Today's hearing on Iraq focused on Iran's 'malignant' influence - but rather than counter it, the US should use it to help create stability

 

Unlawful combat Phil Shiner For America and the United Kingdom, staying in Iraq without an exit date would be illegal. Here's why

 

Crocker: Al Qaeda on Afghanistan-Pakistan border bigger threat than in Iraq.

 

Iran's US Policy in a Nutshell

 

BloggingHeads Juan Cole & Daniel Drezner: Decolonization Edition

 

Should the GOP Want to Win in '08? - Charlie Cook, National Journal

 

Time Setting the Terms of the Iraq Debate

 

Al Qaeda's Third Front: Saudi Arabia By: Bruce Riedel and Bilal Y. Saab | The Washington Quarterly After the September 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden launched a third front beyond Afghanistan and Iraq: his own homeland in Saudi Arabia. Saudi authorities have so far successfully countered al Qaeda's offensive, but the war inside the kingdom is far from over

 

The Last Days of Cheap Chinese By: Alexandra Harney | Slate
Why American consumers are about to start paying more for clothes, electronics, toys, and just about everything else.

 

Exclusive: Ahmadinejad denies al Qaeda’s 9/11 attack on America

 

Asia Times Iraqi rogues and a false proxy war
The strong resistance put up against United States and Iraqi forces in Basra was by rogue militiamen who have split from Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army and come under Iranian control. That, anyway, is the line General David Petraeus is expected to follow in his congressional testimony. Yet there is no evidence such Iranian-backed special groups exist, and Tehran's real strategy in Iraq bears no resemblance to the one portrayed in the US proxy war narrative. - Gareth Porter

 

Kevin Drum So How is Muqtada al-Sadr Really Doing?

Next Public Event: "Iran and the United States: Outlook for the Next Decade?"

 

Is Neoconservatism Jewish?
Peter Berkowitz.

H2   Demokratik laiklikten yanayız

 

AB'den sert uyarılar

 

MR. BARROSO’YA DÜŞEN GÖREV

 

THE AKP SCRABBLES FOR AN ANTI-CLOSURE STRATEGY Eurasia Daily Monitor By Gareth Jenkins

 

Ankara müzakerelerin neresinde?

 

En kötü senaryoda bile müzakereler kesilmez

 

Turkish Bid to Ban Party Poses EU Risk, Solana Says (Update2)

 

GulfNews Sign of maturity in Turkey By Amir Taheri

 

EU's regional policy and Kurdish question CENGİZ AKTAR

 

Crocker'dan Kongre'de Türkiye yorumu

 

EurasiaNet TURKEY: GOVERNING PARTY TAKES ACTION TO EVADE COURT BAN
 

BusinessWeek  Turkish Politics Take an Economic Toll  The fight over secularism is dimming the economic prospects of the republic: Growth has slowed, inflation is up, and the lira is down

 

Semih İdiz Dışişleri’nde kritik ziyaretin gölgelenmesi endişesi

 

Erdoğan's toughest test
Bülent ALIRIZA

 

Turkey no longer ‘Western wannabe,’ says Fuller in book by KILIÇ BUĞRA KANAT*

 

Savunma Sanayi İcra Komitesi Ankara'da toplanıyor

 

Yedioth Ahronoth Rockets as Turkish MPs visit

 

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

 

NYT BOOKS OF THE TIMES; In Northern Iraq, the Kurds Find Success Amid Struggle For the first time in nearly a century the Kurds hold a winning hand — from which they need to discard the trump card of nationhood.

 

Cevdet Aşkın Ankara'nın gözü Erbil'de, PKK'ya tavrın eli kulağında

Köşk’te Kürt sorunu tartışılacak

 

Terör örgütü PKK yönetmensiz kaldı

Keeping the PKK Bought - Strategy Page

 

Supreme Council of Kurdistan Region Political Convenes in Erbil

 

Yalancı, sen dürüst değilsin

 

Sterling banks on Kurdistan in US sale  Sterling Energy will sell its US assets to raise cash and increase focus on its Iraqi Kurdistan

 

Bağdat hükümeti gizli anlaşmayla ABD'ye süresiz kalma izni vermiş

 

Crocker: Petrol Iraklıların tutkalı

 

Almanya'yı en çok PKK uğraştırıyor

Türkiye ABD Kongresi'nde

 

 

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

 

Anayasamız AB’ye % 100 uyumlu değil

 

Solana warns of grave consequences if AK Party banned

 

Bahçeli calls on Erdoğan to give up EU fascination

 

Positive atmosphere expected in talks with EU pair in Ankara

 

 

Babacan: AB konusunda büyük reform gündemi var

 

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