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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. 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 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 Exclusive: Ahmadinejad denies al Qaeda’s
9/11 attack on America Asia Times Iraqi rogues and a false proxy
war 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? |
H2 Demokratik
laiklikten yanayız 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 Turkey
no longer ‘Western wannabe,’ says Fuller in book by KILIÇ BUĞRA KANAT* Yedioth Ahronoth Rockets as Turkish MPs visit Qassam siren catches Ankara
lawmakers touring Sderot before meetings with Peres, Livni Turkish PM
promises to speed up reforms for EU EU's
Solana: Ban on Turkish ruling party could have grave ... Foreign Press Center Briefing with Assistant Secretary of State
for European and Eurasian Affairs Dan Fried, Washington, DC (April
7, 2008) Kapatma davası
AKP'ye oy veren çoğunluğa açıldı 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 4.
Erdoğan’ın makamında Kürtçe eğitim kavgası Başbakan Kürtçe
denince gerildi Southeastern
NGOs urge PM to push for EU process Hüsnü
Mahalli Sıcak yaz yaklaşıyor (mu?) 8. PKK'nın yönetmeni çatışmada öldürüldü DTP tam kadro duruşmaya gidiyor Şırnak'ta
askeri birliklere mühimmat sevkıyatı sürüyor Kurdistan is an invisible nation Kerkük petrolü kabzımala emanet Köşk’te Kürt sorunu tartışılacak
Erdoğan’a rapor sunan Diyarbakır heyetini bugün de Gül kabul edilecek Trouble looms for Iraq's Kirkuk oil province Kürt kimliği sözde
değil, özde tanınsın Sami
Kohen Demokrasi ikilemi PKK, “Avrupa'da
terörün sorumlusu” olarak resmi raporda yer aldı Terör örgütü PKK yönetmensiz kaldı Keeping the PKK Bought - Strategy Page Supreme Council of Kurdistan Region Political Convenes in
Erbil 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 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 İsmail Küçükkaya < | |