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H1 Dennis Ross Choices and Strategies for Dealing with Iran

Electoral map favors a Democrat, has McCain playing defense

Time Iraq's Dance: Maliki, Sadr and Sunnis

Boston Globe Rearming the world

Why nations are suddenly locked in an arms race unseen since the early days of the Cold War

How We'll Know When We've Won - Frederick Kagan, Weekly Standard opinion

Washington Post Two Wars, Same Worries By David Ignatius, Afghanistan and Iraq are more similar than most Americans realize.

Editorial Belated Disclosure The Bush administration releases evidence regarding Syria's nuclear reactor, eight months after it was destroyed.

Try 'Pakistan First' By Jim Hoagland, Two words that should be the basis of of the Democrats' terrorism strategy.

GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS The New Economics of Hunger A brutal convergence of events has hit an unprepared global market, and grain prices are sky high. The world's poor suffer most.

In the End, Every President Talks to the Bad Guys By Leslie H. Gelb A primer on confronting evil dictators.

Comment on U.S.-Syria: Who’s converting whom? by Itamar Rabinovich, MESH

Comment on Jordanian option by Shmuel Bar, MESH

Comment on U.S.-Syria: Who’s converting whom? by Eyal Zisser, MESH

Who's Converting Whom? by Tony Badran

Comment on U.S.-Syria: Who’s converting whom? by Michael Young, MESH

Newsweek The French Revolution Christopher Dickey Sarkozy attempts to transform the West's military alliances.

New York Times Books About Middle Eastern Politics Reviewed by DEXTER FILKINS How to end the chaos in the Middle East? Olivier Roy and Noah Feldman respond.

Sunday Times Lakshmi Mittal remains Europe's richest man

Mittal has seen his family’s fortune rise by almost 44% in a year to £27.7bn and tops The Sunday Times RIch List 2008

Britons kidnapped in Iraq are ‘held by Iran’ Sources suggest five Britons who were kidnapped in Iraq a year ago are being held inside Iran by Revolutionary Guards

NYT Pariah Diplomacy

By JIMMY CARTER It is counterproductive for Washington to isolate governments that refuse its mandate, as exemplified by recent events in Nepal and the Middle East

Los Angeles Times The IMF's dwindling fortunes By Mark Weisbrot Thanks to disasters of its own making, the agency is losing money and influence.

The U.S. and China are over a barrel By Michael T. Klare In the costly competition for oil, cooperation is the wisest course

Syrian President Interviewed on Israeli Raid, Iran Nuclear Issue, Lebanon

Assad Says Facility Israel Bombed Not Nuclear: Paper

Iraqi Prime Minister Interviewed on Security, Political Situation

The Observer Blair told aide 'Gordon will lose to Cameron'

Brown leadership in turmoil after claims Tony Blair does not believe he is capable of beating Cameron

Why French lost their faith in the people's President Even Nicolas Sarkozy's supporters are disillusioned. Jason Burke journeys through France's heartland to chart the end of an infatuation

Hizbollah builds up covert army for a new assault against Israel Villages empty as Shia militia sends recruits to tough training camps in Bekaa Valley, Syria and Iran

Sunday Times US Warns Iran of Retaliation Over Iraq Action

From the Archive Syria's Strategic Weapons Programs

Wall Street Journal Nationalism Frays Global Ties The global economy appears to be entering an epoch in which governments are reasserting their role in the lives of individuals and businesses. Once again, barriers are rising. Call it the new nationalism.

The Real Cost of Tackling Climate Change
By Steven F. Hayward
There's no way we can reduce emissions 80% by 2050. Here's the math.

CJCS Briefing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen

Undressing Difference: the Hijab in the West Source: Scholarship at Penn Law Full Paper (PDF; 88 KB)

Financial Times Europe’s CAP the ‘answer’ to food crisis Africa and Latin America should adopt their own versions of the Common Agricultural Policy as a response to the rising demand for food, according to France’s farm minister

COMMENT: America needs to make a new case for trade By Lawrence Summers

A painful global adjustment Beware multiple crises could easily return like a bloodstained villain in a horror movie who rises to fight his last battle, writes Wolfgang Münchau

Self-destructive DemocratsThere is one way to redeem this hash of an electoral system – at the party’s urging, Obama and Clinton could run on the same ticket, says Clive Crook

Guardian A failing mission

Leader: Mr Karzai lives to fight another day but the battle for Afghanistan is no nearer being won

Christian Science Monitor

Uighurs struggle in world reshaped by Chinese influx

In China's far west, the Muslim ethnic group finds itself relegated to menial jobs. Chinese officials also restrict religious practice and use of their language in schools.

U.s. pushes utilities to counter sadr US general in Baghdad says bringing basic services to Sadr City to weaken Sadr and his militia can work this time.

Newsweek Cover Story: Obama's 'Bubba Gap'Barack Obama is a Niebuhr-reading ESPN watcher. The origins of his troubles with the 'other' tag

Mccain Vs. Mccain

by Fareed Zakaria

Questions for Obama - George Will, Newsweek

Is Obama Carter's Heir? - Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard

New Yorker Benny Morris’s Israeli history. David Remnick

Russia's richest man sees Putin in charge to 2020

Washington Times Stand up for Georgia By Joseph Biden and Richard Lugar Earlier this month at the NATO summit, the United States sought to win support for the extension of Membership Action Plans (MAPs) to Ukraine and the Republic of Georgia. These plans are the final preparatory step for states seeking to join the Alliance

Do you remember John McCain?

The Republican presidential candidate has his work cut out in winning support for his policies. Before much longer, he had better make a start

Putin to remain ‘Number 1’ for some time Russia’s president will hand over real power to his successor Dmitry Medvedev but will take his time, the head of a new Kremlin-backed think-tank has told the FT

WORLD NEWS: Iran's conservatives win run-off ,

Putin's Main Squeeze By Fred Hiatt, He squashed rumors of a new girlfriend the way Russia stifles dissent and autonomy.

SyriaComment News Round Up (27 April 2008)

City Journal: An Anatomy of Surrender — Islam divides the world into two parts.

H 2 FT Don’t dash Turkey’s EU dream For the moment, it would be much better to travel together hopefully than to stop and squabble about the final destination, writes John Thornhill

Ha’aretz Jerusalem source: Turkey looking for ways kick-start Israel-Syria talks Turkish PM to send high-ranking emissary to J'lem; Israel awaits update on Erdogan's Damascus trip

Turkish mediator on his way: Focus on bridging Syrian preconditions to talks

Türkiye’deki tartışmada ABD olarak taraf değiliz

Turkish, US militaries enjoy honeymoon, but military procurement ...

Gov’t goes on public diplomacy offensive

Türkiye, Şam'a su verirse İsrail'in Golan'dan çekilmesini kolaylaştırır

Ferai Tınç Ankara, Neçirvan Barzani’ye hazırlanıyor

Meeting with Barzani set to happen before summer

PKK'yı asker değil siyaset yok eder
Hiwa Osman

Kürt bölgesiyle ilk temas yakında

Semih İdiz ABD’den kapatma davası konusunda ince ayar

'AKP'nin Kapatılması Radikallere Yarar' Alman Şark Enstitüsü’nün kurucusu Profesör Udo Steinbach, AKP’nin yasaklanmasının Türkiye’nin AB üyelik sürecini olumsuz etkileyeceğini söyledi