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H1 Financial Times Food crisis is a chance to reform global agriculture Nobody knows how long these shocks will last, but they demand rapid policy changes across the globe. We must choose between fragmenting markets further and integrating them, between helping the poor and letting even more starve, writes Martin Wolf

Israel’s pride and prejudice at 60 If 60 is for an individual the age of maturity, it is a very young age for a state. Israel remains, for the lack of a better word, an adolescent state. Give Palestinians hope, urges Dominique Moïsi

The Shift Toward an Israeli-Syrian Agreement | Stratfor

Ha’aretz – Top Syrian emissary: Israel peace won't cut our Iran ties Senior Syrian analyst tells Hezbollah TV 'it would be naive to think Syria would abandon strategic alliances.'

Bush: Disclosure of IAF strike on Syria sends message to Iran

Graham Allison Blocking Iran's Nuclear Bomb

New US carrier in Gulf a "reminder" to Iran: Gates

Washington Post Obama Calls Minister's Comments 'Outrageous'

Editorial Parting With the Pastor Sen. Barack Obama's painful journey

The Necessary Three-Front War By Michael Gerson Is America treating these related insurgencies with sufficient seriousness?

GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS Siphoning Off Corn to Fuel Our Cars As Farmers Feed Ethanol Plants, a Costly Link Is Forged Between Food and Oil

U.S. Role Deepens in Sadr City Fierce Battle Against Shiite Militiamen Echoes First Years of War

Averting an Energy Crisis By: Graham Allison and Robbie Diamond | The Boston Globe
Gas prices are skyrocketing; the average price of a gallon of regular hit $3.50 last week. Venezuela has threatened to cut off oil exports to the United States. The dollar has fallen by 30 percent against the euro over the past two years. Could things possibly get worse?

The Times US blundered by crying wolf and keeping secrets

With its claims about Syria's secret bomb-building, the US has left itself open to every charge of bending intelligence to fit politics

Bronwen Maddox

US marines pour in to attack Afghan drug town

The 2,400 marines, many of them veterans of the war in Iraq, were involved in an assault on Garmser in Helmand province

Serbia inches closer to the EU

Foreign ministers toasted the new cooperation pact but it was seen as a gesture to help pro-EU politicians in Serbia

Los Angeles Times China's powerful weakness By Francis Fukuyama Beijing's reach isn't big enough to stop local governments from abusing the rights of ordinary citizens.

Jacob Heilbrunn: Former Reagan national security advisor Robert McFarlane says McCain presidency would be run by neoconservative hawks, not realists, at least initially.,,

Scowcroft: Obama-style diplomacy needed

Iran throws a counter lasso against the US GulfNews By Amir Taheri,

A Poisoned Chalice? The Crisis in National Security Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies Full Document (PDF; 1.6 MB)

Asia Times Iran holds key to India's energy insecurity In terms of its energy needs, India has woken to the simple fact that nearly all roads lead to Tehran, both as a source of energy as well as an outlet for other countries' energy exports to India. This could be the first step in a whole gamut of economic, trade, cultural, political and even security cooperation. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

US embroiled in de-basing deal The George W Bush administration is in crucial negotiations with the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki over the future relationship between Iraq and the United States. The core issue relates to permanent military bases, but no one is saying so, even as a year-end deadline looms. - Daniel Smith

The State Department's annual report on terrorism, formally known as the Country Reports on Terrorism, is due out this week, perhaps as early as Wednesday.

FT The Fed should hold rates for now The past month has brought a dramatic change in expectations for interest rates over the next few years, without any dramatic change in Fed rhetoric

Guardian For the good of all its people, Israel must pursue diversity Amitai Etzioni: If Jews and Arabs alike had the right to practise their religions - or none at all - violence and hatred would be curbed

CBS 'Hostile' Iran Sparks US Attack Plan second American aircraft carrier steamed into the Persian Gulf Tuesday as the Pentagon ordered military commanders to develop new options for attacking Iran

US Brings Iraq-Like Surge to Afghan Conflict

Analysis: Future of EU-Russia relations By STEFAN NICOLA (UPI) -- The European Union hopes to soon finish weaving the fabric of a new partnership agreement with Russia amid continuing differences with Moscow over energy security and foreign policy.

Georgia-Russia tensions ramped up Russia warns it will retaliate if Georgia uses force against its breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Christian Science Monitor

Fight Al Qaeda's plan, not its ideas The cold war showed it's easier to fight strategy than ideology.

An Afghan officer, NATO behind him, leads an assault

In Afghanistan's troubled south, one mission shows how far the Afghan Army has come –and what remains to be done

Graham Allison Case Study: Red Teaming Iran's Supreme Leader

Independent The power struggle The price of power and who foots the bill for Britain's rocketing energy costs took centre stage yesterday as the oil giants Shell and BP unveiled huge combined profits of £7.2bn, made in just three months, and consumers were hit with a new round of steep rises in prices from gas and electricity to air travel.

Hamish McRae: We will never have cheap oil again

Israel told to tackle West Bank plight Israel is coming under concerted international pressure to give swift agreement to specific measures to improve Palestinian life in the West Bank which senior diplomats believe could eventually make or break negotiations between the Israeli PM, Ehud Olmert, and the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas.

Wolfowitz Admits 'Clueless' on Counterinsurgency by Eli Lake

EurasiaNet Azerbaijan: Did Washington Have a Hand in Stopping Nuclear Shipment Headed for Iran? Azerbaijan’s refusal to release Russian nuclear power plant equipment headed to Iran has put the country at the center of a diplomatic firestorm. Analysts are divided over the source of the trouble. A former Azerbaijani presidential aide believes that the United States asked Baku to halt the shipment, while another expert contends that Russia, ambivalent about Iran’s nuclear program, is deliberately delaying handing over the necessary documentation to release the shipment

H 2 - IS TURKEY PLAYING A REGIONAL ROLE AT LAST?
Eurasia Daily Monitor By Gareth Jenkins

Murat YetkinABD, İran konusunda Türkiye'den ne bekliyor?

French ruling party seeks referendum on Turkey

Iraq's Kurds are mistaken in protecting the PKK - Daily Star - Lebanon Abdulkadir Onay

Turkey’s clash of values: memo to Europe, Cem Özdemir

Free speech reform said approved by Turk parliament

Kemal Derviş Perspectives on the United Nations and Development (mp3, video)

"Sessiz Tsunami": Global Gıda Krizi (ppt) - 29 Nisan 2008

NEFA: Interview of Turkish Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) Fighter "Abu Yasir al-Turki" (Interview)

BBC Turkey reforms controversial law Turkey's parliament approves the softening of a law criticised by the EU for limiting free speech, reports say.

Türkmen gazı Rusya'ya takıldı Nabucco'da ibre Irak'a kayıyor

Obama’dan Ermenilere destek

Turkey's parliament softens law restricting free speech

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