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H1 NYT Clinton May Be Hopeful, but Obama Rolls On  Barack Obama is still picking up superdelegates despite his troubles, leaving his opponent with dwindling options

 

Pew Research Center:

Obama's Image Slips, His Lead Over Clinton Disappears  —    Gallup Daily: Clinton 49%, Obama 45%  —

CNN Poll: Obama losing support 

  

 New York Times DAVID BROOKS The Cognitive Age  There’s a problem with the way the globalization paradigm has evolved. It doesn’t really explain most of what is happening in the world

 

Washington Post Ideology's Rude Return By Robert Kagan, Autocracy's success in Russia and China poses a challenge to the liberal West

 

McCain's Foreign Policy Guru - R. Kagan & C. Flavelle, Newsweek

 

Financial Times Clever conceits cannot hide the world’s jagged edges You can always find some analogy or other from the past that can be said to illuminate the here and now. Yet upheavals in the global system since 1989 – the most profound for at least a century – are not susceptible to neatness, writes Philip Stephens

 

A tale of two futures, Paul Rogers
What will the world be like in 2020? Here are two scenarios

 

William Arkin War with Iran? That Will Be for the Next President

 

CSM China's 'rational' nationalism Beijing lights a dangerous patriotic torch as the Olympic torch heads its way.

 

The Economist Angry China The recent glimpses of a resentful, snarling China should scare the country's government as much as the world

 

The TIME 100  Our fifth annual list of the world's most influential people: leaders, thinkers, heroes, artists, scientists and more

 

USIP Religious Reconciliation in Iraq

 

Should NATO Defend Europe Against Russia's Energy Weapon? - American Enterprise Institute

What Exactly Is the West? By: Guy Sorman | The Japan Times
In the great clash of civilisations, with the West against the rest, it's the emphasis on innovation that defines a Westerner.

 

Wall Street Journal

Bush Calls for More Food Aid

The president proposed $770 million in assistance on top of the $200 million released two weeks ago to alleviate the global surge in food prices. While the traditional U.S. approach is to ship American-grown food overseas, the White House proposal calls for buying more food in developing countries

 

CIA Chief: Iran Wants to Kill Americans in Iraq

 

General Claims 'Clear Evidence' Iran Supporting Taliban

 

Los Angeles Times

Iraq sends team to Iran to discuss U.S. accusations Tehran denies the charges that it is aiding militias. Meanwhile, Gen. Petraeus says large amounts of Iranian weapons were found in the Basra crackdown

 

Sadr Snubs Iraq Peace Overtures

 

State Dept: Iran Tops State-Sponsored Terrorism

 

Iran Ends Oil Transactions in US Dollars

 

ANALYSIS: Syrian-Israeli contacts worry Iran, Hezbollah

 

Richard Perle: Fight For Human Rights, Democracy Follows

 

Commentary The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan Reviewed by Gabriel Schoenfeld

 

Q&A: Anne-Marie Slaughter on the East-West Divide

 

Ha’aretz  Mofaz, at Yale: Iran could have nuke bomb technology this year

 

Akiva Eldar The Syrian-Palestinian lie

 

Rice: Israelis and Palestinians must agree on final borders

 

Bush Will Not Pressure Israel on Core Issues

 

Self-confidence in Israel's DNAThe national ability to set and attain goals without letting reality interfere underlies our chutzpah to exist against all odds and to thrive against all expectations

 

Guardian Labour suffers mauling on grim night for Brown

Results so far show Labour heading for its lowest share of the vote since the 1970s

 

The Iranian Chessboard
by Pepe Escobar and Tom Engelhardt

 

IHT  WORLD FOOD CRISIS

Through Africa with hope

By BAN KI MOON If we begin taking steps to deal decisively with the world food crisis, the solution will come.

 

Russia steps up effort to keep Georgia out of NATORussia's decision to send 1,000 extra troops to Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia is part of the Kremlin's policy to thwart the ambitions of the Caucasus country to join NATO, Georgia's foreign minister says

 

Heritage The West Should Unite in Support of Georgia  by Ariel Cohen

 

To Annex or Annoy?

 

EDM ANNEXATION AND MILITARIZATION OF ABKHAZIA CONTINUE APACE

- WILL TURKMEN GAS GO SOUTH AS WELL AS WEST?

 

Poll: Bush most unpopular in modern history 

 

Douglas Feith's War and Decision: Life in a Neocon's Parallel Universe  by Michael Scheuer

 

BloggingHeads J. Peter Scoblic & Jacob Heilbrunn: How To Start Worrying About The Bomb

 

Today in The Nation: The New Geopolitics of Energy

 

Time Measuring Iraq's Security Forces  The U.S. is counting on Iraq's security forces to take on greater responsibilities. But despite some progress, the Iraqis remain plagued by desertion and sectarianism--if they're even awake. Why the U.S. still can't stand down

 

CFR The Syrian Nuclear Puzzle

 

Abbas-Olmert Talks a ‘First’ in Mideast Diplomacy

CEPS Is Social Europe fit for Globalisation?

 

Prospects for the EUs New Generation of FTAs

 

CSIS Analysis of the Annual Report on Terrorism

 

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War in Iraq: The Public Perspectives

 

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Ground Truth - American Enterprise Institute The Future of U.S. Land Power

Soaring Food Prices Mean Less Education for Poor - Council on Foreign Relations  

 

'We will act,' Peres warns The United States may be entering a world in the next few years with a chilling reality: a world in which nuclear-armed rogue states conclude that they can get away with almost anything.

 

Will US and Iran Go to War at Sea? - Christopher Dickey, Newsweek opinion

 

Engaging the East - Michael Auslin, Weekly Standard opinion

 

European Union and China Drifting Apart By: Israel Rafalovich | Asia Sentinel
While the buzz from Beijing about the visit of the President of the European Union, Jose Manuel Barroso of Portugal, appears to presage a closer embrace between Europe and China, the fact is that the European Union and China are drifting apart

 

Al Awsat Syria or Iran: Where Does the Decision Lie? : Tariq Alhomayed

 

Renewed Iran-Egypt Ties? By: Jonathan Schanzer | National Review

Egypt : A policy paper from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace looks at Egypt’s April elections and argues that they indicate a broad deterioration in Egyptian politics.

Iraq: U.S. Has No Claim to Oil Boom By: Liz Sly | The Chicago Tribune As Congress gears up to debate the Bush administration's latest request for an additional $108 billion in war funding for Iraq and Afghanistan, Iraqis are fuming at suggestions being floated by lawmakers that Baghdad should start paying a share of the war's costs by providing cheap fuel to the U.S. military.

 

Religion and secularism Power points The slogans of political Islam remain highly resonant, whether as a programme for peaceful governance or an inspiration to wage war. Two new books explain why

 

North Korea and Syria Oh what a tangled web they weave  The shadowy half-life of Syria's supposedly non-existent nuclear reactor

 

Al hayat An Israeli Concept of a New Role for Syria Mostafa Zein

 

Understanding The Recent Changes In Iraqi Political Dynamics Roger Owen

 

Time How Much Did Rumsfeld Know?

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Roubini CNBC Interview: Why the Worst is Ahead of US

H2 Washington Post Editorial Secular and Antidemocratic In Turkey, another attempt to reverse the elections won by moderate Islamists

 

FT Editorial   Turkish free speech The AKP-dominated parliament has just amended Article 301 of the penal code but it must be completely overhauled or – better still – repealed

 

The Economist  Turkish politics An ineffective opposition The sad irrelevance of Turkey's main opposition leader

 

ARIEL COHEN  Turkey's constitutional dilemma Middle East Times

 

EDM AKP PRESENTS DEFENSE AS POLL SUGGESTS POPULAR SUPPORT WAVERING

 

Carnegie Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East

 

TSK 1 saat 10 dakika da PKK kamplarını yerle bir etti

EurasiaNet Turkey: An Islamic Radical Group Resurfaces, Striving to Embrace Peaceful Change Huseyin Yildirim carries a heavy weight on his shoulders. While he says he never killed a man, he was jailed for membership in Kurdish Hizbullah, a radical Sunni Islamist group that was reputedly connected to about 500 murders in the 1990s. Now, he heads a countrywide NGO that he insists is dedicated to peace.

 

Turkish Jets Bomb PKK CampsReuters

 

Reports: Turkish planes bomb Kurdish rebels


Turkish Planes 'Bomb Iraqi Kurds' - BBC News

 

Police break up Turkey marchers BBC News

 

Istanbul's Economic Tension.
TIME  A lawsuit threatens to undo the pro-Islamic government's record of reform and growth

 

Postcard: Cyprus Another breach in Nicosia's "green line" suggests that the Turkish North's status as the choice destination for fugitives may not be forever. On the Run in the Sun

 

Invisible Nation: How the Kurds’ Quest for Statehood is Shaping ...
Harvard Political Review

 

Türkiye sadık değil güçlü müttefik

 

Turkish-Pakistani CT Cooperation Bodes Ill for Bad Guys

 

Damascus ascendant
Al-Ahram Weekly

 

The Turkish Role in the Peace Process
The Media Line

 

Amir Taheri Sarkozy is Wrong About Turkey Asharq Alawsat

 

The Economist Smyrna, 1922 End of an era 

 

In Cyprus, a Street Is Revived, and So Is Hope Wall Street Journal

 

Want the best of Asia and Europe? Try Istanbul - Where in the World is Matt Lauer? - MSNBC.com

 

On May Day around the world, a mix of rallies, violence and even hints of hope Thousands of marchers gathered in Hamburg on May Day to call for more workers' rights, while protesters in Turkey were met with police batons and water cannon.

 

Turkcell denies US pressure against Syrian deal

 

A Pakistani in Turkey Khaleej Times

 

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası  Dış Basında Türkiye - BBC Turkish 0700 VOA TSİ 06:30 Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey TurcoPundit      

 

 

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

 

Kuzey Irak'la resmî temaslar başladı; Neçirvan Barzani, Türkiye'ye gelecek

 

PKK'ya giden silah dolu TIR, Cilvegözü'nde yakalandı

 

Türk heyeti Talabani ve N. Barzani'yle görüştü

 

PKK'ya tır dolusu silah

 

Irak ordusu eğitilecek

 

 

ERDAL ŞAFAKIrak'taki oluşumun adı

TSK'nın Sırat Köprüsü
M.Ali Kışlalı

 

Cevdet Aşkın Ankara-Erbil PKK pazarlığı

 

Turkey Holds First Senior Official Contact With Iraqi Kurds in Years

 

Sebahattin Önkibar AKP Irak'taki Türkmenler arasında bile islamcılık ayrımını yapıyor!

 

Erdoğan: Bağdat'a gelmeye hazırım

 

TRT, Kürtçe kanalına koordinatör arıyor

 

Birileri Kürt-Türk çatışması istiyor

 

Nasuhi Güngör Sakarya’da olanları hafife almayalım

 

DTP etkinliğini basan grup serbest bırakıldı

 

MGK'dan radikal karar

 

PKK'dan topluca kaçtılar