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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 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 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 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
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 IHT WORLD FOOD CRISIS 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 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 Abbas-Olmert Talks a ‘First’ in Mideast Diplomacy CEPS Is
Social Europe fit for Globalisation? Prospects for the EUs New Generation of FTAs 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 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 |
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 Camps – Reuters Reports: Turkish planes
bomb Kurdish rebels
Police break up Turkey
marchers Istanbul's
Economic Tension. 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 ... Türkiye sadık değil güçlü müttefik Turkish-Pakistani CT Cooperation Bodes Ill for Bad Guys Damascus ascendant The Turkish
Role in the Peace Process 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 İç Basında Türk Dış
Politikası Dış
Basında Türkiye - BBC Turkish 0700 VOA 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 Irak ordusu eğitilecek
ERDAL ŞAFAKIrak'taki oluşumun adı TSK'nın Sırat Köprüsü 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
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