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H1  Guardian Thousands die in
Chinese earthquake
Rescuers struggle to reach victims as state media put death toll at 10,000 in worst affected province

 

Daily Star Four days that changed the Middle East Rami G. Khouri writes that the consequences of what has happened in the past week in Lebanon may portend an extraordinary but constructive new development: the possible emergence of the first American-Iranian joint political governance system in the Arab world.

 

Foreign Policy Brain Trusts: McCain Advisers Council on Foreign Relations

 

Financial Times Oily truth about US foreign policy  In 1973, the US imported 33% of its oil; today it imports about 60%. So far, US politicians have responded to this problem with a mix of wishful thinking and anger, writes Gideon Rachman

 

MIDDLE EAST FOCUS: Can the Arabs pull Lebanon back from the brink?

 

Food investment, not imperialism

There is a risk powerful nations will use aggressive foreign policies to secure food supplies and exclude competitors, but it has not arrived yet

 

Showdown between Hizbullah and Beirut - David Schenker
Sadly, for Washington, there are few realistic policy options to reverse the Hizbullah coup.   (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

 

The Times Who's afraid of big bad China? Why? Chinese success is good for the world. And the more we discover about China the better Chris Patten

 

Preventing an Arms Race in Outer Space By: James Carroll | The Boston Globe The American Academy of Arts and Sciences recently published "Russian and Chinese Responses to US Military Plans in Space," a stark look at where the American project is taking the world.  Download the Paper (952 KB)

 

Debka Exclusive: Syria hardens positions, retracts peace feelers to Israel

 

Wall Street Journal From Lebanon to HezbollahstanBy Bret Stephens
Global View:
When did the transformation begin?

 

Christian Science Monitor

Medvedev's test case with the West Russia's new president inherits a tinderbox in Georgia, a NATO aspirant.

 

The Danger of Isolationism By: Andrei Kortunov | The Moscow Times Russia has only two allies -- its army and navy."" This phrase, which was originally uttered 150 years ago by Tsar Alexander III, has become quite popular over the past several years to describe Moscow's shortage of allies.

 

China's Energy Security Moves It Closer to the Middle East By: Weiming Zhao | The Daily Star
Energy consumption in China is growing as fast as the rapidly growing Chinese economy. China has changed from a net oil exporter to a net oil importer. In recent years, 40 to 50 percent of the oil that China consumes is imported. Of that, 60 percent comes from the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar and Sudan are the main suppliers.

 

Asia Times China's weakness
the greater danger

Claims that China is an emerging superpower overlook the reality that the ineffectually governed country will struggle for decades to get and stay beyond subsistence. The West, rather than fearing China's expansion, should be preparing for a dramatic setback in Chinese economic growth and resulting breakdowns in domestic order.

 

WSJ The Challenge From ChinaBy Mark Helprin
Americans would be foolish to take our military superiority for granted.

NYT DAVID BROOKS The Neural Buddhists The cognitive revolution is not going to undermine faith in God — it’s going to challenge faith in the Bible.

 

Washington Post Editorial Inauspicious VisitPresident Bush's tour of the Middle East is timed to highlight his failures

 

U.S. Outlook Is Worst Since '92, Poll Finds Results Give Democrats Edge

 

Weak and Failing States: Evolving Security Threats and U.S. Policy (Updated 18 April 2008) (PDF; 197 KB) Source: Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists)

 

Ha’aretz  Bush to Haaretz: Peace process not contingent on one man U.S. president offers words of support for Olmert, saying he is 'an honest guy' and a 'strategic thinker.' Interview with Bush: the transcript

 

Lebanese army says will use force from Tues. to stop fighting Country embroiled in worst crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war, as death toll reaches over 80

 

ANALYSIS / In Lebanon, the new reality has taken over

 

Jerusalem Post 'Accept truce, or resistance will go on' Hamas says negotiations over Schalit's release will begin only after Israel agrees to hudna proposal

 

America's elusive search for Arab-Israeli peace Its optimistic, split-the-difference world view doesn't suit the regional reality.

 

Our World: How Lebanon was lost [ CAROLINE GLICK

 

Palestinian state - as elusive as ever Palestinians still blaming their suffering on everyone but themselves.

 

Obama should thank Hillary If Obama is lucky, Americans will be more concerned with the economy.

 

The Other Mideast Talks
Newsweek

 

Yedioth Ahronoth How Syria hid the reactor US report warns tactics employed by Damascus to conceal nuclear facility may be used by others

 

The Syrian option/ Yaron London As Hizbullah inches closer to Lebanon takeover, we must reassess new options

 

WSJ Brazil Joins New Economic Powers Brazil seemed out of its league when compared to dynamic emerging economies of Russia, India and China. But without great fanfare, Brazil's economy has turned a big corner. Already a power in agriculture and natural resources, it has added an elusive ingredient: a currency with staying power.

 

Lebanon's Sunni Bloc Built Militia, Officials Say By: Borzou Daragahi and Raed Rafei | Los Angeles Times The Future movement used a security firm to assemble a private force, officials say. But the fighters were no match for the Shiite group Hezbollah.

 

PostGlobal Israel Will Thrive, Flaws and All

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Israel Must Adapt To Survive

 

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Arabs Must Accept Israel

 

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H2   Web exclusive: 'We are all Kemalists' by Nicholas Birch | Prospect Magazine May 2008 issue 146 Turkey's supposedly antagonistic "democratic Islamists" and "authoritarian secularists" are actually cut from the same cloth

  

Reuters Can Turkey survive without an IMFcrutch?
 

 Turkish jets bomb northern Iraq for 3rd straight night

 

EDM TURKS BECOMING MORE PESSIMISTIC AND INTROSPECTIVE

 

Gen. Başbuğ to be more restraint but...

 

Turkey’s Military and its Role in Politics

 

FT MARKETS & INVESTING: Türk Telekom in record fundraising

 

Clinton Kapatma davasını izliyoruz, Türkiye'de demokrasiden tarafız

 

Terörle mücadele için ‘İran’la işbirliği yapılabilir’ mesajı

 

·  Ambassador Wilson’s interview with Mustafa Balbay, Cumhuriyet Newspaper, Ankara (May 8, 2008)

 

 Ambassador Wilson’s interview with Fikret Bila, Milliyet, Ankara (May 8, 2008)

 

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

 

4 ajanı yakalandı

 

Four Iraqi Kurdish agents arrested at southeastern border

 

PKK is fighting back but without Iraqi Kurdish backing

 

PKK Irak’tan tasfiye ediliyor sıra Türkiye’de

 

Cevdet Aşkın

 

İlnur Çevik PKK is fighting back but without Iraqi Kurdish backing

 

Hasan Cemal Kuzey Irak’ta başlayan olumlu süreci devam ettirmek için...

 

3 bin 500 PKK'lıya sivil operasyon - Haşim Söylemez

Bilal Çetin

Teslim olan iki PKK’lı serbest

Ajanlar tutuklandı!

 

İran’dan PKK’ya operasyon

 

‘Yeni bombardıman’ iddiası

 

Tamer Korkmaz: Haritaları ellerinde kaldı!

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

İbrahim Karagül: Hizbullah Beyrut'u aldı, ABD Lübnan'ı kaybetti

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Türkiye, Golan ihtilafı için ideal bir arabulucu; ama çözüm zaman alacak

 

 

 

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri Günlük Haftalık

 

M Ali BirandTürkiye'nin gerçek muhalefeti: AB

 

 ERDAL ŞAFAK AB'nin rüşvetleri

 

İlter Türkmen Talat-Hristofyas ikilisi ve çözüm

 

Cengiz Çandar Kıbrıs’ın iki yanında...

 

Modern Müslüman demokrasisi cesaretlendirilmeli

 

The new balance in Cyprus
BARÇIN YİNANÇ

 

How Mr Anderson gets Cyprus wrong Silvia TİRYAKİ

 

Back to Delphi: Greeks, Turks meet each other Ariana FERENTINOU

 

Recognition issue restricts N. Cyprus's ability to fight terrorism

 

Turkish political crisis bodes ill for Cyprus Cyprus Mail

 

Lessons from the motherlands
Cyprus Mail

 

‘Turkey should improve its image'

 

Derya Sazak Talat, AB, asker

 

TTK: We have documents refuting Armenian claims

 

OIC head İhsanoğlu condemns ‘unjust embargo' on KKTC

 

Can Dündar Sırbistan dersleri

 

Hasan Kanbolat Queen makes official visit to Turkey

 

Nuh Gönültaş CHP, Deniz Baykal ve arkadaşları nasıl AB düşmanı oldular!

 

Ermenistan’a ilk Türk kafilesi

 

AB Türkiye için hazır olmalı

 

Güler Kömürcü
Kraliçem sen çok yaşa...

 

 

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

 

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Türk Telekom’dan hisse alan yabancının kimliği ‘SIR’ kaldı

 

ÖSS’de katsayı yerine puan sistemi

 

Sabancı Üniversitesi’nden Hotamışlıgil’in laboratuvarına

 

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