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H1  The Geopolitics of $130 Oil | Stratfor

 

U.S. Overseas Military Presence in the 21st Century Michael O'Hanlon,  Center for a New American Security

 

New York Times  THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Truth or Consequences What would a mythical, truth-telling presidential candidate say about the best energy policy for America?

MAUREEN DOWD Can He Take a Frisk? Barack Obama knows that he is left with one final roll of the dice. So, he sets up a secret meeting with Bill Clinton.

 
The Rich Get Hungrier  By AMARTYA SEN The global food problem is not being caused by a falling trend in world production, it is the result of accelerating demand
Editorial Iran and the Inspectors The latest report on Iran’s nuclear activities is alarming, but it must not be used as an excuse by Washington hard-liners to launch military options.

 

McCain Urges New Arms Pact With Moscow  Distancing himself from the Bush administration, Senator John McCain vowed to work more closely with Russia.  Video | Transcript

 

Muhammad Cohen / Asia Times: Bush ‘plans Iran air strike by August’  —

 

Syria: Between Negotiations with Israel and the Iranian Axis - David Schenker (Institute for Contemporary Affairs/ Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

 

Wall Street Journal The Problem With Talking to Iran By Amir Taheri Nation-states have negotiable interests. Revolutions do not.

 

Punxsutawney Condi 
For the West and Iranian nukes, it's Groundhog Day.

 

EDM RUSSIA AND CHINA: UNITED BY FOREIGN POLICY, DIVIDED BY ENERGY PRICES

 

Enter the man of consensus - GulfNews  By Amir Taheri

 

Washington Post Editorial Iran's Failed 'Litmus Test' Will there be consequences for Tehran's stonewalling of U.N. nuclear inspectors?

 

An Unwanted League By Thomas Carothers A proposed League of Democracies is looking a lot like a league of our own.

 

Rx for Global Poverty By Robert J. Samuelson Attacking globalization undermines the most powerful force for eradicating global poverty.

 

Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq

 

WSJ How to Have Successful Negotiations by Dennis Ross (repeat)

 

Foreign Policy Why Do Economists Make Such Dismal Arguments About Trade?

 

The Syria-Israel talks: old themes, new setting, Carsten Wieland

 

Global Civilization? Philip Zelikow

 

Advancing Freedom and Democracy Reports, May 2008
Source: U.S. Department of State

 

Financial Times Oil has reached a turning point Daniel Yergin on handling the supply shock

 

US is unwise to deny Iran’s key role in Gulf Tehran’s Arab neighbours are increasingly trying to defend themselves from American efforts to defend them against Iran, writes Ethan Chorin

 

Oil-rich Iran has no shortage of friendsEnergetic diplomacy and high crude prices are helping Tehran shore up support for its nuclear programme

 

Emu’s second 10 years may be tougher The eurozone is a triumph as a monetary union. Yet it is much less so as an economic union. Its creation has not caused the acceleration in dynamism that proponents hoped for – if anything, structural reforms have slowed, writes Martin Wolf

 

Kiev and Moscow in dispute over naval port Relations between Russia and the Ukraine deteriorate further as both countries continue their claim of sovereignty over the Black Sea city of Sevastopol

 

US fails to toe tough Bush line on Mideast Bush’s warning this month about The US has followed up President George W. the risks of appeasement in an unusual way. Washington has welcomed negotiations with some of the Middle Eastern actors the Bush administration most distrusts

 

Israelis reluctant to leave the Golan A peace deal with Syria will require Israel to relinquish the strategic annexed territory, but settlers say they will resist any move to end their cherished way of life

 

WORLD NEWS: Iran expects initiative to fail

 

Daily Star In dollars or euros, the price of oil would cost the same By Martin Feldstein

 

An 'Asian century,' but which Asia do we mean?   By Yin Gang

 

StrategyPage:  Al Qaeda Discusses Losing Iraq  —  Al Qaeda web sites are making a lot of noise about “why we lost in Iraq.”  Western intelligence agencies are fascinated by the statistics being posted in several of these Arab language sites.  Not the kind of stuff you read about in the Western media.

 

Evolution of Terrorism As A Global Test of Wills: A Personal Assessment and Perspective (PDF; 90 KB) Source: Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism

 

Asia Times Invasion: Time to do something about oil The US government will eventually have to respond to the recent fast increase in the oil price, which with similar gains in other commodities is both inflationary and recession-producing. A steep interest rate increase, the correct answer, won't happen. Invading another oil-producing country, and getting it right, is another option. - Martin Hutchinson

 

The Times Jimmy Carter is right to say the unsayable | Bronwen Maddox: World ...

 

Newsweek J Street: DC's New Jewish Lobby...

 

Ha’aretz  Barak mulls ultimatum to Olmert: Resign or agree to early poll Talansky: I gave Olmert $150,000; defense lawyer: Testimony twisted; poll: 70% of of Israelis doubt PM

 

Rosner's Guest: U.S. should enforce policies on Israel

 

Editorial Explain or resign

 

Barack Obama: I wouldn't promise Ahmadinejad a meeting

 

Oren The black channel and the White House As long as there are no Americans in the Israeli-Syrian story, there will never be any real progress in the negotiations between the two sides

 

Time Why Israel Is Talking to Its Enemies

 

Keeping the Sunni-Shi'a Peace

 

What China Wants from the Russians

The Paradox of Muslim Weakness

 

New Republic Olmert And Assad Are Negotiating To Save Themselves, Not Their Countries by Michael Oren

 

Guardian We must all act together Gordon Brown: The oil crisis is a global problem requiring global solutions

 

Olmert 'took cash in envelopes'

US businessman at centre of corruption inquiry tells court he gave $150,000 over 15 years to Israeli PM

 

Getting Big Oil to Feel Our Pain By: Derrick Z. Jackson | The Boston Globe Last year, ExxonMobil made $40.6 billion. In the first quarter of this year, ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP America, the five companies that had officials appear before House and Senate committees to cry relative poverty, together made $36 billion in profits.

 

Man on the Move By: Ralph Peters | New York Post We Americans see our illegal-immigration crisis in isolation, as if we alone face failing borders. But we're in good shape compared with migrant-flooded countries around the world. It's a global phenomenon -- a new age of mass population transfers that bedevils rich, stable countries and overwhelms the infrastructure of weaker states. And there's no end in sight.

 

MESH ‘Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict’

 

IHT  Merkel calls for closer NATO-Russia ties Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has issued a strong call for NATO and Russia to forge closer ties to avoid deepening misunderstandings over the eastward expansion of NATO.

 

Al Hayat Does the Hero Die?! Jameel Theyabi - For decades, Syria played to the tune of Arab nationalism, casting itself as the state of resistance and defiance. Some even raved that it was the Arab country that cemented Arab solidarity and resisted Israel

 

Arab Writer Says Syria's Allies Concerned Over Syrian-Israeli Talks

 

A review of Robert Kagan's The Return of History and the End of Dreams (and more and more). 

 

Gallup Daily: Obama Leads Clinton by 51% to 43%

 

AQ Supporters' Tape to Call for Use of WMD - Thomas and Cook, ABC News


Osama bin Laden 'Hiding in North Pakistan'AFP

 

Israel: Iranian Aid Growing Among Militants

 

Iraq's Main Sunni Bloc Suspends Govt Talks

 

Salon No Free Speech
for Israel's Critics

by Glenn Greenwald

 

Brzezinski Accuses Israel Lobby of McCarthyism

 

Analysis: Will Israel & Syria get serious? By CLAUDE SALHANI  (UPI) -- Now that the "engagement announcement" has been made public, it remains to be seen if Israel and Syria will have the courage to go through with their rapprochement and if Damascus and Jerusalem will say "yes" to end the state of war that exists between their two countries and proceed to consummate the peace treaty

 

Walker's World: Russia's 'hypermortality' By MARTIN WALKER (UPI) -- An alarming new word has been born. It is "hypermortality," which might be defined as an extraordinary tendency toward death.

 

Commentary: Connecting slippery dots By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE  (UPI) -- Franklin D. Roosevelt’s bogeyman was Big Business. Ronald Reagan’s was Big Labor. And the next president's is almost bound to be Big Finance. A paradigm shift from unfettered to fettered democratic capitalism is in the making.

H2  FT Turkey’s $12bn gift to woo Kurdish region The country has unveiled a series of investment schemes for its south-eastern provinces, in a step to counter separatist sentiments in the impoverished area

 

US upgrades ties with Iraqi Kurds, albeit invisibly

  

CSM Turkey revives stalled $32 billion GAP dam and irrigation project The initiative is designed to boost the restive southeast, where rebels have capitalized on residents' economic grievances to build support

 

LA Times Turkish court case highlights a deep divide In a country known for embracing both democracy and its Muslim heritage, an attempt to dissolve the ruling Islamic party sets up a looming crisis

 

EU and Turkey blame each other for slow pace of membership talks

The Turkish foreign minister, Ali Babacan, in an oblique reference to France, said questions about whether his country should join at all dampened enthusiasm in Turkey for far-reaching changes in politics and other matters

 

7. PKK'da çatlak büyüyor

 

Greek Military Acquisitions on the Rise International Analyst Network

 

THE KURDISH ISSUE AND NAGORNO-KARABAKH
EurasiaNet  BY STEPHEN BLANK  The Kurdish issue, specifically the matter of establishing a homeland for Kurds, has complicated efforts to stabilize Iraq. Now, there is growing concern among international experts that the Kurdish question could become a source of tension, and possibly conflict in the South Caucasus

 

Fouad Ajami America's 'gift' to Iraq National Post  Kurds understand that there can be no Kurdish state, that America will not countenance a Kurdish state. But it will support Kurdish autonomy


BBC News Turkey PM unveils rural boost Turkey launches a $14.5bn plan aiming to ease the poverty that feeds Kurdish separatism in the south-east.

 

Turkey: A Time for Truth
American Chronicle

 

EDM HEROIN TRADE BEING USED TO FINANCE THE PKK, A TURKISH REPORT CLAIMS

 

Kaderimiz 11 yargýcýn elinde

 

Turkish Director Fêted in Cannes, Ignored at Home TIME

 

Ýç Basýnda Türk Dýþ Politikasý  Dýþ Basýnda Türkiye - BBC Turkish 0700 VOA TSÝ 06:30 Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey TurcoPundit      

 

 

Google News Fýrat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect Dýþ Basýnda Irak  BBC Monitoring Inter-national

 

GAP Eylem Planý
Baþbakan Erdoðan'ýn açýkladýðý plana tepkiler

Güneydoðu, yatýrým paketinden bu kez umutlu

 

BAÞBAKAN'IN AÇIKLADIÐI 'GAP PAKETÝ' ÝÇÝN KÝM NE DEDÝ?

 

 [Analiz] Bürokratlar öncülük ederse holdingler bölgeye koþar

 

Shake-up in DTP as parliamentary group chief resigns

 

M Ali Birand Kürtlere artýk sadece vaad yetmiyor...

 

Ruþen - Çakýr Hem GAP Eylem Planý hem yerel seçimler için start verdi  

 

ROJ'A KARÞI TRT-KÜRT

 

UN new project about Iraq Kirkuk issue

 

Erdoðan vows to remake Southeast

 

Cemil Bayýk PJAK’a sýðýndý

 

GAP bir kardeþlik projesidir

 

7. PKK'da çatlak büyüyor

 

Diyarbakýrlý Ýþadamlarý: Hayal kýrýklýðý

 

Askerin gündemi: Ortadoðu-petrol-terör

 

Ýmralý darbesi

 

PKK çýkýþý Türk'ü yedi

DTP’de Türk istifasý

 

PKK çýkarýldý, KPK baþladý

 

Türk, DTP’nin baþýna geçiyor

 

DTP'de beklenen istifa

 

Liderler kirli ama barýþ güzel...

 

AKP eve dönüþün önünü açabilir

DTP'de çatlak büyüdü Ahmet Türk görevi býraktý

 

Sefer yapabilirsiniz ama zafer kazanamazsýnýz

 

Mehmet Altan Sivas’ýn doðusu...

 

Cevdet Aþkýn

 

Meral Tamer AKP’nin GAP projesi, umarýz yeni bir elma þekeri olmaz!

Türkmen kenti Telafer’de intihar saldýrýsý: 6 ölü

 

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber Dýþ Basýnda Türkiye-AB Ýliþkileri Günlük Haftalýk

 

Sami Kohen Yeni AB belgesi ile yola devam...

 

AP Interview: Turkish Cypriot leader hopes for reunification of ...

 

Türkiye ve AB'den Karþýlýklý Suçlamalar

 

Greek Military Acquisitions on the Rise International Analyst Network

 

Abdülhamit Bilici Kelime savaþýný kim kazandý?

 

Suriye ateþle oynuyor

 

Bakan Ali Babacan: O teröristi salondan çýkarmazsanýz konuþmam

 

ABD'de beþ kiþilik Türk ailesi ölü bulundu

 

Kouchner: I’d open six chapters if it were up to me

 

Türk yargýsý için sýfat yarýþtýrdýlar

 

'Hesap verebilir yargý AB için vazgeçilmez'

 

Olli Rehn, Fransa'ya inat yedi kez 'katýlým' dedi

 

Slovakya’da ‘soykýrým inkârý’ suç oluyor

 

Der Spiegel Leaving Muslim Women Unprotected: Red Tape Makes it Harder to Prevent Honor Killings

Beril Dedeoðlu AB: kriz-uzlaþý-kriz-uzlaþý-kriz...

Fransa’ya inat katýlým

 

Union for the Mediterranean: From aims to results
Benita FERRERO-WALDNER

Talat, 2008’de çözümden umutlu

 

Turkish Cypriot Prez aims for reunification deal soon

 

Russia raises natural gas supply to Turkey

 

Güler: "Rusya ile iyi iliþkiler için potansiyel mevcut"

 

EU wants to see progression, not regression in Turkey's EU ...

 

 

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

 

Oray Eðin Babalarý MÝT’te çalýþan gazeteciler

 

Ýlahiyatta kontenjan katlandý

 

‘Ýçki satýþýnda ayrým olmamalý’

‘Bir Köþk geleneði’

 

Serdar Akinan Benim yalnýz ve güzel ülkem

 

Tufan Türenç Nuri Bilge Ceylan’ý alnýndan öpüyorum

 

TSK'dan saðlýk reformlarýna övgü

 

Neþet Ertaþ çaldý, Gül ve konuklarý söyledi

 

Eczacýbaþý’na Lionslarýn büyük ödülü

 

 

28 Mayýs 2008 Basýn Özeti

H3 GAP 3.8 milyon kiþiye iþ verecek

 

 Yüzyýlýn en büyük kardeþlik projesi

Mayýnlarý milletle temizleyeceðiz

 

Sav’ýn görüþmesi basýna nasýl sýzdý?

 

CHP Genel Sekreteri Sav: ODAM DÝNLENÝYOR!

 

Odamý dinlediler

 

Demokrasi ve özgürlük vaadi

 

Taha Kývanç O bir rol modeli

 

Büyükanýt'tan dört dava

 

Polis Ergenekon'un aile fotoðrafýnýn peþinde

 

Bu kadar adice bir saldýrýya uðramadým

 

Gül’e rüþvetle oy için 10 ay hapis

 

Oy rüþvetine ceza

 

9. Gizemli AKP'li susmuyor!

 

Cunta getirilmek istendi

Gür’e rüþvetten ceza

 

CHP’yi ‘Paksüt sendromu’ sardý

 

CHP'de telekulak alarmý

 

Hakaretle ilgili sorularý da Sav'dý

 

Gül yardým sözü verdi

TÜSÝAD wages another war against government over ‘populism’

 

Bir Ergenekon evi daha

16.5 milyon seçmene deðil 70 milyona ihanet ediyorsun

 

Ýslami kesimde lüks tartýþmasý

 

Son Dakika Milliyet Hürriyet Zaman

 

 

Cengiz Çandar AB ile “býçak sýrtýnda” yolculuk

 

Ahmet Taþgetiren Kemalizmdeki ideolojik boþluk

 

Ruþen - Çakýr Hem GAP Eylem Planý hem yerel seçimler için start verdi  

 

Taha Akyol GAP birleþtirir mi?

 

Fikret Bila Yargýtay Baþkaný Gerçeker: Bildirinin arkasýndayýz

 

Hasan Cemal Ýþkenceden ölüyordu, ‘Seni özledim’ dedi, ben de...

 

Murat Yetkin Gergin ortamdan çýkýlmalý

 

Ýsmet Berkan ‘Flört de zinaymýþ’

 

Fehmi Koru Þerif Mardin'in tezi üzerine 2: Baþarýsýz olan ne?

 

Taha Kývanç O bir rol modeli

 

Þamil Tayyar Erdoðan’ýn B planý

 

Dolmabahçe konuþmasý (1)
MEHMET ALÝ KIÞLAL

 

Ali Bayramoðlu

 

Yasemin Çongar Ýdeolojik bilim, ideolojik yargý, ideolojik sol...

 

Ertuðrul Özkök Demek ki onun zihniyeti böyleymiþ

 

Ahmet Hakan Yalancý tanýk

 

M Ali Birand Kürtlere artýk sadece vaad yetmiyor...

 

Cüneyt Ülsever Þerif Mardin ve Türkiye’de felsefenin sefaleti (II)

 

Eser Karakaþ Yargýmýzýn resmidir

 

Kritik dönemeç AVNÝ ÖZGÜREL

Mustafa Mutlu

‘Laik deðiliz, din her alanda olmalý!’

 

Enis Berberoðlu

 

Oktay Ekþi Sorumlusu hükümettir

 

Özdemir Ýnce Barroso: Laiklik zorla dayatýlmaz

 

Mehmet Y Yýlmaz ’Ortam dinlemesi’ni kim yaptý?

 

ÝBRAHÝM KARAGÜL AK Parti'ye ihanet eden kim!

 

Nuray Baþaran Cumhurbaþkaný Gül, Baþbakan ve ana muhalefet

 

GülayGöktürk “Yalnýz ve güzel ülkem”

 

Hakan Aygün Yeni Kanadoðlu kriteri...

 

Emin Pazarcý Baþbakan'ýn arzusu

 

[27 MAYIS] Türkiye'nin kabuðunu kýrdýðý yýllar

 

Serdar Turgut Densizlik

 

Yalçýn Doðan Gül sürekli kaçak güreþiyor

 

Ýsmail Küçükkaya
Baþbakan’dan kurtuluþ projesi

 

PAZARTESÝ KONUÞMALARI
Neþe Düzel
Doç. Dr. Serap Yazýcý: Bu, yargýçlar devleti kurulmasý süreci

 

Mustafa Akyol Þerif Mardin’in gördüðü

 

Ýmam, öðretmen ve baþkalarý
HALUK ÞAHÝN

 

Din ve bilim
TÜRKER ALKAN

 

MUHARREM SARIKAYA "Cumhurbaþkaný'nýn yaklaþýmýndan memnunum"

 

ERDAL ÞAFAK Evet, burada yaþanýr!

OKAN MÜDERRÝSOÐLU
Büyükanýt'tan dört dava

ENGÝN ARDIÇ Orada serbest

 

ERGUN BABAHANEnver Hoca anýlarý

 

EMRE AKÖZGarip ama gerçek: Bizde laiklik yasak

 

Umur TaluSaðlýk olsun!

 

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

Zoraki nikâh: Sol ve AKP

 

NAZLI ILICAK Kösem Sultan tartýþmasý

MEHMET BARLAS Bilmek ile hatýrlamak arasýndaki dalgalanmalarýmýz

 

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

 

YAVUZ DONATÝki konu

 

[Yorum - M.Naci Bostancý] Bayramýn halkýný oluþturmak

 

Ýlnur Çevik Gul’s presidency is also challenged in Turkey

 

Bülent Keneþ The rise of Turkey through Turkish

 

Mehmet Kamýþ Dip darbe

 

Yavuz Baydar Que será será

 

Demokrasinin ekonomik gerekleri
MUSTAFA AYSAN

Can Ataklý

“Siyasi yasak” cezasý alanlar 5 yýl aday olamazlar

 

Bilal Çetin

Baþsavcý Erdoðan için içtihat isteyecek mi?

 

Nagehan Alçý
Medyaya din editörleri gerek

 

Ece Temelkuran Bugün ne yazmalý?

 

Bahçeli: Marazi bir dönemden geçiyoruz

 

Utanmaz mýsýnýz?

 

"Çok adi bir saldýrý"

 

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

GAP'ta altýn hamle

 

TÜSÝAD: Popülizme dönüþ iþaretleri var

 

Ercan Kumcu Korkutan hesaplar

 

Erdal Saðlam

 

Ege Cansen Kedi kuyruðunu görmüþ, yýlan zannetmiþ

 

Güngör Uras Kapatma davasý olmasaydý da yabancý eskisi gibi gelmezdi

 

Ýbrahim Öztürk ‘A great leap forward’ in the Southeastern Anatolia Project

Aydýn Ayaydýn Erdoðan’ýn Eylem Planý gerçekleþecek mi?

 

Turkey's business group slams AKP populist policitics

 

Hurþit Güneþ Vatandaþ daha ne kadar karamsar olabilir?

 

ÝBRAHÝM KAHVECÝ

Popüler popülizm ve GAP

 

Deniz Gökçe
Neden ilerleyemiyor?

 

Ý.Hüseyin Yýldýz
Devletin ekonomiye müdahalesi doðru mu?

 

Ýstihdam Paketi yaþlýya kapýyý gösteriyor

H4 New York Times  THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Truth or Consequences What would a mythical, truth-telling presidential candidate say about the best energy policy for America?

MAUREEN DOWD Can He Take a Frisk? Barack Obama knows that he is left with one final roll of the dice. So, he sets up a secret meeting with Bill Clinton.

 
The Rich Get Hungrier  By AMARTYA SEN The global food problem is not being caused by a falling trend in world production, it is the result of accelerating demand
Editorial Iran and the Inspectors The latest report on Iran’s nuclear activities is alarming, but it must not be used as an excuse by Washington hard-liners to launch military options.

 

McCain Urges New Arms Pact With Moscow  Distancing himself from the Bush administration, Senator John McCain vowed to work more closely with Russia.  Video | Transcript

 

A Sunni Bloc Pulls Back on Rejoining Iraqi Cabinet

 

With Bold Steps, Fed Chief Quiets Some Criticism  After rewriting the rulebook at the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke appears to have quieted many of his critics.

 

New Climate Report Foresees Big Changes

Parents’ Grief Turns to Rage at Chinese Officials

 U.S. Businessman Testifies He Gave Olmert $150,000 Over 13 Years

 

Memo From Berlin: Germany and Poland Find That Trying to Get Along Has Its Benefits

 

Some Foes of a Floundering German Far-Right Party Want to Try Again to Ban It

 

Fearing Floods, Chinese Order Evacuations in Quake Area

 

World Briefing | Asia: Afghanistan: 24 Killed in Attacks, Including 13 Police Officers 

 

Political Memo: Using the President, but Carefully Going Only So Far

The Senate’s Chance on Warming By supporting a bill that seeks aggressively to reduce greenhouse gases, the Senate can help usher in a new era of American leadership.

 

 

H5 Washington Post Editorial Iran's Failed 'Litmus Test' Will there be consequences for Tehran's stonewalling of U.N. nuclear inspectors?

 

An Unwanted League By Thomas Carothers A proposed League of Democracies is looking a lot like a league of our own.

 

Rx for Global Poverty By Robert J. Samuelson Attacking globalization undermines the most powerful force for eradicating global poverty.

 

Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq

 

McCain Accepts a Hand From Bush, at Arm's Length

 

McCain Signals Desire to See Reduction in Nuclear Arms Senator Does Not Endorse Eliminating Them Completely

 

American Says Olmert Took Envelopes of Cash Businessman Testifies in Probe That He Gave Israeli Leader $150,000 in Gifts, Loans Over 15 Years

 

Late in the Term, an Exodus of Senior Officials Scores of High-Level Political Positions Are Vacant or Are Being Filled by Temporary Appointees

 

The Despots' Democracy By Michael Gerson, South Africa increasingly requires a new foreign policy category: the rogue democracy

 

Clinton's Two-State Two-Step

By Harold Meyerson, Making Florida and Michigan's delegates a cause for democracy and feminism makes a mockery of both.

 

Report Details Effects of Climate Change Across U.S.

 

Military Diagnosing More Post-Traumatic Stress

 

China Faces Aftershocks, Flood Fears 80,000 Ordered to Flee Area Near Blocked River

 

U.S. Reopens Talks With Chinese On Rights Envoy Urges Progress In Light of Olympics

 

H6 Guardian We must all act together Gordon Brown: The oil crisis is a global problem requiring global solutions

 

Olmert 'took cash in envelopes'

US businessman at centre of corruption inquiry tells court he gave $150,000 over 15 years to Israeli PM

 

Putin's peril William Harrison May 27 08, 07:30pm: Some say Putin wants to leave politics. But he'll know that giving up power in Russia is rarely a straightforward business

 

Tutu starts Gaza investigation

Archbishop leads UN investigation into Israeli shelling of Palestinian house which killed 18 people

 

If I were Brown, I'd tell the whole lot of them to get lost Simon Jenkins: With nothing left to lose, now is the time to do what feels right on Iraq or ID cards, and to stop chasing cheap popularity

 

UK ready to scrap killer cluster bombs  Ministers overrule opposition from military over controversial weapons

 

In praise of ... the Rockefellers

Leader: Great wealth is not something to praise, but the Rockefellers, at least, realise that it also incurs responsibilities

 

Britain should be leading the search for life on Mars Colin Pillinger: Had Europe fully backed the Beagle project we, rather than Nasa, would be on the verge of solving space's greatest mystery

 

H7  Getting Big Oil to Feel Our Pain By: Derrick Z. Jackson | The Boston Globe Last year, ExxonMobil made $40.6 billion. In the first quarter of this year, ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP America, the five companies that had officials appear before House and Senate committees to cry relative poverty, together made $36 billion in profits.

 

Man on the Move By: Ralph Peters | New York Post We Americans see our illegal-immigration crisis in isolation, as if we alone face failing borders. But we're in good shape compared with migrant-flooded countries around the world. It's a global phenomenon -- a new age of mass population transfers that bedevils rich, stable countries and overwhelms the infrastructure of weaker states. And there's no end in sight.

 

Christian Science Monitor

Has Russian oil output peaked? Production dropped this year after reaching a post-Soviet high in October. On Monday, Putin's newly convened cabinet made the issue its first order of business

 

Al Hayat Does the Hero Die?! Jameel Theyabi - For decades, Syria played to the tune of Arab nationalism, casting itself as the state of resistance and defiance. Some even raved that it was the Arab country that cemented Arab solidarity and resisted Israel

 

A review of Robert Kagan's The Return of History and the End of Dreams (and more and more). 

 

Michael Ledeen / The Corner:
Zbig & Co Want to Mollify the Mullahs

 

Syria's Assad Dismisses Israeli Demand on Iran

 

Egypt-US Relations Show Signs of Strain

 

National Review THE EDITORS: Hezbollah is proving to be a very capable and determined force in Lebanon, and a great danger to the wider world as well. Cedar Losing

 

Soaring costs The impact of high oil prices around the world

 

Boston Globe Editorial Reining in Iran

 

A look at Lebanon's new leader Did the Hezbollah-led opposition succeed in translating this month's military victory in Beirut into political gains? (By Firas Maksad, Boston Globe)

 

Security Structures in the Post-War Middle East: Europe's Role in the Persian Gulf By: Antonia Dimou | The Media Line With the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and the recent war on Iraq, international politics have undergone a fundamental transformation. The structure of power and influence in world affairs are altered. Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (W.M.D.) in the Middle East and the security dilemma in the Persian Gulf reflect major issues nowadays

 

Divining a Lesson in Basra By: Stephen Farrell | The New York Times On Basra’s Corniche, the boulevard past which the mingled waters of the Tigris and Euphrates flow into the Persian Gulf, there is a collective sense of relief these days.

 

Bin Akef! By: Tariq Alhomayed | Asharq Alawsat Mohammed Mahdi Akef, the supreme guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) tried to swallow his words in which he praised the leader of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, whom he considered to be a faithful mujahid (resistance fighter). However, instead of fixing the situation, he ended up making matters worse.

 

The Ghost of Neville Chamberlain By: H.D.S. Greenway | The Boston Globe It was President Bush who introduced the ghost of Neville Chamberlain into the 2008 presidential election. Addressing the Israeli parliament, Bush lashed out at those who would "negotiate with terrorists and radicals

H8 IraqSlogger Google News  Iraq Iran Syria    Mideastwire.com - NPR Iraq  

 

Syria's Assad Dismisses Israeli Demand on Iran

 

Arab Writer Says Syria's Allies Concerned Over Syrian-Israeli Talks

 

BBC Iranian intentions Questions remain about Tehran's nuclear ambitions

 

Iraq Violence At Four-Year Low...

 

Ahmadinejad requests meeting with Pope...

 

Lebanese MPs want Siniora for PM Lebanon's parliament agrees to nominate Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to lead a new government.

 

Daily Star Lebanon's election law needs an overhaul
By Michael Meyer-Resende

 

Al-Arabiyah Programme Discusses Mosul Military Operation, Iraq Politics

 

Al-Qaida in Iraq Is On the Run, Officials SayAFPS


Sunni Bloc Pulls Back on Rejoining Cabinet - Oppel and Mizher, New York Times

Iraq's Main Sunni Bloc Suspends Government Talks -

 

Iranian Aid Seen Growing Among Militants on Israel's Flanks - Associated Press


Western Powers Pressure Iran Over Nuclear Program - Reuters

New Conservative-dominated Parliament Opens - Associated Press

 

Iraqi says Blackwater shooting 'a true massacre' in probe

 

Debka Exclusive: Syria places massive missile, warplane, sub order in Moscow Damascus Talks Peace, Bids for Sophisticated Military Hardware

 

Syria's Assad Dismisses Israeli Demand on IranReuters


Lebanese MPs Want Siniora for PM - BBC News

H9 Ha’aretz  Barak mulls ultimatum to Olmert: Resign or agree to early poll Talansky: I gave Olmert $150,000; defense lawyer: Testimony twisted; poll: 70% of of Israelis doubt PM

 

Rosner's Guest: U.S. should enforce policies on Israel

 

Editorial Explain or resign

 

Barack Obama: I wouldn't promise Ahmadinejad a meeting

 

Oren The black channel and the White House As long as there are no Americans in the Israeli-Syrian story, there will never be any real progress in the negotiations between the two sides.

 

Reuven Pedatzur: How Carter made Israel an official nuclear powerMore than all the estimates and leaks about the Israeli nuclear program, Carter's comments on Sunday give official cachet to Israel's status as a nuclear power

 

Assad: Lebanon should talk with Israel if talks progress

 

Israel: UNIFIL Ignoring Hizbullah Violations in South Lebanon -

 

Was Shakespeare a Jewish woman in disguise?

 

Jerusalem Post IDF Considering Buffer Zone for Gaza

 

Assad needs 'dramatic gesture' to change public opinion on Golan

 

Fundamentally Freund: The real 'delusional fantasists'

 

Israel concerned over Hizbullah legitimacy

 

Barak expected to give Olmert ultimatum: Quit, or I walk

 

Hamas wants 1,000 prisoners for Schalit

 

Lebanon falls... and the West Bank rises
Under Salaam Fayad the Palestinian Authority is attracting investors and businesses.

 

Talking Turkey in Istanbul Chill winds from Damascus will prevent this.

 

There are no dangers in diplomacy

No breakthroughs will come if leaders refuse to negotiate

 

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Barak may ask PM to quit'

 

'Gravest humanitarian crisis'
As Israel marks lowest number of casualties by terror attacks in 2007 since beginning of second intifada, Amnesty International reports 370 Palestinians killed in territories, deems siege imposed by Israel on Gaza 'unprecedented'

 

Clear and present danger

 

String of disastrous decisions proves gov't is our greatest threat, Martin Sherman writes

 

Tutu: End Qassam rocket fire

 

Daily Alert.orgHebrew Press Editorials (2008) - Middle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review Google News Israel - Palestine

 

Political turmoil in Israel as Olmert government hangs on a cliff edge

 

Olmert 'took cash in envelopes'
A US businessman says he gave cash-stuffed envelopes to Israel's prime minister but denies corruption.

 

Israel Not Serious About Peace With Syria, Palestinians - Pro-Fatah Paper

 

Perfection Demanded Only from Little Israel - Chris Powell

 

Ahmadinejad Sure Syria Will Press Struggle Against Israel

 

Hamas Leader: We Will Never Recognize Israel (Tehran Times-Iran)

 

From Jewcy, the Organization That Claims To Speak On Behalf Of The Jews calls for an end to Jewish morality

H10 Christian Science Monitor Has Russian oil output peaked? Production dropped this year after reaching a post-Soviet high in October. On Monday, Putin's newly convened cabinet made the issue its first order of business.

 

Profile of a (maybe) recession Some analysts think the slowdown may be confined largely to the housing market.

 

ASIA

 

Daily Star An 'Asian century,' but which Asia do we mean? By Yin Gang

 

Is Indonesia Slipping Back From Its Historic Tolerance? By: Jennie S. Bev | Asia Sentinel In this beautiful tropical country, well-founded fears among minority groups have been rampant and rounds of exoduses of persecuted minorities are expected in the near future.

 

Chinese, Taiwanese Meet for 'New Era' By: Chris O'Brien | The Washington Times
The chairman of Taiwan's ruling party arrived in China yesterday for six days of meetings viewed as a potential breakthrough between two enemies that helped define the Cold War and continue to drive U.S. military planning in East Asia and the western Pacific

 

N-Deal Not Dead, India Tells NSG

 

Watching Indonesia - The Australian editorial


Japan’s Strategic Choices - Westhawk, Westhawk

China evacuates more than 150,000 living below swollen lake

 

Pakistan-Taliban: NATO officials allege that recent agreements between regional governments in Pakistan and the Taliban have strengthened the group and led to new attacks in Afghanistan (NPR).

 

H11 IHT  Merkel calls for closer NATO-Russia ties Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has issued a strong call for NATO and Russia to forge closer ties to avoid deepening misunderstandings over the eastward expansion of NATO.

 

Belgian woman wages war for Al Qaeda on the Web In her living room, Malika El Aroud wears the ordinary look of middle age. But on the Internet, El Aroud has distinguished herself as one of the most prominent Internet jihadists in Europe

 

Sarkozy proposes EU cut in fuel tax President Nicolas Sarkozy of France urged the European Union to suspend part of the value-added tax on fuel to counter rising crude oil prices that have risen repeatedly to new highs in recent weeks.

 

DRUGS FOR THE DEVELOPING WORLD Patents are the wrong target By BENEDETTO DELLA VEDOVA

Without the protection of patent rights it would be impossible to develop new medicines.

 

EXCHANGE STUDENTS Devaluing a diplomatic asset

By ERIK JONES AND JOHN A. GANS JR. The dollar's decline and tougher visa rules do much to impede study abroad programs.

 

 

 

EUROPE European press review

 

France and Brussels at Loggerheads Over Trade Talks By: Honor Mahoney | EU Observer
France is leading a camp of member states that has slammed the latest proposals by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for a global trade deal, putting them in direct conflict with EU trade chief Peter Mandelson.

 

H12 RFE/RLTidying Up

Turkmenistan plans rare amendments to its constitution that signal at least a veneer of change in Central Asia's most isolated country.

 

Georgian President Wins Big, But Loses Bigger  Mikheil Saakashvili was well aware of the cost if his country's parliamentary vote was deemed anything less than free and fair. A NATO bid. Western support on Abkhazia. A line of defense against Russia. And his reputation as a democrat.

 

Newfound Wealth Hardens Baku's Position  To hear Azerbaijan's deputy foreign minister tell it, the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh is fairly "easy" to resolve -- so long as Armenia accepts that the region is Azerbaijani.

 

Google News Azerbaijan

 

Russian, Eu Diplomats Discuss Abkhazia, S. Ossetia

 

Russia Questions Joint Radar Facility

 

Walker's World: Russia's 'hypermortality' By MARTIN WALKER (UPI) -- An alarming new word has been born. It is "hypermortality," which might be defined as an extraordinary tendency toward death.

 

Georgia: Opposition Announces Plans for "Alternative" Parliament
EURASIANET  Georgia’s largest opposition parties are threatening to create an "alternative" parliament if preliminary results that show the governing United National Movement swept the polls in the May 21 parliamentary elections are not annulled. Although final results have not yet been announced, the Central Election Commission’s preliminary figures show the National Movement winning 120 out of 150 seats.

 

EDM RUSSIA AND CHINA: UNITED BY FOREIGN POLICY, DIVIDED BY ENERGY PRICES


- UN MISSION CONFIRMS GEORGIAN, REJECTS RUSSIAN VERSION OF AIR CLASH

- MEDVEDEV VISITS KAZAKHSTAN: SENDING SUBTLE SIGNALS TO THE WEST

 

U.S. Missile Shield in East Europe a Threat to Russia's Nuclear Missile Potential - Russian Defense Ministry

 

Russia Will Withdraw Proposal on Gabala If U.S. Deploys Missile Shield in Europe - Official

 

Russia Not Trying to "Mark Territory" in Arctic Shelf, Abides By Intl Law - Lavrov

 

Nagorno-Karabakh: RFE/RL reports that new wealth has hardened the Azerbaijani government's position on its breakaway province Nagorno-Karabakh, which is controlled by ethnic Armenians

 

Mardell's Europe
Did a Balkan love-in really win Eurovision for Russia?

Georgia demands Russian compensation for shot-down reconnaissance drone

H13 The Times Jimmy Carter is right to say the unsayable | Bronwen Maddox: World ...

 

Israel PM 'received money in envelopes' New York-based fundraiser tells Jerusalem court he gave wads of cash to Ehud Olmert, but received nothing in return

 

UN concerned by Iran nuclear plant In its latest report on Iran, the IAEA said that Tehran had 3,500 centrifuges operating at its Natanz facility

 

McCain distances himself from Bush John McCain uses speech on nuclear proliferation to assert independence from the man he hopes to succeed as President

 

 

Wall Street Journal The Problem With Talking to Iran By Amir Taheri Nation-states have negotiable interests. Revolutions do not.

 

Punxsutawney Condi
For the West and Iranian nukes, it's Groundhog Day.

 

Our Collectivist Candidates
By David Boaz The Obama-McCain shtick about self-sacrifice is distinctly un-American.

 

Welcome to Nixonland By Thomas Frank
Fighting Words:
Stop picking on 'elites.'

 

UK ready to scrap killer cluster bombs  Ministers overrule opposition from military over controversial weapons

H14 Financial Times Oil has reached a turning point Daniel Yergin on handling the supply shock

 

US is unwise to deny Iran’s key role in Gulf Tehran’s Arab neighbours are increasingly trying to defend themselves from American efforts to defend them against Iran, writes Ethan Chorin

 

Oil-rich Iran has no shortage of friendsEnergetic diplomacy and high crude prices are helping Tehran shore up support for its nuclear programme

 

Emu’s second 10 years may be tougher The eurozone is a triumph as a monetary union. Yet it is much less so as an economic union. Its creation has not caused the acceleration in dynamism that proponents hoped for – if anything, structural reforms have slowed, writes Martin Wolf

 

Kiev and Moscow in dispute over naval port Relations between Russia and the Ukraine deteriorate further as both countries continue their claim of sovereignty over the Black Sea city of Sevastopol

 

US fails to toe tough Bush line on Mideast Bush’s warning this month about The US has followed up President George W. the risks of appeasement in an unusual way. Washington has welcomed negotiations with some of the Middle Eastern actors the Bush administration most distrusts

 

Israelis reluctant to leave the Golan

A peace deal with Syria will require Israel to relinquish the strategic annexed territory, but settlers say they will resist any move to end their cherished way of life

 

WORLD NEWS: Iran expects initiative to fail

 

US home prices fall at record pace

An index of house prices has fallen 14.1% for the first quarter compared with the same period last year, a trend that could prolong the economic slowdown and cause further pain for homeowners facing foreclosure

 

McCain vows nuclear arms cut

John McCain vowed to make significant cuts in the US nuclear arsenal if elected president and called for Russia and China to join a fresh global effort to tackle nuclear proliferation

 

Amnesty calls for Guantánamo to be closed The next US president should move quickly to restore the superpower’s moral authority by closing the detention centre at Guantánamo, Amnesty International says in its annual report

 

Sarkozy says EU should cap sales tax on fuel The French President said the European Union should consider capping sales taxes on fuel products if oil prices rose further – but his proposal got short shrift from Brussels

 

Poll setback to SPD choice for president The German party’s move to challenge Horst Köhler could backfire in the run-up to the more crucial general election after a survey found only 17% support for its candidate

 

Talks aim to avert Arctic oil rush

Five Arctic powers are holding a summit in Greenland to forestall a confrontation over the Polar region’s mineral resources and discuss how to protect its fragile environment

 

H15 Los Angeles Times McCain would work with Russia on nuclear disarmament

He says he would resume talks with Moscow to reduce nuclear arsenals. Experts say his proposals are not that dramatic of a break from President Bush

 

Obama tries to tie McCain, Bush

The Democrat says the GOP candidate's stand on the credit crisis and foreclosures is just more of the same

 

'Barrier lake' in China threatens up to 1.2 million in earthquake zone

H16 American Politics

 

Gallup Daily: Obama Leads Clinton by 51% to 43%

 

Mike Allen / The Politico:

Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House 

 

 

Clinton's long shot nomination relies on three key events

From The American Conservative, a review of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats by Matthew Yglesias

 

realclearpolitics memeorandum  ABC’s The Note US News Political Bulletin Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

 

Who are we? On the question of conservatism, one can count on two things.

 

H17 Daily Telegraph José Manuel Barroso bullies the Irish Barroso's attempt to bully Ireland's voters over the Lisbon Treaty is unwelcome, and his comments are indicative of an ideology prevalent in Brussels.

 

Barack Obama gets Castro's support Senator Obama's foreign policy credentials took a further blow after his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination won the backing of Fidel Castro.

 

 

UK nuclear sub damaged in crash Submarine hit rocks in the Red Sea.

 

H18 Independent 

 

Hamish McRae: When times are tough, you spend less. Why should it be any different for a government?

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

 

StrategyPage:  Al Qaeda Discusses Losing Iraq  —  Al Qaeda web sites are making a lot of noise about “why we lost in Iraq.”  Western intelligence agencies are fascinated by the statistics being posted in several of these Arab language sites.  Not the kind of stuff you read about in the Western media.

 

Evolution of Terrorism As A Global Test of Wills: A Personal Assessment and Perspective (PDF; 90 KB) Source: Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism

 

Al QAEDA TAPE TO CALL FOR USE OF WMD

 

In the footsteps of Osama ... The United States has stepped up its hunt for Osama bin Laden, concentrating on the swathe of rugged territory that straddles Pakistan and Afghanistan. Syed Saleem Shahzad hiked through this region, accompanied by a young jihadi who shared his views on where bin Laden might be, even evoking the evidence of supernatural spirits.

 

Chatting tactics
How Italian troops keep the peace in Afghanistan

 

Osama Bin Laden is not in Pakistan he is dead says Taliban leader

 

Pentagon inviting media to Guantanamo 9/11 hearings...

 

Military Diagnosing More Post-Traumatic Stress

 

Grand Jury Probes Blackwater Shootings Iraqis Testify About Incident

 

Air Force to adapt to evolving threats
Published  (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force chief of staff has called on senior enlisted airmen to adapt to rapidly advancing technology to remain ready to handle evolving threats.

 

Doug Feith and Strategic Communications - Charlie, Abu Muqawama

H20 Slate   

 

 

Environmentalism has replaced socialism as the leading secular religion of the world today. This is not an unalloyed good, says Freeman Dyson... more»

 

Emissions Trading: The Evolution of an Economic Idea from Concept to Global Implementation

 

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria: Progress Report and Issues for Congress
Source: Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS)

 

American eating and drinking patterns
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

 

Fact Sheet: Expanding Economic Opportunities Through Free and Fair Trade
Source: White House, Office of the Press Secretary

 

Czech President Klaus ready to debate Gore on climate change...

H21

 

From Psychology Today, an article on the X-factors of success: The personality traits that make some humans superhuman.

 

Paying the Poor to Improve their School Performance-Becker

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanýlabilir deðil.

 

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