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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 yargıcın elinde

 

Turkish Director Fêted in Cannes, Ignored at Home TIME

 

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

 

GAP Eylem Planı
Başbakan Erdoğan'ın açıkladığı plana tepkiler

Güneydoğu, yatırım paketinden bu kez umutlu

 

BAŞBAKAN'IN AÇIKLADIĞI 'GAP PAKETİ' İÇİN KİM NE DEDİ?

 

 [Analiz] Bürokratlar öncülük ederse holdingler bölgeye koşar

 

Shake-up in DTP as parliamentary group chief resigns

 

M Ali Birand Kürtlere artık sadece vaad yetmiyor...

 

Ruşen - Çakır Hem GAP Eylem Planı hem yerel seçimler için start verdi  

 

ROJ'A KARŞI TRT-KÜRT

 

UN new project about Iraq Kirkuk issue

 

Erdoğan vows to remake Southeast

 

Cemil Bayık PJAK’a sığındı

 

GAP bir kardeşlik projesidir

 

7. PKK'da çatlak büyüyor

 

Diyarbakırlı İşadamları: Hayal kırıklığı

 

Askerin gündemi: Ortadoğu-petrol-terör

 

İmralı darbesi

 

PKK çıkışı Türk'ü yedi

DTP’de Türk istifası

 

PKK çıkarıldı, KPK başladı

 

Türk, DTP’nin başına geçiyor

 

DTP'de beklenen istifa

 

Liderler kirli ama barış güzel...

 

AKP eve dönüşün önünü açabilir

DTP'de çatlak büyüdü Ahmet Türk görevi bıraktı

 

Sefer yapabilirsiniz ama zafer kazanamazsınız

 

Mehmet Altan Sivas’ın doğusu...

 

Cevdet Aşkın

 

Meral Tamer AKP’nin GAP projesi, umarız yeni bir elma şekeri olmaz!

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