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H1 Washington Post Bush 'Disappointed' by Ex-Aide's Harsh Memoir Highly critical of the administration, former press secretary's new book stuns former colleagues, who accuse him of disloyalty and a lack of credibility

Leading On Climate Change How Action in Congress Can Move the World By Tony Blair How action in Congress can move the world

Search Is Urged for Syrian Nuclear Sites U.S. Presses U.N. on 3 Alleged Facilities

Why You're Scared Fareed Zakaria | Our deeply flawed numbers on the rise of terror.

“Dana Milbank sketches Steve Hadley, the man who leaves no fingerprints.”

The IAEA Report: Implementation of the Safeguards Agreement and Security Council Resolutions in Iran (pdf) (IAEA)

Rand Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence — The U.S. Military and Counterinsurgency Doctrine, 1960-1970 and 2003-2006 Summary (PDF; 113 KB) + Full Document (PDF; 369 KB)

Financial Times America needs the United Nations Talk of a league of democracies, among Democrats and Republicans, shows nostalgia for the kind of diplomacy that ushered in two world wars. The next US administration should stick to reforming the UN – and face up to a multipolar world, says Mark Mazower

China moves beyond low cost production A fresh accent on technology and design is helping the world’s workshop to enter higher-value markets

Larijani elected as Iranian speaker The country’s former top nuclear official is in a position that offers a platform to curb the government of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad in domestic politics and international diplomacy

Barak calls on Olmert to step down Israeli prime minister’s career is hanging by a thread after his most important coalition ally urged him to make way for a new leader because of a corruption inquiry

Los Angeles Times Who gets the Golan? By Yossi Klein Halevi Israel has no reason to trust Syria in talks over that strategic area. The Israeli mainstream, so the truism here goes, is so desperate for peace that, in the end, it will overcome misgivings over relinquishing territory and mistrust of Arab intentions and endorse any diplomatic initiative aimed at solving the Middle East conflict.

SYRIA: Israeli hopes for a Tehran-Damascus rift collapse

Ahmadinejad rival Ali Larijani wins key Iran post

The well-connected former chief nuclear negotiator is elected speaker of parliament

Juan Cole Sadr demands Referendum on SOFA; Sistani said to Support Referendum

NYT Rival to Iran’s President Is Elected Speaker

Israeli Defense Chief Asks Olmert to Quit

Guardian From high life to low ebb Leader: Barely a year passes without a senior minister begging Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, to go

Can we have world-class universities as well as social justice in education? Timothy Garton Ash: Europe resists US-style college fees but, as Oxford fundraisers know, we need to find that kind of money to compete

My questions for Obama

Fidel Castro: The brightest and best of the presidential hopefuls seeks to extend a cruel, immoral Cuba blockade

Medvedev Reaches Out to China By: M.K. Bhadrakumar | Asia Times Beyond the flowery language employed during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to China -- his first trip abroad since taking office -- there is a disquieting undertone to the emerging "strategic partnership".

Foreign Policy Seven Questions: How Countries Get Rich

An Oil Saviour? The Economist
If history had been kinder, Iraq could now be producing at a comparable level to Saudi Arabia. Instead, three wars, 13 years of sanctions and five years of internal conflict have eroded Iraq's oil infrastructure and human capital.

Secterianism Is Destroying the Islamic Nation By: Aaidh al-Qarni | Asharq Alawsat Internecine conflicts and sectarian fighting have paralyzed Muslims, broken their ranks, and caused their enemies to gloat over their misfortune. This is because each sect claims that it is the only sect that is right and everyone else is wrong

Middle East: Michael Broning, director of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation in Amman, warns that talk of a Sunni-Shiite divide in the Middle East could develop into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Asia Times Bush's Iraq wrangles alarm lawmakers Legislators in both Baghdad and Washington are concerned over talks between Iraq and the United States over a deal to determine the relationship between the countries. Iraqis feel they are being rail-roaded, while US Democrats fear President George W Bush's attempts to set the Iraq framework will tie the hands of the next president - whom Democrats strongly hope will come from their ranks

US-made oil disaster has mileage Numerous factors, from speculation to poor infrastructure, are at play in the recent strong gains in the price of oil. Yet behind many is the hand and policies of the United States. A change in Washington's behavior would resolve more than just the price issue. - Hossein Askari and Noureddine Krichene

Anti-U.S. Sadr Calls for Protests By: Qassim Abdul-Zahra | Associated Press Militant Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr called Tuesday for followers to hold weekly protests against a U.S.-Iraqi security deal under negotiation that could lead to a long-term American troop presence

Why Doesn't al-Qaeda Attack
the US? by Michael Scheuer

Daily Telegraph Nazir-Ali: Islam fills UK's 'moral vacuum' Decline of Christian values is destroying Britishness and creating a "moral vacuum" which radical Islam is filling, bishop warns.

Washington's Spinning Permanent Campaign

Christian Science Monitor When talking with terrorists makes sense Used wisely, talks provide leverage, not appeasement. By Paul Staniland

A reporter returns to Iraq – and finds guarded optimism The evidence is seen in late-afternoon strolls in the park, meetings with long-missed friends, relief over an improved economy.

U.S. rebuilds French connection The Pentagon hopes better ties will strengthen NATO and boost the mission in Afghanistan

$4 gas – it's our fault The 1970s energy crisis shocked us into action. Then we resumed bad habits.

Slate Worse Than Bush

When it comes to foreign policy, McCain is more of a neocon than the president.
Fred Kaplan

Flack Attack Scott McClellan burns the Bush administration? John Dickerson

Talking to Hamas

The group's exiled leader on Syria, Palestinian politics, and Vanity Fair.
Deborah Amos

Will the International Community Abandon Lebanon?

That's for the Lebanese people to decide.
Shmuel Rosner

The Times Take a lead: keep petrol expensive One of Gordon Brown's greatest mistakes was abandoning the fuel-tax escalator. Now is the time to admit it Anatole Kaletsky

Barak tells Olmert: stand down or face election Israel's Defence Minister has demanded that the scandal-hit Prime Minister step aside from office to clear his name

The end for Olmert the Houdini?

There is far more at stake in Israel's latest political crisis than the already tarnished reputation of Ehud Olmert Richard Beeston

Tensions for Nato over Georgia and Ukraine Moscow warns the Western alliance that extending membership to the former Soviet republics is a 'red line issue'

Iran rival shakes Western hopes

Iran's new Speaker, seen as a challenger to President Ahmadinejad, disappoints diplomats with confrontational address

Country Analysis Brief: Russia
Source: Energy Information Administration

Microfinance meets the market
Source: World Bank Policy Research Working Papers Full Report (PDF; 165 KB)

H 2 SOLİ ÖZEL Ortadoğu ve Türkiye (1)

Özdem Sanberk ABD’de yeni yönetim ve dış politika

Guardian Secular Turks attack religious council's code for women

Bedeli Türkiye mi ödeyecek ...

US asks Turkey to join intelligence-sharing network

Teröre Karşı Güçlü Ortaklık

Babacan: Muslim majority faces religious freedom problems