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H1 New York
Times Jobs
Down for 5th Month; Oil’s Rise Adds to Gloom Recent hopes
that the U.S. might yet skirt a recession sank swiftly in the face of
indications that the economy is gripped by a slowdown and pressured by record
fuel prices.
Iraq Govt Wants to Restrict Movement of GIs
Washington Post Editorial Mr.
Obama's Middle East After all, he doesn't see
the region much differently than President Bush does.
Ha’aretz – U.S.: We will address
Iran nuclear threat diplomatically White House makes statement after
Kadima minister Mofaz says Israeli strike on Iran seems 'unavoidable.'
Jerusalem
Report The Battle for the Golan Can Syria be lured away from its
radical axis?
IHT A more tranquil season
By PATRICK SEALE Is peace breaking out in
the Middle East? Can the journalists and diplomats go home? Unfortunately,
no.
Wielding a small stickBy
STANLEY A. WEISS As Bush considers his next moves on Iran, he should be under no illusion
that Europe shares his determination to avert a nuclear Iran - no matter what
the cost.
Russia and Georgia take a softer tone
Medvedev
and the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, said their two countries
could work out their differences, including a longstanding conflict over the
separatist region of Abkhazia, without international assistance
McClatchy McCain's free ride is over; did he use the time well?
For nearly three months now, as Democrats quibbled and quarreled in
their quest for a presidential nominee, Republican John McCain had a luxury
rare in politics: time. To unite a party, to sketch a vision, to hone
attacks, to raise money. Did he use it well?
Time At Odds
Over Iraqi Sovereignty
Carnegie Does
the World Believe in Democracy?
“To Protect or to Project? Iraqi Kurds and
Their Future” — Joost Hilterman, ICG
American Conservative The Road to Kuwait
By Lawrence Korb: The
Iraq exit is clearly marked.
Guardian Talking
to the Taliban Nushin Arbabzadah: Afghan politicians
increasingly believe negotiations with the ousted Taliban regime are the key
to peace
Israeli
threatens to attack Iran
Military action to be coordinated with
Washington if Tehran able to manufacture atomic bombs
Get Ready for the Oil-Price Drop By: Alan Reynolds | New
York Post The price of crude oil has jumped as high as $135 lately, up from
$87 in early February. The news encouraged some Wall Street analysts to
suggest oil might approach $200 before long. In fact, that's quite
impossible: The world economy can't handle current energy prices, much less a
big increase.
Iraq says it
will not grant U.S. troops freedom of movement
Whose
Iraq Is it, Anyway? By: Steve Chapman | Reason
All indications are that Iraqis can unite behind only one proposition:
Yankee, go home! If that's the case—or even if it's not—how can we justify
not letting them express their preference?
Assad:
Israel Insisting that Negotiations Restart Without Previous Concessions
The
Democrats Rebuff Mrs. Clinton - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Ma’ariv Source Says Israel "Will Have to Attack
Iran"; Alliance With US "Tightens"
Robert
Kagan: Why Should Democracy Be Shy?
Daniel
Pipes said in an interview posted Wednesday at
National Review Online, that if Barack Obama is elected, George
Bush would attack Iran in the remaining ten weeks of his term.
MESH
Iran’s strategy in the Levant
Guardian Sarkozy plan for
European military HQ French moves
to create operational headquarters in Brussels threaten to precipitate row
with UK
Wanted:
plan C Editorial: If the Lisbon treaty falls in Ireland
it will fall everywhere, turning
Poll: Dems want Obama-Clinton ticket —
CNN Poll: McCain and Obama locked in a dead heat
FT High prices and the appetite for oilWhile
fears over supply push crude to record levels, is demand starting to slacken
in some quarters?
Al Awsat Negotiations on Iraqi-US Agreements
Continuing
Bilderberg
meeting attracts prominent politicians, businessmen
Speculation
about Obama, Clinton attending Bilderberger meeting
Forward:
"The Operator: The Double Life of a Military Strategist." Edward Luttwak is a public intellectual who
also carries out field operations, extraditions, arrests, interrogations,
military consulting and counterterrorism training for different U.S.
agencies, foreign governments and private interests By Laura Rozen
An Israel-Syria Deal Is Strategically Vital for Both By:
Schlomo Ben-Ami | The Daily Star The resumption of peace talks between Israel
and Syria after eight years of saber-rattling is not a diversion from the
political troubles of Israel's lame-duck prime minister. Nor are the talks a
Syrian ploy to avoid facing a Lebanese-international tribunal on the
assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri
USIP Report:
Why We Should Still Study the Cuban Missile Crisis
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