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H1 Slate Protecting the Oil Supply What if the Chinese were to apply the Carter Doctrine? Shmuel Rosner

Editorial: Efforts to persuade Iran to freeze its programme of uranium enrichment are entering a dangerous new phase

Bush is trying to impose a classic colonial status on Iraq Seumas Milne: US efforts to force Iraqis to swallow permanent vassal status and give up control of their oil echoes British imperial history

9/11's fading force Michael Tomasky: Would another major terrorist attack on US soil significantly boost the Republican party? I'm not so sure

Washington Post When Good Coalitions Go Bad By Richard Perle On Iran, Condoleezza Rice and Barack Obama are both right

The Rise of The Obamacons

By Robert D. Novak Why so many conservatives are taking a serious look at Barack Obama.

Too Much Hot Air By Bjorn Lomborg, Global warming is real, but most plans to slow it are unrealistic and most rhetoric about it is unhelpful.

Climate Issues Tied to U.S. Security By Walter Pincus, U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that global climate change will worsen food shortages and disease exposure in sub-Saharan Africa over the next two decades, creating operational problems for the Pentagon's newest overseas military command

With Deal, Olmert Averts Rebellion by Partners

West to Pursue Twin Track in Iran Nuclear Dispute By: Stephanie Nebehay | Reuters
Western powers will continue a twin track policy of sanctions and diplomacy towards Iran over its nuclear program, the EU's top diplomat said on Wednesday, despite Tehran's warnings it could backfire.

MESH Assign Iran to Israel? By Josef Joffe

International Energy Outlook 2008 - Highlights Source: Energy Information Administration

Geopolitical Diary: A U.S.-Iranian Dance of Diplomacy | Stratfor

Christian Science Monitor

Post-Soviet 'frozen conflicts' heat up as big-power interests collide

Tensions are growing as NATO and a resurgent Russia divide over future of breakaway statelets.

Israel's embattled Olmert survives, for now The prime minister skirted a vote to dissolve Israel's parliament by agreeing to allow a September primary election within his centrist Kadima Party.

Can Lebanon douse political fires? Fighting in Tripoli is indicative of rising Sunni-Shiite tensions as the formation of a new government hits an impasse. Religious leaders called for calm Wednesday.

Obama and Clinton campaign together How is he doing at winning over her supporters – and tapping into her formidable fundraising network? What might she get in return?

The Times Ireland's 'no' vote: a big earthquake Despite the protestations of the European elites, the vote changes the whole future of the EU Anatole Kaletsky

Pakistan: the Khyber impasse

Pakistan cannot afford to lose control of its gateway to Afghanistan

The Post-American WorldThe Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria - Times Online

Fareed Zakaria’s view of the 21st-century world is too cosy for comfort

Wall Street Journal Iran's Troubling Opposition
By Amir Taheri It's a shame that some of the mullahs' enemies are terrorists themselves.

Diplomacy Is Working on North Korea
By Condoleezza Rice The multilateral path has helped us learn a lot we otherwise wouldn't know.

Uighur Justice By Nury A. Turkel They have a beef with China, not the U.S

It's All About Obama By Karl Rove The senator risks being painted as arrogant and self-centered

Independent David Miliband: Miliband's manifesto

While Gordon Brown has chosen not to mark his first anniversary, the Foreign Secretary sets out his vision in a wide-ranging interview with Steve Richards

Jerusalem Post Time to rethink Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee Howard Berman urges a new US strategy on thwarting Iran.

A disastrous attack on Iran? [ CHUCK FREILICH

American Interest A Nation In Debt barbara dafoe whitehead
The subprime mortgage debacle has deep roots in the decline of thrift.

OpenDemocracy Russia: where are the petrodollars going? Fuelled by petrodollars, inflation is rising again in Russia. Corruption is a complicating factor. What to do? Dmitri Travin examines the options

American Prospect Talking to Iran Is Not So Controversial Don't look now but there is a broad consensus on what the next administration should do about Iran. Ilan Goldenberg

CFR Media Conference Call: How to Manage China’s Challenge to the Global Economy (Audio)

IHT Interconnected we prosper

By WILLIAM J. AMELIO Poverty is receding at a rate unsurpassed in history; and the power of the emerging dreamers, thinkers, tinkerers and innovators worldwide have only just now begun to transform our world

Despite some setbacks, Sarkozy is riding high The French president has restored national diplomatic stature not only in Washington and European capitals, but also in Africa and the Middle East.

Asia Times US pushes Iraqi Shi'ites closer to Iran Beyond the issue of permanent United States bases in Iraq, the Shi'ite government of Nuri al-Maliki objects to a new security agreement with Washington on the grounds that it does not guarantee Iraq against foreign aggression. The Shi'ites fear possible US collaboration with Sunni Arab regimes to try to overthrow their administration, a fear that pushes them closer to Iran. - Gareth Porter

Neo-con redux? There's a mini revival of the neo-conservatives in the United States as they attempt to put the record straight about their policies that led to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the alliance with Pakistan. By contrast, the presidential hopefuls, Barack Obama and John McCain, are silent on key issues in these countries at a time the US's interests are under threat. - Ehsan Ahrari

• 'Innocence Abroad' by Scott Carpenter , The American Interest

The Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Institute has just issued an excellent report (PDF here) calling for a "responsible" withdrawal of US troops from Iraq that is "quick, careful, and generous."

H 2 Germany vs. Turkey Player Ratings - International Herald Tribune

Euro Blogs: Tenacious Turkey

Goal.com - Euro 2008 - Player Ratings: Germany 3-2 Turkey

Avrupa Basını Türkiye'yi yazıyor

Guardian Last-gasp Lahm slams door on Turks Germany left it late but scraped past a vibrant Turkey 3-2 to qualify for the final of Euro 2008

Independent Germany 3 Turkey 2: Lahm has last word to deprive Turkey They wear you down, they make you believe you have a chance and then, when you least expect it, they break your hearts. Typical Germany.

The Times Lahm strikes ends Turkey's dream

NYT EURO 2008 - GERMANY 3, TURKEY 2; Turkey Scores Late Again, but Not Late Enough

Lahm sends fortunate Germany to final

LAT Germany isn't winning over fans

AKP’yi kapatmak talihsizliktir

CHP sosyal demokrat değil

Turkey: When Secularism and Democracy Collide New York Times,

Türkiye raporu bugün oylanacak

Turkish Ex-Antiterrorism Official Says Rebel Kurds Use Northern Iraq As Base

Beyaz Saray'da Bush-Talabani Görüşmesi

Turkey promotes new pipeline

Turkey's Constitution' International Herald Tribune Letters