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H1 Rand Report US Has Long-Term Economic, Political Options to Help Make Iran More Democratic Iran's Political, Demographic, and Economic Vulnerabilities

 

Washington Post Tehran's Definite 'Maybe' By David Ignatius,  Even as the Iranians talk of engagement, they remain wary of it.

 

New York Times News Analysis: A More Confident Iraq Becomes a Tougher Negotiating Partner for the U.S.

 

Pakistan Is Said to Be Attracting Insurgents  An increase in the number of foreign fighters may reflect a change that is making Pakistan’s tribal areas the preferred destination for some Sunni insurgents.

 

Iran Reports Missile Test, Drawing Rebuke

 

U.S. Candidates Use Iran’s Missile Tests as a Chance for a Foreign Policy Debate

 

Division at G-8 Over Climate Goal

 

Iraq official: U.S. could be out by 2011 

 

Jerusalem Post Burns: Iran's nuclear progress modest

Top US State Department official says Iran seeks to create false impression of major breakthroughs

Ha’aretz  Olmert wants U.S. to sponsor Israel-Syria talks Olmert told visiting Italian FM that he can persuade Bush to increase U.S. involvement in talks

 

Israeli expert: Iran bluffing over range of tested missiles Iran claims it has developed new version of Shahab-3 ballistic missile capable of reaching 2,000 km

 

Foreign Policy Seven Questions: What Iran Wants

 

Washington  Post Iran Launches Nine Test Missiles, Says More Are Ready U.S. Plays Down Military Showdown

 

U.S. General: Iraqi Forces to Be Fully Ready in '09

 

ANALYSIS Obama's Ideology Proving Difficult to Pinpoint Democrats Decry a Move Toward Middle, but Republicans Still See a Liberal By Dan Balz

 

Editorial No G(r)8 Accomplishment President Bush's agreement to a declaration on climate change comes seven years late

 

Independent Leading article: Do not play into the hands of the hardliners

 

McClatchy Iran tests missiles, but some see signs of moderation

The New Era | Stratfor

 

Financial Times Total steps back from investing in Iran Tehran loses last major western energy group considering significant investment in its huge gas reserves as the US pursues campaign of isolation over its nuclear ambitions

 

Gazprom offers to buy all Libya’s gas Russia’s state-­controlled gas company says it is in talks to buy all of Libya’s oil and gas exports, its latest move to strengthen its influence over world energy markets

 

Analysis: western energy groups yield to state producers Eni’s renegotiated deal with Libya is agitating rivals because all are under pressure to concede a greater share of revenues to hydrocarbon-rich governments

 

The Times Analysis: Words that hide the withdrawal

In the debate about America's troop deployment in Iraq, politicians have failed to notice that the withdrawal has already begun

 

Medvedev adopts new tone on missile shield Russian President adopts measured response to missile defence crisis, but events in Georgia could force his hand

 

Little things can mean a lot in the machinations of great nations

 

ANALYSIS: an old pill for tough times Alongside repossessions, bankruptcies and suicides, economic downturns inevitably trigger one other trend: protectionism

 

Do the Obamacons really exist?

Why they might matter

 

Newsweek Will Iran’s Nuclear Missile Test Trigger War?

Tony Karon The Wrong Questions on Iran - Again

 

Wall Street Journal Iran's Missile Threat
A warhead with EMP could do enormous damage to the U.S.

 

Barack's Brilliant Ground Game
 By Karl Rove His organization is formidable. But flip-flops may do him in.

 

Negotiating India's Next Nuclear ExplosionBy Henry Sokolski
The most important news to emerge from this week's G-8 summit.

Europe and the Huddled Masses
By Jakob von Weizsäcker
A borderless EU needs a coordinated immigration policy

 

Iran's Dangerous Game By: Robert Fox | The Guardian  Leaving the world in doubt as to your nuclear intentions may be a canny diplomatic trick, but look where it got Saddam.

 

Why Russia Is a G-8 Member But China Is Not By: Richard Weitz | World Politics Review   When Russia joined the G-8 in 1997, Western leaders saw membership as a reward to Russian President Boris Yeltsin for seeming to align Russian foreign policy largely with the Euro-Atlantic community. But the decision to invite Russia to join the club has proved controversial and led to unfulfilled expectations on both sides

 

McCain's Bad G-8 Judgment Call By: Maeleine K. Albright and William J. Perry | Los Angeles Times This week's Group of 8 meeting in Japan raises some important questions about Sen. John McCain's approach to the art of diplomacy. McCain has suggested that Russia be kicked out of the G-8 because of its government's retreat from democracy in recent years.

 

CER Russia and the multipolar myth

 

CEPS Georgia and the EU - an overview of current relations

 

Time Saber Rattling from Iran and Russia

 

More Theater Over Iran's Nukes

 

Top of the Agenda: Iran Missile Test - Council on Foreign Relations

Foreign Policy Divide Trouble for GOP - Council on Foreign Relations

Israel, the West, and a Nuclear Iran - Council on Foreign Relations

CIA Report: Bin Laden Is Dying Of Kidney Failure...
Center for Research on Globalization

 

Independent Hamish McRae: In 2050 the world will be run by a new middle class – based in Asia

 

Hamish McRae: The G8 countries may run the old world economy. But it's the new one that matters

 

Heritage The Roots of Modern Conservative Thought from Burke to Kirk

Asia Times A last throw of the dice ...? A United States war against Iran is conceivable as a final apocalyptic manifestation of Pax Americana, but this would only hasten the decline of the US in terms of power, influence and moral authority. - Bob Rigg

 

Guardian Cyanide on the table

Martin Woollacott: The threat of war will not recede until there is regime change both in Washington and Tehran

 

Iran tests missiles in show of strength Tehran's military exercise involves nine missiles that could reach Israel and US bases in the region Video: Iran sends missile test warning

 

Talking tough to Iran Andrew Grotto: Iran's missile tests show why diplomacy, not regime change, should be the basis for US strategy in the Middle East

 

RFERL How Dangerous Are Tehran's Missiles?

 

Los Angeles Times McCain's G-8 judgment call By Madeleine K. Albright and William J. Perry

Booting Moscow out of the group of wealthy democracies would deal a major blow to U.S.-Russia relations.

 

Yedioth Ahronoth End of the road for Olmert?
Several hours after Kadima leadership candidates agree on mid-September primaries, senior party officials estimate that Prime Minister Olmert will not compete; PM has not yet officially announced whether he intends to run

 

What Iran really wants

 Iranians care about Persian Gulf much more than they care about Israel, Yoram Kaniuk says

 

Our foes no longer scared/ Weisglass IDF must find a way to frighten our enemies as it did in the past

 

Al Awsat A Talk with Iranian Deputy FM Muhammad Reza Baqeri

 

Boston Globe Iraq asserts itself -- so listen PRESIDENT BUSH, John McCain, and other proponents of an open-ended American troop presence in Iraq might not appreciate it right now, but Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was acting like an accountable politician earlier this week when he called for a timetable for withdrawal of US forces from Iraq. (Boston Globe)

 

Christian Science Monitor

 Confrontation escalates between Iran and Israel Iran tested the Shahab-3 missile, which could hit Israel or US Mideast bases.

 

Myths in Al Qaeda's 'home'

Policymakers need to grasp cultural realities in Pakistan's tribal area.

 

Heritage Europe and Israel: Strengthening the Partnership

 

Gvosdev G8 Plus G5 Equals What?

 

OpenDemocracy The G8 in a global mess, Ann Pettifor

 

 Georgia’s search for itself, Alexander Rondeli

Iraq task, Iran risk, Paul Rogers

Carnegie Torture, Rights, and Values: Why the Prohibition of Torture is Absolute

 

Obama Is Not a God | The American Prospect

Liberals need to understand that Obama can never live up to his golden image -- but they should still hold him accountable for the campaign promises he's made

 

H2 LA Times Investigators look for motive in deadly attack on U.S. Consulate in Turkey

 

NYT 6 Die in Attack on U.S. Post in Turkey

 

Washington Post U.S. Consulate in Istanbul Is Attacked

 

Guardian Six killed in attack on US consulate  Turkey in state of high alert as latest incident further unsettles domestic political situation

 

FT Six die in US consulate attack in Istanbul

CSIS Publication - Another Long, Hot Summer in Ankara

 

Turkey and the Mediterranean Union

 

ERDAL ŞAFAK Türkiye'nin Irak'taki rolü

M Ali Birand Irak Kürtleri kimle dans edeceklerini bilemiyorlar

 

Reuters Turkey and the art of the coup There can be few countries where the art of the coup is so finely honed as in Turkey, adapting as it does constantly to the spirit of the age by Ralph Boulton

 

After a Century Has Passed, Young Turks at a Crossroads By: Gwynne Dyer | The Japan Times The Ottoman Empire had already been in retreat for over a century when the Young Turk revolution broke out in July, 1908. Some of the Young Turks hoped to save the whole empire; others wanted to abandon the empire and rescue an independent Turkey from the wreckage

 

U.S. Can't Rule Out Al Qaeda In Istanbul Attack

 

Sami Kohen Neden İstanbul?

 

Oil and Intelligence in Kurdistan
Intelligence Online

 

Washington Times Ataturk veneration challenged

 

Başbakan Erdoğan'ın tarihi Bağdat ziyareti 'gizli' başladı

 

The Times Deadly shoot-out at US consulate in Turkey

 

Daily Telegraph Six dead in Istanbul US consulate attack

  

IHT 6 die in attack on U.S. Consulate in Istanbul

 

BBC US consulate in Turkey attacked

 

CSM U.S. Consulate strike recalls Turkey's past political violence

 

Turkey: Anti-West Order of Coup Plots is here to Stay
American Chronicle

 

3 Germans kidnapped by Kurdish rebels

 

Three German mountaineers kidnapped by PKK in eastern Turkey

 

TIMELINE-Recent attacks in Turkey

 

İstanbul'dak saldırı dünya basınında böyle duyruldu

 

EDM TURKISH POLITICS IN THE COURTS

 

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

 

ERDAL ŞAFAK Türkiye'nin Irak'taki rolü

M Ali Birand Irak Kürtleri kimle dans edeceklerini bilemiyorlar

 

Erdoğan'ın Irak ziyareti son anda kesinleşti

 

Erdoğan’ı Bağdat’ta Irak polisi ve ABD’liler koruyacak

 

Oil and Intelligence in Kurdistan
Intelligence Online

 

Mümtazer Türköne Acıların Kürtlüğü ve Türklüğü

 

Video: US official sees Kurdistan's business opportunities first-hand

 

Would-Be Oil Barons Venture Into Kurdistan

 

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 9 Jul 08

 

PKK’nın belini kıracağız

 

Rice'tan Türkiye'ye teşekkür

 

Cevdet Aşkın PKK'dan Almanya'ya ROJ TV misillemesi, Erbil'in Erdoğan ısrarı

 

Schaffer's Kurdish oil deal causes problems for Iraq

 

Turkey pushes a slow withdrawal Obama should stop in Turkey and ask government leaders there how they view his plan to quickly pull U.S. troops out of neighboring Iraq.

 

Turkey: Kurdish militants deny role in US consulate attack

 

PKK Kidnaps Three German Climbers in Turkey, Governor Says

 

Ergenekon-PKK terror link emerges as probe widens

 

PKK 3 Alman dağcıyı kaçırdı