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H1 Washington Post In Praise of Hard Power By Charles Krauthammer, Diplomacy and moral suasion alone cannot make the world a better place.

Iran's Conflicting Signals to the West Some Observers Suggest That Missile Tests Show a Readiness to Bargain

Capitalism's Reality Check By E. J. Dionne Jr., The biggest political story of the year is economic: the collapse of free-market theory.

Maintaining the U.S. Strategic Advantage By: Bruce Berkowitz | Foreign Policy Research Institute
Instead of focusing on just one threat at time, the US should adopt the strategy of dealing with a series of various threats to maintain the upper hand

China Will Surpass U.S. Economically by 2035, Double by Midcentury Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Full Report (PDF; 196 KB)

McClatchy New poll shows Obama ahead, with ominous signs for McCain Among all voters, Democrat Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain by 48 to 40 percent, a Pew Research Center survey shows. Independents were nearly evenly divided between the two candidates, but 46 percent were undecided. Ominously for McCain, 25 percent of conservative Republicans are not solidly in his camp and only 35 percent of his supporters said they back him strongly.

Ha’aretz Ari Shavit: The real problem is America The very fact that America exported itself is acting as a boomerang against it. The Americanization of the world is what is weakening it.

Arab state tells Israel it won't oppose Iran strike

• 'Is a Military Attack on Iran Imminent?' by Zaki Shalom, Institute for National Security Studies, Israel

Christian Science Monitor

Amid Iran's tests, signs of weakness Evidence mounts that international sanctions are having an impact.

Immanuel Wallerstein Where Is the World Headed? A multipolar world must prepare for a relative decline in US power and the turbulence that may follow

Financial Times Europe promises cheers for Obama – and little else The old continent has already decided: it will get the American president it deserves, writes Philip Stephens. Even those whose sympathies are with the Republican John McCain are caught up in Obamamania. Only Carla Bruni, partner and chanteuse to France’s Nicolas Sarkozy, can compete in the glamour stakes

Democracies must work in concert The pre-eminent need today is not an exclusive club of democracies, but renewal of the world’s global architecture, write Anne-Marie Slaughter and John Ikenberry

Bring back the real McCain Pandering and equivocation do not suit Mr McCain. He best commands respect when daring to offend, and advancing sound but politically awkward positions

France’s Club Med The Union for the Mediterranean may prove to be the high point of France’s EU presidency. But what the region really needs is lasting European commitment

The Economist The Mediterranean economy Club Med The Mediterranean, north and south, is forming a single economic unit. Europe should make it a powerful one

Israel and Iran Coming to a city near you? Be very afraid, please

The G8 summit in Hokkaido They came, they jawed, they failed to conquer

The Economist Barack Obama, New and Improved - The only problem with Obama’s move to the centre is that he’s not moving far enough. The oddity of this election cycle is not that Mr Obama is moving to the centre but that McCain is moving to the right.

Failed Responsibility: Iraqi Refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon International Crisis Group

Washington Post Ahmadinejad in 2009 Maziar Bahari | Why America?s favorite rogue leader won?t be exiting the stage anytime soon.

The Times Iran and Israel's game of bluff The warlike posturing would be more frightening if there were much likelihood of an Israeli attack Gerard Baker

Playing Chicken Iran's missile tests are a deliberate and dangerous provocation to cover up Ahmadinejad's weak political position at home

Israel issues threats as Iranian isolation deepens French group Total froze its role in a $10bn gas project in a victory for the US push against Iran's nuclear ambitions

ANALYSIS: not the end of the affair Total’s apparent retreat sounds like a victory for the US, but it is nothing of the sort

Quickly, Carefully, and Generously: The Necessary Steps for a Responsible Withdrawal from Iraq (printable full text .pdf) (executive summary .pdf),

IHT RUSSIA AND THE G-8

Resolving a credibility problem

By PETER I. BELK AND ALEXANDROS PETERSEN

Medvedev must put his house in order, without Western meddling

Sarkozy aims to revive EU pact this year By STEPHEN CASTLE

The French president said further delays would not be acceptable to voters who would elect a new European Parliament in June of next year

China and a globalisation of sentiment, Kerry Brown

Forward America Sounds a Dovish Note  as Iran and Israel Trade Threats

Amir Taheri A Very Tangled Web : Amir Taheri

Kevin Drum Maliki and the Timetable

Why the US won't attack Iran
Despite all the warnings, alarms, rumors and panicky pieces coursing through the international media, an attack on Iran is less likely than ever to happen. For small, vulnerable Israel, an air assault on Iranian nuclear facilities, alone or with the backing of the US, is literally inconceivable, given the disastrous fallout that would follow. - Tom Engelhardt

Iran's missiles are just for show
As a political statement to world leaders gathered in Japan, Iran's test-firing on Wednesday of nine long-and-medium range missiles was impeccable. But even if Iran had the physical means to deliver the nuclear warheads it does not possess, these tests do not mean it has mastered the capability to do so. Iran's real deterrence against an attack comes from the reorganization of its military, giving it effectively 30 armies spread across the country. - Pepe Escobar

Iran's Missile Warning - More Bark Than Bite?

H 2 CSM Saving turkey's democracy In a fierce legal battle, Islamists and secularists are undermining the very system that can help them.

NYT Turkish Premier, in Iraq, Highlights a Warming Trend

Four Detained After Deadly Istanbul Attack

Foreign Policy Photo Essay: Turkey’s Year of Turbulence

LA Times Iraq to help Turkey fight Kurdish rebels Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on a historic visit to Baghdad, in turn says he hopes to increase trade between the countries

EDM INITIAL EVIDENCE SUGGESTS HOMEGROWN ORIGIN FOR ATTACK ON U.S. CONSULATE

‘Türk El Kaidesi’ Kürtlerden nasıl besleniyor

Asia Times Consulate attack exposes Turkey's frailty
A court case seeking to shut down the ruling party, the arrests of high-ranking members of the military and now a deadly terrorist attack on the United States consulate in Istanbul expose Turkey's political instability. The attackers are as yet unnamed, but as as one Turkish analyst says, "Whatever the message they are trying to give, this is a terrorist attack as a result of the unstable atmosphere in the country." - Patrick Wrigley

Almanya PKK ile temasa geçti mi?

Brothers: AK Parti'nin kapanma ihtimali zayıflıyor

VVD questions subsidy for Gülen movement

Müttefik Türkiye’nin yanında durmalıyız

Erdoğan'dan Irak'ta Kürt yönetimine teşekkür

Cengiz Çandar Avrupa’da Fransa-Almanya ne ise; Ortadoğu’da Türkiye-Irak...

Apo, MOSSAD’ın hediyesi mi?

Türkiye NATO kartını kullanmalı

Der Spiegel Kurdish Kidnappers' Demands: PKK Calls on Berlin to End 'Hostile Policy'

Fugitive attacker reported captured in Turkey

ABD’nin Türk polisine şükran borcu var

Barçın Yinanç İstanbul'daki Amerikan polis zirvesine saldırı şoku