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H1 Full Text Of Obama's Iraq Speech A New Strategy for a New World -

NPQ Martin van Creveld: TO IRAN OR NOT TO IRAN

New York Times Fed Chief Bleak on Economic Outlook

A sense of economic gloom gripped Washington as the Federal Reserve chairman warned of the risks of a long slowdown

U.S. Envoy to Join Meeting With Iranian

IHT THREE BIG PROBLEMS

America's next steps By RICHARD CLARKE, STEVEN SIMON AND RAY TAKEYH Iran, Iraq and Israeli-Palestinian turmoil will dominate the next president's agenda

With Soviet enemy gone, NATO polishes its brand The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has shown how determined it is to revamp its image as it approaches its 60th anniversary in 2009

Financial Times A year of living dangerously for the world

It is almost a year since the US subprime crisis went global.The hope that the repricing of risk would be no more than a brief interruption has been disappointed. So where is the world economy now? Martin Wolf suggests some answers

Bernanke highlights risks facing US economy Ben Bernanke highlighted the ‘numerous difficulties’ facing the US economy in sobering testimony that sent the markets on a rollercoaster ride as he signalled serious risks to growth and of higher than expected inflation

Obama restates troop withdrawal pledge Barack Obama renewed his case for ending the war in Iraq, saying he remained committed to withdrawing all combat troops from the country within 16 months of taking office

Stand up to Russia over Georgia

The west should try to engage Russia in talks over Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and when Russia bullies Georgia, the west must back its vulnerable ally

Europe told to expect doubled gas price The price of natural gas in continental Europe is to double in the space of a year as a result of the rise in oil prices, according to a leading consultancy

US shifts policy to send envoy to Iran talks US Under Secretary of State William Burns will for the first time join the EU’s Javier Solana and envoys from China, Russia, France, Britain and Germany in a meeting on Saturday with Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili in Geneva

Washington Post The Baffled Economy By Robert J. Samuelson, The question about globalization is this: Is an interconnected world economy stable?

Editorial The Iron Timetable Whether the war in Iraq is being lost or won, Barack Obama's strategy remains unchanged.

American Envoy To Join Iran Talks Move Is Departure From Prior Policy

Roubini Bloomberg TV Interview: Worst Financial Crisis Since the Great Depression and Worst US Recession in Decades

Wall Street Journal The New Reality in IraqBy Frederick W. Kagan, Kimberly Kagan and Jack Keane Victory means an opportunity to contain Iran and stabilize the Mideast.

Newsweek Interview: How US Should Handle Iran’s Nukes

Guardian The withdrawal dynamic is shifting Iraq's political plates Simon Jenkins: The surge is at best a crime-cutting exercise. It is the promise of Obama and disengagement that really concentrates minds

Is Europe ready for Serbia?

Simon Tisdall: The Balkans' problem child now has a fortified, peace-seeking democracy and stronger institutions – but will Brussels admit it?

Is Bin Laden Losing By: Jason Burke | Prospect In May, two articles by western experts on al Qaeda suggested that Bin Laden's terrorist organisation might be in sharp decline. Both were meticulously researched and received wide attention.

What Iranian Leaders Really Say About Doing Away with Israel Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs A 24-page Israeli paper analyzing the statements of Iranian leaders about their intentions with regard to Israel

Azerbaijan's View of the Security Situation in the Southern Caucasus
SDA The 20-page report of an event held to consider the Azerbaijani perspective on the security situation in the Southern Caucasus

The Frontline Country Team: A Model for Engagement, AEI fellows Christopher Griffin and Thomas Donnelly AEI Scholars Propose a New Model for Building Security Partnerships - American Enterprise Institute

Los Angeles Times Defense sec. plugs diplomacy He fears a "creeping militarization" of U.S. foreign policy and rules out a "slick PR campaign" to improve America's image.

'08's emotional IQ tests

By Joseph S. Nye Jr. Voters will be looking for more than intellect from the presidential candidates.

NPQ Robert Reich: ONLY DEMOCRATS CAN SAVE GLOBALIZATION FROM REPUBLICAN-GENERATED BACKLASH

Turning the Tables on the
Israel-Firsters by Michael Scheuer

The New Lebanese Equation: The Christians’ Central Role International Crisis Group

CEPS A Reinforced Obstacle to Democracy?

Tom Barnett Conflict With Iran is a War That Nobody Wants but Everybody Needs

Iran has missile that could hit parts of Europe, Pentagon says

The Times Barack Obama - the security strategy The Democrats would prove more assertive abroad than America's allies expect

Christian Science Monitor Obama takes show onto global stage His foreign-policy credentials will likely be tested as he travels abroad

Harpers Six Questions for Jane Mayer, Author of The Dark Side by Scott Horton

National Interest Uncle Sam
Knows Best by Doug Bandow

Kennan had a Vision. Things aren't so Clear Now. - Council on Foreign Relations

Tony Karon Behind the ‘Phony War’ on Iran

Obama Isn't Jimmy Carter - He's Ronald Reagan - Eli Lake, New Republic

Economic Discontent is Well Founded - Irwin Stelzer, Weekly Standard

• 'Israel’s Airstrike on Syria's Reactor: Implications for the Nonproliferation Regime' by Leonard S. Spector and Avner Cohen, Arms Control Today

FrontPage The War with Iran--7/16/2008 12:00:00 AM

Asia Times A war just waiting to happen Washington has invested huge sums of money and effort in support of Georgia's inclusion into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a move that will tighten the alliance's iron ring around Russia. Moscow in return is increasing its military backing of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, risking a a major escalation of tensions between Russia and NATO, in addition to disrupting vital energy corridors. - F William Engdahl

Iran-US: A study in misperceptions The failure of United States-Iran rapprochement is invariably blamed on Washington's insistence on a suspension of Iran's uranium-enrichment program and on Tehran's intransigence on the same. The deeper reason is that neither side even tries to understand the other, and that suitable people who could help bridge the gap are not utilized. - Hossein Askari

Afghan attack resonates in Washington The deaths of nine United States soldiers at the hands of the Taliban at a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan is a sharp reminder that the central front in Washington's "war on terror" has moved from Iraq. This realization has already had a major impact on the US presidential elections. - Jim Lobe