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Financial Times Wall Street banks fight for life Wall Street was in turmoil on Sunday night as Merrill Lynch found shelter in a $44bn takeover by Bank of America and Lehman Brothers headed towards filing for bankruptcy. The Federal Reserve is making it easier for financial institutions to access Fed liquidity by easing terms on its borrowing facilities and accepting a much wider range of assets as collateral Full coverage: Crisis on Wall Street

 

WSJ Wall Street Crisis as Lehman Totters Lehman faces the possibility of liquidation and Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America on a day in which the U.S. financial system was shaken to its core. The federal government's refusal to provide support to potential Lehman buyers prompted Barclays and Bank of America to walk away from talks

  

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Reckoning
Can the system survive without another bailout?

 

Roubini If Lehman collapses expect a run on all of the other broker dealers and the collapse of the shadow banking system

 

IHTNYT  Frantic day on Wall Street as banks teeter  Merrill Lynch agreed Sunday to sell itself to Bank of America for about $50 billion, while Lehman Brothers headed toward bankruptcy.

 

Boston Globe Democracy on the wane In country after country, democratic reforms are in retreat. The surprising culprit: the middle class. (By Joshua Kurlantzick, Boston Globe)

 

 Obama's Worldview Closer to Reality - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek

 

Washington Post Bush's Overseas Policies Begin Resembling Obama's Barack Obama contends that a John McCain presidency would amount to little more than President Bush's third term. But as it turns out, an Obama presidency might look a bit like Bush's second.

 

Writers Posit That Foreign Policy Could Be a Bush Legacy

 

The Battle For Hope In Iraq By Fred Hiatt,  It's thanks to Bush's national security adviser that the next president will take office with at least a prospect of success in Iraq.

 

A Mideast Crisis to Avert By Dennis Ross,  Condoleezza Rice is focusing on the wrong problem

 

Guardian This is not a cold war Fareed Zakaria: History doesn't repeat itself. It only seems to do so to people who don't know the details

 

Iraq: Al-Qaida intensifies its stranglehold in the world's most dangerous city

 

Pakistani chiefs threaten to join Taliban US warned of uprising if armed incursions continue as new counter-terror policy backfires

 

An Afghan 'October Surprise'? - Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times

 

Jerusalem Post Olmert reportedly offers 98.1% of West Bank to Palestinians Offer said to include return of 5,000 refugees to Israel; PM: vision of 'Greater Israel' outdated; cabinet discusses voluntary evacuation.

 

US Moving Closer to Iran Blockade

 

MESH The first 100 days (1)

 

Independent on Sunday Iraq: Violence is down – but not because of America's 'surge'


The Endgame in Iraq - J. Keane, F. Kagan & K. Kagan, Weekly Standard

 

Ha’aretz  Olmert: There's no such thing as 'Greater Israel' anymore

 

US to Sell Israel New Bunker-Buster Bombs Deal for 1,000 smart bombs approved despite U.S. reservations about possible Israeli strike on Iran

 

Abbas to Haaretz: We will compromise on refugees

 

The world after the Caucasus war , Rein Müllerson

 

Russia's way: the Putin factor, Dmitri Travin

 

NYT Editorial Not Safe Enough If President Bush truly wants to keep America safe, then why hasn’t his administration enforced a comprehensive national security strategy?

 

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Making America Stupid Unless we make America the country most able to innovate, compete and win in the age of globalization, our leverage in the world will continue to slowly erode.

 

With White House Push, U.S. Arms Sales Rise Sharply  Sales of weapons to foreign governments have risen to more than $32 billion, up from $12 billion in 2005.

 

'The Limits of Power' Andrew J. Bacevich plays the prophet for a fat, self-indulgent America.

 

Washington Post Editorial The War in Pakistan U.S. attacks on Taliban and al-Qaeda targets are risky -- and necessary

 

Stopping At Nothing To Win

By David Ignatius

 

OUR MAIN MAN IN BAGHDAD He Came, He Cut Deals, He (May) Conquer By Linda Robinson, Democrats and Republicans are both peddling their own story about Iraq's extraordinary turnaround -- and both are wrong

 

This Time, Things Are Looking Up By John A. Nagl, The war is far from won, but the way ahead is becoming clea

 

Power Barometer: Pipeline Politics in Russia

 

Quagmire, Phase 2: The Invasion of Pakistan  by William Pfaff

 

Stratfor Geopolitical Diary: Pakistan and the U.S. -- The Crisis Begins

 

Russia: The Challenges of Modernizing the Military

 

IRAN, ISRAEL: Locked in potentially deadly dance
Los Angeles Times

 

A year on, Israel still won't discuss Syria strike

 

TPM US Policy, Obama, and The Hebrew Republic

 

IHT  GEORGIA'S FUTURE

What the West wants By DENIS CORBOY, WILLIAM COURTNEY, AND KENNETH YALOWITZ The current crisis involving Russia, Georgia and the West should not be an excuse for arrogance and abuse of power in Tbilisi.

 

Ex-Minister: Saakashvili 'Planned South Ossetia Invasion'

 

RFERL Next In Line? Possible Successors  Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili won the right to a five-year term in early presidential elections in January 2008. But Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's recent likening of Saakashvili to a "political corpse" has fueled speculation the Georgian leader may serve only a fraction of that time. Who are his likely successors

 

Daily Star Israel's multiple personalities are too much for the region to bear

 

The US should accept that its Iraq time is up By Geoffrey Aronson

 

Sunday Timers Sarah Palin: the most underqualified vice-president ever?  By Andrew Sullivan

 

Marwan Muasher The Arab Centre: The promise of moderation

 

Daily Star The valor and failures of the 'Arab center' By Rami G. Khouri

 

It's unwise to poke an angry bear in Ukraine    By F. Stephen Larrabee

 

Not Just A Rigmarole
Asharq Alawsat  By Amir Taheri

 

Newsweek Is Pakistan Helping the Taliban?

 

MESH ‘After Bush’ symposium at Harvard

 Russia and a New Democratic Realism

 

Christian Science Monitor

As peace talks sputter, Israelis and Palestinians eye Plan B Forming a single binational state is among the alternatives being raised to the two-state solution.

 

Raids into Pakistan: What U.S. authority? Bush's orders to send special forces after Taliban militants have roots in previous presidencies.

 

With pope's visit, Sarkozy challenges French secularism French politicians don't talk about faith openly. But President Sarkozy wants a more open discussion of the role of religion.

 

An innovation nation once more To compete globally, the US workforce needs presidential leadership to bolster math, science, and engineering education.

 

Russia takes a bite out of state sovereignty  The real clash with Georgia is sovereignty vs. self-determination. By Mackubin Thomas Owens

 

FT Democratic activists should stop digging If Barack Obama loses this election to John McCain, history will point to August 29 as the moment when Mr McCain announced Sarah Palin would be his running-mate and when livid Democrats gravely harmed their candidate’s prospects, writes Clive Crook

 

‘Damascus spring’ fades from memory Syria has enjoyed a remarkable recent turnround on the diplomatic front, but activists say people continue to be detained and that little has changed on human rights

 

 

US in Pakistan: 'The Gloves Have Come Off'

 

US Army General Warns Pakistan of 'New Kind of War'

 

The Asquith Analogy: Georgia Is the New Belgium  by Daniel Koffler

 

Seeing Iranian Gains in the Caucasus - Council on Foreign Relations


Oil's Trouble Spots - Council on Foreign Relations


Riedel: US Needs to Tread Carefully in Pakistan - Council on Foreign Relations

 

 Slate   The Sorrow and the Pity When it comes to foreign policy, Sarah Palin doesn't know what she's talking about. Fred Kaplan
 

George W. Palin Sarah Palin may not know the Bush Doctrine, but she sure sounds like Bush.
John Dickerson

 

 CSIS Decision 2008: The Candidates' Positions

 

Seven Questions: Reading the Tea Leaves in Pyongyang

H2  [MONDAY TALK]Lesser: Turkey to face tough foreign policy choices

 

McClatchy Armenia: Obscur issue could challenge a President Obama If Obama wins, he'll face tremendous pressure from the State Department, the Pentagon, and other countries -- and maybe even his own advisers -- to back away from emphatic endorsement of language that Turks perpetrated a genocide against Armenians during the last century

 

Washington Post  Strip of Iraq 'on the Verge of Exploding'Kurds Extend Role Beyond Autonomous Borders, Angering Arabs

 

Stratfor Turkey: Energy Cooperation With Armenia and Azerbaijan?

 

ABD Genelkurmay Başkanı'yla Boğazları konuştu

 

Der Spiegel Caucasus Crisis: Turkey Walks a Tightrope Between Russia and the West

 

RFERL  Lousy Timing Could Overshadow Turkey's Logical Caucasus Solution BY LIZ FULLER  

 

Ankara Warming Up to Tehran

 

Passenger ferry sinks in Turkey
A ferry carrying about 100 people sinks off Turkey's north-western coast, leaving at least one person dead and dozens missing

 

Gurbetçiler İçin Yeni Strateji Türk Hükümeti, gurbetçilerin yurt içi ve dışında karşılaştıkları sorunlarının çözümüne yönelik bir strateji planı hazırladı

 

US Adm. Mullen visiting Turkey at critical time

 

Caucasian conflict improves Russia-Turkey relations

 

Iran's Azerbaijan to Start Cooperation with Iraqi Kurdistan

 

EDM TURKEY LAUNCHES KARABAKH PEACE INITIATIVE

 

Top US military official on surprise visit

 

Mullen ile 1 saat görüştü

 

Ingmar Karlsson: Lack of constructive opposition most crucial problem in Turkey

 

Troyka’nın gündemi reform ve Kafkasya

 

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

 

 

Many of Iraq's Big Dilemmas Are Now Colliding in Kirkuk

 

Guardian Iraq: Al-Qaida intensifies its stranglehold in the world's most dangerous city

 

Kurdish dissidents call for world support (UPI) -- The militant Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan, PJAK, called on the international community to stand in solidarity against the torture of its members by Iran.

 

Powder Keg: Kurds in Iraq encroach on Arab enclaves American Thinker

 

Cevdet Aşkın

 

Turkey’s AKP faces tough choice between Kurdish votes, terror fight

 

Turkey Confronts Issues In Kurdish Areas

 

Kurds Cited for Iraq Expansion (View Article)

 

Turkish FM Says Fifth Round of Israel-Syria Talks May Be Held 18-19 September

 

Turkey, Egypt Agree to Boost Cooperation on Bilateral, Regional Issues

 

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights (in Arabic) 13 Sep 08

 

Bomb Kills 8 Kurdish Soldiers, Inflaming Iraqi Regional Dispute

Talabani’s Health and Kurdish Unity

 

PKK Pragmatizm kongresi

 

Halit Kakınç  Hain Pusu neymiş bana bir anlatıverin

 

Iraqi Deputy Premier and al-Sistani Discuss Kurdish Crisis

 

10 Heron uçağı ekimde geliyor

Curiosity puts Iraq's north on the tourist map

 

Telafer kurbanları

 

DTP savunması: Kapatma=Şiddet

 

AK Parti örnek olabilir

 

Displaced Iraqis live under stands in soccer stadium

 

Iraq F-16 Purchase Roils Relations with Kurds; Bush's Minimal ...

 

Elections committee discusses SRSG proposal on Kirkuk (Voices of Iraq)

 

Kurdish PJAK dissidents call for world support

 

DTP hakkındaki kapatma davasında yarın sözlü savunma verilecek

 

9 Peshmarga killed in Khanaqin

 

Kürtler güneye yayılıyor

 

“DTP, bölücü değil birleştirici bir partidir”


Türk politikası, Türkiye'deki Kürd sorununu çözebilseydi daha başarılı olabilirdi


 

Bush, Talabani meet after drawdown decision

 

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri Günlük Haftalık

 

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