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H1 Financial Times Editorial Kill
or cure for the Wall Street malaise The Treasury’s calculated
risk with Lehman looks better judged than those of a banking system
intoxicated by bail-outs. Yet even well-judged gambles fail Full coverage: Crisis on Wall Street
Five Ex-Secretaries of State Urge Talks With Iran
CSIS How Soon is Safe?
Iraqi Force
Development and Conditions-Based US Withdrawals
IHT OIL AND
SECURITY
The
rising danger of high oil prices By HENRY A.
KISSINGER AND MARTIN FELDSTEIN Because of the profound political consequences of
high oil prices, reducing the price of oil must be America's immediate,
paramount objective.
Guardian Maelstrom
in the markets Editorial: It is a moment Karl Marx would
have relished. From every angle financial capitalism is taking a battering
The
fruit of hypocrisy Joseph Stiglitz: Dishonesty in the
finance sector dragged us here, and Washington looks ill-equipped to guide us
out
Nightmare
on Wall Street
Share prices tumble around the world after most
turbulent 24 hours of credit crunch so far
The Times Hank Paulson has created a
crisis The US Treasury Secretary has made the rescue of other
troubled banks almost impossible Anatole Kaletsky
Leader After the Lehman Brothers Disaster An aggressive chief executive and ineffective board
have brought a bank to bankruptcy; but the crisis reveals wider weaknesses in
the financial system
The worst is not over for the global economy In the space of 48
hours we may have witnessed the end of investment banking as we know it, but
what about economic ruin?
MESH The first 100 days (2)
Christian
Science Monitor
Nuke inspectors at 'dead end' in Iran. More
sanctions ahead?
Washington warns of new sanctions
after a UN report says Iran is expanding nuclear enrichment activities
Los Angeles
Times Iraq's prime minister breaking free of
American sway Nouri Maliki has consolidated
power and is asserting his independence, curbing Washington's influence over
Iraq's future.
U.S.
officials warn against leaving Iraq forces on their own too soon
Security gains of the last year could be lost, one general says. As
Petraeus prepares to hand the reins to Odierno, bombs kill at least
NPQ Nathan Gardels: POST-OLYMPIC POWERSHIFT: THE
RETURN OF 'SUPERIOR' CHINESE CIVILIZATION IN A POST-AMERICAN WORLD
Stratfor The Russian Resurgence and the New-Old Front
Bush Will Bid to Soften
Wall Street Journal - President George W. Bush plans a series of events this
month to soften his cowboy image on foreign policy and tout his ...
CSIS Security
Challenges and Threats in the Gulf 09/08/2008
Washington Post No More Creampuffs The Government
Is Willing to Let Wall Street Firms Fail. That's Good. By Kenneth
Rogoff, The government is willing to
let Wall Street firms fail. That's good
Editorial The Lehman Lesson
When it came to bailing out Wall Street, Washington had to stop
somewhere
Pakistan
Allegedly Repulses U.S. Raid Military officials deny reports Pakistani
troops repelled a U.S. attack by firing warning shots toward U.S. troops as
they attempted to cross into Pakistan in pursuit of Taliban insurgents.
FT Gideon
Rachman: World opinion counts too in America’s poll The
next occupant of the White House will want to do some burden-sharing and will
have to turn to the Europeans first of all, writes Gideon
Rachman
After
73 years: the last gasp of the broker-dealer Sunday
marked not simply the end of Lehman Brothers and the surrender of Merrill
Lynch but the demise of the independent investment bank itself. For how long
can Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley spurn the capital backing of a
commercial bank, asks John
Gapper
New York Times Editorial Wall
Street Casualties The
nation needs to look beyond the current financial crisis to the flaws of the
anti-regulatory ideology.
DAVID BROOKS Why
Experience Matters Governance,
the creation and execution of policy, is hard. It requires prudence. How is
prudence acquired? Through experience
The Scotsman How
the Masters of the Universe ran amok and cost us the earth
Jerusalem
Post US, Israel expect IAEA Iran report to boost
sanction efforts Five former secretaries of state, including Albright,
Kissinger and Powell, insist US should talk to Iran as "military options
poor."
Syrian
group: Mashaal's deputy is dead News of alleged assassination 'stifled to
prevent escalation in Syrian leadership tensions.'
US
Officials: Al-Qaida 'imploding' Hizbullah, Hamas have begun to have more
"appeal" to Muslims worldwide than Bin-Laden's terror group
Charlie Rose
Show - A conversation with Thomas
Friedman about his book Hot,
Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew
America.
Der Spiegel The West Begins to Doubt Georgian Leader
IHT GLOBAL COOLING The
world cannot afford a new Cold War By SUSILO
BAMBANG YUDHOYONO A new chill in international relations can divert attention and
resources from the critical issues of the day.
Georgia
offers fresh evidence on war's start Georgia says intercepted
telephone calls showing it was under invasion by Russia justified its
defensive attack.
Calls
intercepted from Georgian cellphone network
Transcript: Intercepted conversations
(pdf)
Record
$47.9 Billion Planned for Russian Defense The Moscow Times Spending on
arms will rise to a record $47.9 billion next year, Deputy Prime Minister
Sergei Ivanov said Friday, as the Kremlin moves to beef up the armed forces
after a conflict in Georgia
Unconventional
Views: How the Rest of the World Sees America's ... - Council on Foreign
Relations
New
American Security Project Report: US Not Winning the “War on Terror” Source:
American Security Project (ASP) Full Report
(PDF; 3.2 MB)
NATO: Georgia Not Democratic Enough to Join
Muslims
in Europe: A Short Introduction Source: The Brookings
Institution Full
Paper (PDF; 108 KB)
The
Secret War with Iran - Eli Lake (New York Sun)
Afterword:
Mr. Woodward’s Reporting vs. Mr. Woodward’s Editorializing Source: White
House Press Office
Amir Taheri OBAMA
TRIED TO STALL GIS' IRAQ WITHDRAWAL
Global
Trends 2025 Preview Contradicts Itself - Westhawk blog
Independent Leading
article: The global credit crisis has entered a new dimension
Patrick Cockburn: The US strategy for Afghanistan won't work
Nato
still cautious over membership for Tbilisi
Our secessionist streak
Baltimore Sun By Christopher Ketcham
Der Spiegel Interview
With Ex-IMF Chief Economist: Banks Won't Be as Profitable in Future
Time Israel's
Olmert Prepares for His Last Act
Egypt:
Will the Dam Burst?
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