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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?

H2   

 LA Times Turkey and Armenia inch forward By Hugh Pope Over soccer, the two countries' leaders begin to work on the future instead of getting mired in the past.

 

Erivan tarihî adıma hazırlanıyor: Ortak tarih komisyonu yolda

 

Tezkere Türkiye’nin işi

 

 US vows continued cooperation against PKK

Tezkere hazırlığı

Hükümet, TSK'ya sınır ötesi operasyon yetkisini veren tezkereyi uzatmak için harekete geçti.

 

‘Artık reform zamanı’

 

 

Montrö'de değişiklik talebimiz yok

 

Karadeniz uluslararası biz de varız

 

İlter Türkmen Bir dış politika brifingi

 

American Chronicle | Why Ataturk's regime did not last long ?

 

Row Over Kurdish Fighters in Iraq Escalates

 

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Turkey fails to meet EU criteria in critical areas

 

Karadeniz’de 7 ülke tatbikat yapacak

 

 

'Çakal'lar Karadeniz'de

 

[Yorum - Graham Watson] Reform, sadece kanun değiştirmek olmamalı

 

Sami Kohen Kamuoyu neden böyle?

 

Talat: Rum halkı çözüme hazır değil

EDM POLL SUGGESTS ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN IS ERODING AKP’S POPULARITY

AKP Osmanlı’yı diriltiyor

SAAD MUHYU

 

Turkey’s new diplomatic confidence signifies changing role as regional power by DENNIS SAMMUT*

 

US Adm. Mullen visiting Turkey at critical time

 

Başbakan’la 70 paşayla 270 dakika

 

'Türkiye dini özgürlük açısından endişe veriyor'

 

Sınır ötesine ABD desteği

ABD Genelkurmay Başkanı, K. Irak’a sınır ötesi operasyon için tezkerenin süresinin uzatılmasına destek verdi

 

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası  Dış Basında Türkiye - BBC Turkish 0700 VOA TSİ 06:30 Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey TurcoPundit  ASAM     

 

 

Google News Fırat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect Dış Basında Irak  BBC Monitoring Inter-national

 

ERDAL ŞAFAK Söz sırası savunmanın

 

Berat Özipek İttihatçı Kürtler de çözüm istemiyor

 

Reflections On The State of Kurdistan

 

Cevdet Aşkın Genelkurmay'da 5 saatlik toplantı, Kürt sorununda kritik döneme doludizgin

ERGUN BABAHAN DTP ve demokratik sistem

‘DTP kapatılmasın’ gösterisi

 

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

 

Mullen says US abides by Montreux Convention

 

Muslims in Europe: A Short Introduction Source: The Brookings Institution Full Paper (PDF; 108 KB)

 

‘Türkiye’de anayasa değişikliği şart’

 

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