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H1 Financial Times The end of lightly regulated finance has come far closer Is the worst now over? Certainly not. The biggest outstanding question is whether government-led rescues of undercapitalised financial systems will be needed. This is now looking increasingly likely, writes Martin Wolf

 

Iraq after Petraeus Hard-won but fragile security gains must quickly be translated into political gains that can draw the middle classes back

 

Washington Post 20 Months in Baghdad By David Ignatius Petraeus and Bush didn't win in Iraq, but they created the possibility of an honorable exit

 

Wall Street's Unraveling By Robert J. Samuelson The entire business model has collapsed

 

Oil Prices Stage a Retreat In the past two months, the world's total energy costs have dropped by more than $4 billion a day

 

MESH The first 100 days (3)

 

TNI Georgia on Our Mind

by Morton Abramowitz

It’s not over yet—the Georgian conflict has pressing consequences for energy security, NATO and the European Union

 

Financial Times Russia lays down the law in tradeThe Kremlin is increasingly assertive – and there is little its trading partners can do about it

 

History provides little comfort

The drama has no precedent, writes Harold James  The banking crisis is right at the heart of the financial system, and threatens a complex pattern of credit guarantees and insurance backstops that were touted as making the financial system failsafe

 

  Forward White House Sends Mixed Messages on Iran Sanctions The Bush White House is sending a mixed message regarding sanctions on Iran, pushing for international measures on the one hand while promising to block congressional attempts to impose sanctions on the other

 

Jerusalem Post Ex-Cheney aide: Bush won't hit Iran Former nat'l security adviser Wurmser tells Post Rice, backing diplomacy, has upper hand over VP

 

(IAEA) released on September 15, 2008 its latest report on the implementation of NPT safeguards in Iran and the status of Iran’s compliance with Security Council Resolutions 1737, 1747 and 1803.

 

ArmsControlWonk DG Report On Iran (GOV/2008/38) [2]

 

Stratfor Iran: Tehran Weighs its Options Since Russia’s resurgence in August, Iran has had the option to cozy up to Moscow and use that relationship as leverage in talks with the West. However, the West could offer Tehran accommodations and an energy relationship. Iran will have to decide which option serves its interests best

 

McClatchy Poll suggests McCain's support softening as race stays tied McCain and Obama each had the support of 45 percent in the new Ipsos/McClatchy poll, but McCain voters were less certain of their choice. Eighty percent of Obama supporters said they'll definitely vote for him, the same as last week. Just 71 percent of McCain voters said their choice was definite. That's down from 77 percent last week

 

Will Momentum Change Again? - Charlie Cook, National Journal

 

NPQ Robert Reich: Why Wall Street is Melting Down, and What to Do About It

 

Ha’aretz  CIA: Israel Had 'Foreign' Help in Syria Attack

 

Avner Cohen Why India and not Israel? One may ask whether Israel is at all interested in reevaluating its nuclear standing.

 

ANALYSIS / Differences between Livni and Mofaz mean nothing Whoever wins Kadima primary will have to answer the public's doubts about their respective qualifications

 

Olmert warns of binational state if no peace deal reached

 

 Guardian The conflict continues Editorial: General Petraeus's departure from Iraq was accompanied by little triumphalism

 

The two-state solution is nearly dead. But there's one last chance to save it Jonathan Freedland: The arrival of a new Israeli leader must bode well for the peace process, right? Wrong, say veteran negotiators

 

Afghanistan's tipping point?

Richard Norton-Taylor: This is a critical time for the region, with US and Nato forces facing stalemate and the Taliban resurgent

 

The American way or the highway  Michael Dougherty: Get ready, world. Managed mass democracy and market capitalism are coming. It'll be good for you. We promise

 

The nuclear issue hasn't gone away  Robert Fox: And the IAEA's latest report on Iran has some harsh words for the regime. With Bush mindful of his legacy, this phoney war could soon turn real

 

From the latest issue of The Atlantic Monthly, all counterinsurgency is local: Prosecuting the war in Afghanistan from provincial capitals has been disastrous — we need to turn our military strategy inside out.

 

Andrew Bacevich on The Petraeus Doctrine: Iraq-style counterinsurgency is fast becoming the U.S. Army’s organizing principle — is our military preparing to fight the next war, or the last one?

 

The Wars of John McCain

John McCain believes the Vietnam War was winnable. Now he argues that an Obama administration would accept defeat in Iraq, with grave costs to American honor and national security. Is McCain’s quest for victory a reflection of an antiquated pre-Vietnam mind-set? Or of a commitment to principles we abandon at our peril? Is there any war McCain thinks can’t be won? by Jeffrey Goldberg

 

US News Four Challenges Petraeus Leaves Behind for His Successor in Iraq

 

Toward a Second Cold War?
by Noam Chomsky

 

Wall Street Journal Get Your Class War On   By Thomas Frank Obama must hang the bad economy on t he GOP.

 

 Europe's Lack of Strategic Ambition  By Borut Grgic
Brussels needs to graduate from crisis management to crisis solution.

 

 Iraq Voter Drive Lags

Election officials say they are disappointed by low voter registration ahead of provincial polling in Iraq that could take place this year.

 

New York Times  Another Country By MARK MELLMAN

Public views have shifted on the role of government, morality and unilateralism — transforming the trajectory future policy disputes will follow.

Editorial Mr. McCain and the Economy  On Tuesday, John McCain clarified his remarks on the economy. The clarification was far more worrisome than his initial comments

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Keep It in Vegas Government’s job is to police that fine line between the risk-taking that drives innovation and gambling with other people’s savings in ways that threaten us all.

 

Look Who's Talking  By TOBIN HARSHAW Five former secretaries of state, most of them Republicans, are at odds with John McCain’s approach to Iran.

 

Time General Petraeus' Farewell: What He Leaves Behind in Iraq

 

Asia Times Big-bang report blasts Iran The International Atomic Energy Agency's "serious concerns" and "outstanding questions" about Iran's nuclear program open the door for more sanctions against Tehran, or worse, a strike against its nuclear infrastructure. Lost in the scramble to condemn Iran is the fact that the agency has on previous occasions deemed these issues resolved, and even in its latest report ruled out any military diversion at Iran's facilities. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

 

Iran ill-prepared for reformists
Ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections next year, Iran is already abuzz with talk of a post-Mahmud Ahmadinejad era. In the highest places where it really matters, though, the president is viewed as the best man for the job, including the way in which he deals with the United States. Reformers face an uphill battle. - Sami Moubayed

 

CFR Foreign Affairs Live: A Discussion of Iraqi Futures (Audio)

 

Daily Star Explaining 20 years of Al-Qaeda By Rami G. Khouri

 

RFE/RL Burjanadze Asks, 'Was War With Russia Preventable?'

Former Georgian parliamentary speaker Nino Burjanadze says "the time to ask questions has come." She's calling for a probe into the events that led up to Georgia's short war with Russia to determine if the conflict could have been avoided. Burjanadze spoke in Tbilisi with Giorgi Gvakharia of RFE/RL's Georgian Service. More

 

Is The Clock Ticking For Saakashvili?

 

Geopolitical Diary: Russia's Stock Market Woes Stratfor

 

CFR CSR Sovereign Wealth and Sovereign Power (Audio)

 

USIP Thwarting Afghanistan's Insurgency: A Pragmatic Approach to Peace and Reconciliation

 

New AMERİCA fOUNDATİON

A Man, A Plan, Afghanistan

 

CEPS The August war in Georgia: Views from Tbilisi and Europe

 

CFR Symposium on Iran and Policy Options for the Next Administration: Session One: Iran's Domestic Politics (Audio)

 

 

H2 GMFUS Will Turkey Opt Out?  by Soli Ozel

 

Turkey and Transatlantic Trends: How Distinctive?  by Ian Lesser 

 

Carnegie Endowment  Turkey: Aftermath of the Political Crisis Henri Barkey Ian Lesser  Event Transcript (PDF) Event Audio

 

No Friends but the Kurds? The Biden Problem in Democratic Iraq Policy By Reidar Visser

 

MERIA "Azerbaijan-Turkey-Israel Relations: The Energy Factor" Alexander Murinson (PDF)

 

Bush pick for ambassador to Turkey seeking confirmation

 

Daily Star Turkey and the crisis in the Caucasus By Bulent Aliriza

 

Mensur Akgün Türkiye için Demokrat Obama mı, Cumhuriyetçi McCain mi iyi

 

Türkiye, nerede durmalı?

 

Hosting Ahmedinejad by Sinan Ülgen

 

'Amerika ile Mükemmel İşbirliği'

 

Transcript of the U.S. Joint Chief of Staff’s Press Event in Ankara

 

Bayram sonrası ilk iş tezkere

ABD: “lrak hükümeti, Kürtlere karşı duyarlı olmalı”

 

Doğanın dostu büyükelçi

 

McCain ve Obama’nın Ermeni farkı

 

Dini özgürlük açısından Türkiye endişe kaynağı!

 

Abdülhamit Bilici Türkiye'nin ilk kez karşılaştığı tablo

 

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

 

Başbuğ'un Güneydoğu açılımının şifreleri

 

KRG officials stress importance of strategic agreement with the US ...

 

Cevdet Aşkın Genelkurmay Erbil'den 'hareket' bekliyor, DTP 'çözüm anayasada' diyor

 

Why can’t we beat the PKK? by EMRE USLU & ÖNDER AYTAÇ*

Türk:Türkiyelilik üst kimlik olsun

 

DTP PRESENTS FINAL DEFENSE IN CLOSURE CASE

 

‘DTP İnisiyatifi’ne aydınlardan destek

 

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

 

Baştan kapıyı açmasaydın niye açtın

 

Rauf Denktaş Aman dikkat!

 

Suat Kınıklıoğlu Russia, Georgia and Turkey’s fragile EU drive

 

CEPS Benchmarking Integration in the EU: Analyzing the debate on integration indicators and moving it forward

 

 Nabi Yağcı Ulusal Program ve derin sessizlik

 

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