Council on Foreign Relations

Australian

• Foreign editor Greg Sheridan writes that last weekend’s election in Malaysia highlights a tension between the forces of modernity and Islamism.

Daily Star (Lebanon)

• In an editorial on the relationship between Washington and Tehran, the paper says the United States has never accepted its responsibility for much of what is wrong with Iran.

Daily Telegraph

• In an editorial on this Friday’s general election in Iran, the Telegraph says the outcome could be much more interesting than the conservatives' assured numerical superiority would suggest, because the conservatives are divided between supporters and opponents of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  

Financial Times

• In an editorial on German coalition politics, the paper comments that while the German economy is doing well, one party in the governing coalition, the Social Democrats, is in virtual meltdown.
• The premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, in an op-ed about NAFTA, writes that the trade agreement works for Canada, and says that to go backwards, when competitors in the European Union and South Asia are becoming increasingly integrated and productive, would be a mistake.
• Richard McGregor, in an op-ed about the Chinese economy, says the approach of the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao is an acknowledgement of the deep fissures left by China’s rush for growth and the collapse of education, health, and social services for the poor in the past decade.

Guardian

• Tom Enders, the president and chief executive of Airbus, writes about the aviation industry and climate change, and says the industry has been doing a bad job at communicating both its progress on the environment and the fundamental role that aviation now plays in the world economy.

Gulf Times (Qatar)

• In an editorial the paper criticizes the Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd for supporting a parliamentary motion that described Israel as a "robust democracy" and a "custodian of freedom."

Independent (London)

• In an editorial on the resignation of Admiral William Fallon as the head of United States Central Command, the paper says it was an open secret in U.S. military circles that the admiral disagreed with the Bush administration's strategy in the Middle East.

International Herald Tribune

• In an editorial the paper calls on the United States to make a place in the U.S. for the thousands of Iraqis who have worked for the United States government in Iraq at great risk to themselves.

Middle East Times

• In an editorial on Admiral William Fallon's ouster, the paper says it appears all too typical of U.S. President George W. Bush that when he finally stumbles inadvertently on a wise, experienced strategic thinker for a high command position, he moves quickly to fire him.

New York Times

• In an editorial, the Times criticises measures moving through Congress to crack down on illegal immigration.
• In an op-ed from Kenya, columnist Roger Cohen writes about fair trade, and says that being anti-globalization is dumb. A good way to improve globalization is to insist on fair trade certification, he adds.

Times of London

• Chief foreign commentator Bronwen Maddox, in a column on Admiral William Fallon's outster, says he was right on crucial points of U.S. strategy even if he was the wrong person to run U.S. Central Command.
• In an editorial on Iran and Iraq, the paper says the question is whether Tehran remains bent on reducing its neighbor to armed anarchy, or is prepared to stop fomenting enmity between the Sunni and Shia.

Wall Street Journal

• In an editorial on Tibet and the Olympics the Journal comments on a crack down on street protests in Beijing on Monday and says that as the Olympics approach, we should expect more such outpourings for freedom.
• In an op-ed on carbon emissions Dieter Helm of Oxford University says that Britain and the United States should stop pretending that the enormous challenge of decarbonizing the major economies can be done on the cheap.
• Roger Bate of the American Enterprise Institute, in an op-ed, says that the sanctity of the global patent system and the future of drug innovation are at stake in a hearing in Delhi's High Court this week that could allow Indian drug companies to break Western companies' patents.
• Sabine Freizer of the International Crisis Group says the violence that followed the recent election in Armenia follows a dangerous pattern now all too familiar in the south Caucasus.

Washington Post

• Op-ed columnist David Ignatius, writing on Admiral William Fallon's resignation, says he sees a lot of good that came from having a headstrong blowtorch of a man speaking truth to power.
• Robert Joseph and J.D. Crouch of the National Institute for Public Policy write that the United States should go ahead with missile defense, with or without the co-operation of Russia.

Washington Times

• In an editorial the paper says Tuesday's resignation of Admiral William Fallon as the top military commander in the Middle East was unavoidable and necessary in the wake of his public comments outlining his policy differences with President Bush.