Iran
# Nick Kristof interviews Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (w/ video)
# "Mr. Ahmadinejad Deserves No Credit" - Editorial, "The Washington Post"
# Abbas Milani on one protester's journey
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# "The Taliban's Deadly Ploy" - Moreau & Yousafzai, "Newsweek"
# "Afghanistan is Lurching Toward a Civil War" - Shashank Joshi, "Telegraph"
# Kate Clark on the Rabbani killing
# "Pashean Play" - Jon Lee Anderson, "Guernica"
# "All Roads Lead To Islamabad" - Shamila Chaudhary, "Foreign Policy"
Russia
# "Cameron, You Dropped the Ball" - James Nixey, "Moscow Times"
# Russia will extend the life of some aging nuclear reactors
# A 10-day LGBT festival starts in St. Petersburg this week
Iraq
# "National Journal" reports on the future of U.S. troops in Iraq
# "The New York Times" on the path of Moqtada al Sadr
Technology
# Researchers have discovered a serious security issue with SSL encryption
# Google's Eric Schmidt testified before Congress yesterday (written testimony)
# A new video game will let people play as a war correspondent
Media
# Peter Osnos on the Bloomberg-Reuters rivalry
# A member of the Qatari royal family is Al Jazeera's new director
# "The End of the Al Jazeera Decade?" - Blake Hounshell, "Foreign Policy"
Of Interest
# Fawaz Gerges on the end of Al Qaeda for "The Boston Review"
# "Paying (For) Attention"- Esther Dyson, "Project Syndicate"
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# 48 House republicans revolted on a spending bill
# Senate appropriators made aid to Pakistan contingent on action against the Haqqani Network
# Nick Kristof interviews Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (w/ video)
# "Mr. Ahmadinejad Deserves No Credit" - Editorial, "The Washington Post"
# Abbas Milani on one protester's journey
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# "The Taliban's Deadly Ploy" - Moreau & Yousafzai, "Newsweek"
# "Afghanistan is Lurching Toward a Civil War" - Shashank Joshi, "Telegraph"
# Kate Clark on the Rabbani killing
# "Pashean Play" - Jon Lee Anderson, "Guernica"
# "All Roads Lead To Islamabad" - Shamila Chaudhary, "Foreign Policy"
Russia
# "Cameron, You Dropped the Ball" - James Nixey, "Moscow Times"
# Russia will extend the life of some aging nuclear reactors
# A 10-day LGBT festival starts in St. Petersburg this week
Iraq
# "National Journal" reports on the future of U.S. troops in Iraq
# "The New York Times" on the path of Moqtada al Sadr
Technology
# Researchers have discovered a serious security issue with SSL encryption
# Google's Eric Schmidt testified before Congress yesterday (written testimony)
# A new video game will let people play as a war correspondent
Media
# Peter Osnos on the Bloomberg-Reuters rivalry
# A member of the Qatari royal family is Al Jazeera's new director
# "The End of the Al Jazeera Decade?" - Blake Hounshell, "Foreign Policy"
Of Interest
# Fawaz Gerges on the end of Al Qaeda for "The Boston Review"
# "Paying (For) Attention"- Esther Dyson, "Project Syndicate"
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy
# 48 House republicans revolted on a spending bill
# Senate appropriators made aid to Pakistan contingent on action against the Haqqani Network