The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

...Steven Clemons, who also writes the blog The Washington Note, said there were signs within the Administration and the State Department that the lifting of the terrorism designation was imminent.

"This is seen as a key confidence-building step by North Korea and China in moving towards North Korea's eventual return to the nuclear non-proliferation club," he wrote.

But he said the office of the Vice-President, Dick Cheney, was a dissenting voice in the Administration's internal discussions... LINK

...Steve Coll's outstanding new book not only shatters various myths about Osama bin Laden - notably the extent of his personal fortune - it inculpates the most Westernised branches of his family in Arabia's vulgar modernisation that the terrorist is so murderously exercised by...LINK

...Blogs from all over the world provide unique on-the-ground perspectives that can be critical to understanding a country or a crisis. Burma bloggers gave first-hand accounts during the regime's recent crackdown. An Iranian exile illustrated the barbarity of the Iranian Government by posting a video of a woman being hanged in a public square in Tabriz. And a Baghdad architect calling himself Salam Pax became a blog sensation with his first-hand descriptions of America's invasion of Iraq.

There are rich pockets of information like this all around the blogosphere.… more