Tag: Turkey
The Phony Anti-Defamation League’s Genocide Legislation
Nov 15, 2019 | News & Analysis, Politics, US
America’s future leaders should not serve as guinea pigs just so the ADL can advance its political agenda with dubious legislation.
Read MoreBy Calling Out Democrats, Tulsi Gabbard Has Altered the Political Landscape
Oct 21, 2019 | Viewpoints, Middle East, Politics, US
Tulsi Gabbard’s rightful criticism of US interventionism in Syria indicates that she’s Americans’ best chance to defeat the War Party.
Read MoreHypocritical Jewish Organizations and the Armenian Genocide
Jun 25, 2019 | Asia Pacific, US
Shamefully, leading Jewish organizations have long diminished or denied the 1915–23 genocide Turkey committed against 1.5 million Christian Armenians.
Read MoreBlundering American Ambassadors Unmask the War on Terror
Nov 16, 2018 | News & Analysis, Middle East, Politics, US
American officials downplay how “allies” such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia support terrorists lest the US government’s support of terrorism also be exposed.
Read MoreThe Triumph of Evil
Oct 25, 2018 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Politics, US
Evil has achieved dominance over good so that avarice and lawlessness will escalate their destruction of truth, peoples, and life on earth.
Read MoreThe Self-Imposed Impotence of the Russian and Chinese Governments
Aug 14, 2018 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Economy & Business, US
Why don’t the Russian and Chinese play their winning hands? The reason is that neither government has any advisers who are not brainwashed by neoliberalism.
Read MoreUS Military Expenditure: The Hard Numbers
Jul 20, 2018 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
There is no real reason for the US military’s extremely high spending, so the military industrial complex has to invent one be reigniting the Cold War.
Read MoreHow Suzy Hansen Lost Her U.S. Exceptionalism
Apr 30, 2018 | Viewpoints, Reviews, US
Millions of liberals intent on breaking down prejudice and stirring up hatred of Russians while justifying a trillion-dollar-a-year military empire should consider reading Suzy Hansen’s book “Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World”.
Read MoreThe Gulf Crisis Reassessed
Mar 14, 2018 | Essays, Middle East, Politics
The “13 Demands” from the coalition of states that have implemented a blockade of Qatar are incompatible with principles of international law.
Read MoreThe Revival of Ottomanism in Shaping Turkey’s Influence in the Muslim World
Sep 26, 2017 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Culture, Politics
There is a wealth of lessons that Turkey can learn from their Ottoman predecessors in order to progress as an emerging superpower in the region.
Read MoreRussia Hacking: A Threat to Democracy or False Pretext for Geopolitical Aggression?
Jan 17, 2017 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Politics
Why does it seem each time Russia and Turkey agree to build a geo-strategically game changing intercontinental gas pipeline, ominous events tend to follow?
Read MoreTurkish Realignment: Prospects amid Uncertainty
Dec 9, 2016 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Politics
Turkey’s leaders are reconsidering the country’s relations with neighbors and leading geopolitical actors. What would it mean?
Read MoreBook Review: Fawaz A. Gerges’s ‘ISIS: A History’
Oct 24, 2016 | Viewpoints, Middle East, Reviews
ISIS: A History, while narrow in its focus, is well worth the read, a well-referenced, revealing, and interesting examination on the militant group.
Read MoreHillary Clinton, the Queen of Flip-Floppery, on Genocide
Oct 12, 2016 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Politics, US
Hillary Clinton called for US recognition of the Armenian genocide while Senator, but reversed her position to appease Turkey as Secretary of State.
Read MoreA Warming of US-Turkish Relations?
Sep 23, 2016 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Politics, US
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Barack Obama met in Hangzhou, China, to take a welcome step toward restoring good relations between the two countries.
Read MoreErdogan’s EU Bid: Silver Linings from the Syrian War
Sep 11, 2016 | News & Analysis, Middle East, Politics
The Syrian war, while catastrophic in so many ways, may well provide an additional boost to Turkey’s attempts to join the EU.
Read MoreTurkey Right Now Is a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma, to Paraphrase Churchill
Jul 22, 2016 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Politics, US
Reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Erdogan of an imminent coup attempt add to the mystery.
Read MorePeople above Politics: Political Deal will not Hamper the Turkish-Palestinian Bond
Jul 8, 2016 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Palestine
Business as usual will return to the Turkish-Israeli relations, while Gazans are trapped behind fences, walls and barbered wire.
Read MoreGermany’s Artful Acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide
Jul 8, 2016 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Europe
Despite its constructive elements, the Bundestag resolution is rife with errors and deficiencies.
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