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Hasankeyf no more | Turkish Government submerges 12,000-year-old town
As someone from Ankara once said "We can't let a few broken pots stand in the way of our glorious progress". The town of Hasankeyf,...
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Islamic leaders don't condemn China about its internment camps for Muslims
Hundreds of thousands of Uighur have been detained without trial in China's western region of Xinjiang. Internment camps with up to a...
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The reason why NATO can't just kick Turkey out
As Turkey continues its bloody incursion into northeastern Syria, some people, including former French President François Hollande have...
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A history of violence | The myth of the moderate Kurdish rebel
The Kurds of the Middle East, though embraced by much of the West as idealistic free-dom fighters, have committed a range of human rights ab
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Open letter to ‘Resistance’ leader ret. Admiral William McRaven
Retired Adm. William McRaven wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post, protesting Trump’s revoking of former CIA Director John Brennan’s...
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The Kurdish state | A well-curated myth
What they actually seek to create is an illegal autonomous state carved out of existing sovereign countries.
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‘The White House is not to be trusted right now’
How Jim Mattis, “iced out” and blindsided by Trump, finally concluded the president was weakening the nation.
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Who the hell do they think they are?
With William McRaven’s call to oust President Trump—maybe through impeachment, maybe through a coup
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The man who was the King of Kurdistan
They keep whining about not having a sovereign state, though a state called the 'Kingdom of Kurdistan' was established in 1922. By the...
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The myth of the Kurdish YPG’s moral excellence
A barbed criticism aimed at the International Socialist Organization, shown nearby, under the heading “If the ISO Existed in 1865”...
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Turkey slammed after launching terror investigations into those who have had abortions
Health professionals in Turkey have hit out after security services demanded lists of the names of all women who had abortions in...
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Might an unearthed letter help explain why Prince Charles is so fond of Islam?
It has long been my belief that whereas the quality of gentiles drawn to Judaism is very high (Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, myself),...
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US smuggling weapons to Syrian rebels | The real Benghazi story
There is a 'side story' going on in the American media - both the electronic and print about the Islamist jihadists lethal attack on the...
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Chancellor Merkel secretly ordered to sideline Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini
As the de facto leader of Europe's anti-mass-migration movement, Matteo Salvini's departure from government may set back efforts to slow...
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Dutch Intelligence Service (AIVD) played a crucial role in the sabotage of nuclear program Iran
The Netherlands has played a crucial role in sabotaging Iran's nuclear program, possibly aimed at making a nuclear weapon, according to...
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We need to talk about “Lying Joe“
There are two possible explanations of Joe Biden’s inability to tell the truth about things: One is that his mind is failing him, the...
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The Kurds | Not quite a nation
Why will the U.S. not offer the Kurds more support? Some suggest the U.S. could supply the Kurds with better weapons and more military...
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EU preparing to put warning labels on Jewish products
Legal decision reminiscent of Holocaust-era boycotts of Jews. The European Union is poised to mandate that Israeli products made in...
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Bloodlands
On the sprawling maize fields outside Johannesburg, the Engelbrecht family know the full horror of the South African farm attacks that...
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Was Boris Johnson’s great grandfather an Ottoman traitor or a hero?
Boris Johnson Ascending to power in the United Kingdom has triggered a debate on the role and views of his great grandfather, Ali Kemal,...
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