The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Coming back to work topics after a weekend of covering Twitter’s endless nerdwars I am pretty horrified by the news coming out of Syria. Ethnic Kurds are the largest group of stateless people in the world. Their population straddles the meeting point for Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. I read a few weeks ago that …
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Modern Turkey The Turkey of today is the homeland of ethnic Turks in the western two thirds, while the major population groups of the east are Kurds and the Zaza, an Iranian people with their own language, but who view themselves as closely connected to the Kurds. Read full post with additional graphical maps.
Huh? News Anti-government protests spread across Turkey Police Retreat as Protests Expand Through Turkey Protests in Turkey Reveal a Larger Fight Over Identity Tens of Thousands take to streets in Turkey, clash with police Turkey protesters hold Istanbul square after days of violent clashes Turkey Protests Rage On: More Than 1,700 Held
Huh? Thousands call on Turkey’s leader to quit Protests swept Turkey on Friday and deep into Saturday morning as thousands of protesters called on prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to resign. What began as a demonstration against a shopping mall project turned into one of the biggest challenges in recent years to Mr Erdogan’s rule, …
This email builds on the information in my 8 May email entitled, The Real Scare in Syria Is Not Chemical Weapons.” Attached below is a post from Joshua Landis’s Syria Comment blog. Landis is a professor at the University of Oklahoma and a specialist on Syria — his blog often provides useful, insightful information. Particularly …
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AUDIO Published on Jan 12, 2013 A talk between John Xenakis and Warren Pollock recorded in August of 2012. This is being re-posted because some of the points we talked about five months ago are first gaining traction in the press, and then they are getting spun incorrectly. Sunni Shi-ite War in Middle East? Turkey …
FYI … Another excellent report by Patrick Seale. The Kurds Seize Their Chance by Patrick Seale Agence Global 25 Dec 2012 Many Kurds have come to believe that the present prolonged turmoil in the Middle East — in Syria and Iraq and, to a lesser extent, in Iran and Turkey — is giving them their …
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