May 2013
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When Tayyip met Barrack: The Syria Conundrum or...
On Thursday, 16 May, Turkey’s ever-popular PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with U.S. President Barrack Obama. Prior to boarding his States-bound flight he announced to the nation that, upon his return, things would be very different. In view of the fact that the crisis in Syria was to be on top of the agenda, Erdoğan’s words led some to fear that war was imminent. Particularly, the PM’s enthusiastic...
February 2013
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December 2012
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Of the some 3000 persons killed by US drones, something like 600 have been...
– Let’s also Remember the 176 children Killed by US Drones - Juan Cole. (via mehreenkasana)
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MotherJones analyzed 61 shooting sprees and found... →
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Look, Afghanistan, I’m sorry to tell you, I’m old enough to remember, forty...
– Slavoj Žižek, DemocracyNow! (via cuntymint)
once again Slavoj Zizek, known to “hate” on Foucault, says a thing that Foucault said in the early 80’s (except about Iran)
Sadly, Slavoj is missing some historical context that would seem to indicate that it was all pre-planned, but that once the genie...
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November 2012
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