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January 10, 2015 |
Interview | Charlie Hebdo Context on KPFA Show Up Front
A 30 minutes interview focusing on Charlie Hebdo attack and giving a longer historical and economic context. Up Front with Guest Host Marie Choi – January 9, 2015 http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/110171
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January 8, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
Charlie Hebdo, and Murder in the Name of Islam?
The news concerning Muslims engaged in terrorism, mayhem and murder in the name of defending Islam is non-stop and point to a serious crisis that is yet to be addressed. Every day a river of blood is flowing across the world with Muslim names attached to it both victims and perpetrators alike. Is this Islam…
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January 7, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
“We Fight, Therefore We Are:” Zionism’s Epistemology
Ramon’s Grosfoguel, in a seminal article, The Structure of Knowledge in Westernized Universities, provided a conceptualization of multiple genocides/epistemicides, which can and should be extended to deconstruct the Zionist settler colonial project. From its epistemic inception, Zionism’s settler colonialism was directed at the Palestinians and culminating in ethnic cleansing, destruction of villages and towns as…
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December 26, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
A Discourse on the Colonized Muslim Subject
Today’s events in the Muslim world chaotic and incoherent if we fail to account for the past two hundred years of modern history and the entanglement with colonialism and then the emergence of post-colonial nation-states. Often, Muslims are instructed to let go of the past and stop complaining about colonialism and using it as an…
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December 8, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Tunisian Presidential Elections and Monetizing Islamophobia At The Ballot Box
The front runner in the Tunisian upcoming presidential elections Beji Cassid Essebsi has cast himself, starting with the formation of the new party Nidaa Tounes, as the rescuer for the country. Because, in Essebsi view, “the Islamists don’t have experience being in power. They are incompetent and have been in favor of radical Islamist movements.”…
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November 27, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
On Ferguson’s Verdict, Violence and Colonial Conditioning
The Ferguson verdict will be added as a generational marker in America’s long racial history and the inability or lack of intention to end the plague of racism. While Michael Brown’s case rightly received national and international attention many more African Americans suffer the same deaths at the hands of police daily, but remain nameless…
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November 24, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
The ‘Terrorist’ Designation Game: A Tool to Consolidate Power and Saving Islam from Islam!
On November 15, 2014 as part of new broader initiative to combat terrorism, the United Arab Emirates government designated 82 terrorist organizations that will be subject to the newly issued anti-terrorism law. As expected, the UAE’s own Muslim Brotherhood Movement group called al-Islah was at the top of the list. The Egyptian MBM branch was…
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November 18, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Al-Sissi’s “War On Terrorism” Or Terrorizing People Into Submission
The 28th of October 2014 Washington Post’s editorial was a most welcome development since the newspaper correctly concluded, “Mr. Sissi has instituted the most repressive regime Egypt has known in more than a half-century.” The Post editorial even went further alleging al-Sissi atrocious actions are being undertaken “in the name of defeating Islamic extremism.” Thus,…
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November 11, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Bill Maher: When Bigotry and Racism Are Liberal!
The University of California, Berkeley invite for comedian Bill Maher to deliver the Fall 2014, Commencement speech has generated intense opposition from student groups and community organizations due to Maher’s bigoted, racist and generalized statements concerning Islam and Muslims. In response to the students’ petition and protest, the University administration released a public statement dismissing…
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November 2, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
The Balfour Declaration: Palestine’s British and Zionist Colonial Legacy
Annually, November 2 is a painful and traumatic date for Palestinians and their allies around the globe. It marks the anniversary of Britain’s shameful issuance of the Balfour Declaration. In releasing the Declaration, Britain provided the 1st “legal” document sanctioning the creation of a newcolonial project centered on Zionist aspirations for Palestine and their dream…
De-Colonial Palestine
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