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November 25, 2014 | Al JazeeraMichael Brown, racism and America’s open casket
“He was a black skin boy. So he was born to die,” goes Bob Dylan’s song, The Death of Emmett Till. The lyrics are as timely today as when they were first written and performed because “black skin” remains a threat and the cause of death of far too many in the United States and…
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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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October 11, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
From expulsion to native genocide: Columbus’ Voyage and forging the “New World”!
In America, the 12th of October is a national day reserved for “celebrating” Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the “New World” upon arrival in 1492. The discovery narrative is still dominant in America, which precludes alternative ways to read the important events leading up to Columbus’ journey and the consequences emerging from it then and now. One…
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August 19, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Michael Brown and America’s structural racism
As news coverage intensifies over the supposed ‘violence’ in Ferguson’s streets, we are once again are asked to focus on the people’s response to the murder of another young black man and rather than the structural causes behind it. It is certain that we can not begin to understand the history of America without taking…
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August 12, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Kill them all to rescue a dying colonialism
I wanted to write this article sometime ago but events and developments kept intruding and my attention taken away or stolen from the critical into the tangential. As more events unfold and the death rates in the Arab and Muslim world reach catastrophic levels and the region all up in flames. My pen can no…
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August 1, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Violence upon the mind: The constantly present colonial
In Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and all the Arab and Muslim worlds we are facing re-colonization, death and destruction by design. I shared a video of a child’s rescue on my Facebook and a debate and some arguments ensued about the location and what country it was from. The debate and argument point to a…
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June 3, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
US policy in the Middle East: Containment strategy and the “War on Terrorism”
Policy is constructed in social context by elite’s entanglement and contestation of the political, social, economic and religious forces acting on it both internally and externally. The forces shaping US foreign policy is complex and multifaceted but all operate within an existing national consensus on the priorities set forth in post WWII and continue to…
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January 29, 2013 |
Muslims – Enemies of the State: The New Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO)
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January 29, 2013 |
Virtual Internment: Arabs, Muslims, Asians and the War on Terrorism
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