44% of the new car market in Turkiye is now battery electric or plug-in hybrid! That is more than California
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Have we no Shame? Will Hunger Strikes and medical Torture finally close Guantanamo? (Hickman)
John Hickman, author of Selling Guantanamo, writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Curious isn’t it how the decision-making of the United States Government […]
Police Brutality and Turkish Protests (Compilation Video)
Compilation video of police brutality in Turkish Gezi Park protests: As usual with grassroots Youtube videos, the authenticity of it cannot be independently verified from […]
Defiant Erdogan Risks Turkish Economy, as Unions enter the Fray
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is now risking Turkey’s economic miracle by his imperious reaction to the protests in dozens of cities that have roiled […]
Syria as a Prisoner of Western History (Harms)
Gregory Harms writes in a guest op-ed for Informed Comment The influential Egyptian Islamist cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi recently issued a fatwa, or religious proclamation, with […]
Binary Signaling & Turkish Protests (Izmir Video)
People in Izmir apartments turning off and on their lights in support of the protests in Turkey.
Turkish Opinion Poll Finds Majorities Slam Erdogan policies on Alcohol, Syria
On Sunday night into Monday morning in Turkey, clashes again broke out between demonstrators and police in a number of cities, and an attempt was […]
How the US Can Facilitate Peace in Syria: Talking to All Sides including Iran (Lawson)
Fred H. Lawson writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Secretary of State John F. Kerry took a major step toward engaging the United […]
Abusing the Sea: from Garbage Dump to Rising Waters & CO2 (Lapham)
[This essay by Lewis Lapham will appear in “The Sea,” the Summer 2013 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly. This slightly adapted version is posted at TomDispatch.com with […]
Dear US Government: Your ‘Terror’ map of the Muslim World is from the Time of Shakespeare (Kurzman))
Charles Kurzman writes at Islamicommentary Screenshot of the National Counterterrorism Center’s Interactive Map, April 30, 2013. “The United States is not at war with Islam,” […]
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