Aylan Kurdi, along with his mother Rehen and brother Galip, died in an attempt to escape the horrors of war-torn Syria and reach Europe. They were among the tens of thousands of refugees who have...
When the Islamic State (ISIS) group symbolically dismantled the Skyes-Picot border which had long separated the modern states of Iraq and Syria in the middle of 2014, following its takeover of large...
Since the two-and-a-half-year-old truce between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) group broke down in recent weeks one often sees and hears the term “Kurdish separatists” or...
Economist Richard Wolff made an excellent animation of a lecture on the origins of “class” as a concept. He explains that, as an economic precept, capitalism lasted a whole lot longer in America...
Arab and Middle Eastern dictatorships are infamous for their cruelty, repression and violence. But these aren't the only things responsible for the longevity of tyrants like the Assad's of Syria,...
With this weekend marking the fourth release of a creatively edited video designed to make it look like Planned Parenthood sells off foetuses wholesale only to cackle over the proceeds in the...
In the early 1970's Ariel Sharon won on a political platform advocating a comprehensive settlement to the Palestinian issue. He reasoned that as a hawk he was the one to deliver peace since he could...
Running openly as a socialist member of the Democratic Party, Bernie Sanders, who has been an independent socialist for some time, has found that the term may not be as toxic as he'd been led to...
“Human beings the world over exhibit morbid fascination with violence, with cruelty. Could this kind of voyeurism be necessary for remembrance? People seem to want to know that it actually happened...
When Donald Trump entered the 2016 presidential circus, it almost seemed like a joke, and his poll results reflected it, taking a nosedive almost immediately after his initial announcement. Those...
