March 3, 2017

Trump's Senate saboteurs

The Senate has confirmed 17 Trump appointees and has as many as 1,242 to go.  There aren't enough days in Trump's term for this.

October 16, 2016

Another coup brewing in Turkey?

Murmurs are growing louder that Turkish president Recep Tayyip ErdoДџan may be a dead man walking.

May 1, 2016

Turkey Seizes More Christian Churches

“This is reminiscent of the events leading up to the start of the Armenian genocide on April 24, 1915, when properties were illegally confiscated and the population was displaced under the false guise of temporary relocation for its own protection”

January 8, 2016

Gaddafi and Obama: One of them was fighting Islamist terrorists in Libya

I could never quite figure out why we bombed Libya.  Now I understand. 

December 24, 2015

The <em>Other</em> Migrant Crisis on the US Southern Border: Cubans

Tens of thousands of Cubans arriving on the southern border, as media yawns.

November 23, 2015

Trump on campus: South Carolina shows the way

A lesson in civility from the South.

October 20, 2015

Assassination and revenge in Turkey

Selhattin Demirtas is co-chair of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDK), and a man in the crosshairs of both ISIS and Turkey's President Erdogan.

October 18, 2015

Turkey's ISIS Trigger-Men

The Islam Tea House was a well-known Islamic State hang-out in Turkey. 

October 14, 2015

Kurds Defiant After Brutal Ankara Bombing

The Kurds’ political leader is challenging the Prime Minister and the President, saying, “To hell with your ballot box, your seats in Parliament, and your palace.”

August 15, 2015

Battered Congress Syndrome

Obama has gotten out ahead of Congress making it as irrelevant as possible.

July 28, 2015

Kurds get the shaft, U.S. gets an airbase, NATO gets used (updated)

This push against the Kurds comes just days after Turkey agreed to let the U.S. use the Incirlik airbase to attack ISIS.  Without Incirlik, U.S. jets have a one-thousand-mile journey.  So were the Kurds the price of using Incirlik?

October 30, 2014

Have Kurds Moved US Leadership to Action on ISIS?

Finally, good news from Kobani.

October 9, 2014

Betrayed Kurds' Angry Reaction

Kurds are holding anti-Islamic State demonstrations worldwide. Some are violent and deadly. 

October 7, 2014

Is ISIS Beheading Kurdish Women?

Kurdish women historically fight alongside the men, and they are taking horrible casualties inthe fight against ISIS.

October 6, 2014

ISIS, the Kurds and a Western Blind Spot

It is time for the Turks and the US to realize that a major change has taken place

October 1, 2014

Among the Kurds

Kurdish friends report seeing trains with tanks and black clad ISIS soldiers going from Turkey to Syria.