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Saudi Arabia “Ready To Send Ground Troops To Syria”
Saudi Arabia “Ready To Send Ground Troops To Syria” Last month, when Saudi Arabia announced it would be heading (that’s heading, not beheading) a 34-nation “anti-terror coalition”, everyone who knows anything at all about the Mid-East and about the sectarian divide laughed hysterically. Why? Because Saudi Arabia is without question the world’s number one state sponsor […]
Helicopter Money Arrives: Switzerland To Hand Out $2500 Monthly To All Citizens
Helicopter Money Arrives: Switzerland To Hand Out $2500 Monthly To All Citizens With Citi’s chief economist proclaiming “only helicopter money can save the world now,” and the Bank of England pre-empting paradropping money concerns, it appears that Australia’s largest investment bank’s forecast that money-drops were 12-18 months away was too conservative. While The Finns consider a “basic monthly income” for the entire […]
Turkish prosecutors demand life sentences for 2 jailed Erdogan critics
Turkish prosecutors demand life sentences for 2 jailed Erdogan critics A woman walks past a banner that reads, “Even you arrest (journalists) or censor (media) we know that you are a war criminal Tayyip” and with a picture of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a protest over the arrest of journalists Can Dundar and […]
Turkey-Russia Tensions Spike as Russia Moves Into Northern Syria
Turkey-Russia Tensions Spike as Russia Moves Into Northern Syria Russian air strikes in Syria are coming closer and closer to the Turkish border in Latakia in the northwest, and there are rumors that Russia is looking at establishing an airbase at Qamishli in the largely Kurdish northeast of Syria. Turkey risks having Russia as a […]
U.S. Ally Turkey Arrests Academics for the Crime of Signing a Peace Petition
U.S. Ally Turkey Arrests Academics for the Crime of Signing a Peace Petition A senior Western official familiar with a large cache of intelligence obtained this summer told the Guardian that “direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking ISIS members was now ‘undeniable.’” ISIS, in other words, is state-sponsored — indeed, sponsored by purportedly Western-friendly regimes in the Muslim world, who […]
Chomsky hits back at Erdogan, accuses him of aiding terrorists
Chomsky hits back at Erdogan, accuses him of aiding terrorists Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (L) and Noam Chomsky © Stringer / Reuters Prominent US linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky has lashed out at Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who has accused him of being “dark” and having “mentality of colonialism” for signing an open letter protesting […]
ISIS oil trucks cross into Turkey every day, captured terrorist admits
ISIS oil trucks cross into Turkey every day, captured terrorist admits A captured Islamic State militant who spoke to Sputnik news agency has bolstered claims that Turkey is involved in illegal oil deals with the jihadist group up to the hilt. TrendsIslamic State 24-year-old Mahmud Ghazi Tatar says he joined Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) […]
Turkey’s Erdogan Praises “Hitler’s Germany” As Example Of Effective Government
Turkey’s Erdogan Praises “Hitler’s Germany” As Example Of Effective Government Back in August, Nationalist opposition leader Devlet Bahceli took to Twitter to call Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a “locally produced Hitler, Stalin or Qaddafi”: Devlet Bahçeli ✔@dbdevletbahceli Yönetim sistemi bir kişinin eline kaldıysa vay halimize! Bizim yerli üretimHitler’e, Stalin’e, Kaddafi’ye tahammülümüz olmaz, bu iyi biline 1:47 PM […]
Turkish, Greek Jets Engage In Dogfight Over Mediterranean
Turkish, Greek Jets Engage In Dogfight Over Mediterranean Turkey is no stranger to aerial conflict of late. After months of back and forth banter between Ankara and Moscow regarding supposed Russian incursions into Turkish airspace, Erdogan finally “went there” on November 24 when Turkish F-16s shot down a Russian Su-24 near the border with Syria. […]
The Mystery Of Dubai’s Vaporized Gold: The Plot Thickens
The Mystery Of Dubai’s Vaporized Gold: The Plot Thickens Earlier this week, we told a fascinating story about an unprecedented, multi-year smuggling ring involving Turkey, Iran, and Dubai (as well as China, Russia and countless other nations) which saw corruption reaching to the very top of the political and financial establishment: from president Erdogan in Turkey, to […]
The Coming Saudi Crack-up?
The Coming Saudi Crack-up? Exclusive: President Obama, like generations of Western leaders, has coddled the oil-rich Saudi monarchy by tolerating its reactionary politics, its financing of radical Islam and its military support for Sunni jihadist terrorism. But the spoiled Saudi leaders may finally be going too far, as Daniel Lazare describes. Is the Saudi monarchy coming apart at […]
