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SHOUTS: A Novel of Love and War
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The Hub (149th Street-3rd Ave-Willis Ave-Westchester Ave)
Lusitania Sunk 7 May 1915
Fleet Week: May 1915
Black Tom
Boxing
Reisenweber's (Columbus Circle)
San Juan Hill
June Walk
The Religion of Patriotism-Max Eastman (July 1917)
Sonata Rondo
Columbia University
Eagle Avenue
Critical Praise
JIM RYAN MEETS JIM RYAN - Good Day New York, WNYW-TV, July 2004
About the Book
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On Sports
A SENSE OF WHERE YOU ARE by John McFee
Baseball poetry by Lynn Rigney Schott about her father
Brownsville Bum
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
Miracle of Coogan's Bluff
Muhammad Ali: "Eclipse of the Sonny"
The Four Horsemen
The Green Fields of the MInd
The Death of a Racehorse
TURKEY
HOW TO WRITE ABOUT FASCIST TURKEY...
BAD TURKISH MOON ARISING
Eavesdropping on the Planet (in particular on Turkey) (3/29/2014)
Seymour M. Hersh’in 4 Nisan 2014 tarihli “The Red Line and The Rat Line” isimli yazısının Türkçe Çevirisi
Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels (9 April 2014)
UNITED NATIONS AND NEW YORK TIMES CARPET BOMBED (20 September 2016)
THE FAKE MILITARY COUP
BLOOD MOON, BLOODY HANDS (15 April 2014)
SOMA
THE FATAL STATE OF LABOUR IN TURKEY (20 May 2014)
KILLER KOAL (14 May 2014)
CİHAN, TEK AT
CHEMICAL TAYYIP: SEYMOUR HERSH VIDEO INTERVIEW (9 April 2014)
A LESSON FROM NAZI GERMANY TO FASCIST TURKEY (29 March 2014)
TURKISH OFFICIALS PLAN FALSE-FLAG ATTACK TO CREATE PRETEXT FOR WAR WITH SYRIA (3/29/2014)
ANNE/MOM (MOTHERS OF THE MURDERED)
TODAY, ERDOĞAN SAID “GODDAMN THE GEZI PARK MOVEMENT" (26 March 2014)
ELECTION DAY: TURKEY’S RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH (25 March 2014)
HEY TWITS, THIS TWEET’S FOR YOU (21 March 2014)
PEA-BRAINS ON PARADE (17 March 2014)
RECEP DECEIT ERDOĞAN 15 March 2014
TAYYIP
NO JUSTICE FOR BERKIN ELVAN
Başbakan’a mektup! (Mustafa Mutlu) 13 Mart 2014
GİT LAN! 13 Mart 2014
HEY YOU! HEY ERDOĞAN! (11 March 2014)
HEY SEN! HEY ERDOĞAN! (11 Mart 2014)
TOILET TALK FROM A FEW FASCISTS
THE SICK JOKE (8 March 2014)
OPERATION BULB BUSTER: COMBAT OPERATION ORDER (28 February 2014)
ERDOĞAN’S DIRTY MONTAGE (26 February 2014)
TURKEY'S CRIME MINISTER (25 February 2014)
THE SEWER (24 February 2014)
Erdoğan’ın 20 yıllık çıkını (23 Şubat 2014)
FASCISTS, THIS ONE'S FOR YOU! (21 February 2014)
Bipartisan Letter to President Obama on Turkey
INSIDE THE TIGER (13 February 2014)
KAPLANIN İÇİNDE (13 February 2014)
SNOW JOB (11 February 2014)
RÜŞVET DİALOGLARI
TURKISH SWISS "CHEESE" AND OTHER CORRUPTIONS (7/02/14)
TAYYIP'S TRILLIONS (4 February 2014)
FIGHT TURKISH AND AMERICAN FASCISM
Turkey's Gold-Smuggling Ring (29 January 2014) BLOOMBERG
BAD TURKISH MOON RISING (29 January 2014)
TERRORIST TURKS, DOUBLE-FACED ARABS, MURDEROUS AMERICANS, HYPOCRITES EVERYWHERE, OPENING STATEMENT, GENEVA: Walid al-Moallem - SyriaN Foreign Minister (23 January 2014
RECEP TAYYİP ERDOĞAN BURNS HIS REICHSTAG (16 January 2014)
DEVLETTİ KAYBETTİK (15 Ocak 2014)
"Today, our nation is in crisis." Letter to President Gül (10 January 2014)
Gazi Recep’in İstiklal Mücadelesi... (Bekir Coşkun) (1/8/14)
LIARS (4 January 2014)
KİMDEN YANA OLMALI? (Türker Ertürk) 4 Ocak 2014
YÜCE ATATÜRK (8/12/2013)
TREASON TIME WITH TRAVIS (25 December 2013)
THE FETO SHOW (22 December 2013)
Naci Eriş: A Hero For These Times (15 November 2013)
Hello America, Obama's Best Friend Has Done It Again (25 October 2013)
FINAL CURTAIN (16 November 2013)
DIVINE WRONGS (8 November 2013)
PIMP (14 November 2013)
VERY LITTLE WOMEN (1 November 2013)
THE FIRE THIS TIME (29 October 2013)
Our Invisible Revolution (Chris Hedges) 28 October 2013
NOWHERE MAN (27 October 2013)
KILIÇDAROĞLU THE COLLABORATOR: Shaking Hands With Darkness (8 October 2013)
HALK TV'DE YILIN RÖPORTAJI: ESAD'IN ERDOĞAN HAKKINDA HİÇ ANLATMADIKLARI (10/05/2013)
ERDOĞAN MEANS "CATASTROPHE" IN ANY LANGUAGE (4 October 2013)
IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, IN ANOTHER WORLD (A Gezi Symphony-Prelude) 01-10-2013
FOR GOD’S SAKE STOP SAYING “INSHALLAH” (28 September 2013)
Din Hanesini Sildirdi (Kimlik): "BAŞBAKAN MÜSLÜMANSA BEN DEĞİLİM" 21.09.2013
The Ergenekon Verdicts: Chronicle of an Injustice Foretold (Gareth Jenkins)
TURKEY’S POOR PLAYER (23 August 2013)
DEMOCRATIC DEMONS (17 August 2013)
HAPPY DAY (3 August 2013)
UNDER OCCUPATION: A MANIFESTO (11 August 2013)
LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (28 July 2013)
“DEAR ERDOĞAN”— Letters from the World (26 July 2013)
IN OUR STARS (12 July 2013)
MY APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE by Admiral Türker Ertürk (Ret.)
The American Ambassador (20 June 2013
TURKEY’S DEAD MAN TALKING (1 July 2013)
Alain Badiou--Türkiye: Gerçek Bir Tarihi İsyan Mı? (19 Haziran 2013)
Alain Badiou--Turkey: A Genuine Historical Riot? (19 June 2013)
ERDOĞAN ON THE HORNS (18 June 2013)
GASSING WHILE BEING GASSED--A CONVERSATION
Ataturk Youth Earthquake Not A Turkish Spring (14 June 2013)
If They Are Not Turkish, What Are They (11 June 2013)
Fighting Words (11 June 2013)
A Montage: Taksim-Gezi Parkı Direnmiş (Resistance)
Barricade Defense
Taksim-Gezi Parkı Direnmiş (Resistance)
What happens to a dream deferred? Ertelenmiş bir düş ne olur? 8 June 2013
Turkish Youth Cross Their Rubicon - 6 June 2013
ERDOĞAN: TURKEYS “MARGINAL” MAN (4 June 2013)
Ayranı Fazla Çekince (Bekir Coşkun-30 Mayıs 2013)
ÜMİT UMUTU VERİR 24 Mart 2013
Killer Democracy, a portrait
Letter to The Honorable Abdullah Gül, president of Republic of Turkey
İYİ ŞEKER BAYRAMLAR!!!! AKP'DEN (19/8/2012)
KILLERS! My last letter to Obama. (20 December 2013)
UCUBE (11/8/2012)
Olympic Women (11/8/2012)
OBAMABALL: an open letter to the President of the United States (2 August 2012)
Sinatra Dedicates One to Ataturk (17 May 2012)
As He Lay Dying (14 May 2012)
Viva 19 Mayis! Haydi gel! Bizimle ol!
It's 19 May...Know Your Enemy! (11 May 2012)
America,Turkey--Natural Born Killers
I'm as mad as hell... (2 April 2012)
ARAB SPRING=AMERICAN NIGHTMARE
General Asymmetrica (12 March 2012)
Happy World Women's Day in Turkey (8 March 2012)
Holy Terror 6 March 2012
Kusura Bakma Patron (Bekir Coşkun) 1 Mart 2012
The Second Coming of Mustafa Kemal
My e-mail note from Barack Obama (12/19/11) and my response
High Ground
Women's Volleyball Team-the only winners
MEDIA ALERT: ATATURK SOCIETIES OF THE USA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (6 June 2011)
BASIN BILDIRISI: AMERİKA VE İNGİLTERE ATATÜRK DERNEKLERİ (6 Haziran 2011)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fascist Moustache
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fascist
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (Wallace Stevens)
Epitaph on a Tyrant (W.H. Auden)
Ryan Interview: Kanal B, Bilmek Gerek, 28 March 2011
Ergenekon Headquarters (karargâh)
When the Nazis Came: 8 March 2011
Letter to President Obama: 20 Jan. 2009
(Türkçe) Letter to President Obama: 20 Jan. 2009
Letter to President Obama: 20 Oct. 2009
Letter to President Obama: 3 Jan. 2010
Letter to President Obama: 20 July 2010
(Türkçe) Letter to President Obama: 3 Jan. 2010
(Türkçe) Letter to President Obama: 20 Temmuz 2010
Letter to US Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone: 18 Feb. 2011
Follow-up Letter to Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone: 12 March 2011
Letter to US Senator Mark Udall: 12 Feb. 2011
Silivri Concentration Camp--Monkeys in Wonderland: 18 August 2010
Islam, Secularism and the Battle for Turkey’s Future
Turkey-Slouching in Democracy- 25 March 2009
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF US ARE STUPID? 5 October 2009
The Bloody Streets of Populous Istanbul-17 December 2008
Headscarves, Turbans: The Ocular Proof-5 February 2008
Portrait of Ataturk-29 November 2006
Cool Turkey-7 December 2004
Making Hash of Turkish Democracy-16 September 2005
Today's Men-10 March 2003
Just Keep Saying No, Turkey-9 January 2003
Kidnapped (17/8/2012)
The Dead
AND SO PASSES A WOMAN’S LIFE IN TURKEY (21 October 2014)
Bury My Heart At Heartbreak
"Adil" means "just" in Arabic (18 July 2012)
THERE WILL BE NO ICE CREAM IN DAMASCUS THIS LOVELY EVENING (14 June 2013)
IN ISTANBUL A DOORMAN DIES (31 January 2014)
İSTANBUL'DA BİR APARTMAN GÖREVLİSİ ÖLÜR (31 Ocak 2014)
"Terrorist Pietá"
NOTHING BUT MARGARET (9 May 2014)
August 6, 1945 (6 August 2012)
BREATHLESS IN AMERICA (5 December 2013)
JFK DIES FOR THESE SINS (27 December 2013)
Short Fiction
Benediction
ORIENTA
Wellspring-"Stealing Apples"
INTENSIVE CARE
Music
GYPSY- All I Need Is the Girl (1989)
American Pie (Don Mclean)
BACH
Jazz
Dave Brubeck-In Memoriam
Bix Beiderbecke
Poetry in Music: The Lyrics of Lorenz Hart
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A Ship Without A Sail
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
I Could Write A Book
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
It Never Entered My Mind
I Wish I Were In Love Again
Mountain Greenery
My Romance
Spring Is Here
Ten Cents A Dance
Wait Till You See Her
Where Or When
You're Nearer
SINATRA
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Only the Lonely
Sinatra's Greatest Hits
GET HAPPY, WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS
Poetry
TO THE IRANIAN KIDS BUSTED ON EXCESSIVE HAPPINESS CHARGE BY TEHRAN’S KORANIC KOPS (22 May 2014)
AMERICA
Joe the Biden Eats the Bison (21/01/2013)
A poem by Etheridge Knight
Apprehension in the Bronx Botanical Garden
A Shine on the Quay at Üsküdar
Atget Dans La Rue De Bac
Ballgame
Like Kerim
Pandemonium
Pines
Starry Night
Senseless, Remembering
Six Life Sentences
That Russian Woman in the Caffé Taci
The Cliffhouse on San Francisco Bay
Traitor
World Series Obsequies
On Peace
A WAR ON WARMONGERS, A “JEFFERSONIAN” REBELLION (April 4, 2016)
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SOCIALIST by Chris Hedges (21 September 2015)
THE YOUNG EURO CLASSIC PEACE ORCHESTRA
MY PLEA FOR JUSTICE TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (14 January 2015)
Toxic Legacy of US Assault on Fallujah ‘Worse than Hiroshima’ 15 October 2014
PRESS RELEASE: WAR CRIMES CHARGES FILED (8 October 2014)
Criminal Complaint: International Criminal Court, 6 October 2014
What I'd Like to See on Front Pages of Newspapers (By Noam Chomsky)
THE NOBEL OBAMA (2 September 2013)
My Vote For President: 2012
American Democracy
Democratic Socialism
On America
BRONX GIRL OUSTS 10-TERM DEMOCRAT POLITICAL BOSS!
The United States of America: Land of internment camps
THIS IS AMERICA!
MY DISGUST AND DESPAIR ABOUT TRUMP'S SCHEME TO DESTROY THE V.A.
MY LETTER TO SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER , 3 February 2017
DONALD DEMENTIA
Service Academy Graduates Against the War
U.S. Service Academy Graduates Oppose Bombing Syria (5 September 2013)
SLAUGHTER IN SYRIA: War Crimes Charges against Turkey and America
SLAUGHTER IN SYRIA: APPENDICES TO CRIMINAL COMPLAINT TO I.C.C.
NO WAY OUT YOU NO GOOD PSEUDO-AMERICAN NEOCON NUDNIK APPARATCHIKS! CATCH ME IF YOU DARE!
WILLIE MAYS FOR PRESIDENT! (SEPTEMBER 24, 2016)
COUNT ME OUT, BERNIE! NO MORE $3 CONTRIBUTIONS! March 2, 2016
The atrocities of ISIS and the US wars of sociocide (26 August 2015)
WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (25 August 2015)
KILLING RAGHEADS FOR JESUS (By Chris Hedges) (26 January 2015)
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro by Frederick Douglass
THOMAS PAINE, OUR CONTEMPORARY (27 May 2014)
JAMES SALTER
BEFORE A SUMMER SUN
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Prologue
4. Teaching Bloody Instructions
8. The Doctrine of Discovery
11. Crazed from the Cradle
15. The Necessary Ending of the American Indian
JFK
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JFK Files: Cover-Up Continues of President’s Assassination
JFK: Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association (12 September 1960)
JFK: American University Commencement Address (10 June 1963)
JFK HEALTH CARE SPEECH (May 20, 1962)
The CIA and the Media
The End Of Democracy As We Knew It (Bernd Hamm)
On War
DON’T CRY TOO MUCH FOR BELGIUM 29 March 2016
“COUNTERPRODUCTIVE?" Russia and the Warring in Syria (by Gary Leupp) (23 September 2015)
DEBATE: THE REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUROPE (Press TV) James Ryan and Richard Millett (8 September 2015)
IT IS TIME TO ARREST THE WAR CRIMINALS, OBAMA AND ERDOGAN. NOW! (28 August 2015)
Neither Truth Nor Consequence - 21 Nov 2006
MACHIAVELLI VOMITS: Obama and Erdogan Wallow In It (6 August 2015)
DRESSED TO KILL SYRIANS AND TRUTH AND US (25 July 2015)
Preparing the Battlefield by Seymour M. Hersh (July 7, 2008) The New Yorker
THE CHILDREN OF GAZA (2 August 2014)
PINK FLOYD: “Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves” (13 July 2014)
THE RHETORIC OF VIOLENCE by Chris Hedges (22 April 2014)
THE WORLD AS SEEN FROM THE TOP OF A BARRICADE (22 February 2014)
Can It Get Any Worse? (9 September 2013)
WAR TALK by West Point Graduates Against the War (November 2006, a radio interview) posted 27 August 2013
GOOD MOURNING AMERICA (26 August 2013)
TURKISH DECEIT: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Allah's Boys
HIROSHIMA (6 August 2012)
AMERICA’S WAR WHORES' REWARD (30 July 2012)
AMERICA’S WAR-HORSE HARLOTS (29 June 2012)
Hillary the Hypocrite
"Hope" a speech by Chris Hedges
Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier (W.H. Auden)
Speaking French-1 April 2003
PALESTINIANS: "HUMAN DUST" (30 June 2003)
More Foul Play-27 March 2003
A Day in the Life-25 March 2003
The Return of the Has-Beens and the Never-Was-3 March 2003
The True Enemy-23 January 2003
On West Point
GREETING IKE
GRAY DAY SASHAY
WHO IS MY FATHER IN THIS WORLD?
WEST POINT TO HONOR DISHONORABLE GEORGE W. BUSH
OBAMA VISITS WEST POINT THEN LIES, CHEATS AND STEALS (6 June 2014)
West Point Graduates Organize Against The War - 21 April 2006
On West Point, War and Pizza - 6 May 2006
Now Is The Time - 12 May 2006
Good Neighbor Senator Sessions Walls Out Mexico . . . and Robert Frost - 19 May 2006
Cadet Bush at West Point: Screw that chin in, beanhead! - 1 June 2006
Guantánamo: The Subject Was Linens- 15 June 2006
Impeach the President of the United States - 7 October 2006
Election Eve Daze--Hanging in There Together - 6 November 2006
Peace Award Remarks - 12 November 2006 - Syracuse, New York
George W. MacBush–Serial Murderer - 15 December 2006
Abolish It! - 9 Feb 2007
Literary Criticism
American Book Review
Mrs. Ramsay's Wedge: A View of Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"
Paintings
"Genuine Fake"--"Gerçik Taklit"
EQUAL RIGHTS! ... EŞİT HAKLAR!
"Progress"--"İlerleme"
"Her Şey Ortada"
Resimler (7/8/2012)
Presentations-Papers
Boğaziçi University-Symposium
For Reasons Unknown
THE ISRAELI-AMERICAN KILLING MACHINE (19 July 2014)
I-THE FRAME-UP (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on Trial) 8 January 2009
II-THE ARRAIGNMENT (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on Trial) 9 January 2009
III-ATATÜRK APPEARS (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on Trial) 26 January 2009
How Old Are You? 4 May 2009
İŞTE!!! Kurmay Albay Dursun Çiçek!!! (28 October 2009)
A. K. P-NESS: The Condition of Being A.K.P. (27 October 2009)
On Living
"Art, Truth & Politics" by Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
The Power of Imagination (Chris Hedges-13 May 2014)
WE ARE ALL ONE
The Story of Stuff-What Needs To Be Done (10 May 2012)
An Arab Springtime? by Samir Amin
From Resistance to Revolution
Photographs
Istanbul
Kidnapped (17/8/2012)
HAPPY WORLD WOMEN'S DAY IN TURKEY
8 March 2012
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